I "won" an office pool once without even playing. I told the guy that I could win the whole thing, but, as I didn't want to take their money through gambling, I would just tell him my picks after it was closed.
The problem? He was giving points to each "winner" based on their number. If a #1 won, you got one point. If a #12 won, you got 12 points. I just picked 9-16 the whole tournament through. (He admitted that they all would have hated me had I played.) After the first round, with 4 upsets, there weren't enough points left in the tournament for anyone to beat me. But there are always 3-4 upsets in the first round.
Nope. I found the entry with the Mobile entry with the same number as the phone (there was no Mom, that's who I usually call), and then called the Home number on that entry. I left messages on the answering machine, but they never responded.
I have found 3 cell phones and have attempted to return them all. On one, the person never returned my calls. I guess they didn't want it back for some reason (it was a throwaway cheap phone). The other two people were extremely happy to get their phone back, and one insisted I take a $50 reward (I settled for $20, since I really didn't want to take anything, but I realized that it made her feel good to give something).
I agree with you. For Nordic countries. But for Southern California, where I leave my AC on 24/7/365 (it doesn't come on that much, but probably comes on over 200 days a year) you definitely don't want to be heating the same thing you are trying to cool.
Again with the mercury? It's.4mg per bulb. Old thermometers had 500mg. The old Honeywell wall thermostats had 3000mg. Even tuna, that people EAT, has 0.048 mg of mercury. If you eat 10 cans of tuna, you've eaten more mercury than is in a CFL.
This exactly. Seeing as how Mt. St. Helens is practically a mini model of the Grand Canyon and was formed in 3 days over the span of a year and a half certainly raises some interesting questions, questions that are fun to talk about. But if it's not fun for the person you're talking with, stop talking about it.
I love my Asus Transformer. And it got updated to ICS a couple weeks ago. You might check out the Prime. Also, if you have an Android phone, check out FoxFi.
Not true. My friend solved it. That alone makes it easier than SunSoft's Fester's Quest (which he never solved) or Batman (which he also solved somehow once, he's the only person I knew that solved it).
Having worked with cops, I can tell you that bad cops are also a minority. And having parents and in-laws that work in schools, I can tell you that good administrators are a minority...
Perelandra is much better if you are going to read CS Lewis' space trilogy. You can skip the third one if you like, it's really tough to make it through.
MegaUpload admitted that many of their "partners" had DIRECT DELETE access to MegaUpload. It sounds like Flickr may have the same arrangement, making the lawsuit for damages against the complainant even more likely to succeed.
Studies have repeatedly shown that prayer helps in hospital situations. Why? Maybe people just feel comforted or a sense that somebody cares about them and wants them to make it. What's the scientific explanation? I haven't seen a good one. But more people recover and have less complications.
Taking shark cartilage for joint problems and arthritis was constantly rejected as bunk, no matter how many times the studies showed that it was effective. Renaming it to its "scientific" components, "Glucosamine and Chondroitin" gave it a credibility it never had as "Shark Cartilage". Even scientists are distracted by human frailty such as pretty packaging (a name in their case) and a sense of importance.
Here's the problem. People in California buy a lot of cars, the most in the US. Electricity is so outrageous here, that you would lose money. The same is true in all the Southwest states that use a lot of AC, you know, the spread out ones where you need an economical car.
There is a new leader. A goodwill gesture toward getting him to be friends with the international community is not a lost cause. He is not his father and may decide that he would rather move in the direction that China has moved. This is a good move for the US to make.
Credit cards also charge vendors, usually around 3%, although it can be as high as 5% or as low as 1½% or less. Where do you think they get the money for their points programs (where they typically give you less than 1% back) from?
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I "won" an office pool once without even playing. I told the guy that I could win the whole thing, but, as I didn't want to take their money through gambling, I would just tell him my picks after it was closed.
The problem? He was giving points to each "winner" based on their number. If a #1 won, you got one point. If a #12 won, you got 12 points. I just picked 9-16 the whole tournament through. (He admitted that they all would have hated me had I played.) After the first round, with 4 upsets, there weren't enough points left in the tournament for anyone to beat me. But there are always 3-4 upsets in the first round.
Nope. I found the entry with the Mobile entry with the same number as the phone (there was no Mom, that's who I usually call), and then called the Home number on that entry. I left messages on the answering machine, but they never responded.
I have found 3 cell phones and have attempted to return them all. On one, the person never returned my calls. I guess they didn't want it back for some reason (it was a throwaway cheap phone). The other two people were extremely happy to get their phone back, and one insisted I take a $50 reward (I settled for $20, since I really didn't want to take anything, but I realized that it made her feel good to give something).
I agree with you. For Nordic countries. But for Southern California, where I leave my AC on 24/7/365 (it doesn't come on that much, but probably comes on over 200 days a year) you definitely don't want to be heating the same thing you are trying to cool.
Again with the mercury? It's .4mg per bulb. Old thermometers had 500mg. The old Honeywell wall thermostats had 3000mg. Even tuna, that people EAT, has 0.048 mg of mercury. If you eat 10 cans of tuna, you've eaten more mercury than is in a CFL.
I got the cheapo LEDs at Home Depot and they dim just great.
Yes. But only if he wants to. Otherwise he can't.
This exactly. Seeing as how Mt. St. Helens is practically a mini model of the Grand Canyon and was formed in 3 days over the span of a year and a half certainly raises some interesting questions, questions that are fun to talk about. But if it's not fun for the person you're talking with, stop talking about it.
Just in this thread I picked up that it's: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/renderscript/index.html
I love my Asus Transformer. And it got updated to ICS a couple weeks ago. You might check out the Prime. Also, if you have an Android phone, check out FoxFi.
C'mon. I solved Battletoads. It was hard, but not that hard.
Not true. My friend solved it. That alone makes it easier than SunSoft's Fester's Quest (which he never solved) or Batman (which he also solved somehow once, he's the only person I knew that solved it).
If the key were brass or bronze, there would be very little iron to pick up for a hunk of metal for that size and weight.
The people who fought back on Flight 93 were heroes. They actually had a choice to be brave.
The firefighters and police who went UP the building to get more people out and didn't make it out themselves were heroes.
Even people that helped to talk overweight people down the stairs (keep going!), risking their lives were heroes.
Let's not say there were no heroes on 9/11. But to say everyone who died was a hero is as bad as saying every hacker is a terrorist.
Having worked with cops, I can tell you that bad cops are also a minority. And having parents and in-laws that work in schools, I can tell you that good administrators are a minority...
Find us a story from another country where this has happened. Then we can talk.
Probably persecuting poor, defenseless churches for Christmas displays on their private property, for one.
Perelandra is much better if you are going to read CS Lewis' space trilogy. You can skip the third one if you like, it's really tough to make it through.
MegaUpload admitted that many of their "partners" had DIRECT DELETE access to MegaUpload. It sounds like Flickr may have the same arrangement, making the lawsuit for damages against the complainant even more likely to succeed.
Studies have repeatedly shown that prayer helps in hospital situations. Why? Maybe people just feel comforted or a sense that somebody cares about them and wants them to make it. What's the scientific explanation? I haven't seen a good one. But more people recover and have less complications.
Taking shark cartilage for joint problems and arthritis was constantly rejected as bunk, no matter how many times the studies showed that it was effective. Renaming it to its "scientific" components, "Glucosamine and Chondroitin" gave it a credibility it never had as "Shark Cartilage". Even scientists are distracted by human frailty such as pretty packaging (a name in their case) and a sense of importance.
Here's the problem. People in California buy a lot of cars, the most in the US. Electricity is so outrageous here, that you would lose money. The same is true in all the Southwest states that use a lot of AC, you know, the spread out ones where you need an economical car.
In the Star Wars novels, planets even have field generators which stop you from entering the solar system in warp.
There is a new leader. A goodwill gesture toward getting him to be friends with the international community is not a lost cause. He is not his father and may decide that he would rather move in the direction that China has moved. This is a good move for the US to make.
Credit cards also charge vendors, usually around 3%, although it can be as high as 5% or as low as 1½% or less. Where do you think they get the money for their points programs (where they typically give you less than 1% back) from?