Yeah, I was kind of hoping that the obvious answer was the wrong answer. The stuff is not too complicated, there is just a lot of it (DTD). I have a parser now that does not choke on the data. It needs much testing and time to make sure it really always works right. There is no room for error when it comes to people's money.
It is also another piece of code that has to be maintained and updated as updates on the OFX standard come out.
I did check it out. It looks promising, but it is GPL. The businesses that want the solution to include OFX do not want to have their internal code mixed with anything GPL.
If it was just for me, or something I could release without worry, I would not hesitate to use it, but it would not be right to use it, distribute it and then not supply source code (which would be a breach of contract for me).
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That is true. And on MS's site, it is called XML. No matter, which it is, by XML standards it is broken, and by SGML standards it is broken. When you create a DTD for SGML, you have to actually note in the DTD whether or not a closing (or opening) tag is optional. They have not marked any tag in the DTD I have (from www.ofx.org) as optional.
If they had marked tag closings as optional then in the DTD you sould see something like this:
<!ELEMENT SEVERITY - O %SEVERITYENUM;>
The - mean the opening of the tag is not optional and the O means the closing tag is optional. In their DTD, they do have:
<!ELEMENT SEVERITY %SEVERITYENUM;>
which would mean that neither the opening nor closing tags are optional.
Since a proper SGML document does not exist seperate from its DTD, then the data in the file must be marked up according to the associated DTD (which they have gone to the trouble or creating) or the document is broken. At least, that is how I learned SGML while working on legal documents and TEI. It may be yet, that what I learned is bunk, but I hope not.
...is not a problem, as that is guessable from a generic parser's perspective, but something like:
<foo>this<bar>that<bar2>thatagain</foo>
presents problems with where to place the bar2. Is it a sibling to bar, or a child? By eyeballing the data, you can make an intuitive guess, and probably be right. Putting code into play that must always make the right decision on the other hand can not rely on intuition. Especially when it comes to money.
BTW, MS's own XML parser chokes on these docs as well. Money can parse it, but, the msxml parser chokes on it.
Are you working with prime or sub-prime? If it is sub-prime, then I feel sooooo sorry for you. I have done some work for some sub-prime brokers. They were very interesting to work for, and I will never go back to do any work for any of them, ever. I have never been lied to about more things in my life than those three companies pulled.
How do I explain this. Ma Bell existed for a long time as a monopoly. They destroyed all the competition through anti-comptetive means (except a few initial purchases and settlements.) The government forced them to open their systems to competitors and forced pricing that allowed others to compete. MCI brought a law suit (one of many by several companies over the years) that eventually led to the breakup of Ma Bell into the baby bells (and AT&T).
I do not know where you got your attitude from, but to sum it up, the government did break Ma Bell up. Them are the facts no matter what anyone else told you. They are in the law books now. Have you forgotten Ma Bell and the government's lawsuits (as well as MCIs) against Ma Bell? I really did not think it was that long ago, but maybe it really has been more than a few decades.
All the creative financing in the world will not prevent what a bloated, lethargic bureaucracry can do to a monopoly.
That is why we have anti-trust laws. A business with enough power and the right ability to lock consumers in can keep competition out. Very simple. If there is no basis for a competitor to compete on, no matter how good the product (ok, telepathy would be a product to lock out), the market is not going to be opened. This has been demonstrated many times over in this countries history (as well as the world's history). And, yes, creative financing is almost always the root that keeps the monopoly alive, not competitive products or services. Some will argue that if you wait long enough, a monopoly that does not provide the better products and services will fall apart. The reality is that a monopoly prevents or limits the better services and products to its own advantages. It might just happen if we wait long enough. But, then again, most people are interested in things being fixed in their own lifetimes.
This is a great form of marketing and has been for a long time for corps with an image issue. Mr Gates has an image issue. MS has a bigger image issue. It may be out of the goodness of his heart, as many peoples' hearts turn from stone as they get older, but IIRC, these donations started shortly after consulting a firm about the image problem. Try here, here, and a more positive spin here.
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This is the right attitude. It used to bother me that my clients would not listen and do things that were good for them (even the simple easy dirt cheap things), then I figured out, it is all about comfort levels. If the client is comfortable where things are they will not change. SO, now I simply give them a written explanation of what they need to do (or not do), and list the fee for fixing each of the problems they might encounter if they do not do as instructed. Get this, many have actually thanked me for letting them know the cost of fixing things up front. Instead of just doing things the right way, they were happy to have a dollar amount they could plug into their projected expenses. If that does not tell you anything, nothing will.
We recently had major flooding. Several of my clients have businesses in the flood zone (much cheaper rent). Most of those followed my advice and moved their hardware upstairs. A few did not and are not paying me major bucks for reinstalling, rebuilding and recovering everything they need. If they had just taken a day and moved eveything the first time (they are all now moving upstairs), then they would have saved much money and even more downtime.
But, in the end, how they run their business is their choice. All I can do is offer my advice and hope they listen.
The double major is a good combo. The minor in econ is not a lot of extra stuff, but is insanely useful in your personal life if you get the ideas it presents. As far as wasting time, that would be partying too much, drinking too much and other things that drain your resources and get you no further ahead. Social networking is good, being a fool drunk slob is bad.
You might be surprised to find (though I doubt it) that the world population is aging and will need more and more biomedical equipment to help them survive with any real level of comfort. And, that equipment requires a person with both a strong undertanding of electrical engineering and medicine (or biomedicine engineering) to invent, manufacture cost effectively, distribute, use and maintain. Good luck to you.
You are correct about economics, but I disagree with your assertion tha business and economics are any degrees apart. A succesful business is merely a very good manager of its resources. Money is only one of them, and any business that looks aonly at money is doomed to fail. Money is a very important bottom line, but not the only one. As a resource, money is a pseudo-resource. It has no true value outside of what we assign it. You can not eat it or produce anything with it. It is very powerful though in that it provides us with a way of trading resources without having to know what resources we need today, or needing to have the resources the other party requires to complete the transaction.
I think you miss the point of the parent post because of this mistake in the parent post, though. Think of it this way...
Here is my model:
economics == management (control) of scarce resources;
management (control) of scarce resources == power;
power == control;
Which gives us:
economics == control;
Economics is about control. It is about understanding why people make the decisions they do, and why we should make decisions one way or another. Economics is not limited to purchases (I think you know this), but is about how we spend and prioritize our time, thinking and all resources. It is this understanding of things that allows marketing to more effective, businesses to run more efficiently and people to become more succesful (happier) with their lives. This understanding is what give us more control over our own situations and other people.
The problem is that most people in the position to take advantage of economice combine it with marketing and business to teach those around them not in the know to make bad economic decisions for profit. There is nothing illegal about this, it is called marketing. Without it, a consumerism driven society such as the US would not be as profitable, though it might be more stable (or not - that is also debateable.)
I believe that is what the parent was alluding to. Though I could still be wrong. 8^)
This is not new. It is already been looked at, and yes, their are some who believe a small location in the brain ties into this. And, believe it or not, it is part of the pleasure center. Here is an article that about one such person. I have no opinion on this research as I know too litle about the research or the researcher, but I thought it would be interesting given your quote.
Ah come on, I was actually tying to be funny for once (my wife says it is good for me), and someone just as boring as myself comes along. Wouldn't ya know.
The wording of the stickers is fine in its very own context. However, legal issues are almost never in the context of a single statement, and a single statement is almost never (unless crafted as such) in the context of only itself, and as that is the case with these stickers, the judge's decision is correct. The context these stickers are within is the relative strengthening of a religion under government order by the targeted weakening of thinking that the leaders of this religious sect believe to be against their religion.
The one nation under God bit was added by the same type of individuals that want creationism to replace evolution without due study and proof (no the Bible is not a source of proof, it is a Book.) The original writer of the pledge actually was against adding those lines to the pledge that he (a baptist minister) wrote. If you really want proof of Darwin's ideas, read up on fruit fly and mouse studies, using genetic modifications to produce new flies and mice that have new characteristics. If you think this kind of random mutation does not/can not happen in the wild, without an intelligent hand, go back to reading on genetics. The genome and its environment are very capable of producing and culling random and not so random modifications.
The lines in the pledge and on currency actually are unconstitutional. Those who would make this country a fundamentalist christian nation, like the Holy Roman Empire, only care for the constitution as a means of taking over. They are as bad as fundamentalist muslim terrorists: see Inquisition, Crusades, Witch Hunts... These people think the same way as the people who allowed these atrocities in Christs name through the Church to happen in the past two thousand years. They still lost to reality. They killed millions of people in the process and forced millions more to suffer horribly. True, as far as I know, theese people have not murdered, but as ignorance and *blind* faith increases, then the old ways return, as *blind* faith is the power of the old way (terror and violence).
Ignorance of the masses and fear of a greater being has alwyas been a way to mold the masses into obedience. Christ tried to break the hold of these people, but they even perverted his message to continue their hold on the world. It is really a power struggle between people that want to control what you can do, say and become and a thinking that wants you to have the freedom to learn new things and grow in new ways. These are the same type of people who at one point had proclaimed things like the Earth is the center of the Universe, or the Earth is not round and you will fall off the edges. When confronted with scientific proof contrary to their fanaticism, they turned to murder and destruction to keep the *harmful* science away. It boils down to churches making claims that are outside the scope of the their realm in the names of (social) control, ie where you come from (pre-birth), why and how you (should) live and where you go when you die (or why you should live a certain way). Making statements outside of these areas has always proven inherintly dangerous for a church and set up future conflicts when the religion's position prooves to be wrong. Many times, people pay the price for these *mistakes* in blood.
I would ignore these people, but they are making it very difficult for me to raise my children in the knowledge of God. They are the false prophets the Bible (and many other religions' bibles) warned us about. Always trying to ban ideas and knowledge, these people represent the most morally corrupt amongst us. Though they hold high many good things, and they know not what they do, they use these good things in the pursuit of decidely immoral ambitions.
As has always been said, the best lies are laced with strong portions of truth. These people are masters of this, though in many cases they do not even know it themselves.
Which is good, whereas man sequestering lead away under tons of earth and rock is bad.
They leak. Period. Too much history on that one already, and they do contaminate the local water supplies with their leaks. That is why the rules are so strict for new landfills. But even then, the new ones are having problems keeping their no-leak promises as well. Hmm.. Not really sequestered.
Which is why the entire human race has died from exposure to lead fumes in leaded gasoline. Stupid humans. What planet were you from again Xarvox?
Childish retorts aside, toxins do not have to be fatal to be extremely potent, damaging and dangerous. Being hit by a car at 50 mph is not always fatal either, but has serious results as well. As far as fatalities from lead poisoning, those would be more likely listed under violent crime. Lead poisoning in children causes them to grow up in a significant number of cases to be violent criminals. This has to do with the problems induced by lead poisoning in the brain via its prevention/retarding of emotional and intellectual growth. The societal implications are a much higher incarceration rate, a lower employment rate and more strain on social institutions to help those who have medical issues.
It really comes down to biochemistry. Lead causes serious problems even in very small doses. Lead builds up over time and is hard for the body to remove. There are plenty of examples of lead poisoning and the effects it has on people. For more references, you might try reading them, hereand here or here.
That used to be a lot of fun.... Build up an ideal world in a great stable oscilation, then introduce cows which produce methane, then you get global warming followed by a deep freeze. 8^)
Actually, this is one of the better ideas I have seen in a while. It is known that motor skills and language skills tend to depend on each other for development (something to do with the mirror neurons). And, it is known that writing letters and numbers leads to better memory and ability to use them than simply reading or typing. Since leanring is better accomplished as an active engagement, it is good if they are more interested in the material at hand while they are doing it. (IIRC) More stimulation from active engagement causes the pyramidal neurons to receive multiple inputs at the same time which is where memory (learning) seems to start. Any experts, correct me if I am wrong. 8-)
All in all a toy that encourages them to develop eye hand coordination, reading and writing skills as well as artistic design and very simple organizational skills - I think I will be getting one for our children. If it bears out its claims.
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Not sure if that is really good sarcasm or blunt ignorance (so hard to tell sometimes)
Molten lava has existed longer than man has, and it only does harm when brought into the environment people are in. Lead is similar, it does great harm when introduced into our bodies, but normally, it is sequestered away by nature. Lead is a potent toxin and has no known minimum safe exposure level.
It does not take an idiot green to see a real issue with a highly toxic metal being released into our water supplies that would not normally find its way into them. It does take a short sighted person to not see the harm it has cause and will cause if it is not dealt with.
This falls under the same context as the freedom of information act. Software is not a physical good, it is an intellectual good. Just like county land charts, zoning maps, demographic data, census data, etc. So, it falls in almost all cases (except where national security is at risk) under the same distribution guidelines. Go to your county courthouse and check out all of the government compiled statistics you can pick up for a mere reproduction fee. Producing the software is the same thing as producing the other data. It was not done to produce a product, but to accomplish a task. We the taxpayers have already payed for this, and we the taxpayers have every right to it (thought not a free reproduction cost). In the 90s, laws were passed telling government organizations to make their information available through the Internet for this reason.
The point is that we didn't pay for the government to create acad software package for us.
We did pay them to do that, as it was part of doing the job correctly. That is part of protect and serve. Think of it this way. My client does not pay me to customize their application to make it work the way they like. They pay me to migrate them to the new platform, it just so happens that part of that means customizing. So, do I do the install then turn around and say the custom work on the new package will be extra? Not in my world, that expense is built into the cost of doing the migration (or setting up plots, or mapping gas lines, or doing seismic research, or mapping flood zones...). I know some do that kind of stuff, but we tend to wind up with their clients, so I am not worried about changing my practice of software written is part of services paid for.
I do not disagree. One hard core *fact* is E=MC^2. This translates to Energy = mass * speed squared. As you go faster, the energy in an accident increases exponentially. This means that faster speeds do cause more damage and are more likely to kill. This is most of what the safety movement is based on (and the data from accidents such as speed, injuries and such over a long period of time, not just a year or two).
Another hard fact for current vehivles is that the faster you travel, the more fuel you burn. So, the faster our speed limit (what we drive, not what is posted) is, the more fuel we consume, the more expensive it is (though not nescesarily not cost effective) and the faster we burn through the fuel de jour.
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Yeah, I was kind of hoping that the obvious answer was the wrong answer. The stuff is not too complicated, there is just a lot of it (DTD). I have a parser now that does not choke on the data. It needs much testing and time to make sure it really always works right. There is no room for error when it comes to people's money.
It is also another piece of code that has to be maintained and updated as updates on the OFX standard come out.
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I did check it out. It looks promising, but it is GPL. The businesses that want the solution to include OFX do not want to have their internal code mixed with anything GPL.
If it was just for me, or something I could release without worry, I would not hesitate to use it, but it would not be right to use it, distribute it and then not supply source code (which would be a breach of contract for me).
Get someone to show you how to use google.com while you're at it
Hmm. Nice.
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That is true. And on MS's site, it is called XML. No matter, which it is, by XML standards it is broken, and by SGML standards it is broken. When you create a DTD for SGML, you have to actually note in the DTD whether or not a closing (or opening) tag is optional. They have not marked any tag in the DTD I have (from www.ofx.org) as optional.
If they had marked tag closings as optional then in the DTD you sould see something like this:
The - mean the opening of the tag is not optional and the O means the closing tag is optional. In their DTD, they do have:
which would mean that neither the opening nor closing tags are optional.
Since a proper SGML document does not exist seperate from its DTD, then the data in the file must be marked up according to the associated DTD (which they have gone to the trouble or creating) or the document is broken. At least, that is how I learned SGML while working on legal documents and TEI. It may be yet, that what I learned is bunk, but I hope not.
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...is not a problem, as that is guessable from a generic parser's perspective, but something like:
presents problems with where to place the bar2. Is it a sibling to bar, or a child? By eyeballing the data, you can make an intuitive guess, and probably be right. Putting code into play that must always make the right decision on the other hand can not rely on intuition. Especially when it comes to money.
BTW, MS's own XML parser chokes on these docs as well. Money can parse it, but, the msxml parser chokes on it.
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Reminds me of a few friends who are in office and how they answer questions, even non-political ones.
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Are you working with prime or sub-prime? If it is sub-prime, then I feel sooooo sorry for you. I have done some work for some sub-prime brokers. They were very interesting to work for, and I will never go back to do any work for any of them, ever. I have never been lied to about more things in my life than those three companies pulled.
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One person who is a quadriplegic recently (this past year) had a chip implanted. He can now control things by thinking about it.
Here are some other articles from a google and some things I have marked...
I want a new mod selection reserved for posts like this. Something along the lines of Juvenile Delinquent.
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I do not know where you got your attitude from, but to sum it up, the government did break Ma Bell up. Them are the facts no matter what anyone else told you. They are in the law books now. Have you forgotten Ma Bell and the government's lawsuits (as well as MCIs) against Ma Bell? I really did not think it was that long ago, but maybe it really has been more than a few decades.
All the creative financing in the world will not prevent what a bloated, lethargic bureaucracry can do to a monopoly.That is why we have anti-trust laws. A business with enough power and the right ability to lock consumers in can keep competition out. Very simple. If there is no basis for a competitor to compete on, no matter how good the product (ok, telepathy would be a product to lock out), the market is not going to be opened. This has been demonstrated many times over in this countries history (as well as the world's history). And, yes, creative financing is almost always the root that keeps the monopoly alive, not competitive products or services. Some will argue that if you wait long enough, a monopoly that does not provide the better products and services will fall apart. The reality is that a monopoly prevents or limits the better services and products to its own advantages. It might just happen if we wait long enough. But, then again, most people are interested in things being fixed in their own lifetimes.
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This is a great form of marketing and has been for a long time for corps with an image issue. Mr Gates has an image issue. MS has a bigger image issue. It may be out of the goodness of his heart, as many peoples' hearts turn from stone as they get older, but IIRC, these donations started shortly after consulting a firm about the image problem. Try here, here, and a more positive spin here.
We recently had major flooding. Several of my clients have businesses in the flood zone (much cheaper rent). Most of those followed my advice and moved their hardware upstairs. A few did not and are not paying me major bucks for reinstalling, rebuilding and recovering everything they need. If they had just taken a day and moved eveything the first time (they are all now moving upstairs), then they would have saved much money and even more downtime.
But, in the end, how they run their business is their choice. All I can do is offer my advice and hope they listen.
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You might be surprised to find (though I doubt it) that the world population is aging and will need more and more biomedical equipment to help them survive with any real level of comfort. And, that equipment requires a person with both a strong undertanding of electrical engineering and medicine (or biomedicine engineering) to invent, manufacture cost effectively, distribute, use and maintain. Good luck to you.
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I think you miss the point of the parent post because of this mistake in the parent post, though. Think of it this way...
Here is my model:
economics == management (control) of scarce resources;
management (control) of scarce resources == power;
power == control;
Which gives us:
economics == control;
Economics is about control. It is about understanding why people make the decisions they do, and why we should make decisions one way or another. Economics is not limited to purchases (I think you know this), but is about how we spend and prioritize our time, thinking and all resources. It is this understanding of things that allows marketing to more effective, businesses to run more efficiently and people to become more succesful (happier) with their lives. This understanding is what give us more control over our own situations and other people.
The problem is that most people in the position to take advantage of economice combine it with marketing and business to teach those around them not in the know to make bad economic decisions for profit. There is nothing illegal about this, it is called marketing. Without it, a consumerism driven society such as the US would not be as profitable, though it might be more stable (or not - that is also debateable.)
I believe that is what the parent was alluding to. Though I could still be wrong. 8^)
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The wording of the stickers is fine in its very own context. However, legal issues are almost never in the context of a single statement, and a single statement is almost never (unless crafted as such) in the context of only itself, and as that is the case with these stickers, the judge's decision is correct. The context these stickers are within is the relative strengthening of a religion under government order by the targeted weakening of thinking that the leaders of this religious sect believe to be against their religion.
The one nation under God bit was added by the same type of individuals that want creationism to replace evolution without due study and proof (no the Bible is not a source of proof, it is a Book.) The original writer of the pledge actually was against adding those lines to the pledge that he (a baptist minister) wrote. If you really want proof of Darwin's ideas, read up on fruit fly and mouse studies, using genetic modifications to produce new flies and mice that have new characteristics. If you think this kind of random mutation does not/can not happen in the wild, without an intelligent hand, go back to reading on genetics. The genome and its environment are very capable of producing and culling random and not so random modifications.
The lines in the pledge and on currency actually are unconstitutional. Those who would make this country a fundamentalist christian nation, like the Holy Roman Empire, only care for the constitution as a means of taking over. They are as bad as fundamentalist muslim terrorists: see Inquisition, Crusades, Witch Hunts ... These people think the same way as the people who allowed these atrocities in Christs name through the Church to happen in the past two thousand years. They still lost to reality. They killed millions of people in the process and forced millions more to suffer horribly. True, as far as I know, theese people have not murdered, but as ignorance and *blind* faith increases, then the old ways return, as *blind* faith is the power of the old way (terror and violence).
Ignorance of the masses and fear of a greater being has alwyas been a way to mold the masses into obedience. Christ tried to break the hold of these people, but they even perverted his message to continue their hold on the world. It is really a power struggle between people that want to control what you can do, say and become and a thinking that wants you to have the freedom to learn new things and grow in new ways. These are the same type of people who at one point had proclaimed things like the Earth is the center of the Universe, or the Earth is not round and you will fall off the edges. When confronted with scientific proof contrary to their fanaticism, they turned to murder and destruction to keep the *harmful* science away. It boils down to churches making claims that are outside the scope of the their realm in the names of (social) control, ie where you come from (pre-birth), why and how you (should) live and where you go when you die (or why you should live a certain way). Making statements outside of these areas has always proven inherintly dangerous for a church and set up future conflicts when the religion's position prooves to be wrong. Many times, people pay the price for these *mistakes* in blood.
I would ignore these people, but they are making it very difficult for me to raise my children in the knowledge of God. They are the false prophets the Bible (and many other religions' bibles) warned us about. Always trying to ban ideas and knowledge, these people represent the most morally corrupt amongst us. Though they hold high many good things, and they know not what they do, they use these good things in the pursuit of decidely immoral ambitions.
As has always been said, the best lies are laced with strong portions of truth. These people are masters of this, though in many cases they do not even know it themselves.
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They leak. Period. Too much history on that one already, and they do contaminate the local water supplies with their leaks. That is why the rules are so strict for new landfills. But even then, the new ones are having problems keeping their no-leak promises as well. Hmm.. Not really sequestered.
Which is why the entire human race has died from exposure to lead fumes in leaded gasoline. Stupid humans. What planet were you from again Xarvox?
Childish retorts aside, toxins do not have to be fatal to be extremely potent, damaging and dangerous. Being hit by a car at 50 mph is not always fatal either, but has serious results as well. As far as fatalities from lead poisoning, those would be more likely listed under violent crime. Lead poisoning in children causes them to grow up in a significant number of cases to be violent criminals. This has to do with the problems induced by lead poisoning in the brain via its prevention/retarding of emotional and intellectual growth. The societal implications are a much higher incarceration rate, a lower employment rate and more strain on social institutions to help those who have medical issues.
It really comes down to biochemistry. Lead causes serious problems even in very small doses. Lead builds up over time and is hard for the body to remove. There are plenty of examples of lead poisoning and the effects it has on people. For more references, you might try reading them, hereand here or here.
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All in all a toy that encourages them to develop eye hand coordination, reading and writing skills as well as artistic design and very simple organizational skills - I think I will be getting one for our children. If it bears out its claims.
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Not sure if that is really good sarcasm or blunt ignorance (so hard to tell sometimes)
Molten lava has existed longer than man has, and it only does harm when brought into the environment people are in. Lead is similar, it does great harm when introduced into our bodies, but normally, it is sequestered away by nature. Lead is a potent toxin and has no known minimum safe exposure level.
It does not take an idiot green to see a real issue with a highly toxic metal being released into our water supplies that would not normally find its way into them. It does take a short sighted person to not see the harm it has cause and will cause if it is not dealt with.
A good link that summarizes pretty well is here.
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The point is that we didn't pay for the government to create acad software package for us.
We did pay them to do that, as it was part of doing the job correctly. That is part of protect and serve. Think of it this way. My client does not pay me to customize their application to make it work the way they like. They pay me to migrate them to the new platform, it just so happens that part of that means customizing. So, do I do the install then turn around and say the custom work on the new package will be extra? Not in my world, that expense is built into the cost of doing the migration (or setting up plots, or mapping gas lines, or doing seismic research, or mapping flood zones ...). I know some do that kind of stuff, but we tend to wind up with their clients, so I am not worried about changing my practice of software written is part of services paid for.
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Another hard fact for current vehivles is that the faster you travel, the more fuel you burn. So, the faster our speed limit (what we drive, not what is posted) is, the more fuel we consume, the more expensive it is (though not nescesarily not cost effective) and the faster we burn through the fuel de jour.
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