Alaska. The coasts of Florida and California.
Or maybe just build some new domestic refineries - keep in mind, even when the oil prices per barrel have been going UP, prices at the pump have gone DOWN because of refinery output (some out west have solved some problems and are running smoothly again).
There's a high probability that the movie will start somewhere in the middle, like most of the episodes of ALIAS and MI:III. A "cliffhanger" beginning...or something like that. Personally, I'm a little interested to see the monster film that Abrams is cooking up (trailer was just before Transformers...and the movie doesn't have a real name yet.)
Is the unreliability of the laptop. They remain the only thing (in my experience) that it is probably worth spending the extra money to purchase the extended warranty. I have yet to see one perform reliably over a 3-5 year period without need of repair.
The one question that the article needed to ask was how many people who buy a laptop don't already have a desktop in use? I suspect that number is minimal as well.
I REALLY think that this is something that the free market can and would deal with. We're smart enough to determine what we want to watch and not watch, and I am perfectly willing to turn off the TV (which I do anyway). There does need to be a mechanism for parental control, and I would think that it could be managed properly in the market, and possibly the only requirement would be to allow parents to monitor and control what their kids can view/hear. Other than that, measures like this are more a waste of time than anything else...there's far more important stuff to deal with, something that this Congress has yet to figure out.
I always felt this way as well. I thought the conspiracy stuff was cool, but there were plenty of the monster-of-the-week episodes that stand out far more than the rest. Fluke-boy; the EXCELLENT Cockroach episode (who DIDN'T jump when one crawled across the screen); the inbred family; the guy with the shadow...true, they may have been more aimed toward the casual fan, but I always felt that several were well-written.
If I had the points, I'd burn 'em. Excellent points all around.
Even the Chronicles of Narnia started this way - Lewis didn't start out to write an allegory of Christ, it more or less just happened after Aslan came bounding into the picture.
Late 90's/Early '00s. Had a friend working the computer lab when full shutdown occurred and EVERY screen crashes and goes blank (I THINK it was due to Melissa)...near finals, so everyone was working on their final projects and papers in the labs. 50+people saying "Oh, S---" at the same time. Most profs were nice and had some sympathy.
A CEO would be differentiated because...well..he's a CEO, and has a HIGHER stake in case his agenda is out to acquire the company. However, I doubt that anonymous posters on a little-viewed yahoo board about a poorly-performing whole foods company which have a huge amount of influence on what its stock does.
I can imagine that several large corporations have attempted to somehow change the stock price either for themselves or a competitor in such a manner, and I would be extremely surprised if it was worth the effort, unless those postings contained some sort of insider information.
By the way, Mackey is an entertaining sort. He's a vegan who eats eggs, is a libertarian, and ticks off unions. I could almost like this guy. He also cut his own salary for his employees' benefit (the way it ought to be done, not by some idiot act of Congress).
On reflection, this should have little to nothing to do with the acquisition of another company.
IF everything that the EFF holds is true AND comprises the entire story, I could go along with it - I actually prefer some sort of protection of the source code and the NDA's.
Of course, there's always the Law of Unintended Consequences (and occasionally intended - see the awful McCain-Feingold bill as an example of both), as well as the actual execution of the law, the little parts that no one notices until it's put into effect, and the support of the crazy lefty groups (moveon, PftAW, etc) that make me want to think twice about it, and I have to get past my knee-jerks to look at it more closely.
Everyone has an agenda on this bill, and I doubt neither side is remotely interested in the purest terms.
The problem with your argument is that the electoral college is the great "equalizer" of urban populations, and gives us more suburban/rural types a say in who is President. It would boil down to major population centers having even GREATER weight in determining who is President, rather than a whole of the American people.
The U.S. is so big, that there may not be a good way to elect a President under any system...which is why we need to be glad we have Congress and a Judiciary, inept at times though they may be.
The bill looks like it creates far more problems than it repairs...and doesn't repair the problems it is supposed to in the first place.
I'm a right-winger who doesn't think there is much to the election fraud arguments, and even I think that there needs to be a paper trail for voting. We don't need new laws to fix the problem, new bureaucracies...if there is ONE thing that needs to be transparent in government, it is the election process. BOTH sides of the aisle look bad on election matters right now, and no real practical solution has arisen out of Washington yet.
Somewhat true. I actually think that existing laws may have been TOO cumbersome for effective law enforcement, ie the lack of ability for communication between the CIA and domestic law enforcement. The problem with DHS is that it tries to do the job that COULD be done with effective communication between the FBI, CIA, NSA, and military.
Of course, one has to pretend that they all made sense as well. It was a committee based on pure politics and politicians' need to look like they were doing something about the problem.
I don't mind it as a supplementation as long as it works, but there is going to be some idiot who thinks that this may be a replacement for parents...for which there can NEVER be a real replacement.
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And the kids' daycare.
Alaska.
The coasts of Florida and California.
Or maybe just build some new domestic refineries - keep in mind, even when the oil prices per barrel have been going UP, prices at the pump have gone DOWN because of refinery output (some out west have solved some problems and are running smoothly again).
There's a high probability that the movie will start somewhere in the middle, like most of the episodes of ALIAS and MI:III. A "cliffhanger" beginning...or something like that. Personally, I'm a little interested to see the monster film that Abrams is cooking up (trailer was just before Transformers...and the movie doesn't have a real name yet.)
Other than the reason that it's freakin' FRIDAY??
So YOU'VE been stealing my cake out of the fridge...
Are you sure? I'll make sure you get the memo on that.
Nothing new, we saw this in the C&C: Generals game, when they were mounted on several USA vehicles.
In slow motion.
Dangit, I wanted to make the flying doves joke.
Is the unreliability of the laptop. They remain the only thing (in my experience) that it is probably worth spending the extra money to purchase the extended warranty. I have yet to see one perform reliably over a 3-5 year period without need of repair.
The one question that the article needed to ask was how many people who buy a laptop don't already have a desktop in use? I suspect that number is minimal as well.
So....any funny "engris?" It's what makes some of these games so enjoyable.
I REALLY think that this is something that the free market can and would deal with. We're smart enough to determine what we want to watch and not watch, and I am perfectly willing to turn off the TV (which I do anyway). There does need to be a mechanism for parental control, and I would think that it could be managed properly in the market, and possibly the only requirement would be to allow parents to monitor and control what their kids can view/hear. Other than that, measures like this are more a waste of time than anything else...there's far more important stuff to deal with, something that this Congress has yet to figure out.
Oh, come ON with modding parent down. It's legitimately funny.
I always felt this way as well. I thought the conspiracy stuff was cool, but there were plenty of the monster-of-the-week episodes that stand out far more than the rest. Fluke-boy; the EXCELLENT Cockroach episode (who DIDN'T jump when one crawled across the screen); the inbred family; the guy with the shadow...true, they may have been more aimed toward the casual fan, but I always felt that several were well-written.
If I had the points, I'd burn 'em. Excellent points all around.
Even the Chronicles of Narnia started this way - Lewis didn't start out to write an allegory of Christ, it more or less just happened after Aslan came bounding into the picture.
And lots of it. That's all one needs. Sheesh, rednecks figured this out a long time ago.
Late 90's/Early '00s. Had a friend working the computer lab when full shutdown occurred and EVERY screen crashes and goes blank (I THINK it was due to Melissa)...near finals, so everyone was working on their final projects and papers in the labs. 50+people saying "Oh, S---" at the same time. Most profs were nice and had some sympathy.
There's a "Night of the Lepus" joke around here somewhere...
A CEO would be differentiated because...well..he's a CEO, and has a HIGHER stake in case his agenda is out to acquire the company. However, I doubt that anonymous posters on a little-viewed yahoo board about a poorly-performing whole foods company which have a huge amount of influence on what its stock does.
I can imagine that several large corporations have attempted to somehow change the stock price either for themselves or a competitor in such a manner, and I would be extremely surprised if it was worth the effort, unless those postings contained some sort of insider information.
By the way, Mackey is an entertaining sort. He's a vegan who eats eggs, is a libertarian, and ticks off unions. I could almost like this guy. He also cut his own salary for his employees' benefit (the way it ought to be done, not by some idiot act of Congress).
On reflection, this should have little to nothing to do with the acquisition of another company.
IF everything that the EFF holds is true AND comprises the entire story, I could go along with it - I actually prefer some sort of protection of the source code and the NDA's.
Of course, there's always the Law of Unintended Consequences (and occasionally intended - see the awful McCain-Feingold bill as an example of both), as well as the actual execution of the law, the little parts that no one notices until it's put into effect, and the support of the crazy lefty groups (moveon, PftAW, etc) that make me want to think twice about it, and I have to get past my knee-jerks to look at it more closely.
Everyone has an agenda on this bill, and I doubt neither side is remotely interested in the purest terms.
The problem with your argument is that the electoral college is the great "equalizer" of urban populations, and gives us more suburban/rural types a say in who is President. It would boil down to major population centers having even GREATER weight in determining who is President, rather than a whole of the American people.
The U.S. is so big, that there may not be a good way to elect a President under any system...which is why we need to be glad we have Congress and a Judiciary, inept at times though they may be.
The bill looks like it creates far more problems than it repairs...and doesn't repair the problems it is supposed to in the first place.
I'm a right-winger who doesn't think there is much to the election fraud arguments, and even I think that there needs to be a paper trail for voting. We don't need new laws to fix the problem, new bureaucracies...if there is ONE thing that needs to be transparent in government, it is the election process. BOTH sides of the aisle look bad on election matters right now, and no real practical solution has arisen out of Washington yet.
Somewhat true. I actually think that existing laws may have been TOO cumbersome for effective law enforcement, ie the lack of ability for communication between the CIA and domestic law enforcement. The problem with DHS is that it tries to do the job that COULD be done with effective communication between the FBI, CIA, NSA, and military.
Of course, one has to pretend that they all made sense as well. It was a committee based on pure politics and politicians' need to look like they were doing something about the problem.
Huh-huh...you said "butt."
I don't mind it as a supplementation as long as it works, but there is going to be some idiot who thinks that this may be a replacement for parents...for which there can NEVER be a real replacement.