The Better Business Bureau isn’t actually a government authority or anything. It’s Yelp before there was the internet. So report on their Yelp page, report at the BBB, sure. I’ve seen better traction (ie real public shaming and awareness generating) on local community sites like a Facebook group or NextDoor.
Definitely name names.
JumpCut for OS X
My paste hotkey for it is Shift-Cmd-V and you can hold one key after to arrow through old items.
Transfer.
I won’t justify that answer because it sounds like you’re looking for someone to tell you what to do. And really, you’re smart enough to figure out why.
Depending slightly on how you define success, there’s not a good chance of being successful in the start up market. But it seems like you’re coming up with solutions to a problem you haven’t defined well.
What’s your goal here? Why are you putting the effort into doing this market research? Into figuring out ways to assess viability of ideas? Is it just for fun? For the joy of exploring ideas? Or are you looking to create a job for yourself? To build a billion-dollar empire? How do you define success?
In short, why?
Slow orbit? More like 120 miles per second in reference to the galactic center.
Charlie Stross’s Eschaton books have a pretty good take on time travelling, light cones, and causality.
If you want to ensure she won’t regret the choice, go shopping together!
You will pay extra, as in you will pay more than the ring is worth. If you buy a diamond ring, turn around and try to sell it back, they’ll give you something like 30% for it.
Also, listen to this: http://freakonomics.com/2015/04/16/diamonds-are-a-marriage-counselors-best-friend-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/
Sending 25 resumes is one strategy, but there are others. I believe you should find a few companies you like, learn a lot about them, find someone who has a contact at them, and develop a relationship with that contact.
This website has a lot of elements I agree with in terms of trying to get a job: http://corcodilos.com/blog/7633/how-to-tease-a-job-interview-out-of-a-manager
I wish you the best of luck in whatever technique you try to be happier.
I think you could probably benefit from AA. At the very least you should consider quitting drinking all together.
Your posts are a little inconsistent (I don’t get drunk vs I’m bored, let’s get drunk! and I drink because I like the taste vs I drink crappy tasting cheap beer), but it sounds like you’re pretty depressed and use alcohol to cope with that. I think you would benefit from quitting drinking entirely and I’ve found for myself that AA helps with that. The the only necessary requirement for AA membership is the desire to quit drinking.
A lot of the literature of AA was written 80 years ago and reflects a societal aspect of drinking that may not apply to you. The purpose of AA isn’t to help a certain “type” of drunk, it’s to support someone who doesn’t want to drink anymore. There’s certainly criticisms of the program, both in its effectiveness and it’s religiousity. But I’m an atheist, drank from ages 17-39 but wasn’t a “drunk” and I quit last summer and I’ve discovered a few things: -I am better at life when I don’t drink. I am better at being a dad, a husband, a friend,etc. -I have to abstain completely...I cannot reliably control my drinking -I’m a lot happier when I go to AA meetings at least once a week -N/A beer sucks. It’s no comparison!
In addition to the not drinking part (strongly correlated with happiness), AA has some of the elements that make religion correlate with happiness. There’s ritual, fellowship, and shared experience.
I think EY has a better chance of getting a Hugo in the Fan Writer category:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Fan_Writer
If a wizard wants the P Stone Treatment, they have to agree to two things: To sacrifice a little magic as part of the Vow of another and to take a Vow themselves.
“Let’s see how you like everyone thinking you defeated the Dark Lord and you not remembering it.” -Harry
I think it’s quite poetic that Hermione is going to be made into a book.
I feel bad for whoever voices QQ in the hpmor podcast. Chapter 108 is going to be a lot of exposition. Much of it should have been cut and/or moved to the narrator.
Even after re-reading the horcrux stuff a couple times, I’m still confused.
There are two types of horcuxes, v1 and v2. v1 only captures your mindstate as it was at the time of creation. v2 updates all horcruxes to the current mindstate. v1s were hidden in the canonical places (diadem, slytherian’s locket, etc), v2 in the hard to reach ones (mariana trench, pioneer probe).
After 10/31/1981, Tom’s mindstate bounced around the v2 horcruxes. In 1992, Quirrell found a v1 horcrux (“one of my earliest”). How does that work? How can a v1, which hasn’t updated, give rise to the current Voldemort?
He wouldn’t have Slytherin’s monster’s power, or knowledge of anything after the horcrux’s creation.
Also, how are those current v2 backups handling two Toms? Which mindstate is getting backed up? Probably the QQ one, but how does V know the system even works??
And isn’t it suspicious that Quirrell finds this horcrux just a few months before Harry is to attend Hogwarts?
Upon rereading 108, it’s ambiguous if QMort is telling the full truth about horcruxes. His Parseltongue confirmation comes later, after his horcrux explication.
Harry had a better choice: “Shoot the hostage”
Either fatally or a good wounding in the leg.
Harry’d already committed that his life was a worthy sacrifice to foil V’s plans. Clearly V. felt Harry should be alive for some reason. Ergo, Harry’s death would have hurt his plans. Stopped entirely? Maybe, maybe not.
A leg wound, preventing him from walking, requiring his own wand to heal or some machinations on V’s part to find some non-magical interaction way to heal/move Harry would have also done nicely.
Because V. is afraid of prophecies?
200,000 years? Pfah. That’s a poor measure of success.
Goblin sharks have been around for 600 times as long. I don’t think we can say we’re particularly successful as a species for at least a 30 million years.
With luck you and I as individuals will be around to see it, but to do so, we’ll probably have deal with our biases.
Also, evolution happens across a species in an environment and within a species across a population. You don’t have to be faster than the bear, just faster than the slowest guy being chased by the bear.
My understanding is that most homeless people are ‘local’ to the area. That is, the majority were already residents of a city before becoming homeless and for a variety of common sense reasons would not want to leave. They know the physical and social geography of their area. They have family or other deep ties. They know which shelters are open at which times, which areas to avoid, where to get dinner on a Thursday. Where it’s relatively safe to sleep outside, etc.
Promising a person that if they move they’ll be provided for means they lose whatever social network they have and requires trust that such a promise will be fulfilled and they won’t be stranded in a worse situation.
That understanding is based on a handful of evenings volunteering at a local homeless shelter, conversations with a friend who is heavily involved in the non-profit world of homelessness, and a layman’s interest in housing policy.