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Well, I meant it like "shrinkage" (aka theft) is a cost of doing business in the retail industry. You put up with some small amount of theft because the cost of stopping it is more than the cost of your losses due to theft.
Sure, you could have 0 theft if you just locked the doors to your store and didn't let anyone in...but you'd go out of business press quick.
Republicans wanted this looking forward to base projections on reality, not on fantasy.
I have a grease-fire on my stove. Based on the fact that my house has historically not been on fire, I will do nothing about said grease-fire, and will legislate that everyone ignore experts' "wild fantasy predictions" that the house may indeed burn down.
Plus it's doubtful it will actually rise that much in one century.
It is? That's the consensus view right now among, you know, actual scientists who know what the fuck they're talking about.
If you let government take over your health care, you are giving the government control over your health.
As opposed to the for-profit entities that control my health now? I'll take my chances with the Gov, thanks. At least they won't kill me/bankrupt me so the CEO can make an extra buck.
It's mandatory help that's enabling people to not make the individual decision to change their ways.
They'd make the same decisions otherwise, but it would cause more collateral damage to society. Think of it as a cost of "doing business" (i.e. having a stable society)
Consulting on *what*? IT? Isn't that exactly the same thing?
Never going back to contacts again, not even for groovy sci-fi VR glasses.
When was the last time your tried contacts? Materials science has come a looooong way in the last 10 years or so.
Much more comfortable than they were in the 90s.
Yes, this is the way to go. Grab an older Android phone.
Fuck micro-controllers, just write an app. It's got wifi, bluetooth, ethernet (I assume that can be done over USB easily), haptic feedback...what else do you want on a hobby board?
OK he did some other dude, didn't want people to know, despite the fact that most civilized people don't really care and in this modern era you don't have to care about the uncivilized people who do care
Yeah, it's just that simple. *eye roll*
This, plus other sermons the rabbi delivered, make me think that the ultra-orthodox live in fear that they are so weak-willed that they will give into desire/sin/whatever once the tiniest of opportunities present themselves. Thus, they make rules to prevent people from coming anywhere close to temptation.
Not to be rude, but that sounds almost *exactly* like Vulcan culture.
This device has already been invented by a certain Tom Peters. I present: THE CALCUCORN:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7064178994016272127
(skip to 7:15)
Do you really think anyone spends 100K on a Breguet because it tells accurate time?
No, they spend $100K on it because they're a pretentious douchebag with more money than sense/penis size.
I've had T-Mobile since 2004 and I get just fine service almost everywhere.
Sure, if I'm waaaay out in the boonies I may be stuck with GPRS data, but I almost always have a signal to make a call.
Add on the fact that you can make/receive calls over wifi totally seamlessly and that makes it even better. When you're connected to wifi the phone will shut off its GSM radio and you save tons of battery life.
"Terahertz radiation is non-ionizing submillimeter microwave radiation and shares with microwaves the capability to penetrate a wide variety of non-conducting materials. Terahertz radiation can pass through clothing, paper, cardboard, wood, masonry, plastic and ceramics. It can also penetrate fog and clouds, but cannot penetrate metal or water."
Yes, you're right. After all, visible-light is pretty damn high-frequency and it sucks at penetrating walls.
Visible light: 400 to 700 nm
Far Infrared: 15,000 nm to 1,000,000 nm
Regular wifi: 125,000,000 nm
I have no idea at what wavelength drywall and other modern building materials start seriously attenuating a signal (as in "only good for line-of-sight" attenuating). Anyone?
Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall