"There are currently 13,605 taxicab medallion licenses in existence", City of New York, US. There are over 40000 "other" for hire vehicles. Any good reason a medallion rents for a million dollars a year? That's just for the privilege to run a cab, all operating and regulation expenses are extra. Last year they auctioned 368 more, earmarked for wheelchair accessible vehicles.
Somehow monopoly taxi service protects consumers but monopoly internet service is unpopular. Aren't you glad the same municipally that insures safe (if expensive) cabs insures you have quality broadband?
Most teachers have a 50 year career. With statistics collected on every student the most effective teachers could be identified. These teachers could be recruited to teach the next generation of teachers. Somehow it seems that educators see every child as a unique snowflake and any information collected on the education of that child will be useless for the other 54 million students in the country.
It's the twenty-first century, you have no privacy, ask Donald Sterling. At least we can put that information to good use.
One of my childhood friends almost failed his residency and dropped out of medicine because he couldn't stay awake 36 hours. After several tries he was able to complete his residency and became one of the top pediatric plastic surgeons in the nation.
I fail to see how paying my employee more money than expecting to get my money back by selling him stuff works. If I have a 20% profit margin $5 sales nets me $1. If four other stores send me their employees to buy my stuff I break even but the other stores have a loss.
Years ago when I was in the Navy we had a 30 cup coffee urn in the engine room. The guy who made a fresh pot at the start of the watch failed to secured the urn to cabinet top it sat on. After the coffee had made he was digging inside the cabinet for some tools when the ship rolled and the entire contents spilled down his back. All the skin of his back came off with his tee shirt when they snatched it off. The guy had to be medivacked off the ship.
These satellites will orbit over the same areas served by the geosynchronous satellites used by Hughes Net and Wild Blue. If Google can beat their prices that's millions more potential customers. I know I'm sick of a 475 Mb daily cap for $80 a month.
Some companies shrewdly double up. The Kwik Lok bag closer machine (it puts on the plastic tab that closes the bag of potatoes or apples you buy). The stylized K is what the tab looks like and that shape is the only thing that will fit that machine. Each machine uses ten thousand tabs an hour and no other company can sell these because that would violate the trade mark, which is forever. You can only buy them from Kwik Lok.
You didn't mention whether or not you had a job. I suffered for years but soldiered through supporting my family. At 58 my youngest was almost through college and my wife had a job so one day, after weeks of only sleeping four hours a night I quit doing anything. Several years of taking medication only kept me from jumping off a bridge. After I was able to get disability payments I now only take Ambien for the sleep disorder but I still have the extreme procrastination problem. I can't tell you to just get over it, I know you can't. Try to do the things you actually want to do, not things you think other people want you to do.
In the US English PhD's are a dime a dozen. My daughter can't teach full time so she grades writing tests and does editing. For $1000 she's your bitch for a week. She just had one of her poems published in an anthology. I bought the paperback on Amazon.
Uh, because you don't care to be around them either? I worked at a site where a major defense company built things. The area population was ~30% black, less than 1% of workers were. Some how few made it through the hiring process. Affirmative action is kind of ignored when you are making things that fly.
Actually, it did work. Until we took the mines out of Haiphong harbor. Just as in Korea we were fighting China and Russia. Al Qaeda is funded by Iran and Saudi Arabia. England and France will soon fall due to demographics. The US is on its way to Hispanic majority. Then there is AGW, interesting times indeed.
Most public schools are exclusive. You have to have a residence in the right area to attend them. Schools in the wrong areas are not exclusive enough and the few disruptive students ruin the education of the rest.
I had the advantage of using these textbooks when they where new. Actually most of the books I had in elementary school where printed in the 40's. I have a son attending college. Last weekend he drove home to help me celebrate my sixty second birthday. He had to finish some homework for his summer calculus class while he was here. He sat at the kitchen table and spread out his materials, a graphing calculator, smart phone, laptop, and his textbook.
He never attended public schools instead we sent him to a small church based school where they used paced self study booklets. Motivated, intelligent students with involved parents have no problem leaning. Government schools are indoctrination centers where the people in charge only care about bonuses and pushing a political agenda.
My two older children are professionals with advanced degrees. The oldest teaches college English. Half of her students come in ill prepared for the work and think passing grades should just be given to them, even if they don't show up for class.
Speaking of water the water utility is laying pipeline down the six mile rural road I live on. DSL and cable are only available for the first two miles. Is it possible to put fiber alongside the water pipeline? Satellite internet sucks.
Stopping global climate change will take actions by every countries government not seen since WWII. Maybe some charismatic leader instituting a one world government could do it. That has been prophitized but it doesn't end well for most people.
The smart choice is electric. Natural gas is only cheap because of fracking. The same people predicting climate disruption (new buzz word) also predict ecological disaster from fracking. Renewables only, solar and hydro, nuclear is bad too.
Six paragraphs, all saying it's going to be bad, really bad. OK,OK, it's going to be bad, so what can we do? Does anyone have a congnizant plan to alleviate the problem? Not some vague "We will just transition to renewables". Has any school or foundation did a study with projections on how much the worlds economic output will fall without fossil fuels? Forcing Americans into compounds with limited, interment power to be fed a vegetarian diet will be difficult.
The talk now is that the West Antarctic ice sheet melt is irreversible so fossil fuel usage has to stop now, no transition. We just suffer until enough renewables are available and we learn to "enjoy" a more limited lifestyle. No doubt we can do it. Look at what Russia did when the Nazis attacked. If no one is actually getting bombed it wont be too bad. Just without a war machine on the horizon most people will see no need to sacrifice that much.
I could swear there were a lot people here before that and I didn't have air-conditioning until 1977. It will be rough to do without it but at least we wont freeze to death.
My wife could move in with my son, he has an extra house. She could move back into her old room at her parents, she spends many days over there anyway taking care of her invalid mother. She could sell some of our property and live off of that for years. She married me because I had a home and my own business. Women used to think of things like that before they took up with a man.
Do you really believe all those Mexican-American children will assume the British-West European culture America has now? "Our" culture is going extinct. Unlike all other extinctions we could have done something about it. That is what Japan is doing. They are contracting their population but maintain their culture. If they import breeders to boast population levels the "breeders" will raise the children in the breeders culture. France and Britain are maintaining their populations with Muslim Arab immigrants. We all know how that is going to end.
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"There are currently 13,605 taxicab medallion licenses in existence", City of New York, US. There are over 40000 "other" for hire vehicles. Any good reason a medallion rents for a million dollars a year? That's just for the privilege to run a cab, all operating and regulation expenses are extra. Last year they auctioned 368 more, earmarked for wheelchair accessible vehicles.
Somehow monopoly taxi service protects consumers but monopoly internet service is unpopular. Aren't you glad the same municipally that insures safe (if expensive) cabs insures you have quality broadband?
Most teachers have a 50 year career. With statistics collected on every student the most effective teachers could be identified. These teachers could be recruited to teach the next generation of teachers. Somehow it seems that educators see every child as a unique snowflake and any information collected on the education of that child will be useless for the other 54 million students in the country.
It's the twenty-first century, you have no privacy, ask Donald Sterling. At least we can put that information to good use.
One of my childhood friends almost failed his residency and dropped out of medicine because he couldn't stay awake 36 hours. After several tries he was able to complete his residency and became one of the top pediatric plastic surgeons in the nation.
I fail to see how paying my employee more money than expecting to get my money back by selling him stuff works. If I have a 20% profit margin $5 sales nets me $1. If four other stores send me their employees to buy my stuff I break even but the other stores have a loss.
Years ago when I was in the Navy we had a 30 cup coffee urn in the engine room. The guy who made a fresh pot at the start of the watch failed to secured the urn to cabinet top it sat on. After the coffee had made he was digging inside the cabinet for some tools when the ship rolled and the entire contents spilled down his back. All the skin of his back came off with his tee shirt when they snatched it off. The guy had to be medivacked off the ship.
These satellites will orbit over the same areas served by the geosynchronous satellites used by Hughes Net and Wild Blue. If Google can beat their prices that's millions more potential customers. I know I'm sick of a 475 Mb daily cap for $80 a month.
Bingo. The Kwik Lok tabs are expensive.
Some companies shrewdly double up. The Kwik Lok bag closer machine (it puts on the plastic tab that closes the bag of potatoes or apples you buy). The stylized K is what the tab looks like and that shape is the only thing that will fit that machine. Each machine uses ten thousand tabs an hour and no other company can sell these because that would violate the trade mark, which is forever. You can only buy them from Kwik Lok.
You didn't mention whether or not you had a job. I suffered for years but soldiered through supporting my family. At 58 my youngest was almost through college and my wife had a job so one day, after weeks of only sleeping four hours a night I quit doing anything. Several years of taking medication only kept me from jumping off a bridge. After I was able to get disability payments I now only take Ambien for the sleep disorder but I still have the extreme procrastination problem. I can't tell you to just get over it, I know you can't. Try to do the things you actually want to do, not things you think other people want you to do.
In Florida Pensacola (with several military bases) is in another time zone so in 2000 the results were announced an hour before their polls closed.
In the US English PhD's are a dime a dozen. My daughter can't teach full time so she grades writing tests and does editing. For $1000 she's your bitch for a week. She just had one of her poems published in an anthology. I bought the paperback on Amazon.
Uh, because you don't care to be around them either? I worked at a site where a major defense company built things. The area population was ~30% black, less than 1% of workers were. Some how few made it through the hiring process. Affirmative action is kind of ignored when you are making things that fly.
We have tens of thousands a square miles of roofs. Except for mine. It's on a mobile home and if you try to walk on it you will just fall through.
Actually, it did work. Until we took the mines out of Haiphong harbor. Just as in Korea we were fighting China and Russia. Al Qaeda is funded by Iran and Saudi Arabia. England and France will soon fall due to demographics. The US is on its way to Hispanic majority. Then there is AGW, interesting times indeed.
Most public schools are exclusive. You have to have a residence in the right area to attend them. Schools in the wrong areas are not exclusive enough and the few disruptive students ruin the education of the rest.
I had the advantage of using these textbooks when they where new. Actually most of the books I had in elementary school where printed in the 40's. I have a son attending college. Last weekend he drove home to help me celebrate my sixty second birthday. He had to finish some homework for his summer calculus class while he was here. He sat at the kitchen table and spread out his materials, a graphing calculator, smart phone, laptop, and his textbook.
He never attended public schools instead we sent him to a small church based school where they used paced self study booklets. Motivated, intelligent students with involved parents have no problem leaning. Government schools are indoctrination centers where the people in charge only care about bonuses and pushing a political agenda.
My two older children are professionals with advanced degrees. The oldest teaches college English. Half of her students come in ill prepared for the work and think passing grades should just be given to them, even if they don't show up for class.
I'm capped at 475 MB a day. If I go over my speed is slowed for the next 24 hours. The rural life has some drawbacks.
Speaking of water the water utility is laying pipeline down the six mile rural road I live on. DSL and cable are only available for the first two miles. Is it possible to put fiber alongside the water pipeline? Satellite internet sucks.
Stopping global climate change will take actions by every countries government not seen since WWII. Maybe some charismatic leader instituting a one world government could do it. That has been prophitized but it doesn't end well for most people.
The smart choice is electric. Natural gas is only cheap because of fracking. The same people predicting climate disruption (new buzz word) also predict ecological disaster from fracking. Renewables only, solar and hydro, nuclear is bad too.
Six paragraphs, all saying it's going to be bad, really bad. OK,OK, it's going to be bad, so what can we do? Does anyone have a congnizant plan to alleviate the problem? Not some vague "We will just transition to renewables". Has any school or foundation did a study with projections on how much the worlds economic output will fall without fossil fuels? Forcing Americans into compounds with limited, interment power to be fed a vegetarian diet will be difficult.
The talk now is that the West Antarctic ice sheet melt is irreversible so fossil fuel usage has to stop now, no transition. We just suffer until enough renewables are available and we learn to "enjoy" a more limited lifestyle. No doubt we can do it. Look at what Russia did when the Nazis attacked. If no one is actually getting bombed it wont be too bad. Just without a war machine on the horizon most people will see no need to sacrifice that much.
I could swear there were a lot people here before that and I didn't have air-conditioning until 1977. It will be rough to do without it but at least we wont freeze to death.
My wife could move in with my son, he has an extra house. She could move back into her old room at her parents, she spends many days over there anyway taking care of her invalid mother. She could sell some of our property and live off of that for years. She married me because I had a home and my own business. Women used to think of things like that before they took up with a man.
Do you really believe all those Mexican-American children will assume the British-West European culture America has now? "Our" culture is going extinct. Unlike all other extinctions we could have done something about it. That is what Japan is doing. They are contracting their population but maintain their culture. If they import breeders to boast population levels the "breeders" will raise the children in the breeders culture. France and Britain are maintaining their populations with Muslim Arab immigrants. We all know how that is going to end.