With the monitor we can hear his first few noises and get him before he is fully awake so the monitor is far more useful than "wait to hear him scream."
Or you could do the simpler thing, and just put his crib in your bedroom until he's old enough to sleep through the night.
I couldn't agree with you more. The hive collective was an interesting idea worth exploring. The Borg Queen threw that out for a stupid plot device. The appeal of Star Trek its' exploration of "bid ideas", but it seems to have turned into just another action-adventure series (though I haven't seen the new movie, so maybe it's improved). Keeping faithful to the original Borg would have been a lot harder, but it would have kept me a fan.
I live way North from Chicago and, until I got laid off last week, commuted by Metra train to downtown. The main downside was having to stick to a schedule; during rush hour the schedule was OK, but if I stayed late but missed the 6:00pm train, the next one wasn't until 7:00pm and the one after that 8:30pm.
Train riding had a lot of advantages, like working or sleeping on the train instead of cursing the traffic. However, the train got into a lot of accidents, I think 5 in the 9 years I took the train. You wouldn't even feel the impact, you would just hear the sound. As the standardized tests would say, a train is to an automobile as an automobile is to an aluminum can.
If you can plausibly get rid of a car, you can typically rent a car for those occasions when you really need one, and still end up with much reduced costs over owning that car.
This was my strategy for a while when we had only one car and my wife needed it every day, but I could take the bus to work.
Let's see, I've got (actually had, just got laid off) a 100 mile round trip, including 5 miles round trip in a car between my garage and the train parking lot and 3 miles round trip walking between the between the train station and the office downtown. Downtown parking would cost about the same as the train ticket (about $8 to $15 / day, depending on where and whether monthly discounts are included).
In good rush hour traffic, the train ride was about the same duration as the drive, so the train commute took about 20 minutes longer due to the walk. In bad rush hour traffic, all bets were off, I could easily be in stop and go traffic for 2 hours, or more, especially if were snowing. (I must admit, though, that the train got into a lot more accidents than I would have had driving, so about once every couple of years the train was a few hours late, especially the day before one Thanksgiving when we smashed into 12 vehicles stuck in traffic on the railroad crossing.)
The IRS estimates that a reasonable cost per mile is currently $0.55, including gas, insurance, amortized purchase price, maintenance, etc. At that rate, the train easily saved me $40 / day. And on the train I could sleep, read, use my computer, or, when I had to, work; in the car, all I could do is listen to the radio and curse at the guy who cut me off.
Yeah, I know, I could have avoided a commute altogether if I bought a shitty 1,200 sq ft condo in a downtown highrise and stuffed my family of 5 into it, but I couldn't afford the $400,00 to $500,000 price tag. Anyway, I would have ended up with a mortgage greater than the current value, rather than a paid-off 2,400 sq ft house with a one-acre lot.
Competition has been hurting the newspaper industry ever since TV news became popular.
However, though I don't know what the situation has been in Boston, traditionally newspapers have not had monopolies in large markets. In Chicago, there were 4 major papers 50 years ago. Financial pressures caused the afternoon papers to be absorbed by the morning papers, and there are two left - the Sun-Times and the Tribune. Both papers have been going downhill lately, though until recently the Tribune was the fatter, more widely read paper, especially on the all-important Sunday edition, with all of its' classified ads (help wanted, cars for sale, etc.) Two things have conspired to make the Tribune's holding company essentially bankrupt. Sites like Craigs list and e-bay have severely reduced the ad revenues of the papers. And a series of stupid moves, buyouts and resulting indebtedness made the Tribune company pretty much worthless, except for the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. The Sun-Times had problems exacerbated by an operator that defrauded and embezzled.
Paying for content won't do the trick - the newspapers needed to be able to win the competition with e-bay, Craig's List, and the like, but I think it's too late for that.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but when you say "without modern man fucking it" you make it sound like humans are something exceptional in terms of extinctions?
I was with you until this. The current rate of extinction does seem to be much greater than usual, and much of it is directly attributable to the impact of man. (Though there's some uncertainty comparing "rates" of extinction, since looking back millions of years, it's hard to tell how long of a time the great extinctions dragged on, while the impact of man is, geologically speaking, very rapid.)
Actually there was a time when Microsoft was hailed as the white knight in the shiny armor freeing us from the evil IBM empire.
While I certainly remember thinking of IBM as the evil monopolistic overlords in the '80s, I thought of Microsoft as more of the black knight working with IBM, then stabbing them in the back as soon as they got a chance in order to become the new evil overlords.
Cats have very inefficient digestive systems, and, ignoring the possibility of parasites, the sad fact is that there's probably more nutrition, protein especially, in cat feces than in many commercial dog foods.
Still disgusting, though.
I've heard Rush a few times...not my cup of tea.
But, really why do so many people on the Dem side give him so much attention? He is just a radio entertainer. He holds no office. Has not run for any that I know of. And he does not run anything in the Republican party.
Patents can be prohibitively expensive, but copyrights are easy.
Currently, anytime you fix something, like writing a letter, or photographing your nephew, or recording your son'd piano recital, you automatically have a copyright on it.
If someone violates your copyright, you won't be able to sue for big bucks easily without registering it first, but that's pretty painless and cheap, too.
The recording industry has abused copyright, but you can hardly say that they've robbed performers of copyright, when performances are not copyrightable - only the authors, composers, and recorders can copyright their respective works, not the performers. (at least currently in the US)
To be fair, there was no mention in GP of what copyright was ' "designed" to do originally', which was to grant a monopoly to the King's (or Queen's) favored publisher - nothing at all to do with the author.
He was arguing what is the only legitimate use of copyright law in the USA. That is, that an otherwise unlawful grant of temporary monopoly is allowed in the Constitution specifically in order to promote the sciences and the useful arts.
To busy (or lazy) to do it myself, but some people burn off excess calories, others convert it to fat. I know that when I was younger, I could eat anything and never gain weight, regardless of my activity or inactivity. Now I gain a little more each year.
Having a product, and subsequent versions of that, which people utilize is not a monopoly
Obviously.
To punish a company for making a successful product is wrong - it makes companies want to figure out how to avoid punishment
There, fixed that for you.
The market helped make MS the dominant producer.
Go back and learn some PC history. It was the IBM monopoly that gave MS its' early edge, and MS did use illegal means to leverage that leg up into a OS and office suite monopoly.
If I didn't have IE built into my computer how was I supposed to go to Mozilla's website and download firefox?
Right, because it's impossible for the retailer to bundle a browser other than IE.
If I didn't have WMP pre-installed on my computer how was I going to listen to music?
Again, it would be perfectly reasonable for computer sellers to bundle multiple non-MS utilities, including a music player - except that Microsoft has often put barriers in their way making it impractical for them to do so.
What MS did wrong, and it was done a LONG time ago . . .
For suitably recent definitions of "Long Ago", like last year at ISO.
The bottom line is that the Feds encouraged and even bullied lending institutions to loan to those with bad credit risks.
This had a minor impact, that could more honestly be characterized as one of the middle lines. That questionable loans could be packaged and sold with AAA credit ratings was a much greater contributing factor. Private companies jumped at the chance to make unverified loans once they were able to make a quick buck by selling them.
If you want the absolute, real cause, just Google "mark to market".
I agree that Mark-to-Market was a proximate cause of some "insolvencies", but you have to admit that for those that believe the market is the best indicator of value, it has an appeal to honesty. Still, it has big problems, like it contributes to volatility that is subject to manipulation.
I won't argue with your distaste of the Federal Reserve, Fannie May, or Freddie Mac, but I want to make a few points about regulation and government intervention.
The great majority of sub-prime loans made were not made under The Community Reinvestment Act.
The sub-prime loans made under the Community Reinvestment Act have a lower default rate than those made outside of its' purview
Too much regulation did not cause Fannie May, Freddie Mac, and others to overvalue their portfolios.
Too much regulation did not cause the ratings companies to give the securitized mortgages high ratings greatly understating their risk.
Too much regulation did not create the credit default swaps without enough reserve to pay them off in case of a bad economy, nor did it cause the companies selling those to insure their credit default swaps with more credit default swaps from another company that also did not have enough reserve to pay them off.
Too much regulation did not cause the ratings companies to rate the companies holding credit default swaps with insufficient backing AAA even though they could not pay off their obligations in case of default.
I believe that there's a misunderstanding about who's treating what.
The cooling plants add chemicals to treat the water so that it won't foul the cooling system (and chlorine can sometimes be detrimental to the system). This is not wastewater treatment or drinking water treatment. Many of the chemicals contain things like molybdenum, chromium, phosphates. Though there are now more regulations in place than there used to be about what you can use and what you can discharge, making sure the water is OK to discharge directly into the ecosystem, let alone for it to be drinkable as h4rr4r supposed, would take a conscious effort. And conscious efforts about such things are uncommon.
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Or you could do the simpler thing, and just put his crib in your bedroom until he's old enough to sleep through the night.
I mean big ideas
sheesh, so much for preview
I couldn't agree with you more. The hive collective was an interesting idea worth exploring. The Borg Queen threw that out for a stupid plot device. The appeal of Star Trek its' exploration of "bid ideas", but it seems to have turned into just another action-adventure series (though I haven't seen the new movie, so maybe it's improved). Keeping faithful to the original Borg would have been a lot harder, but it would have kept me a fan.
I live way North from Chicago and, until I got laid off last week, commuted by Metra train to downtown. The main downside was having to stick to a schedule; during rush hour the schedule was OK, but if I stayed late but missed the 6:00pm train, the next one wasn't until 7:00pm and the one after that 8:30pm.
Train riding had a lot of advantages, like working or sleeping on the train instead of cursing the traffic. However, the train got into a lot of accidents, I think 5 in the 9 years I took the train. You wouldn't even feel the impact, you would just hear the sound. As the standardized tests would say, a train is to an automobile as an automobile is to an aluminum can.
If you can plausibly get rid of a car, you can typically rent a car for those occasions when you really need one, and still end up with much reduced costs over owning that car.
This was my strategy for a while when we had only one car and my wife needed it every day, but I could take the bus to work.
Let's see, I've got (actually had, just got laid off) a 100 mile round trip, including 5 miles round trip in a car between my garage and the train parking lot and 3 miles round trip walking between the between the train station and the office downtown. Downtown parking would cost about the same as the train ticket (about $8 to $15 / day, depending on where and whether monthly discounts are included).
In good rush hour traffic, the train ride was about the same duration as the drive, so the train commute took about 20 minutes longer due to the walk. In bad rush hour traffic, all bets were off, I could easily be in stop and go traffic for 2 hours, or more, especially if were snowing. (I must admit, though, that the train got into a lot more accidents than I would have had driving, so about once every couple of years the train was a few hours late, especially the day before one Thanksgiving when we smashed into 12 vehicles stuck in traffic on the railroad crossing.)
The IRS estimates that a reasonable cost per mile is currently $0.55, including gas, insurance, amortized purchase price, maintenance, etc. At that rate, the train easily saved me $40 / day. And on the train I could sleep, read, use my computer, or, when I had to, work; in the car, all I could do is listen to the radio and curse at the guy who cut me off.
Yeah, I know, I could have avoided a commute altogether if I bought a shitty 1,200 sq ft condo in a downtown highrise and stuffed my family of 5 into it, but I couldn't afford the $400,00 to $500,000 price tag. Anyway, I would have ended up with a mortgage greater than the current value, rather than a paid-off 2,400 sq ft house with a one-acre lot.
Competition has been hurting the newspaper industry ever since TV news became popular. However, though I don't know what the situation has been in Boston, traditionally newspapers have not had monopolies in large markets.
In Chicago, there were 4 major papers 50 years ago. Financial pressures caused the afternoon papers to be absorbed by the morning papers, and there are two left - the Sun-Times and the Tribune. Both papers have been going downhill lately, though until recently the Tribune was the fatter, more widely read paper, especially on the all-important Sunday edition, with all of its' classified ads (help wanted, cars for sale, etc.)
Two things have conspired to make the Tribune's holding company essentially bankrupt. Sites like Craigs list and e-bay have severely reduced the ad revenues of the papers. And a series of stupid moves, buyouts and resulting indebtedness made the Tribune company pretty much worthless, except for the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. The Sun-Times had problems exacerbated by an operator that defrauded and embezzled.
Paying for content won't do the trick - the newspapers needed to be able to win the competition with e-bay, Craig's List, and the like, but I think it's too late for that.
I was with you until this. The current rate of extinction does seem to be much greater than usual, and much of it is directly attributable to the impact of man. (Though there's some uncertainty comparing "rates" of extinction, since looking back millions of years, it's hard to tell how long of a time the great extinctions dragged on, while the impact of man is, geologically speaking, very rapid.)
My mod points ran out yesterday.
Um, wasn't 1956 a leap year?
While I certainly remember thinking of IBM as the evil monopolistic overlords in the '80s, I thought of Microsoft as more of the black knight working with IBM, then stabbing them in the back as soon as they got a chance in order to become the new evil overlords.
I disagree. Newspapers have sometimes been propaganda driven instead.
IIRC, the only reason AIM is open is because of antitrust concerns born of the merger. So something good may have come of it. But I wonder what will happen to AIM if AOL fails.
http://news.cnet.com/Commentary-Taking-AIM-at-AOL/2009-1023_3-268050.html
http://www.articlearchives.com/law-legal-system/antitrust-trade-law/555912-1.html
http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/26010/aol-reneges-on-aim-interoperability-promise.html
Cats have very inefficient digestive systems, and, ignoring the possibility of parasites, the sad fact is that there's probably more nutrition, protein especially, in cat feces than in many commercial dog foods.
Still disgusting, though.
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Patents can be prohibitively expensive, but copyrights are easy. Currently, anytime you fix something, like writing a letter, or photographing your nephew, or recording your son'd piano recital, you automatically have a copyright on it. If someone violates your copyright, you won't be able to sue for big bucks easily without registering it first, but that's pretty painless and cheap, too.
The recording industry has abused copyright, but you can hardly say that they've robbed performers of copyright, when performances are not copyrightable - only the authors, composers, and recorders can copyright their respective works, not the performers. (at least currently in the US)
He was arguing what is the only legitimate use of copyright law in the USA. That is, that an otherwise unlawful grant of temporary monopoly is allowed in the Constitution specifically in order to promote the sciences and the useful arts.
There, fixed the analogy for everyone.
Still, copyright has a good purpose, and would be useful if there were realistic limits on the terms, as originally intended.
Flicker is mouch more apparent on a moving light, as the "on"s and "off"s may occur at different points on your retina
To busy (or lazy) to do it myself, but some people burn off excess calories, others convert it to fat.
I know that when I was younger, I could eat anything and never gain weight, regardless of my activity or inactivity. Now I gain a little more each year.
Obviously.
There, fixed that for you.
Go back and learn some PC history. It was the IBM monopoly that gave MS its' early edge, and MS did use illegal means to leverage that leg up into a OS and office suite monopoly.
Right, because it's impossible for the retailer to bundle a browser other than IE.
Again, it would be perfectly reasonable for computer sellers to bundle multiple non-MS utilities, including a music player - except that Microsoft has often put barriers in their way making it impractical for them to do so.
For suitably recent definitions of "Long Ago", like last year at ISO.
This had a minor impact, that could more honestly be characterized as one of the middle lines. That questionable loans could be packaged and sold with AAA credit ratings was a much greater contributing factor. Private companies jumped at the chance to make unverified loans once they were able to make a quick buck by selling them.
I agree that Mark-to-Market was a proximate cause of some "insolvencies", but you have to admit that for those that believe the market is the best indicator of value, it has an appeal to honesty. Still, it has big problems, like it contributes to volatility that is subject to manipulation.
I won't argue with your distaste of the Federal Reserve, Fannie May, or Freddie Mac, but I want to make a few points about regulation and government intervention.
The great majority of sub-prime loans made were not made under The Community Reinvestment Act.
The sub-prime loans made under the Community Reinvestment Act have a lower default rate than those made outside of its' purview
Too much regulation did not cause Fannie May, Freddie Mac, and others to overvalue their portfolios.
Too much regulation did not cause the ratings companies to give the securitized mortgages high ratings greatly understating their risk.
Too much regulation did not create the credit default swaps without enough reserve to pay them off in case of a bad economy, nor did it cause the companies selling those to insure their credit default swaps with more credit default swaps from another company that also did not have enough reserve to pay them off.
Too much regulation did not cause the ratings companies to rate the companies holding credit default swaps with insufficient backing AAA even though they could not pay off their obligations in case of default.
I believe that there's a misunderstanding about who's treating what.
The cooling plants add chemicals to treat the water so that it won't foul the cooling system (and chlorine can sometimes be detrimental to the system). This is not wastewater treatment or drinking water treatment. Many of the chemicals contain things like molybdenum, chromium, phosphates. Though there are now more regulations in place than there used to be about what you can use and what you can discharge, making sure the water is OK to discharge directly into the ecosystem, let alone for it to be drinkable as h4rr4r supposed, would take a conscious effort. And conscious efforts about such things are uncommon.