They didn't say where the items were bought. Prices flucuate from town to town and state to state.
If services were more expensive, perahps you could just buy your true love a trip to another country and give her some of the gifts there. In China, they'd probably cook the turtle doves for you and you wouldn't have to take them home.
If you theorize about conspiricies, you're a conspiricay theorist. I don't see why that's so strange. I think that conspiracy theorists have gotten a lot of negative publicity since the theories often spread without adequate verification.
Just like a chain letter. No reason it can't be true, but often passed on without proper verification.
GM has bought up public transport systems in some cities and trashed them to encourage people to buy cars. I think a tiny amount of suspicion is worthwhile.
What's good for general motors is not necissarily good for its customers, and consumers have an increasingly limited number of options in their choice of manufacturer.
If batteries are the problem, why can't they at least get some heavy duty machinery and change the batteries on things like busses and taxis once every 3 hours or so. You could drop off your bus at the end of the route, pick up a fresh one, and the battery would be swapped in after you left. Electric vehicles are good in stop and go traffic and public transport uses a lot of gas as it is, and only has to travel in a fairly local area. If they had several changing stations located around a major city with buy-in from a few major corporations, wouldn't that solve the biggest problems? Public transport could provide a good starting point for supporting the infrastructure, as well. It could then be opened up to the public.
Assuming the profit margin of the industry stays the same. The difference between your discount example and insurance industry scenario is that insurance is about risk management. You pay up front based on how much insurance "someone like you" is expected to use.
Of course, the insurance industry is known for trying to get rid of those most likely to make use of its product. I had my home insurance jacked through the roof because of two floods that were both other people's fault. (State Farm said it was still a strike against me "because it was an accident and not negligence." They refused to recognize the fact that the folks one floor above me failed to change their washer hose after the folks two floors above me had their washer hose spring a leak and flood the floors below them. but I digress.)
The result will probably be more people without insurance and lower risk and higher profits for the industry.
Let's just face the facts that some people are more prone to addictive behaviors, and it can happen with anything: drugs, shopping, gambling, sex, and yes, pornography
Karma Whoring.
I still remember the rush I got the first time I was modded up. I've spent the past three years here trying to chase down that perfect high, posting more and more comments....
I believe that 100% ethanol (everclear) is usually cut with methanol since you can't distill alcohol ot 200 proof. If you want to drink alcohol, you're better off with 195 proof.
2. Every creature on earth is 'genetically altered.' Lambda phage does it.
3.There's no right or wrong answer to evolution. we'd just be teaching creatures a different way to survive. There's no universal law that says there has to be flying bloodsucking creatures. The whole POINT is to propagate genes which would continue generation after generation.
I used to work for a mosquito control company. While the place was pretty low-tech, we were apparently advanced enough that WHO was looking at us for ideas for THEIR program.
heh.
We keep trying to use chemicals to control animals. The potential for genetic manipulation is much more powerful. Animals rapidly evolve resistance to things that kill them outright. But since male mosquitos don't bite (only females) and breeding and releasing male mosquitos doesn't pose a health risk imagine if we bread mosquitos for the following characteristics and then only released the male varieties (sex could be altered by viruses, as currently happens in nature)
1. Mosquitos which prefer nectar to animals. Couple this with poorer versions of the genes which sense CO2 and heat.
2. Breed mosquitos to avoid the human scent. You could do this by exposing mosquitos to a scent with a food source, and killing those which migrated towards it first. Instead of selling mosquito repellants, breed mosquitos which are naturally repeled by people.
3. Perfect viruses which alter the mosquito's sex, making all mosquitos male. It could be distributed in the same way that BT toxin is currently used, and could be made not to jump species barriers. ( I know of worries with calissa virus etc. but those were mammals. These are cold blooded insects )
4. Use devices to interfere with mosquito's mating communication - chemicals, sounds, etc. Like those bug zappers. They can be targeted to mosquitos sufficiently that they wouldn't hurt people.
1. Did they control for the fact that people who use computers heavily are more likely to be sedentary. Could this lifestyle lead to increased diabetes and related vision problems (don't know about glaucoma)
2. Did they control for the possibility that people with vison problems or other problems originally might be less outgoing and likely to interact with others? What demographic uses computers heavily compared to the mainstream?
I know my distance vision has deteriorated from heavy computer usage, but I'd like to see whether glaucoma is caused by staring at a screen... or some other aspect of computer usage, like chronic inflammation from Carpal Tunnel or somthing like that.
Dragons, yes. There are dragons in just about every culture. At least Eurasian ones. Babylonian. Chinese. European. I don't know about other cultures. But fire breathing?
I saw a 'documentary' some time ago about someone who had this theory, and tracked down some myserious site via satellite photos, only to find out (when he got there) that it was a factory!
The capital investment for tech work is so small that most programmers can freelance. So if you're a programmer and can generate $100,000 in income for a company, you don't need the overhead of a business manager, financeer, etc. like you would in a typical operation because you can employ yourself. That factor doesn't come into play with most jobs.
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as nutty as Ashcroft could be, I don't think he did anything as A.G. that Janet Reno wouldn't have done with the same powers.
They didn't say where the items were bought.
Prices flucuate from town to town and state to state.
If services were more expensive, perahps you could just buy your true love a trip to another country and give her some of the gifts there. In China, they'd probably cook the turtle doves for you and you wouldn't have to take them home.
Yeah, and if you look in the dictionary under redundant it says "see redundant."
To understand recusion, one must first understand recursion.
What's wrong with using placental stem cells?
What is the motive velocity of a swallow's stem cells.
... AHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Adult or Embryonic?
I... I don't know.
If SCO wanted to win the "X" prize, they'd have to steal someone else's rocket.
And even then, they'd only be able to send up lawyers...
So you want an "x-prize" for teaching methodolgies or drug prevention programs...?
How would that work?
Ya know, Al Capone donated a lot to charaties too...
Once you're established, gathering good feeling is the best way to advertise. People already know about your product and what it can do.
Of course, if MS didn't have a stake in this, they wouldn't be able to effectivly sue anyone. What would they sue for?
...we can convince Mr. Gates that those computer generated 'cease and desist' orders from the RIAA are spam...
Non differentiated cells are immortal.
Differentiated cells are not.
If you theorize about conspiricies, you're a conspiricay theorist. I don't see why that's so strange. I think that conspiracy theorists have gotten a lot of negative publicity since the theories often spread without adequate verification.
Just like a chain letter. No reason it can't be true, but often passed on without proper verification.
... keep trying to make this a multi-player game.
GM has bought up public transport systems in some cities and trashed them to encourage people to buy cars. I think a tiny amount of suspicion is worthwhile.
What's good for general motors is not necissarily good for its customers, and consumers have an increasingly limited number of options in their choice of manufacturer.
If batteries are the problem, why can't they at least get some heavy duty machinery and change the batteries on things like busses and taxis once every 3 hours or so. You could drop off your bus at the end of the route, pick up a fresh one, and the battery would be swapped in after you left. Electric vehicles are good in stop and go traffic and public transport uses a lot of gas as it is, and only has to travel in a fairly local area. If they had several changing stations located around a major city with buy-in from a few major corporations, wouldn't that solve the biggest problems? Public transport could provide a good starting point for supporting the infrastructure, as well. It could then be opened up to the public.
Assuming the profit margin of the industry stays the same. The difference between your discount example and insurance industry scenario is that insurance is about risk management. You pay up front based on how much insurance "someone like you" is expected to use.
Of course, the insurance industry is known for trying to get rid of those most likely to make use of its product. I had my home insurance jacked through the roof because of two floods that were both other people's fault. (State Farm said it was still a strike against me "because it was an accident and not negligence." They refused to recognize the fact that the folks one floor above me failed to change their washer hose after the folks two floors above me had their washer hose spring a leak and flood the floors below them. but I digress.)
The result will probably be more people without insurance and lower risk and higher profits for the industry.
Let's just face the facts that some people are more prone to addictive behaviors, and it can happen with anything: drugs, shopping, gambling, sex, and yes, pornography
Karma Whoring.
I still remember the rush I got the first time I was modded up. I've spent the past three years here trying to chase down that perfect high, posting more and more comments....
Slashdot is a drug, man.
Ought to ask "W" if he's ever viewed porn and ask him what he found more addictive.
Cut with benzene. Not methanol.
Benzene is worse, though there may not be much of it.
I believe that 100% ethanol (everclear) is usually cut with methanol since you can't distill alcohol ot 200 proof. If you want to drink alcohol, you're better off with 195 proof.
1. There are already mosquitos which eat nectar.
2. Every creature on earth is 'genetically altered.' Lambda phage does it.
3.There's no right or wrong answer to evolution. we'd just be teaching creatures a different way to survive. There's no universal law that says there has to be flying bloodsucking creatures.
The whole POINT is to propagate genes which would continue generation after generation.
I used to work for a mosquito control company. While the place was pretty low-tech, we were apparently advanced enough that WHO was looking at us for ideas for THEIR program.
heh.
We keep trying to use chemicals to control animals. The potential for genetic manipulation is much more powerful. Animals rapidly evolve resistance to things that kill them outright. But since male mosquitos don't bite (only females) and breeding and releasing male mosquitos doesn't pose a health risk imagine if we bread mosquitos for the following characteristics and then only released the male varieties (sex could be altered by viruses, as currently happens in nature)
1. Mosquitos which prefer nectar to animals. Couple this with poorer versions of the genes which sense CO2 and heat.
2. Breed mosquitos to avoid the human scent. You could do this by exposing mosquitos to a scent with a food source, and killing those which migrated towards it first. Instead of selling mosquito repellants, breed mosquitos which are naturally repeled by people.
3. Perfect viruses which alter the mosquito's sex, making all mosquitos male. It could be distributed in the same way that BT toxin is currently used, and could be made not to jump species barriers. ( I know of worries with calissa virus etc. but those were mammals. These are cold blooded insects )
4. Use devices to interfere with mosquito's mating communication - chemicals, sounds, etc. Like those bug zappers. They can be targeted to mosquitos sufficiently that they wouldn't hurt people.
1. Did they control for the fact that people who use computers heavily are more likely to be sedentary. Could this lifestyle lead to increased diabetes and related vision problems (don't know about glaucoma)
2. Did they control for the possibility that people with vison problems or other problems originally might be less outgoing and likely to interact with others? What demographic uses computers heavily compared to the mainstream?
I know my distance vision has deteriorated from heavy computer usage, but I'd like to see whether glaucoma is caused by staring at a screen... or some other aspect of computer usage, like chronic inflammation from Carpal Tunnel or somthing like that.
Dragons, yes. There are dragons in just about every culture. At least Eurasian ones. Babylonian. Chinese. European. I don't know about other cultures. But fire breathing?
I saw a 'documentary' some time ago about someone who had this theory, and tracked down some myserious site via satellite photos, only to find out (when he got there) that it was a factory!
A mysteriously lost factory?
Very true, except for one small detail.
The capital investment for tech work is so small that most programmers can freelance. So if you're a programmer and can generate $100,000 in income for a company, you don't need the overhead of a business manager, financeer, etc. like you would in a typical operation because you can employ yourself. That factor doesn't come into play with most jobs.