Add rent to the list of fixed price things people are used to. Sure, having 4 people in a house is going to put more strain on the door hinges and light switches, but the big cost is in the initial construction. If 1 person is home using the house 8 hours a day, or 4 people are using the house 20 hours a day, the maintenance cost difference is negligible. Once you start getting to 10 people for 24 hours a day, it is time to start looking at a bigger house. Charging per person/hour of house usage is not the answer.
You don't find "all you can eat" deals because you are looking in the wrong place. Adding grocery store to your search is basically the same as adding "that isn't all you can eat". The word you want to add to your search is "restaurant". http://www.google.com/search?q=all+you+can+eat+restaurants gives you 160 million hits. I think it is safe to say that "all you can eat" food deals are widely available.
Why not Muni installed and maintained conduits for cables with wholesale bids for access?
This is what I always advocate for. It doesn't run afoul of direct competition with current providers. It is well within the expertise of most municipalities. It encourages competition. It makes future upgrades dramatically cheaper and less disruptive. It might be a little more expensive than laying wire, but it municipalities added it in as they ripped up streets anyway, much of that cost could be off set.
I would prefer that they fix the PPTP so that I can easily use it to log in to work and home. From there I would just use remote desktop to access a full machine that runs whatever OS I want. That is how I access work on a day to day basis anyway, so it could replace a very large amount of my normal PC usage.
No. They just become apps that get installed instead of being pre-installed. So, while you 'technically' lose the "built in" part, you don't lose the apps.
True. A claim of worst movie is just marketing. There are people all over the world making worse movies than Manos. They are so bad that they would not even be considered for a B movie film fest. They are so bad that many would argue that they are not even movies.
Are you really trying to claim that moving bones that are out of place, back into place is bogus? Are you claiming that it only works if a general practitioner does it? Or, are you claiming that it works with large bones like a humerus and scapula, but somehow fails when it is smaller bones?
I'm not going to claim that there are not a lot of scam chiropractors, and I am not going to claim that there are not a lot of chiropractors that cross the line into quackery, but to claim that bone manipulation is inherently bogus is absurd.
Be offended if you want, but I have been in too many meetings listening to admins spreading FUD so that they can lock down the networks. Right here on Slashdot, when the subject comes up, you can find the admins come out of the woodwork demanding that it is their network, their only responsibility is to keep it running, and how users wanting to run they have not personally vetted is not to be tolerated.
Your not suggesting that you are the real administrator, and everyone else on Slashdot who claims to be an administrator is part of some kind of giant conspiracy are you?
If it is in fact the dress, the smart man says "Yes", and then suggests the dress that doesn't make her look fat. Of course if it isn't the dress that is making her look fat, then you are not lying by saying "No".
Honestly, the fact that they didn't use that simple, readily available, cheap, and obvious way to isolate the wifi from the rest of the computer implies that they are either incompetent of have an agenda. I wouldn't hazard a guess as to which one it is though.
If your wife is pestering you to get snipped, you should call it what it is. Abuse. Trying to pressure someone into a medical procedure they don't want, and have no real need for is horribly abusive. Tell her to go get snipped herself. When she trots out the old lie that it is major surgery for her, just point her to the National Institute of Health's evaluation of it. And let her know it is a simple 30 minute outpatient procedure.
That BS is really annoying. The claims over difficulty and dangers of getting tubes tied is VASTLY over stated. Tubal ligation is a 30 minute out patient procedure. Women love to declare it as some huge health risk that requires days in the hospital and weeks of recovery, and men buy into it. It isn't, and it doesn't. The lie is part of our "hate the penis culture".
Tubal ligation is basically on par with vasectomies in difficulties and risk. Here is an idea. If the man knows he never wants to have another child he should get a vasectomy. If the woman knows she never wants another child, she should get tubal ligation. If they both know that they never want children, they should both get sterilized, and exponentially improve their odds of achieving their goals.
I would say that the blame for his problem extends past the school system. How did he get to adulthood without either of his parents every using the word "probably"? How did he get to adulthood without his parents ever having heard him say "prolly"? Perhaps you should be look at hour sibling as much as the high school he attended. Don't dismiss the high school's responsibility, but they are not the only ones that carry the blame here.
I don't know. My son's school handles it just fine. Of course, it has a 2:1 teacher to student ratio, and only one student enrolled.
More seriously, being able to pay attention is not a skill that is taught. As great as it is that we have public education, teaching children how to stay focused is just not something that can really be handled in a classroom with even a dozen kids. Being able to stay focused is a skill that really requires the parents to take part in. Unfortunately, most parents have now abdicated their role and given it to the state. Thus kids just are not taught to focus.
We have actually gone so far as to make "staying focused on a task" a school subject in our house because it really is that important of a skill. Since we home school, it is easy for us to just incorporate that into our son's curriculum, but there is no reason that the parents of public schooled kids can not do the same. Contrary to popular belief, just because one's children are in rolled in public schools, doesn't mean that the parents can't teach them anything.
It is amazing how much money some companies will spend on blocking. Not just the hard costs of blocking software, but in lost employees. When people enjoy their jobs, they tend to demand less money, and are slower to jump ship into an unknown company.
Right or wrong, I lay most of this at the feet of System Administrators. There are far too many of them that see the network as "theirs" and lock down things for their own convenience. They tell horror stories to upper management about how the world will come to an end than the boogie monster will eat their children if they don't make a policy forbidding any pleasantry on the network. Then they go doe eyed to the users and say it wasn't their decision. They are just doing what they are told.
A perfect example is the blocking of porn. Companies should have just clarified their policies that porn on the internet would be dealt with the same way that porn in any other media format was dealt with before the internet. This would have given them their legal protection without adding any additional cost. Instead, companies ended up with huge cost and liability because they basically asked to be responsible for internet porn.
You clearly don't know what you are talking about. The chicken pox vaccine is a 'live' vaccine. So, whether you catch the disease naturally, or get vaccinated, you will have disease in your body. We absolutely know what happens later in life with the natural disease. Chicken pox is not new, nor a mystery. What we don't know is what happens later in life when you get the vaccine. Yes, shingles is caused by the chicken pox virus, but there is no data all to indicate that a chicken pox vaccine as a child will prevent shingles (an even milder disease). In fact, there is data indicating exactly the opposite, since the chicken pox vaccine has shown itself to NOT offer life long immunity.
So, your suggestion is that because a small percentage of kids might not be immune naturally when they read adulthood, we should force all children into the same dangerous position? Or are you under the impression that adults cannot be vaccinated?
The scarring that you whine about is less of a problem than acne. Since the vaccine multiplies the change of death or permanent injury by approximately 10x, it is highly unethical to use that as a rational.
Since the release of the Chicken Pox vaccine, there has been a concerted and highly effective campaign to convince the US population that Chicken Pox is a deadly and debilitating disease on the scale of Polio. It simply isn't. As a child, it is on par with the an average flu combined with an acne breakout. As an adult it is ~10x worse.
To keep things in perspective, a child that is allowed to play high school football is MORE likely to end up dead or with a life long than a child taken to a pox party. A child that is allowed to ride a school bus is only a little less likely to end up with a life long injury or death. A person that is given the chicken pox vaccine as a child is MORE likely to die of chicken pox than one who has not.
Nope. You seem to be confused between opinion, facts, and the fact that there are opinions. Don't feel bad though. A lot of people can't tell the difference. If you tried real hard, you might be able to figure it out.
Not likely. People would quickly see the risk of Polio as being greater than the risk of the Vaccine. Ironically, we are now issuing vaccines to children that prevent them from getting a relatively mild disease that becomes far more severe and crippling when they become adults and the vaccine wears off. Specifically the Chicken Pox vaccine.
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My cell phone bill doesn't go up if I make a lot of cell phone calls. Actual unlimited calling is common these days.
Add rent to the list of fixed price things people are used to. Sure, having 4 people in a house is going to put more strain on the door hinges and light switches, but the big cost is in the initial construction. If 1 person is home using the house 8 hours a day, or 4 people are using the house 20 hours a day, the maintenance cost difference is negligible. Once you start getting to 10 people for 24 hours a day, it is time to start looking at a bigger house. Charging per person/hour of house usage is not the answer.
You don't find "all you can eat" deals because you are looking in the wrong place. Adding grocery store to your search is basically the same as adding "that isn't all you can eat". The word you want to add to your search is "restaurant". http://www.google.com/search?q=all+you+can+eat+restaurants gives you 160 million hits. I think it is safe to say that "all you can eat" food deals are widely available.
Why not Muni installed and maintained conduits for cables with wholesale bids for access?
This is what I always advocate for. It doesn't run afoul of direct competition with current providers. It is well within the expertise of most municipalities. It encourages competition. It makes future upgrades dramatically cheaper and less disruptive. It might be a little more expensive than laying wire, but it municipalities added it in as they ripped up streets anyway, much of that cost could be off set.
No kidding. You need the proper leverage for in jokes.
Manos: Hand of the Jedi?
By keeping Apple from having the clout to dictate terms the way they did with the music industry.
I would prefer that they fix the PPTP so that I can easily use it to log in to work and home. From there I would just use remote desktop to access a full machine that runs whatever OS I want. That is how I access work on a day to day basis anyway, so it could replace a very large amount of my normal PC usage.
No. They just become apps that get installed instead of being pre-installed. So, while you 'technically' lose the "built in" part, you don't lose the apps.
True. A claim of worst movie is just marketing. There are people all over the world making worse movies than Manos. They are so bad that they would not even be considered for a B movie film fest. They are so bad that many would argue that they are not even movies.
Are you really trying to claim that moving bones that are out of place, back into place is bogus? Are you claiming that it only works if a general practitioner does it? Or, are you claiming that it works with large bones like a humerus and scapula, but somehow fails when it is smaller bones?
I'm not going to claim that there are not a lot of scam chiropractors, and I am not going to claim that there are not a lot of chiropractors that cross the line into quackery, but to claim that bone manipulation is inherently bogus is absurd.
Be offended if you want, but I have been in too many meetings listening to admins spreading FUD so that they can lock down the networks. Right here on Slashdot, when the subject comes up, you can find the admins come out of the woodwork demanding that it is their network, their only responsibility is to keep it running, and how users wanting to run they have not personally vetted is not to be tolerated.
Your not suggesting that you are the real administrator, and everyone else on Slashdot who claims to be an administrator is part of some kind of giant conspiracy are you?
If it is in fact the dress, the smart man says "Yes", and then suggests the dress that doesn't make her look fat. Of course if it isn't the dress that is making her look fat, then you are not lying by saying "No".
The only way I can read it is that they claim the wifi makes normally dominant genes behave as a recessive gene.
Honestly, the fact that they didn't use that simple, readily available, cheap, and obvious way to isolate the wifi from the rest of the computer implies that they are either incompetent of have an agenda. I wouldn't hazard a guess as to which one it is though.
If your wife is pestering you to get snipped, you should call it what it is. Abuse. Trying to pressure someone into a medical procedure they don't want, and have no real need for is horribly abusive. Tell her to go get snipped herself. When she trots out the old lie that it is major surgery for her, just point her to the National Institute of Health's evaluation of it. And let her know it is a simple 30 minute outpatient procedure.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002913.htm
If you were joking, ignore that, or file it away as trivia to be used for some other joke in the future.
That BS is really annoying. The claims over difficulty and dangers of getting tubes tied is VASTLY over stated. Tubal ligation is a 30 minute out patient procedure. Women love to declare it as some huge health risk that requires days in the hospital and weeks of recovery, and men buy into it. It isn't, and it doesn't. The lie is part of our "hate the penis culture".
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002913.htm
Tubal ligation is basically on par with vasectomies in difficulties and risk. Here is an idea. If the man knows he never wants to have another child he should get a vasectomy. If the woman knows she never wants another child, she should get tubal ligation. If they both know that they never want children, they should both get sterilized, and exponentially improve their odds of achieving their goals.
I would say that the blame for his problem extends past the school system. How did he get to adulthood without either of his parents every using the word "probably"? How did he get to adulthood without his parents ever having heard him say "prolly"? Perhaps you should be look at hour sibling as much as the high school he attended. Don't dismiss the high school's responsibility, but they are not the only ones that carry the blame here.
I don't know. My son's school handles it just fine. Of course, it has a 2:1 teacher to student ratio, and only one student enrolled.
More seriously, being able to pay attention is not a skill that is taught. As great as it is that we have public education, teaching children how to stay focused is just not something that can really be handled in a classroom with even a dozen kids. Being able to stay focused is a skill that really requires the parents to take part in. Unfortunately, most parents have now abdicated their role and given it to the state. Thus kids just are not taught to focus.
We have actually gone so far as to make "staying focused on a task" a school subject in our house because it really is that important of a skill. Since we home school, it is easy for us to just incorporate that into our son's curriculum, but there is no reason that the parents of public schooled kids can not do the same. Contrary to popular belief, just because one's children are in rolled in public schools, doesn't mean that the parents can't teach them anything.
It is amazing how much money some companies will spend on blocking. Not just the hard costs of blocking software, but in lost employees. When people enjoy their jobs, they tend to demand less money, and are slower to jump ship into an unknown company.
Right or wrong, I lay most of this at the feet of System Administrators. There are far too many of them that see the network as "theirs" and lock down things for their own convenience. They tell horror stories to upper management about how the world will come to an end than the boogie monster will eat their children if they don't make a policy forbidding any pleasantry on the network. Then they go doe eyed to the users and say it wasn't their decision. They are just doing what they are told.
A perfect example is the blocking of porn. Companies should have just clarified their policies that porn on the internet would be dealt with the same way that porn in any other media format was dealt with before the internet. This would have given them their legal protection without adding any additional cost. Instead, companies ended up with huge cost and liability because they basically asked to be responsible for internet porn.
I might have been more profound if all sorts of mammals were not known for wiping out their environment and then moving to another area...
You clearly don't know what you are talking about. The chicken pox vaccine is a 'live' vaccine. So, whether you catch the disease naturally, or get vaccinated, you will have disease in your body. We absolutely know what happens later in life with the natural disease. Chicken pox is not new, nor a mystery. What we don't know is what happens later in life when you get the vaccine. Yes, shingles is caused by the chicken pox virus, but there is no data all to indicate that a chicken pox vaccine as a child will prevent shingles (an even milder disease). In fact, there is data indicating exactly the opposite, since the chicken pox vaccine has shown itself to NOT offer life long immunity.
So, your suggestion is that because a small percentage of kids might not be immune naturally when they read adulthood, we should force all children into the same dangerous position? Or are you under the impression that adults cannot be vaccinated?
The scarring that you whine about is less of a problem than acne. Since the vaccine multiplies the change of death or permanent injury by approximately 10x, it is highly unethical to use that as a rational.
Since the release of the Chicken Pox vaccine, there has been a concerted and highly effective campaign to convince the US population that Chicken Pox is a deadly and debilitating disease on the scale of Polio. It simply isn't. As a child, it is on par with the an average flu combined with an acne breakout. As an adult it is ~10x worse.
To keep things in perspective, a child that is allowed to play high school football is MORE likely to end up dead or with a life long than a child taken to a pox party. A child that is allowed to ride a school bus is only a little less likely to end up with a life long injury or death. A person that is given the chicken pox vaccine as a child is MORE likely to die of chicken pox than one who has not.
Nope. You seem to be confused between opinion, facts, and the fact that there are opinions. Don't feel bad though. A lot of people can't tell the difference. If you tried real hard, you might be able to figure it out.
Death by Snu-Snu!!!!
Not likely. People would quickly see the risk of Polio as being greater than the risk of the Vaccine. Ironically, we are now issuing vaccines to children that prevent them from getting a relatively mild disease that becomes far more severe and crippling when they become adults and the vaccine wears off. Specifically the Chicken Pox vaccine.