GM is the only ones making an aggressive push in advertising them. Ford has a few commercials, but the ones you see out there a little more is what GM is promoting.
You'll see how much of a "waste of time" a hybrid truck will be when American car companies start making gobs of cash off of them. A hybrid pickup may actually help save GM, Ford, and Dodge.
Whoa, then we both overreacted. You need to preface your out-in-the-country preferences when you write like that. I get your point about some of the idiocy of zoning, and some modern city life - it's why I don't live in one, btw. I do think that it would be a little more palatable if I could walk everywhere I needed, but I frankly don't want to be that cramped. I have a 25-30 minute commute to work, but it's a 25-30 mile drive as well and there's no point in moving closer right now. My idea of room is a bit closer to yours than in the 'burbs - I prefer rural as well, and really hope to own something along the lines of 50-100 acres out in the country some day. I think we're on the same page here more than you realize, and I had a bit too much of a knee-jerk reaction.
No way. It's nice to have a bit of ROOM. Sorry, but I grew up out in the country and have no desire to be cramped in. I want grass man didn't plant himself, freedom to do on my property just about what I feel like, have a place right near where I can watch my own kids, and have a shop I can junk up where no one can see because no one cares. Some of us like a bit of privacy and don't want to be forced by circumstances to HAVE to know our neighbors (who I knew growing up, by the way, because people were nice and reached out).
You can have your "new urbanism" and its cramped spaces and big cities and way too many people and nothing green and no honest-to-goodness wooded areas. Leave me the heck out of it.
Wrong-o. GM is the ONLY company I've seen that is gearing toward making electric/hybrid/eco-friendly or whatever SUV's and pickup trucks (the Tahoe is already available as a Hybrid, and the Silverado is coming later this year; they also have 100 Hydrogen fuel-cell Equinoxes on the road), cars Americans LOVE driving. They almost seem ahead of the game than even the Japanese, and when someone figures out how to get an electric to go 600 miles between charges, or get a hybrid full-size pickup to pull a boat and crank out enough horsepower, Americans will buy them in DROVES. I'm fully expecting my next vehicle to at least be a hybrid of some sort - we'll probably almost all be driving them in 5-10 years.
No, the New Deal sucked the economy dry because it over-taxed and over-spent through government programs, not because of monetary policy. A multitude of factors contributed there, not just because we were off the gold standard. And, by the way, WE RECOVERED. I'm not so sure that you goldies ever take that into account. Every 20-30 years you appear to maybe be right, but then the economy turns right around and gold drops again. You've been making money lately - enjoy it - but the good times for gold are near about over. Sell while you're ahead.
Wear and tear. Worse gas mileage. The attitude of freeloading, or better yet, stealing, and that it "doesn't matter."
Also the matter that this is something that would get WIDESPREAD in a city like London. We wouldn't be talking the occasional computer nerd - hacked cards would make their way into PLENTY of hands, and every hoodie-with-ASBOS-and-ringtones would be getting "free" rides.
Just cause you can get a hack for MARTA (the Atlanta system) doesn't make it easier to get around. VERY non-user friendly for first-time or non-often users. Instructions/directions are non-intuitive.
Many of the hard-core ebay whiners on its website are practically BEGGING google to open up an auction site, mostly because it will have practically millions as a buyer base overnight. Ebay's other competitors can't match that yet.
Not far. There are some sites that are decent, but the buyers are mostly staying with ebay. There are a few good non-auction sites like iOffer or Blujay that are decent, but ebay doesn't have a serious competitor with a similar model.
I'm getting a little more and more irritated about this stuff with ebay, and I would honestly jump ship if there was another decent auction-style competitor that is close to the ebay of the early 2000s.
Ebay is doing some SERIOUS wrong by the small seller (mostly through their fee issues, I don't think the feedback issues are as bad as some sellers try and make them out to be), and despite their platitudes, is turning into Amazon-lite. I have no huge problem with this, but they really need to make a decision on who they want to cater to and either split into two divisions or send the small-time buyers and sellers somewhere else.
I completely understand that businesses need to make money, and the buydotcom route may be one way to do that. However, ebay is WIDELY opening a door for another company to undercut them in the small seller market, and those of us who collect, buy, and sell anything used on a small scale and aren't interested in just shopping online for new stuff that we can get down the street at Wal-mart or wherever.
Certain crimes remove privileges for certain rights (freedom of movement, voting). That was all. Bad inference - Citizens' rights are always protected under the Constitution.
People who deliberately wage war against civilian populations typically aren't afforded protections in civilized societies. I believe Geneva backs this up. Criminals lose several rights as well (felons can't vote in the US).
2. Wrong. Militant Islam has ALWAYS acted militarily to achieve its ends since Muhammed. The problem is that its cure would be the same one which we achieved in Japan - near-eradication of a centuries old culture through military means. We're not going to do that. Arresting terrorists doesn't change their ideas, either. The ideas must be annihilated. The IRA calmed down because it finally crossed a few lines and discovered its own atrocities, and, deep down, found that it had a moral soul - not because we arrested everyone in the IRA. Militant Islam won't do that.
Keep in mind, I'm not advocating occupation here. I'm just saying it's the only thing that ever really worked.
Congress declares war, but does NOT direct the military and tell it how to do its job. They have one power - that's it.
The military is perfectly capable of investigation (CIA is semi-military, mind you, and cooperates highly with military - they're not strictly under a civilian umbrella).
I believe that, even during times of the founders, spies were often..dealt with. "Rights" have always been - in many countries - respected as long as the rules of civilized society were dealt with. Spies operate outside of those rules. Terrorists even moreso (Geneva conventions don't protect combatants not wearing uniforms, I believe). Terrorists abrogate rights by deliberately targeting known civilian populations - a position typically held in the Western world, and I believe upheld in Geneva.
Yeah, I thouroughly despise my right to free speech, press, religion, bear arms, voting. Hate 'em all.
The last time there was a REAL fight that mattered, Clinton won twice. Gore and Kerry supporters blaming Nader instead of their own idiocies and inadequacies (Gore couldn't win TN or AR and is crazy; Kerry was a yankee liberal leftie snob-boy who couldn't do something to win over people who were perfectly willing to go more centrist). Democrats, like good liberals, blame everything but themselves for their shortcomings.
Here's what I, as a conservative, support. FISA may reach a bit too far:
1. National security is the realm of the Commander-in-Chief - NOT congress, and broad military issues should be left with strong leadership, not with bureaucracy. We don't need warrants against spies and those doing war against us. 2. International terrorism is primarily a military - NOT LAW ENFORCEMENT - matter. Its roots are in a conflict against governments and people as a whole, not against individuals, thus putting it in the realm of the military. 3. Communications of internationals, like it or not, are NOT covered by the US Constitution. Anything that travels across borders has ALWAYS been an open book to ALL countries. Most/all communications travel in this manner now...even when one international calls another, it can travel through US systems. We DON'T need a warrant to listen to that.
All this being said, we DON'T need to be listening to people who aren't on watch lists and the like. However, the military needs to do its job with as few roadblocks as possible.
We also need to protect US citizens' rights as guaranteed by the Constitution when they are not - nor intending to commit - acts of terrorism (or crimes, for that matter). We were dealing with a weird red-tape issue, and an administration that may have taken a step or two too far - allegedly, may I remind everyone, because we really don't know who they were or weren't listening to - in their zeal to fight terrorism. We forget that the current administration can have one of two interpretations - the whole "blood for oil" argument, but there are also MANY actions of this administration which have been zealously adamant about defending from international terrorism, with many mistakes, big and small, made along the way to achieve that goal.
Sorry, bit of a rant and rather a rough draft, but I wanted it to be said...
Except that "any serious scientist" typically includes someone with a religious bent. ID is STILL new and coming out with testable, rational theories, but its proponents are being somewhat ignored, and, from what I can tell, not everything was definitively disproven. Found wanting - possibly - but that's not the same thing as tossing it out with the trash...particularly since we're still trying to figure out how everything came to be in the first place (pre-big bang or whatever).
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GM is the only ones making an aggressive push in advertising them. Ford has a few commercials, but the ones you see out there a little more is what GM is promoting.
You'll see how much of a "waste of time" a hybrid truck will be when American car companies start making gobs of cash off of them. A hybrid pickup may actually help save GM, Ford, and Dodge.
Whoa, then we both overreacted. You need to preface your out-in-the-country preferences when you write like that. I get your point about some of the idiocy of zoning, and some modern city life - it's why I don't live in one, btw. I do think that it would be a little more palatable if I could walk everywhere I needed, but I frankly don't want to be that cramped. I have a 25-30 minute commute to work, but it's a 25-30 mile drive as well and there's no point in moving closer right now. My idea of room is a bit closer to yours than in the 'burbs - I prefer rural as well, and really hope to own something along the lines of 50-100 acres out in the country some day. I think we're on the same page here more than you realize, and I had a bit too much of a knee-jerk reaction.
No way. It's nice to have a bit of ROOM. Sorry, but I grew up out in the country and have no desire to be cramped in. I want grass man didn't plant himself, freedom to do on my property just about what I feel like, have a place right near where I can watch my own kids, and have a shop I can junk up where no one can see because no one cares. Some of us like a bit of privacy and don't want to be forced by circumstances to HAVE to know our neighbors (who I knew growing up, by the way, because people were nice and reached out).
You can have your "new urbanism" and its cramped spaces and big cities and way too many people and nothing green and no honest-to-goodness wooded areas. Leave me the heck out of it.
Wrong-o. GM is the ONLY company I've seen that is gearing toward making electric/hybrid/eco-friendly or whatever SUV's and pickup trucks (the Tahoe is already available as a Hybrid, and the Silverado is coming later this year; they also have 100 Hydrogen fuel-cell Equinoxes on the road), cars Americans LOVE driving. They almost seem ahead of the game than even the Japanese, and when someone figures out how to get an electric to go 600 miles between charges, or get a hybrid full-size pickup to pull a boat and crank out enough horsepower, Americans will buy them in DROVES. I'm fully expecting my next vehicle to at least be a hybrid of some sort - we'll probably almost all be driving them in 5-10 years.
No, the New Deal sucked the economy dry because it over-taxed and over-spent through government programs, not because of monetary policy. A multitude of factors contributed there, not just because we were off the gold standard. And, by the way, WE RECOVERED. I'm not so sure that you goldies ever take that into account. Every 20-30 years you appear to maybe be right, but then the economy turns right around and gold drops again. You've been making money lately - enjoy it - but the good times for gold are near about over. Sell while you're ahead.
But we can't go and kill all that innocent algae! Humanity is a blight and we must take it as our just desserts! /off whacky enviro rant.
Wear and tear. Worse gas mileage. The attitude of freeloading, or better yet, stealing, and that it "doesn't matter." Also the matter that this is something that would get WIDESPREAD in a city like London. We wouldn't be talking the occasional computer nerd - hacked cards would make their way into PLENTY of hands, and every hoodie-with-ASBOS-and-ringtones would be getting "free" rides.
Just cause you can get a hack for MARTA (the Atlanta system) doesn't make it easier to get around. VERY non-user friendly for first-time or non-often users. Instructions/directions are non-intuitive.
Yep, it's always nice to get a "free" ride off the back of people who actually work and contribute.
The People don't have a right to free public transportation in London? Somethin' oughtta be done!
That's how we get the character Harley Quinn - she was the Joker's psychiatrist, and HE drove HER crazy.
Head hurting...how the HECK did you get off mentioning Hitler and not breaking Godwin's?
Many of the hard-core ebay whiners on its website are practically BEGGING google to open up an auction site, mostly because it will have practically millions as a buyer base overnight. Ebay's other competitors can't match that yet.
Not far. There are some sites that are decent, but the buyers are mostly staying with ebay. There are a few good non-auction sites like iOffer or Blujay that are decent, but ebay doesn't have a serious competitor with a similar model.
I'm getting a little more and more irritated about this stuff with ebay, and I would honestly jump ship if there was another decent auction-style competitor that is close to the ebay of the early 2000s.
Ebay is doing some SERIOUS wrong by the small seller (mostly through their fee issues, I don't think the feedback issues are as bad as some sellers try and make them out to be), and despite their platitudes, is turning into Amazon-lite. I have no huge problem with this, but they really need to make a decision on who they want to cater to and either split into two divisions or send the small-time buyers and sellers somewhere else.
I completely understand that businesses need to make money, and the buydotcom route may be one way to do that. However, ebay is WIDELY opening a door for another company to undercut them in the small seller market, and those of us who collect, buy, and sell anything used on a small scale and aren't interested in just shopping online for new stuff that we can get down the street at Wal-mart or wherever.
Certain crimes remove privileges for certain rights (freedom of movement, voting). That was all. Bad inference - Citizens' rights are always protected under the Constitution.
Try using covered = protected. Makes a little more sense. The Constitution protects the rights of American citizens.
People who deliberately wage war against civilian populations typically aren't afforded protections in civilized societies. I believe Geneva backs this up. Criminals lose several rights as well (felons can't vote in the US).
2. Wrong. Militant Islam has ALWAYS acted militarily to achieve its ends since Muhammed. The problem is that its cure would be the same one which we achieved in Japan - near-eradication of a centuries old culture through military means. We're not going to do that. Arresting terrorists doesn't change their ideas, either. The ideas must be annihilated. The IRA calmed down because it finally crossed a few lines and discovered its own atrocities, and, deep down, found that it had a moral soul - not because we arrested everyone in the IRA. Militant Islam won't do that.
Keep in mind, I'm not advocating occupation here. I'm just saying it's the only thing that ever really worked.
That's it, though. The President directs the military and calls the shots - NOT congress.
It's still military in nature - agents acting against a state aren't typically considered criminals, they're terrorists or various other terms.
Congress declares war, but does NOT direct the military and tell it how to do its job. They have one power - that's it.
The military is perfectly capable of investigation (CIA is semi-military, mind you, and cooperates highly with military - they're not strictly under a civilian umbrella).
I believe that, even during times of the founders, spies were often..dealt with. "Rights" have always been - in many countries - respected as long as the rules of civilized society were dealt with. Spies operate outside of those rules. Terrorists even moreso (Geneva conventions don't protect combatants not wearing uniforms, I believe). Terrorists abrogate rights by deliberately targeting known civilian populations - a position typically held in the Western world, and I believe upheld in Geneva.
Yeah, I thouroughly despise my right to free speech, press, religion, bear arms, voting. Hate 'em all.
The last time there was a REAL fight that mattered, Clinton won twice. Gore and Kerry supporters blaming Nader instead of their own idiocies and inadequacies (Gore couldn't win TN or AR and is crazy; Kerry was a yankee liberal leftie snob-boy who couldn't do something to win over people who were perfectly willing to go more centrist). Democrats, like good liberals, blame everything but themselves for their shortcomings.
Here's what I, as a conservative, support. FISA may reach a bit too far:
1. National security is the realm of the Commander-in-Chief - NOT congress, and broad military issues should be left with strong leadership, not with bureaucracy. We don't need warrants against spies and those doing war against us.
2. International terrorism is primarily a military - NOT LAW ENFORCEMENT - matter. Its roots are in a conflict against governments and people as a whole, not against individuals, thus putting it in the realm of the military.
3. Communications of internationals, like it or not, are NOT covered by the US Constitution. Anything that travels across borders has ALWAYS been an open book to ALL countries. Most/all communications travel in this manner now...even when one international calls another, it can travel through US systems. We DON'T need a warrant to listen to that.
All this being said, we DON'T need to be listening to people who aren't on watch lists and the like. However, the military needs to do its job with as few roadblocks as possible.
We also need to protect US citizens' rights as guaranteed by the Constitution when they are not - nor intending to commit - acts of terrorism (or crimes, for that matter). We were dealing with a weird red-tape issue, and an administration that may have taken a step or two too far - allegedly, may I remind everyone, because we really don't know who they were or weren't listening to - in their zeal to fight terrorism. We forget that the current administration can have one of two interpretations - the whole "blood for oil" argument, but there are also MANY actions of this administration which have been zealously adamant about defending from international terrorism, with many mistakes, big and small, made along the way to achieve that goal.
Sorry, bit of a rant and rather a rough draft, but I wanted it to be said...
Except that "any serious scientist" typically includes someone with a religious bent. ID is STILL new and coming out with testable, rational theories, but its proponents are being somewhat ignored, and, from what I can tell, not everything was definitively disproven. Found wanting - possibly - but that's not the same thing as tossing it out with the trash...particularly since we're still trying to figure out how everything came to be in the first place (pre-big bang or whatever).