Comment Re:Way to plagiarize (Score 1) 281
Phil McCracken's brother?
Phil McCracken's brother?
No doubt. *Real* tea is served supersaturated with sugar, over ice cubes.
Actually the law was the Durbin amendment to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. It capped the amount of money banks could make on debit card processing, so it became not as profitable for banks to keep these reward programs on their debit cards. The law itself didn't bar banks from having rewards programs, but that's the net effect, at least with most large banks.
My credit union is largely unaffected by this, it seems.
While being fit is important for space vocations, I suspect most of the fitness requirements center around looking sexy for TV. The hiring guidelines for astronauts in the US and Russia were created during the biggest PR penis waving contest of the last century, and being sexy for cameras was very important for political reasons. I suspect there is a very large amount of beaurocratic inertia on those guidelines, and that many of the physical fitness reqs are not actually necessary for the job, but have been retained because being too picky is less troublesome than getting new guidelines through regulatory approval.
Have you ever tried to breathe while your extra 40 pounds of belly fat are pressing against your diaphragm at 4 Gs? Heck, the centrifuge-type ride at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville had me struggling to breathe, and I'm sure it doesn't pull nearly that many Gs.
You have *way* too much time on your hands.
It took me 2 years of studying spansish before I understood that you used the "Lo, la, los, las" and whatever ever similar ones to denote singular and plural just like in my own language.
You must be a slow study. I picked up on that my second week of studying it, in High School 20 years ago.v Of course I can barely speak the language now, but that's because of a lack of practice.
Really? You mean I can practice law without having to be admitted to the bar?
Sweet, I'm off to open a law practice.
"Whatever doesn't kill you, only delays the inevitable..."
And I would have my own personal unicorn that craps Skittles on demand. Also, I could eat candy and poop diamonds.
Meanwhile, here in the real world... systems experience unexpected failures that will require them to be patched/rebooted/etc at the most inconvenient of times.
Do pebble bed reactors meet this requirement? From what I understand (and IANA Nuclear Physicist) that you can remove the control rods and shut off the coolant pumps, and all that happens is the reactor vessel gets really, really hot.
Of course, you said "pulverized", so in reality I don't think any reactor will survive that and not contaminate the surrounding area.
BlackBerry phones allow this too. In fact I cant think of a device that doesn't allow it, probably some sort of federal regulation, like any phone with a signal can dial 911 regardless of whether or not it has a valid SIM.
Sounds like a pretty sweet setup.
So, when a production server refuses to boot after you've just done a P2V migration, who do you call for support?
...(though granted, with the Republicans in charge, those benefits are getting cut by greedy legislators every day).
And what, exactly, are the Republicans "in charge" of? Last I checked, they run one half one one of the three branches of government.
Hardly "in charge" by most standards.
I could have bought a nice BMW and saved for a house.
Not having just filed bankruptcy, you wouldn't.
First order of business would be to evaluate the current media distribution contracts. While we aren't privy to all the details, something seems a little off about paying DreamWorks $30 million per picture and then still having to wait until it appears on TV - if that is indeed what the agreement says.
You also need to find a way to differentiate yourself from Vudu, Hulu, Amazon, and all the network- and provider-owned streaming services and sites. While we as the more technically inclined can see the difference, could our grandmother? Some might argue that the tech crowd is the target market (or a core market, at least) - but that's self-limiting. NetFlix needs to become the "iPod" of online disc rental services - maybe not the best technology, but make it accessible to everyone.
Third, take a look at the streaming side of the house, and give it more content and less suck. That's allegedly the long-term direction for the business, but it seems to be an "add-on" service in the way it's marketed. I know the copyright holders have a lot of play in this area, but certainly something can be done for the large back catalog that most studios have. For example, Blazing Saddles is a movie that's older than I am - do the studios *really* think that streaming a 36-year-old movie will cut into their profits any?
Above all, try to be more transparent with the customer, and not so dismissive.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
