I actually think this approach might be a reasonable compromise - and smoking pot should be legalized too, but if you want to smoke pot and get certain jobs, you can't. In other words, you're free to do whatever the hell you please in your home as long as it doesn't affect anyone else's well-being or their insurance premiums. Tough to make such an approach consistent, of course, but we may be heading in that direction when you look at all the US states that have made marijuana quasi-legal already.
============ Make it illegal and keep it that way. If you are in a group insurance plan, and one member wants to smoke, he is endangering himself,by raising the costs of the plan. Costs go up because the plan will have to pay out for his health treatment, be it from related illnesses such as emphysema, hardening of the arteries, stomach and bladder cancers and more direct illnesses.
On the other hand, most pension plans welcome the death by cancer, because it reduces their long term payout requirements.
Demise of computer programmer. The computer programmer program in North America should be abolished, as there is no way to survive doing programming as a career, and with a decent salary. I draw this conclusion by analogy.
Fifteen years ago, my brothers-in-laws each worked in the leather industry as cutters. They were able to cut around 30 coats per day, and made around $1000.00 per week, in the season.
Overnight, the company sent home all but two cutters. The coats were being cut and sewed in China, and shipped by plane overnight. Cutting had moved off-shore. The two cutters were kept, in case of a blemish, or a coat requiring a minor repair.
In the same vein, the computer programmer shop has moved offshore, and what we have left is the programmer who does maintenance. Apply patches, tweak the system a little. etc.
The number of programmers has gone from thousands to hundreds to tens. -- For Montreal, a city of 3 million, the total requirement is for one thousand skilled, if we follow the pattern of the clothing industry. Can you survive in North America with a salary of $15.00/hr?
And thanks to Obama's attacks on the coal industry, Santa needs something else to put in the stockings of bad little boys and girls.
The coal industry and clean energy organizations are the ones polluting North American Skies, with the result that you have dire global warming. This year was particularly bad for the grain and corn crops. It means that it will also be bad for cattle, poultry, and hogs, as their costs to bring to market are going to cause very large price increases.
Obama sees this, and because of the friendly opposition, who prefer at all costs to make war on the Democrats, instead of working together, Obama's hands are tied. If I was he, I would put lots of pressure on to get away from oil/coal to cleaner natural gas.
We have locomotive trials with Natural gas taking place in Canada. Take one reinforced tank car, fill it with 900psi natural gas, and attach it behind the engine. Now the engine could pull a train half way across the continent, and for much much less polluting and much much lower costs. If we could do that with cars, we could cut our driving costs very substantially.
The point about Wikileaks is that the military has to be honest and to stop meddling in the affairs of other countries. Wikileaks embarassed a lot of big big money earners whose fortunes were being made by selling arms and private army services. The USA in return bought oil at 50% off the market price, if not even bigger discounts. Some of the secrets (I am guessing) include all the dirty stuff about life, women, drugs, and more.
Just think too, about domestically, buying votes.
If Wikileaks reports this, how is he an enemy of the state. He is an enemy of graft.
I believe that the management you were describing would be otherwise known as clever blonds.
How did they get to where they are in management? Surely they must know about keeping copies. They would if they wrote documents and needed to refer to earlier ones.
The Lowes, Home Depot and local Hardware stores carry cfls in packages of 6 for $10.00 The lights that you referred me to cost about $7.00 each. With a continuous on policy, their longevity is not much more than the $2.00 CFL that has a good filament.
Our local Dollar store has 13 watt CFLs for $2.00 Surprisingly the Dollar store ones (from China) are the ones that last the longest. IKEA has also switched to supplying bulbs from China. IKEA was almost always promoting domestic or European quality at affordable prices.
I did buy some Led Strip lighting from IKEA. These strips are guaranteed for 30,0000 hours. I put the strip lighting between the kitchen cupboards, and the counter, and on the wall inside clothes cupboards.
At $00.07 per KWH, I calculated the costy of running the 3 watt strips for 24/7 as $1.84. If I turned them off, except when needed, the mechanical power switch would wear out before the strip and need replacement way before the strips begin to fail.
No need to apologize. I worked on a natural gas pipeline, 1 meter diameter parallel pipes, 5000 mile route.
Gas was pressurized to 935lbs/sq inch. (why sq inch? and not cubic inch). This gas was compressible even at 935pounds, but it was so dense it acted as a liquid.
In the transportation at 30mph, down the pipe, it acted as a liquid. Any change in pressure in the pipe did not disperse. Any dip in pressure was shipped as a bubble
Biggest worry was standing waves (when a pressure wave hit the endpoint, it got reflected back. So pressure at some points added, and at other points, subtracted..
Just some amazing experiences Ive had in my career.
Yes and no (on the USPS). The reason I say that is due to one question: how much of a break in taxation, fuel, and other costs does the USPS get? I'm willing to wager that they don't have to pay any FAA-associated fees for aircraft certification, and are usually exempt from state vehicle taxation, fuel taxes, property taxes on post offices, vehicle insurance premiums (the gov't handles that), etc. There's also the fact that the USPS doesn't have to pay taxes on income, and has no shareholders to please. FedEx, UPS, DHL... they all have to pay all of that and more.
I bet it's enough to have an artificially-reduced bottom-line - far, far smaller than the likes of FedEx or UPS. This in turn artificially lowers the entire overhead costs per entity once you count in HR/salary costs.
I don't hate the post office or anything, but before pointing to them as a shining example? At least remember that unlike their competition, the USPS gets to start the race quite a few strides ahead of the competition.
They do pay taxes etc, as the PO is run as a business. But they have VOLUME of mail. Now as the volume is falling off, they are going to compete with UPS and Fedex and whoever else is there
All the comparisons assume they will live x hours. They suck for bathrooms or anyplace where the bulb only stays on for a short time.
I have abandoned CFLs because of the short life span. The 5000+ hours are only possible if they remain on 24/7. In the bathroom and kitchen, they fail within 3 months. I save the packages and when I have six of them, I return them to the bigbox hardware store and tell them to replace them under the promised 2 year guarantee.
Most people can't bother, but I when I exchange my thirty cent incandescent for a two buck cfl, I want at least 6x times the lifespan of the former.
From what you've written, you don't understand what a heat pump is and does. So let's try this again:
There's no "transducer" converting electricity to heat in a heat pump. The primary parts of a heat pump are a compressor, a condenser, an evaporator, and an expansion valve. The compressor takes fluid, compresses it, and sends it into the condenser. Doing this raises the temperature of the fluid to a temperature above that of the surrounding area, so that heat flows from the fluid to the surrounding area, heating that area. On its way to another area, the fluid passes through an expansion valve, which lowers the pressure the fluid is under, into the evaporator. This causes the temperature of the fluid to drop to where it is below that of the surrounding area, so that heat flows from the surrounding area to the fluid, heating the fluid (and cooling the surrounding area).
Thus, heat is moved from one area to another. Since the heat is not coming from the supplied power, but rather, from the area around the evaporator, the amount of heat let out on the heating side can be greater than the amount of power supplied.
To put it another way: Let's say your house has a fireplace, but you want to have heat in other rooms. So, you take a bunch of bricks, lay them in front of the fire, and let them heat up. When they're hot, you carry them into the rooms you want to heat. When the bricks in a room start to get cold, you take them back to the fireplace to heat again, and grab hot bricks to take back to the room.
The heat pump here is you, carrying the bricks back and forth. Your energy is being used to move the bricks, not to heat them -- it's the fire that heats them. In the same way, the heat pump isn't what's creating the heat -- it's simply moving fluid around, which is getting its heat from its surroundings while it's in the evaporator.
Now, the compressor will be less than 100% efficient in converting electrical energy to kinetic energy as it moves the fluid around -- but since heat pump users are less interested in how well their heat pump moves fluid, and more interested in how much heat it can output, and the heat being supplied from the outside environment is effectively free, heat pumps have their efficiency rated in how much heat the condenser outputs under normal operating conditions vs. how much electrical energy is supplied to them, and that number is more than 100%. That's not thermodynamic efficiency, which can never exceed 100%, but it's the efficiency that the people using heat pumps care about.
Your thought processes were going faster than your writing. Freon is a gas, and under pressure becomes a fluid. Fluids cannot be compressed. Gases can. Otherwise your description is fine.
I think if you research it well, it was Telsa that did the bulb, but Edison "borrowed it". Edison had money, Telsa did not. Ditto for alternating current.
Edison wanted DC current everywhere.
Regarding incandescent bulbs, I have some outdoor lighting (driveway, front steps). There is no CFL bulb that puts out light when the temp is around freezing, or even ignites.
Am I going to pay $18 to -25 for some led lighting? What do you think, when I can purchase incandescent bulbs for a dollar.
As well, in winter, when it is really cold, the incandescents provide heat in the house, while providing luminescence.
I suppose no one reading this lives in a climate where you have snow in winter.
Ohh, by the way. I live in Canada, my home is all-electric, and 80% of the 3 million homes in the province are electrically heated. Electricity is cheaper for me than oil or natural gas. (7 per KWH)
I think it is great that Mozilla has done this. Since it is in HTML5, and they are there first, and using the logic available with HTML5, the phone should be free from patent claims coming from the big three.
What has to be done with electronic systems, is for a physician to sign in and mark the treatment he did. It could be his secretary who does the marking, but the log record of who entered what is marked. An auditing program could be run or written to check the hours billed versus the number of patients. I bet you some physicians who were playing golf saw at least 25 patients concurrently that same day, and on regular working days, at least 35 patients.
My brother-in-law went to the emergency clinic to have a splinter extracted. It was in his palm, and he was not dexterous enough to do it himself. The nurse swabbed the area with alcohol, pulled out the splinter in a few minutes. Gave him a bandaid, and sent him home. His bill was for over $900.00 for physicians he never saw, and tests he never approved. His insurance paid the bill without questioning it.
In the USA, hospitals are "for profit", and in the majority of the world, "Hospitals are for service, with charges to cover costs"
Thank God I don't live in the USA as you have theory about rights, but then they are violated. It seems that the judge sided with the county, because, perhaps the county could avoid reprinting them, and would not have to cover the cost of redoing ballots with the barcode. In all ways, the barcode does not make sense.
In the past provincial election one month ago, I was a scrutinizer for the government. Our sealed ballots came in a book, all serial numbered. Only the ballot stub contained the serial number. The person was given a ballot with attached stub, he went behind a screen and marked his candidate checkbox. He then folded the ballot so I could not see the markings, but leaving the stub exposed. Before inserting the ballot into the box, I tore off the stub, to verify it was the same ballot as I gave him. He put the ballot in the sealed box, and I collected the stubs. I had a helper who checked off the fact that the resident voted, and would not be able to vote twice.
In the ballot box, the ballots have no serial number, no identification linking the ballot to an individual. I suppose though if you really wanted to find out who he voted for, you would have to test each ballot for DNA, My polling station had 325 ballots, all but two were good. Two voters purposely marked off all the candidates but one as their choice.
This method, using paper ballots guarantees secrecy.
I have been reporting that problem for a while, but they just assume that I am an idiot who just doesn't know how to use a computer.
I am using a Netbook with Intel graphics and Fedora. After a suspend, the mouse pad is fully inoperative, requiring a reboot. Terminal mode works. Same graphics chip as with 12.4
I don't know if I mind if millions of terrorist get sexually assualted.
I think you would mind if it was your wife or daughter or mother. TFA is a bureaucracy out of control, surviving on fear.
Pilots cabins are sealed now, and to board a plane with something that can penetrate that security door would take a small cannon. The cannon would have to be hidden in a backpack the size of a breadbox.
Yes, the better way is to do tit or tat. If one of our planes is attacked, just do it to one of theirs. Sorry, it may not even have to be done, if the counter threat was publicised.
This is becoming MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). Maybe that's the point. Maybe Motorolla is trying to teach Apple how to play Tic-Tac-Toe. Number of players: 0
Am I the only one from Montreal and area? How about a 5 a 7 in a nice place in Montreal?
Montreal has wonderful international set of food emporiums, with refreshments. Whatever you like, from sushi to hamburgers, from Burger King to Costco (grin).
Couples with common interests do stay together for life or very very long times. Parents are one example, small store owners are another, and people in NGOs are a third group.
I buy a scientific multi-function calculator at the Dollar store for (you guessed it) one dollar. Thinking back, these same gadgets were selling for $79.95 about 10 years ago.
SSDs in Laptops are there to conserve and extend battery hours of provisioning. My netbook with the small 500g drive runs about 5 hours per charge, and with SSDs, about 10.
Transferring money from one of your own accounts to another, within the same country, is "money laundering and tax evasion" now?
"Money laundering and tax evasion" clearly is the "terrorism and cybercriminality" of the financial world, it is.
Many years ago there was a stamp tax for every cheque. And when the cheques moved to electronic payments, it became similar to a sales tax, a service fee based on amount moved.
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I actually think this approach might be a reasonable compromise - and smoking pot should be legalized too, but if you want to smoke pot and get certain jobs, you can't. In other words, you're free to do whatever the hell you please in your home as long as it doesn't affect anyone else's well-being or their insurance premiums. Tough to make such an approach consistent, of course, but we may be heading in that direction when you look at all the US states that have made marijuana quasi-legal already.
============
Make it illegal and keep it that way. If you are in a group insurance plan, and one member wants to smoke, he is endangering himself,by raising the costs of the plan. Costs go up because the plan will have to pay out for his health treatment, be it from related illnesses such as emphysema, hardening of the arteries, stomach and bladder cancers and more direct illnesses.
On the other hand, most pension plans welcome the death by cancer, because it reduces their long term payout requirements.
Demise of computer programmer.
The computer programmer program in North America should be abolished, as there is no way to survive doing programming as a career, and with a decent salary. I draw this conclusion by analogy.
Fifteen years ago, my brothers-in-laws each worked in the leather industry as cutters. They were able to cut around 30 coats per day, and made around $1000.00 per week, in the season.
Overnight, the company sent home all but two cutters. The coats were being cut and sewed in China, and shipped by plane overnight. Cutting had moved off-shore. The two cutters were kept, in case of a blemish, or a coat requiring a minor repair.
In the same vein, the computer programmer shop has moved offshore, and what we have left is the programmer who does maintenance. Apply patches, tweak the system a little. etc.
The number of programmers has gone from thousands to hundreds to tens. -- For Montreal, a city of 3 million, the total requirement is for one thousand skilled, if we follow the pattern of the clothing industry. Can you survive in North America with a salary of $15.00/hr?
And thanks to Obama's attacks on the coal industry, Santa needs something else to put in the stockings of bad little boys and girls.
The coal industry and clean energy organizations are the ones polluting North American Skies, with the result that you have dire global warming. This year was particularly bad for the grain and corn crops. It means that it will also be bad for cattle, poultry, and hogs, as their costs to bring to market are going to cause very large price increases.
Obama sees this, and because of the friendly opposition, who prefer at all costs to make war on the Democrats, instead of working together, Obama's hands are tied. If I was he, I would put lots of pressure on to get away from oil/coal to cleaner natural gas.
We have locomotive trials with Natural gas taking place in Canada. Take one reinforced tank car, fill it with 900psi natural gas, and attach it behind the engine. Now the engine could pull a train half way across the continent, and for much much less polluting and much much lower costs.
If we could do that with cars, we could cut our driving costs very substantially.
The point about Wikileaks is that the military has to be honest and to stop meddling in the affairs of other countries. Wikileaks embarassed a lot of big big money earners whose fortunes were being made by selling arms and private army services. The USA in return bought oil at 50% off the market price, if not even bigger discounts.
Some of the secrets (I am guessing) include all the dirty stuff about life, women, drugs, and more.
Just think too, about domestically, buying votes.
If Wikileaks reports this, how is he an enemy of the state. He is an enemy of graft.
I believe that the management you were describing would be otherwise known as clever blonds.
How did they get to where they are in management? Surely they must know about keeping copies. They would if they wrote documents and needed to refer to earlier ones.
The Lowes, Home Depot and local Hardware stores carry cfls in packages of 6 for $10.00 The lights that you referred me to cost about $7.00 each. With a continuous on policy, their longevity is not much more than the $2.00 CFL that has a good filament.
Our local Dollar store has 13 watt CFLs for $2.00 Surprisingly the Dollar store ones (from China) are
the ones that last the longest. IKEA has also switched to supplying bulbs from China. IKEA was almost
always promoting domestic or European quality at affordable prices.
I did buy some Led Strip lighting from IKEA. These strips are guaranteed for 30,0000 hours. I put the strip lighting between the kitchen cupboards, and the counter, and on the wall inside clothes cupboards.
At $00.07 per KWH, I calculated the costy of running the 3 watt strips for 24/7 as $1.84. If I turned them off, except when needed, the mechanical power switch would wear out before the strip and need replacement way before the strips begin to fail.
No need to apologize. I worked on a natural gas pipeline, 1 meter diameter parallel pipes, 5000 mile route.
Gas was pressurized to 935lbs/sq inch. (why sq inch? and not cubic inch). This gas was compressible even at 935pounds, but it was so dense it acted as a liquid.
In the transportation at 30mph, down the pipe, it acted as a liquid. Any change in pressure in the pipe did not disperse. Any dip in pressure was shipped as a bubble
Biggest worry was standing waves (when a pressure wave hit the endpoint, it got reflected back. So pressure at some points added, and at other points, subtracted..
Just some amazing experiences Ive had in my career.
Yes and no (on the USPS). The reason I say that is due to one question: how much of a break in taxation, fuel, and other costs does the USPS get? I'm willing to wager that they don't have to pay any FAA-associated fees for aircraft certification, and are usually exempt from state vehicle taxation, fuel taxes, property taxes on post offices, vehicle insurance premiums (the gov't handles that), etc. There's also the fact that the USPS doesn't have to pay taxes on income, and has no shareholders to please. FedEx, UPS, DHL... they all have to pay all of that and more.
I bet it's enough to have an artificially-reduced bottom-line - far, far smaller than the likes of FedEx or UPS. This in turn artificially lowers the entire overhead costs per entity once you count in HR/salary costs.
I don't hate the post office or anything, but before pointing to them as a shining example? At least remember that unlike their competition, the USPS gets to start the race quite a few strides ahead of the competition.
They do pay taxes etc, as the PO is run as a business. But they have VOLUME of mail. Now as the volume is falling off, they are going to compete with UPS and Fedex and whoever else is there
Life of a CFL is x hours or y on/off cycles.
All the comparisons assume they will live x hours. They suck for bathrooms or anyplace where the bulb only stays on for a short time.
I have abandoned CFLs because of the short life span. The 5000+ hours are only possible if they remain on 24/7.
In the bathroom and kitchen, they fail within 3 months. I save the packages and when I have six of them, I return them to the bigbox hardware store and tell them to replace them under the promised 2 year guarantee.
Most people can't bother, but I when I exchange my thirty cent incandescent for a two buck cfl, I want at least 6x times the lifespan of the former.
From what you've written, you don't understand what a heat pump is and does. So let's try this again:
There's no "transducer" converting electricity to heat in a heat pump. The primary parts of a heat pump are a compressor, a condenser, an evaporator, and an expansion valve. The compressor takes fluid, compresses it, and sends it into the condenser. Doing this raises the temperature of the fluid to a temperature above that of the surrounding area, so that heat flows from the fluid to the surrounding area, heating that area. On its way to another area, the fluid passes through an expansion valve, which lowers the pressure the fluid is under, into the evaporator. This causes the temperature of the fluid to drop to where it is below that of the surrounding area, so that heat flows from the surrounding area to the fluid, heating the fluid (and cooling the surrounding area).
Thus, heat is moved from one area to another. Since the heat is not coming from the supplied power, but rather, from the area around the evaporator, the amount of heat let out on the heating side can be greater than the amount of power supplied.
To put it another way: Let's say your house has a fireplace, but you want to have heat in other rooms. So, you take a bunch of bricks, lay them in front of the fire, and let them heat up. When they're hot, you carry them into the rooms you want to heat. When the bricks in a room start to get cold, you take them back to the fireplace to heat again, and grab hot bricks to take back to the room.
The heat pump here is you, carrying the bricks back and forth. Your energy is being used to move the bricks, not to heat them -- it's the fire that heats them. In the same way, the heat pump isn't what's creating the heat -- it's simply moving fluid around, which is getting its heat from its surroundings while it's in the evaporator.
Now, the compressor will be less than 100% efficient in converting electrical energy to kinetic energy as it moves the fluid around -- but since heat pump users are less interested in how well their heat pump moves fluid, and more interested in how much heat it can output, and the heat being supplied from the outside environment is effectively free, heat pumps have their efficiency rated in how much heat the condenser outputs under normal operating conditions vs. how much electrical energy is supplied to them, and that number is more than 100%. That's not thermodynamic efficiency, which can never exceed 100%, but it's the efficiency that the people using heat pumps care about.
Your thought processes were going faster than your writing. Freon is a gas, and under pressure becomes a fluid. Fluids cannot be compressed. Gases can. Otherwise your description is fine.
I think if you research it well, it was Telsa that did the bulb, but Edison "borrowed it". Edison had money, Telsa did not. Ditto for alternating current.
Edison wanted DC current everywhere.
Regarding incandescent bulbs, I have some outdoor lighting (driveway, front steps). There is no CFL bulb that puts out light when the temp is around freezing, or even ignites.
Am I going to pay $18 to -25 for some led lighting? What do you think, when I can purchase incandescent bulbs for a dollar.
As well, in winter, when it is really cold, the incandescents provide heat in the house, while providing luminescence.
I suppose no one reading this lives in a climate where you have snow in winter.
Ohh, by the way. I live in Canada, my home is all-electric, and 80% of the 3 million homes in the province are electrically heated.
Electricity is cheaper for me than oil or natural gas. (7 per KWH)
I think it is great that Mozilla has done this. Since it is in HTML5, and they are there first, and using the logic available with HTML5, the phone should be free from patent claims coming from the big three.
For the one arm gamer, try the slots at the casino.
Audit the systems.
What has to be done with electronic systems, is for a physician to sign in and mark the treatment he did. It could be his secretary who does the marking, but the log record of who entered what is marked. An auditing program could be run or written to check the hours billed versus the number of patients. I bet you some physicians who were playing golf saw at least 25 patients concurrently that same day, and on regular working days, at least 35 patients.
My brother-in-law went to the emergency clinic to have a splinter extracted. It was in his palm, and he was not dexterous enough to do it himself. The nurse swabbed the area with alcohol, pulled out the splinter in a few minutes. Gave him a bandaid, and sent him home. His bill was for over $900.00 for physicians he never saw, and tests he never approved. His insurance paid the bill without questioning it.
In the USA, hospitals are "for profit", and in the majority of the world, "Hospitals are for service, with charges to cover costs"
Thank God I don't live in the USA as you have theory about rights, but then they are violated. It seems that the judge sided with the county, because, perhaps the county could avoid reprinting them, and would not have to cover the cost of redoing ballots with the barcode. In all ways, the barcode does not make sense.
In the past provincial election one month ago, I was a scrutinizer for the government. Our sealed ballots came in a book, all serial numbered. Only the ballot stub contained the serial number. The person was given a ballot with attached stub, he went behind a screen and marked his candidate checkbox. He then folded the ballot so I could not see the markings, but leaving the stub exposed.
Before inserting the ballot into the box, I tore off the stub, to verify it was the same ballot as I gave him. He put the ballot in the sealed box, and I collected the stubs. I had a helper who checked off the fact that the resident voted, and would not be able to vote twice.
In the ballot box, the ballots have no serial number, no identification linking the ballot to an individual. I suppose though if you really wanted to find out who he voted for, you would have to test each ballot for DNA, My polling station had 325 ballots, all but two were good. Two voters purposely marked off all the candidates but one as their choice.
This method, using paper ballots guarantees secrecy.
I have been reporting that problem for a while, but they just assume that I am an idiot who just doesn't know how to use a computer.
I am using a Netbook with Intel graphics and Fedora. After a suspend, the mouse pad is fully inoperative, requiring a reboot. Terminal mode works.
Same graphics chip as with 12.4
I don't know if I mind if millions of terrorist get sexually assualted.
I think you would mind if it was your wife or daughter or mother. TFA is a bureaucracy out of control, surviving on fear.
Pilots cabins are sealed now, and to board a plane with something that can penetrate that security door would take a small cannon. The cannon would have to be hidden in a backpack the size of a breadbox.
Yes, the better way is to do tit or tat. If one of our planes is attacked, just do it to one of theirs. Sorry, it may not even have to be done, if the counter threat was publicised.
This is becoming MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). Maybe that's the point. Maybe Motorolla is trying to teach Apple how to play Tic-Tac-Toe. Number of players: 0
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/09/19/1940251/motorola-seeks-ban-on-macs-ipads-and-iphones#
GEE I thought MAD stood for Mothers Against Drunk drivers. Now it is Motorola Against Damage control
Is there a way to see when I joined based on my ID? I think it was some time in 1997.
It'd be cool to see how membership has grown....
User Ids:
1995 : 0 - 1000
1996: 1001 - 50000
1997; 50,000 - 200,000
etc...
Me too
Am I the only one from Montreal and area? How about a 5 a 7 in a nice place in Montreal?
Montreal has wonderful international set of food emporiums, with refreshments. Whatever you like, from sushi to hamburgers,
from Burger King to Costco (grin).
And we are multilingual and multicultural
Couples with common interests do stay together for life or very very long times. Parents are one example, small store owners are another, and people in NGOs are a third group.
I buy a scientific multi-function calculator at the Dollar store for (you guessed it) one dollar. Thinking back, these same gadgets were selling for $79.95 about 10 years ago.
SSDs in Laptops are there to conserve and extend battery hours of provisioning. My netbook with the small 500g drive runs about 5 hours per charge, and with SSDs, about 10.
George,
Thanks for the Informative Reply...
Transferring money from one of your own accounts to another, within the same country, is "money laundering and tax evasion" now?
"Money laundering and tax evasion" clearly is the "terrorism and cybercriminality" of the financial world, it is.
Many years ago there was a stamp tax for every cheque. And when the cheques moved to electronic payments, it became similar to a sales tax, a service fee based on amount moved.