Using the phrase, "rule of 72" makes you sound like either a charlatan, or an old timer who doesn't realize that you can get a pocket calculator capable of doing exponents and logarithms for under $10. Sometimes you can even find them on sale at gas stations....
They would if there was competition. It's too bad that ACA didn't do anything about the real problem - in many geographic areas, you can count on one hand the number of health insurers, due at least in part, to the fact that each state imposes different and sometimes incompatible restrictions on the products they can sell.
In a mature, well-functioning market, the price of insurance should approach the marginal cost like any other commodity. That "marginal cost" is the payout * risk, so anything reducing the risk or payouts should result in price drops. If it does not, then the market is not mature or well-functioning, so you have to look at the reasons it might not be, one of which I stated in the above paragraph.
When the government controls it, you won't be denied care based on your ability to pay. Instead you'll be denied care based on politics and social status. I fail to see how that's an improvement.
What if you allow misspellings and word substitutions? I've been able to read ebooks just fine with all the steganography they've been putting in (either that, or pretty much every ebook I've ever read has had terrible editing...). Surely that narrows the problem space a little bit.
Yeah, it was definitely pretty weak. I was expecting to read about all the other works of literature of equal or lesser length to the shakespeare one that the monkeys also produced. Including the screen play for the simpsons episode about this very subject (except with dickens).
It takes time to effect a user. I guess you could start the process while bored, waiting for your computer to be repaired, but somehow I think that any users effected would probably not need any particular comforting regarding the particulars of their conception if this were the case.
And honestly most people do not take advantage of the library. You wont be losing many sales.
That is because libraries are inconvenient --- there is a physical location you actually have to go to to find your books, and even once you know where it is, you still have to walk down the stacks to actually get it, assuming they are at the branch you visit. Otherwise you have to wait for ILL to ship it over.
And also because library books are a little gross. It's not their fault, they're just trying to preserve the books so they can lend them to a lot of people, but they have these disgusting cellophane covers that pick up fingerprints and scratches like nobody's business, forcing you to think about all the myriad of fingers that have touched that cover before you, and whether or not some of them read those books in the bathroom....
The only thing more disgusting to touch while you're reading is the glossy cover of a magazine at the doctor's office, where you know at least some of those fingers were almost certainly attached to people with contagious illnesses.
You don't get any of that with digital distribution. Every copy is as pristine as the original. You read it on your own device, so you know where it's been. And you don't have to hunt for it. You just type in the library's website and the name of the book and whether they have it or not, you know within seconds. No worrying about inconvenient hours or locations or waiting on book post.
I think that as e-readers become more popular (and people realize the facts of the previous paragraph), we're going to see quite a lot of growing pains as the industry and readers shift to the new marketplace conditions.
Yeah, that's called "the traveling salesman problem", and it's.. well, it's a textbook computer science problem, and will probably be so for years to come...
You can get 55 gallon trash bags from a hardware supply store like home depot. You can get the helium from AirGas or iParty to name a few, or even your supermarket's florist. In fact, you can probably get the local supermarket to donate all of the supplies if you're a high schooler with the ability to overcome any nervousness about talking to the manager.
Airgas is a great place to go for all kinds of cool "sciency" supplies, and they're all over the place.
The signatures are OK, they aren't really supposed to be a security measure. They're supposed to be a deliberate act of agreement. The signature is supposed to be proof primarily that you agreed to the terms of the contract, not that it was YOU who agreed to them. It's a subtle distinction, but an important one.
I don't know how it is in australia, but in the US, you shouldn't be making purchases with an ATM card. Debt cards are a much safer choice - there is a statutory limit of liability of 50 USD, and since it's debt, you simply don't pay the disputed charges during the dispute period, so you're never deprived of your money.
That doesn't solve the skimming problem, of course, but making it the bank's liability instead of yours will go further in convincing them to do something actually useful about it...
Advertising to whom? The poster stated that he can provision himself entirely on the "sample" from a single visit for a period exceeding the span between two visits.
It's pretty poor advertising if your customers both love and use your product, but never have occasion to actually pay for it...
No, you buy dental floss 60 yards at a time. But I have a use for the other 58 yards of it, one which would be difficult to satisfy using the spool of waxed linen, which is thicker and stickier than floss. Properties which make it superior to dental floss for cable tidying in every way but one: The floss isn't lost in a pile of crap due to being used once every couple of years and then forgotten about.
I suspect the economics would be different if I needed to tidy more than 3' of cables more often than once every couple of years.
Let's not lose site of the real point here, which is that cable lacing is both neater and cheaper than zip-ties, and since you can untie it and re-lace, is likely to have superior routing. Also, in a pinch, it can be done using improvised materials.
I swear he looks more and more like his character, Jabba, every time I seem him in the news. Is his actual image a reflection of his self-image? I wonder.
Obama can only do what he is capable of. If it's only "looking competent" then I guess we'll have to settle for that. If you wanted someone who was actually competent, maybe you should't have let it get to the point where the choices were Obama and McCain. Everyone voting in that election held their respective noses and supported their respective parties because there was basically no other reason to vote for either of them than the letter after their names.
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Using the phrase, "rule of 72" makes you sound like either a charlatan, or an old timer who doesn't realize that you can get a pocket calculator capable of doing exponents and logarithms for under $10. Sometimes you can even find them on sale at gas stations....
You're seriously making the claim that emissions standards are holding back cheap electric cars?
Get glasses made that filter out everything *but* UV, also, to see without the fluorescence.
If all else fails, these guys can help: http://www.cvimellesgriot.com/
They would if there was competition. It's too bad that ACA didn't do anything about the real problem - in many geographic areas, you can count on one hand the number of health insurers, due at least in part, to the fact that each state imposes different and sometimes incompatible restrictions on the products they can sell.
In a mature, well-functioning market, the price of insurance should approach the marginal cost like any other commodity. That "marginal cost" is the payout * risk, so anything reducing the risk or payouts should result in price drops. If it does not, then the market is not mature or well-functioning, so you have to look at the reasons it might not be, one of which I stated in the above paragraph.
When the government controls it, you won't be denied care based on your ability to pay. Instead you'll be denied care based on politics and social status. I fail to see how that's an improvement.
Run for office a couple years from now...
What if you allow misspellings and word substitutions? I've been able to read ebooks just fine with all the steganography they've been putting in (either that, or pretty much every ebook I've ever read has had terrible editing...). Surely that narrows the problem space a little bit.
Yeah, it was definitely pretty weak. I was expecting to read about all the other works of literature of equal or lesser length to the shakespeare one that the monkeys also produced. Including the screen play for the simpsons episode about this very subject (except with dickens).
Yeah, it's not so much "big green" as it is, GE, which owns NBC Universal, you know....
It takes time to effect a user. I guess you could start the process while bored, waiting for your computer to be repaired, but somehow I think that any users effected would probably not need any particular comforting regarding the particulars of their conception if this were the case.
And honestly most people do not take advantage of the library. You wont be losing many sales.
That is because libraries are inconvenient --- there is a physical location you actually have to go to to find your books, and even once you know where it is, you still have to walk down the stacks to actually get it, assuming they are at the branch you visit. Otherwise you have to wait for ILL to ship it over.
And also because library books are a little gross. It's not their fault, they're just trying to preserve the books so they can lend them to a lot of people, but they have these disgusting cellophane covers that pick up fingerprints and scratches like nobody's business, forcing you to think about all the myriad of fingers that have touched that cover before you, and whether or not some of them read those books in the bathroom....
The only thing more disgusting to touch while you're reading is the glossy cover of a magazine at the doctor's office, where you know at least some of those fingers were almost certainly attached to people with contagious illnesses.
You don't get any of that with digital distribution. Every copy is as pristine as the original. You read it on your own device, so you know where it's been. And you don't have to hunt for it. You just type in the library's website and the name of the book and whether they have it or not, you know within seconds. No worrying about inconvenient hours or locations or waiting on book post.
I think that as e-readers become more popular (and people realize the facts of the previous paragraph), we're going to see quite a lot of growing pains as the industry and readers shift to the new marketplace conditions.
Yeah, that's called "the traveling salesman problem", and it's.. well, it's a textbook computer science problem, and will probably be so for years to come...
Erm.. Is it even possible to "leave the microwave on?" Aren't they all on timers?
When asked if, "when the wrong figures are put inn would the right answers come out?" he should have just said yes...
You can get 55 gallon trash bags from a hardware supply store like home depot. You can get the helium from AirGas or iParty to name a few, or even your supermarket's florist. In fact, you can probably get the local supermarket to donate all of the supplies if you're a high schooler with the ability to overcome any nervousness about talking to the manager.
Airgas is a great place to go for all kinds of cool "sciency" supplies, and they're all over the place.
The signatures are OK, they aren't really supposed to be a security measure. They're supposed to be a deliberate act of agreement. The signature is supposed to be proof primarily that you agreed to the terms of the contract, not that it was YOU who agreed to them. It's a subtle distinction, but an important one.
I don't know how it is in australia, but in the US, you shouldn't be making purchases with an ATM card. Debt cards are a much safer choice - there is a statutory limit of liability of 50 USD, and since it's debt, you simply don't pay the disputed charges during the dispute period, so you're never deprived of your money.
That doesn't solve the skimming problem, of course, but making it the bank's liability instead of yours will go further in convincing them to do something actually useful about it...
Slander and Libel aren't crimes. They're Torts.
What about non-essencial liberty? Is that ok to give up? What if the safety is long-term, or even permanent?
Ol' Ben left himself an awful lot of wiggle room there....
If they're charging for it, it's a bit disingenuous to still call it beta though...
Advertising to whom? The poster stated that he can provision himself entirely on the "sample" from a single visit for a period exceeding the span between two visits.
It's pretty poor advertising if your customers both love and use your product, but never have occasion to actually pay for it...
No, you buy dental floss 60 yards at a time. But I have a use for the other 58 yards of it, one which would be difficult to satisfy using the spool of waxed linen, which is thicker and stickier than floss. Properties which make it superior to dental floss for cable tidying in every way but one: The floss isn't lost in a pile of crap due to being used once every couple of years and then forgotten about.
I suspect the economics would be different if I needed to tidy more than 3' of cables more often than once every couple of years.
Let's not lose site of the real point here, which is that cable lacing is both neater and cheaper than zip-ties, and since you can untie it and re-lace, is likely to have superior routing. Also, in a pinch, it can be done using improvised materials.
And how does George see himself
I swear he looks more and more like his character, Jabba, every time I seem him in the news. Is his actual image a reflection of his self-image? I wonder.
Obama can only do what he is capable of. If it's only "looking competent" then I guess we'll have to settle for that. If you wanted someone who was actually competent, maybe you should't have let it get to the point where the choices were Obama and McCain. Everyone voting in that election held their respective noses and supported their respective parties because there was basically no other reason to vote for either of them than the letter after their names.
Oh, can I buy two yards of waxed linen at the sewing store? If I have to buy a whole spool, it's not cheaper.
FYI, the interesting topography is supposed to be on the other side.
Also, you can't give a good massage with just light touching with your fingertips.