Where I live they are shutting those down or making their hours something like ten hours per week at random seeming times... So don't start talking about libraries as an option...
Nitrogen isn't a greenhosue gas and neither is oxygen... As the two most abundant airborne chemicals, either would cause a rather critical issue if it were to be a green house gas. Together they make up 99% of what we breathe, 78.08% for Nitrogen and 20.95% oxygen.
The most common Greenouse gases are: water vapor (0 to 4% varies by area), carbon dioxide (0.0360%), methane (0.00017%), nitrous oxide (0.00003%), and lower atmosphere ozone (0.000004%). None of which you mentioned.
People have actually lived after being shot in the head... Heck I recall a case of a person who had a rod pierce through their head and it was medically removed only for them to live a normal life... Yes most people die, but it certainly isn't fun when they don't....
I know a couple that runs their own business and doesn't even make enough to hire employees, yet incorporated solely to take advantages of tax laws. If your a sole proprietor or an LLC and think this is going to hurt you, do what all the big boys do an incorporate. It can be done for a few hundred to a couple thousand. It's a very small price to pay.
The reality is most people who start out making 18k/year (or less) never make it up to even 100k/year, let alone a million... Regardless of how much they work. 98% of the GDP of the US goes to 1% of the population. Which part of the GDP would you like to tax? the 99% of people and the 2% of the money or the 1% of people and 98% of money? The obvious answer is that 1% needs to foot a larger part and it's always going to be that way unless we could manage the 25%:25% (25% of people making 25% of GDP) mark that economists like to toy with. I can tell you now though that any such attempt will rule out 'the rich' all together.
Oh they never say "I don't want you because your to smart". That said... I've been drawn to court only to be turned down twice. They also asked us far more than 'Did you know anyone involved?' or 'What is your occupation?'. I was asked all sorts of things by both lawyers that they thought was vaguely relevant to the case at hand and the judge didn't seem to much care what they asked.
The people who go on always seem to be the stupidest, most ignorant of anything except their own petty lives people I've ever seen. So on the personal experience basis my experience counters yours.
The problem is every time we 'pay for what we use' no average consumer can meet what the ISP's want to charge. Mostly because the cost jumps up to the level of a business. Obviously either they simply want to much or they don't charge businesses nearly enough either. The first is more true then the second, though it is the second they try to make seem reasonable.
Other countries have no problem charging less than american ISP's for more bandwidth and more total consumption as things stand now. If the american (and Canadian) companies can't do the same then they are simply doing it wrong!
You may want to add in the ones from the democratic corporate whores to, unless you are ignorant and think only one party does the bidding of rich corporations.
No no... the Eath has it's own magnetic field, so that doesn't work either... Maybe we should send them to pluto? As far as we know pluto has no 'harmful' EM field...
I guess I'm an anomaly since even in games with no penalties for being 'evil' or even an 'evil path', I just can't stomach being an ass most of the time. So I inherently do 'good'. From some psychology and sociology work I'd say I'm not alone. About 10% of people even under stress always chose to do 'the least harm' or 'the most good' in situations. Their is little need for repercussions for these types. A real problem in games tends to be the fact that people find it hard to empathize with characters in the game other than the player. With empathy comes a desire to do the least harm for anyone not a psychopath.
Coal actually does produce more radiation per day in it's pollution then a nuclear plant does in a decade. In fact that cancer rate increase people fear around nuclear plants is seen instead near coal plants. But yes, no one thinks about coal producing radiation... Or the people who live by the worlds largest coal reserves (In India) who have huge health issues. That's not including miners of coal who face all sorts of issues of their own.
Or you build a type of nuclear plant near the oceans and fault lines that doesn't release large radioactive plums when containment is breached. Their have been dozens of concepts developed over the years for nuclear plants. However we continue to use a design developed in the fifties and usually built in the 70's. Few places on Earth seem to want to modernize these designs and instead 'trust' in archaic existing ones.
1. Doctors don't tend to get 'rich' like in the old days (cost of malpractice insurance being a key factor), and that's ignoring the hours most doctors have to put in (cosmetic surgeons working the least btw). If someone works 60 or 80 hour weeks one expects to come home with a nice reward for it (IT has this issue as well).
2. The cost and time it takes to go to medical school. It's very very easy to have huge loan debts in the US (& Canada among others) to get your medical degree (which also factors into number one). This includes the long 1 or 2 years new doctors spend as low paid interns.
Solve these two things you get more doctors. Personally I'd like to see a better path for nurses to become doctors since we pump out nurses like crazy (and their are plenty of jobs for nurses). Nursing training could be layered to add in the things required for an ER style doctor in layers. In a sense we see this already with RN's filling in on doctor's visits and in clinics, but I'd like to see a clear path from the training of the most basic nursing positions to the physician. It would let someone start out in the healthcare field and given say... ten years, advanced from an orderly to the stage of an RN. In 20 years they could be full fledged physicians.
Well to be short, if you ever get your way I certainly won't sell anything online. It would be a nightmare to figure out and the local taxes added to state sales taxes and so many parts of the US alone would mean I'd spend more making sure my taxes were correct then I'd make in profit. Even if we said "Screw the local government taxes" and just went with state taxes I'd still be better off to avoid selling anything online until I reached a certain size. Why? I'd need to research each states sales tax laws and go about registering so I could send in state taxes with each state (which is a ton of paperwork, I've done it for the state I live, it's not pretty and usually best left to an account and a lawyer).
Whether you think it's so 'easy' or not implies you've never dealt with things as they are now.
Uber Corps still take peoples ideas and run with them... Most small inventors can't afford the lawyers massive companies can. This has lead some to sell their patents for pennies on the dollar to patent trolls, just to screw the Uber Corps. I don't think either system can ever be made to favor the little guy.
If you seriously believe "Amazon has a "presence" in every single state that has internet connected computers." Then I guess you expect them to do the same for every country on earth with even 1 internet connected PC? This is frankly silly. Brick and Mortar stores contact the local government to find out what the local taxes are (which include state sales tax), but a internet company doesn't have any local presence and so will have some trouble contacting every local government to find if their are city sales taxes on top of state sales taxes that need to be collected (if they are held to the same requirements as brick and mortar they would be). This is HUGE! You'd cripple all small internet businesses or anyone selling things through the internet..
Part of the problem with this is gettign business to believe that. I had a associates degree for a long time and it was all I needed. However these days companies want college grads as cleaning staff. It's all very silly, but they can hire however they chose unles it infringes on some type of law...
It's just a great big 'We can save money if you do this because we won't secure shit." Which is how Companies normally act. We a;; should know by now that companies really don't give a rats ass about security (except when it hurts them), have no clue how to hire people that could actually make their networks secure, and even when they do manage to get someone who can secure their network play games with them so their networks still become security swiss cheese.
They can say whatever they want, but even today I'd never even heard of a 'mebibyte' and I have both a degree in comp sci and I've been in IT for over a decade. In fact I'm currently working for a college whose comp sci program doesn't once mention medbibytes anywhere. You ranting about how 'MB' doesn't mean what most of the world was taught seems to mean a whole lot of nothing.
Personally 'way back' in 1996 when I went to college mebibytes didn't exist and we were taught 1 KB (kilobytes) = 1024 bytes. Everything else works off of that. That said I don't belong to the IEEE, so maybe they sent out a newsletter to 'update the world' for their members, but it hasn't done any good.
Well Google isn't Microsoft and they don't seem to mind telling me the Agence Nationale de Certification Electronique is just fine as well within Chrome. I don't have firefox, but I doubt it's any different.
Bad government or not, I'm betting most browsers aren't going to have fits over it.
Having worked as the network admin for a school district before, I can tell you that we looked for studies of the effect of 1:1 laptop programs. We also found such studies. They were done by places like the ones you named and showed a 10% increase overall. A lot of those gains was from the kids having a wider access to material they found interesting and engaging or at least presented in a way that was more apt to grab their attention.
I don't see a thing in the article that actually talks about doing a real study on the problem that this one school seems to be having. Instead they talk quite about about stagnant math scores. Ok, their math scores are stagnant... How are they teaching math though?!? You don't just stick kids in rooms with computers and expect them to 'learn math'. In fact math is probably the least likely thing to be effected by computers unless you have a dedicated program to make math more interesting for students.
The problem with how lots of places adopt technology is that they think 'all we need are X number of laptops!". However the real solution is what you do with those laptops. Do you install apps to make them into interactive learning tools? Or do you add on software to both entertain and educate students? Or do they just sit around all day because only a handful of people in the entire building actually understand how to make use of the things?
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Where I live they are shutting those down or making their hours something like ten hours per week at random seeming times... So don't start talking about libraries as an option...
Nitrogen isn't a greenhosue gas and neither is oxygen... As the two most abundant airborne chemicals, either would cause a rather critical issue if it were to be a green house gas. Together they make up 99% of what we breathe, 78.08% for Nitrogen and 20.95% oxygen.
The most common Greenouse gases are: water vapor (0 to 4% varies by area), carbon dioxide (0.0360%), methane (0.00017%), nitrous oxide (0.00003%), and lower atmosphere ozone (0.000004%). None of which you mentioned.
People have actually lived after being shot in the head... Heck I recall a case of a person who had a rod pierce through their head and it was medically removed only for them to live a normal life... Yes most people die, but it certainly isn't fun when they don't....
I know a couple that runs their own business and doesn't even make enough to hire employees, yet incorporated solely to take advantages of tax laws. If your a sole proprietor or an LLC and think this is going to hurt you, do what all the big boys do an incorporate. It can be done for a few hundred to a couple thousand. It's a very small price to pay.
The reality is most people who start out making 18k/year (or less) never make it up to even 100k/year, let alone a million... Regardless of how much they work. 98% of the GDP of the US goes to 1% of the population. Which part of the GDP would you like to tax? the 99% of people and the 2% of the money or the 1% of people and 98% of money? The obvious answer is that 1% needs to foot a larger part and it's always going to be that way unless we could manage the 25%:25% (25% of people making 25% of GDP) mark that economists like to toy with. I can tell you now though that any such attempt will rule out 'the rich' all together.
Oh they never say "I don't want you because your to smart". That said... I've been drawn to court only to be turned down twice. They also asked us far more than 'Did you know anyone involved?' or 'What is your occupation?'. I was asked all sorts of things by both lawyers that they thought was vaguely relevant to the case at hand and the judge didn't seem to much care what they asked.
The people who go on always seem to be the stupidest, most ignorant of anything except their own petty lives people I've ever seen. So on the personal experience basis my experience counters yours.
I would. And I've made books and music, both on that list.
The problem is no one smart would be allowed to stay on the Jury... a hint of intelligence disqualifies you these days...
The problem is every time we 'pay for what we use' no average consumer can meet what the ISP's want to charge. Mostly because the cost jumps up to the level of a business. Obviously either they simply want to much or they don't charge businesses nearly enough either. The first is more true then the second, though it is the second they try to make seem reasonable.
Other countries have no problem charging less than american ISP's for more bandwidth and more total consumption as things stand now. If the american (and Canadian) companies can't do the same then they are simply doing it wrong!
You may want to add in the ones from the democratic corporate whores to, unless you are ignorant and think only one party does the bidding of rich corporations.
Except in the book it was the little boy...
No no... the Eath has it's own magnetic field, so that doesn't work either... Maybe we should send them to pluto? As far as we know pluto has no 'harmful' EM field...
I guess I'm an anomaly since even in games with no penalties for being 'evil' or even an 'evil path', I just can't stomach being an ass most of the time. So I inherently do 'good'. From some psychology and sociology work I'd say I'm not alone. About 10% of people even under stress always chose to do 'the least harm' or 'the most good' in situations. Their is little need for repercussions for these types. A real problem in games tends to be the fact that people find it hard to empathize with characters in the game other than the player. With empathy comes a desire to do the least harm for anyone not a psychopath.
In the many years since I was eligible to vote I have never once voted for either 'old party', but that hasn't changed anything yet.
Coal actually does produce more radiation per day in it's pollution then a nuclear plant does in a decade. In fact that cancer rate increase people fear around nuclear plants is seen instead near coal plants. But yes, no one thinks about coal producing radiation... Or the people who live by the worlds largest coal reserves (In India) who have huge health issues. That's not including miners of coal who face all sorts of issues of their own.
Or you build a type of nuclear plant near the oceans and fault lines that doesn't release large radioactive plums when containment is breached. Their have been dozens of concepts developed over the years for nuclear plants. However we continue to use a design developed in the fifties and usually built in the 70's. Few places on Earth seem to want to modernize these designs and instead 'trust' in archaic existing ones.
What leads to not enough doctors is two fold:
1. Doctors don't tend to get 'rich' like in the old days (cost of malpractice insurance being a key factor), and that's ignoring the hours most doctors have to put in (cosmetic surgeons working the least btw). If someone works 60 or 80 hour weeks one expects to come home with a nice reward for it (IT has this issue as well).
2. The cost and time it takes to go to medical school. It's very very easy to have huge loan debts in the US (& Canada among others) to get your medical degree (which also factors into number one). This includes the long 1 or 2 years new doctors spend as low paid interns.
Solve these two things you get more doctors. Personally I'd like to see a better path for nurses to become doctors since we pump out nurses like crazy (and their are plenty of jobs for nurses). Nursing training could be layered to add in the things required for an ER style doctor in layers. In a sense we see this already with RN's filling in on doctor's visits and in clinics, but I'd like to see a clear path from the training of the most basic nursing positions to the physician. It would let someone start out in the healthcare field and given say... ten years, advanced from an orderly to the stage of an RN. In 20 years they could be full fledged physicians.
Well to be short, if you ever get your way I certainly won't sell anything online. It would be a nightmare to figure out and the local taxes added to state sales taxes and so many parts of the US alone would mean I'd spend more making sure my taxes were correct then I'd make in profit. Even if we said "Screw the local government taxes" and just went with state taxes I'd still be better off to avoid selling anything online until I reached a certain size. Why? I'd need to research each states sales tax laws and go about registering so I could send in state taxes with each state (which is a ton of paperwork, I've done it for the state I live, it's not pretty and usually best left to an account and a lawyer).
Whether you think it's so 'easy' or not implies you've never dealt with things as they are now.
Uber Corps still take peoples ideas and run with them... Most small inventors can't afford the lawyers massive companies can. This has lead some to sell their patents for pennies on the dollar to patent trolls, just to screw the Uber Corps. I don't think either system can ever be made to favor the little guy.
If you seriously believe "Amazon has a "presence" in every single state that has internet connected computers." Then I guess you expect them to do the same for every country on earth with even 1 internet connected PC? This is frankly silly. Brick and Mortar stores contact the local government to find out what the local taxes are (which include state sales tax), but a internet company doesn't have any local presence and so will have some trouble contacting every local government to find if their are city sales taxes on top of state sales taxes that need to be collected (if they are held to the same requirements as brick and mortar they would be). This is HUGE! You'd cripple all small internet businesses or anyone selling things through the internet..
Part of the problem with this is gettign business to believe that. I had a associates degree for a long time and it was all I needed. However these days companies want college grads as cleaning staff. It's all very silly, but they can hire however they chose unles it infringes on some type of law...
It's just a great big 'We can save money if you do this because we won't secure shit." Which is how Companies normally act. We a;; should know by now that companies really don't give a rats ass about security (except when it hurts them), have no clue how to hire people that could actually make their networks secure, and even when they do manage to get someone who can secure their network play games with them so their networks still become security swiss cheese.
They can say whatever they want, but even today I'd never even heard of a 'mebibyte' and I have both a degree in comp sci and I've been in IT for over a decade. In fact I'm currently working for a college whose comp sci program doesn't once mention medbibytes anywhere. You ranting about how 'MB' doesn't mean what most of the world was taught seems to mean a whole lot of nothing.
Personally 'way back' in 1996 when I went to college mebibytes didn't exist and we were taught 1 KB (kilobytes) = 1024 bytes. Everything else works off of that. That said I don't belong to the IEEE, so maybe they sent out a newsletter to 'update the world' for their members, but it hasn't done any good.
Well Google isn't Microsoft and they don't seem to mind telling me the Agence Nationale de Certification Electronique is just fine as well within Chrome. I don't have firefox, but I doubt it's any different.
Bad government or not, I'm betting most browsers aren't going to have fits over it.
Having worked as the network admin for a school district before, I can tell you that we looked for studies of the effect of 1:1 laptop programs. We also found such studies. They were done by places like the ones you named and showed a 10% increase overall. A lot of those gains was from the kids having a wider access to material they found interesting and engaging or at least presented in a way that was more apt to grab their attention.
I don't see a thing in the article that actually talks about doing a real study on the problem that this one school seems to be having. Instead they talk quite about about stagnant math scores. Ok, their math scores are stagnant... How are they teaching math though?!? You don't just stick kids in rooms with computers and expect them to 'learn math'. In fact math is probably the least likely thing to be effected by computers unless you have a dedicated program to make math more interesting for students.
The problem with how lots of places adopt technology is that they think 'all we need are X number of laptops!". However the real solution is what you do with those laptops. Do you install apps to make them into interactive learning tools? Or do you add on software to both entertain and educate students? Or do they just sit around all day because only a handful of people in the entire building actually understand how to make use of the things?