Maintenance contracts and pay-per-incident support means that manufacturers make plenty of money on already-sold devices. In many cases the cost of the device is a rather minor part of the contracts.
I work in hospital IT and we have an entire separate department for working with any clinical equipment. In most cases they can't do anything either because the vendors do not allow us any admin level access and none of them are part of our regular domain/AD. The lab/pharmacy techs quite literally have more access to those systems than we do. It's extremely aggravating.
The economic costs do change, but this study focused on the environmental impact of production, which doesn't always change in tandem with the pure economic costs.
You should really read up on some of the research regarding memory. It's not nearly as reliable as you think it is. Our brain is constantly re-writing itself and it's freakishly easy to plant memories or make subtle changes to things people weren't paying very close attention to. It generally works for what we need it to do, but when it comes to witnessing crimes this can be a life-or-death issue for the accused.
I guess you could say that based on my faith in science I reject my experiential belief that my memory is reliable and accept it's unreliability.
That does not mesh with any definition of the term from any online dictionaries nor with how I normally see it used.
Google for define: Intelligent Design The theory that life, or the universe, cannot have arisen by chance and was designed and created by some intelligent entity.
The key point of ID over something like Theistic Evolution is generally a rejection of random chance as a factor.
Irrational thinking is not a symptom of mental illness. You disrespect genuine mental illnesses by saying so. Most psychologists would probably state that we are incapable of thinking rationally 100% of the time because it's a massive cognitive load and we have evolved (!) irrational but effective mental shortcuts.
That's 2 years old and had 40% young-earthers and about 38% God-guided evolutioners (theistic evolution). So roughly 50% of creationists believing in young earth. My suspicion is that it's shifting more towards theistic evolution since then. If you broke it down more like wikipedia's creationism article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism) then I suspect you'd get even less YECs and mostly Intelligent Design types.
That is only in the US of course. I would suspect that beyond the US theistic evolution is most common, mostly because that is the official dogma of the Catholic Church.
Like in most groups, the nutjobs are the loudest and most newsworthy, so their numbers seem larger than they really are. Although 40% of the US is still a pretty big number.
It doesn't require taking everything metaphorically. It requires recognizing that the Bible contains multiple literary genres and that this should figure prominently in how you interpret it.
The first few chapters of Genesis generally fall into the genre of myth, specifically creation myth, and you can learn a lot by studying them in that context - perhaps even more than you would learn by taking everything literally (or metaphorically).
Actually, it's not remotely clear that "these people" are a danger to society. Some of them might be, and in that situation medication or incarceration are options, and if a person prefers incarceration to medication I'll respect their preference.
Their fries are pretty good and their non-nugget chicken products are pretty decent as well. However, none of that excuses the horror of the substance which they refer to as "cheese". It's an insult to cheesemakers everywhere.
Clearly he needed some way to get kickbacks to somebody so he paid them a couple grand to create this app - which they probably paid some desperate coder in India $10 to actually write. Clearly it's the work of a master job-creator in action.
Actually, Penal Substitionary Atonement is by no means the only way to view what happened at the cross. I much prefer the Christus Victor approach. Ransom Atonement is another viable approach and appears to be the most common view in the early church, so far as we can tell.
With the exception of the people who grew up with a golden spoon in their mouth.
That "exception" is rapidly becoming the rule, at least in the US.
I also know plenty of extremely poor people who easily work just as hard and sacrifice as much as as the wealthy. "taking risks" is just code words for "had enough money to take risks with" and wasn't a complete idiot. In my experience who you know is far more important than any of those factors anyway.
Does offering a tax deduction for your mortgage "force" you to buy a house?
Does offering a deduction for charitable giving "force" you to give?
I could go of for quite a long time here. Our tax code is huge and nearly every single bit of it serves to encourage or discourage some behavior. All this does is discourage people from not carrying insurance.
A few months ago I dug out my D2 disks and got it all up to date. I played through Act 1 and realized that I just don't like this style of gameplay anymore. I uninstalled the next morning. I realized then that I'm pretty unlikely to enjoy D3 either.
I wouldn't mind playing through it to see the story, but that's not worth $60 to me and I might eventually be able to see most of it via YouTube anyway.
Keep in mind this is Forbes we're talking about. Leading the world into a massive global recession is fine if your company is able to profit from it. It's just business.
The core goal of the OOTS Kickstarter was very simple: reprint the books. There is no real additional work required by Rich for this other than placing an order with the printers. He has already done that and the printing will be done shortly.
He appears to be prioritizing the stuff like the coloring book that needs to be designed and printed so that he can ship out the physical stuff, which is really the most important. If it takes a while for all the pdfs to get done I don't really mind. The main reason I supported it was to get a full set of the books, the rest is just gravy. As long as I get the books I pretty much consider it a success.
Reprints of any kind are very nearly the surest bet you can find on kickstarter. It's also quite reliable for something like board games where the creator may have a fully playable game already but just needs to get some artwork done and have it printed. (See the current Ogre kickstarter for an example - only 3 days left!) Software projects are probably the most high-risk projects there are.
Please pardon me for being extremely pedantic here. The term "Creationism" covers an extremely large set of beliefs and many of them are quite accepting of evolution. There are plenty of Christians who think that by studying science we are "Thinking God's thoughts after him" (to borrow from Kepler).
The motivation behind the bill is horrid, but after reading the text of the bill itself it generally seems acceptable (though perhaps not necessary) and has interesting potential. In the long run it's only the text of the bill that matters and lawyers are a crafty bunch who have turned laws inside out and used them against their intended purpose plenty of times.
In general the bill is a move in the direction of more teacher autonomy overall, and I can support that. I typically consider the local school boards to generally be the biggest problem in education and this bill may give teachers some cover from over-zealous boards of all stripes. The bill does kinda show that state boards can be evil as well though.
Simply put, it's a double-edged sword and although it's clear which edge the legislature favors it's not at all clear that it will be the most commonly used edge. Even TN has some liberal regions and they may find some good use for this law.
Please be careful. Creationism in the sense that you are using it (Special Creation) is not in any way a tenet of Christianity. It is the tenet of some branches, but not all. Most Catholics and Mainline Protestants are most likely to fall into the Theistic Evolution camp - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theistic_evolution and with those groups being by far the most common in Europe it's certainly a much, much smaller issue over there.
For the past few years I've made a point to try and read the actual text of any law that interests me and this is by far the most incomprehensible one that I've read. I had no real problem reading the entire Affordable Healthcare Act, but this one just doesn't compute for me. Somebody send them an english teacher to teach them basic sentence structure.
There is a comprehensible sentance after the one quoted above that is pretty interesting:
"It is also unlawful to otherwise disturb by repeated anonymous telephone calls ELECTRONIC OR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS the peace, quiet or right of privacy of any person at the place where the telephone call or calls COMMUNICATIONS were received."
Actually, I think most people who have ever been to an urgent care center would choose that whenever possible. They are so much faster and usually friendlier than the average ER. I suspect that if both ER and urgent care were free that urgent care would increase and ER use would decrease as people figure out that they actually do different things better than the other. I've been in-and-out of an urgent care in 1.5 hours. In most ER's you won't even be seen by a doctor in that amount of time.
I've always loved that bit. It's as though we're only going to intervene for man-made problems. If we do find a killer asteroid are they just going to say "We didn't cause that so we're not going to do anything about it!"
Even if they could prove categorically that global warming was completely natural I know I'd still want to fight it!
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Maintenance contracts and pay-per-incident support means that manufacturers make plenty of money on already-sold devices. In many cases the cost of the device is a rather minor part of the contracts.
I work in hospital IT and we have an entire separate department for working with any clinical equipment. In most cases they can't do anything either because the vendors do not allow us any admin level access and none of them are part of our regular domain/AD. The lab/pharmacy techs quite literally have more access to those systems than we do. It's extremely aggravating.
The economic costs do change, but this study focused on the environmental impact of production, which doesn't always change in tandem with the pure economic costs.
That's true for a straight DUI, but once there is a collision involved it's a whole 'nother story.
You should really read up on some of the research regarding memory. It's not nearly as reliable as you think it is. Our brain is constantly re-writing itself and it's freakishly easy to plant memories or make subtle changes to things people weren't paying very close attention to. It generally works for what we need it to do, but when it comes to witnessing crimes this can be a life-or-death issue for the accused.
I guess you could say that based on my faith in science I reject my experiential belief that my memory is reliable and accept it's unreliability.
That does not mesh with any definition of the term from any online dictionaries nor with how I normally see it used.
Google for define: Intelligent Design
The theory that life, or the universe, cannot have arisen by chance and was designed and created by some intelligent entity.
The key point of ID over something like Theistic Evolution is generally a rejection of random chance as a factor.
Here's wikipedia's guide to classifying your classifying various types of creationism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism#Types_of_biblical_creationism
Irrational thinking is not a symptom of mental illness. You disrespect genuine mental illnesses by saying so. Most psychologists would probably state that we are incapable of thinking rationally 100% of the time because it's a massive cognitive load and we have evolved (!) irrational but effective mental shortcuts.
It's not as bad as you think:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/40-of-americans-still-bel_n_799078.html
That's 2 years old and had 40% young-earthers and about 38% God-guided evolutioners (theistic evolution). So roughly 50% of creationists believing in young earth. My suspicion is that it's shifting more towards theistic evolution since then. If you broke it down more like wikipedia's creationism article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism) then I suspect you'd get even less YECs and mostly Intelligent Design types.
That is only in the US of course. I would suspect that beyond the US theistic evolution is most common, mostly because that is the official dogma of the Catholic Church.
Like in most groups, the nutjobs are the loudest and most newsworthy, so their numbers seem larger than they really are. Although 40% of the US is still a pretty big number.
It doesn't require taking everything metaphorically. It requires recognizing that the Bible contains multiple literary genres and that this should figure prominently in how you interpret it.
The first few chapters of Genesis generally fall into the genre of myth, specifically creation myth, and you can learn a lot by studying them in that context - perhaps even more than you would learn by taking everything literally (or metaphorically).
Actually, it's not remotely clear that "these people" are a danger to society. Some of them might be, and in that situation medication or incarceration are options, and if a person prefers incarceration to medication I'll respect their preference.
Their fries are pretty good and their non-nugget chicken products are pretty decent as well. However, none of that excuses the horror of the substance which they refer to as "cheese". It's an insult to cheesemakers everywhere.
Clearly he needed some way to get kickbacks to somebody so he paid them a couple grand to create this app - which they probably paid some desperate coder in India $10 to actually write. Clearly it's the work of a master job-creator in action.
I believe the location you are looking for is Wall Street.
Actually, Penal Substitionary Atonement is by no means the only way to view what happened at the cross. I much prefer the Christus Victor approach. Ransom Atonement is another viable approach and appears to be the most common view in the early church, so far as we can tell.
That "exception" is rapidly becoming the rule, at least in the US.
I also know plenty of extremely poor people who easily work just as hard and sacrifice as much as as the wealthy. "taking risks" is just code words for "had enough money to take risks with" and wasn't a complete idiot. In my experience who you know is far more important than any of those factors anyway.
Does offering a tax deduction for your mortgage "force" you to buy a house?
Does offering a deduction for charitable giving "force" you to give?
I could go of for quite a long time here. Our tax code is huge and nearly every single bit of it serves to encourage or discourage some behavior. All this does is discourage people from not carrying insurance.
A few months ago I dug out my D2 disks and got it all up to date. I played through Act 1 and realized that I just don't like this style of gameplay anymore. I uninstalled the next morning. I realized then that I'm pretty unlikely to enjoy D3 either.
I wouldn't mind playing through it to see the story, but that's not worth $60 to me and I might eventually be able to see most of it via YouTube anyway.
Keep in mind this is Forbes we're talking about. Leading the world into a massive global recession is fine if your company is able to profit from it. It's just business.
The core goal of the OOTS Kickstarter was very simple: reprint the books. There is no real additional work required by Rich for this other than placing an order with the printers. He has already done that and the printing will be done shortly.
He appears to be prioritizing the stuff like the coloring book that needs to be designed and printed so that he can ship out the physical stuff, which is really the most important. If it takes a while for all the pdfs to get done I don't really mind. The main reason I supported it was to get a full set of the books, the rest is just gravy. As long as I get the books I pretty much consider it a success.
Reprints of any kind are very nearly the surest bet you can find on kickstarter. It's also quite reliable for something like board games where the creator may have a fully playable game already but just needs to get some artwork done and have it printed. (See the current Ogre kickstarter for an example - only 3 days left!) Software projects are probably the most high-risk projects there are.
Please pardon me for being extremely pedantic here. The term "Creationism" covers an extremely large set of beliefs and many of them are quite accepting of evolution. There are plenty of Christians who think that by studying science we are "Thinking God's thoughts after him" (to borrow from Kepler).
The motivation behind the bill is horrid, but after reading the text of the bill itself it generally seems acceptable (though perhaps not necessary) and has interesting potential. In the long run it's only the text of the bill that matters and lawyers are a crafty bunch who have turned laws inside out and used them against their intended purpose plenty of times.
In general the bill is a move in the direction of more teacher autonomy overall, and I can support that. I typically consider the local school boards to generally be the biggest problem in education and this bill may give teachers some cover from over-zealous boards of all stripes. The bill does kinda show that state boards can be evil as well though.
Simply put, it's a double-edged sword and although it's clear which edge the legislature favors it's not at all clear that it will be the most commonly used edge. Even TN has some liberal regions and they may find some good use for this law.
Please be careful. Creationism in the sense that you are using it (Special Creation) is not in any way a tenet of Christianity. It is the tenet of some branches, but not all. Most Catholics and Mainline Protestants are most likely to fall into the Theistic Evolution camp - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theistic_evolution and with those groups being by far the most common in Europe it's certainly a much, much smaller issue over there.
For the past few years I've made a point to try and read the actual text of any law that interests me and this is by far the most incomprehensible one that I've read. I had no real problem reading the entire Affordable Healthcare Act, but this one just doesn't compute for me. Somebody send them an english teacher to teach them basic sentence structure.
There is a comprehensible sentance after the one quoted above that is pretty interesting:
"It is also unlawful to otherwise disturb by repeated anonymous telephone calls ELECTRONIC OR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS the peace, quiet or right of privacy of any person at the place where the telephone call or calls COMMUNICATIONS were received."
Actually, I think most people who have ever been to an urgent care center would choose that whenever possible. They are so much faster and usually friendlier than the average ER. I suspect that if both ER and urgent care were free that urgent care would increase and ER use would decrease as people figure out that they actually do different things better than the other. I've been in-and-out of an urgent care in 1.5 hours. In most ER's you won't even be seen by a doctor in that amount of time.
I've always loved that bit. It's as though we're only going to intervene for man-made problems. If we do find a killer asteroid are they just going to say "We didn't cause that so we're not going to do anything about it!"
Even if they could prove categorically that global warming was completely natural I know I'd still want to fight it!