each company would be forced to pay a dividend equal to the value of the share.
I assume you mean price, not book value. Book value would be kinda harsh aka corporate death penalty with some weird tax consequences.
Personally I mostly dislike dividends for long term speculation. I wanna decide when I pay that tax, not some corporate dweeb deciding for me. Also if I thought they could do something useful with 12 of my dollars, that would seem to be a vote of confidence they should keep their measly 10 cent dividend and do something useful with that 10 cents too...
I do have a handful of blue chip utility stocks that I bought knowing they kick out a certain dividend like clockwork, at least until people stop using electricity LOL. My eventual goal is to use my electric utility dividend checks to pay my electric bill. It only takes $30K or so of stock which is pretty much what I've got. Fundamentally this is a problem with investing in solar panels... I could take on all the complication and effort and risk to fall off the grid for 20 years, or I could pay the same amount for stock and never pay a bill again without having to lift a physical finger and relatively low risk... Hmm.
I think forcing dividend policy changes on everyone else would cause massive unnecessary turmoil in the market. Pretty much any time you change dividend policy you'll automatically be pissing people off aka lowering your stock price, so the only way you'd get corps to intentionally tank their price would be by passing a law that they have to.
Yeah man Borders is gonna crush them next quarter. Err. I mean Waldenbooks is gonna crush AMZN. Um... Ah yes B. Dalton will get their customers... whoops
Seriously other than B+N are there any "large" booksellers left?
Now I do understand that they, as the main/only player, can crash the whole market, think of Atari in the early 80s. Makes you wonder what'll happen to retail when Walmart bites the dust after destroying all the locals. That would be exciting to watch.
So it is currently selling for 13.38 a share. Does this mean we could buy it now and make 27 cents a share when this deal goes through?
Yes. There is one tiny little problem. That's about a 2% total rate of return and they're not completing the sale for about a year and a half. And you get to pay commission to buy the stock out of your fabulous profit opportunity. Also you'll get to pay capgains tax on your "winnings" when it goes up 27 cents. There's probably an easier way to get a laughable one percent or so APR return. Assuming all goes well of course, which it probably will. Although most deals have some kind of clause where if something completely nuts happens the deal is off. So (trade?) war with China and the stock drops to $2 and you're out quite a bit of money. Or the private equity firm experiences legal issues preventing the deal from going thru. Or who knows. In other words I would not suggest cashing out the 401K and putting it into Dell stock at this time.
LOL the first link I found was a w3schools one where apparently 1/5 of wanna-be web developers were using XP as of two months ago. Its been dropping about 10% per year for several years now, so that will sunset around 2016 or so.
If a fifth of the techno-elite (LOL) are using XP I think in the wider market the numbers must be 50% or so.
I know MANY megacorps still stuck on XP. There are huge issues with being unable to give a "better" computer to a "lower" status employee that really screw up rollouts, not to mention corporate demanding certain software versions and the division demanding certain versions and the local team demanding certain software all adding up to its quite possible an upgrade is impossible until some bean counter 2000 miles away finally stops using some oddball thing. Or more likely they stopped back in '07 but no one has updated the official list since then and lots of CYA about what if they needed to access files using that antique app...
A better analogy would be advertising "unlimited refills" but you really only get unlimited refills on the 3rd tuesday of the month only at 2:15am and only if no one else wants unlimited refills at the same exact time, and by unlimited we really meant that we don't limit how much we advertise refills or how much you can ask your waitress for a refill, but we do in fact positively not guarantee you'll get any soft drinks in your cup at all, although we will of course bill you for the full amount. Also you're not allowed to take us to court because the contract binds you to arbitration with a mediator of our choice who happens to be a friend of ours and who only mediates in person 2000 miles away from your home only one day per year that being the first business day after easter, if you make an appointment 2 years in advance and agree to pay all our legal costs, no matter if you win (snicker, as if that'll happen) or lose. But yeah, aside from that, its unlimited, uh huh uh huh yeah.
Illegals. Look into the drive in window at Mcdonalds next time, thats all they hire around here. They're citizens, just not of here, citizens of mexico, d.r., etc.
american non-citizens
Couple thousand per year renounce citizenship. Practical reason is to make the IRS leave them the F alone. Stated reason is they married a foreigner who isn't moving, or moved to Israel, or they just plain ole want to immigrate. I'm kinda thinking of becoming a Canadian, I almost have enough money to just buy in, and I've got the.edu paperwork and job experience to get in, but I donno if they'll let me in, what with my blood type being O and canadians blood type having to be maple syrup. They've got a better everything, where everything is defined as everything but military and... that's pretty much it. However I just can't bring myself to eat poutine with every meal.
I've been watching obama and he's basically a pretty decent pre-teabilly moderate to slightly left republican. They were all purged from public eye when the teabillies took over the leadership posts in the GOP and ran the party into the ground at full speed. So the democrats aren't going to impeach him because he's a DINO democrat in name only, and the moderate republicans (what few are left) see him as pretty much one of them WRT all policy decisions. The teabillies hate him, but although they've taken over the leadership, there's only about 20% of them. So overall he ain't getting impeached if 80% more or less like him. If 'bama kissed up to Israel a bit and thumped a bible he'd pretty much be a teabilly. Come on, the dude shoots skeet, he's a lapdog of wall street, loves warfare, hasn't done shit for social programs except make it illegal not to buy privatized profitable health insurance, he's not exactly Jerry Brown or Roosevelt or Marx reincarnated, he's a deeply in the closet republican. We could do a heck of a lot worse, given that the D's could have nominated a farmyard pig (again) and won against the teabillies last couple times around.
That won't work unless he knows what to search for. I'm not running the latest mysql. Maybe they neutered mysqldump, if so that would probably be dumb. On the other hand if you're seeing stuff like "ENGINE=innoDB" in your dump but upon restore they're importing as myisam or whatever, you're being bit by an "issue" or "bug" or whatever where innodb isn't starting for whatever reason so mysql helpfully starts up without it and tries its hardest and creates the table using myisam seeing as innodb is dead. Look for "sql_mode=NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION" to disable the "best effort" and look in the logs for why innodb won't start on the new server (who knows why). Its typical of the whole mysql philosophy that it'll try best effort at all times, even if that drives people of a certain outlook bonkers. I don't think you can google for "mysql philosphy" and get this potentially useful or potentially inaccurate opinion.
On the other hand if they neutered mysql to not store engine type that would just be moronic. It won't affect me when/if I upgrade to 5.6 because I store my schemas as part of the program sourcecode (not in the sourcecode, next to it, like running mysql somedb something.sql will create the table "something" requires if its not already there. In a way this actually would save effort when converting from one DB engine to another.
The existence of one anecdote that once happened to me years ago which I might not even be correctly remembering does not imply no other cause could exist. But its a start and better than the reply of RTFM noob.
It was technically almost as advanced as microware's basic09 from 1979 by then. Well the IDE was flashier obviously, I'm just talking about language features. It really was pretty good.
I have no inside knowledge but it took me 10 second to think up an engineering solution which is you don't technically buy the data, you upload the candidates claims and get the output of what CS/IT people would call a diff or patchfile vs the semi-official records. So candidate claimed $75K salary but our records show $70K a diff of $5K how interesting. On the other hand a diff against the employment dates matches so the diff file is blank there.
That seems overly complicated. I'm not a contractor but my current job salary negotiation was very contractor like, I told them I'll do the job for $XYZ. If you let them control the discussion into some self worth battle or long form debate about your pay rate 25 years ago in another state, they will, but you certainly don't have to. "You want someone to do A B and C living in city Q, my research shows the market rate for that is $XYZ, what does your research show for a market rate?" (Turn it into a debate about non-personal research rather than blind opinion or self worth or budgets) "Oh, we roughly agree, well good then we'll split the small difference and call it settled. See you next Monday. K thx bye"
On the other hand, if you're literally the only guy in the world who can do it such that there are no comparisons, that's not a weakness, that's a strength. Stereotypically they're in a hurry. Use that against them, unless you're in a hurry (unemployment, currently poor working conditions)
Insurance makes it expensive. Your insurance is willing to pay up to $500/yr for xrays? Take a wild ass guess at the future price of xrays in a privatize the profits socialize the losses system...
Its the same thing with govt "assistance" for childcare, or "assistance" for tuition, or "assistance" for health care. Another good example is K12 education, where public takes $10K per student but private takes $2K per student to do about the same thing.
If no one had dental insurance, I could probably get a simple cavity filled for $99.95 cash looking at the materials, tools, and education level. But they know they can get $750, so they do. That means uninsured people cannot get any treatment at all unless they're incredibly rich, and insurance ends up being very expensive.
If we ever get "oil change insurance" I guarantee within a year the $20 quickie lube places would be charging at least $200 if not $499.
I was thinking that if a sociologist wanted a "real" research topic, they could have a lot of fun analyzing online usernames / aliases / slashdot names from a perspective of stripper names. Fundamentally they're both about trying to give a positive (at least in their culture) association and gain attention and be memorable. This only works for a tiny minority of online names but seems to work for almost all stripper names. This might not be very interesting, but I'm sure it easily beats "why Bathshebaetta doesn't get interview callbacks"
I thought about that very topic last night, and I have to disagree for a subtle reason, a place that wouldn't interview a kid named tyrone or labateshta would never give the kid a fair shake on the job anyway, so he's best off working for a superior employer. That employer will be superior not just in morals/ethics but also financially, as removing unneeded hiring constraints means on average they'd have better employees, thus in the long run crushing the places that won't even talk to someone named telobushdia or whatever.. Or even more practically a place that won't select a black dude for an interview sure as hell isn't going to hire him even if one sneaks into the interview. So I don't think merely demanding color blind interview candidates will help the situation at all, in fact it would just waste a lot of peoples time.
Doesn't work like that. Most of the heavy BW users are trading files. Lets say you have a peak at 8pm, there's 100 angry customers calling in because its slow. Lets say you have a peak at 2am instead, theoretically no one would even notice. I don't care if my file transfers complete at 1am, 3am, 10am... I'm not going to check on it until the next evening, so if the network is supersaturated from 2am to 3am I simply don't care as long as the transfer completes successfully at some point.
I would be really pissed if my ISP shaped torrents at 4am. Wouldn't really mind if they did so at 4pm. Long as I can download "stuff" faster than I can consume it, on long term average, I'm all good.
A good/. automotive analogy is you are correct that local regulations preventing delivery trucks from delivering during rush hour does absolutely nothing to save gasoline or road wear and tear. However it does cut down on critical time congestion, and as long as amazon prime 2nd day arrives in 2 days, no one really cares if the UPS truck pulls up at 8am during rush hour or 10am during quiet time.
If you don't like it, then build your own fucking network. I hate people that think they are entitled to full utilization of a network they don't own just because they pay a monthly fee.
Here let me fix that for you
I hate people that think they are entitled to full utilization of a network they don't own just because they pay a monthly fee based on advertising claiming they have unlimited access.
The standard/. car analogy is I bought a car based on the advertising assumption that I could drive it any time I want 24x365. I'd be pretty pissed if I found my garage empty one day and it turns out they've been renting it out to 3rd parties behind my back, after all most customers don't use their cars 24x365 and its industry standard in the crooked fine print to profit off renting customer's cars to 3rd parties, etc etc.
If they were more intelligent they'd financially sponsor a couple BT clients WITH the minor requirement that 25% of their financial support be spent implementing time based shaping.
I have never downloaded a torrent other than using the command line client on a screen session running on a 24x7 monster file server. However, the family gets unhappy when I use up all the BW in and out of the house while they're home. I've always had throttle-able settings in clients even in the oldest suprnova days. But I want a semi-intelligent auto configuring client such that it cranks wide open from midnight to 5 am, then down to 20% or less during morning time, then wide open during work days of the week but slow on weekends and holidays etc etc.
Or I use a linux based firewall so I'd like a sniffing script such that if there's more than 100 K/s of non-torrent traffic on my connection in the last 15 minutes, the torrent traffic gets shaped down.
Also the provider could provide a mdns or whatever polling system to gimmie a list by hour of their load, and at my discretion I'd only dl torrents during the 12 lowest usage hours. Not because I "have to" but because I'm not a (complete) jerk.
My electric company provides a minor, practically honorary credit for voluntary load shedding (yours may provide a larger credit, or maybe not). I don't see why an ISP couldn't provide me with a minor credit if I were willing to rate limit down to half a meg during their idea of "prime time". Obviously I download about a thousand times more than I stream, which might be a minor issue with this idea as supposedly nobody downloads anymore and everybody streams everything, at least according to the weirdos and astroturfers.
I'm sure they'd be more successful with cooperation that with competition.
ceoyoyo has the answer. We aren't hummingbirds or honeybees evolved for millions of years to eat mass quantities of sweeteners as our primary damn near sole calorie source, so trying it is probably pretty dumb idea. Some fruits and berries occasionally yeah great but not as the primary source of calories for an entire lifetime. On top of that, Fing around with the exact "natural" ratio of fructose is probably unwise. Bulk dissolved fructose is almost certainly the worst sweetener you can consume from a biochemical standpoint looking at how internal organs react to it (talking about rational choices here, so we'll forget about lead acetate or antifreeze-type glycol). Very much like ethanol, complete avoidance is probably unnecessary, but having it take over your life is equally unwise. Regardless if your coffee is either pure untainted black or maybe a teaspoon of "normal" table sugar its incredibly unrealistic to compare it to a big can of energy drink which has a giant dollop of HFCS not a dainty little teaspoon at most.
I mean, health issues or not, you wouldn't just crack open a small bottle of corn syrup, chug it, and assume it would have no short term effect on your tummy at all?
Thing is, this doesn't make much sense. If people are looking for a bondsman or legal advice, why would they enter their own name in the search terms? Or am I misunderstanding what this researcher was trying to correlate?
Its social networking. Lets say hypothetically "Dan East" got arrested for internet trolling 5th degree on/. and his buddies started googling his name to read the cool news reports, read about how he plea bargained the charge down to involuntary rickrolling, etc etc. His buddies who like to keep track of him via google searches are probably into the same activities that he is, so its seemingly inevitable that people who google for "Dan" or "East" will more than average odds need a bail bondsman, defense lawyer, etc. Nothing personal just going for the LOLs and have a nice day (sincerely, really).
The obvious question is what do you get when you google for ubuntu? Bail bondsmen? There's probably a cellphone jailbreaking joke lurking in here somewhere.
Now take it a step further and google for Hans Reiser. Think of the lives that could have been saved if only they googled for his name and found out he's a killer before he actually killed that chick. The almighty GOOG is a right outta minority report... I will say that naming a newborn "Hans Reiser" in 2013 is likely to result in issues.
The problem is that it re-enforces the stereotype and actually does cause certain behaviour. If you constantly tell one group they are a bunch of criminals and just assume they are probably up to no good then you shouldn't be surprised when it turns out they are.
The point of treating everyone equally is to make it clear that regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or whatever you have the same chance, the same opportunity to make something of yourself. Of course in reality not everyone has access to good schools or good jobs, but if you keep re-enforcing that imagine it strengthens it. We still need to push to level the playing field, despite all the progress that has been made.
So, the TLDR is you're saying all moms should name their kids with white names, because that apparently magically makes the kids turn out to not be criminals? Even if it has been proven to work, I'm not thinking that magical theory should be how we should live. Because obviously "twyronee" is expected to grow up to become a carjacker whereas "thurston" is expected to go to haavard and/or get stuck on deserted tropical island along with the professor and mary anne. So just name "twyronee" with the superior name "thurston" and we have proven scientific principles that we're all good here, right?
I will say there is something to this name-ism stuff in that all the young monicas and tiffannys and stephanies I've met have been hotties, like magic or something that 20 years after being named they automagically look good. And I'm talking about real birth certificate names not stripper names. And all the VLMs I've meet turn out to be fantastic individuals, truly role models for the new century. I'm not really sure what all the implications are of my great discovery, beyond the obvious nobel peace prize, for which I'm obviously more qualified than the last couple losers who got the prize.
I think it's fair to assume that a substance is toxic well below the lethal dose.
Careful, there's a lot of stuff like water, salt (at least WRT about 90% of the population), water soluble vitamins, minerals, and "food" in general where that doesn't even remotely apply.
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Epic fail 57885162 = 2×3×9647527 and a Mersenne prime is only a Mersenne prime if p is prime, which it clearly isn't.
2 ** 57885167 - 1 might or might not be a prime, but at least you can't rule it out automagically because 57885167 is in fact a prime.
each company would be forced to pay a dividend equal to the value of the share.
I assume you mean price, not book value. Book value would be kinda harsh aka corporate death penalty with some weird tax consequences.
Personally I mostly dislike dividends for long term speculation. I wanna decide when I pay that tax, not some corporate dweeb deciding for me. Also if I thought they could do something useful with 12 of my dollars, that would seem to be a vote of confidence they should keep their measly 10 cent dividend and do something useful with that 10 cents too...
I do have a handful of blue chip utility stocks that I bought knowing they kick out a certain dividend like clockwork, at least until people stop using electricity LOL. My eventual goal is to use my electric utility dividend checks to pay my electric bill. It only takes $30K or so of stock which is pretty much what I've got. Fundamentally this is a problem with investing in solar panels... I could take on all the complication and effort and risk to fall off the grid for 20 years, or I could pay the same amount for stock and never pay a bill again without having to lift a physical finger and relatively low risk... Hmm.
I think forcing dividend policy changes on everyone else would cause massive unnecessary turmoil in the market. Pretty much any time you change dividend policy you'll automatically be pissing people off aka lowering your stock price, so the only way you'd get corps to intentionally tank their price would be by passing a law that they have to.
you could treat that 27 cents as intrest.
That would be filed on your 1040 as a capital gain BTW... And taxed at capgain rate, long term if you buy now (not advised, just saying)
amazon is in bubble territory
Yeah man Borders is gonna crush them next quarter. Err. I mean Waldenbooks is gonna crush AMZN. Um... Ah yes B. Dalton will get their customers... whoops
Seriously other than B+N are there any "large" booksellers left?
Now I do understand that they, as the main/only player, can crash the whole market, think of Atari in the early 80s. Makes you wonder what'll happen to retail when Walmart bites the dust after destroying all the locals. That would be exciting to watch.
So it is currently selling for 13.38 a share. Does this mean we could buy it now and make 27 cents a share when this deal goes through?
Yes. There is one tiny little problem. That's about a 2% total rate of return and they're not completing the sale for about a year and a half. And you get to pay commission to buy the stock out of your fabulous profit opportunity. Also you'll get to pay capgains tax on your "winnings" when it goes up 27 cents. There's probably an easier way to get a laughable one percent or so APR return. Assuming all goes well of course, which it probably will. Although most deals have some kind of clause where if something completely nuts happens the deal is off. So (trade?) war with China and the stock drops to $2 and you're out quite a bit of money. Or the private equity firm experiences legal issues preventing the deal from going thru. Or who knows. In other words I would not suggest cashing out the 401K and putting it into Dell stock at this time.
LOL the first link I found was a w3schools one where apparently 1/5 of wanna-be web developers were using XP as of two months ago. Its been dropping about 10% per year for several years now, so that will sunset around 2016 or so.
If a fifth of the techno-elite (LOL) are using XP I think in the wider market the numbers must be 50% or so.
I know MANY megacorps still stuck on XP. There are huge issues with being unable to give a "better" computer to a "lower" status employee that really screw up rollouts, not to mention corporate demanding certain software versions and the division demanding certain versions and the local team demanding certain software all adding up to its quite possible an upgrade is impossible until some bean counter 2000 miles away finally stops using some oddball thing. Or more likely they stopped back in '07 but no one has updated the official list since then and lots of CYA about what if they needed to access files using that antique app...
A better analogy would be advertising "unlimited refills" but you really only get unlimited refills on the 3rd tuesday of the month only at 2:15am and only if no one else wants unlimited refills at the same exact time, and by unlimited we really meant that we don't limit how much we advertise refills or how much you can ask your waitress for a refill, but we do in fact positively not guarantee you'll get any soft drinks in your cup at all, although we will of course bill you for the full amount. Also you're not allowed to take us to court because the contract binds you to arbitration with a mediator of our choice who happens to be a friend of ours and who only mediates in person 2000 miles away from your home only one day per year that being the first business day after easter, if you make an appointment 2 years in advance and agree to pay all our legal costs, no matter if you win (snicker, as if that'll happen) or lose. But yeah, aside from that, its unlimited, uh huh uh huh yeah.
non-american citizens
Illegals. Look into the drive in window at Mcdonalds next time, thats all they hire around here. They're citizens, just not of here, citizens of mexico, d.r., etc.
american non-citizens
Couple thousand per year renounce citizenship. Practical reason is to make the IRS leave them the F alone. Stated reason is they married a foreigner who isn't moving, or moved to Israel, or they just plain ole want to immigrate. I'm kinda thinking of becoming a Canadian, I almost have enough money to just buy in, and I've got the .edu paperwork and job experience to get in, but I donno if they'll let me in, what with my blood type being O and canadians blood type having to be maple syrup. They've got a better everything, where everything is defined as everything but military and ... that's pretty much it. However I just can't bring myself to eat poutine with every meal.
non-american non-citizens
Come on man, how hard is it to figure that out.
I've been watching obama and he's basically a pretty decent pre-teabilly moderate to slightly left republican. They were all purged from public eye when the teabillies took over the leadership posts in the GOP and ran the party into the ground at full speed. So the democrats aren't going to impeach him because he's a DINO democrat in name only, and the moderate republicans (what few are left) see him as pretty much one of them WRT all policy decisions. The teabillies hate him, but although they've taken over the leadership, there's only about 20% of them. So overall he ain't getting impeached if 80% more or less like him. If 'bama kissed up to Israel a bit and thumped a bible he'd pretty much be a teabilly. Come on, the dude shoots skeet, he's a lapdog of wall street, loves warfare, hasn't done shit for social programs except make it illegal not to buy privatized profitable health insurance, he's not exactly Jerry Brown or Roosevelt or Marx reincarnated, he's a deeply in the closet republican. We could do a heck of a lot worse, given that the D's could have nominated a farmyard pig (again) and won against the teabillies last couple times around.
That won't work unless he knows what to search for. I'm not running the latest mysql. Maybe they neutered mysqldump, if so that would probably be dumb.
On the other hand if you're seeing stuff like "ENGINE=innoDB" in your dump but upon restore they're importing as myisam or whatever, you're being bit by an "issue" or "bug" or whatever where innodb isn't starting for whatever reason so mysql helpfully starts up without it and tries its hardest and creates the table using myisam seeing as innodb is dead. Look for "sql_mode=NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION" to disable the "best effort" and look in the logs for why innodb won't start on the new server (who knows why). Its typical of the whole mysql philosophy that it'll try best effort at all times, even if that drives people of a certain outlook bonkers. I don't think you can google for "mysql philosphy" and get this potentially useful or potentially inaccurate opinion.
On the other hand if they neutered mysql to not store engine type that would just be moronic. It won't affect me when/if I upgrade to 5.6 because I store my schemas as part of the program sourcecode (not in the sourcecode, next to it, like running mysql somedb something.sql will create the table "something" requires if its not already there. In a way this actually would save effort when converting from one DB engine to another.
The existence of one anecdote that once happened to me years ago which I might not even be correctly remembering does not imply no other cause could exist. But its a start and better than the reply of RTFM noob.
It was technically almost as advanced as microware's basic09 from 1979 by then. Well the IDE was flashier obviously, I'm just talking about language features. It really was pretty good.
I have no inside knowledge but it took me 10 second to think up an engineering solution which is you don't technically buy the data, you upload the candidates claims and get the output of what CS/IT people would call a diff or patchfile vs the semi-official records. So candidate claimed $75K salary but our records show $70K a diff of $5K how interesting. On the other hand a diff against the employment dates matches so the diff file is blank there.
That seems overly complicated. I'm not a contractor but my current job salary negotiation was very contractor like, I told them I'll do the job for $XYZ. If you let them control the discussion into some self worth battle or long form debate about your pay rate 25 years ago in another state, they will, but you certainly don't have to. "You want someone to do A B and C living in city Q, my research shows the market rate for that is $XYZ, what does your research show for a market rate?" (Turn it into a debate about non-personal research rather than blind opinion or self worth or budgets) "Oh, we roughly agree, well good then we'll split the small difference and call it settled. See you next Monday. K thx bye"
On the other hand, if you're literally the only guy in the world who can do it such that there are no comparisons, that's not a weakness, that's a strength. Stereotypically they're in a hurry. Use that against them, unless you're in a hurry (unemployment, currently poor working conditions)
Insurance makes it expensive. Your insurance is willing to pay up to $500/yr for xrays? Take a wild ass guess at the future price of xrays in a privatize the profits socialize the losses system...
Its the same thing with govt "assistance" for childcare, or "assistance" for tuition, or "assistance" for health care. Another good example is K12 education, where public takes $10K per student but private takes $2K per student to do about the same thing.
If no one had dental insurance, I could probably get a simple cavity filled for $99.95 cash looking at the materials, tools, and education level. But they know they can get $750, so they do. That means uninsured people cannot get any treatment at all unless they're incredibly rich, and insurance ends up being very expensive.
If we ever get "oil change insurance" I guarantee within a year the $20 quickie lube places would be charging at least $200 if not $499.
LOL
I was thinking that if a sociologist wanted a "real" research topic, they could have a lot of fun analyzing online usernames / aliases / slashdot names from a perspective of stripper names. Fundamentally they're both about trying to give a positive (at least in their culture) association and gain attention and be memorable. This only works for a tiny minority of online names but seems to work for almost all stripper names. This might not be very interesting, but I'm sure it easily beats "why Bathshebaetta doesn't get interview callbacks"
I thought about that very topic last night, and I have to disagree for a subtle reason, a place that wouldn't interview a kid named tyrone or labateshta would never give the kid a fair shake on the job anyway, so he's best off working for a superior employer. That employer will be superior not just in morals/ethics but also financially, as removing unneeded hiring constraints means on average they'd have better employees, thus in the long run crushing the places that won't even talk to someone named telobushdia or whatever.. Or even more practically a place that won't select a black dude for an interview sure as hell isn't going to hire him even if one sneaks into the interview. So I don't think merely demanding color blind interview candidates will help the situation at all, in fact it would just waste a lot of peoples time.
of digital objects, including audio files, eBooks, movies, apps, and pretty much anything else.
How bout MMORPG gold / credits / ISK / character skins / avatar bling / WTF?
Don't online games already have this all patented 89 billion ways already? And if not isn't this entire industry sector a pretty obvious prior art?
Doesn't work like that. Most of the heavy BW users are trading files. Lets say you have a peak at 8pm, there's 100 angry customers calling in because its slow. Lets say you have a peak at 2am instead, theoretically no one would even notice. I don't care if my file transfers complete at 1am, 3am, 10am... I'm not going to check on it until the next evening, so if the network is supersaturated from 2am to 3am I simply don't care as long as the transfer completes successfully at some point.
I would be really pissed if my ISP shaped torrents at 4am. Wouldn't really mind if they did so at 4pm. Long as I can download "stuff" faster than I can consume it, on long term average, I'm all good.
A good /. automotive analogy is you are correct that local regulations preventing delivery trucks from delivering during rush hour does absolutely nothing to save gasoline or road wear and tear. However it does cut down on critical time congestion, and as long as amazon prime 2nd day arrives in 2 days, no one really cares if the UPS truck pulls up at 8am during rush hour or 10am during quiet time.
If you don't like it, then build your own fucking network. I hate people that think they are entitled to full utilization of a network they don't own just because they pay a monthly fee.
Here let me fix that for you
I hate people that think they are entitled to full utilization of a network they don't own just because they pay a monthly fee based on advertising claiming they have unlimited access.
The standard /. car analogy is I bought a car based on the advertising assumption that I could drive it any time I want 24x365. I'd be pretty pissed if I found my garage empty one day and it turns out they've been renting it out to 3rd parties behind my back, after all most customers don't use their cars 24x365 and its industry standard in the crooked fine print to profit off renting customer's cars to 3rd parties, etc etc.
If they were more intelligent they'd financially sponsor a couple BT clients WITH the minor requirement that 25% of their financial support be spent implementing time based shaping.
I have never downloaded a torrent other than using the command line client on a screen session running on a 24x7 monster file server. However, the family gets unhappy when I use up all the BW in and out of the house while they're home. I've always had throttle-able settings in clients even in the oldest suprnova days. But I want a semi-intelligent auto configuring client such that it cranks wide open from midnight to 5 am, then down to 20% or less during morning time, then wide open during work days of the week but slow on weekends and holidays etc etc.
Or I use a linux based firewall so I'd like a sniffing script such that if there's more than 100 K/s of non-torrent traffic on my connection in the last 15 minutes, the torrent traffic gets shaped down.
Also the provider could provide a mdns or whatever polling system to gimmie a list by hour of their load, and at my discretion I'd only dl torrents during the 12 lowest usage hours. Not because I "have to" but because I'm not a (complete) jerk.
My electric company provides a minor, practically honorary credit for voluntary load shedding (yours may provide a larger credit, or maybe not). I don't see why an ISP couldn't provide me with a minor credit if I were willing to rate limit down to half a meg during their idea of "prime time". Obviously I download about a thousand times more than I stream, which might be a minor issue with this idea as supposedly nobody downloads anymore and everybody streams everything, at least according to the weirdos and astroturfers.
I'm sure they'd be more successful with cooperation that with competition.
ceoyoyo has the answer. We aren't hummingbirds or honeybees evolved for millions of years to eat mass quantities of sweeteners as our primary damn near sole calorie source, so trying it is probably pretty dumb idea. Some fruits and berries occasionally yeah great but not as the primary source of calories for an entire lifetime. On top of that, Fing around with the exact "natural" ratio of fructose is probably unwise. Bulk dissolved fructose is almost certainly the worst sweetener you can consume from a biochemical standpoint looking at how internal organs react to it (talking about rational choices here, so we'll forget about lead acetate or antifreeze-type glycol). Very much like ethanol, complete avoidance is probably unnecessary, but having it take over your life is equally unwise. Regardless if your coffee is either pure untainted black or maybe a teaspoon of "normal" table sugar its incredibly unrealistic to compare it to a big can of energy drink which has a giant dollop of HFCS not a dainty little teaspoon at most.
I mean, health issues or not, you wouldn't just crack open a small bottle of corn syrup, chug it, and assume it would have no short term effect on your tummy at all?
Thing is, this doesn't make much sense. If people are looking for a bondsman or legal advice, why would they enter their own name in the search terms? Or am I misunderstanding what this researcher was trying to correlate?
Its social networking. Lets say hypothetically "Dan East" got arrested for internet trolling 5th degree on /. and his buddies started googling his name to read the cool news reports, read about how he plea bargained the charge down to involuntary rickrolling, etc etc. His buddies who like to keep track of him via google searches are probably into the same activities that he is, so its seemingly inevitable that people who google for "Dan" or "East" will more than average odds need a bail bondsman, defense lawyer, etc. Nothing personal just going for the LOLs and have a nice day (sincerely, really).
The obvious question is what do you get when you google for ubuntu? Bail bondsmen? There's probably a cellphone jailbreaking joke lurking in here somewhere.
Now take it a step further and google for Hans Reiser. Think of the lives that could have been saved if only they googled for his name and found out he's a killer before he actually killed that chick. The almighty GOOG is a right outta minority report... I will say that naming a newborn "Hans Reiser" in 2013 is likely to result in issues.
The problem is that it re-enforces the stereotype and actually does cause certain behaviour. If you constantly tell one group they are a bunch of criminals and just assume they are probably up to no good then you shouldn't be surprised when it turns out they are.
The point of treating everyone equally is to make it clear that regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or whatever you have the same chance, the same opportunity to make something of yourself. Of course in reality not everyone has access to good schools or good jobs, but if you keep re-enforcing that imagine it strengthens it. We still need to push to level the playing field, despite all the progress that has been made.
So, the TLDR is you're saying all moms should name their kids with white names, because that apparently magically makes the kids turn out to not be criminals? Even if it has been proven to work, I'm not thinking that magical theory should be how we should live. Because obviously "twyronee" is expected to grow up to become a carjacker whereas "thurston" is expected to go to haavard and/or get stuck on deserted tropical island along with the professor and mary anne. So just name "twyronee" with the superior name "thurston" and we have proven scientific principles that we're all good here, right?
I will say there is something to this name-ism stuff in that all the young monicas and tiffannys and stephanies I've met have been hotties, like magic or something that 20 years after being named they automagically look good. And I'm talking about real birth certificate names not stripper names. And all the VLMs I've meet turn out to be fantastic individuals, truly role models for the new century. I'm not really sure what all the implications are of my great discovery, beyond the obvious nobel peace prize, for which I'm obviously more qualified than the last couple losers who got the prize.
I think it's fair to assume that a substance is toxic well below the lethal dose.
Careful, there's a lot of stuff like water, salt (at least WRT about 90% of the population), water soluble vitamins, minerals, and "food" in general where that doesn't even remotely apply.