I had an early/. account that I forgot my log in information to. I would like the cred that my low digit number would bring. Is there any way I could reactivate my first account. Or is all my cred already blown because who would forget something as important as that?
Many of us have objective jobs. Drive a truck, you can only drive the speed limit, a day off only gets you eight hundred mile behind. Harvesting corn, five hundred acres aren't picked. On an assembly line, five thousand widgets aren't made. Days off are nice but unless you pass out being well rested doesn't make you go faster.
If you wrecked your car every six months how much would your insurance cost? Crop insurance is based on past yields and loses. After a few short crops you can only cover a small percent of your loss and the cost is as much as your payout.
Have you heard of hydroponic farming? No soil is used at all. Pure sand can also be used to hold the plants up and fertilizer is added to feed the plants. All soils used to grow crops will be depleted if the mineral nutrients removed by the harvested crops aren't replaced.
Ethanol attacks the gaskets and plastic parts of carburetors on brand new small engines and and marine outboard motors. Most marinas carry ethanol free gas but many people use gas station pump gas and ruin multi thousand dollar boat motors.
I think they mean "saving" as not having to spend a lot of money raising children, not banking that money. I am sure that if I had not had four children I still would not have any savings. I also would not have a son with a law degree and a nice house to take me in if I need a place to stay.
A blessing and a curse. Employer provided health plans made available billions of dollars to pay for research. Medicare provided billions more. The curse is people with conditions that have no treatment demand billions be spent curing them and people with treatable conditions trust that trillions, yes trillions, of dollars will be extracted from insurance companies and taxpayers to help them. At some point there will not be enough money for everyone to get help. Dare I say "death panels"?
Evolution isn't about good, just good enough. Homosexuality is part of something that was good enough so it didn't die out. Is red hair beneficial, or being left handed? That being said Christians are admonished to be in the world, not part of it. Trying to control the secular world is against Biblical teaching.
The writers of the Bible knew that they couldn't prove anything. You have to take God's existence "by faith". It wasn't that people couldn't believe in a god, they believed in lots of them, but not in one that wanted unfailing belief in him.
The trouble now is we do seen to be unique. After hundreds of millions of years of evolution there are no signs of any other intelligent species. No other life has been found off the Earth. Why does evolution only work here? Show us some aliens and maybe you can get people out of churches.
How many people die every year because they can't afford the expensive medicine they need? Many are impoverished by drug cost and hundreds of billions of dollars of tax money are giving to pharmaceutical companies through socialized medical programs. How many future deaths will be prevented with new patented treatments? Every new treatment cost multiple times more and saves fewer and fewer people because current treatments cure most. Yes, if your disease isn't covered you don't care how much it cost but how much can society pay for one individual? At some point we run out of everybody's money.
It is unknown what is left to invent but a lot of good things have already been developed. Most of these things make use of multiple patents. If one patent holder refuses to license their patent that useful object can not be sold. Even with full licensing the total patent burden may make the product unprofitable. A ten year moratorium on licenses or fees would unleash a whirlwind of product development and employment.
In my small town (less than 15000), there is a Lowes across the six lane from the Home Depot. Within sight of the Home Depot is a family owned plumbing-bathroom supply business. They predate the big chains and are doing fine. I asked the owner if he could survive with the chain stores next door.. He said personal service would keep his customers coming back, ten years later he is still there.
Every Sunday I check my mailbox. I really don't remember when they stopped Sunday delivery. Who knows, in a few years we may be down to only one day a week. What will we do then?
I guess i"m not "many people". Here I sit on a 32 year old kitchen chair at my 32 year old kitchen table. I did remodel my bathroom ten years ago because the floor rotted out from all the water my kids splashed out of the tub. Today I'm going over to my cousin's house to redo his kitchen floor. Fifty six years of wear and Florida humidity have left the flooring to weak to support his 400 lbs. Did I mention that after 40 years of farm work and over the road truck driving both of us are wore out and on disability?
They would just have to declare bankruptcy. Ha, a bank going bankrupt. The business would go into receivership, day to day operations would continue as before. New management would be brought in and the books examined to correct any problems. Bailing out the old management just allows the problems that caused the losses in the first place to continue.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I hope you are joking. All commodity foods are stored in massive silos. US farmers grow over 40 million acres of wheat, over 80 million acres of corn. Most farms are one to two thousand acres. A few are five to ten thousand acres but the loss of any one farm is insignificant. We have almost a years supply in storage at any one time. If stocks get low, as with this years drought, other countries will sell us some.
Traffic cameras work 24/7. Turning right on red while slowing to be sure the street is entirely empty of on coming traffic will still result in a ticket. I use to drive through a one stop light small town at 5:00 am on the way to work. At night the timing cycle was 15 seconds green for any traffic on the 4 lane highway and 18 seconds green for the nonexistent traffic on the cross street. A deputy sheriff spent his shift parked behind some gas pumps at a service station on the corner. No danger of hitting anyone but you dare not run that night.
My wife was videoed turning right on a yellow but didn't get to line in time by about a second. $158.00 fine but you can view the video online and see the poof. Even if she knew it was red she would have got a ticket because she never comes to a complete stop at red lights or stop signs anyway. With cameras everywhere she is better learn stop means stop.
Love the red light cameras, they even host the video for you to view your transgression. Got to see my wife follow another car turning right one second after the light turned red. $158.00 fine.
Probably those smart foreigners told their bosses, "My relatives are almost as smart as me and they will work for one tenth what people here want, you will make a lot more profit if you do that. I know who to call, trust me".
US, 300 million population, World, 7 billion. The odds are of the top million students, only 5% are Americans. Until recently the US had the best economy so of course everyone wanted to work here. Having all the top positions filled by foreigners probably had nothing to do with the current state of the US economy.
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I had an early /. account that I forgot my log in information to. I would like the cred that my low digit number would bring. Is there any way I could reactivate my first account. Or is all my cred already blown because who would forget something as important as that?
As long as there is no mention of space marines they should do fine.
Oil, grain, timber, coal, and a whole lot more, most countries accept dollars in payment for raw materials.
Many of us have objective jobs. Drive a truck, you can only drive the speed limit, a day off only gets you eight hundred mile behind. Harvesting corn, five hundred acres aren't picked. On an assembly line, five thousand widgets aren't made. Days off are nice but unless you pass out being well rested doesn't make you go faster.
If you wrecked your car every six months how much would your insurance cost? Crop insurance is based on past yields and loses. After a few short crops you can only cover a small percent of your loss and the cost is as much as your payout.
Have you heard of hydroponic farming? No soil is used at all. Pure sand can also be used to hold the plants up and fertilizer is added to feed the plants. All soils used to grow crops will be depleted if the mineral nutrients removed by the harvested crops aren't replaced.
Ethanol attacks the gaskets and plastic parts of carburetors on brand new small engines and and marine outboard motors. Most marinas carry ethanol free gas but many people use gas station pump gas and ruin multi thousand dollar boat motors.
I think they mean "saving" as not having to spend a lot of money raising children, not banking that money. I am sure that if I had not had four children I still would not have any savings. I also would not have a son with a law degree and a nice house to take me in if I need a place to stay.
A blessing and a curse. Employer provided health plans made available billions of dollars to pay for research. Medicare provided billions more. The curse is people with conditions that have no treatment demand billions be spent curing them and people with treatable conditions trust that trillions, yes trillions, of dollars will be extracted from insurance companies and taxpayers to help them. At some point there will not be enough money for everyone to get help. Dare I say "death panels"?
Evolution isn't about good, just good enough. Homosexuality is part of something that was good enough so it didn't die out. Is red hair beneficial, or being left handed? That being said Christians are admonished to be in the world, not part of it. Trying to control the secular world is against Biblical teaching.
The writers of the Bible knew that they couldn't prove anything. You have to take God's existence "by faith". It wasn't that people couldn't believe in a god, they believed in lots of them, but not in one that wanted unfailing belief in him.
The trouble now is we do seen to be unique. After hundreds of millions of years of evolution there are no signs of any other intelligent species. No other life has been found off the Earth. Why does evolution only work here? Show us some aliens and maybe you can get people out of churches.
What was the profit on the Manhattan Project? Maybe that model could be used to fund research on desperately needed drugs.
How many people die every year because they can't afford the expensive medicine they need? Many are impoverished by drug cost and hundreds of billions of dollars of tax money are giving to pharmaceutical companies through socialized medical programs. How many future deaths will be prevented with new patented treatments? Every new treatment cost multiple times more and saves fewer and fewer people because current treatments cure most. Yes, if your disease isn't covered you don't care how much it cost but how much can society pay for one individual? At some point we run out of everybody's money.
It is unknown what is left to invent but a lot of good things have already been developed. Most of these things make use of multiple patents. If one patent holder refuses to license their patent that useful object can not be sold. Even with full licensing the total patent burden may make the product unprofitable. A ten year moratorium on licenses or fees would unleash a whirlwind of product development and employment.
In my small town (less than 15000), there is a Lowes across the six lane from the Home Depot. Within sight of the Home Depot is a family owned plumbing-bathroom supply business. They predate the big chains and are doing fine. I asked the owner if he could survive with the chain stores next door.. He said personal service would keep his customers coming back, ten years later he is still there.
Every Sunday I check my mailbox. I really don't remember when they stopped Sunday delivery. Who knows, in a few years we may be down to only one day a week. What will we do then?
I guess i"m not "many people". Here I sit on a 32 year old kitchen chair at my 32 year old kitchen table. I did remodel my bathroom ten years ago because the floor rotted out from all the water my kids splashed out of the tub. Today I'm going over to my cousin's house to redo his kitchen floor. Fifty six years of wear and Florida humidity have left the flooring to weak to support his 400 lbs. Did I mention that after 40 years of farm work and over the road truck driving both of us are wore out and on disability?
They would just have to declare bankruptcy. Ha, a bank going bankrupt. The business would go into receivership, day to day operations would continue as before. New management would be brought in and the books examined to correct any problems. Bailing out the old management just allows the problems that caused the losses in the first place to continue.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I hope you are joking. All commodity foods are stored in massive silos. US farmers grow over 40 million acres of wheat, over 80 million acres of corn. Most farms are one to two thousand acres. A few are five to ten thousand acres but the loss of any one farm is insignificant. We have almost a years supply in storage at any one time. If stocks get low, as with this years drought, other countries will sell us some.
How much is a Harvard degree worth? How much would flunking out of Harvard cost you? Of course many cheat!
Traffic cameras work 24/7. Turning right on red while slowing to be sure the street is entirely empty of on coming traffic will still result in a ticket. I use to drive through a one stop light small town at 5:00 am on the way to work. At night the timing cycle was 15 seconds green for any traffic on the 4 lane highway and 18 seconds green for the nonexistent traffic on the cross street. A deputy sheriff spent his shift parked behind some gas pumps at a service station on the corner. No danger of hitting anyone but you dare not run that night.
My wife was videoed turning right on a yellow but didn't get to line in time by about a second. $158.00 fine but you can view the video online and see the poof. Even if she knew it was red she would have got a ticket because she never comes to a complete stop at red lights or stop signs anyway. With cameras everywhere she is better learn stop means stop.
Love the red light cameras, they even host the video for you to view your transgression. Got to see my wife follow another car turning right one second after the light turned red. $158.00 fine.
Probably those smart foreigners told their bosses, "My relatives are almost as smart as me and they will work for one tenth what people here want, you will make a lot more profit if you do that. I know who to call, trust me".
US, 300 million population, World, 7 billion. The odds are of the top million students, only 5% are Americans. Until recently the US had the best economy so of course everyone wanted to work here. Having all the top positions filled by foreigners probably had nothing to do with the current state of the US economy.