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My name is Traal, after that other Traal. I've had this handle since roughly 1990 on Phoenix-area Galacticomm BBSes.
My Userboxes
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My name is Traal, after that other Traal. I've had this handle since roughly 1990 on Phoenix-area Galacticomm BBSes.
Feel free to add the following userbox to your own user page:
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Originally it was the global userbox ((user ix-hrung)), but it got deleted 10 minutes after I created it because nobody was using it at the time except me. (Go figure.) Once enough people are using it, the global one can be reinstated.
Arizona is famous for:
Semiconductor fabs and R&D locations in Arizona
Other things I like about Arizona
Arizona is infamous for:
Things to do in Phoenix
These days, computer keyboards need the following additional keys/buttons:
Some keys can be removed:
I advocate:
| Criteria | Private Health Insurance | Health Savings Account | Single-Payer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Affordable premiums | fails for the poor | passes | passes |
| Affordable copays | fails for people who are both poor and chronically sick | fails for the poor and the chronically sick | passes |
| Timely healthcare | passes | passes | fails (at least in Canada; problem might be implementation-specific) |
| Encourages competition among healthcare providers to provide the best service at the lowest price | fails | passes | fails |
| Avoids the classic conflict of interest where insurance companies decline reimbursement in order to boost their own bottom lines | fails | fails for catastrophic and chronic medical conditions | passes |
| Encourages people to take care of themselves | fails for the rich | passes | passes (but only when health care isn't timely) |
| Discourages a brain drain | passes | passes | fails |
| Is farsighted (will pay for expensive procedures in order to save health care costs in the long term) | fails | fails | passes |
Based on postal bulletins. Type in "establish a new zip" (with the quotes) and select the years you want.
HTML Test for any web form that supposedly allows plaintext. If you copy and paste the following text into a web form, it should come back out looking exactly as it did going in:
Ampersand (and entity reference open delimiter): [&] Escaped ampersand: [&] Angle brackets (tag delimiters in HTML): [< >] Escaped angle brackets: [< >] Script tag: [<script>] Custom XML tag: [<hello>]
Note that Wikipedia is buggy in this regard (see [15]). Notice how for example the ampersand and escaped ampersand are rendered the same:
Ampersand (and entity reference open delimiter): [&] Escaped ampersand: [&] Angle brackets (tag delimiters in HTML): [< >] Escaped angle brackets: [< >] Script tag: [<script>] Custom XML tag: [<hello>]
See [16] for a Wikimedia bugzilla entry related to this.
Parking is poorly managed. A parking lot that's completely full is a sign that the rate is too low. The city loses money not only from the parking revenue, but people who have trouble finding parking may just give up and shop somewhere else.
A parking lot that's empty is a sign that the rate is too high, and again the city loses money on parking revenue.
A parking lot with efficiently priced (market rate) parking that still doesn't take in enough revenue to pay for maintenance and amortization is a sign that there's too much available parking.
A parking lot not at 85% utilization is one that's losing money. Taxpayers deserve a good return on their investment.
In 2007, only 6% of emergency calls to fire departments nationwide were actual fires.[22] Rapid-response SUVs are able to arrive at alarm scenes more quickly than fire engines and cost less than 1/3 to operate ($292,676 per year versus $936,104).[23]
If a surface parking space costs its owner $68 per month[13], then a high school with 900 parking spaces pays over $700,000 per year for all that parking. How many teachers could a school afford to retain for $700k per year?
