Re:Republicans backing rail
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Actually, with things as they are, more and more Republicans *are* backing rail. I damn near sprayed soda when I read that Trent Lott was one of the backers of the recent move to increase funding for Amtrak. When people with money start taking trains, as has now happened, Republicans suddenly start to care about rail service. Whodathunk?
I mostly think that Amtrak was instituted under Richard Nixon... (It's true, though, that compared to Dubya?, Nixon looks like Saint-Francis of Assisi)...
Re:The explanation is obvious
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You used to be able to take your car along, in a freight car, so when you got to wherever it was unloaded and you drove off. Presumably you could still do that if you cared to rent half of a flatbed car, or one berth in an auto-carrier car (whatever the railroads call them).
Of course, I'll now get modded down extensively, but the REAL reason for the problem today is that (a) in general we have a lower level of civility in society, and (b) this stems from a much lower level of RELIGION in family and individual life.
Instead of modding you down, I'm going to roast & flame you extensively.
I was carefully brought up in the total absence of religion, yet, I still feel bad when I reluctantly work myself up to be a douchebag when the need arises.
Now, pray tell, how does religion prevents douchebaggry?
Taking that much travel time would mean I would be unable to travel to visit my family or convince my employer to send me to a conference... simply because the lost income (for myself or my employer) corresponding with the travel costs in question would be too great to justify the expense.
Therefore, you're not as big of a shot as you'd think you are...
How would you severely curtail planes in a free society?
The same way you curtail monster trucks on interstates: by law.
Re:Back in the day...
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Take a train, take a boat, take some TIME and enjoy it - getting there is supposed to be half the fun.
To take the train implies the existence of a train. Amtrak offers a pitifuly meaningless "service" in the US (well, outside of the northeast). For people to start to take the train, there would have to be trains to begin with...
"Pirate" XP. How can you "steal" something that is not commercially available? In Canada, people who "steal" US satellite TV signals are not prosecuted, because the US satellite TV do not have canadian licenses nor are allowed to sell licenses in Canada. So Microsoft would be hard-pressed in explaining why it wants someone who "pirated" XP prosecuted when you cannot have it in any store...
You seem to be confusing the media with the data format. Whether it is TIFF or PDF is irrelevent. It's all ones and zeroes in the end, whether it is stored on punch cards, floppies, CDs or Flash RAM.
In any case, the PDF and TIFF file formats are well-documented, and if ever even their widespread use makes them to be extinct (bloody unlikely), it would always be possible to write a program to convert them into the format-du-jour, provided, of course, you are able to read the media...
This is rich. A bunch of pennyless, financially ignoramus scientists, daring to take on the only natural law there is, the laws of the Free Market, and thus colliding with the greatest thing in the Universe, that is Free, Private Entreprise??? Oh! The humanity!!!
FAK!!! I cannot vote for the Regressive Conservatives cause they want C-61
I cannot vote for the NDP cause they are just crazy kooks
I cannot vote for Green cauze they will never win
Now you say I cannot vote for Liberal Red cause they support Evil Bell.... MotherFAK.
Vote Bloc.
I'm a childhood friend of my own Bloc MP, and he tells me that many people outside of Québec would want them to run elsewhere in Canada, because they do such a good job...
annual riots in the center of the capitol city are a good indicator that the French employment situation is not all peaches and cream either.
Indeed; that's because the bourgeois have precisely gutted many social safeguards (they basically aim to make France become like the USA) and have adopted racist hiring policies.
The Bell Telephone Company of Canada is a very liberal (meaning "associated with the liberal party of Canada", who is not currently in power, but has managed to thoroughly infiltrate and subvert the federal State apparatus, up to and including the Supreme Court of Canada) company.
Oh, and am I the only one that finds it ironic that any European would consider an Amarican an "unwashed barbarian"? Ever try standing next to a French woman? She'll have hairy legs and armpits and often reek due to lack of deodarant/showers.
Quite regularly in fact. Also used to sleep next to her. Not sure where your information comes from, the 70's?
The French have been so vilified in the past for not having proper bathrooms (perhaps the nearly total destruction of their country twice in 30 years could account for it) that they took to it with a vengeance, and now some areas of France face severe drought brought about by the increased use of soap...
I couldn't care less what the Europeans think. Us "unwashed barbarians" beat them to a representative system of government,
Er, no. The Greeks had Democracy (and a direct Democracy, too) more than 2000 years ago. And, last time I checked, Greeze is in Europe (as it was 2000 years ago).
have the larger economy despite having 25% less population than Europe (300 million vs their 400 million)
A larger economy built on shaky foundations such as fiat money, massive foreign debt, obscene trade deficit and continuous war to secure vital energy to fuel the US wasteful way of life.
This will not go on forever... And that "larger population" will suffer thanks to the obtuse lack of foresight and planning of the powers that are.
have a harder working populace with a higher level of productivity, and have saved them all from tyranny on multiple occossians.
Actually, despite their month-long yearly vacation, the French have the same productivity the yankees have. This is mostly attribuable to the generous social safety net that makes sure workers are not stressed by the fear of losing their job if they go on vacation and being able to pay the doctor.
They can think what they want, but our success speaks for itself.
Record consumer debt levels, as well as national debt levels is a success? Unprecedented hatred of your country thoughout the world is a success? You have strange ways of measuring success!!! Your success, perhaps, is the one that needs to be punished...
Oh, and am I the only one that finds it ironic that any European would consider an Amarican an "unwashed barbarian"? Ever try standing next to a French woman? She'll have hairy legs and armpits and often reek due to lack of deodarant/showers.
Only the puritan americans are so offended of the human body to want to suppress such natural things as hair (protects the body) and body odour (sends pherormones to turn-on the opposite sex).
But, again, it's true that sex is evil and must be suppressed at all cost...
Oh, go have a look at Latino art. You'll see plump women. This shows you that only the yankee are addicted to malnourished women. Myself, despite being plumpy and middle-aged, I'm a huge success with hot latina women.
They say cleanliness is next to Godliness, so it should come as no suprise that citizens of these godless, athiestic societies smell like a butt crack.
This spoken by someone who's likely circumcized because society cannot tolerate that young boys would need to extensively touch their penises to wash them properly, thus ensuing the risk of masturbating in the shower and deriving pleasure from their own bodies...
However the Tacoma Dome in Washington State is a geodesic dome
Er, sorry to burst your bub^h^h^h dome, but if you look at the picture (and read the Wikipedia article you're linking to), the Tacoma Dome is clearly not a Schwelder dome... (Not to imply that Schwelder have the magic touch that doesn't leak -- it's really just a question of design and workmanship).
Which must be why my French friends often go over a year between jobs, whereas my American friends tend to simply jump straight from one job to the next.
That's because they are able to pick and choose a good job, thanks to the generous social safety net, instead of having to take the next crappy job thrown at them because they **HAVE** to take it...
Why is it that people lose the ability to understand simple economics as soon as the commodity is labor?
Because commoditizing labor flies in the face of Civilization, perhaps??? (Yes, in Europe, they mostly view the americans as a bunch of unwashed barbarians).
It's open-source, right? This means that you can modify the source code, right? So if it's a such a big deal, well, you just add the proper code in the drop-down box.
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Now, {$OCCUPIER_COUNTRY} (the one which occupies {$OCCUPIED_COUNTRY}) is no different than any other rabid religious state. Any attack or perceived attack on it will be perceived as anti{$RELIGION}ism. There is no escaping that.
The fuckheads who rule any rabid religious state have had their brains thoroughly corrupted by the nonsense that is their religion, and are therefore immune both to clues and
intelligent reasoning.
So it is quite not suprising that they would fuckeadly hammer the poor
website who's guilty of ignoring their particular brand of fuckheadness.
Yikes I remember being 18 as well. Don't worry by the time you grow up you'll be amazed at how much everyone else has learnt.
One of the most enriching experience I ever had was when I was about 25, and taking care (alone) of all the computers of a medium (~100 employees) industrial company. Back at that time (this was when you had 12 simultaneous users on a 12 mhz 286 box with a 80 gig hard drive, back when SCO was actually good), this involved **LOTSA** programming on an old, creaky software that was patched and repatched and re-repatched by the owner's son (my boss, who hired me because being president took too much of his time to patch).
When I had some backlog, they hired someone to help me: a 35 year DP veteran who started working in the '50s with plug-board tabulators. Since I had some interest in the history of data processing (I collect old mechanical calculators), the man was a treasure of information (not very job-related)... Alas, one monday morning, he did not show-up at work anymore, having suffered a heart attack while moving some furniture over the week-end (never had any news of him afterwards).
Within a week or two the leadership of the Las Vegas Association of Realtors cited him for not allowing all area real estate agents to view the advertisements. They did not care that the people not receiving the ads were people who complained about the ads and/or opted out from receiving them. He had two options: (1) stop sending the emails which a portion of the recipient realtors considered spam and a portion considered useful leads; or (2) send them to all local realtors whether they want them or not. The Association threatened to revoke his license for an ethical violation (giving preference to realtors who did not opt out of his emails) if he didn't comply.
Don't we all like that kind of proof that realtors are just a bunch of retarded scumbags with even more assinine "rules" and retarded "ethics"???
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If any operating employee works more than 12 hours after resting 8 hours, he is outlaw, and will actually end up in jail.
That law was brought about almost a century ago given the high number of accidents that happenned because train crews lacked some sleep.
I was carefully brought up in the total absence of religion, yet, I still feel bad when I reluctantly work myself up to be a douchebag when the need arises.
Now, pray tell, how does religion prevents douchebaggry?
"Pirate" XP. How can you "steal" something that is not commercially available? In Canada, people who "steal" US satellite TV signals are not prosecuted, because the US satellite TV do not have canadian licenses nor are allowed to sell licenses in Canada. So Microsoft would be hard-pressed in explaining why it wants someone who "pirated" XP prosecuted when you cannot have it in any store...
In any case, the PDF and TIFF file formats are well-documented, and if ever even their widespread use makes them to be extinct (bloody unlikely), it would always be possible to write a program to convert them into the format-du-jour, provided, of course, you are able to read the media...
This is rich. A bunch of pennyless, financially ignoramus scientists, daring to take on the only natural law there is, the laws of the Free Market, and thus colliding with the greatest thing in the Universe, that is Free, Private Entreprise??? Oh! The humanity!!!
I'm a childhood friend of my own Bloc MP, and he tells me that many people outside of Québec would want them to run elsewhere in Canada, because they do such a good job...
The Bell Telephone Company of Canada is a very liberal (meaning "associated with the liberal party of Canada", who is not currently in power, but has managed to thoroughly infiltrate and subvert the federal State apparatus, up to and including the Supreme Court of Canada) company.
As such, it just has won a case before the Supreme Court of Canada, despite that Bell's case flies in the fact of Canadian law and jurisprudence.
The CRTC board is also throroughly liberal.
So it will not be suprising that the CRTC will eventually rules in favour of Bell, and it will probably because it will face pressure from liberals.
This will not go on forever... And that "larger population" will suffer thanks to the obtuse lack of foresight and planning of the powers that are.
Actually, despite their month-long yearly vacation, the French have the same productivity the yankees have. This is mostly attribuable to the generous social safety net that makes sure workers are not stressed by the fear of losing their job if they go on vacation and being able to pay the doctor. Record consumer debt levels, as well as national debt levels is a success? Unprecedented hatred of your country thoughout the world is a success? You have strange ways of measuring success!!! Your success, perhaps, is the one that needs to be punished... Only the puritan americans are so offended of the human body to want to suppress such natural things as hair (protects the body) and body odour (sends pherormones to turn-on the opposite sex).But, again, it's true that sex is evil and must be suppressed at all cost...
Oh, go have a look at Latino art. You'll see plump women. This shows you that only the yankee are addicted to malnourished women. Myself, despite being plumpy and middle-aged, I'm a huge success with hot latina women.
This spoken by someone who's likely circumcized because society cannot tolerate that young boys would need to extensively touch their penises to wash them properly, thus ensuing the risk of masturbating in the shower and deriving pleasure from their own bodies...It's open-source, right? This means that you can modify the source code, right? So if it's a such a big deal, well, you just add the proper code in the drop-down box.
* * *
Now, {$OCCUPIER_COUNTRY} (the one which occupies {$OCCUPIED_COUNTRY}) is no different than any other rabid religious state. Any attack or perceived attack on it will be perceived as anti{$RELIGION}ism. There is no escaping that.
The fuckheads who rule any rabid religious state have had their brains thoroughly corrupted by the nonsense that is their religion, and are therefore immune both to clues and intelligent reasoning.
So it is quite not suprising that they would fuckeadly hammer the poor website who's guilty of ignoring their particular brand of fuckheadness.
Post them to USENET, they'll live forever...
When I had some backlog, they hired someone to help me: a 35 year DP veteran who started working in the '50s with plug-board tabulators. Since I had some interest in the history of data processing (I collect old mechanical calculators), the man was a treasure of information (not very job-related)... Alas, one monday morning, he did not show-up at work anymore, having suffered a heart attack while moving some furniture over the week-end (never had any news of him afterwards).