Are you sure their recommendation algorithm doesn't just know you that well?

(he didn't fix it...they know this for certain now...and that we'd have been out of it quicker had he not done the WPA stuff...)

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I've wanted to reply with that like... forever. Not as cool as I thought it'd be.

China has a lot of those too, they're called bonds. American citizens buy those too. So do American companies.

What would you like them to do with the money? Tuck it away under the mattress of the Treasury Secretary?

At least with the version my company uses, ActiveX is not required for the web interface. Or it has a ActiveX interface, a heavy interface, and a mobile interface and just doesn't tell me about the ActiveX one when I log in on my Linux laptop with Chrome. It would be nice if it would stop asking me which interface I'd like to use. That said, Notes should DIAF.

You did a 3 letter search across a search engine that indexes... pretty much the entire internet... and you're mad that it didn't know exactly what you mean?

At least for me, the first page for a search for nfs on google is mostly about NFS (Network File System), with the top and 1 other link being Need For Speed, and one for Nuclear Fuel Service.

Really? Going to be mad that your ambiguous query didn't return what you wanted as the top result?

I don't use Windows anywhere but at work, so I'm pretty clueless about the situation. My work laptop has Windows 7 on it and I've had to download (myself) .Net Framework 1.1 and 4.0 for different things I run (Parker ACRView and Microsoft Expression Encoder). I don't know if those are included by default, and our IT guys just leave it out for some reason.

I like that model for me, but here's why the ISPs will never adopt it: they would get less revenue from the vast majority of their subscribers.

They already know these people will shell out $50/month for their connection, which they do not use to its full potential. For example, my parents get cable internet and use it for basic stuff, checking email, stocks, basic research on things, maybe the occasional YouTube video that someone forwards to them. They couldn't use more than 10gb a month. Under your plan, they'd spend something like $10/mo. The cable company is never going to go for that when they know they can extract another $40/mo from them.

Now lets say you raise those rates so the basic users pay just about what they pay now. That's going to raise the monthly bills for those of us who use our connections substantially, and possibly price us out of their service. I'm still starting out my professional career, I can afford the monthly bill for my internet service (though I'm still at a promo rate) and I could afford to go somewhat higher than what the real rate is going to be after the promo expires, but there is a point where the price exceeds what I can justify for the value I get from the service. I could use it more like my parents, but that reduces the value to me. So essentially, with your plan, they lost $40/mo and could lose the $50/mo from me, a net loss for the provider.

BTW, you do know that social security is self-funded, right?

While thats true, they bought government bonds with the money we gave them, we used that money to fund all the things the government does, and now we're on the line to pay back the fund. That money has to come from somewhere.

We could do a lot better, but we could do a lot worse (see Ron Johnson). Luckily, I think we are in a progressive uptick in Wisconsin. Kohl probably won't run for another term, anyway. I'm kind of expecting one of the WI 14 to run for the seat (Erpenbach or Miller)

I go to school in Michigan, and we have this too. All 200 level and below classes are required to have old tests in the library (both in bulky binders and the library website). Higher level classes might have stuff there too. Anything not there, the fraternities have.

Because there is supposed to be a separation between the editorial content and the newsroom. The editorial board is responsible for the endorsement.

I haven't read it yet, but here is the full PDF. Google Scholar is amazing.

I actually really like this idea, and I'm surprised I haven't heard it before.

But it doesn't solve the problem of what police officers should ticket people for. Exceeding the max speed limit is a real easy thing to prove (radar guns are cheap, and accurate enough). Proving you are driving recklessly is much more subjective and harder to prove with a simple test that can be administered fairly across all drivers.

If they refuse to work, they probably weren't that great of employees to begin with and are probably affecting the morale of your other employees negatively.

I'm not saying that employee retraining shouldn't be considered as part of the transition costs at all. That'd just be insane.

If your employees refuse to do the work, I'm sure in this economy you can find more than enough people willing to. Yes, transitioning between any systems is going to have a learning curve for employees, but that can't be the only reason not to do it.