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    Delete

    Actually the summary should have been: What % of your bank account is 50k?
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    Delete

    It is a function of the marginal utility of 50,000 to the individual making the bet. Actually coming up with 50k to pay you would be do-able, for me, but would mean giving up on my Ph.D. program. For others it would mean losing the kids collage fund, for others it would mean selling off the...
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    CNN = No Grasp of technology whatsoever

    Here's a fact: I can't do what I want on Linux. HAahaha you are joking, right? You don't get to ask the question "is windows better than Linux" and then say "but what you can run is off the table". The question is, given the abilities of Linux and the abilities of windows (which includes...
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    First! in video game for MBA capstone course

    Market share matters when you have to take the market away from your class so that you can score the most points. Part of my job has been disinformation and information-procurement: this is so that I can protect my market share from the rest of the class by responding to their moves. And full...
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    Note to people planning events

    How could you be expected when you know no one?
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    First! in video game for MBA capstone course

    This is among everyone across the world playing right now in their strategic management course. The other groups in my class have an 82 62 and 52.
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    First! in video game for MBA capstone course

    Yep; Scoring is based on balancing things; many people have chosen to maximize one thing over another (like short term profit over long-term market share) but the game balances investor expectations on a number of criteria.
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    First! in video game for MBA capstone course

    http://www.glo-bus.com/stats/top20.html?id=750 My company is Dominion, we are in first place, tied with others, on a video game we have to play for a grade in my cap-stone MBA course.
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    3 monitors: all wide?

    on yea! details! 1.) I have not got a single monitor on hand for this 2.) I have a budget of $500-$700 for a new video card and monitors 3.) My mobo supports pci express 16 2.1 I have been looking at three these: ASUS VW224U Black 22" 2ms(GTG) Widescreen LCD Monitor w/ HDCP Support...
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    DVD Duplicators and DVD Printers

    Ok; so the question here is: 1.) why are we doing this? are you trying to glass-master some stuff you created or are you doing a burn-on-demand system? Glass mastering is something I would recommend you out-source:http://www.mediatechnics.com/pages/duplication.htm If it is a burn on demand...
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    Guess What This Is...

    Hum.. I guess even in the 50s there was a reason to think people might need more than 512kb of memory...
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    3 monitors: all wide?

    I was thinking of going with 3 monitors; all of them flat-panel. The first option is all wide-screen, one land scape the other two smaller but set to portrait. The other option is to get a wide-screen for the center display and two 3:4's for the two off-set screens. My general work flow...
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    Best credit card to get for a student?

    To be clear we are both right. Although they can report your maximum actual credit, when you are starting off they tend to report only what you have utilized previously because that is all the must report; this helps lock you in. But with 30k available you likely would not be hurt too much by...
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    Best credit card to get for a student?

    to watch out for: annual fee, 'minimum' interest charges and 'grace' periods that are shorter than the month is long. to build credit: credit is based off of the kinds of debt you have and your debt to maximum credit utilization ratio. Maximum credt untilization, though, means how much you...
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    Marc Hauser, the "Moral Minds" guy was a liar.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/education/14harvard.html Basically this guy was well known for being interesting. I've always been told that the cardinal sin of social science research was to be boring... i guess those people forget that faking your laboratory data is a bad idea too...
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    Average salary?

    http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos303.htm#earnings The middle 50 percent earned between $52,640 and $89,720 a year. There is a lot of age bias in the industry; but if you have that kind of experience and have kept your experience sharp you're a good find... usually though, by that time, you've gone...
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    Trident

    the superiority of the halberd over the quarter staff is undeniable.
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    Now this is displacement!

    DeadlyApp: that thing looked like it was going to sink.
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    Great video review of Inception: spoilers

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoaZMCo4vIs&feature=player_embedded Last time I tried to post this guy's review it was a very long, though interesting, blog-like post... this is much easier to consume. so Do you think the awesomeness of Inception can mean that we'll see even better...
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    Do babies go to hell, and what's up with God-Jesus dying?

    Interesting thought, but Jesus says that whoever seeks to save his life will lose it and who ever loses it for his fellow man saves it. The right thing to do is not corrupted simply because you know it is the beneficial thing to do. I was raised in a negative situation, but I'm not looking to...
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    Do babies go to hell, and what's up with God-Jesus dying?

    This is not to far from the truth... I think a lot of us are here because being a 145+ means you're speaking into an empty room when having a conversation at work (people get weird three standard deviations out). I thought you were trying to lead the discussion in the direction of philosophy of...
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    Do babies go to hell, and what's up with God-Jesus dying?

    Just ask yourself: Is denying other-hurting selfish natural impulses a good thing? If it is then whatever is good for learning to do that and changing your ways is good, no matter how suspect the origins. It is best not to hurt others for your own gain, everyone knows this, no book is needed but...
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    Who has the better Vocal - Paul or John?

    John: Strawberry Fields Lucy in the sky Across the Universe I can go on, but that's all you need.
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    Many US Kids confused by equals sign

    This is actually a function of the amount of Pepsi you drink. At low levels of consumption Pepsi is superior, when you get into your third can in a sitting Coke's 'crips' taste wins out.
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    Wake up snorlax Wake-up

    I think that anything that prepares you to better the world is part of being awake; I don't know you personally, but for me sci-fi books and TV shows don't do that. I want to make an independent film some day, so I enjoy cinema on both an entertaining and artistic level; I would say the same for...
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    Wake up snorlax Wake-up

    Makes you wonder how much time we spend awake doesn't it?
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    Do babies go to hell, and what's up with God-Jesus dying?

    Did you read what I said about how faith in Christ is about loving others and denying other-hurting selfishness? You tell me, honestly, is that wrong? Is something that helps makes someone who needs it more loving wrong? I admit the ideas are distorted by human institutions, but the concept...
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    Do babies go to hell, and what's up with God-Jesus dying?

    This is a consistent theme; no one has come onto this thread having actually read it and being upset with what I said. I posted about research, some personal thoughts, the movie inception and teaching in another, nearly ignored, thread that went up a bit earlier. I would love to talk about...
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    Who the hell would want to be a teacher nowadays?

    Analog's got the answer.
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    Many US Kids confused by equals sign

    then the question becomes not "do we know an = sign" but "do we know OF algebra" by 6th grade: the answer is no. Is this bad or just different? does it show that we don't know how an = sign works or that we don't know how ()s work? Who's to say that the = was not explaining how the addition...
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    Do babies go to hell, and what's up with God-Jesus dying?

    Religion, as pointed out by the moose, has been a major cause of the perversion of the loving each-other teachings of Christ. Do you think that if people were honestly doing what Jesus said and loving each other, being selfless and letting God work through us in love we would have: the crusades...
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    Who the hell would want to be a teacher nowadays?

    It used to be that a woman could only get a job as a nurse or a school teacher. There were lots of very smart women, working for much lower wages, simply because they weren’t social allowed to do anything else. We opened up the market place but forgot to match the compensation for the...
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    The Complete "Who is the best Star Trek Actress?"

    I'm between B'Elanna and Jadzea. Both had complex characters that they played well. Balancing the anger of a half Klingon, the rough-and-tumble background of a terrorist and integration into a military-style law-and-order organization while keeping it all believable is quite the...
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    Do babies go to hell, and what's up with God-Jesus dying?

    The main issue Jesus addresses is loving your fellow man and letting God work in you so that you can get past your own selfish lust, selfish greed and selfish pride. God is perfect; he will create a reality with us in it that incorporates what is perfect in us. For now existence is flawed...
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    Wake up snorlax Wake-up

    Executive summary: I liked inception and this 'review' of it: http://themoviepreviewcritic.com/html/inception_movie_review.html Body: I will be a professor some day. I will research how to help those with functional levels of autism reach their potential in a working environment and...
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    74% of births in Parkland public hospital in Dallas Tx are by ILLEGAL moms

    Without someone who lives here becoming a citizen you create a perpetual under-class, something we've generally agreed is a bad thing since reconstruction.