Phi for All

On both counts?

I have a client who is an architect in the Cayman Islands. He tells me they have two choices, spend a fortune and build to withstand a hurricane, or build cheap and expect it to be trashed so you can rebuild cheap again. I suppose it's important to know how long you plan on staying. Plus I think it's a gamble for most people. If you knew you'd be getting hit hard every year, you pony up the dough and build to last. If you may get hit once every five years and it may not be very hard, you gamble on building with sticks. I didn't know about the insurance inequities. I've always wondered how anyone can insure Floridians anyway after last year, and how Floridians can afford it. I guess it's one of those cost of living things you're used to by now.

[hide]A balanced bowl of water, which sloshes when the table is bumped.[/hide] [hide]A leaning book propped up by a block of ice.[/hide]

The big guys are into repetitive purchase. If they can't get a monthly fee or multiple purchases from the same customer within a 2-3 year span, it's not worth their time. But this could be a great low-end security arrangement for people with remote locations they wish to secure (sheds, cabins, boat houses, storage spaces, detached garages), as a primary security system for single entrance flats, or even as a specialty security device (liquor cabinets for parents of teens, safes, manager's office while he's at lunch). I think it'd be worth it to find out how cheaply it could be made. You might even be able to get some free publicity since it's already been proven successful and helped captured some burglars.

Yeah, the old, "Brace yourself, Bridget!" foreplay method is soooooo 1905.

I wonder if you could find a supplier for just the parts you need. Then you could set it up with instructions on installation and which phone plan to get. The only drawback would be if you have to have a government liscense to purchase the phone bits. A security company might just split profits with you using their marketing and your package. That'd be a low-cost start-up. Or screw the other company (it may compete with their higher priced services) and just print leaflets to start. Offer the package at one price and personal installation at an hourly rate and just do it yourself. Set up a service contract to come out and change batteries for an additional charge. I don't think Nokia is going to give you a favorable response. It's too simple an idea and offers them no monthly fee, only a hardware charge.

Are you taking the angle that it's a great way to use up all the old outdated phones they must have laying around?

This is something I always regretted not doing. I did some acting and learned dancing for specific numbers, but I never learned dancing for fun. You're right, it's exercise with a purpose, you meet nice people and it's really very sexy. Like foreplay standing up.

I'm not sure if you ever said in the thread, but what does it cost you for the phone service on the "SHED" phone per month?

Design patents are practically worthless, and I don't think you have anything proprietary enough for a utility patent. By naming rights do you mean recognition or do you want to name the device?

I'm almost curious enough to want to know what we had to offer in the way of shoe advice. I took this to mean that if you care about yourself, others will also. I don't think he's advocating "It is better to look good than to feel good." I like the non-bar approach but I think the mall is where you go to find someone into material things, not relationships. Go to the mall, find a shopping partner. I like a person who saves the best bit for last. This is a gem, truly.

Best of luck, YT! Have they signed any non-disclosure agreements? What is the process?

Many years ago a friend who was learning accupuncture as an adjunct to his chiropractic practice showed me some of the things he had learned. He placed a 3/4 inch needle in the fleshy web between my thumb and forefinger and another just above my elbow and it made the entire forearm go numb. I was very surprised such a long needle could go into the flesh with no pain.

Since he's been dead for two years, that may be extreme. Eewww. You may be an extremist if you have more than 20 cats. You may be an extremist if you've never voted, and brag about it.

You could be. Define "stack".

As a guess I would say it has a lot to do with absorption. Purgers don't always purge immediately so some calories are absorbed. I think they also tend to binge on sugars which are more readily absorbed as calories and affect blood sugar much more quickly. Some bulimics use laxatives instead of purging. This would cause them to retain more calories as well. [MOD]I moved this thread to General Medicine since your OP was targeted towards a more physiological question. If the replies tend more towards the psychological ramifications of eating disorders, I'll move it back. [/MOD]

From the link: It's hard to take them seriously when they lump TOE with the origin of life on Earth. There could easily be some truth to organic molecules being seeded from cosmic materials, but what difference would that make to evolution?

Here's a scary thought: Sam has won Ugliest Dog Contest 3 years running, which means there is someone else out there preparing a dog to be even uglier so they can beat Sam next year.

Looks like the owner had his canine teeth removed 'cause they made him look too scary....

I think the rule is that you shouldn't wear all white after Labor Day. White pants/skirt and a white shirt/blouse are strictly for summer wear. I think it started because summer was when people would eat vanilla ice cream, and it didn't show on white when it dripped. Then someone invented chocolate ice cream and the whole rule became pointless. Ahem... You may be an extremist if your idea of "sports" has better than a 1 in 10 chance of ending in death.

- you reduce every argument down to someone criticizing you - you assume that any criticism is an attack on your beliefs - your response to an attack on your beliefs is to blow your attacker up

Owners of champion dogs go to great lengths to keep them winning contests. What do you think she does to keep this dog so ugly? Does she have an anti-groomer? I keep imagining what it's bark must be like. More of a shriek really, like pulling a taut piano string across a blackboard with your fingernails. I bet fleas run from this dog.

I think this is Susie Lockheed's husband.... They make her look great by comparison!

Trash day is right around the corner, believe me. I'm sick of the smell. I think he goes too far with his ideas about incest, and his group marriages are always stable. But then he writes from a perspective where polygamy has been an accepted practice for a long time and people have ironed out the kinks (did I say kinks?). I think The Moon is a Harsh Mistress had more believable polygamies than Stranger in a Strange Land. This is one of those instances where I can look at the subject objectively and say it has merit, but subjectively I can't see it working easily. A relationship between two people is difficult, would one between four people be twice as tough or exponentially tougher?

I can't decide if he looks like he's been set on fire or if doing so might make him look better....