Yes, and in many counties, so is the amount of property tax you paid, how much you contributed to Sheriff candidate X, and so on -- but one has to go and look for it. This move is much like everyone on your street receiving an update each time you do something that would be placed on public record.
when we have no idea if it will do what we hope it will
Los Angeles had 118 "stage 1" smog alert days in 1975 (lowest threshold). After strict emissions controls were put in place, the number dropped down to 7 by 1996 and 0 by 2000 (http://www.arb.ca.gov/html/brochure/history.htm). Emission controls work, but they take time - the environment needs time to improve and older cars need to be phased out.
I assume that by finance, the allusion is towards financial planners, CPAs, and the like. There's no shortage of customers for credit cards, after all.
Because (in an ideal world), an impartial group of people are reading the ballots. If the paper-vote scanner is rigged, the FEC can use a different machine. With an e-vote, the ballot itself has been tampered with. Any number of recounts will give identical results.
Or it will be worse - for most of the public, a change after 5 years is harder than one after 2 years because they aren't used to changing.
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As if you were saying, "Since the beginning there must have been an infinite amount of time that's passed."
Well, if the universe has "always existed" then the always implies an infinite past, no?
Does the fact that you can't traverse them all from the lowest to highest somehow mean that zero doesn't exist?
No, but if you had to reach 0 from -inf, you'd never make it, even if moving at quantized intervals. However, if you said that the concept of numbers just didnt exist past, say, -14 billion and you moved at these quantized intervals, you could very well reach zero. Passing zero and moving again at the same intervals, you could continue to go out forever and still be a measurable distance from zero.
It's not that the present time couldn't exist, it's that the present time couldn't be reached from a point in the infinitely distant past. Hence, the breakdown in the concept of time "before" the Big Bang.
If there was no beginning, the universe must have been around for an infinite time before us; by examining the simple logic of infinity, this is clearly not possible. Since you can never reach infinity, the infinite time before us would still be ongoing, making it impossible for the present time to exist. Likewise, every element of the previously infinite time would need infinite time before it.
Now, nothing in my argument precludes another universe from dying, collapsing, and reforming as ours. The concept of time, however, forces our present universe to have a beginning.
Holds are pressurized and heated - it's easier to engineer a single tubular pressure vessel than it is to pressurize the top and hope the floor holds. Same goes for cargo planes - their heating systems may be turned down a bit, but they're far from being -30C flying freezers.
Which is why so many people are willing to have surgery. But again, if the anaestheseologist screws up even a little bit, well - there won't be a you to dance around anyways.
In the past 2 years the airlines have, from my checked luggage, lost lost 1 laptop, ruined an LCD, and jammed a digital camera lens. All of these were in their original packaging, then placed inside a bag filled with clothes. I had insurance, so I was lucky.
You think with this added number of bags that have to be checked, screeners will be any more careful than they were in the past? When you hold the number of man-hours relatively constant but increase the speed at which checks have to be made as well as the average value of the goods (a laptop probably is worth more than the clothes in the bag, more than doubling the value of the check-in), mistakes become a-more prevalent, and b-more costly.
It's not something I'm willing to trust the airline with.
The two states that mandate no self service are NJ and OR.
New Jersey passed the law making it illegal to pump your own gas in 1949. At the time, legislators felt it was too dangerous to have untrained people dispensing such a flammable liquid. - http://ask.yahoo.com/20040715.html
ORS480.315
1) The dispensing of Class 1 flammable liquids by dispensers properly trained in appropriate safety procedures reduces fire hazards directly associated with the dispensing of Class 1 flammable liquids.
7) Exposure to toxic fumes represents a health hazard to customers dispensing Class 1 flammable liquids.
10a) The significantly higher prices typically charged for full-service fuel dispensing in states where self service is permitted at retail discriminates against customers with lower incomes, who are under greater economic pressure to subject themselves to the inconvenience and hazards of self-service.
11) The increased use of self-service at retail in other states has contributed to diminishing the availability of automotive repair facilities at gasoline stations.
14) Self service dispensing at retail contributes to unemployment, particularly among young people.
A slightly different scenario in the county where I graduated from high school. High School teachers were 'strongly encouraged' (slim chance of getting hired without) to have at least a masters degree in their chosen specialities - my physics teacher, for example, had an MS Physics, my math teacher an MS Mathematics, and so on.
The way it's described, their system doesn't use weight for identification, but instead, for verification that nothing's been brought in and left there, or brought out that wasn't with the person when s/he came in.
I wonder if their algorithm involves both relevance as well as accessibility so that a highly relevant site might be able to be ranked first even if it's not as accessible as the alternatives.
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I guess Facebook just learned the significance of the first derivative test.
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Yes, and in many counties, so is the amount of property tax you paid, how much you contributed to Sheriff candidate X, and so on -- but one has to go and look for it. This move is much like everyone on your street receiving an update each time you do something that would be placed on public record.
Los Angeles had 118 "stage 1" smog alert days in 1975 (lowest threshold). After strict emissions controls were put in place, the number dropped down to 7 by 1996 and 0 by 2000 (http://www.arb.ca.gov/html/brochure/history.htm)
I assume that by finance, the allusion is towards financial planners, CPAs, and the like. There's no shortage of customers for credit cards, after all.
Because (in an ideal world), an impartial group of people are reading the ballots. If the paper-vote scanner is rigged, the FEC can use a different machine. With an e-vote, the ballot itself has been tampered with. Any number of recounts will give identical results.
Well, you COULD use LaTeX - define a stylesheet based on what you want initially, then just enter content and let it do the formatting for you.
Not as easy as Word, per se, but it does afford you a wide latitude of control.
Or it will be worse - for most of the public, a change after 5 years is harder than one after 2 years because they aren't used to changing.
Well, if the universe has "always existed" then the always implies an infinite past, no?
No, but if you had to reach 0 from -inf, you'd never make it, even if moving at quantized intervals. However, if you said that the concept of numbers just didnt exist past, say, -14 billion and you moved at these quantized intervals, you could very well reach zero. Passing zero and moving again at the same intervals, you could continue to go out forever and still be a measurable distance from zero.
It's not that the present time couldn't exist, it's that the present time couldn't be reached from a point in the infinitely distant past. Hence, the breakdown in the concept of time "before" the Big Bang.
(Or, am I misinterpreting your post?)
If there was no beginning, the universe must have been around for an infinite time before us; by examining the simple logic of infinity, this is clearly not possible. Since you can never reach infinity, the infinite time before us would still be ongoing, making it impossible for the present time to exist. Likewise, every element of the previously infinite time would need infinite time before it. Now, nothing in my argument precludes another universe from dying, collapsing, and reforming as ours. The concept of time, however, forces our present universe to have a beginning.
Holds are pressurized and heated - it's easier to engineer a single tubular pressure vessel than it is to pressurize the top and hope the floor holds. Same goes for cargo planes - their heating systems may be turned down a bit, but they're far from being -30C flying freezers.
Which is why so many people are willing to have surgery. But again, if the anaestheseologist screws up even a little bit, well - there won't be a you to dance around anyways.
In the past 2 years the airlines have, from my checked luggage, lost lost 1 laptop, ruined an LCD, and jammed a digital camera lens. All of these were in their original packaging, then placed inside a bag filled with clothes. I had insurance, so I was lucky.
You think with this added number of bags that have to be checked, screeners will be any more careful than they were in the past? When you hold the number of man-hours relatively constant but increase the speed at which checks have to be made as well as the average value of the goods (a laptop probably is worth more than the clothes in the bag, more than doubling the value of the check-in), mistakes become a-more prevalent, and b-more costly.
It's not something I'm willing to trust the airline with.
The two states that mandate no self service are NJ and OR.
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New Jersey passed the law making it illegal to pump your own gas in 1949. At the time, legislators felt it was too dangerous to have untrained people dispensing such a flammable liquid. - http://ask.yahoo.com/20040715.html
ORS480.315
1) The dispensing of Class 1 flammable liquids by dispensers properly trained in appropriate safety procedures reduces fire hazards directly associated with the dispensing of Class 1 flammable liquids.
7) Exposure to toxic fumes represents a health hazard to customers dispensing Class 1 flammable liquids.
10a) The significantly higher prices typically charged for full-service fuel dispensing in states where self service is permitted at retail discriminates against customers with lower incomes, who are under greater economic pressure to subject themselves to the inconvenience and hazards of self-service.
11) The increased use of self-service at retail in other states has contributed to diminishing the availability of automotive repair facilities at gasoline stations.
14) Self service dispensing at retail contributes to unemployment, particularly among young people.
17) Small children left unattended when customers leave to make payment at self service stations creates a dangerous situation. - http://www.capitalistchicks.com/html/news-viewart
A slightly different scenario in the county where I graduated from high school. High School teachers were 'strongly encouraged' (slim chance of getting hired without) to have at least a masters degree in their chosen specialities - my physics teacher, for example, had an MS Physics, my math teacher an MS Mathematics, and so on.
If you're inclined to teach yourself DiffEq - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471319988/002-03 87074-6940836?v=glance&n=283155 . You can find it cheaper used (even more so if you get the international edition in paperback).
Except a private entity - Lockheed - DID lose the Mars orbiter in question. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric. 02/
Why does this remind me of the kool-aid pitcher?
The way it's described, their system doesn't use weight for identification, but instead, for verification that nothing's been brought in and left there, or brought out that wasn't with the person when s/he came in.
I wonder if their algorithm involves both relevance as well as accessibility so that a highly relevant site might be able to be ranked first even if it's not as accessible as the alternatives.
Hey cool...another aero! Congrats on your grad school success - I'm an undergrad right now so I'll be doing that bit in the next few years.
http://www.nsa.gov/Careers/students_4.cfm . It does take a long while, however.
Not really the case - see http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answer s/970603.html .
oops...that should read "because a warrAnt"