But what are the odds of both being hit at the same time? For severe weather events, then obviously correlation will be pretty close to 1, but for burglary, correlation might actually be negative, if the burglar wants to move in, take some stuff, and get out of the area as quickly as possible before being caught, then they will probably pick only one house in the neighbourhood, and if they pick yours, that means they won't pick your neighbours.
Suppose it takes 1 week to recover from a burglary, and the probability of being burgled in any particular week is 1% - that is about 1 burglary every two years which is pretty high. If the correlation between you getting burgled and your neighbour getting burgled is 0, then the probability of both getting burgled in the same week is 0.01% or once every 200 years.
The price of uranium is about $35/lb ($77.16/kg) at the moment, and it costs about $40/lb ($88.18/kg) to produce the stuff at the moment[1]. 1kg of uranium gives you 83TJ of energy, the same as 3464 tonnes of coal. Coal costs $71.34 per tonne[2], so to get the same amount of energy from 1kg of uranium in coal, you would need to spend $247,133.65.
The fact that uranium is currently selling for less than the cost of production suggests that there is a massive surplus of inventory in the channel at the moment, not that resources are limited.
Hallowe'en is a Pagan festival to celebrate the Autumn (Fall) equinox. They believed that this was the time of year that the spirits of the dead would wake up for the winter, and it was necessary for young people to dress up as skeletons and ghosts and to have lanterns designed as such in order to confuse them and scare them away. Absolutely nothing to do with the Catholic Church or Christianity, it was around before they came along.
All Saints' Day is tomorrow, and All Souls' day the day after. Those are Christian festivals. But dressing up as skeletons, witches and so on is nothing to do with that, it is to do with the pre-Christian pagan festival.
Do Romanians celebrate Hallowe'en? It is celebrated in the Celtic nations such as Scotland and USA. In England, they only started celebrating it relatively recently.
Even if Taiwan was a province of China they probably wouldn't do those things. Here in England, my local council fines me for traffic violations, and I've yet to see much evidence that anyone delivers the mail.
If you live in London, Manchester or one of the other big UK cities, you will have a huge choice of different providers, and it will be very cheap. If you live in a croft in the Scottish highlands, then you will have to pay a lot of money for satellite broadband.
I can understand that if you live in a ranch the size of Wales, you can't expect much in the way of public utilities such as broadband, but if you live in a big US city such as New York, the population density is similar to UK cities, so you should expect the same level of service.
The Western Union that is around today is still the same company that operated telegraphs in years gone by. Transferring money quickly from one place to another is one of the things that the invention of the telegraph allowed people to do, and Western Union got into that market. They still do wire transfers today even though they are using other peoples' cable to do it rather than their own. They are not a government sanctioned monopoly in that field and there are many other companies that do the same, or a similar job. Moneygram provide exactly the same service. You hand money into one of the their shops in one location, and someone else can pick it up from another location a few minutes later. Other networks do it via the banks, such as SWIFT for interbank transfers, Visa and Mastercard for card payments and companies such as Paypal.
In the UK, there is one set of electricity wires in the street, one set of gas pipes, and one set (or sometimes two sets) of telephone cables.
The owner of the electricity wires, the gas pipes, and except in Hull, one of the sets of telephone cables, is required to make them available to other suppliers at a regulated price. That means I can choose from many different people to supply my gas, electricity and telephone.
To conceal something in one's vagina, usually for the purpose of hiding it from the police or security guards The act of inhaling dogs farts to get high off them. Havng sex with any dog of a girl that will go to bed with you.
If the Fed sells them, then it is an endorsement of their legality. If you buy bitcoins from the Fed, then they can't complain about what you do with them unless they could complain about you doing the same thing with US Dollars or Euros in similar circumstances.
I don't know what the position in the US is. I live in Europe, and as far as I can see, they are illegal here because they don't comply with the Electronic Money directive, and I don't think it is possible for them to comply with it.
Paypal for example is registered as an electronic money issuer under these regulations with the Luxembourg authorities. That allows them to operate anywhere in the EU. In the US, as far as I'm aware, Paypal is registered with all the individual state governments as a money transfer agent, so clearly the rules are very different. It is the act of transferring money about that needs to be registered rather than having Paypal balances existing in electronic form. So maybe the likes of Mtgox could register as a money transfer agent. But what about people who transfer bitcoins themselves using bitcoin software? Does that need to have someone registered as a money transfer agent to allow it to happen?
They seize inventory of drugs quite often in these sorts of heists, and they don't auction that off, because it is illegal property. They will auction off the cars, watches and so on, because it is legal for people own those sorts of things. If they auction off the bitcoins, then they are acknowledging that it is legal to own and sell them.
I don't think they will, and I don't think they should. The floppy disk icon is part of our language now. People understand that it means "save", even if they have never seen a real life physical floppy disk.
They will only authorise it if they actually want to use it. If it is an advert, they won't bother, if it is essential for the funcionality of the site, they will. Obviously they won't know whether or not it is secure.
Historians don't necessarily always want to know about "important" things. They sometimes want to know what everyday life was like for normal people. It isn't interesting to us, because we already know what it is like.
I don't agree. The inane tweets about everyday life are exactly the sort of thing future historians will want to read. It will give them a much greater insight into what life was like than the stuff we find more interesting at the moment.
A $1 movement in oil price is just noise as far as real buyers of oil are concerned. In any case, they buy their oil on the futures market, not the spot market.
But I find a lot of adverts are extremely badly targeted.
For example, "Thank you for buying a BCI 526Y ink cartridge. Are you interested in our amazing special offer of a Canon MX885 printer to put the thing in?". Or, "Thank you for buying an SD card from us. Here is a list of digital cameras that we sell should you want something to put it in." Both those are real life examples from Amazon.
Come on, how many people buy a random inkjet cartridge and then wonder what they are supposed to do with it. Maybe they could wait for a bit, then advertise the same inkjet cartridge, in case I might think of buying it from Staples instead. Or maybe I might want the Cyan cartridge at some point, or the BCI 525Bk one. But that's not what they do.
Then there's the ads that follow you round the internet. For example I have a look at a pair of shoes a particular shoe shop. Then I see adverts everywhere I go for that exact same pair of shoes that that exact same shoe shop. Stop stalking me. I know you sell those shoes. I know I didn't buy them. Maybe there is a reason why I didn't buy them. Just leave me alone.
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Some banks in the UK do that as well, but it requires you to type an 8 digit number from the card reader into a text box on the website.
The NRA have already done the armed guard in every school one.
But what are the odds of both being hit at the same time? For severe weather events, then obviously correlation will be pretty close to 1, but for burglary, correlation might actually be negative, if the burglar wants to move in, take some stuff, and get out of the area as quickly as possible before being caught, then they will probably pick only one house in the neighbourhood, and if they pick yours, that means they won't pick your neighbours.
Suppose it takes 1 week to recover from a burglary, and the probability of being burgled in any particular week is 1% - that is about 1 burglary every two years which is pretty high. If the correlation between you getting burgled and your neighbour getting burgled is 0, then the probability of both getting burgled in the same week is 0.01% or once every 200 years.
for the next 200 years
It used to be like that in Britain. In 1956 we passed the clean air act and things started to improve quite quickly after that.
The price of uranium is about $35/lb ($77.16/kg) at the moment, and it costs about $40/lb ($88.18/kg) to produce the stuff at the moment[1]. 1kg of uranium gives you 83TJ of energy, the same as 3464 tonnes of coal. Coal costs $71.34 per tonne[2], so to get the same amount of energy from 1kg of uranium in coal, you would need to spend $247,133.65.
The fact that uranium is currently selling for less than the cost of production suggests that there is a massive surplus of inventory in the channel at the moment, not that resources are limited.
Sources:
1. http://www.businessinsider.com/uranium-is-set-for-a-violent-move-higher-2013-10
2. http://dawn.com/news/1053697/rising-coal-prices-to-hit-profit-margins
How many square kilometers of land have been made completely uninhabitable for the next 200 years or so as a result of coal power?
Hallowe'en is a Pagan festival to celebrate the Autumn (Fall) equinox. They believed that this was the time of year that the spirits of the dead would wake up for the winter, and it was necessary for young people to dress up as skeletons and ghosts and to have lanterns designed as such in order to confuse them and scare them away. Absolutely nothing to do with the Catholic Church or Christianity, it was around before they came along.
All Saints' Day is tomorrow, and All Souls' day the day after. Those are Christian festivals. But dressing up as skeletons, witches and so on is nothing to do with that, it is to do with the pre-Christian pagan festival.
It's not. Life imprisonment is cheaper.
Do Romanians celebrate Hallowe'en? It is celebrated in the Celtic nations such as Scotland and USA. In England, they only started celebrating it relatively recently.
We call our provinces "countries", but it is the same thing.
Some of the British Colonies have their own currencies. All of them have their own governments.
Even if Taiwan was a province of China they probably wouldn't do those things. Here in England, my local council fines me for traffic violations, and I've yet to see much evidence that anyone delivers the mail.
If you live in London, Manchester or one of the other big UK cities, you will have a huge choice of different providers, and it will be very cheap. If you live in a croft in the Scottish highlands, then you will have to pay a lot of money for satellite broadband.
I can understand that if you live in a ranch the size of Wales, you can't expect much in the way of public utilities such as broadband, but if you live in a big US city such as New York, the population density is similar to UK cities, so you should expect the same level of service.
The Western Union that is around today is still the same company that operated telegraphs in years gone by. Transferring money quickly from one place to another is one of the things that the invention of the telegraph allowed people to do, and Western Union got into that market. They still do wire transfers today even though they are using other peoples' cable to do it rather than their own. They are not a government sanctioned monopoly in that field and there are many other companies that do the same, or a similar job. Moneygram provide exactly the same service. You hand money into one of the their shops in one location, and someone else can pick it up from another location a few minutes later. Other networks do it via the banks, such as SWIFT for interbank transfers, Visa and Mastercard for card payments and companies such as Paypal.
In the UK, there is one set of electricity wires in the street, one set of gas pipes, and one set (or sometimes two sets) of telephone cables.
The owner of the electricity wires, the gas pipes, and except in Hull, one of the sets of telephone cables, is required to make them available to other suppliers at a regulated price. That means I can choose from many different people to supply my gas, electricity and telephone.
pooching (v)
To conceal something in one's vagina, usually for the purpose of hiding it from the police or security guards
The act of inhaling dogs farts to get high off them.
Havng sex with any dog of a girl that will go to bed with you.
If the Fed sells them, then it is an endorsement of their legality. If you buy bitcoins from the Fed, then they can't complain about what you do with them unless they could complain about you doing the same thing with US Dollars or Euros in similar circumstances.
I don't know what the position in the US is. I live in Europe, and as far as I can see, they are illegal here because they don't comply with the Electronic Money directive, and I don't think it is possible for them to comply with it.
Paypal for example is registered as an electronic money issuer under these regulations with the Luxembourg authorities. That allows them to operate anywhere in the EU. In the US, as far as I'm aware, Paypal is registered with all the individual state governments as a money transfer agent, so clearly the rules are very different. It is the act of transferring money about that needs to be registered rather than having Paypal balances existing in electronic form. So maybe the likes of Mtgox could register as a money transfer agent. But what about people who transfer bitcoins themselves using bitcoin software? Does that need to have someone registered as a money transfer agent to allow it to happen?
They seize inventory of drugs quite often in these sorts of heists, and they don't auction that off, because it is illegal property. They will auction off the cars, watches and so on, because it is legal for people own those sorts of things. If they auction off the bitcoins, then they are acknowledging that it is legal to own and sell them.
I don't think they will, and I don't think they should. The floppy disk icon is part of our language now. People understand that it means "save", even if they have never seen a real life physical floppy disk.
They will only authorise it if they actually want to use it. If it is an advert, they won't bother, if it is essential for the funcionality of the site, they will. Obviously they won't know whether or not it is secure.
Babbage saw computers as just calculators. Lovelace saw that they could do a lot more than just add up numbers.
Historians don't necessarily always want to know about "important" things. They sometimes want to know what everyday life was like for normal people. It isn't interesting to us, because we already know what it is like.
I don't agree. The inane tweets about everyday life are exactly the sort of thing future historians will want to read. It will give them a much greater insight into what life was like than the stuff we find more interesting at the moment.
A $1 movement in oil price is just noise as far as real buyers of oil are concerned. In any case, they buy their oil on the futures market, not the spot market.
But I find a lot of adverts are extremely badly targeted.
For example, "Thank you for buying a BCI 526Y ink cartridge. Are you interested in our amazing special offer of a Canon MX885 printer to put the thing in?".
Or, "Thank you for buying an SD card from us. Here is a list of digital cameras that we sell should you want something to put it in."
Both those are real life examples from Amazon.
Come on, how many people buy a random inkjet cartridge and then wonder what they are supposed to do with it. Maybe they could wait for a bit, then advertise the same inkjet cartridge, in case I might think of buying it from Staples instead. Or maybe I might want the Cyan cartridge at some point, or the BCI 525Bk one. But that's not what they do.
Then there's the ads that follow you round the internet. For example I have a look at a pair of shoes a particular shoe shop. Then I see adverts everywhere I go for that exact same pair of shoes that that exact same shoe shop. Stop stalking me. I know you sell those shoes. I know I didn't buy them. Maybe there is a reason why I didn't buy them. Just leave me alone.