OK, numbers are hard to pin down so I am being conservative by merely claiming millions.
There are well over a million auto fatalities annually across this planet. The number of mobile phone related deaths is somewhere between 1%-10% of these.
Probably tens of millions, but I don't have the proof of that so I am going with millions.
Every life saved by a mobile has to be balanced by all the lives lost due to them. Inattentive driving due to mobile use has claimed millions of lives. Many people have died on foot or bicycle as well while glued to their phones. I don't think it is an easy thing to determine if they have saved more or claimed more lives. I'm no luddite, but I don't see them as a purely good force.
My musician friends spend a lot on practice space, either in their home or a shared rental. A basement around here costs at least $1500/mo which would be super hard to make up in gigs. Depending on specifics you can spend thousands on instruments/equipment and it requires maintenance or gets stolen.
Many people don't think of their practice space as costing money, but it does. I converted a basement jam space into an apartment, get $2k/mo for it and sent the people using it to a shared space that is only $500/month. They rarely clear that btw.
Much of the ferry traffic is tractor trailers full of heavy goods. Tunnels or bridges would provide much faster, more reliable, and lower cost transport.
In thriving areas anyone in the semi-skilled trades such as drywall, painter, handyman, low level plumbing/electrical, etc. can make well above median wage without trying very hard or being very good. I've had so much trouble keeping people in Colorado and bay area California - they all seem to turn into unreliable drunks, raise their rates until I can't handle it, or become so damn busy that I can't count on them to help with projects anymore.
These are impossible to outsource and I would encourage any young person who enjoys building things to pursue something along these lines.
I was dating a hippie chick who wanted to get into the unpasteurized milk thing so we bought some from the local co-op. It tasted sorta gamey and weird, fully unpleasant. Ironically we ended up using it to make waffles and bread since we couldn't stand drinking it after the first glass.
TVP works out to about a dollar a pound for me (prepared) although dried beans are much cheaper. I eat both for protein even though I'm rich. For various reasons many poor folk don't. I'm not sure why you think lab meat will alter this math.
My hipster friend goes in with 3 other folk and picks out a cow, has it slaughtered and butchered, they each fill a chest freezer and have a year supply of beef for a few dollars a pound. It is the best beef I've ever tasted, pastured in the coastal hills of central california. Of course you end up with a lot of cuts of meat that aren't popular.
I've been playing for a week and on my route to work encounter a lot of the same pokemon in the same places. I find a lot of rat and snake ones in grassy areas, water types along a creek, etc. There are rare pokemon that you only see once in a great while, and there seems to be a time of day component. Hasn't gotten too repetitive yet.
I'm guessing this campus is a corporate campus, such as the Cisco campus that I was asked to leave back in Ingress days. The guard knew about Ingress and asked which team I was on. He let me hit the portal and said other guards aren't so cool.
Many many portals are technically on private property - artwork or fountains in a business park for example, and players need to get within 30 meters to interact with them. People aren't necessarily going for pokemon on private property, they are trying to hit a pokestop or a gym. Some of these large campuses are a legal gray area - they are quite large and have pedestrian paths that have a history of use for short cuts which makes them quasi public.
You can only deploy lures at established pokestops which are various landmarks (portals from Ingress)
Savvy business owners are buying lure modules in game and deploying them, advertising on social media. Players are motivated to hang around within 30 meters to hit the pokestop every 5 minutes and catch the attracted pokemon.
You need to be <30m to interact w/a gym or pokestop (portals from ingress) and many of these are behind fences or on private property. Lots of players feel compelled to hop a fence or trespass to get within interaction distance. There are some nearby my work that are in active construction zones and I've seen players try to dodge bulldozers to snag a gym in the middle of the pit.
Maybe change the motto to "You don't literally gotta catch em ALL"
I eat like a goddamn hippie and shop at walmart sometimes. They have the best price on pinto beans and dry whole milk out of all the stores along my route to work. They have a lot of garbage like any store, but they have excellent prices on staples. I go out of my way to shop at walmart occasionally since everyone else seems determined to charge a lot for basic items. Why are dry beans >$1/lb everywhere except walmart?
I used to feel that way until someone rear-ended my sensible liability only $5k sedan. It was totaled. Their insurance didn't want to pay what my car was worth, and my only option was to pay a lawyer to take them to court. I upgraded to comp coverage, only cost about $150/year more, and the next time someone rear ended me I got a check for the full value from my insurer same week no hassle. Their lawyers dug into the at fault insurer I have no doubt.
Well worth the saved time, money, and peace of mind.
Balderdash. I've bought numerous used vehicles for myself and friends and not once got a lemon. Of course it is smart to have it inspected by a reliable mechanic prior to purchase, but I don't always even do that much.
Lots of people buy new cars just because they want a new car. Old one is perfectly fine. There are so many used cars entering the market in top condition it is never hard for me to find what is called for within a month or two at a good price.
You're quite a bit luckier/smarter than the average car owner. Your depreciation is well under half the average, which is inflated by people who buy new cars or cars that don't hold their value. You don't list several major expenses that most owners have - finance charges, tires, registration/license/taxes contribute $1500 on average to ownership costs.
That accounts for the difference between your numbers and the average. It's all spelled out in the (very good) article.
Life is an illusion. Everything earthlings do is pointless. Your pathetic claim that hobos or garbage are more important than fan fiction says more about you than so-called reality.
What a strange thing to say. All the MRIs I've seen done were done for one reason - to move money from one place to another place. Sure, there is some vague unproven claim of medical necessity. If your precious Helium is not around at any price (impossible!) I've got great faith in the ability of humans to find some other excuse to move money from one place to another.
It is so funny how people get worked up about one element and ignore the giant oceans of waste flowing by constantly. No biggie though, at least it isn't Helium!
Tell you what. If Helium ever becomes scarce how about we stop buying say Candy and plow those hundreds of billions of dollars into recovering Helium from gas wells, welding, and we can make Helium so cheap we can fill our tires with it just to piss you off.
Horsefeathers. You can get as much He as you want from gas well waste, rocks or Jupiter, it just costs energy. Energy that humanity wastes on whatever baloney seems important. You can rest assured that a hundred years from now there will be plenty of He around at a price. Probably enough low purity stuff for balloons at a price.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but pretty much everything humans do is a total waste. Why are balloons stupider than driving around for no reason, heating/cooling circus size houses, spectator sports, reality TV, political ads, most MRIs, etc. ad nauseum?
AC is less of an issue since there is less energy required, lower temperature differentials, and the battery is running at top efficiency. Plus you can open a window or use the fan and be comfortable in many hot areas.
I live in the bay on less than that and save at about the same pace. Rented room, used car paid in cash, mostly bicycle and cook my own meals. I spend a lot going out to events but still manage to save lots of money.
Those are interesting ideas. I could see options for cold climates that would mitigate the low temp issues. A small propane tank and catalytic heater wouldn't add much mass. The engine would be tricker but could make the car less reliant on recharging. I think part of the appeal of electirc cars is avoiding fossil fuels, but it is important to be practical.
My ancient windows laptop is running windows 10. There is something wrong with the audio drivers, the built in speakers don't work, just the headphone jack. Bluetooth pairs and plays fine, but I have to disable the headphone jack in audio devices before commencing playback. Going back to the headphone jack is similar process, but maybe 1/4 of the time I have to reboot to get it working right.
AC, you can attempt a similar approach to see if that works.
All y'all, anything I could be doing better switching from bluetooth to non and back in Win 10? I tried goobling about it but drowned in too much data.
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OK, numbers are hard to pin down so I am being conservative by merely claiming millions.
There are well over a million auto fatalities annually across this planet. The number of mobile phone related deaths is somewhere between 1%-10% of these.
Probably tens of millions, but I don't have the proof of that so I am going with millions.
Every life saved by a mobile has to be balanced by all the lives lost due to them. Inattentive driving due to mobile use has claimed millions of lives. Many people have died on foot or bicycle as well while glued to their phones. I don't think it is an easy thing to determine if they have saved more or claimed more lives. I'm no luddite, but I don't see them as a purely good force.
My musician friends spend a lot on practice space, either in their home or a shared rental. A basement around here costs at least $1500/mo which would be super hard to make up in gigs. Depending on specifics you can spend thousands on instruments/equipment and it requires maintenance or gets stolen.
Many people don't think of their practice space as costing money, but it does. I converted a basement jam space into an apartment, get $2k/mo for it and sent the people using it to a shared space that is only $500/month. They rarely clear that btw.
Much of the ferry traffic is tractor trailers full of heavy goods. Tunnels or bridges would provide much faster, more reliable, and lower cost transport.
In thriving areas anyone in the semi-skilled trades such as drywall, painter, handyman, low level plumbing/electrical, etc. can make well above median wage without trying very hard or being very good. I've had so much trouble keeping people in Colorado and bay area California - they all seem to turn into unreliable drunks, raise their rates until I can't handle it, or become so damn busy that I can't count on them to help with projects anymore.
These are impossible to outsource and I would encourage any young person who enjoys building things to pursue something along these lines.
I was dating a hippie chick who wanted to get into the unpasteurized milk thing so we bought some from the local co-op. It tasted sorta gamey and weird, fully unpleasant. Ironically we ended up using it to make waffles and bread since we couldn't stand drinking it after the first glass.
TVP works out to about a dollar a pound for me (prepared) although dried beans are much cheaper. I eat both for protein even though I'm rich. For various reasons many poor folk don't. I'm not sure why you think lab meat will alter this math.
My hipster friend goes in with 3 other folk and picks out a cow, has it slaughtered and butchered, they each fill a chest freezer and have a year supply of beef for a few dollars a pound. It is the best beef I've ever tasted, pastured in the coastal hills of central california. Of course you end up with a lot of cuts of meat that aren't popular.
I've been playing for a week and on my route to work encounter a lot of the same pokemon in the same places. I find a lot of rat and snake ones in grassy areas, water types along a creek, etc. There are rare pokemon that you only see once in a great while, and there seems to be a time of day component. Hasn't gotten too repetitive yet.
I'm guessing this campus is a corporate campus, such as the Cisco campus that I was asked to leave back in Ingress days. The guard knew about Ingress and asked which team I was on. He let me hit the portal and said other guards aren't so cool.
Many many portals are technically on private property - artwork or fountains in a business park for example, and players need to get within 30 meters to interact with them. People aren't necessarily going for pokemon on private property, they are trying to hit a pokestop or a gym. Some of these large campuses are a legal gray area - they are quite large and have pedestrian paths that have a history of use for short cuts which makes them quasi public.
You can only deploy lures at established pokestops which are various landmarks (portals from Ingress)
Savvy business owners are buying lure modules in game and deploying them, advertising on social media. Players are motivated to hang around within 30 meters to hit the pokestop every 5 minutes and catch the attracted pokemon.
You need to be <30m to interact w/a gym or pokestop (portals from ingress) and many of these are behind fences or on private property. Lots of players feel compelled to hop a fence or trespass to get within interaction distance. There are some nearby my work that are in active construction zones and I've seen players try to dodge bulldozers to snag a gym in the middle of the pit.
Maybe change the motto to "You don't literally gotta catch em ALL"
I eat like a goddamn hippie and shop at walmart sometimes. They have the best price on pinto beans and dry whole milk out of all the stores along my route to work. They have a lot of garbage like any store, but they have excellent prices on staples. I go out of my way to shop at walmart occasionally since everyone else seems determined to charge a lot for basic items. Why are dry beans >$1/lb everywhere except walmart?
I used to feel that way until someone rear-ended my sensible liability only $5k sedan. It was totaled. Their insurance didn't want to pay what my car was worth, and my only option was to pay a lawyer to take them to court. I upgraded to comp coverage, only cost about $150/year more, and the next time someone rear ended me I got a check for the full value from my insurer same week no hassle. Their lawyers dug into the at fault insurer I have no doubt.
Well worth the saved time, money, and peace of mind.
2016 Base Versa is $11,990 MSRP.
Balderdash. I've bought numerous used vehicles for myself and friends and not once got a lemon. Of course it is smart to have it inspected by a reliable mechanic prior to purchase, but I don't always even do that much.
Lots of people buy new cars just because they want a new car. Old one is perfectly fine. There are so many used cars entering the market in top condition it is never hard for me to find what is called for within a month or two at a good price.
You're quite a bit luckier/smarter than the average car owner. Your depreciation is well under half the average, which is inflated by people who buy new cars or cars that don't hold their value. You don't list several major expenses that most owners have - finance charges, tires, registration/license/taxes contribute $1500 on average to ownership costs.
That accounts for the difference between your numbers and the average. It's all spelled out in the (very good) article.
Life is an illusion. Everything earthlings do is pointless. Your pathetic claim that hobos or garbage are more important than fan fiction says more about you than so-called reality.
What a strange thing to say. All the MRIs I've seen done were done for one reason - to move money from one place to another place. Sure, there is some vague unproven claim of medical necessity. If your precious Helium is not around at any price (impossible!) I've got great faith in the ability of humans to find some other excuse to move money from one place to another.
It is so funny how people get worked up about one element and ignore the giant oceans of waste flowing by constantly. No biggie though, at least it isn't Helium!
Tell you what. If Helium ever becomes scarce how about we stop buying say Candy and plow those hundreds of billions of dollars into recovering Helium from gas wells, welding, and we can make Helium so cheap we can fill our tires with it just to piss you off.
Horsefeathers. You can get as much He as you want from gas well waste, rocks or Jupiter, it just costs energy. Energy that humanity wastes on whatever baloney seems important. You can rest assured that a hundred years from now there will be plenty of He around at a price. Probably enough low purity stuff for balloons at a price.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but pretty much everything humans do is a total waste. Why are balloons stupider than driving around for no reason, heating/cooling circus size houses, spectator sports, reality TV, political ads, most MRIs, etc. ad nauseum?
AC is less of an issue since there is less energy required, lower temperature differentials, and the battery is running at top efficiency. Plus you can open a window or use the fan and be comfortable in many hot areas.
I live in the bay on less than that and save at about the same pace. Rented room, used car paid in cash, mostly bicycle and cook my own meals. I spend a lot going out to events but still manage to save lots of money.
Those are interesting ideas. I could see options for cold climates that would mitigate the low temp issues. A small propane tank and catalytic heater wouldn't add much mass. The engine would be tricker but could make the car less reliant on recharging. I think part of the appeal of electirc cars is avoiding fossil fuels, but it is important to be practical.
My ancient windows laptop is running windows 10. There is something wrong with the audio drivers, the built in speakers don't work, just the headphone jack. Bluetooth pairs and plays fine, but I have to disable the headphone jack in audio devices before commencing playback. Going back to the headphone jack is similar process, but maybe 1/4 of the time I have to reboot to get it working right.
AC, you can attempt a similar approach to see if that works.
All y'all, anything I could be doing better switching from bluetooth to non and back in Win 10? I tried goobling about it but drowned in too much data.