Don't be ridiculous. We simply shouldn't do stupid things that probably won't work, but will cause tremendous upset. So go out and buy your fluorescent bulbs, and stop getting in the way of offshore windmills, but realize that fossil fuel consumption isn't the worst thing in the world, and almost everyone (and everyone here) wants what's best for civilization as a whole. We just don't all agree on what, exactly, that is.
With a sufficiently flexible payroll computer, I don't see why not. Of course, you'll still only get paid for work done between pay-periods, but if it makes you feel good to spread it out that way, you should talk to your boss.
There's no physical reason you can't get paid every five minutes, other than institutional momentum and the fact that it would be a lot of paper for the pay stubs.
That's in the installer now? I thought it was a check-every-time option similar to IE's: every time you load the program it checks if it is the default and asks you if you want to make it the default if it is not. IE has an option to "never ask again" or something like that, but does that mean that it never asks for permission to switch the default or it never switches the default?
Your understanding of weights, measures and calibration is quite shallow. It would be difficult to correct this without a much more extensive conversation than could be achieved in a web forum.
But for starters, weights don't work like that. And radiation doesn't work like you postulate in your previous post. It's not some kind of magic cloud that flies through space granting superpowers on improbably good-looking scientists.
The thing that affects the weight of a given amount of water is its proximity to a massive object. The formula is F=GMm/r^2. Which itself is a simplification of a more complicated formula (which also does not depend on temperature), but which happens to be quite valid over a fairly significant range of masses and distances. G, however, is not a fundamental constant. It is the slope of a plot of many, many data points.
It would be incorrect to suggest that we have only measured the weight of objects on the earth. Or even in the solar system. Though as distance increases, there are fewer indicators we can use to make such calculations.
Based on those observations, and other experiments, we have a pretty good idea of where we expect new effects to be found, and where we do not. It would be incorrect to assume that we know exactly correctly, since the topic is things we don't know, but if one were assigning research budgets, one would focus the research in those areas one expected to bear the most fruit, and less on the areas where one does not expect such. Out to the limiting case where something cannot be tested at all, in which case it is irrelevant whether or not it is true, and therefore getting zero funding.
"as evidenced" suggests that evidence will follow.
What you meant is more along the lines of "as suggested by" (which typically has some evidence as well, but can be shoehorned to mean what you meant) or better, "as postulated by". Though "postulate" is a rather technical term, and so probably wouldn't be in the lexicon of the standard slashdotter.
In general, people with high BMI are likely to cost more than people with low BMI.
at the next level of granularity, you start differentiating between people with high BMI who are fat and people with high BMI who are not fat. They're just not going to that level of granularity, yet, which sucks for you. But hope is not lost. Bitch to them about it enough, and maybe you can carve out a new subgroup.
Of course, being that muscular may have adverse health risks associated with it as well. Even if you're doing your cardio (which by the points you've chosen to highlight seems unlikely). Or have we never heard of the athletes who inexplicably die of heart failure in the middle of a game or event?
The reason you don't see as many craters on earth is because of the natural resurfacing done by erosion and our still active volcanism. The moon is a good indicator of the historical likelihood of a body intersection earthican orbit precisely because it contains the unmarred record of such events over billions of years.
A better indicator of the possibility of meteor impacts is the fact at least one large one has happened WITHIN RECENT MEMORY. While this wasn't a civilization-ending event, it was only sheer luck that it did not occur over a densely populated area. The Tunguska object would have been an excellent candidate for redirection both due to it's relatively manageable size and the known area of devastation.
A two-way mirror would be reflective on both sides. Is that really what you wanted to say?
Yes, I'm aware that it's commonly used to refer to a semi-silvered mirror + illumination tricks resulting in a screen that one side can see through and one side cannot, but the whole thing just begs the question of what the hell stupid illogical conventions are doing muddying up perfectly logical phrases. Especially hear on slashdot. We should be ashamed of ourselves.
Bill Gates' statement is absolutely correct. To the point of being truism. You can't hold the fact that some projects have been distributable enough to split amongst enough people such that they aren't expensive to develop against a statement like that. Developing software for zero compensation is not a career. Also by definition.
You grind it up really fine, box it, and send it to supermarkets and whole foods stores. You smack on a label that says "Genuine Sea Salt" and you can charge 2x as much.
You don't want a lock that's TOO secure, or AAA won't be able to get you in when you lock your keys inside. You'll have to wait for the manufacture to send you a duplicate key, and that's not gonna get you back on the road in less than an hour.
You know, you make a good point. And since I'm sick of all these over javascript & Flash pages all over the place, Maybe we should be campaigning for less bandwidth...
It seems simple, but they mess that up, too. Some counties, for instance, decided to require the ballots to have holes punched in them, and since you can't expect a person to be strong enough to punch a hole in thin card-stock, the sheets were pre-weakened. This was still not sufficient as evidenced by the 2000 presidential election.
Though to be fair, in the two counties I've ever lived in in two different states, they've both used paper ballots marked with indelible marker for the elections I've voted in.
For most products in the US, we don't need such a law. Businesses and manufacturers who have failed to proved 3 month to 1 year warranties simply don't remain in business for very long. Even used car lots are offering their own warranties, now. And they're always longer than 3 months.
When you take everything into account, and darn the cost, the structure you end up with is a pyramid. Which is not so great on floor space, and a very poor choice for crossing bodies of water.
It's not really 3x as much. It just looks that way to salaried employees because they fail to consider the value of their benefits and "employer-paid" taxes. For instance, contractors have to pay both their personal 7% FICA and the "business matching" 7% FICA. Contractors must pay for their own health insurance, which is much more than the tax mentioned previously. Contractors must plan for more periods of unemployment.
All things considered, your own cost to the company is probably close to ~2x your salary, so the 3x contractor is making more, but not as much more as you've represented.
My governor came out and told everyone not to worry. Apparently, even though my state has particularly low rated bridges, it is not a problem because the inspections are "largely up to date."
He literally referred to them as being "largely" up to date. As in, not "fully" up to date. Nor even "mostly" up to date. But, at least "some," and possibly as many as "many" though not necessarily more than half, have up-to-date inspections. Don't even ask about the actual maintenance.
And the great irony is that we just turned our backs on 2-1 matching federal highway money. (yes, I know where "federal highway money" comes from, but we've just elected a Democratic Congress and have a President who thinks "not vetoing things" is some kind of virtue. So that ship has sailed for this budget year at the very least.)
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Don't be ridiculous. We simply shouldn't do stupid things that probably won't work, but will cause tremendous upset. So go out and buy your fluorescent bulbs, and stop getting in the way of offshore windmills, but realize that fossil fuel consumption isn't the worst thing in the world, and almost everyone (and everyone here) wants what's best for civilization as a whole. We just don't all agree on what, exactly, that is.
With a sufficiently flexible payroll computer, I don't see why not. Of course, you'll still only get paid for work done between pay-periods, but if it makes you feel good to spread it out that way, you should talk to your boss.
There's no physical reason you can't get paid every five minutes, other than institutional momentum and the fact that it would be a lot of paper for the pay stubs.
That's in the installer now? I thought it was a check-every-time option similar to IE's: every time you load the program it checks if it is the default and asks you if you want to make it the default if it is not. IE has an option to "never ask again" or something like that, but does that mean that it never asks for permission to switch the default or it never switches the default?
"But I hope they don't have a problem with research of this sort."
Indeed, so do the vast majority of their members. Yet despite all evidence to the contrary, they still donate. Weird.
Your understanding of weights, measures and calibration is quite shallow. It would be difficult to correct this without a much more extensive conversation than could be achieved in a web forum.
But for starters, weights don't work like that. And radiation doesn't work like you postulate in your previous post. It's not some kind of magic cloud that flies through space granting superpowers on improbably good-looking scientists.
The thing that affects the weight of a given amount of water is its proximity to a massive object. The formula is F=GMm/r^2. Which itself is a simplification of a more complicated formula (which also does not depend on temperature), but which happens to be quite valid over a fairly significant range of masses and distances. G, however, is not a fundamental constant. It is the slope of a plot of many, many data points.
It would be incorrect to suggest that we have only measured the weight of objects on the earth. Or even in the solar system. Though as distance increases, there are fewer indicators we can use to make such calculations.
Based on those observations, and other experiments, we have a pretty good idea of where we expect new effects to be found, and where we do not. It would be incorrect to assume that we know exactly correctly, since the topic is things we don't know, but if one were assigning research budgets, one would focus the research in those areas one expected to bear the most fruit, and less on the areas where one does not expect such. Out to the limiting case where something cannot be tested at all, in which case it is irrelevant whether or not it is true, and therefore getting zero funding.
geez, this meme is almost a decade old. enough, already.
"as evidenced" suggests that evidence will follow.
What you meant is more along the lines of "as suggested by" (which typically has some evidence as well, but can be shoehorned to mean what you meant) or better, "as postulated by". Though "postulate" is a rather technical term, and so probably wouldn't be in the lexicon of the standard slashdotter.
No, it's about risk groups.
In general, people with high BMI are likely to cost more than people with low BMI.
at the next level of granularity, you start differentiating between people with high BMI who are fat and people with high BMI who are not fat. They're just not going to that level of granularity, yet, which sucks for you. But hope is not lost. Bitch to them about it enough, and maybe you can carve out a new subgroup.
Of course, being that muscular may have adverse health risks associated with it as well. Even if you're doing your cardio (which by the points you've chosen to highlight seems unlikely). Or have we never heard of the athletes who inexplicably die of heart failure in the middle of a game or event?
I'm willing to spend the same on this as for any other cause of death: $1 per 1:1e6 reduction in chance of dying from it.
Argh I wrote 'hear' when I meant 'here.' forty lashings for me.
The reason you don't see as many craters on earth is because of the natural resurfacing done by erosion and our still active volcanism. The moon is a good indicator of the historical likelihood of a body intersection earthican orbit precisely because it contains the unmarred record of such events over billions of years.
A better indicator of the possibility of meteor impacts is the fact at least one large one has happened WITHIN RECENT MEMORY. While this wasn't a civilization-ending event, it was only sheer luck that it did not occur over a densely populated area. The Tunguska object would have been an excellent candidate for redirection both due to it's relatively manageable size and the known area of devastation.
A two-way mirror would be reflective on both sides. Is that really what you wanted to say?
Yes, I'm aware that it's commonly used to refer to a semi-silvered mirror + illumination tricks resulting in a screen that one side can see through and one side cannot, but the whole thing just begs the question of what the hell stupid illogical conventions are doing muddying up perfectly logical phrases. Especially hear on slashdot. We should be ashamed of ourselves.
Bill Gates' statement is absolutely correct. To the point of being truism. You can't hold the fact that some projects have been distributable enough to split amongst enough people such that they aren't expensive to develop against a statement like that. Developing software for zero compensation is not a career. Also by definition.
You grind it up really fine, box it, and send it to supermarkets and whole foods stores. You smack on a label that says "Genuine Sea Salt" and you can charge 2x as much.
You don't want a lock that's TOO secure, or AAA won't be able to get you in when you lock your keys inside. You'll have to wait for the manufacture to send you a duplicate key, and that's not gonna get you back on the road in less than an hour.
It's like I always say, "Why can't the world be more like a Frank Herbert novel."
Well actually, not always. But once, in my head, while typing. I didn't give much thought to punctuation, though.
Ok, but how can you tell the real articles from the made up ones in that particular rag?
You know, you make a good point. And since I'm sick of all these over javascript & Flash pages all over the place, Maybe we should be campaigning for less bandwidth...
It seems simple, but they mess that up, too. Some counties, for instance, decided to require the ballots to have holes punched in them, and since you can't expect a person to be strong enough to punch a hole in thin card-stock, the sheets were pre-weakened. This was still not sufficient as evidenced by the 2000 presidential election.
Though to be fair, in the two counties I've ever lived in in two different states, they've both used paper ballots marked with indelible marker for the elections I've voted in.
For most products in the US, we don't need such a law. Businesses and manufacturers who have failed to proved 3 month to 1 year warranties simply don't remain in business for very long. Even used car lots are offering their own warranties, now. And they're always longer than 3 months.
When you take everything into account, and darn the cost, the structure you end up with is a pyramid. Which is not so great on floor space, and a very poor choice for crossing bodies of water.
It's not really 3x as much. It just looks that way to salaried employees because they fail to consider the value of their benefits and "employer-paid" taxes. For instance, contractors have to pay both their personal 7% FICA and the "business matching" 7% FICA. Contractors must pay for their own health insurance, which is much more than the tax mentioned previously. Contractors must plan for more periods of unemployment.
All things considered, your own cost to the company is probably close to ~2x your salary, so the 3x contractor is making more, but not as much more as you've represented.
My governor came out and told everyone not to worry. Apparently, even though my state has particularly low rated bridges, it is not a problem because the inspections are "largely up to date."
He literally referred to them as being "largely" up to date. As in, not "fully" up to date. Nor even "mostly" up to date. But, at least "some," and possibly as many as "many" though not necessarily more than half, have up-to-date inspections. Don't even ask about the actual maintenance.
And the great irony is that we just turned our backs on 2-1 matching federal highway money. (yes, I know where "federal highway money" comes from, but we've just elected a Democratic Congress and have a President who thinks "not vetoing things" is some kind of virtue. So that ship has sailed for this budget year at the very least.)
Um, so we can buy iPhones?
I intended to make clear that I was manually typing (well actually using a bookmark I manually typed) the full address, starting with "https://"
I was aware of the "secure sign-in, pop back to unsecure if you didn't specify" feature.