I'm not saying that they had any effect on the dinosaurs, merely that bugs that big are (or were) possible. Meganeura lived during the Carboniferous Period, prior to dino deaths refered to here.
You can not be around someone smoking it, without them asking if you want some
... and if you're around me while I'm having a beer, I'll likely offer you one. Sharing is good manners, even among beer drinkers and pot smokers. Just because it's part of the social ritual doesn't mean there's something wrong with it.
Large numbers of tobacco smokers die from illnesses related to their habit. Cancer doesn't get them all; heart disease and emphysema claim lots as well, and others manage to die of something completely unrelated.
There are strings that hang down through the opening in the cervix. Although I've never slept with a woman who used an IUD, and I don't have a problem of his apparent, ahem, magnitude, I can imagine it would be uncomfortable to repeatedly poke something foreign in there with the most sensitive section of my body.
Funny... I thought liberals were going to use it as proof that global warming was so out of control, it was affecting the sun. First it melts the polar icecaps, now the sunspots.;)
Oh, crap, did I post this without checking the AC box?
Now they [the rich and super-rich] pay a significantly less percentage than working people. And that is before all the specialized tax breaks hidden in the 1000-page appropriations bills that no congressman ever reads.
The only way that ordinary people are going to get tax fairness, i.e. the same rates as the super-rich, is to cut corners, zap the books, write in extra kids on their W-2 forms, Yes, to cheat.
Wrong. The "ordinary people" already get lower tax rates. Observe. The rich get taxed more. Furthermore, if you look back at the last 8+ years, you will see that the average joe saw his/her taxes drop repeatedly under Bush. Of course, it makes good (read: popular) press to say that Bush only helps the rich, but that's not true - go read it yourself.
Yes, tax loopholes exist. Yes, I agree that they have been abused (by both sides of the aisle), and should be greatly reduced. But the fundamental premise of your argument is wrong.
If Buffet really wanted to help his gardener, he'd let him use his (Buffet's) tax attorneys/accountants. Are you seriously advocating tax evasion because of perceived injustices?
Hmm. Thoughtful, well-written with a balanced perspective, and a coherent argument with facts to back it up. How the hell did this get on/. ?? I wish I had points to give.
Hmmm. Funny, I always thought of soap operas as porn for the average woman. Of course, every soap opera has as one of its recurring themes a fairytale wedding between characters.
I've met a diverse set of people in my travels, and I wouldn't say racism is dead, but IMHO it is merely a grim shadow of what it used to be. Of course, I don't move in many "culturally sedentary" social circles. BTW, that phrase made my day. Nice way to put it.
Really? Is it revolting when my mechanic charges me the same labor rates or more for something I could easily do if I had the know-how and the equipment?
Look, I like to donate time and effort to helping fix computers for those who need it; friends, neighbors, local non-profits, etc. But there's a legit reason to charge someone for your time and skill and equipment when you have to make a living, and there's a legit reason why people who need services should be willing to pay for them if they can't hack it themselves. The stonemason coming in a couple weeks to work on my retaining wall is charging a hell of a lot more than $200, but he knows what the heck he is doing, and that makes all the difference.
The truth is that the middle class does better under Republicans than Dems on taxes. Look at tax rates under Clinton. Then look at the last 8 years under Bush. Anti-Bushies will be shocked to see that the lower and middle classes got tax cut after tax cut (both through lower tax rates and higher limits to those brackets) since he got into power.
Obama is planning to spend a lot of money on social services... you can't tell me that's not going to hit the little guy.
For some voters, perhaps yes, although I don't think that those biased against blacks are all that open-minded about women, either. Unless, of course, there's a KKK women's auxilliary running around somewhere...
I don't think that for very many Americans it is necessarily an issue of race. The Hillary race really struck a chord with a lot of women, including many who couldn't stand her, but were enthralled with the idea of a woman President. Some I know would vote for a ticket with a woman on it simply because there's a woman on it, with no racial bias against Obama whatsoever.
Why not? 200 ~ 300 mhz and 64 MB RAM is plenty for Windows 98, and I can't think of a better virus platform than that. Hmmm, the USB support might be kinda buggy though. I'd avoid hot-plugging any USB scanners, I guess.
I had a lousy teacher for Trig and Algebra. It is not an exaggeration to say that this guy screwed up many classes of kids in his time there. I later heard that he had suffered a series of small strokes as he got older, and should have retired or gone on disability, but he was within a few year of retirement. Rather than show the guy the door early with only a partial pension, they let the guy continue to teach until full retirement, during which time he continued to worsen. Kids who were brilliant A students struggled to pass his classes, because they had to teach themselves the material after he failed to teach it correctly. Of course, with his seniority and the strength of the teachers union, they may have had no choice but to keep him on.
I think there is something endemic to the US school system that ensures that the worst teachers never leave.
That's the beautiful thing about telecommuting. I've done it. Being free of constant supervision is disorienting at first, but wow, is it ever a relief. It is VERY tempting to watch TV, go hit golf balls, have a few beers with lunch, etc. Eventually, self-preservation kicks in and you realize that you have to get your ass in gear. You become more organized. You plan your day. You learn to push back on spouses/kids/whomever who think it's okay to interrupt your workday with housekeeping requests. IMHO, those capable of it will become more mature employees.
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Heh heh heh ... I didn't even consider that meaning of LDS. I was trying a Star Trek riff.
Bah. Other than the 600kb request, how much different is this than a good slashdotting?
IIRC, the Museum of Science in Boston has a model of one of these things. Some kids think it's cool ... others, not so much.
Too much LDS back in the '60s? ;)
Wiki tells all. Researchers have debated whether a higher O2 content would be needed to support insects of that size. My guess is yes.
I'm not saying that they had any effect on the dinosaurs, merely that bugs that big are (or were) possible. Meganeura lived during the Carboniferous Period, prior to dino deaths refered to here.
Dragonfly fossils with 70 cm wingspans have been found.
You can not be around someone smoking it, without them asking if you want some
Large numbers of tobacco smokers die from illnesses related to their habit. Cancer doesn't get them all; heart disease and emphysema claim lots as well, and others manage to die of something completely unrelated.
There are strings that hang down through the opening in the cervix. Although I've never slept with a woman who used an IUD, and I don't have a problem of his apparent, ahem, magnitude, I can imagine it would be uncomfortable to repeatedly poke something foreign in there with the most sensitive section of my body.
That was truly excellent. My hat is off to you.
Funny ... I thought liberals were going to use it as proof that global warming was so out of control, it was affecting the sun. First it melts the polar icecaps, now the sunspots. ;)
Oh, crap, did I post this without checking the AC box?
Now they [the rich and super-rich] pay a significantly less percentage than working people. And that is before all the specialized tax breaks hidden in the 1000-page appropriations bills that no congressman ever reads. The only way that ordinary people are going to get tax fairness, i.e. the same rates as the super-rich, is to cut corners, zap the books, write in extra kids on their W-2 forms, Yes, to cheat.
Wrong. The "ordinary people" already get lower tax rates. Observe. The rich get taxed more. Furthermore, if you look back at the last 8+ years, you will see that the average joe saw his/her taxes drop repeatedly under Bush. Of course, it makes good (read: popular) press to say that Bush only helps the rich, but that's not true - go read it yourself.
Yes, tax loopholes exist. Yes, I agree that they have been abused (by both sides of the aisle), and should be greatly reduced. But the fundamental premise of your argument is wrong.
If Buffet really wanted to help his gardener, he'd let him use his (Buffet's) tax attorneys/accountants. Are you seriously advocating tax evasion because of perceived injustices?
Hmm. Thoughtful, well-written with a balanced perspective, and a coherent argument with facts to back it up. How the hell did this get on /. ?? I wish I had points to give.
This is slashdot - most of us here have left arms that look like that, if we have muscles at all.
Hmmm. Funny, I always thought of soap operas as porn for the average woman. Of course, every soap opera has as one of its recurring themes a fairytale wedding between characters.
I've met a diverse set of people in my travels, and I wouldn't say racism is dead, but IMHO it is merely a grim shadow of what it used to be. Of course, I don't move in many "culturally sedentary" social circles. BTW, that phrase made my day. Nice way to put it.
Really? Is it revolting when my mechanic charges me the same labor rates or more for something I could easily do if I had the know-how and the equipment?
Look, I like to donate time and effort to helping fix computers for those who need it; friends, neighbors, local non-profits, etc. But there's a legit reason to charge someone for your time and skill and equipment when you have to make a living, and there's a legit reason why people who need services should be willing to pay for them if they can't hack it themselves. The stonemason coming in a couple weeks to work on my retaining wall is charging a hell of a lot more than $200, but he knows what the heck he is doing, and that makes all the difference.
The truth is that the middle class does better under Republicans than Dems on taxes. Look at tax rates under Clinton. Then look at the last 8 years under Bush. Anti-Bushies will be shocked to see that the lower and middle classes got tax cut after tax cut (both through lower tax rates and higher limits to those brackets) since he got into power.
... you can't tell me that's not going to hit the little guy.
Obama is planning to spend a lot of money on social services
For some voters, perhaps yes, although I don't think that those biased against blacks are all that open-minded about women, either. Unless, of course, there's a KKK women's auxilliary running around somewhere ...
I don't think that for very many Americans it is necessarily an issue of race. The Hillary race really struck a chord with a lot of women, including many who couldn't stand her, but were enthralled with the idea of a woman President. Some I know would vote for a ticket with a woman on it simply because there's a woman on it, with no racial bias against Obama whatsoever.
Why not? 200 ~ 300 mhz and 64 MB RAM is plenty for Windows 98, and I can't think of a better virus platform than that. Hmmm, the USB support might be kinda buggy though. I'd avoid hot-plugging any USB scanners, I guess.
I had a lousy teacher for Trig and Algebra. It is not an exaggeration to say that this guy screwed up many classes of kids in his time there. I later heard that he had suffered a series of small strokes as he got older, and should have retired or gone on disability, but he was within a few year of retirement. Rather than show the guy the door early with only a partial pension, they let the guy continue to teach until full retirement, during which time he continued to worsen. Kids who were brilliant A students struggled to pass his classes, because they had to teach themselves the material after he failed to teach it correctly. Of course, with his seniority and the strength of the teachers union, they may have had no choice but to keep him on.
I think there is something endemic to the US school system that ensures that the worst teachers never leave.
You mean like Digital Audio Tape?
Funny, that. Just got laid off myself, too.
That's the beautiful thing about telecommuting. I've done it. Being free of constant supervision is disorienting at first, but wow, is it ever a relief. It is VERY tempting to watch TV, go hit golf balls, have a few beers with lunch, etc. Eventually, self-preservation kicks in and you realize that you have to get your ass in gear. You become more organized. You plan your day. You learn to push back on spouses/kids/whomever who think it's okay to interrupt your workday with housekeeping requests. IMHO, those capable of it will become more mature employees.
It is well known that women tend to outlive men.
... )
Why do women live longer than men?
They refuse to die until they have the last word.
Why do men die sooner than women?
For the peace and quiet.
(ducks for cover