1. What if I am applying for a job that pays much less than my last one? Many employers would reject me for being 'overqualified'. I just want the job, I don't care about the pay.
2. Not all of my income is from wages, tips and salaries. Compare my wages with those of the job offer. Who cares if I've got substantial assets parked someplace?
2a. Some employers do care. If they can't use a salary as a stick or carrot, they get concerned. And some bosses don't like parking next to their subordinate's Bentley.
3. You might not have the security clearance to know whom I've worked for in the past.
Yes, that's the general solution. But the parabolic and hyperbolic trajectories can be eliminated if we assume an initial vertical velocity of zero at release above the planet or moon.
Its as stupid as bitching about buying a new car and saying "I want the price of the car reduced because it has backseats and I don't want them because no one rides back there. Its not fair you include the price of seats in the back!"
No, its nothing like that. The back seats are provided by the same supplier as the car. If they choose not to offer a car without back seats, that's their business.
Its like buying a car and then receiving a bill from a local tire shop for a set of high performance tires. Which you don't want and never had installed.
But, the car dealer will tell you, "We have a contract with this tire store to provide all cars of this particular model with a new set of tires".
"But", you reply, "I'm happy with the tires that came with the car. And I didn't even buy the car from you. I bought it from my brother-in-law."
"Tough luck", they reply. "We have a deal with the tire company. And when you came in to our parts department for that air freshener, you established a business relationship with us. So pay up for the new tires or else."
This is what happened after New York forced organized crime out of the construction business. They had to go someplace.
If that professor wants to pick nits with xkcd, the path an object follows while falling in a vacuum isn't a parabola. Its an ellipse. In most cases, the ellipse intersects the surface of the body being orbited in what is typically referred to as a crash. But if one is considering dropping the object (with some forward velocity) above a small enough body, the distinction becomes important.
So, a necessary part of Israel's defense is to maintain the economic disparity between themselves, their sponsors and Hamas. As long as a $100 rocket is a much larger share of an aggressor's GDP than a $10K interceptor is of the USA's, all is well.
In the final analysis, Hamas may have the last laugh as we are forced to minting trillion dollar coins to keep this game going.
organic matter exposed to the sun is not that old.
What does sunlight have to do with it? Carbon that has been buried in the soil decays from C14 to C12. There is no reaction path to convert it back to C14. C14 is produced in the upper atmosphere by a reaction between Nitrogen and cosmic rays at a known rate. Once atmospheric C14 is bound into living (or dead) material, there's no going back to C14.
So some of the carbon in the soil in my back yard may have been there since the last ice age (or before). Until it was exposed by erosion or a backhoe. Unless something alive eats it and aspirates it as CO2, it could be very old.
I used to work in an office with an extremely athletic lady. She used to run (actually more of a jog) down the aisles between cubicles. Not bad looking either.
One day, my boss was standing in the doorway, talking with me when she ran by. He gave her sort of an odd look. When he turned back to speak with me, I said, "If I were her, I'd run by this cubicle as well."
He was laughing so hard, it was pretty much the end of our conversation.
OK, but some of the carbon in the soil in my back yard has been dead for eons. So its not atmospheric ratios they have to look at, its a control sample from the ground (beach, whatever).
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If Aaron Swartz would have been a bit quicker, things could have turned out differently for JSTOR.
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Its turtles wearing tin foil hats all the way down.
Where do you live? I want to open a rendering plant next door.
Here are a few things to consider:
1. What if I am applying for a job that pays much less than my last one? Many employers would reject me for being 'overqualified'. I just want the job, I don't care about the pay.
2. Not all of my income is from wages, tips and salaries. Compare my wages with those of the job offer. Who cares if I've got substantial assets parked someplace?
2a. Some employers do care. If they can't use a salary as a stick or carrot, they get concerned. And some bosses don't like parking next to their subordinate's Bentley.
3. You might not have the security clearance to know whom I've worked for in the past.
1. The person who leaked this memo.
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Preparing children for the corporate world.
What better place for mining old news?
Eureka! We've struck gold!
Yes, that's the general solution. But the parabolic and hyperbolic trajectories can be eliminated if we assume an initial vertical velocity of zero at release above the planet or moon.
They've been trying to return your call. But the connections keep getting dropped.
Only half way? Cellular customers are going to abandon AT&T and switch to your service in droves!
Its as stupid as bitching about buying a new car and saying "I want the price of the car reduced because it has backseats and I don't want them because no one rides back there. Its not fair you include the price of seats in the back!"
No, its nothing like that. The back seats are provided by the same supplier as the car. If they choose not to offer a car without back seats, that's their business.
Its like buying a car and then receiving a bill from a local tire shop for a set of high performance tires. Which you don't want and never had installed.
But, the car dealer will tell you, "We have a contract with this tire store to provide all cars of this particular model with a new set of tires".
"But", you reply, "I'm happy with the tires that came with the car. And I didn't even buy the car from you. I bought it from my brother-in-law."
"Tough luck", they reply. "We have a deal with the tire company. And when you came in to our parts department for that air freshener, you established a business relationship with us. So pay up for the new tires or else."
This is what happened after New York forced organized crime out of the construction business. They had to go someplace.
A revolution will ensue and the wrong monkey will soon be replaced with the right one.
If that professor wants to pick nits with xkcd, the path an object follows while falling in a vacuum isn't a parabola. Its an ellipse. In most cases, the ellipse intersects the surface of the body being orbited in what is typically referred to as a crash. But if one is considering dropping the object (with some forward velocity) above a small enough body, the distinction becomes important.
You will not fly on Venus today.
I don't think your plane would actually catch fire. Melt, yes. But combust? Not enough oxygen in Venus' atmosphere.
So when the public really demands 3-D content, we will be ready for it.
I thought the public had already weighed in on 3D and their opinion is basically, "Meh".
Or three hours ahead of yesterday's news.
I wonder what a brain scan of a Slashdotter perceiving old news would look like.
So, a necessary part of Israel's defense is to maintain the economic disparity between themselves, their sponsors and Hamas. As long as a $100 rocket is a much larger share of an aggressor's GDP than a $10K interceptor is of the USA's, all is well.
In the final analysis, Hamas may have the last laugh as we are forced to minting trillion dollar coins to keep this game going.
Perhaps because that's patented.
organic matter exposed to the sun is not that old.
What does sunlight have to do with it? Carbon that has been buried in the soil decays from C14 to C12. There is no reaction path to convert it back to C14. C14 is produced in the upper atmosphere by a reaction between Nitrogen and cosmic rays at a known rate. Once atmospheric C14 is bound into living (or dead) material, there's no going back to C14.
So some of the carbon in the soil in my back yard may have been there since the last ice age (or before). Until it was exposed by erosion or a backhoe. Unless something alive eats it and aspirates it as CO2, it could be very old.
Find some bible thumper with a vanity plate and convince your state DMV that its slang for mother-son incest in Serbo-Croation.
I used to work in an office with an extremely athletic lady. She used to run (actually more of a jog) down the aisles between cubicles. Not bad looking either.
One day, my boss was standing in the doorway, talking with me when she ran by. He gave her sort of an odd look. When he turned back to speak with me, I said, "If I were her, I'd run by this cubicle as well."
He was laughing so hard, it was pretty much the end of our conversation.
OK, but some of the carbon in the soil in my back yard has been dead for eons. So its not atmospheric ratios they have to look at, its a control sample from the ground (beach, whatever).
And ARM architecture. And Alan Turing. They are falling behind in CS? Really?
Microsoft is probably panicking that 30,000 new CS graduates won't be enough MCSEs to keep the UK's Windows systems running.