Thank you OP (kennethologist) for fixing the title of this article. The nymag title is "JCPenney Permanently Cuts All Prices by 40 Percent" which is certainly not true. Copy editor Bill Walsh writes:
The company meant "permanent" in the sense of regular prices as opposed to sale prices. It’s lowering regular prices and cutting back on sales in a strategy that may or may not work. If the strategy doesn’t work, the company has every right to change course -- and if it does, a bunch of news outlets will be revealed as big, fat liars.
rsnapshot. It uses rsync to be fast. It creates directories with full snapshots of my backed-up files and uses hard-links to avoid duplicating files that haven't changed.
This is often quoted, but I suspect it's no longer true. When I referred him to an online article last year, he immediately replied about it. I bet he has access to a web browser when needed.
Thanks for the link to the video. I had imagined it acting like expanding polyurethane foam. I see it looks more like mush, which doesn't seem as dangerous.
Whenever I read about bypassing real estate agents, I wish there were some good statistics instead of just anecdotes. You might think you saved money by doing it yourself, but could an agent have gotten you a better deal?
For an anecdote opposing the article, our neighbor sold her house during the boom and reluctantly used an agent. There was a bidding war on the house and it sold for 15% more than her asking price. I doubt that would have happened without the agent.
Actually, the main reason for putting the important parts first is to give the newspaper editor flexibility for fitting stories onto the page. The end of a story can be left off if there's not enough room.
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Yeah! Who do those old people think they are, getting all weak and sickly!?
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Most of the western world believes that society should be taxed to provide health care for everyone. Like education, welfare, and social security, it's something we all pay for to live in a moral, civilized society. Thank God Ayn Rand doesn't run the universe and the government forces you and me to pay for Grandpa's medication.
I don't buy it. It's all anecdotal. Is there a statistical correlation between the cat remaining with a person for more than X minutes and the person dying within Y days? My bet is that staff predictions have a better track record.
Don't use this as an excuse to do nothing. Be smart, but be compassionate.