Right. It should only be about 20-30 degrees for a high in January. Instead, this may be the warmest winter ever. And are we ever going to get any real snow? This is messed up.
It may surprise you, but US students are taught Metric/SI, and at first exclusively! Only afterward do we learn the "Customary System". Not Imperial, by the way. Same names but slightly different! Ask for a pint of beer in the US and you'll be disappointed by the size. Heh, ok, you'll be disappointed for other reasons too;-)
Everyday usage seems to be the key. Sure, a US kid might spend some time in class learning about kilograms, but at the doctor he gets weighed in pounds (but not stones). Recipes are all Customary too: 1/2 cup of this, 2 Tbsp of that.... Most Americans now have a handle on "liter" now at least, thanks to soft drinks.
I'm not here to defend the OP (didn't read it actually) but your post has some misinformation I feel I need to correct. No, I'm not an economist, but I'm rather interested in the topic so I read a lot about it.
"We are at 4.6% unemployment, which is pretty close to what economists consider full employment"
Sounds great. Of course it is meaningless. The biggest single glaring fact that makes your unemployment statistic worthless is that it only considers people who are actually drawing unemployment benefits. That is a small fraction of the unemployed.
Untrue. Here's the methodology for the numbers. Some percentages of people collecting uninsurance can be found here:
The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending Sept. 16 were in Puerto Rico (3.7 percent), Alaska (2.5), Michigan (2.5), New Jersey (2.5), Pennsylvania (2.4), Arkansas (2.2), Connecticut (2.0), Massachusetts (2.0), Oregon (2.0), and Rhode Island (2.0).
We can see from those numbers that even the highest "collecting unemployment" number is well below the 4.6% unemployed. Looking at the historical figures here shows that the number has been on its way down and is now lower than the whole period from 1974-1996.
Here's a link to the Full Employment concept the OP mentioned.
It also considers part-time and minimum wage (or near minimum) workers employed.
This is true. But how would you have a meaningful statistic without this? How do you define "near minimum" for instance?
Your average citizen is now making $25,000 or less and has no benefits. The reason they have no benefits is that almost all corporations have eliminated full-time positions among non-management workers.
I can't find the numbers for average salaries but benefits are still common. You may very well have a point to make here but your "no benefits" and "almost all corporations" claims are baseless.
And some of it was just complete fantasy-land, like the cute girl wanted to hang out with the class nerd while he played a computer game in his bedroom. I ask you.
Not so implausible. We know she had a thing for robots.
Pro-environmental policies and market systems can indeed be compatible, and we'll all be better off by realizing that. A good source for this sort of thinking is the Environmental Economics blog.
I always thought it funny that Americans think people standing in line for bread or soap is a sign of a failed political system, while they think nothing of standing in long lines to exercise their democratic rights. The message it communicates is that democracy in the US is apparently an artificially scarce good.
A lot of the responses so far have been along the lines of "relax, it's just a test," and others have been "see your doctor, there's a chemical explanation." Depending on the circumstances, it could be either of these, but it sounds like the latter makes sense for you. Considering that this test appears to be nothing special and it's in a class you don't have a problem with, something other than typical test-jitters seems to be at play here. Medication really helped my ex-girlfriend with this sort of thing. Maybe there's one that's appropriate for you, or maybe counseling will help. Anyway, seeing a doctor and a therapist sounds like a good plan.
There are many situatutions where you can't use 1.5 (or 5.0 or whatever the Marketing dept. is coming up with this week) but pretty much everyone has 1.4 already installed. For one example, my work machines are locked down so I can't upgrade Java to 1.5. For maximum compatibility, I always write my Java with the 1.4 API.
Back to the original topic, using Java's API with frames is much nicer than without. But what problem was xtracto referring to? I just did a Find and it hopped around the frames looking for matches just fine. This machine is Windows 2000, BTW.
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Right. It should only be about 20-30 degrees for a high in January. Instead, this may be the warmest winter ever. And are we ever going to get any real snow? This is messed up.
This reminds me of the Spaceballs quote:
Listen! We're not just doing this for money... We're doing it for a SHIT LOAD of money!
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It may surprise you, but US students are taught Metric/SI, and at first exclusively! Only afterward do we learn the "Customary System". Not Imperial, by the way. Same names but slightly different! Ask for a pint of beer in the US and you'll be disappointed by the size. Heh, ok, you'll be disappointed for other reasons too ;-)
Everyday usage seems to be the key. Sure, a US kid might spend some time in class learning about kilograms, but at the doctor he gets weighed in pounds (but not stones). Recipes are all Customary too: 1/2 cup of this, 2 Tbsp of that.... Most Americans now have a handle on "liter" now at least, thanks to soft drinks.
Hell, you can ask Michael Jackson.
selenothermic. ;-)
MADTV's Mach 20 ad.
"We are at 4.6% unemployment, which is pretty close to what economists consider full employment"
Sounds great. Of course it is meaningless. The biggest single glaring fact that makes your unemployment statistic worthless is that it only considers people who are actually drawing unemployment benefits. That is a small fraction of the unemployed.
Untrue. Here's the methodology for the numbers. Some percentages of people collecting uninsurance can be found here:
We can see from those numbers that even the highest "collecting unemployment" number is well below the 4.6% unemployed. Looking at the historical figures here shows that the number has been on its way down and is now lower than the whole period from 1974-1996.
Here's a link to the Full Employment concept the OP mentioned.
It also considers part-time and minimum wage (or near minimum) workers employed.
This is true. But how would you have a meaningful statistic without this? How do you define "near minimum" for instance?
Your average citizen is now making $25,000 or less and has no benefits. The reason they have no benefits is that almost all corporations have eliminated full-time positions among non-management workers.
I can't find the numbers for average salaries but benefits are still common. You may very well have a point to make here but your "no benefits" and "almost all corporations" claims are baseless.
And it relates to current events! See the bottom of this article.
And some of it was just complete fantasy-land, like the cute girl wanted to hang out with the class nerd while he played a computer game in his bedroom. I ask you.
Not so implausible. We know she had a thing for robots.
Why is this marked Funny?
Pro-environmental policies and market systems can indeed be compatible, and we'll all be better off by realizing that. A good source for this sort of thinking is the Environmental Economics blog.
Goggles is a start on that idea.
No worries. IP over Avian Carriers has a collision-detection algorithm.
A boa constrictor that swallowed an elephant?
I always thought it funny that Americans think people standing in line for bread or soap is a sign of a failed political system, while they think nothing of standing in long lines to exercise their democratic rights. The message it communicates is that democracy in the US is apparently an artificially scarce good.
Hahaha. That is brilliant.
Here, we get around that by having someone with the proper clearance follow the janitors around as they work.
Trust me, it doesn't do any good. They use their psychic powers to sense approaching nerds.
In addition, he fronts the most.
The Lutherans and Orthodox are in the same church? Can you explain this?
Yeah, that term has been over-leveraged. ;-)
Very well said!
A lot of the responses so far have been along the lines of "relax, it's just a test," and others have been "see your doctor, there's a chemical explanation." Depending on the circumstances, it could be either of these, but it sounds like the latter makes sense for you. Considering that this test appears to be nothing special and it's in a class you don't have a problem with, something other than typical test-jitters seems to be at play here. Medication really helped my ex-girlfriend with this sort of thing. Maybe there's one that's appropriate for you, or maybe counseling will help. Anyway, seeing a doctor and a therapist sounds like a good plan.
For those unfamiliar with this important discovery, here's a link.
It's "...his mind is not for rent to any god or government".
I heart Rush.
There are many situatutions where you can't use 1.5 (or 5.0 or whatever the Marketing dept. is coming up with this week) but pretty much everyone has 1.4 already installed. For one example, my work machines are locked down so I can't upgrade Java to 1.5. For maximum compatibility, I always write my Java with the 1.4 API.
Back to the original topic, using Java's API with frames is much nicer than without. But what problem was xtracto referring to? I just did a Find and it hopped around the frames looking for matches just fine. This machine is Windows 2000, BTW.