Or as a quant on Wall St.

The penalty for under-consumption should never be more than the cost of the electricity that one would have to consume to avoid the penalty. There's no point in motivating them to *waste* electricity.

Romney's response to Question 11:

For example, his “Utility MACT” rule is purportedly aimed at reducing mercury pollution, yet the EPA estimates that the rule will cost $10 billion to reduce mercury pollution by only $6 million (with an “m”).

I understand the cost of a reduction being $10 billion. What does it mean to say that the extent of a reduction in mercury pollution is measured in dollars?

"Tyranny of the majority" is when two wolves and a sheep vote on what to have for lunch.
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You're both right. The GGP was correct, and it follows the same rules. E.g., see "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" lyrics, first line: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.

Unfortunately, they were right.

Wrong. 0.09999... == 0.1 for the same reasons 0.999999... == 1:

Let:
          X = 0.09999...
Then:
    10X = 0.9999...

(10X - X) = 0.999999... - 0.0999999...
(All 9's in hundredths place and beyond cancel out)

9X = 0.90000000...
X = .1
QED

I saw a job posting in 2003 that insisted upon a minimum of 10 years of Java programming experience.

Tell your friend that she's a racist.

Why? Because every birther is a racist.

I know that's a strong statement, but I can prove it. Every birther believes that Barack Obama is not the legitimately elected president of the United States because there is some question as to whether or not he was born in the United States. (Actually, there's provably no question any more, but the racist birthers like to pretend that there is.) But I'd bet anything that ever birther, every last one of them, voted for John McCain in the last election. And unlike Barack Obama, there has never been any question as to whether or not John McCain was born in the United States. John McCain was absolutely, positively, undeniably, without a doubt NOT born in the United States. John McCain was born on a U.S. naval base in the panama canal region. It was not incorporated U.S. territory at the time of his birth, and babies were not, at that time, automatically given birthright citizenship merely by virtue of having been born there. However, at the moment of his birth, John McCain was a natural born citizen of the U.S. because at least one of his parents was a citizen. This is precisely the same reason why Barack Obama would still be a natural born citizen even if he were not born in Hawaii, which he was. So, apparently, to the birthers, this standard of citizenship, while good enough for John McCain, is not good enough for Barack Obama, even though Obama's claim to natural-born citizenship is stronger than McCain's. And the only possible explanation for this level of hypocricy is racism.

I was being sarcastic and not very well.

No, it was done quite well, and not lost on me or most of the other readers, I imagine. But then, I've been reading your posts long enough to recognize and appreciate your brand of humor.

This state blows nuts. I'll be glad when I'm the hell out of here. This state is notorious for not siding or even giving a damn about it's people.

What did you expect? As Charlie Daniels famously observed, the devil had to go down to get to Georgia.

The new technique is only secure, the patent admits, in cases where the user leaves a mobile device's charger at home.

And even then, it's only secure if nobody breaks into your home. And you'll need a separate power adapter for use outside home. Under these conditions, you can ditch the home power adapter and replace it with a piece of paper with the password written on it.

Oct 1st, when the DoD has new funds to release to defense contractors like my employer.

Somebody truncated the "like we need holes in our heads" part.