Depends upon how the questions are formatted, if they are asking you to solve questions 1 - 5 on page 100 then you might have some problems but if they spell out exactly what they want then the textbook really shouldn't be required beyond having the relevant information package neatly in front of you.
Well, you aren't going to earn college credit that you can transfer; however, depending upon the school you might gain the information required to test out of a course and maybe get credit through that route. Very dependent upon the school though and the most you can usually get with that is just not having to take the course as a prerequisite.
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True, but Kadena also brings in a lot of money for Okinawa and Japan as a whole so I doubt they are going to want the US to just pack their bags and move out over night. Also, over the past decade or so about 21% of the original land was returned back to Japan for use and they are paying a burden-sharing payment in exchange for keeping the base around.
If you are going to pay me $10,000,000 a year gross? Sure, I'll pay taxes up to a 70% bracket on that. Even with a top bracket of 70% you would still likely be clearing around $3,000,000 a year. Most people would consider that enough to retire on assuming they are paying the current 15% on long term capital gains.
Marriage in and of itself is indeed mostly a religious and social ritual; however, the government can (and should) become involved when those people want to treat themselves as one entity for tax purposes. Effectively there are two parts to a marriage: the religious / social part which people can argue about and debate within the context of their own personal beliefs and the financial part which requires the government to at least recognize that the people are filing their taxes jointly.
Right, but that's what I'm trying to point out as well - while the retailers might jack up the prices on the filters, they do indeed cost a significant amount of money so the margins are not as much as you might think. Quality optics tend to be expensive no matter what they are. That said though, the prices for such things as cable releases tend to be painfully expensive when you consider what they are.
I'm sorry, but why are camera filters on that list? I'm inclined to agree that UV filters tend to be a bit of a waste unless you just want something to protect your glass from getting damaged (I don't use them myself) but there is an optical difference between cheap filters (e.g. ND, ND grad, polarizers, etc) and how they look on film or the final digital pictures. There is a reason why quality glass costs thousands of dollars and this same reason carries over to camera filters as well.
Also, while most of the color filters have been obsoleted by the use of digital outside of those photographers who shoot film still since those effects can be replicated in Photoshop, you still can't replicate the effects of ND filters or polarizers since they have a direct affect on the light that is being captured in how much of it is captured (can't manipulate what isn't there).
The 2006 median household income in the United States was $50,233, before taxes. That means that $7,200 is about 14% of the household before taxes.
Now factor in taxes which is roughly 21% of household income (married, filing jointly at 15% plus 6.2% FICA) and that takes out a chunk of income before you even see it.
When you consider that the rule of thumb is that you spend no more than 25% of your pre-tax income on housing that means for the median family income they generally are paying about $1000 a month on rent or mortgage. Depending on the market it might be more or less, but then the income would also be more or less, so it is a good number of illustrative purposes.
Thus, we are now up to about $2500 (insurance, taxes, housing) being taking up before the money is even in hand each month about $1600 left for everything else that you need to pay for. Granted that is enough for most people to cover the bills, buy groceries and the like, but it also doesn't leave much for savings which means that people tend to cut that in favor of other things. That in turn leads to how people find themselves in debt or living paycheck to paycheck without much margin of safety if something happens. Also, remember that health insurance rates have been going up the past couple years faster than most peoples salaries have been going up, although in some cases the companies are actually eating part of the cost of the health insurance on their end.
So, yes, to concede your point, it can be done, but on the same token, it doesn't leave the average family in a very comfortable position and they are very exposed if something catastrophic happens.
I hate to say it, but there really isn't any way to keep the plant from being a nuclear waste dump to some extent since they are going to have a really hard dismantling the entire site to dispose of the damaged reactors for a couple of decades. As such, it is likely better to put the entire site under nuclear waste dump protocols and just write the entire site off as an active power plant.
However, I don't see adding additional waste to the site from other locations as a very good idea, so hopefully they are just limiting things to the damaged reactors and the containment necessary.
What do you mean by "believe in UFOs"? The term, in and of itself is commonly used in aviation (i.e. if see something go by and can't identify it, even if it appears man-made, it's an unidentified flying object) and doesn't really have anything attached to it that would require belief.
Now if you are implying that people who hold the belief that all UFOs are piloted by extraterrestrials, then that might require a leap of faith that could be subject to question, but someone just merely stating that they saw an unknown craft in the sky should not make them subject to ridicule.
Odds are in the long run the simulator will be cheaper for training then missions in the actual aircraft itself. Money spent on an accurate simulator is made back by not having to pay for fuel or repairs that would be incurred while doing real world training. Plus, if you screw up in a simulator and crash you just need to reset the system, if you screw up in the world both the pilot and the aircraft may be lost.
Huh, I didn't get the professor taking the working and using out of the comic at all, but rather that other people would actually find out about and use the solution to the problem beyond just the program that the business is working on. The flavor text for the comic also seems to imply this.
In the business research sector the problem of other people taking credit for your work is likely even worse than in academia: in academia you might be far down on the list of authors on the paper, but at least you are an author where as in industry I've been in situations where I made a measurable impact upon an project (i.e. significant amount of novel work) but was either only given a token in the acknowledgements or not even mentioned on the paper at all.
Burning some mod points, but "ghosts" doesn't always mean a sapient consciousness is going around pulling doors closed or the like. Some ghost hunters (for lack of a better phrase) believe that some of the "ghost phenomenon" is a recording of some significant event that occurred in a given location (i.e. Gettysburg). The mechanism behind how such a recording could take place is not known, but a good number of the ghost stories out there don't really have said ghost interacting with people but rather playing out the same actions time after time (i.e. ascending the stairs and vanishing at the top).
I've seen BCC used to send bulk company-wide emails out to all of the employees so if anyone tired to reply to it, only the original sender would be the email as opposed to the entire company.
While it could indeed be subject to search and discovery since there is nothing protecting your phone in the same way that a priest cannot be compelled to report everything that is reported to them, there are a lot of rules involved what should be confessed (i.e. how long it's been since your last confession, how many times you cussed, etc) that such an application could be useful for if one was really concerned about that level of detail. However, that's also the sort of information that wouldn't be interesting for any one in law enforcement as such things are usually not illegal.
That doesn't mean that academics and scientists aren't subject to a confirmation bias. Thus, if you have a theory and go around looking for evidence of it, you might just find that evidence.
So in other words, an experienced, high profile lawyer, is being hired to handle high profile cases that are of critical importance to the people hiring him? I hate to say it, but it sounds to me like he is doing his job in regards to representing his client. Lawyers don't always get to pick and choose their clients if they want to be successful (i.e. public defenders) and those that do tend to pick and choose their cases based upon their personal ethics are unlikely to be in a position where they could nominated for the Solicitor General post.
Just because the senior developer knew about the opening doesn't mean that the company doesn't actually have a need to have another developer on board. This is something else to take into account: if I have two developers but have three developers worth of work, then if I can afford to hire another one, I'm going to hire another developer.
The pay situation is something different though and I'd be inclined to say that the new developer should not be getting paid more if they are an employee of the company (contractors sometimes get paid more because of their contracts) and have a job title of a lower level. Job titles are usually tied to salary bands and it is very rare for a lower band to be making more than a higher band. More often than not, the HR departments will also prevent situations like this just by putting a years of experience requirement on the position as well.
The parent didn't say it was for life advice and some people (even highly skeptical ones) will go to psychics of all sorts simply because it can be entertaining and because a good psychic is also a decent listener and may have some good life advice simply from having talked to lots of people. Kind of like of psychologist, but likely cheaper.
However, as some others have pointed out, what you are doing and how the new rules are written is very relevant. If you are having equipment monitoring vitals signs sending data over the network that is relevant to the monitoring of the patient, you better be sure that the information is getting where it should be. Likewise, if you are just providing a public WiFi for patients and families so they can check their email while they are at the hospital, then there isn't as pressing a need to make sure the network stays up.
At the end of a day, there are still some good reasons for having a physical wire connecting some network devices and when you have those reasons, you don't want someone upgrading to a new network type without having appropriate plans in place. If upgrading to WiFi ends up costing more money and the existing wired network works just find, why change it?
From what I have seen in my time in industry, companies typically have fewer software engineers than computer programmers and while both roles will have employees sitting at a computer writing code, the software engineers will also spend a good deal of time designing the overall architecture of a system. Likewise, the software engineer is also generally the more senior level position and may also be the first person to take heat when a major problem is found in a system.
Why is that erroneous? Precognition and premonition are two facets of Extrasensory Perception.
True, but precognition is just one type of ESP thus proving (or disproving) one type of ESP does not disprove all types of ESP as they some of them are vastly different phenomenons from each other (i.e. being able to read someones mind is not the same as being able to accurately predict the future). Thus, saying that precognition is ESP is a bit of a misnomer and can lead to situations where people assume that if you disprove A then B and C were also disproved since A, B, and C are all grouped together.
If I recall correctly, in those situations they would just hang the clothing up in the bathroom with a fan on in Japan, or if they have a sheltered balcony, just put them outside anyway. Might take longer to dry, but the job still gets done.
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Depends upon how the questions are formatted, if they are asking you to solve questions 1 - 5 on page 100 then you might have some problems but if they spell out exactly what they want then the textbook really shouldn't be required beyond having the relevant information package neatly in front of you.
Well, you aren't going to earn college credit that you can transfer; however, depending upon the school you might gain the information required to test out of a course and maybe get credit through that route. Very dependent upon the school though and the most you can usually get with that is just not having to take the course as a prerequisite.
True, but Kadena also brings in a lot of money for Okinawa and Japan as a whole so I doubt they are going to want the US to just pack their bags and move out over night. Also, over the past decade or so about 21% of the original land was returned back to Japan for use and they are paying a burden-sharing payment in exchange for keeping the base around.
If you are going to pay me $10,000,000 a year gross? Sure, I'll pay taxes up to a 70% bracket on that. Even with a top bracket of 70% you would still likely be clearing around $3,000,000 a year. Most people would consider that enough to retire on assuming they are paying the current 15% on long term capital gains.
Marriage in and of itself is indeed mostly a religious and social ritual; however, the government can (and should) become involved when those people want to treat themselves as one entity for tax purposes. Effectively there are two parts to a marriage: the religious / social part which people can argue about and debate within the context of their own personal beliefs and the financial part which requires the government to at least recognize that the people are filing their taxes jointly.
Right, but that's what I'm trying to point out as well - while the retailers might jack up the prices on the filters, they do indeed cost a significant amount of money so the margins are not as much as you might think. Quality optics tend to be expensive no matter what they are. That said though, the prices for such things as cable releases tend to be painfully expensive when you consider what they are.
I'm sorry, but why are camera filters on that list? I'm inclined to agree that UV filters tend to be a bit of a waste unless you just want something to protect your glass from getting damaged (I don't use them myself) but there is an optical difference between cheap filters (e.g. ND, ND grad, polarizers, etc) and how they look on film or the final digital pictures. There is a reason why quality glass costs thousands of dollars and this same reason carries over to camera filters as well.
Also, while most of the color filters have been obsoleted by the use of digital outside of those photographers who shoot film still since those effects can be replicated in Photoshop, you still can't replicate the effects of ND filters or polarizers since they have a direct affect on the light that is being captured in how much of it is captured (can't manipulate what isn't there).
The 2006 median household income in the United States was $50,233, before taxes. That means that $7,200 is about 14% of the household before taxes.
Now factor in taxes which is roughly 21% of household income (married, filing jointly at 15% plus 6.2% FICA) and that takes out a chunk of income before you even see it.
When you consider that the rule of thumb is that you spend no more than 25% of your pre-tax income on housing that means for the median family income they generally are paying about $1000 a month on rent or mortgage. Depending on the market it might be more or less, but then the income would also be more or less, so it is a good number of illustrative purposes.
Thus, we are now up to about $2500 (insurance, taxes, housing) being taking up before the money is even in hand each month about $1600 left for everything else that you need to pay for. Granted that is enough for most people to cover the bills, buy groceries and the like, but it also doesn't leave much for savings which means that people tend to cut that in favor of other things. That in turn leads to how people find themselves in debt or living paycheck to paycheck without much margin of safety if something happens. Also, remember that health insurance rates have been going up the past couple years faster than most peoples salaries have been going up, although in some cases the companies are actually eating part of the cost of the health insurance on their end.
So, yes, to concede your point, it can be done, but on the same token, it doesn't leave the average family in a very comfortable position and they are very exposed if something catastrophic happens.
I hate to say it, but there really isn't any way to keep the plant from being a nuclear waste dump to some extent since they are going to have a really hard dismantling the entire site to dispose of the damaged reactors for a couple of decades. As such, it is likely better to put the entire site under nuclear waste dump protocols and just write the entire site off as an active power plant.
However, I don't see adding additional waste to the site from other locations as a very good idea, so hopefully they are just limiting things to the damaged reactors and the containment necessary.
What do you mean by "believe in UFOs"? The term, in and of itself is commonly used in aviation (i.e. if see something go by and can't identify it, even if it appears man-made, it's an unidentified flying object) and doesn't really have anything attached to it that would require belief.
Now if you are implying that people who hold the belief that all UFOs are piloted by extraterrestrials, then that might require a leap of faith that could be subject to question, but someone just merely stating that they saw an unknown craft in the sky should not make them subject to ridicule.
Odds are in the long run the simulator will be cheaper for training then missions in the actual aircraft itself. Money spent on an accurate simulator is made back by not having to pay for fuel or repairs that would be incurred while doing real world training. Plus, if you screw up in a simulator and crash you just need to reset the system, if you screw up in the world both the pilot and the aircraft may be lost.
Huh, I didn't get the professor taking the working and using out of the comic at all, but rather that other people would actually find out about and use the solution to the problem beyond just the program that the business is working on. The flavor text for the comic also seems to imply this.
In the business research sector the problem of other people taking credit for your work is likely even worse than in academia: in academia you might be far down on the list of authors on the paper, but at least you are an author where as in industry I've been in situations where I made a measurable impact upon an project (i.e. significant amount of novel work) but was either only given a token in the acknowledgements or not even mentioned on the paper at all.
Burning some mod points, but "ghosts" doesn't always mean a sapient consciousness is going around pulling doors closed or the like. Some ghost hunters (for lack of a better phrase) believe that some of the "ghost phenomenon" is a recording of some significant event that occurred in a given location (i.e. Gettysburg). The mechanism behind how such a recording could take place is not known, but a good number of the ghost stories out there don't really have said ghost interacting with people but rather playing out the same actions time after time (i.e. ascending the stairs and vanishing at the top).
The TI-83+ and TI-84+ have a proprietary connector that allows for a USB adapter to be attached but isn't actually built into the calculator.
I've seen BCC used to send bulk company-wide emails out to all of the employees so if anyone tired to reply to it, only the original sender would be the email as opposed to the entire company.
While it could indeed be subject to search and discovery since there is nothing protecting your phone in the same way that a priest cannot be compelled to report everything that is reported to them, there are a lot of rules involved what should be confessed (i.e. how long it's been since your last confession, how many times you cussed, etc) that such an application could be useful for if one was really concerned about that level of detail. However, that's also the sort of information that wouldn't be interesting for any one in law enforcement as such things are usually not illegal.
That doesn't mean that academics and scientists aren't subject to a confirmation bias. Thus, if you have a theory and go around looking for evidence of it, you might just find that evidence.
So in other words, an experienced, high profile lawyer, is being hired to handle high profile cases that are of critical importance to the people hiring him? I hate to say it, but it sounds to me like he is doing his job in regards to representing his client. Lawyers don't always get to pick and choose their clients if they want to be successful (i.e. public defenders) and those that do tend to pick and choose their cases based upon their personal ethics are unlikely to be in a position where they could nominated for the Solicitor General post.
Just because the senior developer knew about the opening doesn't mean that the company doesn't actually have a need to have another developer on board. This is something else to take into account: if I have two developers but have three developers worth of work, then if I can afford to hire another one, I'm going to hire another developer.
The pay situation is something different though and I'd be inclined to say that the new developer should not be getting paid more if they are an employee of the company (contractors sometimes get paid more because of their contracts) and have a job title of a lower level. Job titles are usually tied to salary bands and it is very rare for a lower band to be making more than a higher band. More often than not, the HR departments will also prevent situations like this just by putting a years of experience requirement on the position as well.
The parent didn't say it was for life advice and some people (even highly skeptical ones) will go to psychics of all sorts simply because it can be entertaining and because a good psychic is also a decent listener and may have some good life advice simply from having talked to lots of people. Kind of like of psychologist, but likely cheaper.
However, as some others have pointed out, what you are doing and how the new rules are written is very relevant. If you are having equipment monitoring vitals signs sending data over the network that is relevant to the monitoring of the patient, you better be sure that the information is getting where it should be. Likewise, if you are just providing a public WiFi for patients and families so they can check their email while they are at the hospital, then there isn't as pressing a need to make sure the network stays up.
At the end of a day, there are still some good reasons for having a physical wire connecting some network devices and when you have those reasons, you don't want someone upgrading to a new network type without having appropriate plans in place. If upgrading to WiFi ends up costing more money and the existing wired network works just find, why change it?
From what I have seen in my time in industry, companies typically have fewer software engineers than computer programmers and while both roles will have employees sitting at a computer writing code, the software engineers will also spend a good deal of time designing the overall architecture of a system. Likewise, the software engineer is also generally the more senior level position and may also be the first person to take heat when a major problem is found in a system.
Why is that erroneous? Precognition and premonition are two facets of Extrasensory Perception.
True, but precognition is just one type of ESP thus proving (or disproving) one type of ESP does not disprove all types of ESP as they some of them are vastly different phenomenons from each other (i.e. being able to read someones mind is not the same as being able to accurately predict the future). Thus, saying that precognition is ESP is a bit of a misnomer and can lead to situations where people assume that if you disprove A then B and C were also disproved since A, B, and C are all grouped together.
If I recall correctly, in those situations they would just hang the clothing up in the bathroom with a fan on in Japan, or if they have a sheltered balcony, just put them outside anyway. Might take longer to dry, but the job still gets done.
This needs to move up a bit, as it does change the dynamic of the issue quite a bit.