I was definitely thinking something similar except I was thinking the new War Czar position Bush is creating. I guess they will both serve the same purpose, deflecting responsibility.
Canadian Parliament: You just can't go around killing people.
The Terminator: Why?
Canadian Parliament: What do you mean why? 'Cause you can't.
The Terminator: Why?
Canadian Parliament: Because you just can't, OK? Trust me on this.
An obvious purpose for such studies is to help determine the causes for such correlations in our society, which helps us CORRECT THEM.
Great now lets breed out anyone who doesn't have a long ring finger problem solved right? Then someone will come up with a study that says there is a correlation between people with club foot and high IQ great lets breed club foot into the population or try and find out what people with club foot are doing that every isn't that makes them so intelligent. Mod be troll twice but most of these studies are absolutely silly.
The only thing these studies ever seem to accomplish is to piss off certain groups of people.
Black people get angry because there is a supposedly a correlation between being black and athletic prowess or being black and affinity for violent crime.
Women get angry because there is supposedly a correlation between sex and mathematical skills.
White males get angry because there is supposedly a correlation between being a white male and having an affinity for pedophilia.
The list goes on and on and on.
Do these studies have any purpose other than to get PHDs published and make people angry or are they actually useful? I'd love for someone to explain the usefulness of this study and others.
Thats why the people who know wth they are doing become Realtors themselves, like I did, I rarely pay broker fees when I sell an investment property.
Also where are you from? People rarely get away with charging 6% in the tri-state area anymore it's more like 2% and if you are lucky 4%.
There is no money in showing homes to ppl and listing property its too time consuming and there isn't enough profit because the market is flooded with brokers offering 1% commission who don't know the first thing about marketing property. All the the best agents and brokers I know who make good money do it by investing in real estate, I haven't dealt with a client since I got my brokers license 4 years ago. Sorry to burst your bubble but big time investors rarely deal with realtor's they become Realtors themselves and most of the time it is only to get access to the local MLS which typically sucks but has its uses.
In the state of NY Real Estate Brokers are allowed to directly earn money off of the sale of Real Property and are not required to hold their license under any other principle. Real Estate Agents on the other hand are required by NY State law to have their license held by a principle broker. A Broker is then legally responsibly for all real estate agents whose licenses they hold, and can be held responsible for any agents wrongdoing. In return for holding the agents license, being responsible for the agents actions, being a mentor, paying for advertising, and keeping a place of business open, the agents and broker workout an agreement on the commission split.
Also agents are not allowed to collect and hold $$ involved with real estate transactions only real estate brokers.
Those are the most basic differences between the two.
And you won't find a word of what I just said on wikipedia stated the way I have so have fun looking.
Let's say you buy a plot of land for $1M and sell it for $2M two years later. Where does that money come from?
Its funny how when people look at someone making $$ they always focus on the REWARD and never on the RISK
Let's say you buy a plot of land for $1M and sell it for $500K two years later. Where does that money come from? Yeah thats right the investors pocket. And thats not even including the taxes, insurance, $$ spent on improvements, interest paid on the loan the investor took out (flippers almost always use OPM in order to stay liquid), the points you get raped for by mortgage bankers on a residential deal and commercial lending is 100 times worse because there are no limits on the amount of points that can be charged.
Your comment wreaks of someone who never looks at the entire picture and probably watched some stupid "reality tv" show about flippers. Real estate investments are risky (ask the all the people in Fla. who are losing millions at this very moment) thus the high reward instead of complaining about flippers pick up a few books, grow a set of balls and invest yourself.
Full disclosure: In addition to being an S.E. I have been a Real Estate Agent for 8 years and a Real Estate Broker for 4 years.
200 Million for photobucket? I'd love for someone to give me a valid reason why it is worth that much. This is sure evidence that this is ".com bubble 2.0". Kudos to the guys/gals at photobucket for milking newscorp and cashing out while there are people stupid enough to overpay.
A fool and his dough soon split so when you come across a fool get all that you can get.
The winner of NASA's diaper contest, word is that the winner was able to make it from Texas to Florida non-stop on one diaper, even through multiple HEAVY uses. Stocks of Luvs parent company Procter & Gamble(PG) fell on the news that Huggies parent company Kimberly-Clark(KMC) had purchased the rights to the technology for an undisclosed amount.
What a complete waste of time this would be. Mono is already feature incomplete as it is and now he wants to take on another project. How about finishing the one you currently have then taking on more projects.
Not to rain on the submitters parade but Jimmy Valvano was fighting for his life from cancer these guys are only fighting suspected copyright infringement.
Under other circumstances I might agree with you but you fail to recognize that many of these words have a long history of being used to degrade certain ethnic groups that gives them a power that calling a white man "cracker" does not. There is no long established history of the word "cracker" being used to degrade white people as a whole.
Furthermore you seem to forget that many of the people who find these words most offensive are still alive and well. Blacks older than 55 were probably horrified to hears such words in 2007. How do you think it makes them feel when a white male utters such remarks? Do you think they just laugh it off when they have suffered through so much? I'm sure it brings back horrible memories for them personally something neither you, as whatever race you happen to be, nor I, as 25 year old black male, have any grasp of.
It really is disgusting how people like you have a complete disregard for very recent history and just want to shove the very people who suffered the most under the rug so that you can say everything is ok and move on with your day. America has made a lot of progress as a whole but as long as people who have DIRECTLY suffered from the more brutal racism that millions of Americans took part in (including many of the parents and grandparents of people who post right here on slashdot) I think everyone from ghetto rappers to Imus should be much more sensitive.
As for this double standard you speak of get over it, life isn't fair.
You want more fucked up double standards?
White women go missing all the time and it makes the news even if the girl was totally irresponsible. A black woman goes missing and it doesn't even make the local paper.
Here is another double standard:
In most states black people who have no criminal history are STILL more likely to be pulled over for no reason than a white person WITH a criminal history.
You know what the best double standard of all is?
When black people complain about these and other double standards they are told "get over it life isn't fair".
Maybe you should do the same.
I couldn't agree more as someone who has developed two strictly web based XUL apps for two different companies I'd like to see a few things happen first.
1.) XUL documentation is spotty at best xulplanet is a great resource but when I wrote these apps around the beginning of 2005 or so there were huge gaps in knowledge on refreshing data in several different element types. Getting a real time list of data from a Postgres Database and loading them into listboxes was a huge PITA because certain functionality was just gone or not working in version xyy but it would supposedly be back in version xyz.
2.) Ever try loading large amounts of data into an XUL element? Please don't. I had to load 10,000 rows of data into a grid element horrible idea. It is slow and required an insane amount of memory. When we scaled it down to 5,000 rows of data it was just as bad. I won't even get into refreshing that same data.
3.) Someone anyone please create a COMPLETE IDE for XUL it is begging for one there are 2 or 3 where the authors sort of started and then just abandoned a few months later.
Now we have eco-fanatics along with religious fanatics. How long before we have suicide bombings from eco-terrorist groups?? This just proves crazy people will always find a cause by which to justify acts of violence if/when we get rid of religion it will just be something else.
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I was definitely thinking something similar except I was thinking the new War Czar position Bush is creating. I guess they will both serve the same purpose, deflecting responsibility.
Canadian Parliament: You just can't go around killing people. The Terminator: Why? Canadian Parliament: What do you mean why? 'Cause you can't. The Terminator: Why? Canadian Parliament: Because you just can't, OK? Trust me on this.
For those of you who have been holding your breath you may now exhale.
Demolish the property and stick a nice sized Yacht on top of supports right where the house used to be.
An obvious purpose for such studies is to help determine the causes for such correlations in our society, which helps us CORRECT THEM. Great now lets breed out anyone who doesn't have a long ring finger problem solved right? Then someone will come up with a study that says there is a correlation between people with club foot and high IQ great lets breed club foot into the population or try and find out what people with club foot are doing that every isn't that makes them so intelligent. Mod be troll twice but most of these studies are absolutely silly.
The only thing these studies ever seem to accomplish is to piss off certain groups of people.
Black people get angry because there is a supposedly a correlation between being black and athletic prowess or being black and affinity for violent crime.
Women get angry because there is supposedly a correlation between sex and mathematical skills.
White males get angry because there is supposedly a correlation between being a white male and having an affinity for pedophilia. The list goes on and on and on.
Do these studies have any purpose other than to get PHDs published and make people angry or are they actually useful? I'd love for someone to explain the usefulness of this study and others.
Thats why the people who know wth they are doing become Realtors themselves, like I did, I rarely pay broker fees when I sell an investment property.
Also where are you from? People rarely get away with charging 6% in the tri-state area anymore it's more like 2% and if you are lucky 4%.
There is no money in showing homes to ppl and listing property its too time consuming and there isn't enough profit because the market is flooded with brokers offering 1% commission who don't know the first thing about marketing property. All the the best agents and brokers I know who make good money do it by investing in real estate, I haven't dealt with a client since I got my brokers license 4 years ago. Sorry to burst your bubble but big time investors rarely deal with realtor's they become Realtors themselves and most of the time it is only to get access to the local MLS which typically sucks but has its uses.
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Only if I can assume that you are a fucking idiot ;-)
In the state of NY Real Estate Brokers are allowed to directly earn money off of the sale of Real Property and are not required to hold their license under any other principle. Real Estate Agents on the other hand are required by NY State law to have their license held by a principle broker. A Broker is then legally responsibly for all real estate agents whose licenses they hold, and can be held responsible for any agents wrongdoing. In return for holding the agents license, being responsible for the agents actions, being a mentor, paying for advertising, and keeping a place of business open, the agents and broker workout an agreement on the commission split.
Also agents are not allowed to collect and hold $$ involved with real estate transactions only real estate brokers. Those are the most basic differences between the two.
And you won't find a word of what I just said on wikipedia stated the way I have so have fun looking.
Let's say you buy a plot of land for $1M and sell it for $2M two years later. Where does that money come from?
Its funny how when people look at someone making $$ they always focus on the REWARD and never on the RISK
Let's say you buy a plot of land for $1M and sell it for $500K two years later. Where does that money come from? Yeah thats right the investors pocket. And thats not even including the taxes, insurance, $$ spent on improvements, interest paid on the loan the investor took out (flippers almost always use OPM in order to stay liquid), the points you get raped for by mortgage bankers on a residential deal and commercial lending is 100 times worse because there are no limits on the amount of points that can be charged.
Your comment wreaks of someone who never looks at the entire picture and probably watched some stupid "reality tv" show about flippers. Real estate investments are risky (ask the all the people in Fla. who are losing millions at this very moment) thus the high reward instead of complaining about flippers pick up a few books, grow a set of balls and invest yourself.
Full disclosure: In addition to being an S.E. I have been a Real Estate Agent for 8 years and a Real Estate Broker for 4 years.
If overgrown trees count, then yes the blackout of 2003 was caused by nature.
I burn plenty of calories in front of my PC every day... Through perpetual masturbation?
200 Million for photobucket? I'd love for someone to give me a valid reason why it is worth that much. This is sure evidence that this is ".com bubble 2.0". Kudos to the guys/gals at photobucket for milking newscorp and cashing out while there are people stupid enough to overpay. A fool and his dough soon split so when you come across a fool get all that you can get.
The winner of NASA's diaper contest, word is that the winner was able to make it from Texas to Florida non-stop on one diaper, even through multiple HEAVY uses. Stocks of Luvs parent company Procter & Gamble(PG) fell on the news that Huggies parent company Kimberly-Clark(KMC) had purchased the rights to the technology for an undisclosed amount.
What a complete waste of time this would be. Mono is already feature incomplete as it is and now he wants to take on another project. How about finishing the one you currently have then taking on more projects.
Doesn't the U.S. Gov,'t have access to the source?
Not to rain on the submitters parade but Jimmy Valvano was fighting for his life from cancer these guys are only fighting suspected copyright infringement.
Funny how everyone wants to reply to this as an AC.
Under other circumstances I might agree with you but you fail to recognize that many of these words have a long history of being used to degrade certain ethnic groups that gives them a power that calling a white man "cracker" does not. There is no long established history of the word "cracker" being used to degrade white people as a whole.
Furthermore you seem to forget that many of the people who find these words most offensive are still alive and well. Blacks older than 55 were probably horrified to hears such words in 2007. How do you think it makes them feel when a white male utters such remarks? Do you think they just laugh it off when they have suffered through so much? I'm sure it brings back horrible memories for them personally something neither you, as whatever race you happen to be, nor I, as 25 year old black male, have any grasp of.
It really is disgusting how people like you have a complete disregard for very recent history and just want to shove the very people who suffered the most under the rug so that you can say everything is ok and move on with your day. America has made a lot of progress as a whole but as long as people who have DIRECTLY suffered from the more brutal racism that millions of Americans took part in (including many of the parents and grandparents of people who post right here on slashdot) I think everyone from ghetto rappers to Imus should be much more sensitive.
As for this double standard you speak of get over it, life isn't fair.
You want more fucked up double standards?
White women go missing all the time and it makes the news even if the girl was totally irresponsible. A black woman goes missing and it doesn't even make the local paper.
Here is another double standard:
In most states black people who have no criminal history are STILL more likely to be pulled over for no reason than a white person WITH a criminal history.
You know what the best double standard of all is?
When black people complain about these and other double standards they are told "get over it life isn't fair".
Maybe you should do the same.
Please let this be a Joke thats a terrible name.
Now when someone asks what crawled up your ass they might be very serious.
I couldn't agree more as someone who has developed two strictly web based XUL apps for two different companies I'd like to see a few things happen first. 1.) XUL documentation is spotty at best xulplanet is a great resource but when I wrote these apps around the beginning of 2005 or so there were huge gaps in knowledge on refreshing data in several different element types. Getting a real time list of data from a Postgres Database and loading them into listboxes was a huge PITA because certain functionality was just gone or not working in version xyy but it would supposedly be back in version xyz. 2.) Ever try loading large amounts of data into an XUL element? Please don't. I had to load 10,000 rows of data into a grid element horrible idea. It is slow and required an insane amount of memory. When we scaled it down to 5,000 rows of data it was just as bad. I won't even get into refreshing that same data. 3.) Someone anyone please create a COMPLETE IDE for XUL it is begging for one there are 2 or 3 where the authors sort of started and then just abandoned a few months later.
Now we have eco-fanatics along with religious fanatics. How long before we have suicide bombings from eco-terrorist groups?? This just proves crazy people will always find a cause by which to justify acts of violence if/when we get rid of religion it will just be something else.
Only on slashdot would you have someone question the logic of a nutcase wearing diapers in order to avoid taking bathroom breaks.