No. From my limited experience with the visa system in the U.S., it's more of a lottery. The cost to the employer mostly involves paperwork and maybe a little schmoozing with their local congressional rep/senators.
A tariff would be asking the employer to pay $x to the government for every year that the visa is active. (This part of it may be done as well, I'm not sure.)
In general, the visa artificially limits the supply (increasing cost) while a tariff directly increases the cost. In theory, they should accomplish they same thing.
At work we're running Spybot, Ad-Aware, and a full virus scan before we even THINK of dropping SP2.
Ah, that's funny, 'cause I ran Ad-Aware, Norton System Checkup, and a full system-scan with NAV before trying to install SP2. It still hosed my computer. (Don't even get me started on the scratched CD Microsoft sent me.)
The fact of the matter is that this Service Pack is being promoted as a panacaea yet it is causing some users serious issues. (The fact that you have not experienced them does not mean they don't exist.)
ballot with the names in large type, use a marker to connect an arrow by the candidates name. None of this punch card chadding, miss aliging of marks, or any of the many faults in the butterfly ballot.
They use pretty much the same system where I'm at. (OK, I think it's a double-sided 8.5x14, unfolded card.) It is possible to screw it up though. Say, for instance, someone wasn't paying attention and accidentally marked two candidates for the same position. Then the machine catches the error and they send you back to the desk to dispose of the invalid ballot and pick up a new one and they tell you not to feel too bad because someone actually screwed up two ballots before getting it right. Ummm, all of this is theoretically speaking, of course...
And where exactly is all of this methane going to come from?
Well, if we're smart, we'd set up big anaerobic digestors as part of our wastewater treatment systems and capture the methane produced as a byproduct. Two birds, one stone. (Incidentally, a number of landfills already do this to generate onsite power rather than just flaring it off.)
I believe the term came from the Japanese economy which, during the '80s, could do no wrong, until things popped. They've still not recovered. Those were called the "Bubble Years".
Its rather amusing to think about it. In the past when alot of people where poorer and the quality of life was lower we would DIY everything from our house to our garden, car and bicycle. Now we are lazy we sit in side and DIY only our computers in some cases.
Speak for yourself. I'm in the middle of installing electrical wiring in the ~1000 ft^2 of my second story.
If you want to know why we don't all "homebrew" everything, it's because for some things, they cost less to have someone else do them than the time and aggravation it would take us. (That's why, the plumbing, HVAC, and especially the drywall on my house are getting contracted out.)
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Since this case is going to be in the U.K. courts, how do the laws on the two sides of the pond compare for trademark issues? Is there a real rift in what they mean or how they can be applied?
Part 15 devices are REQUIRED to accept all interference from other devices.
Part 15 devices are also PROHIBITED from causing interference. (The definition of "interference" with relation to this issue may be a bit of a grey area...)
Have you ever tried to slice a fresh loaf of bread?
This morning. Cut a couple of slices for my sandwich and one for toast. No big deal. Took me less than a minute for all three slices. (It helps if you've got a good bread knife.)
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
I have to wonder if this is only fairly legible because of the prevalence of really bad typing skills on the internet these days (think "teh"). Any idea when this "Cambridge University study" was conducted?
Obviously, it's also much easier to figure out adjacent words if you can pick out one of them. (Context and all that...)
From a corporate standpoint, the development costs of making this sort of product are very high. The sales from these are fairly low as the only people who buy them tend to be impulse buyers, most of whom are scared away by the high price needed to make a profit.
While I agree that I can't see a lot of use for this, I don't think we can apply the standard U.S. business models to a tech device built in Japan. They have a different market and set of consumers for tech goods. As I recall (from ten or so years ago) Sony/Kenwood/etc. used to bring out a new model every year or so in the U.S. market, but in the meantime there were three or four intermediate versions that were sold in Tokyo. And people bought them.
Many of the best marketing people are the ones who actually know something about the underlying technology and are also willing to tell the customer that it won't work. These people really do exist and they tend to be very successful and end up driving customer loyalty for the company. The marketing people shouldn't just have a degree in advertising.
And Houston, while being very close to Galveston Bay (~20-30 miles), is still not in the same position as Seattle which is actually on the Sound.
You're statement, as others have pointed out, of Seattle being "6-8 hour drive from the Pacific Ocean", indicates to me that you don't really know your way around Washington. Even if you didn't cross a single bridge or take a ferry, you could probably get to Ocean Shores in under four hours.
So, deep breaths everybody, and think before posting knee-jerk responses to comments that were meant in good humour anyway. ( I suppose I should include myself in this category, too.)
OK, genius: Have you ever looked at a map of Washington State? You notice that big gap between Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula? That's the Puget Sound, an arm of...the Pacific Ocean!
I grew up on Puget Sound. I know where Seattle is in relation to the Pacific. Do you?
Except that Leonardo's drawing was of a machine with a single screw-like rotor. This little guy appears to have two coaxial counter-rotating blades. I think the similarities are coincidental.
It turns out it's insufficient to just consider heating effects and ionization effects, since lipid membranes are composed of dipolar molecules which can be subject to other electromagnetic effects.
I'm not sure which is scarier. The fact that this almost doesn't seem to be English or the fact that I understood it...
Acording to Google she is actually entered into pistol and/or rifle shooting and Iran may also may have attempted to enter women into Taekwondo and canoeing but they failed to qualify. But I still like the gag of attempting to swim a half mile in full hijab.
Not to take away the fun, but the last person to drown on the river near me was a women in full hijab who fell out of a canoe and got tangle in some weeds several years ago. The most ironic part of the whole story is that in most of the (very slow-moving) river the depth is less than five feet. Pretty tragic.
According to the article: In Minnesota, where the highway speed limit is 70 mph, drivers who go over 75 less than 0.1% of the time get an extra 5% discount.
So what happens with the guy that always drives 60, but only drives in the 25MPH school zones? Data without context is worthless!
Plus, on a $1200 annual insurance bill, you'd only save $60 by giving up your privacy...
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A visa IS a tarrif on 'imported' labor.
No. From my limited experience with the visa system in the U.S., it's more of a lottery. The cost to the employer mostly involves paperwork and maybe a little schmoozing with their local congressional rep/senators.
A tariff would be asking the employer to pay $x to the government for every year that the visa is active. (This part of it may be done as well, I'm not sure.)
In general, the visa artificially limits the supply (increasing cost) while a tariff directly increases the cost. In theory, they should accomplish they same thing.
That's the kind of thing that makes me cringe and I managed to avoid a lab completely during my microbiology class.
But S. cerevisiae? Maybe he just figured he was getting enough into his system after work that a few more mutants wouldn't hurt...
At work we're running Spybot, Ad-Aware, and a full virus scan before we even THINK of dropping SP2.
Ah, that's funny, 'cause I ran Ad-Aware, Norton System Checkup, and a full system-scan with NAV before trying to install SP2. It still hosed my computer. (Don't even get me started on the scratched CD Microsoft sent me.)
The fact of the matter is that this Service Pack is being promoted as a panacaea yet it is causing some users serious issues. (The fact that you have not experienced them does not mean they don't exist.)
ballot with the names in large type, use a marker to connect an arrow by the candidates name. None of this punch card chadding, miss aliging of marks, or any of the many faults in the butterfly ballot.
They use pretty much the same system where I'm at. (OK, I think it's a double-sided 8.5x14, unfolded card.) It is possible to screw it up though. Say, for instance, someone wasn't paying attention and accidentally marked two candidates for the same position. Then the machine catches the error and they send you back to the desk to dispose of the invalid ballot and pick up a new one and they tell you not to feel too bad because someone actually screwed up two ballots before getting it right. Ummm, all of this is theoretically speaking, of course...
And where exactly is all of this methane going to come from?
Well, if we're smart, we'd set up big anaerobic digestors as part of our wastewater treatment systems and capture the methane produced as a byproduct. Two birds, one stone. (Incidentally, a number of landfills already do this to generate onsite power rather than just flaring it off.)
I'm hoping it's really foggy out there this morning, because the image that I'm getting is just a very soothing blue color.
yes, but they do serve beer. at lunchtimes. What more do you want?
Beer at breakfast?
I believe the term came from the Japanese economy which, during the '80s, could do no wrong, until things popped. They've still not recovered. Those were called the "Bubble Years".
Actually the term has been used for a lot longer than that. Charles MacKay talks about the "South Seas Bubble" in his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds way back in 1841.
Its rather amusing to think about it. In the past when alot of people where poorer and the quality of life was lower we would DIY everything from our house to our garden, car and bicycle. Now we are lazy we sit in side and DIY only our computers in some cases.
Speak for yourself. I'm in the middle of installing electrical wiring in the ~1000 ft^2 of my second story.
If you want to know why we don't all "homebrew" everything, it's because for some things, they cost less to have someone else do them than the time and aggravation it would take us. (That's why, the plumbing, HVAC, and especially the drywall on my house are getting contracted out.)
From their website:
"Net Transport is the faster, terrible (very many users call from feedback) and most powerful downloading tool that you ever saw"
I'm still trying to figure out if that's a glowing recommendation or not....
if the flash ram retains it's data when the PC is off, couldnt we use it as a hard drive substitute rather than a RAM substitute?
You mean like this ?
Since this case is going to be in the U.K. courts, how do the laws on the two sides of the pond compare for trademark issues? Is there a real rift in what they mean or how they can be applied?
Part 15 devices are REQUIRED to accept all interference from other devices.
Part 15 devices are also PROHIBITED from causing interference. (The definition of "interference" with relation to this issue may be a bit of a grey area...)
Have you ever tried to slice a fresh loaf of bread?
This morning. Cut a couple of slices for my sandwich and one for toast. No big deal. Took me less than a minute for all three slices. (It helps if you've got a good bread knife.)
Various programming languages are just different tools in my toolbox. Sometimes a screwdriver works really well and sometimes I just need a hammer.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
I have to wonder if this is only fairly legible because of the prevalence of really bad typing skills on the internet these days (think "teh"). Any idea when this "Cambridge University study" was conducted?
Obviously, it's also much easier to figure out adjacent words if you can pick out one of them. (Context and all that...)
From a corporate standpoint, the development costs of making this sort of product are very high. The sales from these are fairly low as the only people who buy them tend to be impulse buyers, most of whom are scared away by the high price needed to make a profit.
While I agree that I can't see a lot of use for this, I don't think we can apply the standard U.S. business models to a tech device built in Japan. They have a different market and set of consumers for tech goods. As I recall (from ten or so years ago) Sony/Kenwood/etc. used to bring out a new model every year or so in the U.S. market, but in the meantime there were three or four intermediate versions that were sold in Tokyo. And people bought them.
Many of the best marketing people are the ones who actually know something about the underlying technology and are also willing to tell the customer that it won't work. These people really do exist and they tend to be very successful and end up driving customer loyalty for the company. The marketing people shouldn't just have a degree in advertising.
I've lived on the Gulf of Mexico as well, and yes, "A gulf or bay is a part of a lake or ocean that extends so that it is surrounded by land on three sides." So it's perfectly accurate to say that the Gulf of Mexico is part of the Atlantic.
In fact, while we're on the subject, wikipedia's first statement about Puget Sound is: "Puget Sound is an arm of the Pacific Ocean".
And Houston, while being very close to Galveston Bay (~20-30 miles), is still not in the same position as Seattle which is actually on the Sound.
You're statement, as others have pointed out, of Seattle being "6-8 hour drive from the Pacific Ocean", indicates to me that you don't really know your way around Washington. Even if you didn't cross a single bridge or take a ferry, you could probably get to Ocean Shores in under four hours.
So, deep breaths everybody, and think before posting knee-jerk responses to comments that were meant in good humour anyway. ( I suppose I should include myself in this category, too.)
OK, genius: Have you ever looked at a map of Washington State? You notice that big gap between Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula? That's the Puget Sound, an arm of... the Pacific Ocean!
I grew up on Puget Sound. I know where Seattle is in relation to the Pacific. Do you?
It's not like MS specifically hires programmers who have no clue where the Pacific Ocean is.
I hope not. Especially since Seattle is essentially on the Pacific Ocean.!
Except that Leonardo's drawing was of a machine with a single screw-like rotor. This little guy appears to have two coaxial counter-rotating blades. I think the similarities are coincidental.
It turns out it's insufficient to just consider heating effects and ionization effects, since lipid membranes are composed of dipolar molecules which can be subject to other electromagnetic effects.
I'm not sure which is scarier. The fact that this almost doesn't seem to be English or the fact that I understood it...
Acording to Google she is actually entered into pistol and/or rifle shooting and Iran may also may have attempted to enter women into Taekwondo and canoeing but they failed to qualify. But I still like the gag of attempting to swim a half mile in full hijab.
Not to take away the fun, but the last person to drown on the river near me was a women in full hijab who fell out of a canoe and got tangle in some weeds several years ago. The most ironic part of the whole story is that in most of the (very slow-moving) river the depth is less than five feet. Pretty tragic.
According to the article: In Minnesota, where the highway speed limit is 70 mph, drivers who go over 75 less than 0.1% of the time get an extra 5% discount.
So what happens with the guy that always drives 60, but only drives in the 25MPH school zones? Data without context is worthless!
Plus, on a $1200 annual insurance bill, you'd only save $60 by giving up your privacy...