Why can't I pick "both incompetent AND malicious"? Actually, given that this occurred during a Democratic administration, also toadying to those in power?
There have been cases in Republican administrations of the IRS investigating organizations supporting the opposition at a greater rate than chance; since the IRS doesn't have a massive turnover in personnel the reason is most probably to brown-nose those in power, rather than assume that the IRS was suddenly a hotbed of Republican partisanship.
So, now we have the suggestion that those members of the IRS responsible for this were incompetent, malicious toadies and boot-lickers.
And to quote Senator Howard Baker, during the Watergate Hearings, "What did the President know, and when did he know it?" As long as it wasn't shortly after it occurred, he can be "shocked, shocked I say, to find that there is gambling going on in this establishment."
Of course, by your logic, there are also numerous copies of The Necronomicon, as well as at least two of the Al Asif (the Arabic, untranslated source of The Necronomicon) in various libraries. Just to extend the joke, most have been borrowed by a member of the Whateley family and are years overdue. I also understand that librarians have added a few copies of The King In Yellow (the mythical play, not the collection of stories about it) around the country. In a few years, expect to see works by Nickolaus Flamel (sp?) start showing up, as Harry Potter fans get in charge of things.
Librarians with too much time on there hands leave all sorts of in-jokes around.
I was born, raised, and educated in the USA, and I never heard this "U.S. Defender of Freedom" thing. We stayed out of WWII because large portions of the US wanted to avoid a repeat of WWI, just as the Oxford Student Debating Society solemnly resolved that there was no reason whatsoever to die for King Or Country just a year or two before Churchill and Co. shamed poor Chamberlain into demanding that Germany not invade Poland or suffer Britain's (and France's) wrath. After Japan attacked, we might have known that Germany needed to be included in the war but Germany was nice enough to declare war on us, before we had to try to convince Congress to declare war on a previously non-belligerent power just because we didn't like them.
We did not declare war on the Vichy regime because we thought that nominal neutrality might work better (and we decided to treat them as if they were the Ghetto Councils that the Nazis set up before they liquidated the Ghettos, ie in charge like Holly Genarro in Die Hard). We "knew" about the death camps, but no one believed the reports because they were made by commy-symps and Jews, and the idea of killing your best and smartest workers was too absurd, just as the Red Cross was notified of the Katryn Forest massacre of Polish officers by the Soviets, but they didn't believe it because the Germans reported it.
Face it, pre-emptive war, even against a righteous target, has lost a bit of its luster in the last decade. If the USA *did* decide to do something about NK, large portions of the world, including Europe, would complain about US Cowboy Diplomacy and Warmongering.
BTW, would Poland have objected so much if the Germans asked them to join in a crusade against the Godless Communists on their Eastern border, instead of what happened?
There are MS-DOS emulators for your embossing machine. The problem is if your embossing machine require parallel ports, rather than RS-232, since nobody seems to use those anymore. I cannot think how to help you, there.
BTW, what is on your $120,000 electron microscope? I have seen ones much cheaper, and research grade scopes starting at $300,000 , but nothing between except decades ago, when they used PDP-11/34s as the base computer.
It was 7 when I first looked. Give it time. OTOH, I doubt that an article on the first trailer will get into the 300+ levels. It was not nearly as good as the first trailer for the original Superman was (which came out 18 months before the movie, and the big news was that they got Marlon Brando to appear in it, not its subject or its "star").
One question: What is the difference between thou and ye? My understanding was that they were just geographical variants of 2nd Person Familiar over the breadth of Anglo-Saxon-Jutish.
Also, I find it interesting that wolf/dog (something like hunda in Nostratic, IIRC) didn't make the cut.
What part of "outside the USA" did you not understand? Sorry, Texas, you wanted to be annexed, well, you were. No going back, now.
Now, if you can get something from Europe for a Texas address, that would be interesting. T-Mobile isn't mostly owned by Deutche Telekom, anymore, so it doesn't count.
Our phone company must have stuck us with their refurbished obsolescent junk then (we do not have one of the high tiers), because our DSL modem doesn't support Gigabit Ethernet, at least according to all reports.
Neither did the Comcast modem that it replaced, but that had been working well for almost four (4) years, and replaced one that worked for eight (8) years.
Herbert Hoover served for $1 per year. Of course, if you blame him for the Great Depression, he was probably overpaid, but... JFK supposedly gave all his salary to charity (of course, with his money, the salary was relatively chump change). I also doubt that Buchanan got much out of his support for slavery, living in a Free state.
Not greedy does not mean that they agree with you.
How many residential cable or DSL modems have Gigabit Ethernet, that your wireless router would need to support it? Or are you buying cheap stuff and replacing its kernel with your own Linux, for work?
As to supporting N, that would just let my neighbors sponge off of my connection, or cause me to interfere with theirs. I already cover our yard. If you need it, though, go ahead.
As per the Star Fleet Technical Manual era books, the Terrans reached Alpha Centuri via a 50 year trip on a sleeper ship, and discovered that the Preservers had made a colony of North Africans (Carthaginians by culture), and Western Med Greek coloni and Celts. Zephram Cochrane was a local mathematician that postulated a space warp without the technology to build it, which the Terrans had. Construction of the return ship was so fast that it preceded the report that they were going to build one and return to Earth.
Vulcan circled Tau Ceti, about 10 light years away. Alpha Centuri had a colony of Celts, Greeks, and North Africans that were transported there by the Preservers.
Ye Gods! Does no one read the Star Trek Technical Manual, anymore?
AMC and FX are basic cable, or else first tier, just like Animal Planet or TVLand. Total lack of censorship is only on HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, or The Movie Channel (or their offspring like Showtime Xtreme), or the pay-.per-view channels.
BTW, the article referred to comedy shows, which FX and AMC lack, let alone HBO or Showtime (excluding their broadcasting standup acts). Comedy has always been a spotty thing, or else NBC would still rule the air.
But stats are for nerds, and no game is as stat-happy as baseball.
And it is "Sports are for jocks," unless you are British, in which case, it would be "Sport is for jocks,".
Now playing sports (except as part of required PhysEd courses) or enjoying the experience might be exclusively for jocks. That point is arguable. Rules lawyering isn't for jocks (except Wookies, who always win), as any DnD player will testify.
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Why can't I pick "both incompetent AND malicious"? Actually, given that this occurred during a Democratic administration, also toadying to those in power?
There have been cases in Republican administrations of the IRS investigating organizations supporting the opposition at a greater rate than chance; since the IRS doesn't have a massive turnover in personnel the reason is most probably to brown-nose those in power, rather than assume that the IRS was suddenly a hotbed of Republican partisanship.
So, now we have the suggestion that those members of the IRS responsible for this were incompetent, malicious toadies and boot-lickers.
And to quote Senator Howard Baker, during the Watergate Hearings, "What did the President know, and when did he know it?" As long as it wasn't shortly after it occurred, he can be "shocked, shocked I say, to find that there is gambling going on in this establishment."
Countless number of books lost forever when the Library of Alexandria was burnt down.
Which time?
Of course, by your logic, there are also numerous copies of The Necronomicon, as well as at least two of the Al Asif (the Arabic, untranslated source of The Necronomicon) in various libraries. Just to extend the joke, most have been borrowed by a member of the Whateley family and are years overdue. I also understand that librarians have added a few copies of The King In Yellow (the mythical play, not the collection of stories about it) around the country. In a few years, expect to see works by Nickolaus Flamel (sp?) start showing up, as Harry Potter fans get in charge of things.
Librarians with too much time on there hands leave all sorts of in-jokes around.
No, he dunked them to see if they were witches, and they floated, proving that they were really geese.
Or some such Holy Grail-ish nonsense.
I was born, raised, and educated in the USA, and I never heard this "U.S. Defender of Freedom" thing. We stayed out of WWII because large portions of the US wanted to avoid a repeat of WWI, just as the Oxford Student Debating Society solemnly resolved that there was no reason whatsoever to die for King Or Country just a year or two before Churchill and Co. shamed poor Chamberlain into demanding that Germany not invade Poland or suffer Britain's (and France's) wrath. After Japan attacked, we might have known that Germany needed to be included in the war but Germany was nice enough to declare war on us, before we had to try to convince Congress to declare war on a previously non-belligerent power just because we didn't like them.
We did not declare war on the Vichy regime because we thought that nominal neutrality might work better (and we decided to treat them as if they were the Ghetto Councils that the Nazis set up before they liquidated the Ghettos, ie in charge like Holly Genarro in Die Hard). We "knew" about the death camps, but no one believed the reports because they were made by commy-symps and Jews, and the idea of killing your best and smartest workers was too absurd, just as the Red Cross was notified of the Katryn Forest massacre of Polish officers by the Soviets, but they didn't believe it because the Germans reported it.
Face it, pre-emptive war, even against a righteous target, has lost a bit of its luster in the last decade. If the USA *did* decide to do something about NK, large portions of the world, including Europe, would complain about US Cowboy Diplomacy and Warmongering.
BTW, would Poland have objected so much if the Germans asked them to join in a crusade against the Godless Communists on their Eastern border, instead of what happened?
There are MS-DOS emulators for your embossing machine. The problem is if your embossing machine require parallel ports, rather than RS-232, since nobody seems to use those anymore. I cannot think how to help you, there.
BTW, what is on your $120,000 electron microscope? I have seen ones much cheaper, and research grade scopes starting at $300,000 , but nothing between except decades ago, when they used PDP-11/34s as the base computer.
Because, y'know, it was just flour. No harm, no foul.
My sister is glutin-intolerant, you insensitive clod!
It was 7 when I first looked. Give it time. OTOH, I doubt that an article on the first trailer will get into the 300+ levels. It was not nearly as good as the first trailer for the original Superman was (which came out 18 months before the movie, and the big news was that they got Marlon Brando to appear in it, not its subject or its "star").
So all paleontology is BS? Just checking, not necessarily disagreeing.
Not France, Greece. When does French have five vowels in a row (which I saw in Greece)?
One question: What is the difference between thou and ye? My understanding was that they were just geographical variants of 2nd Person Familiar over the breadth of Anglo-Saxon-Jutish.
Also, I find it interesting that wolf/dog (something like hunda in Nostratic, IIRC) didn't make the cut.
So cold-blooded premeditated murder with special circumstances (say, death by immolation, that sounds nasty) is just a misdemeanor, like shop-lifting?
No wonder all the Mafia moves there.
What part of "outside the USA" did you not understand? Sorry, Texas, you wanted to be annexed, well, you were. No going back, now.
Now, if you can get something from Europe for a Texas address, that would be interesting. T-Mobile isn't mostly owned by Deutche Telekom, anymore, so it doesn't count.
Our phone company must have stuck us with their refurbished obsolescent junk then (we do not have one of the high tiers), because our DSL modem doesn't support Gigabit Ethernet, at least according to all reports.
Neither did the Comcast modem that it replaced, but that had been working well for almost four (4) years, and replaced one that worked for eight (8) years.
Herbert Hoover served for $1 per year. Of course, if you blame him for the Great Depression, he was probably overpaid, but...
JFK supposedly gave all his salary to charity (of course, with his money, the salary was relatively chump change).
I also doubt that Buchanan got much out of his support for slavery, living in a Free state.
Not greedy does not mean that they agree with you.
and a non currency based economy, apparently.
Explain gold-pressed latinum, then.
How many residential cable or DSL modems have Gigabit Ethernet, that your wireless router would need to support it? Or are you buying cheap stuff and replacing its kernel with your own Linux, for work?
As to supporting N, that would just let my neighbors sponge off of my connection, or cause me to interfere with theirs. I already cover our yard. If you need it, though, go ahead.
Will this grocery delivery service discriminate against "atheist" foods?
All foods are atheist. At least, I've never met or heard of any food that claimed that it believed in a god.
Feel free to provide evidence that theist foods exist - after all - extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Missionary stew, aka long pork. Written about by both Hemingway and Heinlein.
Who thought that one up?
Johann Sebastian Bach, actually.
As per the Star Fleet Technical Manual era books, the Terrans reached Alpha Centuri via a 50 year trip on a sleeper ship, and discovered that the Preservers had made a colony of North Africans (Carthaginians by culture), and Western Med Greek coloni and Celts. Zephram Cochrane was a local mathematician that postulated a space warp without the technology to build it, which the Terrans had. Construction of the return ship was so fast that it preceded the report that they were going to build one and return to Earth.
I HATE ST:TNG!
e. e. cummings would second that.
Would have been the obvious choice.
Vulcan circled Tau Ceti, about 10 light years away. Alpha Centuri had a colony of Celts, Greeks, and North Africans that were transported there by the Preservers.
Ye Gods! Does no one read the Star Trek Technical Manual, anymore?
AMC and FX are basic cable, or else first tier, just like Animal Planet or TVLand. Total lack of censorship is only on HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, or The Movie Channel (or their offspring like Showtime Xtreme), or the pay-.per-view channels.
BTW, the article referred to comedy shows, which FX and AMC lack, let alone HBO or Showtime (excluding their broadcasting standup acts). Comedy has always been a spotty thing, or else NBC would still rule the air.
Exactly. It's horrible crap. As bad or worse than anything the TV networks are producing.
Of course. If they were really any good, they would have been picked up by a real network. Remember, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."
Sports is for jocks, the sworn enemy of nerds.
But stats are for nerds, and no game is as stat-happy as baseball.
And it is "Sports are for jocks," unless you are British, in which case, it would be "Sport is for jocks,".
Now playing sports (except as part of required PhysEd courses) or enjoying the experience might be exclusively for jocks. That point is arguable. Rules lawyering isn't for jocks (except Wookies, who always win), as any DnD player will testify.