Postal money orders are pretty versatile. They're one of the cheapest ways to send money, cheaper than paypal or credit cards. If the recipient can't swing a US bank to deposit them, the post office sells international money orders for US$4.25.
Too true. My personal pet peeve is restaurants that pay astonishing amounts for TV. I never realized until I was talking to someone who owns a restaurant that has a TV in the bar. They pay many thousands per month, mostly going to sports.
I agree with your overall point, but have my doubts about most people. Very few people have walked 26 miles all at once. The majority of them would develop blisters or chafing and have to stop. I am astonished that a 100 year old completed it at all.
2% traffic accidents, 1.5% suicide, 1% violence,.6% falls,.6% drowning,.6% poisoning,.5% fire,.3% war,.3% alcohol/drug. This gives a total of 7.4% of the total death rate. Total death rate of 916 per 100k *.074 gives a death rate of 68 per 100k.
That gives an average lifespan of 1470 years.
I was surprised by the death statistics. People worry so much and spend so many resources on things that are low on the list.
I get a lot of calls from casual contacts, such as my mechanic or my dentist. I can't expect the temp working their phones to understand my tricky voicemail prompt. I'd miss the message that my car is ready or my appointment has been rescheduled. As much as I like the idea of an easy way to trick robotic calls, I think this one is more inconvenient than nuisance calls.
It might be good for a heavily abused number, on a temporary basis, but considering how difficult it typically is to correct information I would be surprised if the robots tidily removed your number from their databases.
That is no joke. A coworker was exposed while testing some capsaicin powder and was in a coma for days. He was advised not to eat any capsaicin for the rest of his life as he was likely to be sensitized to it.
Web developers care. They want to support the majority of users and typically will gather statistics and read articles about it. The days when you could cover your bases by testing for IE and Netscape are over. Devs that tested for IE and firefox should consider adding Chrome in order to cover >80% of their users.
Everyone I know hates that tone. When most people hear the first part of the tone they hurriedly hang up and delete that number from their contacts. I think a lot of legitimate callers would assume you changed numbers and remove it from their contact list.
The US average is about 30% for benefits, 70% for wages. Many workers place a premium on employer-provided benefits because they are unable to buy them at any price on the open market.
I stopped using Firefox a few months ago because of increasing memory problems. I tried to keep my tabs reasonable, no more than 10 at a time, and it would make my machine thrash. Once I started having to kill the process daily I switched to Opera. I don't really like Opera, but it can run for weeks at a time without bringing my machine to its knees.
It doesn't make any sense that Firefox would need 700MB to have 7 tabs open. None of them were anything weird. My living room computer has 1GB, mostly used to browse and watch video. Opera works fine, and so does IE. I am happy to see a new version of FF, I will try it. I hope it works well, I like firefox best.
I have the same situation. The only way I have been able to get through to them is to show how it affects them. Vast uninsured masses will cultivate resistant bacteria such as MRSA, XDR-TB, etc. and these are dangerous even to rich people with health care. People with a treatable condition they cannot afford may lash out at society, or do so out of grief after losing a loved one.
It is sad to see people so determined not to care about their fellows. Jesus would puke, if he was alive and real.
I don't see the point either, but most people don't ever seem happy with what they've got. I think what tends to happen is you get the $20M and feel like you deserve some luxuries. At your country club or yacht club you see other people with much more money and figure you are just as deserving as they are. Apparently once you reach the Forbes 400 there is a chance you'll become interested in philanthropy, but even being the richest person in the world isn't enough for everyone.
I also suspect the type of person who is likely to become wealthy (driven, ambitious, competitive, ruthless) is not going to be able to say "OK, that is enough. I can devote myself to the pursuit of pleasure/intellect/whatever"
The business owners I've spoken with have all spent numerous hours talking with Groupon representatives, sometimes in person. There are lots of costs that aren't apparent to outsiders. I wish there was a way to have a daily deal that didn't funnel so much money to a distant company, but I am not about to enter such an overhyped market now.
I've had the same experience with Indian and Chinese coworkers. You did a good job describing it despite using a non-native language. I never thought to explicitly state my mindset in order to avoid misinterpreting each other, what a good idea! (this is a praise)
I set my mom up with a 10 year old computer and she loves it. It is a Pentium 4 2GHz with 1GB RAM and it does everything she wants, even youtube videos. It is running Ubuntu and doesn't act sluggish. I had to replace the power supply fan and hard drive.
I remember Charlie Ergen having dozens of very public battles with content providers, going as far as pulling channels instead of agreeing to drastically raised fees. Dish Network is a marginal player now, but doing battle with the studios won them some support, they had the best prices for a while.
I remember how they would open a store across the street from an established, successful, large catalog independent video store and try to drive them out of business. If that didn't work, they would offer increasingly outrageous sums to buy them out. Once that was done they would operate the store long enough to sell all the movies and then board it up.
It made me sad to see so many good stores with personality driven bankrupt to feed the blockbuster machine. I took great pleasure in watching blockbuster go bust.
That's a good idea. Toilets use a lot of household water, over 25%. I am thinking of building a grey water reclamation system for my house, and am thinking about using sink/shower water for the toilet. The biggest problem I can think of is soap residue building up.
It might be easier to just use it for landscape irrigation, but I would have to be careful about what soaps/detergents I use.
Grey water reclamation routes used water for something useful, such as irrigation. Lots of people live where water is scarce, so this makes a lot of sense.
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Most jaguars are rear wheel drive, so I can see this experiment resulting in the rear wheels spinning and the front wheels stopped.
Postal money orders are pretty versatile. They're one of the cheapest ways to send money, cheaper than paypal or credit cards. If the recipient can't swing a US bank to deposit them, the post office sells international money orders for US$4.25.
Too true. My personal pet peeve is restaurants that pay astonishing amounts for TV. I never realized until I was talking to someone who owns a restaurant that has a TV in the bar. They pay many thousands per month, mostly going to sports.
I agree with your overall point, but have my doubts about most people. Very few people have walked 26 miles all at once. The majority of them would develop blisters or chafing and have to stop. I am astonished that a 100 year old completed it at all.
Quick calculation based on statistics
.6% falls, .6% drowning, .6% poisoning, .5% fire, .3% war, .3% alcohol/drug. .074 gives a death rate of 68 per 100k.
2% traffic accidents, 1.5% suicide, 1% violence,
This gives a total of 7.4% of the total death rate. Total death rate of 916 per 100k *
That gives an average lifespan of 1470 years.
I was surprised by the death statistics. People worry so much and spend so many resources on things that are low on the list.
I get a lot of calls from casual contacts, such as my mechanic or my dentist. I can't expect the temp working their phones to understand my tricky voicemail prompt. I'd miss the message that my car is ready or my appointment has been rescheduled. As much as I like the idea of an easy way to trick robotic calls, I think this one is more inconvenient than nuisance calls.
It might be good for a heavily abused number, on a temporary basis, but considering how difficult it typically is to correct information I would be surprised if the robots tidily removed your number from their databases.
That is no joke. A coworker was exposed while testing some capsaicin powder and was in a coma for days. He was advised not to eat any capsaicin for the rest of his life as he was likely to be sensitized to it.
Web developers care. They want to support the majority of users and typically will gather statistics and read articles about it. The days when you could cover your bases by testing for IE and Netscape are over. Devs that tested for IE and firefox should consider adding Chrome in order to cover >80% of their users.
Everyone I know hates that tone. When most people hear the first part of the tone they hurriedly hang up and delete that number from their contacts. I think a lot of legitimate callers would assume you changed numbers and remove it from their contact list.
The US average is about 30% for benefits, 70% for wages. Many workers place a premium on employer-provided benefits because they are unable to buy them at any price on the open market.
I stopped using Firefox a few months ago because of increasing memory problems. I tried to keep my tabs reasonable, no more than 10 at a time, and it would make my machine thrash. Once I started having to kill the process daily I switched to Opera. I don't really like Opera, but it can run for weeks at a time without bringing my machine to its knees.
It doesn't make any sense that Firefox would need 700MB to have 7 tabs open. None of them were anything weird. My living room computer has 1GB, mostly used to browse and watch video. Opera works fine, and so does IE. I am happy to see a new version of FF, I will try it. I hope it works well, I like firefox best.
I have the same situation. The only way I have been able to get through to them is to show how it affects them. Vast uninsured masses will cultivate resistant bacteria such as MRSA, XDR-TB, etc. and these are dangerous even to rich people with health care. People with a treatable condition they cannot afford may lash out at society, or do so out of grief after losing a loved one.
It is sad to see people so determined not to care about their fellows. Jesus would puke, if he was alive and real.
The trades have been hit pretty hard by the construction slowdown. There are licensed plumbers working at home depot to make up for loss of work.
I don't see the point either, but most people don't ever seem happy with what they've got. I think what tends to happen is you get the $20M and feel like you deserve some luxuries. At your country club or yacht club you see other people with much more money and figure you are just as deserving as they are. Apparently once you reach the Forbes 400 there is a chance you'll become interested in philanthropy, but even being the richest person in the world isn't enough for everyone.
I also suspect the type of person who is likely to become wealthy (driven, ambitious, competitive, ruthless) is not going to be able to say "OK, that is enough. I can devote myself to the pursuit of pleasure/intellect/whatever"
The business owners I've spoken with have all spent numerous hours talking with Groupon representatives, sometimes in person. There are lots of costs that aren't apparent to outsiders. I wish there was a way to have a daily deal that didn't funnel so much money to a distant company, but I am not about to enter such an overhyped market now.
I've had the same experience with Indian and Chinese coworkers. You did a good job describing it despite using a non-native language. I never thought to explicitly state my mindset in order to avoid misinterpreting each other, what a good idea! (this is a praise)
I set my mom up with a 10 year old computer and she loves it. It is a Pentium 4 2GHz with 1GB RAM and it does everything she wants, even youtube videos. It is running Ubuntu and doesn't act sluggish. I had to replace the power supply fan and hard drive.
A HTML5 Chrome plugin was just released. You may be able to use that in whatever Linux you use, or boot to Chromium OS.
I remember Charlie Ergen having dozens of very public battles with content providers, going as far as pulling channels instead of agreeing to drastically raised fees. Dish Network is a marginal player now, but doing battle with the studios won them some support, they had the best prices for a while.
I remember how they would open a store across the street from an established, successful, large catalog independent video store and try to drive them out of business. If that didn't work, they would offer increasingly outrageous sums to buy them out. Once that was done they would operate the store long enough to sell all the movies and then board it up.
It made me sad to see so many good stores with personality driven bankrupt to feed the blockbuster machine. I took great pleasure in watching blockbuster go bust.
There is a movement to privatize airports in the US. Chicago Midway is the biggest one moving through the system.
You're off by 3 orders of magnitude. 1000 microwatts = 1 milliwatt.
You are ignoring dividends, splits, reverse splits, and probably some other things, not to mention all the friction from trade costs.
That's a good idea. Toilets use a lot of household water, over 25%. I am thinking of building a grey water reclamation system for my house, and am thinking about using sink/shower water for the toilet. The biggest problem I can think of is soap residue building up.
It might be easier to just use it for landscape irrigation, but I would have to be careful about what soaps/detergents I use.
Grey water reclamation routes used water for something useful, such as irrigation. Lots of people live where water is scarce, so this makes a lot of sense.