Wisconsin has a 5% minimum that gas stations are required to charge over the wholesale price
The Minimum Markup Law here in Wisconsin actually calls for a 9.18% markup, not 5%.
As far as a loss-leader, I bet the bigger chains (PDQ, Kwik Trip, etc.) would love to sell gas below cost in order to get customers into their stores. Those vendors generally have stores that resemble small supermarkets (including in-store delis and bakerys). The "little guys" are usually gas stations that have only a wire rack of stale candy bars and one cooler that has both Pepsi and Coke products. The little guys could get crushed *when* (not *if*) the Minimum Markup Law is eliminated.
I was aiming to point out logical inconsistencies in a person's own subjective world view. How can you reconcile "my idea is great" with "they are not using my idea" other than to assume logical inconsistences (such as: a large rich company with excellent R&D didn't think of it) and/or unlikely assumptions (such as: I'm better than them, that's why they didn't hire me) ?
I also have an issue with your black-and-white statements regarding a person's subjective world view.
How does one reconcile "my idea is great" with "they are not using my idea" other than to assume logical inconsistencies (such as a large, rich company with excellent R&D didn't think of it)?
This is an interesting example. There are many examples in the tech world of "large, rich companies with excellent R&D not think of something". Look at all the "encryption" schemes that have been broken, look at media companies who think it's a good idea to sell DVDs with rootkits. At one time, we could assume that since a "large, rich company" developed a product, that the security on that product was most likely top-notch. Now, the standard response to a new product that has some sort of copy protection, encryption, etc. is "I wonder how many hours/days it will take to break that?"
Your second case is a little harder to find a concrete example that shows it's incorrect but I think I can still build a case. Yes, there are times when people are over-qualified for a position. Or their attitude overwhelms their talents and they rub the interviewer the wrong way. A super-intelligent techie may be "too much" for a team leader or manager who is looking to fill an open position. It's very possible that a "large, rich" company may bring a product to market with a feature set that is not as robust as if they had hired the "top notch guy" that they really couldn't stand during the interview. Not every company employs the "best and brightest".
I am amazed at the collection of knowledge that is presented by the readers of Slashdot. In this discussion, we have had experts on synthetic diamonds weigh-in with their commments. In other dicussions, you will find doctors, lawyers, physicists, network engineers, chemical experts, military experts, etc. It is therefore not unlikely that when a new product is introduced, someone on Slashdot may know more about to how secure that product than the people who designed it or built it. Just because a company brings a product to market does not mean that "large, rich" company has the brightest R&D people on its staff.
Most employers don't hire by searching resumes on the web anyway.
What sort of crack are you smoking?
I put my resume on Monster and Dice a couple of years ago and I immediately had recruiters calling me trying to place me in positions that they were filling. I received almost one phone call per day for different jobs around the U.S.
Employers and recruiters are looking on these websites for qualified people. Maybe they just aren't looking for you.
When you are remote-controlling a PC (whether through VNC, pcAnywhere, Secure Meeting on your Juniper SSL VPN appliance, etc.), you open Wordpad on the PC you are remote-controlling and you type in Wordpad. When you stop typing, the person sitting in front of the PC types his/her response. This is how you have a conversation with Wordpad. As another poster mentioned, you have to be patient to avoid typing over the top of the other person.
I am surprised that more Slashdotters have not heard of this. I use this method all the time when I am working on a PC remotely and I don't want/need the person in front of the PC to sit on the phone with me.
Have you not noticed that car manufacturers would kill to get a couple of extra MPG?
Something like this?
"Ford said its sales fell 5% in March, largely because of waning interest in its SUVs.
Sales of Ford, Lincoln and Mercury cars were flat for the month compared with March 2005, but truck and SUV sales were down 7%. Sales of the Ford Explorer took a 25% dive."
They proved on mythbusters that an MRI will not rip metal out of your body. It is damn strong though.
Are you referring to the episode where they tested the myth that tattoo inks could be affected by an MRI? In that episode, they found that the MRI would not affect a tattoo nor would the tattoo affect the image. But, during their testing, a container of ink that contained iron shot into the "bore" of the MRI (drawn by the magnetic force of the MRI machine).
An MRI would definitely have an effect on any metals (metals which are influenced by magnets) in your body.
Yes, and they've lost money on me. In the end, it all balances out. There are customers like you who are healthy as a horse and then there are customers like me who have chronic diseases that will require drugs and regular doctor visits for the rest of my days.
My ex-gf was successfully treated for breast cancer a few years ago. She added-up all of the bills related to the cancer treatment (dr. visits, chemo, MRI, surgery, radiation, etc.). The total was around $150,000. Her insurance paid 100% of the cost, she paid nothing (money-wise).
For every person like me or my ex-gf, there are many, many people who don't go to the doctor because they are healthy, don't take maintenance drugs or ever visit the hospital. That's just the way insurance works out.
I have made full use of my insurance benefits (not my choice).
Very interesting. I checked-out the Time-of-Use rates for residential in your area.
It shows that rates are higher early in the morning and late at night. But the middle of the day is "off peak" time. I don't know if I could force myself to start the dishwasher or clothes washer on a weekday when the sun is still up. It'd feel too wierd. I am used to doing laundry at night after work or on the weekends.
As for running the dishwasher in the middle of the night, when I was building this house, I paid a little extra and got the super insulated model which runs quiter than the normal dishwasher. It also has a 2hr, 4hr or 6hr delay start. If I go to bed at 10pm, I can set the dishwasher to start at 2am or 4am. I never hear it run in the middle of the night.
Same thing goes for my clothes washer. I have a front-loading Kenmore unit that is very quiet while washing (it does not make that ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk noise that top-loaders do). The only noise is during the final high speed spin where the washer tries to squeeze as much water out of the clothes as possible. But even that noise is more of a low hum (like a semi or train going past the house) as opposed to a ka-chunk, ka-chunk sound. The washer also has a timer on it that delay the start.
I'd like to see these appliances be built with longer delay timers. There are days when I leave the house around 7:30am and I don't get home until 7:30pm or later (I hit the gym immediately after work or go out with friends for drinks). I'd like to be able to load the dishwasher at 7:00am and set a start delay of 12 hours so that it would automatically start at 1900 hours. When I got home, the dishes would be clean. The same for the clothes washer. I'd like it to start washing at 1900 and by the time I get home, I can transfer the clean, wet clothes into the dryer.
Not every day is like this but there are some weekdays where this would come in handy. I live alone so I don't have anyone here to start the machines at 1900 for me. Guess I need to find a gf/wife that could do that for me. But then I wouldn't end-up saving any money, would I?;^)
I find it odd that your "peak hours" in the winter exclude the middle of the day during the work week. I thought the reason behind the "time of use" discount was to get residential power consumers to run their big appliances when the factories and office buildings were not drawing a lot of juice....
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The only thing to distinguish the scammers from the real NEC is that the real NEC people (can) have @nec.com email addresses, and the scammers can't.
1) Why would you post a comment when you haven't Read The Fine Article?
2) According to your scam-detector rule listed above, the people at "nissan-usa.com" must be ripping off the auto manufacturer that produces the Maxima because their email address does not end in "nissan.com"....
If it wasn't clear in my first post, if I purchased one the units mentioned in this article, I would definitely set it to "charge itself" starting at 7:01pm each weeknight and then it should start providing power at 7:00am the following day. This would save me a lot of money since my electricity rate at night is roughly X/2 (where X is the normal rate). Using power during the day costs 2X. (Right now, X is around 10 cents, nightime is roughly 4 cents and daytime power costs about 20 cents).
In addition to the appliances listed above in my other post, I also make sure the dishwasher runs only during the "dark hours".
My HEPA filters in the living room and bedroom are on timers so they only run at night (using the cheap power).
My PVR (which runs MythTV) is set so that it automatically boots up at 6:55pm each night (this is a feature on the Abit motherboard). There is cron job that executes a "poweroff" around 2:00am or 3:00am so the PVR isn't running during the day, consuming the expensive electrons. There is nothing on daytime TV worth recording anyway.:^)
How would they know if you used it during the day or not?
The power meter on my house knows what time it is and can tell whether I use electricity during the day or at night. The reason for the time component is that my electricity is significantly cheaper after 7pm on weeknights and all weekend. After 7am on weekdays, the juice very, very expensive.
I make sure I do all my laundry after 7pm or on the weekend. I also make sure the furnace doesn't kick-in until 7pm in the winter and that it does not run after 7am in the morning (I live alone so there is no one here to notice the house cooling down during the day).
In addition to the time-based discount I get on the power, I also have a deal with We Energies that they can turn-off my air conditioner if electrical usage gets ultra-high in the summer. I get a $50 credit each year for this feature (whether they actually turn off my AC or not). There is a box on the outside of the house that can cut-off the power to the AC compressor when the utility feels they are getting close to "brownout" territory.
What app made the graphics in the above story. They display all the systems calls in a graphical map like format that are used during the process of serving a web page.
Ask someone from Sana. They trot-out the "This is IIS-on-Windows serving one page." slide in every sales presentation.
You may have to dig a few levels into the company to find out who created that PowerPoint slide.
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For once, saying "I have a shitty job." would be a good thing.
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I believe that Mike Rowe may have beaten you to the punch.
http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/dirtyjobs/splas
Wisconsin has a 5% minimum that gas stations are required to charge over the wholesale price
The Minimum Markup Law here in Wisconsin actually calls for a 9.18% markup, not 5%.
As far as a loss-leader, I bet the bigger chains (PDQ, Kwik Trip, etc.) would love to sell gas below cost in order to get customers into their stores. Those vendors generally have stores that resemble small supermarkets (including in-store delis and bakerys). The "little guys" are usually gas stations that have only a wire rack of stale candy bars and one cooler that has both Pepsi and Coke products. The little guys could get crushed *when* (not *if*) the Minimum Markup Law is eliminated.
I was aiming to point out logical inconsistencies in a person's own subjective world view. How can you reconcile "my idea is great" with "they are not using my idea" other than to assume logical inconsistences (such as: a large rich company with excellent R&D didn't think of it) and/or unlikely assumptions (such as: I'm better than them, that's why they didn't hire me) ?
I also have an issue with your black-and-white statements regarding a person's subjective world view.
How does one reconcile "my idea is great" with "they are not using my idea" other than to assume logical inconsistencies (such as a large, rich company with excellent R&D didn't think of it)?
This is an interesting example. There are many examples in the tech world of "large, rich companies with excellent R&D not think of something". Look at all the "encryption" schemes that have been broken, look at media companies who think it's a good idea to sell DVDs with rootkits. At one time, we could assume that since a "large, rich company" developed a product, that the security on that product was most likely top-notch. Now, the standard response to a new product that has some sort of copy protection, encryption, etc. is "I wonder how many hours/days it will take to break that?"
Your second case is a little harder to find a concrete example that shows it's incorrect but I think I can still build a case. Yes, there are times when people are over-qualified for a position. Or their attitude overwhelms their talents and they rub the interviewer the wrong way. A super-intelligent techie may be "too much" for a team leader or manager who is looking to fill an open position. It's very possible that a "large, rich" company may bring a product to market with a feature set that is not as robust as if they had hired the "top notch guy" that they really couldn't stand during the interview. Not every company employs the "best and brightest".
I am amazed at the collection of knowledge that is presented by the readers of Slashdot. In this discussion, we have had experts on synthetic diamonds weigh-in with their commments. In other dicussions, you will find doctors, lawyers, physicists, network engineers, chemical experts, military experts, etc. It is therefore not unlikely that when a new product is introduced, someone on Slashdot may know more about to how secure that product than the people who designed it or built it. Just because a company brings a product to market does not mean that "large, rich" company has the brightest R&D people on its staff.
Therefore, the group uses artificially grown diamonds to achieve this."
:^)
Surprisingly, the new diamond cables are still cheaper than Monster Cable.
Most employers don't hire by searching resumes on the web anyway.
What sort of crack are you smoking?
I put my resume on Monster and Dice a couple of years ago and I immediately had recruiters calling me trying to place me in positions that they were filling. I received almost one phone call per day for different jobs around the U.S.
Employers and recruiters are looking on these websites for qualified people. Maybe they just aren't looking for you.
And how can one communicate with Wordpad?
When you are remote-controlling a PC (whether through VNC, pcAnywhere, Secure Meeting on your Juniper SSL VPN appliance, etc.), you open Wordpad on the PC you are remote-controlling and you type in Wordpad. When you stop typing, the person sitting in front of the PC types his/her response. This is how you have a conversation with Wordpad. As another poster mentioned, you have to be patient to avoid typing over the top of the other person.
I am surprised that more Slashdotters have not heard of this. I use this method all the time when I am working on a PC remotely and I don't want/need the person in front of the PC to sit on the phone with me.
Why do they use Windows 3000 as a prison guard? Because it always locks up.
;^)
So I take it that you've been hanging-out with John Titor?
Something like this?
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=41301
So back to time, would you know you've reached the beginning? How would you know?
:^)
r ics-The-Guess-Who/384312007592002748256CE90029F9DA
When you've reached the beginning of time, you'll hear this song...
http://www.sing365.com/music/Lyric.nsf/No-Time-ly
Are you suggesting that God uses Linux?
:^)
Surely you jest. Everyone knows that God runs His universe simulation on VMS...
It's like asking to be put in prison just so you can have a toilet right next to your bed.
:^)
That's got to be the analogy of the week.
Do you have one for the current war between the spammers and Bluesecurity (and the DDOS that bushwhacked the blogging site)?
They proved on mythbusters that an MRI will not rip metal out of your body. It is damn strong though.
Are you referring to the episode where they tested the myth that tattoo inks could be affected by an MRI? In that episode, they found that the MRI would not affect a tattoo nor would the tattoo affect the image. But, during their testing, a container of ink that contained iron shot into the "bore" of the MRI (drawn by the magnetic force of the MRI machine).
An MRI would definitely have an effect on any metals (metals which are influenced by magnets) in your body.
I used HIPPA to make them tell me without a visit.
Did you mean HIPAA?
http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/pl104191.htm
HIPAA is focused on patient confidentiality. Just how did you "use HIPAA" to force a healthcare provider to do something?
Insurance companies have made a fortune off me.
Yes, and they've lost money on me. In the end, it all balances out. There are customers like you who are healthy as a horse and then there are customers like me who have chronic diseases that will require drugs and regular doctor visits for the rest of my days.
My ex-gf was successfully treated for breast cancer a few years ago. She added-up all of the bills related to the cancer treatment (dr. visits, chemo, MRI, surgery, radiation, etc.). The total was around $150,000. Her insurance paid 100% of the cost, she paid nothing (money-wise).
For every person like me or my ex-gf, there are many, many people who don't go to the doctor because they are healthy, don't take maintenance drugs or ever visit the hospital. That's just the way insurance works out.
I have made full use of my insurance benefits (not my choice).
Very interesting. I checked-out the Time-of-Use rates for residential in your area. It shows that rates are higher early in the morning and late at night. But the middle of the day is "off peak" time. I don't know if I could force myself to start the dishwasher or clothes washer on a weekday when the sun is still up. It'd feel too wierd. I am used to doing laundry at night after work or on the weekends.
;^)
As for running the dishwasher in the middle of the night, when I was building this house, I paid a little extra and got the super insulated model which runs quiter than the normal dishwasher. It also has a 2hr, 4hr or 6hr delay start. If I go to bed at 10pm, I can set the dishwasher to start at 2am or 4am. I never hear it run in the middle of the night.
Same thing goes for my clothes washer. I have a front-loading Kenmore unit that is very quiet while washing (it does not make that ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk noise that top-loaders do). The only noise is during the final high speed spin where the washer tries to squeeze as much water out of the clothes as possible. But even that noise is more of a low hum (like a semi or train going past the house) as opposed to a ka-chunk, ka-chunk sound. The washer also has a timer on it that delay the start.
I'd like to see these appliances be built with longer delay timers. There are days when I leave the house around 7:30am and I don't get home until 7:30pm or later (I hit the gym immediately after work or go out with friends for drinks). I'd like to be able to load the dishwasher at 7:00am and set a start delay of 12 hours so that it would automatically start at 1900 hours. When I got home, the dishes would be clean. The same for the clothes washer. I'd like it to start washing at 1900 and by the time I get home, I can transfer the clean, wet clothes into the dryer.
Not every day is like this but there are some weekdays where this would come in handy. I live alone so I don't have anyone here to start the machines at 1900 for me. Guess I need to find a gf/wife that could do that for me. But then I wouldn't end-up saving any money, would I?
I find it odd that your "peak hours" in the winter exclude the middle of the day during the work week. I thought the reason behind the "time of use" discount was to get residential power consumers to run their big appliances when the factories and office buildings were not drawing a lot of juice....
The only thing to distinguish the scammers from the real NEC is that the real NEC people (can) have @nec.com email addresses, and the scammers can't.
1) Why would you post a comment when you haven't Read The Fine Article?
2) According to your scam-detector rule listed above, the people at "nissan-usa.com" must be ripping off the auto manufacturer that produces the Maxima because their email address does not end in "nissan.com"....
Kinda like a dishwasher you turn on when you go to work, but it comes on when the midday price drop occurs.
Why would the electricity be cheaper in the middle of the day when the demand is high?
As far as I know, utility companies don't offer residential customers variable pricing, the way they do businesses.
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I get variable pricing on my residential electricity based on Time of Use:
http://www.we-energies.com/pdfs/etariffs/wisconsi
coupla things to add to my post above:
n /ewi_sheet23-24.pdf
n /ewi_sheet21-22.pdf
:^)
If it wasn't clear in my first post, if I purchased one the units mentioned in this article, I would definitely set it to "charge itself" starting at 7:01pm each weeknight and then it should start providing power at 7:00am the following day. This would save me a lot of money since my electricity rate at night is roughly X/2 (where X is the normal rate). Using power during the day costs 2X. (Right now, X is around 10 cents, nightime is roughly 4 cents and daytime power costs about 20 cents).
Time of Use Plan:
http://www.we-energies.com/pdfs/etariffs/wisconsi
Normal Rates:
http://www.we-energies.com/pdfs/etariffs/wisconsi
In addition to the appliances listed above in my other post, I also make sure the dishwasher runs only during the "dark hours".
My HEPA filters in the living room and bedroom are on timers so they only run at night (using the cheap power).
My PVR (which runs MythTV) is set so that it automatically boots up at 6:55pm each night (this is a feature on the Abit motherboard). There is cron job that executes a "poweroff" around 2:00am or 3:00am so the PVR isn't running during the day, consuming the expensive electrons. There is nothing on daytime TV worth recording anyway.
How would they know if you used it during the day or not?
The power meter on my house knows what time it is and can tell whether I use electricity during the day or at night. The reason for the time component is that my electricity is significantly cheaper after 7pm on weeknights and all weekend. After 7am on weekdays, the juice very, very expensive.
I make sure I do all my laundry after 7pm or on the weekend. I also make sure the furnace doesn't kick-in until 7pm in the winter and that it does not run after 7am in the morning (I live alone so there is no one here to notice the house cooling down during the day).
In addition to the time-based discount I get on the power, I also have a deal with We Energies that they can turn-off my air conditioner if electrical usage gets ultra-high in the summer. I get a $50 credit each year for this feature (whether they actually turn off my AC or not). There is a box on the outside of the house that can cut-off the power to the AC compressor when the utility feels they are getting close to "brownout" territory.
...whales don't have much in the way of "knuckles."
Maybe they should have been better at paying back their loans to Don Guido...
Good luck finding them by then though... :)
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Don't worry about finding *them*. Worry about them finding *you*:
http://www.ericweisstein.com/fun/startrek/TheChan
STER-I-LIZE!
What app made the graphics in the above story. They display all the systems calls in a graphical map like format that are used during the process of serving a web page.
Ask someone from Sana. They trot-out the "This is IIS-on-Windows serving one page." slide in every sales presentation.
You may have to dig a few levels into the company to find out who created that PowerPoint slide.
comp.os.vms was a place where the n00bs (myself included) could go to learn from the "grey beards".
;^)
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It was always peaceful and there was no snobbery nor name-callling.
Well, most of the time anyway...
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~vance/carl_lydick.htm
http://www.myths.com/~dpm/vms/carl.html
I was not aware of the stricter regulations for the 2006 model year bikes. I'd mod you "Informative" if I hadn't already posted to this discussion.