y'know, I haven't seen the full form for that in a while. It looks like it turned out the solution was technical after all - everyone gets gmail, and problem solved apparently.
Would you rather be corrected by well-meaning grammar lawyers, or continue making and compounding mistakes until you're writing in a language that may be difficult to receive by the intended audience?
Consider what a failure to communicate may mean. In the case of the summary, a failure to receive the communication would be more detrimental to the reader than to the writer, but those roles can also be reversed when the author needs to be understood more than the recipient needs to understand. Also consider that some groups of recipients may reject communication attempts out of hand based on the style of the author, permanently excluding the author from interaction with those groups, which may have economic impact for the communicator.
Dialect differentiation is one of the pillars of the gentrification of society. It offers a way for the elite to segregate themselves from the plebs, limiting social mobility. Those with access to the "rules of grammar" and the the training in them can easily spot others of the like.
Do you still wish to avoid the pain of being corrected from time to time?
So if the analysts say you should see a +5% quarterly growth, and you "only" see 4.8%, your results are 'disappointing'.
Absolutely insane. I can see looking to the markets to try to raise needed capital, but I would never put my own company out there if I had any choice.
Hmm, so the idiots sell and drop the price so the rest of us (and the "analysts," too....) have a buying opportunity? Interesting.
Take another look at our founding documents. Specifically, the Declaration of Independence. Although it does not claim the force of Law, like the constitution, it basically amounts to a promise that the people will endure a surprising amount of tyranny and usurpations before it becomes "too much" and requires a revolt.
Also, we got really lucky in our first war of separation, in that those who found themselves in charge put into place some pretty well thought ideals, specifically the idea that the government should only do what it is specifically authorized to do for the common good, and leave people alone otherwise.
While many of these are ignored today, and there are a number of people who are ignorant of them or benefit from tyranny, those who would revolt probably fear that instead of improving things, there would be a good chance to end up losing even the pretext of the founding documents and end up with a straight-up tyranny in short order.
If you think marketing is the reason that the iPad took off and ten years of 7 pound, 2 hour, reversible touch-screen, windows laptops didn't, then you must be using that term in the "market research" sense, rather than the "shameless advertising" pejorative people often mean when using it....
What I expect them to do is this - have an education benefit for their employees, or not, it's their business, but before going off tooting about how great it is, maybe look at just how far that education benefit actually goes in the current education market, and what other companies who have education benefits are doing.
$2k per year? If that was per semester, I'd still expect them to avoid making a big announcement to the press.
Well, the obvious way would be to try them all out and see, but you couldn't really tell much by having a different person run the company every day for the next thirty years.
I'd expect that you'd have to do do research on both sides of the equation. One - how to find suitable candidates from within the population, and two - to determine the skills that need to be taught to anyone who has the aptitude to run a company well, but lacks the education to actually do it, and develop a training regime.
Then you try out your training regime on the candidates, hopefully with some kind of evaluation process to winnow the field down to likely candidates, until there are few enough that you can try them out on a division or time period and see how they actually do.
And keep in mind, that in this survivor style contest to race to the most likely candidates within the company who could run it, you're necessarily going to be passing by people who seem less likely based on your evaluations, but who might actually be quite capable of running the company.
There will never be enough companies out there to try out everyone to see who could possibly run a company.
So, what, should we get our power from unicorn farts? The energy has to come from somewhere. The people arguing that Nuclear isn't safe might have fingers in the Oil pie. Just like the people against pipelines who are in the rail-transport business....
It would be interesting if we could find a way to close the circle - each group preventing something because they profit from something else, but rely on something that is prevented by another group, etc.
The house isn't, but the land might be. Real estate prices will *not* drop to zero, and as we make more people, demand for land can only go up - more people chasing the same amount of land as ever.
Now, it's certainly possible that we're still in a bubble and that real estate prices have further to go before correcting to the "real" price, but it's not very likely that the "real" price won't eventually surpass the current prices considering the trends in population growth and currency devaluation.
Note that real estate prices in a particular area may be affected by more than just the general market. For instance, that nice residential-only suburb 25 miles from the city? Those prices could go either way depending on transportation availability and fuel costs. They still won't go to zero, though.
People keep saying this, and their posted coverage map is pretty sparse, so it must be true, but where? I've had sprint/virgin up and down the east coast of the US since 1998, and I'm not even sure I can remember the last time I didn't have service (or had to switch to roaming when I bothered to get dual- and tri- band phone models), including the overpass in the radio dead-zone near my parents' place that all the other carriers seem to ignore (but proudly highlight on their coverage maps....)
The virgin phone selection is limited, but at least you don't get the privilege of continuing to pay for the phone after you've finished paying off the phone. Also, the iPhone 4S is one of the limited selection phones you can get....
My finger remembers hitting the key, so I'm going to go with "autocorrect" over typo.
The point, though, is that I'm very suspicious of McDonald's hiring a PR firm to let them do some marketing scumbaggery. Especially as many articles specifically went out of their way to mention both McDonald's and the fact that they banned it from their restaurants.
In a company with 10,000 workers, I'd wager that one of them could do a reasonable or better job than the CEO. We're in a CEO bubble right now and their prices are being artificially inflated by market distortions limiting the size of the pool to a subset of those who are capable of the job.
Seems like a zero-sum game to me. If that protects the dealers, the police would just take the other side of the equation since the customers would make it so easy for them.
How about we keep trying, or dismantle the whole Party concept completely? That way we can come up with solutions (which includes "do nothing") based on their merits and not ideological purity.
When was the last time you tried to convince your congressman, who was elected under the current system, to change the system to be something more fair?
Why? Given the popularity of McDonalds popular in France (Only the US is a bigger market for them) , I'd say that it's the quintessential french food these days...
On the one hand, fiat money enables corrupt "public servants" and money changers to siphon off the useful effort of the economy by printing more money. On the other hand, a gold standard necessarily means that gold (or any other valuable material) must necessarily be hoarded for savings rather than be available for use in industry, those very uses of which give it its base value.
There has to be some way to get the benefit of not having something that can be easily monkeyed with, without tying up a useful resource in vaults instead of being used for the things that make it useful.
I'd say that depends on the state of the art of the particular evidence. If the state of the art has advanced to the point that the earlier techniques are considered laughable by those of today, then it would certainly be reasonable to survey all the cases in which that evidence was used and review the evidence itself if relevant to the case (or even if the case was overwhelming by other evidence, it may be a good training exercise or baseline for evaluating the process.)
I don't think it's unreasonable to periodically survey types of evidence every so often to confirm the results. Perhaps there should even be a completely separate auditing agency with a budget for making sure that the innocent aren't wrongly convicted, and they can spend that budget in whatever looks like the most efficient way to do that. I'm certainly more comfortable with spending money on keeping people out of jail than on, say, keeping people in prison indefinitely and secretly without trial....
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y'know, I haven't seen the full form for that in a while. It looks like it turned out the solution was technical after all - everyone gets gmail, and problem solved apparently.
I don't get why people keep thinking of fingerprints as passwords when everything about them screams, "non-unique username."
Would you rather be corrected by well-meaning grammar lawyers, or continue making and compounding mistakes until you're writing in a language that may be difficult to receive by the intended audience?
Consider what a failure to communicate may mean. In the case of the summary, a failure to receive the communication would be more detrimental to the reader than to the writer, but those roles can also be reversed when the author needs to be understood more than the recipient needs to understand. Also consider that some groups of recipients may reject communication attempts out of hand based on the style of the author, permanently excluding the author from interaction with those groups, which may have economic impact for the communicator.
Dialect differentiation is one of the pillars of the gentrification of society. It offers a way for the elite to segregate themselves from the plebs, limiting social mobility. Those with access to the "rules of grammar" and the the training in them can easily spot others of the like.
Do you still wish to avoid the pain of being corrected from time to time?
So if the analysts say you should see a +5% quarterly growth, and you "only" see 4.8%, your results are 'disappointing'.
Absolutely insane. I can see looking to the markets to try to raise needed capital, but I would never put my own company out there if I had any choice.
Hmm, so the idiots sell and drop the price so the rest of us (and the "analysts," too....) have a buying opportunity? Interesting.
Take another look at our founding documents. Specifically, the Declaration of Independence. Although it does not claim the force of Law, like the constitution, it basically amounts to a promise that the people will endure a surprising amount of tyranny and usurpations before it becomes "too much" and requires a revolt.
Also, we got really lucky in our first war of separation, in that those who found themselves in charge put into place some pretty well thought ideals, specifically the idea that the government should only do what it is specifically authorized to do for the common good, and leave people alone otherwise.
While many of these are ignored today, and there are a number of people who are ignorant of them or benefit from tyranny, those who would revolt probably fear that instead of improving things, there would be a good chance to end up losing even the pretext of the founding documents and end up with a straight-up tyranny in short order.
If you think marketing is the reason that the iPad took off and ten years of 7 pound, 2 hour, reversible touch-screen, windows laptops didn't, then you must be using that term in the "market research" sense, rather than the "shameless advertising" pejorative people often mean when using it....
I would like to note that the real tablets we have in the present are both cooler and more useful than the imagined future tablets from that TV show.
I mean, seriously.. two or more screens, different sizes, offset, odd shapes, and thick. Also, no full-screen video....
What I expect them to do is this - have an education benefit for their employees, or not, it's their business, but before going off tooting about how great it is, maybe look at just how far that education benefit actually goes in the current education market, and what other companies who have education benefits are doing.
$2k per year? If that was per semester, I'd still expect them to avoid making a big announcement to the press.
Well, the obvious way would be to try them all out and see, but you couldn't really tell much by having a different person run the company every day for the next thirty years.
I'd expect that you'd have to do do research on both sides of the equation. One - how to find suitable candidates from within the population, and two - to determine the skills that need to be taught to anyone who has the aptitude to run a company well, but lacks the education to actually do it, and develop a training regime.
Then you try out your training regime on the candidates, hopefully with some kind of evaluation process to winnow the field down to likely candidates, until there are few enough that you can try them out on a division or time period and see how they actually do.
And keep in mind, that in this survivor style contest to race to the most likely candidates within the company who could run it, you're necessarily going to be passing by people who seem less likely based on your evaluations, but who might actually be quite capable of running the company.
There will never be enough companies out there to try out everyone to see who could possibly run a company.
Intoxicated food? Is that like a pig that you marinate in liquor by getting it drunk before the slaughter?
That old carpenter might have worked on the ship of theseus!
So, what, should we get our power from unicorn farts? The energy has to come from somewhere. The people arguing that Nuclear isn't safe might have fingers in the Oil pie. Just like the people against pipelines who are in the rail-transport business....
It would be interesting if we could find a way to close the circle - each group preventing something because they profit from something else, but rely on something that is prevented by another group, etc.
The house isn't, but the land might be. Real estate prices will *not* drop to zero, and as we make more people, demand for land can only go up - more people chasing the same amount of land as ever.
Now, it's certainly possible that we're still in a bubble and that real estate prices have further to go before correcting to the "real" price, but it's not very likely that the "real" price won't eventually surpass the current prices considering the trends in population growth and currency devaluation.
Note that real estate prices in a particular area may be affected by more than just the general market. For instance, that nice residential-only suburb 25 miles from the city? Those prices could go either way depending on transportation availability and fuel costs. They still won't go to zero, though.
And it's on Sprint's network, which is lousy
People keep saying this, and their posted coverage map is pretty sparse, so it must be true, but where? I've had sprint/virgin up and down the east coast of the US since 1998, and I'm not even sure I can remember the last time I didn't have service (or had to switch to roaming when I bothered to get dual- and tri- band phone models), including the overpass in the radio dead-zone near my parents' place that all the other carriers seem to ignore (but proudly highlight on their coverage maps....)
The virgin phone selection is limited, but at least you don't get the privilege of continuing to pay for the phone after you've finished paying off the phone. Also, the iPhone 4S is one of the limited selection phones you can get....
Well, drive by wire might be a good transition step towards driverless cars, for one thing...
My finger remembers hitting the key, so I'm going to go with "autocorrect" over typo.
The point, though, is that I'm very suspicious of McDonald's hiring a PR firm to let them do some marketing scumbaggery. Especially as many articles specifically went out of their way to mention both McDonald's and the fact that they banned it from their restaurants.
In a company with 10,000 workers, I'd wager that one of them could do a reasonable or better job than the CEO. We're in a CEO bubble right now and their prices are being artificially inflated by market distortions limiting the size of the pool to a subset of those who are capable of the job.
Seems like a zero-sum game to me. If that protects the dealers, the police would just take the other side of the equation since the customers would make it so easy for them.
What makes you think that military grunts (who, by and large, are not the most educated or ethical people in the nation)
I think if you actually searched for documentation for this, you'd find that they do quite well against the average, though....
How about we keep trying, or dismantle the whole Party concept completely? That way we can come up with solutions (which includes "do nothing") based on their merits and not ideological purity.
When was the last time you tried to convince your congressman, who was elected under the current system, to change the system to be something more fair?
Didn't McDonald's remove pink slime about 3 months before the story became mainstream?
Why? Given the popularity of McDonalds popular in France (Only the US is a bigger market for them) , I'd say that it's the quintessential french food these days...
On the one hand, fiat money enables corrupt "public servants" and money changers to siphon off the useful effort of the economy by printing more money. On the other hand, a gold standard necessarily means that gold (or any other valuable material) must necessarily be hoarded for savings rather than be available for use in industry, those very uses of which give it its base value.
There has to be some way to get the benefit of not having something that can be easily monkeyed with, without tying up a useful resource in vaults instead of being used for the things that make it useful.
... because it is too easy to keep large numbers of the downtrodden in line with religion, the opiate of the masses.
The phrasing you use suggests that there is an even more oppressive, frightening way of achieving the same effect without religion....
I'd say that depends on the state of the art of the particular evidence. If the state of the art has advanced to the point that the earlier techniques are considered laughable by those of today, then it would certainly be reasonable to survey all the cases in which that evidence was used and review the evidence itself if relevant to the case (or even if the case was overwhelming by other evidence, it may be a good training exercise or baseline for evaluating the process.)
I don't think it's unreasonable to periodically survey types of evidence every so often to confirm the results. Perhaps there should even be a completely separate auditing agency with a budget for making sure that the innocent aren't wrongly convicted, and they can spend that budget in whatever looks like the most efficient way to do that. I'm certainly more comfortable with spending money on keeping people out of jail than on, say, keeping people in prison indefinitely and secretly without trial....