Was it the US Mint that changed or was it the credit card companies that did? I remember that there were changes to the T&C for many credit cards regarding like-cash transactions, which included gift card purchases and like the example you gave of the Sacajaweas. (On a side note, I'd rather have a pocket full of Sacajaweas than have to use paper bills for $1 denomination...)
The tldr; version is that the measles seems to cause the immune system to forget other diseases that it has been subject to already. I think the estimate was that it takes about 2-3 years to return to the prior state before the measles infection occurred. Thus there is a correlation (though I don't think they've established firm causation yet) between measles and death by subsequent infections.
It's even more nefarious than that. The RBOCs exploited a loophole in the 1996 law that allowed them to deny access to any runs that weren't 100% copper. Thus fiber-to-the-terminal was born... you may recognize it by one of its brand names - "u-verse". This is still the defacto status too. I'm around 10km from the CO that services my area, but only about 1 1/2 km from the nearest terminal. I can't get service because AT&T won't sell me even their old 6mbps/768kbps dsl service (which is what is available, it's an old dslam), and they won't allow any CLEC from accessing the equipment there. So my choices are between satellite (terrible, capped, very latent), cellular lte (bold print giveth 'unlimited', but the fine print taketh that away with the words '22gb/mo transfer, after which we reserve the right to throttle you down to 2G speeds'), or rfc2549 (my parrot refuses to work for only chili peppers).
Oh I'm with you man, as I live just beyond the boundaries of the suburb-exurb in my area, and I'm about 1 mile from the nearest fiber pull, but they won't pull it up or even tell me how many households need to sign up in between my house and the fiber for them to pull it. In fact, they (Ma Bell) can't even figure who in their organization would know that answer. I am of the opinion that if we don't get this whole country connected with a decent minimum baseline standard (25 mbps would be a start) then those parts that don't have connectivity will ultimately end up regressing into a modern day dark ages. My lovely state even has a law on the books prohibiting muni fiber solutions (again, thanks Ma Bell), and I don't have enough capital to start a co-op.
The funny thing is that you think that the rural voters are going to get anything out of this proposal. They won't. Hell, the FCC doesn't even really know how many households out there can and cannot get broadband services...
If only I had money to gamble like that. Alas at the moment I don't. If I did I would have looked into that. In the meantime, I have to wait for Eyegore gets back with my normal brain and takes back Abby Normal's....
And I've known of the pending workforce reduction (aka voluntary firings) for a bit now, as one of my friends took the offer and was talking about it. I already smelled a major loss on the horizon. Whatever happened to telecom companies focusing on telecom services?
I don't think you have thought this out enough. They don't have to be more efficient than renewables to win. They just need to outlast an industry that is in its infancy compared to the petroleum industry and its distribution network.
Tsfat has an elevation of 900m above sea level, but it's not height above sea level itself that makes something mountainous. It's the overall variance in topography. Let's not forget that part of the country is actually below sea level. And nobody drives to the Hermon? What about the skiing there in the winter time? I've ridden buses, taken taxis, ridden the train, and driven both cars and vespas around Israel, so I'm quite familiar with the country and the terrain.
Jerusalem is on a plateau? Funny, Jerusalem itself might be the holy city, but it's twelve levels of hell to drive in due in no small part to the fact that it is not very plateau like. If anything, the Golan far more qualifies as a plateau.
The fact that Nepal would say "those aren't mountains, they're hills" isn't really relevant to me. Yes, parts of SoCal have more pronounced mountains. But there really isn't a hard definition of what is a hill versus a mountain.
As for your Prius, what year/generation is it? I've got a pretty steep hill that if I come into it at around 70mph by the time I reach the top the '05 Prius is barely able to keep it up to 50mph. A typical Corolla will be able to keep between 60-65 mph at the top of this hill. This is in one of the hillier parts of the Texas Hill Country, but at a height of between 900-1100 ft above sea level, these are definitely hills in my book.
I used to see a susita over by the qiriyah... That was a couple decades ago so no idea if it's still there. But no, there's currently no domestic vehicle industry to speak of.
Much of Israel is mountainous, so I'm not sure if that affects range in any very meaningful ways (but I suspect it does). But yeah, if you drive from Katsrin in the Golan to Eilat, it's under 500 km.
Thank you, AC, but with some government bureaucracies you are compelled to designate a race, and there isn't always an "other" option. Want to purchase a firearm from an FFL? You *must* designate or else you will not pass the NICS check. State DPS will not give you a DL without designating there as well, and if the agent doesn't agree with your designate, they can override your self-designated value.
You also don't seem to understand that from a very young age we are made to fill out those demographics. I remember them as a kid on standardized testing in elementary school even. The teacher never said "you don't need to fill that part out if you don't want to". You were told to fill out all the information on it. So as an adult when somebody on the street asks you to identify as such, it is very difficult to do even as you say for the average person.
Go back some 40+ years and I think things would be different. My son has not experienced the levels of antisemitism that I did even in elementary school as a child. Also, we're basically forced to self-identify as "White/Caucasian", "Black/African", "Asian", "Pacific Islander", or, if we're lucky either "Human" or "Other". Technically Jewish people descend from Abraham of Ur, which makes us technically an Asian people. But "Asian" seems to pretty much apply to "people whose eyefolds have a slanted orientation" only. So what choice are we to make when we're basically forced to?
The short answer is this: No. Jews are not "white". Some of us can pass for that on cursory examination. But that's only some of us. Even in my own family there is diversity of skin color with me being the lightest between myself, my father, and my sister. In North American the bulk of the Jewish population has learned to play the "white" game so as to not be ostracized or such. But that didn't stop Bowers of course.
It can be a little confusing because being Jewish can mean "belonging to Judaism" and it can mean "having been born to a Jewish family and being a part of Jewish cultures". One can be the latter without being the former, but if one starts off as non-Jewish and becomes the former, that person is automatically accepted then as ethnically Jewish by other Jews.
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Not to mention that Adam Smith himself pointed out that the wealthy needed to be taxed more to support society. Ironic, ain't it?
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Was it the US Mint that changed or was it the credit card companies that did? I remember that there were changes to the T&C for many credit cards regarding like-cash transactions, which included gift card purchases and like the example you gave of the Sacajaweas. (On a side note, I'd rather have a pocket full of Sacajaweas than have to use paper bills for $1 denomination...)
The tldr; version is that the measles seems to cause the immune system to forget other diseases that it has been subject to already. I think the estimate was that it takes about 2-3 years to return to the prior state before the measles infection occurred. Thus there is a correlation (though I don't think they've established firm causation yet) between measles and death by subsequent infections.
Ah no effects. Nothing like what's been observed here... Measles virus-induced suppression of immune responses - NCBI - NIH
It's even more nefarious than that. The RBOCs exploited a loophole in the 1996 law that allowed them to deny access to any runs that weren't 100% copper. Thus fiber-to-the-terminal was born... you may recognize it by one of its brand names - "u-verse". This is still the defacto status too. I'm around 10km from the CO that services my area, but only about 1 1/2 km from the nearest terminal. I can't get service because AT&T won't sell me even their old 6mbps/768kbps dsl service (which is what is available, it's an old dslam), and they won't allow any CLEC from accessing the equipment there. So my choices are between satellite (terrible, capped, very latent), cellular lte (bold print giveth 'unlimited', but the fine print taketh that away with the words '22gb/mo transfer, after which we reserve the right to throttle you down to 2G speeds'), or rfc2549 (my parrot refuses to work for only chili peppers).
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Oh I'm with you man, as I live just beyond the boundaries of the suburb-exurb in my area, and I'm about 1 mile from the nearest fiber pull, but they won't pull it up or even tell me how many households need to sign up in between my house and the fiber for them to pull it. In fact, they (Ma Bell) can't even figure who in their organization would know that answer. I am of the opinion that if we don't get this whole country connected with a decent minimum baseline standard (25 mbps would be a start) then those parts that don't have connectivity will ultimately end up regressing into a modern day dark ages. My lovely state even has a law on the books prohibiting muni fiber solutions (again, thanks Ma Bell), and I don't have enough capital to start a co-op.
The funny thing is that you think that the rural voters are going to get anything out of this proposal. They won't. Hell, the FCC doesn't even really know how many households out there can and cannot get broadband services...
Ah yes, 5G is the panacea. And surely they only want $11 trillion from the gov't in order to not cover the entire country.
If only I had money to gamble like that. Alas at the moment I don't. If I did I would have looked into that. In the meantime, I have to wait for Eyegore gets back with my normal brain and takes back Abby Normal's....
How many out of the money puts did you buy?
I'm not sure how to answer that. Mostly because I'm not sure what you're asking.
And I've known of the pending workforce reduction (aka voluntary firings) for a bit now, as one of my friends took the offer and was talking about it. I already smelled a major loss on the horizon. Whatever happened to telecom companies focusing on telecom services?
There are FOUR lights!!!!
I don't think you have thought this out enough. They don't have to be more efficient than renewables to win. They just need to outlast an industry that is in its infancy compared to the petroleum industry and its distribution network.
And they want a pony too.
Tsfat has an elevation of 900m above sea level, but it's not height above sea level itself that makes something mountainous. It's the overall variance in topography. Let's not forget that part of the country is actually below sea level. And nobody drives to the Hermon? What about the skiing there in the winter time? I've ridden buses, taken taxis, ridden the train, and driven both cars and vespas around Israel, so I'm quite familiar with the country and the terrain.
Jerusalem is on a plateau? Funny, Jerusalem itself might be the holy city, but it's twelve levels of hell to drive in due in no small part to the fact that it is not very plateau like. If anything, the Golan far more qualifies as a plateau.
The fact that Nepal would say "those aren't mountains, they're hills" isn't really relevant to me. Yes, parts of SoCal have more pronounced mountains. But there really isn't a hard definition of what is a hill versus a mountain.
As for your Prius, what year/generation is it? I've got a pretty steep hill that if I come into it at around 70mph by the time I reach the top the '05 Prius is barely able to keep it up to 50mph. A typical Corolla will be able to keep between 60-65 mph at the top of this hill. This is in one of the hillier parts of the Texas Hill Country, but at a height of between 900-1100 ft above sea level, these are definitely hills in my book.
I used to see a susita over by the qiriyah... That was a couple decades ago so no idea if it's still there. But no, there's currently no domestic vehicle industry to speak of.
Much of Israel is mountainous, so I'm not sure if that affects range in any very meaningful ways (but I suspect it does). But yeah, if you drive from Katsrin in the Golan to Eilat, it's under 500 km.
Thank you, AC, but with some government bureaucracies you are compelled to designate a race, and there isn't always an "other" option. Want to purchase a firearm from an FFL? You *must* designate or else you will not pass the NICS check. State DPS will not give you a DL without designating there as well, and if the agent doesn't agree with your designate, they can override your self-designated value.
You also don't seem to understand that from a very young age we are made to fill out those demographics. I remember them as a kid on standardized testing in elementary school even. The teacher never said "you don't need to fill that part out if you don't want to". You were told to fill out all the information on it. So as an adult when somebody on the street asks you to identify as such, it is very difficult to do even as you say for the average person.
Go back some 40+ years and I think things would be different. My son has not experienced the levels of antisemitism that I did even in elementary school as a child. Also, we're basically forced to self-identify as "White/Caucasian", "Black/African", "Asian", "Pacific Islander", or, if we're lucky either "Human" or "Other". Technically Jewish people descend from Abraham of Ur, which makes us technically an Asian people. But "Asian" seems to pretty much apply to "people whose eyefolds have a slanted orientation" only. So what choice are we to make when we're basically forced to?
The short answer is this: No. Jews are not "white". Some of us can pass for that on cursory examination. But that's only some of us. Even in my own family there is diversity of skin color with me being the lightest between myself, my father, and my sister. In North American the bulk of the Jewish population has learned to play the "white" game so as to not be ostracized or such. But that didn't stop Bowers of course.
It can be a little confusing because being Jewish can mean "belonging to Judaism" and it can mean "having been born to a Jewish family and being a part of Jewish cultures". One can be the latter without being the former, but if one starts off as non-Jewish and becomes the former, that person is automatically accepted then as ethnically Jewish by other Jews.
This is Mr. Chunks' winning combination!