My alma mater averages $210/credit hour (http://tuitionfees.smca.ucf.edu/). The engineering degree, when I graduated, was 128 credit hours. This brings the cost of the degree close to $27000 ($6000/year). It appears that GP paid 50% more than traditional education (in-state tuition) for his non-traditional degree program.
I hate to rain on your parade with facts, but here are some relevant facts:
The Minimum Retirement Age (MRA) for someone currently in the workforce is around 57 (or any age with 25 years of service).
Payments don't start until you actually hit MRA.
The average federal worker makes 78K/year (let's not debate this too much, as president Obama is in these numbers).
While you can start payments at MRA with only 5 years in service (woo!) the amount of that pay is 1% of your average salary for your three highest salaried years per year. In other words, you'd get less than 5% of your ending salary (about $325/month).
The person in your example works for 20 years (let's say 18-38), "retires", begins receiving payments at 57 (no inflation adjustments during this time period). Let's pretend that this is the first year they receive payments (they retired in 1995) and that they made average salary ($61,000) at that time. They are now entitled to begin those lucrative payments you speak so highly about... $12200/year.
Your point that they will receive this payment until the end of their life is accurate, and they may receive this $12K/year (which is now adjusted upwards yearly for inflation) until they are 90 years old.
Sources:
https://www.opm.gov/retirement...
https://www.opm.gov/retirement...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
www.cato.org/pubs/tbb/tbb-0605-35.pdf
Perhaps by using this: http://tx.technion.ac.il/~zvik...
Also, by drawing it in a drawing program and saving it as an image (http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/fimg88.gif).
Note: I am a scientist and use PowerPoint daily. There is a place for each goal:
Giving a scientific talk at a conference (20 minute presentation, 10 minute Q/A) - PowerPoint
Giving a project/program briefing of monthly activity - PowerPoint
Giving a classroom presentation - PowerPoint
It is a good format for one-way presenting. It is not a substitute for dialogue, decision making, collaborative pro/con analysis, or documentation. There are other solutions for that (whiteboard, whiteboard-handout combo, briefing-whiteboard combo, whitepaper, respectively).
In this case, reading, writing, listening, and speaking a foreign language should all be different tasks. The neuroscience doesn't lie: the region of the language processing center lights up; portions of programming are similar to foreign languages.
Amazing playlist. All my favorites in one place!
Please listen at: http://grooveshark.com/#!/play...
Best. Playlist. Ever.
This is awesome! All the best music in one place!
I've made this my Grooveshark playlist! See it here: http://grooveshark.com/#!/play...
You. Are. Welcome.
Missing option: I'm jumping ship to the first replacement that comes up. Slashcode will likely do a good job.
Yes please.
http://slashcode.com/
narrower read pane, limited moderation filtering, and several color/size/font adjustments
So, I enjoy the large reading pane, as this is where the heart of slashdot lives.
Moderation filtering is what allows intellectual discussion to occur.
The font/color/size adjustments in general make slashdot seem "whiter", "trendier" and "ad ridden", which are among the things that I avoid on the Internet.
Quite frankly, these changes are removing what makes slashdot, slashdot. Slashdot is the slow-crawl IRC among many respectable scientists and engineers. I have been browsing and posting
I have applied the "fuckbeta" tag to all stories this morning, have used my moderation points in other threads to promote resisting the change, have written an E-mail on the subject, and have posted in this thread. I would send money if I believed that it had the influence to keep the old slashdot layout, as I believe the change to the new layout may prevent what this country needs: intellectual discussion. Tell me where to send the ransom money. I'm not kidding.
Words have meaning and purpose. What words would you use to express the following concepts?
- a collection of tools which allow you to build a new component through their leverage, while not contributing significantly to the overall effectiveness of the tools (or won't particularly be used in operation)
- a collection of functional components which you will use as part of the operation of a new component
Currently, the words are "platform" and "system". I'm happy to switch to other words if they express the concept better.
The premise of this post is factually inaccurate. You can be pardoned prior to being brought to trial. As a famous example, famously, President Ford pardoned Nixon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
Additionally, you don't have to be pardoned for crimes. As an example, please read the text of the pardon (proclamation 4311).
Now, Therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.
The above is quite clearly a pardon for crimes which he "may have committed" during that time. He could have killed a million people with his bare hands, the pardon would still stand.
So let's say that my company has three lines of products on three different webpages. We decide to discontinue two of the lines of products for being unprofitable, and remove the pages. Google search results still show the pages, and archive.org still shows them to users. These products are still shown to my potential customers, who experience frustration when they attempt to get them.
Alternately, I create a temporary webpage for displaying some demo content to a potential client. It is a demo page, and ridden with bugs, holes, and other areas that need improvement. Archive.org still shows this page as part of search results? What will potential clients think of my company, given that it put up a buggy/terrible page?
Alternately, let's just say that I rename a longstanding webpage (technology.slashdot.org to tech.slashdot.org) and delete the old URL. Should archive.org redirect to false content?
Or, let's say that my restaurant decides to take down its 2013menu.html page, and doesn't wish customers to be able to compare its new and old menu side by side to see where prices inflated.
Error messages have purpose. While the most common case is that the page/server went offline, there are many times where a page URL changes as a result of regular website updates, where you don't want users to obtain old content.
Sometimes things are deleted for a reason.
Consider this situation:
Kid: What color was the ichthyosaur?
Parent: "We don't know, but it was probably dark-colored because it lived deep in the ocean. However, it may have been brightly colored to attract a mate, may have glowed in the dark to attract prey, or may have had tiger-like patterning to hide in native vegetation. We may never know."
...
Scientist: "We have found out! It was dark grey. You should cheer because we have answered a fundamental question about the ichthyosaur. We can use this method to discover what color the other dinosaurs were, if you would want to know."
I'd just like to say that the Beatles haven't been bigger than Jesus since 2004, when Google started recording search results...
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F07c0j%2C%20Jesus&cmpt=q
Also, that they weren't bigger than Jesus, in text, at any time:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the+Beatles%2CJesus&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cthe%20Beatles%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CJesus%3B%2Cc0
Jesus is still bigger than bitcoin... for now...
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitcoin%2C%20jesus&cmpt=q
It mostly works the way that you have represented. The majority of your post in on the back-end propagation of updates, which works well, and obviously doesn't work when offline. Generally apps work offline by default (like a saved webpage), unless your app needs to reach to an online site.
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
