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Their primarily purpose is to generate revenue.
Primary purpose is a slippery concept best avoided when analyzing behavior.
A primary decision driver of any "managed, budgeted organization" is how to reduce expenses and or increase income to support and protect the activities management wishes to pursue.
A common goal is keeping people employed, and people are expensive.
Your epilepsy is a 1% neurological condition (99% of people don't have it)
Your ability to learn and apply new (to you) concepts after age 40 is similarly rare.
The old saw about "anyone can learn anything if they just apply themselves" is not true for some people, and as people age it becomes not true for more and more of them.
Simple logical proposal:
Insurance is a profit center with administrative costs. The insured, on average, lose.
Now, if you are an above average risk and you can weasel your way into a pool of lower risk insured, then you personally could stand to win. Above average risk includes those who abuse their equipment and then lie about having done so, etc.
If you're not one of those people, consider the fact that you're buying into an insurance pool with people like that in it - potentially a lot of them.
It's called rank & yank. Great to keep a culture of stress and fear bubbling over, which is how they seem to like it at EA.
The Canadian TV series was kinda fun too... guilty pleasure. There's plenty of room for more storytelling in the Highlander Universe - it's just that Highlander 2 was from another universe, one that I don't want to understand.
Highlander 2 didn't happen - it was an alternate, dead-end timeline. Nothing to see there, move along.
If Disney is going to ruin Star Wars, they're going to do it by appealing to the broadest possible market, something Lucas was desperately trying to do himself, and mostly succeeding. Did anybody here actually eat any C3P-Os in the 1980s?
Hydrogen Sulfide gas is naturally occuring in deep groundwater, at least in Florida and similar places.
>less experience developers be able to create fancy websites by just using DOM and not having to learn jquery
and you expect more experienced developers to make this happen? Look at lawyers and the law since the 1600s - when has it ever gotten simpler or easier for newbies?
Lightweight is no longer about size... cheap systems are coming with 8GB of Flash and 2GB of RAM these days.
What's important is speed on relatively (400MHz) slow/weak low power processor cores.
>quality of engineers coming out of college or universities is declining at an alarming rate
In the U.S. we are far ahead of Europe, the quality of engineers graduating from Universities has been dismal for at least 30 years now. In an average class of 20-30 engineers, there were typically only 1 or 2 that "got it" back in the late 1980s, the rest were skating by on minimal effort.
Pretty much empty describes taxi business in Little Rock... I think NYC would more resemble this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_la_Defense
or this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_%E2%80%93_Live_in_Berlin
Ever been to a free concert?
Depends on where/when - some places there are piles of "town cars" with drivers loitering nearby who are more than willing to book a ride to the airport for, well, how about right now? They're not taxicabs, wink wink.
At least he's having fun, and spending his money instead of using it for insulation in his mansion.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Publilius Syrus