Did you read TFA? Previously: particles the size of a bacterium a few millimeters in a liquid. And now: new technique can move objects one hundred times that size over a distance of a meter or more
Hell, that was even copy/pasted from the summary. You didn't even read TFS
Good point. Make the lighted area well lit, but the big screens on the wall, make them 12 - 15 feet away and the area they are in is not lighted (to reduce glare, improve contrast, reduce eye strain)
Still, what could they possibly be doing for that amount of money. If you work it out, that's almost 30 thousand dollars every hour for 10 years (I didn't even take out weekends or holidays or anything). That's ~890,000 per month. I could run one bangin' IT organization on 240 million dollars a year. Hell, the company I work for now (which is in the top 10 on the Fortune 500 list), our yearly IT budget is smaller than that.
That's actually not too bad. Forty hours of certain types of "play time" could run up to 10,000 to 15,000 dollars, depending on what area of the country you are in.
Yeah, not relevant. It's probably one of those annoying information things that Obama wants you to ignore, like talk radio and Fox News. Only official stuff from the government is relevant. Twitter? Opinions of actual people? Bzzzzt.. Thanks for trying.
And what if it turns out that, in fact, BP broke no regulations, bent no rules and this was simply something that nobody could have for-seen and no safety equipment on the planet could have withstood the pressure released from below the earth's surface? Would it be the Mother Nature spill?
Also, I don't think a lot of you appreciate the safety culture in an offshore environment for American companies. Safety is number one. Nobody wants to die on the job, nobody wants their actions to cause somebody else's death and no company wants to tell someody's loved one they died on the job. Safety is a very serious thing offshore - for employees and employers. Following procedures, regulations, safety protocols is paramount to everything else.
CitiBank or Capital One cards (at one time, at least - I haven't had one in a while) had a one time CC number generator. It was pretty neat. You could set a limit to how much could be charged, amount of time the number was valid for, etc. They had a desktop widget for it, online web page access, etc.
I call foul on this one. Big corporations can afford lots of lots of lawyers and they will use them (as has been shown before) to sue you into oblivion. This in itself is a very gangster tactic.
There were people that Microsoft lured away from DEC because MS needed operating system writers for NT. I hear some of the internals of the kernel resemble VMS quite a bit (even some symbols in common).
Yes, it will (IANAT - teacher - but I'm married to one). Obviously you don't know much about school systems. More money in the system means more teachers, smaller class sizes for important grades like 1-6, the ability to refresh your school books more than once a decade, increased money in programs like band, art, music (in elem.), gifted programs, school activities like field trips, modern and safe playground equipment. I could keep going.
School requires a lot of people and resources to run and more money (as long as it's wisely spent) is always a good thing.
I agree on the pricing. If a paperback is 7 or 8 dollars, why would an eBook version which is more restrictive than a paperback cost more? Certainly the cost to publish an eBook is less than actually printing a paperback. Not interested in an eBook reader until the publishing industry wakes up.
Wrong. Filibuster is not a trick of senate rules, but a recognized practice since the 1800's. And reconciliation was designed ONLY for budget bills. And this crap about passing a new rule that says if bill A passes it implies that bill B passes to is a bunch of horse shit.
Bottom line is they've (dems) broke the rules a lot. Consider the Senate rule that if a senator requests the reading of a bill, that reading must proceed and may not be interrupted for ANY reason. When someone called for a full reading of the health care monstrosity, they sidestepped it, clearly breaking Senate rules.
And to all the other liberals on this whole thread, y'all can kiss my ass. I don't like this bill because it raises taxes, bribes states for the representatives and senators, requires people and business to purchase something or be penalized monetarily, and basically they way they are pushing this is by saying "well, you've got to approve this or it'll weaken the power of the president for the rest of his term". Fuck him. And fuck them for using such sideways logic to approve something. The reasoning should be "do you think this is a good bill or not" not "oh, if we don't pass this pile of shit it'll make the president look bad".
Are you really saying that most surgeons don't take their job seriously? That their main motivation for keeping you alive and doing a good job isn't their sense of ethics and pride as a doctor, but their income?
Given the fact that fewer and fewer people are going into primary care every year because of the lack of profitability, I'm saying that's a factor, yes, but not the only reason. There are plenty of doctors that are motivated by ethics and pride, just as there are many lawyers similarly motivated. I doubt that anybody would argue that's true of the entire population of either profession.
Below the road, the gases rising create an extreme explosion hazard at ground level. One cigarette butt thrown out a window, and you could have an entire highway explode.
That's only a problem with gasses that are heavier than air, like gasoline fumes, etc. Hydrogen is lighter than air, so would float up and not pool on the road surface
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It amazes me that with the high percentage of negative public opinion on the health care bill that congress is still considering it. This is supposed to be government by the will of the people, right? To me, the will of the people is not being executed here.
Also, this is apparent in the back door manner in which they are trying to pass the bill by some trick of house/senate rules. This isn't some bill to appropriate a few million dollars for federal park support but a bill involving a trillion dollars of outlay. Given the current administration's massive spending and addition to the national debt with little to show for it, does anybody have any real confidence that this will work?
Some comments on health care industries making money hand over fist. Everybody seems to be in an outrage with doctors making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, but nobody bats an eye when some sports star signs a multi-million dollar contract. If you were going to the hospital for open heart surgery, would you want the lowest paid doctor that has no incentive for good performance cutting you open? I'd want the super-star doctor that drives the Porche. If he's good enough to earn that much money, he's got to be worth his salt.
If they were really serious about health care reform, why didn't they start with the biggest money issue in health care: tort reform. Why? Because Congress is made up with a bunch of lawyers that don't want to see their industry lose out on billions of dollars per year in fees brought about by the misery of other people. People are incensed about million dollar bonuses at financial firms, but nobody shines the light on lawyers that, for the amount of work put in, end up making thousands of dollars per hour in a settlement or ruling. Consider, also, that even though that doctor is making a quarter of a million dollars per year, he's paying 25 or 30 percent of that in malpractice insurance to protect himself from every Tom, Dick and Harry that decides to sue because they didn't follow instructions and ripped their stitches out.
Some lawyers are a blight on society, but unfortunately, their buddies are crawling all over Washington as lobbyists or in Congress/DoJ/White House/etc. The more I think about it, the more I agree with what Get Out of Our House is doing.
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Different circumstances...
American Colonies: We're becoming our own country!
Britain: Bloody hell, you're not!
[war ensues]
About 125 years later after several other wars and colonies have fled...
Australian Territories: We're becoming our own country!
Britain: Awww, piss off.
Plus, the empire had other pressing things to worry with at the time with Australia, what with the flagging health of their Queen and all.
POET tool? More like Pwnit.
You might not realize this, but not body really gives a fuck what "Anonymous Coward" thinks.
Did you read TFA? Previously: particles the size of a bacterium a few millimeters in a liquid. And now: new technique can move objects one hundred times that size over a distance of a meter or more
Hell, that was even copy/pasted from the summary. You didn't even read TFS
Good point. Make the lighted area well lit, but the big screens on the wall, make them 12 - 15 feet away and the area they are in is not lighted (to reduce glare, improve contrast, reduce eye strain)
Yeah, but what is surprising is that it has been a known issue for 8 months and still is an issue. Other major browser vendors patched and moved on.
Yep. You're right. I borked up the calcs. the 890K number was for 30 hours, not 30 days.
Still, what could they possibly be doing for that amount of money. If you work it out, that's almost 30 thousand dollars every hour for 10 years (I didn't even take out weekends or holidays or anything). That's ~890,000 per month. I could run one bangin' IT organization on 240 million dollars a year. Hell, the company I work for now (which is in the top 10 on the Fortune 500 list), our yearly IT budget is smaller than that.
That's like saying "a balloon is always the size of a baloon". Add some air to it and watch it expand.
That's actually not too bad. Forty hours of certain types of "play time" could run up to 10,000 to 15,000 dollars, depending on what area of the country you are in.
Not "Qbert" as the bad word, but when he got smacked, he'd put up a little speech bubble with something like @!#?@! in it.
Cleans your teeth, though..
Yeah, not relevant. It's probably one of those annoying information things that Obama wants you to ignore, like talk radio and Fox News. Only official stuff from the government is relevant. Twitter? Opinions of actual people? Bzzzzt.. Thanks for trying.
And what if it turns out that, in fact, BP broke no regulations, bent no rules and this was simply something that nobody could have for-seen and no safety equipment on the planet could have withstood the pressure released from below the earth's surface? Would it be the Mother Nature spill?
Also, I don't think a lot of you appreciate the safety culture in an offshore environment for American companies. Safety is number one. Nobody wants to die on the job, nobody wants their actions to cause somebody else's death and no company wants to tell someody's loved one they died on the job. Safety is a very serious thing offshore - for employees and employers. Following procedures, regulations, safety protocols is paramount to everything else.
CitiBank or Capital One cards (at one time, at least - I haven't had one in a while) had a one time CC number generator. It was pretty neat. You could set a limit to how much could be charged, amount of time the number was valid for, etc. They had a desktop widget for it, online web page access, etc.
I call foul on this one. Big corporations can afford lots of lots of lawyers and they will use them (as has been shown before) to sue you into oblivion. This in itself is a very gangster tactic.
There were people that Microsoft lured away from DEC because MS needed operating system writers for NT. I hear some of the internals of the kernel resemble VMS quite a bit (even some symbols in common).
Yes, it will (IANAT - teacher - but I'm married to one). Obviously you don't know much about school systems. More money in the system means more teachers, smaller class sizes for important grades like 1-6, the ability to refresh your school books more than once a decade, increased money in programs like band, art, music (in elem.), gifted programs, school activities like field trips, modern and safe playground equipment. I could keep going.
School requires a lot of people and resources to run and more money (as long as it's wisely spent) is always a good thing.
I agree on the pricing. If a paperback is 7 or 8 dollars, why would an eBook version which is more restrictive than a paperback cost more? Certainly the cost to publish an eBook is less than actually printing a paperback. Not interested in an eBook reader until the publishing industry wakes up.
Sorry.. it's .com instead of .org. I should test my URL's before submitting.
GOOOH
Wrong. Filibuster is not a trick of senate rules, but a recognized practice since the 1800's. And reconciliation was designed ONLY for budget bills. And this crap about passing a new rule that says if bill A passes it implies that bill B passes to is a bunch of horse shit.
Bottom line is they've (dems) broke the rules a lot. Consider the Senate rule that if a senator requests the reading of a bill, that reading must proceed and may not be interrupted for ANY reason. When someone called for a full reading of the health care monstrosity, they sidestepped it, clearly breaking Senate rules.
And to all the other liberals on this whole thread, y'all can kiss my ass. I don't like this bill because it raises taxes, bribes states for the representatives and senators, requires people and business to purchase something or be penalized monetarily, and basically they way they are pushing this is by saying "well, you've got to approve this or it'll weaken the power of the president for the rest of his term". Fuck him. And fuck them for using such sideways logic to approve something. The reasoning should be "do you think this is a good bill or not" not "oh, if we don't pass this pile of shit it'll make the president look bad".
Mod me into oblivion. I don't give a fuck.
Are you really saying that most surgeons don't take their job seriously? That their main motivation for keeping you alive and doing a good job isn't their sense of ethics and pride as a doctor, but their income?
Given the fact that fewer and fewer people are going into primary care every year because of the lack of profitability, I'm saying that's a factor, yes, but not the only reason. There are plenty of doctors that are motivated by ethics and pride, just as there are many lawyers similarly motivated. I doubt that anybody would argue that's true of the entire population of either profession.
Looking at United Health Care, their net profit margin is 4.33% for the fourth quarter of 09. I'd hardly call that raking in the money.
If you do the math, that's only about 150 dollars profit per person enrolled in UHC.
Below the road, the gases rising create an extreme explosion hazard at ground level. One cigarette butt thrown out a window, and you could have an entire highway explode.
That's only a problem with gasses that are heavier than air, like gasoline fumes, etc. Hydrogen is lighter than air, so would float up and not pool on the road surface
It amazes me that with the high percentage of negative public opinion on the health care bill that congress is still considering it. This is supposed to be government by the will of the people, right? To me, the will of the people is not being executed here.
Also, this is apparent in the back door manner in which they are trying to pass the bill by some trick of house/senate rules. This isn't some bill to appropriate a few million dollars for federal park support but a bill involving a trillion dollars of outlay. Given the current administration's massive spending and addition to the national debt with little to show for it, does anybody have any real confidence that this will work?
Some comments on health care industries making money hand over fist. Everybody seems to be in an outrage with doctors making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, but nobody bats an eye when some sports star signs a multi-million dollar contract. If you were going to the hospital for open heart surgery, would you want the lowest paid doctor that has no incentive for good performance cutting you open? I'd want the super-star doctor that drives the Porche. If he's good enough to earn that much money, he's got to be worth his salt.
If they were really serious about health care reform, why didn't they start with the biggest money issue in health care: tort reform. Why? Because Congress is made up with a bunch of lawyers that don't want to see their industry lose out on billions of dollars per year in fees brought about by the misery of other people. People are incensed about million dollar bonuses at financial firms, but nobody shines the light on lawyers that, for the amount of work put in, end up making thousands of dollars per hour in a settlement or ruling. Consider, also, that even though that doctor is making a quarter of a million dollars per year, he's paying 25 or 30 percent of that in malpractice insurance to protect himself from every Tom, Dick and Harry that decides to sue because they didn't follow instructions and ripped their stitches out.
Some lawyers are a blight on society, but unfortunately, their buddies are crawling all over Washington as lobbyists or in Congress/DoJ/White House/etc. The more I think about it, the more I agree with what Get Out of Our House is doing.