Here's a better idea. How about we don't spend so god damn much? How about we don't tax as much? And why not address my specific valid criticisms instead of turning all lib-tard?
They're talking per 1000 students. So before you start calling me out on bad calculations, maybe you should so some calculations of your own.
So, for gigabit, that's between $2000 and $5000/mo. So if you have a school with 10,000 kids. You do the math smart guy. Let me just say, I was being conservative in my cost estimate.
if your whole class has to upload a few MB at the end of class
If your class has to upload a few MB of data at the end of class, you're not a very good educator are you? Why, pray tell, are the students doing anything on a computer? Most likely, and this is an assumption, it's a complete waste of time. Computers are nothing but a distraction for classrooms. Individually, kids using computers can be educational, but in a classroom setting it's nothing but pure distraction.
Rather than place what cannot be more than 10gb of textbooks for the whole school on a local server for students of the school, lets run $10,000/mo fiber to every classroom. The insanity of government waste obviously knows no bounds. The audacity of government "IT managers" is nauseating. What? Is everyone stupid now? We can't count? I know that textbooks don't require a 100 or 1000mbit connection! I don't care if you have 10,000 people per 100mbit! Get a fucking clue! Store commonly downloaded things localaly. Shit, you morons, put the fucking textbook on the local machine (DUH!). Since when is this moronic behavior acceptable?
While Rome burns the ubermench in the government fiddle away with these "solutions". Now we'll be told for every dollar that we spend on this internet connection we can expect to see 1 trillion dollars in returns in as few as 5 years! Of course, as with every single estimate the government makes, it will be off by orders of magnitude and end up costing 1 trillion dollars in 2 years. At the end of the day I predict that the schools in question will have <10mbit connection at the price of 1000mbit connection, it will somehow drive up the price of internet service for everyone and increase educational spending greatly. All of which will have a negative impact on grades.
And really, fellow geeks, who thinks that computers on a kids desk during class are anything but a huge distraction from learning? I know if I had a computer at my desk during school, I'd be all about hacking the shit outa that machine and 0% on the lesson. More than anyone, the government is bound by the law of unintended consequences.
Underwear bomber, shoe bomber. Both were able to detonate their devices but the devices failed fully detonate. The devices were set alight, just poorly designed. Which speaks volumes of the intelligence required to bypass the TSA. I'm not sure what we had to do with stopping the events from occurring. Only dumb luck, or a dumb fuck, saved the lives of the people on either flight.
Ya, you sound like a real tolerant open minded guy.
Police in every state in the union are required to act if they have "probable cause" that a crime is being committed. Last time I checked, it's illegal to be in the country illegally. Because you obviously cannot cope with that little fact we can't have a regular discussion.
The real problem with people like you is that you believe that it is not raciest to treat people based on the color of their skin but it somehow is racist to treat everyone exactly the same regardless of their skin color.
Even though the Arizona law explicitly prohibits the use of race to identify illegals, you just gota bring it up, becuase just like a good little Democrat, all you can see is race. Everything to you is a chance to "play the race card". I think you would be well served to read up on your history. Democrats were the slave owners prior to the civil war. Abe Lincoln was the first Republican president. Democrats are responsible for the segregation of the army. Democrats are responsible for "Jim Crow" laws. Democrats voted against every single civil rights act down party lines. Democrat Governors literally stood in the way of black kids trying to attend school in the 60's - that's less than a lifetime ago, many older people still remember that. Democrats were the a huge driving part of the KKK. The once oldest living senator Robert Bird - a Democrat - was a high ranking KKK member and in the senate up till just a year or two ago when he died. Did I mention that the Democrats were the slave owners and were willing to destroy the union to keep their right to keep slaves? The racist Republicans were willing to destory the union to take that "right" away. I want to make sure you remember who the Democrats are. And you know what sucks for you? You can go look up every single thing I just said in Wikipedia! It's all true. I'll let you decide if you want to keep your cognitive dissonance or not.
Now today, the same Democrats tell everyone "the 'African-American' is too dumb to get a job without special help" and I'm supposed to view that as anything but racist? There's only one group of racists here and it's the group that judges absolutely everything by race. That is by definition racist.
Maybe you can show me why the Republicans are so racist. I'm sure it's much worse than the list I just gave you. What do they do? Hide racist innuendo in what most people view as normal speech? Please, do tell. I can't wait to hear the long terrible history of the racist Republicans. By the way you sound, it must be far worse than the history of the Democrat party.
Lincoln explained the difference between Democrats and Republicans best when he said this:
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatable things, called by the same name—liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatable names—liberty and tyranny.
You are less than human. You are like the dog shit that gets stuck between the ridges on the bottom of my shoe. Read the damn article. The TSA agent was yelling at the little kid causing the problem in the first place. People like you make me sick. You think that just because there's a security protocol people stop being human beings? I guess your plan would be to explain to the 4 year old about the birds and the bees with a nice little pedobear patdown? Get a life scumbag.
The only agency with a well known 100% failure rate. 100% of the terrorist that we know of that tried to get through TSA security were able to get through and detonate their devices. The TSA's response is to add proven useless and potentially deadly scanners, and create new checkpoints at highway and post offices. These people are worse than useless. They take from the tax payers on so many levels that the monetary loss is the least of our concern. Give us our freedom back you assholes.
We shall never escape from this circle: the idea of passive mankind, and the power of the law being used by a great man to propel the people.
Once on this incline, will society enjoy some liberty? (Certainly.) And what is liberty, Mr. Louis Blanc?
Once and for all, liberty is not only a mere granted right; it is also the power granted to a person to use and to develop his faculties under a reign of justice and under the protection of the law.
And this is no pointless distinction; its meaning is deep and its consequences are difficult to estimate. For once it is agreed that a person, to be truly free, must have the power to use and develop his faculties, then it follows that every person has a claim on society for such education as will permit him to develop himself. It also follows that every person has a claim on society for tools of production, without which human activity cannot be fully effective. Now by what action can society give to every person the necessary education and the necessary tools of production, if not by the action of the state?
Thus, again, liberty is power. Of what does this power consist? (Of being educated and of being given the tools of production.) Who is to give the education and the tools of production? (Society, which owes them to everyone.) By what action is society to give tools of production to those who do not own them? (Why, by the action of the state.) And from whom will the state take them?
Let the reader answer that question. Let him also notice the direction in which this is taking us.
That said, there are also situations where a joystick (not a thumbstick) are better - flight sims and spaceship games, for instance. You can't really do a steady banking turn for a few seconds straight with a mouse.
That is true, however even then it is a sorry substitute for a flight stick or a yoke, or when racing a racing wheel. Mouse/keyboard is the racing wheel of FPS games. Until a better control surface comes out that will remain the best. A pad is best for platform games and maybe street fighter type games (perhaps a full size joystick is better).
As far as the "science" of keyboard/mouse vs. thumbstick in FPS, besides establishing the quantitative difference it would really be telling us something we already know. Sort of like studying "why skunks smell worse than roses". They do smell worse, that's not the question, people just want to find out how much worse.
Look no further than the sad evolution of TES. Back when TES4 came out the Bethesda said they had to dial back the graphics so it would run properly on an XBOX. So no distinct shadows, no huge preloaded areas (E.g.: open cities) even though the PC hardware could handle it without choking, they really didn't give a rat's ass about how much PC hardware could handle. Then enters TES5 and it's like the consolization of this game has grown by orders of magnitude. Now you can't change the default WASD keys for some aspects (e.g.: map), no more modding!
From: Bethesda To: Huge rich TES4 modding community: "Fuck you".
They've removed all the complex "stats" that made the game too difficult for console users who can barely figure out their power button and lame ass controller. THATS RIGHT they removed the damn stats from an RPG to make it easier for console users. That's like removing the bullets from a gun to make it safer! God damn idiots! That's he whole reason people play RPGs!
It's always a epic laugh to watch a "expert" with a console controller to try and control a player character in a FPS style game, like watching Helen Keller race the Indy 500. Or try and play a RTS game. To help elucidate the level of intellect we're dealing with here, last time I went on this rant, some little wet-behind-the-ears over eager console-tard tried to argue that his xbox controller was superior to keyboard/mouse for FPS. Some serious lowest common denominator shit.
Another good example of the destruction of an empire is Total Annihilation. Released back in the '90s for the first time, it was the first RTS with polygonal units (as opposed to sprites) where you could both create hundreds of units and select and control massive armies. One of the most significant perks of the game was the ability to create new construction prior to being able to afford it, like if you had half the bricks you needed to create your house so you got started before you had the rest of the bricks. If you run out before you're done, that's your problem. For the last 10 years that was fine, then Supreme Commander 2 came out (the 4th iteration of TA) and they removed this keystone element from the game to help simplify the game for console users.
(mini-rant: They made the game more like starcraft, which cannot hold a candle to the TA franchise IMHO, I mean you can't even select more than a dozen or so units at the same time, what the fuck good is that? Can you imagine the U.S. armed forces telling the JSTARS commander "sorry sir, you cannot command more than 12 soldiers at the same time, select fewer units".)
No longer can you have engineers assist other engineers to speed the construction process, no longer can you build before you have all the resources. All in the name of the console. The game's ability to be modded was removed, the game's ability to have user generated maps was removed. The game basically sucks, and anyone who loved TA either kept playing Supreme Commander 1 or switched to TA Spring (which you should check out if you like RTS games! Open source and pretty amazing.).
Perhaps the greatest demonstration in a single player game of how much superior PC gamers are to console gamers is the shooting range in GTA Vice City. If you're a mouse keyboard user you ace the contest every single time with flying colors. Then you begin to wonder, "why was that so damn easy" then you realize that they made the same test for console users and they wanted to allow them to pass the test so they had to lower the bar so low that it made PC user's breeze though the test. And don't even get me started on "Shadowrun" the only (as far as I know) FPS that allowed XBOX gamers to play with PC gamers. So sad that story, the poor console gamers never had a chance. I could be half asleep with two broken fingers, being actively stabbed by a knife, and partially on fire and I could still beat the crap out of a whole room full of console gamers. And I don't think th
Can you cite anything related to this, or is this just a dubious anecdote? That said, it is near Los Angeles which has nasty smog problems as it is.
No, as I said, a friend is a operator at the steam plant, I heard this via word of mouth not a news article. Is my friend lying to me? I doubt it. Running two stacks instead of whatever is most efficient causes more harm to the environment than if the EPA had not been involved, so the EPA is making the smog problem worse. And no, I have no citation. You can choose to believe my story or not, I don't really care.
Please? Can you name them?
Both of these stories happened to the ceramics business I work for.
1) The AQMD (Air quality management department) declared our business to be guilty of creating "nuisance dust" and now we have to pay almost $20,000.00/yr to be allowed to create this dust. What's the dust we're creating? Sand, and we are on the beach, full of sand, even then, it stays inside the factory. Even if it was a nuisance to the surrounding community, which it is not, I fail to see how paying the government $20,000.00 is going to help anyone.
2) The EPA requires that all of our glazes pass a lead test. "Good idea" you're thinking. But no. We send our items out to be tested by certified labs (at great cost also). If we make the sample piece and send it for testing, it will always pass, if we wash the piece in city tap water and then send it the amount of lead in the water that is no longer on the item is enough to make it fail the test. My point here is that the EPA has put a burden on the business to pass a lead test that is orders of magnitude more strict than the requirements they have for drinking water.
So there's my other two stories, not as compelling as the steam plant, but still an unnecessary burden created by the EPA. What they're doing here is helping nobody and greatly harming the business I work for.
Any time you have an agency that both discovers its own problems to solve and then solves the problems it finds will always find more problems that need solving. Just like the TSA, after the TSA was ramped up all of a sudden so many new places that were never subject to TSA searches all of a sudden became "weak points" discovered by the TSA.
This is exactly like a crappy anti-malware program (which I consider malware in and of itself) that tells you about the "critical security threat found: cookie from amazon.com" in order to prove how useful it its poor owner.
IMHO the EPA is the greatest threat to our economy in our lifetime. I can think of several examples in my life where the EPA has caused real financial harm to companies in the guise of protecting the environment, but actually harmed the environment. Here's a good example. My friend works at the Long Beach, CA steam plant. The EPA has dictated that they can only have 2 of their 5 stacks operational at any time. The city however requires power, so they two stacks that they do run must run at an inefficient higher level, causing more "harm" (steam) to the environment than if they ran all five of the stacks at a more efficient lower level. There are at least two other examples in my life of the EPA causing massive problems while not even solving the problem they "discovered" in the first place, so imagine how many other people have evidence of the EPA running amok, causing great harm and no good.
It think they're talking about adding a widget/toolbar/whatever or standalone executable that interfaces with facebook.
One can only hope that it causes facebook to crash in some spectacular way that prevents it from ever working again. I wouldn't mind if it made Zuckerberg's shoes strongly adhere to all surfaces at the same time. Both are just as likely.
How scientific. You only look at the links that prove your point and ignore the numerous links that disprove it. I can see you did the search so there is no need for me to point out all the attack sites that appear when you do the search, and thankfully everyone reading this has a browser and can tell who's full of shit for themselves. I'm not sure who you think you're fooling. I mean, really? You didn't find anything when you typed "Rick Santorum", how dishonest of you.
What you're describing is vicious circular logic. I just said that me or any other taxpayer would benefit from lower taxes. Then you say how will that help my countrymen? It will lower their taxes and they will have more money that's how.
How better to help people? If people have more money they will buy more, stimulating the economy naturally. And really, who better deserves the money? Who are your countrymen!? The one's that don't pay taxes?!
I'm not advocating no taxes so don't even start with that non sequitur.
You call me a dipshit and send me to an Apple page that still has no reference to FreeBSD! Did you even bother to search the page before you posted. You're just a moron. A moron and an Apple zealot that cannot suffer to have his religion put in check by cold hard facts.
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Here's a better idea. How about we don't spend so god damn much? How about we don't tax as much? And why not address my specific valid criticisms instead of turning all lib-tard?
So, for gigabit, that's between $2000 and $5000
If your class has to upload a few MB of data at the end of class, you're not a very good educator are you? Why, pray tell, are the students doing anything on a computer? Most likely, and this is an assumption, it's a complete waste of time. Computers are nothing but a distraction for classrooms. Individually, kids using computers can be educational, but in a classroom setting it's nothing but pure distraction.
Rather than place what cannot be more than 10gb of textbooks for the whole school on a local server for students of the school, lets run $10,000/mo fiber to every classroom. The insanity of government waste obviously knows no bounds. The audacity of government "IT managers" is nauseating. What? Is everyone stupid now? We can't count? I know that textbooks don't require a 100 or 1000mbit connection! I don't care if you have 10,000 people per 100mbit! Get a fucking clue! Store commonly downloaded things localaly. Shit, you morons, put the fucking textbook on the local machine (DUH!). Since when is this moronic behavior acceptable?
While Rome burns the ubermench in the government fiddle away with these "solutions". Now we'll be told for every dollar that we spend on this internet connection we can expect to see 1 trillion dollars in returns in as few as 5 years! Of course, as with every single estimate the government makes, it will be off by orders of magnitude and end up costing 1 trillion dollars in 2 years. At the end of the day I predict that the schools in question will have <10mbit connection at the price of 1000mbit connection, it will somehow drive up the price of internet service for everyone and increase educational spending greatly. All of which will have a negative impact on grades.
And really, fellow geeks, who thinks that computers on a kids desk during class are anything but a huge distraction from learning? I know if I had a computer at my desk during school, I'd be all about hacking the shit outa that machine and 0% on the lesson. More than anyone, the government is bound by the law of unintended consequences.
Didn't see that one coming?
http://tsanewsblog.com/112/news/tsa-expands-beyond-airport-screening/
Underwear bomber, shoe bomber. Both were able to detonate their devices but the devices failed fully detonate. The devices were set alight, just poorly designed. Which speaks volumes of the intelligence required to bypass the TSA. I'm not sure what we had to do with stopping the events from occurring. Only dumb luck, or a dumb fuck, saved the lives of the people on either flight.
Underwear bomber, shoe bomber. Both were able to detonate their devices but the devices failed.
Ya, you sound like a real tolerant open minded guy.
Police in every state in the union are required to act if they have "probable cause" that a crime is being committed. Last time I checked, it's illegal to be in the country illegally. Because you obviously cannot cope with that little fact we can't have a regular discussion.
The real problem with people like you is that you believe that it is not raciest to treat people based on the color of their skin but it somehow is racist to treat everyone exactly the same regardless of their skin color.
Even though the Arizona law explicitly prohibits the use of race to identify illegals, you just gota bring it up, becuase just like a good little Democrat, all you can see is race. Everything to you is a chance to "play the race card". I think you would be well served to read up on your history. Democrats were the slave owners prior to the civil war. Abe Lincoln was the first Republican president. Democrats are responsible for the segregation of the army. Democrats are responsible for "Jim Crow" laws. Democrats voted against every single civil rights act down party lines. Democrat Governors literally stood in the way of black kids trying to attend school in the 60's - that's less than a lifetime ago, many older people still remember that. Democrats were the a huge driving part of the KKK. The once oldest living senator Robert Bird - a Democrat - was a high ranking KKK member and in the senate up till just a year or two ago when he died. Did I mention that the Democrats were the slave owners and were willing to destroy the union to keep their right to keep slaves? The racist Republicans were willing to destory the union to take that "right" away. I want to make sure you remember who the Democrats are. And you know what sucks for you? You can go look up every single thing I just said in Wikipedia! It's all true. I'll let you decide if you want to keep your cognitive dissonance or not.
Now today, the same Democrats tell everyone "the 'African-American' is too dumb to get a job without special help" and I'm supposed to view that as anything but racist? There's only one group of racists here and it's the group that judges absolutely everything by race. That is by definition racist.
Maybe you can show me why the Republicans are so racist. I'm sure it's much worse than the list I just gave you. What do they do? Hide racist innuendo in what most people view as normal speech? Please, do tell. I can't wait to hear the long terrible history of the racist Republicans. By the way you sound, it must be far worse than the history of the Democrat party.
Lincoln explained the difference between Democrats and Republicans best when he said this:
You are less than human. You are like the dog shit that gets stuck between the ridges on the bottom of my shoe. Read the damn article. The TSA agent was yelling at the little kid causing the problem in the first place. People like you make me sick. You think that just because there's a security protocol people stop being human beings? I guess your plan would be to explain to the 4 year old about the birds and the bees with a nice little pedobear patdown? Get a life scumbag.
Ya all the conservative/libertarians are totally for a huge authoritarian state. Give me a break. Read a book.
The Law by Frédéric Bastiat [1850]
The only agency with a well known 100% failure rate. 100% of the terrorist that we know of that tried to get through TSA security were able to get through and detonate their devices. The TSA's response is to add proven useless and potentially deadly scanners, and create new checkpoints at highway and post offices. These people are worse than useless. They take from the tax payers on so many levels that the monetary loss is the least of our concern. Give us our freedom back you assholes.
From The Law by Fredric Bastiat
The Vicious Circle of Socialism
We shall never escape from this circle: the idea of passive mankind, and the power of the law being used by a great man to propel the people.
Once on this incline, will society enjoy some liberty? (Certainly.) And what is liberty, Mr. Louis Blanc?
Once and for all, liberty is not only a mere granted right; it is also the power granted to a person to use and to develop his faculties under a reign of justice and under the protection of the law.
And this is no pointless distinction; its meaning is deep and its consequences are difficult to estimate. For once it is agreed that a person, to be truly free, must have the power to use and develop his faculties, then it follows that every person has a claim on society for such education as will permit him to develop himself. It also follows that every person has a claim on society for tools of production, without which human activity cannot be fully effective. Now by what action can society give to every person the necessary education and the necessary tools of production, if not by the action of the state?
Thus, again, liberty is power. Of what does this power consist? (Of being educated and of being given the tools of production.) Who is to give the education and the tools of production? (Society, which owes them to everyone.) By what action is society to give tools of production to those who do not own them? (Why, by the action of the state.) And from whom will the state take them?
Let the reader answer that question. Let him also notice the direction in which this is taking us.
Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
-Mark Twain
That is true, however even then it is a sorry substitute for a flight stick or a yoke, or when racing a racing wheel. Mouse/keyboard is the racing wheel of FPS games. Until a better control surface comes out that will remain the best. A pad is best for platform games and maybe street fighter type games (perhaps a full size joystick is better).
As far as the "science" of keyboard/mouse vs. thumbstick in FPS, besides establishing the quantitative difference it would really be telling us something we already know. Sort of like studying "why skunks smell worse than roses". They do smell worse, that's not the question, people just want to find out how much worse.
Look no further than the sad evolution of TES. Back when TES4 came out the Bethesda said they had to dial back the graphics so it would run properly on an XBOX. So no distinct shadows, no huge preloaded areas (E.g.: open cities) even though the PC hardware could handle it without choking, they really didn't give a rat's ass about how much PC hardware could handle. Then enters TES5 and it's like the consolization of this game has grown by orders of magnitude. Now you can't change the default WASD keys for some aspects (e.g.: map), no more modding!
From: Bethesda To: Huge rich TES4 modding community: "Fuck you".
They've removed all the complex "stats" that made the game too difficult for console users who can barely figure out their power button and lame ass controller. THATS RIGHT they removed the damn stats from an RPG to make it easier for console users. That's like removing the bullets from a gun to make it safer! God damn idiots! That's he whole reason people play RPGs!
It's always a epic laugh to watch a "expert" with a console controller to try and control a player character in a FPS style game, like watching Helen Keller race the Indy 500. Or try and play a RTS game. To help elucidate the level of intellect we're dealing with here, last time I went on this rant, some little wet-behind-the-ears over eager console-tard tried to argue that his xbox controller was superior to keyboard/mouse for FPS. Some serious lowest common denominator shit.
Another good example of the destruction of an empire is Total Annihilation. Released back in the '90s for the first time, it was the first RTS with polygonal units (as opposed to sprites) where you could both create hundreds of units and select and control massive armies. One of the most significant perks of the game was the ability to create new construction prior to being able to afford it, like if you had half the bricks you needed to create your house so you got started before you had the rest of the bricks. If you run out before you're done, that's your problem. For the last 10 years that was fine, then Supreme Commander 2 came out (the 4th iteration of TA) and they removed this keystone element from the game to help simplify the game for console users.
(mini-rant: They made the game more like starcraft, which cannot hold a candle to the TA franchise IMHO, I mean you can't even select more than a dozen or so units at the same time, what the fuck good is that? Can you imagine the U.S. armed forces telling the JSTARS commander "sorry sir, you cannot command more than 12 soldiers at the same time, select fewer units".)
No longer can you have engineers assist other engineers to speed the construction process, no longer can you build before you have all the resources. All in the name of the console. The game's ability to be modded was removed, the game's ability to have user generated maps was removed. The game basically sucks, and anyone who loved TA either kept playing Supreme Commander 1 or switched to TA Spring (which you should check out if you like RTS games! Open source and pretty amazing.).
Perhaps the greatest demonstration in a single player game of how much superior PC gamers are to console gamers is the shooting range in GTA Vice City. If you're a mouse keyboard user you ace the contest every single time with flying colors. Then you begin to wonder, "why was that so damn easy" then you realize that they made the same test for console users and they wanted to allow them to pass the test so they had to lower the bar so low that it made PC user's breeze though the test. And don't even get me started on "Shadowrun" the only (as far as I know) FPS that allowed XBOX gamers to play with PC gamers. So sad that story, the poor console gamers never had a chance. I could be half asleep with two broken fingers, being actively stabbed by a knife, and partially on fire and I could still beat the crap out of a whole room full of console gamers. And I don't think th
No, as I said, a friend is a operator at the steam plant, I heard this via word of mouth not a news article. Is my friend lying to me? I doubt it. Running two stacks instead of whatever is most efficient causes more harm to the environment than if the EPA had not been involved, so the EPA is making the smog problem worse. And no, I have no citation. You can choose to believe my story or not, I don't really care.
Both of these stories happened to the ceramics business I work for.
1) The AQMD (Air quality management department) declared our business to be guilty of creating "nuisance dust" and now we have to pay almost $20,000.00/yr to be allowed to create this dust. What's the dust we're creating? Sand, and we are on the beach, full of sand, even then, it stays inside the factory. Even if it was a nuisance to the surrounding community, which it is not, I fail to see how paying the government $20,000.00 is going to help anyone.
2) The EPA requires that all of our glazes pass a lead test. "Good idea" you're thinking. But no. We send our items out to be tested by certified labs (at great cost also). If we make the sample piece and send it for testing, it will always pass, if we wash the piece in city tap water and then send it the amount of lead in the water that is no longer on the item is enough to make it fail the test. My point here is that the EPA has put a burden on the business to pass a lead test that is orders of magnitude more strict than the requirements they have for drinking water.
So there's my other two stories, not as compelling as the steam plant, but still an unnecessary burden created by the EPA. What they're doing here is helping nobody and greatly harming the business I work for.
Any time you have an agency that both discovers its own problems to solve and then solves the problems it finds will always find more problems that need solving. Just like the TSA, after the TSA was ramped up all of a sudden so many new places that were never subject to TSA searches all of a sudden became "weak points" discovered by the TSA.
This is exactly like a crappy anti-malware program (which I consider malware in and of itself) that tells you about the "critical security threat found: cookie from amazon.com" in order to prove how useful it its poor owner.
IMHO the EPA is the greatest threat to our economy in our lifetime. I can think of several examples in my life where the EPA has caused real financial harm to companies in the guise of protecting the environment, but actually harmed the environment. Here's a good example. My friend works at the Long Beach, CA steam plant. The EPA has dictated that they can only have 2 of their 5 stacks operational at any time. The city however requires power, so they two stacks that they do run must run at an inefficient higher level, causing more "harm" (steam) to the environment than if they ran all five of the stacks at a more efficient lower level. There are at least two other examples in my life of the EPA causing massive problems while not even solving the problem they "discovered" in the first place, so imagine how many other people have evidence of the EPA running amok, causing great harm and no good.
And try telling the EPA their wrong.
It think they're talking about adding a widget/toolbar/whatever or standalone executable that interfaces with facebook.
One can only hope that it causes facebook to crash in some spectacular way that prevents it from ever working again. I wouldn't mind if it made Zuckerberg's shoes strongly adhere to all surfaces at the same time. Both are just as likely.
Oh well, one can still hope.
Hmmm....
I think everyone can agree with that.
Wild government spending needs to stop and taxes need to be lowered. They are not mutually exclusive.
How scientific. You only look at the links that prove your point and ignore the numerous links that disprove it. I can see you did the search so there is no need for me to point out all the attack sites that appear when you do the search, and thankfully everyone reading this has a browser and can tell who's full of shit for themselves. I'm not sure who you think you're fooling. I mean, really? You didn't find anything when you typed "Rick Santorum", how dishonest of you.
What you're describing is vicious circular logic. I just said that me or any other taxpayer would benefit from lower taxes. Then you say how will that help my countrymen? It will lower their taxes and they will have more money that's how.
How better to help people? If people have more money they will buy more, stimulating the economy naturally. And really, who better deserves the money? Who are your countrymen!? The one's that don't pay taxes?!
I'm not advocating no taxes so don't even start with that non sequitur.
No, I suppose you wouldn't.
You call me a dipshit and send me to an Apple page that still has no reference to FreeBSD! Did you even bother to search the page before you posted. You're just a moron. A moron and an Apple zealot that cannot suffer to have his religion put in check by cold hard facts.
Sure, but what version fits this article?