Interestingly, solving the scalper "problem" isn't something we, as people who don't own a venue, should really even care about. Scalpers solve the scarcity problem by making sure *some* tickets are available at some price, if people only want them badly enough.
But solving the scalping problem means that either a) the scarcity problem comes back to haunt us or b) we pay what the tickets are actually worth, which is basically what the scalpers were charging except the money goes to the people who actually make the product instead of the arbitrageurs.
The interesting thing is that ticketmaster itself is already a scalper, though apparently a rather ineffective one.
If you turn in a college term paper with encyclopedia cites, that's like instant 'B' unless it's from some kind of specialist encyclopedia. Like.. a textbook...
No, encyclopedias are meant to provide broad overview of knowledge about a vast number of subjects. They make an excellent starting point for *beginning* research, but they are neither sources nor intended to be so. They are appropriate for citation by people learning about how to write a paper, rather than people trying to actually get enough information to write one. i.e. middle school and lower. They simply do not have the necessary detail.
Wikipedia is a particularly good encyclopedia because its contains a huge number of subjects with sufficient information to use as keywords in a web search or library search. A large number also contain direct links to useful web pages (though they must also contain links to useless web pages as a matter of course), and the citations are conveniently on the same page as the article.
It doesn't "work in theory." It works quite well right now. and while it has some fundamental flaws compared to traditional encyclopedias, it also has some very tangible benefits.
What really sucks is those of us who have been overpaid have also paid taxes on that money.
No, you've had a portion of that money withheld for taxes. At the end of the year, you'll get it all squared away when you actually file and you'll only end up having to pay taxes on the money you've received.
You'll only have paid too much taxes if the discrepancy is not corrected until after january 1, and then only if the extra falls in a higher tax bracket than you usually fall. You can mediate this as well, buy upping your charitable giving for the year and lowering it the following year, but you'd have to anticipate it.
Well, that kind of depends on whether your opponents are weak because they've neglected their military or because they don't have any resources worth taking...
Every dollar you spend on military technology is a dollar you aren't spending on improving your economy. There is some trickle back, but that money would be far more efficiently spent working on the economic improvement, rather than working on the military improvement in the hope some of it will be economically useful.
Now, there is the point that military spending must not tend to zero: if it does, it doesn't matter how great your economy is, you'll very shortly find yourself paying for someone else's military. But it doesn't grow your money. It only allows you to keep the money you have.
We see this same argument wrt. NASA budgets, and it always turns out that the thing claimed as trickle down tech was actually invented decades earlier than NASA's use.
Tokyo was bombed pretty well. What with the firebombing and whatnot, they took more overall damage than Hiroshima. Of course that was over an extended campaign rather than a single dramatic demonstration of the US desire to avoid carving up China for the USSR.
Really depends on what your tweaks failed. If the replacement is cheap enough, they'll probably honor the warranty, replace the computer, and scold you. They may charge for some or all of the parts, but remember that automobiles are user serviceable, so they have to accept at least some of your tweaking.
People who buy new BMWs don't typically keep them for very long before buying another BMW, so depending on the cost, it may well be worthwhile for them give a bit to keep a customer. Of course, people who buy new BMWs also don't typically mod their computers for small performance gains, either.
But you knew that before you bought the car, so Why did you buy the car? Wouldn't it be better to buy a different car that maybe isn't quite as luxurious, but doesn't preclude features which you clearly desire?
The military needs durable things that perform well. It's simply a yardstick by which the utility of something can be grossly communicated to everyone. i.e. if a material has vast military uses, it will have vast civilian uses as well. If a device can be relied upon in combat, it can sure as heck be relied upon in less critical situations.
There is a huge amount of overlap between military technology and medical technology, especially in the area of trauma. Advances made benefit everyone, although they may be immediately obvious to one side.
You can't patent "using low power to conserve battery" or "using an appropriate battery size" or the more scummy, "increasing DoD to give longer cycles at a cost of cycle-life." Those aren't things you do, they're design choices that every device that uses battery power must make.
More valuable plastic means more oil will be used for producing plastic. If crude is too valuable to burn, then less will be burned. Sure, it doesn't really affect the middle east situation, but then, it doesn't matter what natural resource they sit on top of. They'd still be selling it spending that money in ways that don't make US look good.
Perhaps he was confused by the name. It certainly is quite ironic, to me at least, that a company called, "RockStar Games" would be almost completely devoid of any offerings featuring music as a main theme.
Everyone seems to think that, but given that the area in question is up to a mile above sea-level, none of the land you buy before the lithoforming will actually be "waterfront". The best you can hope for is "ocean view."
He's not gambling.. at least not in the case of psychics. I mean, I think it would really be worth $1 million to open an entirely new avenue in physics, which the discovery of even one actual psychic would do.
The kind of rockets we'd need to build to put a non-trivial portion of humanity on even one additional planet would do incalculable (well, calculable, but very large) damage to the troposphere. Until we have some way of mitigating the devastation, diaspora is a nice dream, but quite impossible.
The monitor + keyboard is a feedback system. You are the "black box control function." The chair is not part of the feedback system. The very phrase PEBKAC is a symptom of the shallow reasoning it is meant to denigrate.
What he heck? keyboard and chair? The chair's only connected to one thing, there's no feedback path that goes through it (unless you've got some kind of fancy haptic chair...)
Shouldn't it be "problem exists between keyboard and monitor?" or screen?
Buy a commercial autohelm and feed its inputs with directions based on your gps waypoints and the local weather. You'll also need some kind of auto-main-sheet and auto-jib. Large yachts already have these. Heck, most cruise ships are already ocean-crossing robots. They don't even necessarily require the pilot's input for docking maneuvers anymore.
The trick, IMO, is creating a tacking plan based on your goals for the day, and knowing when to adjust it and when to just ignore local fluctuations.
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Interestingly, solving the scalper "problem" isn't something we, as people who don't own a venue, should really even care about. Scalpers solve the scarcity problem by making sure *some* tickets are available at some price, if people only want them badly enough.
But solving the scalping problem means that either a) the scarcity problem comes back to haunt us or b) we pay what the tickets are actually worth, which is basically what the scalpers were charging except the money goes to the people who actually make the product instead of the arbitrageurs.
The interesting thing is that ticketmaster itself is already a scalper, though apparently a rather ineffective one.
If you turn in a college term paper with encyclopedia cites, that's like instant 'B' unless it's from some kind of specialist encyclopedia. Like.. a textbook...
I believe that was fixed in either a patch or the Broodwar expansion. At any rate, the "supply depot wall" doesn't seem to be effective anymore.
No, encyclopedias are meant to provide broad overview of knowledge about a vast number of subjects. They make an excellent starting point for *beginning* research, but they are neither sources nor intended to be so. They are appropriate for citation by people learning about how to write a paper, rather than people trying to actually get enough information to write one. i.e. middle school and lower. They simply do not have the necessary detail.
Wikipedia is a particularly good encyclopedia because its contains a huge number of subjects with sufficient information to use as keywords in a web search or library search. A large number also contain direct links to useful web pages (though they must also contain links to useless web pages as a matter of course), and the citations are conveniently on the same page as the article.
It doesn't "work in theory." It works quite well right now. and while it has some fundamental flaws compared to traditional encyclopedias, it also has some very tangible benefits.
Heat rejection. Also, looking really cool. Not necessarily in that order.
No, you've had a portion of that money withheld for taxes. At the end of the year, you'll get it all squared away when you actually file and you'll only end up having to pay taxes on the money you've received.
You'll only have paid too much taxes if the discrepancy is not corrected until after january 1, and then only if the extra falls in a higher tax bracket than you usually fall. You can mediate this as well, buy upping your charitable giving for the year and lowering it the following year, but you'd have to anticipate it.
Well, that kind of depends on whether your opponents are weak because they've neglected their military or because they don't have any resources worth taking...
Every dollar you spend on military technology is a dollar you aren't spending on improving your economy. There is some trickle back, but that money would be far more efficiently spent working on the economic improvement, rather than working on the military improvement in the hope some of it will be economically useful.
Now, there is the point that military spending must not tend to zero: if it does, it doesn't matter how great your economy is, you'll very shortly find yourself paying for someone else's military. But it doesn't grow your money. It only allows you to keep the money you have.
We see this same argument wrt. NASA budgets, and it always turns out that the thing claimed as trickle down tech was actually invented decades earlier than NASA's use.
Tokyo was bombed pretty well. What with the firebombing and whatnot, they took more overall damage than Hiroshima. Of course that was over an extended campaign rather than a single dramatic demonstration of the US desire to avoid carving up China for the USSR.
Really depends on what your tweaks failed. If the replacement is cheap enough, they'll probably honor the warranty, replace the computer, and scold you. They may charge for some or all of the parts, but remember that automobiles are user serviceable, so they have to accept at least some of your tweaking.
People who buy new BMWs don't typically keep them for very long before buying another BMW, so depending on the cost, it may well be worthwhile for them give a bit to keep a customer. Of course, people who buy new BMWs also don't typically mod their computers for small performance gains, either.
But you knew that before you bought the car, so Why did you buy the car? Wouldn't it be better to buy a different car that maybe isn't quite as luxurious, but doesn't preclude features which you clearly desire?
The military needs durable things that perform well. It's simply a yardstick by which the utility of something can be grossly communicated to everyone. i.e. if a material has vast military uses, it will have vast civilian uses as well. If a device can be relied upon in combat, it can sure as heck be relied upon in less critical situations.
There is a huge amount of overlap between military technology and medical technology, especially in the area of trauma. Advances made benefit everyone, although they may be immediately obvious to one side.
You can't patent "using low power to conserve battery" or "using an appropriate battery size" or the more scummy, "increasing DoD to give longer cycles at a cost of cycle-life." Those aren't things you do, they're design choices that every device that uses battery power must make.
You're not thinking global warming enough.
More valuable plastic means more oil will be used for producing plastic. If crude is too valuable to burn, then less will be burned. Sure, it doesn't really affect the middle east situation, but then, it doesn't matter what natural resource they sit on top of. They'd still be selling it spending that money in ways that don't make US look good.
Nothing would happen to his offspring. It's his bone marrow that has been replaced, not his testes.
Not to mention.. where did they get clear Teflon?
Perhaps he was confused by the name. It certainly is quite ironic, to me at least, that a company called, "RockStar Games" would be almost completely devoid of any offerings featuring music as a main theme.
Everyone seems to think that, but given that the area in question is up to a mile above sea-level, none of the land you buy before the lithoforming will actually be "waterfront". The best you can hope for is "ocean view."
Aaand.. who do you think builds and maintains your vaunted subway? People, that's who.
He's not gambling.. at least not in the case of psychics. I mean, I think it would really be worth $1 million to open an entirely new avenue in physics, which the discovery of even one actual psychic would do.
The kind of rockets we'd need to build to put a non-trivial portion of humanity on even one additional planet would do incalculable (well, calculable, but very large) damage to the troposphere. Until we have some way of mitigating the devastation, diaspora is a nice dream, but quite impossible.
Yeah, but newts are just people that have had spells put upon them by witches. As I understand it, some even get better.
The monitor + keyboard is a feedback system. You are the "black box control function." The chair is not part of the feedback system. The very phrase PEBKAC is a symptom of the shallow reasoning it is meant to denigrate.
What he heck? keyboard and chair? The chair's only connected to one thing, there's no feedback path that goes through it (unless you've got some kind of fancy haptic chair...)
Shouldn't it be "problem exists between keyboard and monitor?" or screen?
Buy a commercial autohelm and feed its inputs with directions based on your gps waypoints and the local weather. You'll also need some kind of auto-main-sheet and auto-jib. Large yachts already have these. Heck, most cruise ships are already ocean-crossing robots. They don't even necessarily require the pilot's input for docking maneuvers anymore.
The trick, IMO, is creating a tacking plan based on your goals for the day, and knowing when to adjust it and when to just ignore local fluctuations.