There are dozens of IQ tests (especially when you count all the way back to the 60s, when these tests were taken), so I'm sure there are some that count in 10s. But most do give you a specific down-to-the-ones-digit number. However, there's no practical difference in levels until you get about to a ten-point difference, so a 3 point difference is pretty meaningless anyhow.
I can't believe you got modded Troll. Seriously, IQ tests have a margin of error of about 3 points or so, AND even a real, reliable difference of 1-3 points doesn't have any practical significance anyhow, you don't see practical differences until you get to around ten points, AND ones from the 60s were quite a bit worse than today's in terms of general usefulness. This study is meaningless.
Besides, from everything I've read, if there's a difference due to birth order it's more on motivational factors, which are hardly correlated with IQ at all.
Morons who can barely afford their house and cars as it stands, really do refinance their house for... trips to Disneyland
Tsk tsk tsk. My family financed our trip to Disneyland (well, Disney World) the old fashioned way: We sold off our beanie babies.
(Seriously. We hit it right at the peak, sold some for $200 apiece and many for $50. What was that about people spending far too much money on frivolous things?)
If it was meant as a figure of speech or exagerration, it was a terrible context to use one in. The entire point of the article is "Wow, people are going to extreme lengths for their gadgets, lengths no one would have believed a few years ago!" Proceeding to give an example that is unbelievable seems like the thing to do - but it's only effective if it's also true. Otherwise, you're not demonstrating that people are doing unbelievable things, you're demonstrating that unbelievable things are still not to be believed.
I've had problems several times with buying generic ink cartridges for my HP. Either the printer thinks it's empty when the cartridge is brand-new, or one color conks out soon after it's installed. And these aren't the supercheap online dollar-bin cartridges, they're just Target or OfficeMax store brands.
Now you've got me wondering if it's not so much a problem with the generic cartridges as some problem with the printer that makes it recognize the generics and not use them properly. *eyes printer suspiciously*
car payments seem to be just about the best thing you can do for your credit rating (as in, making them all, on time).
Over time, it can certainly help build or repair your credit. But if you already have halfway decent credit, you'll take quite a hit for taking out the car loan in the first place and it'll take a while to recover through good payments.
In the game, at least, under the "reform" rules, the independent jury is made up of half Rs and half Ds plus one neutral, plus you don't get to see the political makeup of areas when you're drawing the map, only population. Unlike other levels, where you can see R voters and D voters and draw the maps to balance them out as you like. There was also a compactness rule - maps in the reform level can't have crazy-shaped districts that snake around each other, etc. It's hard to tell the details of that rule, though, your idea of limiting the number of towns/counties in one district might have something to do with it.
That "final environment" is impossible to complete while keeping all the incumbents in their seats.
No it's not. When I did it, the original map had 3 republicans and 1 democrat, and I finally got a map approved (by 3 out of 5 members of the committee, then rejected by the R state legislature, then approved by courts) that resulted in 2 R and 2 D seats.
That's pretty funny. Comcast's cd worked just fine on my mac. And yes, you do have to go through their stupid cd or the only webpage that will show up is "Thank you for using Comcast, please install your cd!"
You know, for $50/month you could have 8 DVDs at a time out from Netflix, with unlimited rentals per month. That means you could have 1-2 whole seasons of any given show in your house at once, ready to watch, plus a movie or two, and as soon as you finish one you'll have a new one in 4 days or less. If you can go through the other 7 DVDs in four days, maybe your family needs some new hobbies.
I lived in Boston for six years, and visit at least once a year. Most people in Boston should not be driving, but I try not to stoop to their level unless it's absolutely necessary. And yes, occasionally it is necessary to get where you're going, but not NEARLY as often as many Boston drivers do it. I also have friends who grew up in Boston and being the car with them is sometimes scary (although some have gotten better as they've gotten older).
I "respect" them only in the same way I "respect" a pissed-off badger - I do my best to avoid them.
And yet, that is one usage of the word respect. And it's an important one when you're driving. Perhaps "be courteous toward" is a better term - if someone is not being an asshole, I'll let them over when they want over, etc etc. If someone has already cut me off once but then somehow got behind me again (because they don't comprehend that changing lanes every 10 seconds does not actually get you there faster), I will watch their every move from then on and make sure they don't get a chance to do it again.
Who needs respect, when you can "merge" into the space between any two cars on the road, even ahead of a tailgater?
Of course, if you actually drive like that, which car your driving becomes totally moot because no driver will respect you anyhow. You better hope your car has a good safety rating and that you have good insurance. And don't run into anyone disgruntled with a gun.
Yeah, I kind of wonder why people make such a big deal out of 40 mpg. Our 98 Saturn gets 40 on the highway when it's got a fresh oil change, no problem. Our 94 Saturn (which the last owner crashed twice and is in terrible shape) still gets a good 30-35 on the highway. If 10 year old cars can still do that, I would really hope that today's cars would be bragging about 50+ on a more regular basis, especially if they also wouldn't give me room for my two dogs and luggage.
It's not so much about the resale value, because you're right, most people won't resell it. But when you can save 20% by buying a car that's 2 years old, the odds of making that much up with things failing anytime soon are sufficiently low that it's usually a good deal. Sure, there's a tiny chance something will fail quickly, but personally the only cars I've known that needed bigtime repairs were several years old. If you think there's a good chance, maybe you should be buying a different car.
It also seems like the a la carte (which I would LOVE and is the only way I would actually pay for cable) should make the indecency stuff less necessary. If a parent can now not only use parental controls to block content, but also not even receive channels that regularly show things they don't like, then why on earth should those channels have more regulations on what they can show? Other than parental laziness, which seem to be a frighteningly strong motivator in law today.
I thought they needed a carrier to do the visual voice mail thing.
Not that I think that justifies it, if that was the only/main reason for the lock-in. I'm another who would love to use one as a PDA if I didn't have to buy phone services with it. Hopefully in a couple years.
Click on "Preferences" in the menubar just below the/. logo. Then click on "Homepage" on the next menubar. Scroll down to "Customize Stories on the Homepage" and change the radio button next to "Your Rights Online" (last option in the list) to the big red no sign.
as long as it could be valuable to keep, it will be kept
Tell me about it. When I was in high school, I made a web page on tripod that has horrible loud backgrounds and graphics and talks for far too long about my then-boyfriend. All around, very embarrassing. I haven't touched it in nine years, since my freshman year of college, and it's STILL THERE! I've long since forgotten the password, the email account it's linked to is long gone, and per my email exchanges with tripod tech support I seem to have registered it with fake personal info (address etc). So so far, I haven't been able to convince them to either take it down or give me the password. NINE YEARS! They've been wasting server space on a site that never gets edited for NINE YEARS! And it still is a top google hit if you search for my maiden name. Thank god I'm married now.
It's too bad that in many places there isn't much choice. Some places still only have one broadband carrier, which might be AT&T. In most places you're lucky if you have one DSL and one cable provider to choose from, and if you'd keep your landline anyhow the cable is usually quite a bit more expensive. Me, since I moved last year I have two cable providers to choose from plus DSL, which is like HEAVEN. I love being able to threaten to cancel my account and go with the other guy if they don't fix what needs fixing.
Which supports my real point, which is that calculating "who benefits more" is far too complicated to ever truly get right, and so probably shouldn't be the basis of our tax system.
But you could also argue that if the minimum wage worker lost his ability to get to work, he'd be a lot more screwed than the rich guy, who probably has some savings or at least credit to live on for a bit. Heck, the rich guy might be able to just work from home, whereas that wouldn't be possible for most minimum wage jobs. So who really benefits more from the road - the guy who absolutely needs it to get by, or the guy who could get along fine without it?
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There are dozens of IQ tests (especially when you count all the way back to the 60s, when these tests were taken), so I'm sure there are some that count in 10s. But most do give you a specific down-to-the-ones-digit number. However, there's no practical difference in levels until you get about to a ten-point difference, so a 3 point difference is pretty meaningless anyhow.
Besides, from everything I've read, if there's a difference due to birth order it's more on motivational factors, which are hardly correlated with IQ at all.
Tsk tsk tsk. My family financed our trip to Disneyland (well, Disney World) the old fashioned way: We sold off our beanie babies.
(Seriously. We hit it right at the peak, sold some for $200 apiece and many for $50. What was that about people spending far too much money on frivolous things?)
If it was meant as a figure of speech or exagerration, it was a terrible context to use one in. The entire point of the article is "Wow, people are going to extreme lengths for their gadgets, lengths no one would have believed a few years ago!" Proceeding to give an example that is unbelievable seems like the thing to do - but it's only effective if it's also true. Otherwise, you're not demonstrating that people are doing unbelievable things, you're demonstrating that unbelievable things are still not to be believed.
Now you've got me wondering if it's not so much a problem with the generic cartridges as some problem with the printer that makes it recognize the generics and not use them properly. *eyes printer suspiciously*
A quick google of dr pepper cane sugar revealed: Dublin, TX - and they sell it online.
Over time, it can certainly help build or repair your credit. But if you already have halfway decent credit, you'll take quite a hit for taking out the car loan in the first place and it'll take a while to recover through good payments.
As I said an hour before you posted this, I seem to have read the word "while" as "without." Doh!
Actually, it was the word "while," which apparently I read as "without." Doh!
In the game, at least, under the "reform" rules, the independent jury is made up of half Rs and half Ds plus one neutral, plus you don't get to see the political makeup of areas when you're drawing the map, only population. Unlike other levels, where you can see R voters and D voters and draw the maps to balance them out as you like. There was also a compactness rule - maps in the reform level can't have crazy-shaped districts that snake around each other, etc. It's hard to tell the details of that rule, though, your idea of limiting the number of towns/counties in one district might have something to do with it.
No it's not. When I did it, the original map had 3 republicans and 1 democrat, and I finally got a map approved (by 3 out of 5 members of the committee, then rejected by the R state legislature, then approved by courts) that resulted in 2 R and 2 D seats.
That's pretty funny. Comcast's cd worked just fine on my mac. And yes, you do have to go through their stupid cd or the only webpage that will show up is "Thank you for using Comcast, please install your cd!"
You know, for $50/month you could have 8 DVDs at a time out from Netflix, with unlimited rentals per month. That means you could have 1-2 whole seasons of any given show in your house at once, ready to watch, plus a movie or two, and as soon as you finish one you'll have a new one in 4 days or less. If you can go through the other 7 DVDs in four days, maybe your family needs some new hobbies.
I "respect" them only in the same way I "respect" a pissed-off badger - I do my best to avoid them.
And yet, that is one usage of the word respect. And it's an important one when you're driving. Perhaps "be courteous toward" is a better term - if someone is not being an asshole, I'll let them over when they want over, etc etc. If someone has already cut me off once but then somehow got behind me again (because they don't comprehend that changing lanes every 10 seconds does not actually get you there faster), I will watch their every move from then on and make sure they don't get a chance to do it again.
Of course, if you actually drive like that, which car your driving becomes totally moot because no driver will respect you anyhow. You better hope your car has a good safety rating and that you have good insurance. And don't run into anyone disgruntled with a gun.
Yeah, I kind of wonder why people make such a big deal out of 40 mpg. Our 98 Saturn gets 40 on the highway when it's got a fresh oil change, no problem. Our 94 Saturn (which the last owner crashed twice and is in terrible shape) still gets a good 30-35 on the highway. If 10 year old cars can still do that, I would really hope that today's cars would be bragging about 50+ on a more regular basis, especially if they also wouldn't give me room for my two dogs and luggage.
It's not so much about the resale value, because you're right, most people won't resell it. But when you can save 20% by buying a car that's 2 years old, the odds of making that much up with things failing anytime soon are sufficiently low that it's usually a good deal. Sure, there's a tiny chance something will fail quickly, but personally the only cars I've known that needed bigtime repairs were several years old. If you think there's a good chance, maybe you should be buying a different car.
It also seems like the a la carte (which I would LOVE and is the only way I would actually pay for cable) should make the indecency stuff less necessary. If a parent can now not only use parental controls to block content, but also not even receive channels that regularly show things they don't like, then why on earth should those channels have more regulations on what they can show? Other than parental laziness, which seem to be a frighteningly strong motivator in law today.
Just a hunch? But I'm guessing CrazyTalk figured this out at some point.
Not that I think that justifies it, if that was the only/main reason for the lock-in. I'm another who would love to use one as a PDA if I didn't have to buy phone services with it. Hopefully in a couple years.
Click on "Preferences" in the menubar just below the /. logo. Then click on "Homepage" on the next menubar. Scroll down to "Customize Stories on the Homepage" and change the radio button next to "Your Rights Online" (last option in the list) to the big red no sign.
Tell me about it. When I was in high school, I made a web page on tripod that has horrible loud backgrounds and graphics and talks for far too long about my then-boyfriend. All around, very embarrassing. I haven't touched it in nine years, since my freshman year of college, and it's STILL THERE! I've long since forgotten the password, the email account it's linked to is long gone, and per my email exchanges with tripod tech support I seem to have registered it with fake personal info (address etc). So so far, I haven't been able to convince them to either take it down or give me the password. NINE YEARS! They've been wasting server space on a site that never gets edited for NINE YEARS! And it still is a top google hit if you search for my maiden name. Thank god I'm married now.
It's too bad that in many places there isn't much choice. Some places still only have one broadband carrier, which might be AT&T. In most places you're lucky if you have one DSL and one cable provider to choose from, and if you'd keep your landline anyhow the cable is usually quite a bit more expensive. Me, since I moved last year I have two cable providers to choose from plus DSL, which is like HEAVEN. I love being able to threaten to cancel my account and go with the other guy if they don't fix what needs fixing.
Which supports my real point, which is that calculating "who benefits more" is far too complicated to ever truly get right, and so probably shouldn't be the basis of our tax system.
But you could also argue that if the minimum wage worker lost his ability to get to work, he'd be a lot more screwed than the rich guy, who probably has some savings or at least credit to live on for a bit. Heck, the rich guy might be able to just work from home, whereas that wouldn't be possible for most minimum wage jobs. So who really benefits more from the road - the guy who absolutely needs it to get by, or the guy who could get along fine without it?