(Though he did have one point -- phrases like "The election of Reagan was the final nail in the coffin of the old Republican party" are not technically facts, but instead well-supported opinions over which I suppose one could have some sort of debate.)
Unfortunately, he pretty much hit the nail on the head when discussing the Republican party. And that's coming from a former Republican. Oh, how far we have fallen.
Maybe they were using Mrs. Cartman's definition of an abortion. She wanted to get an abortion in the 27th trimester because she thought she was a bad mother.
I tried to explain that, but one didn't listen and the other didn't understand.
Use a food analogy! Cheese and cake. Both had milk as a common ancestor, at some point there was a divergence. Milk became cheese and milk became cake, but cheese did not go into the cake. Unless you're making, like.. cheesecake, but it's best not to bring that up.
On the other hand, a computer with equivalent 1992 capabilities would have cost $10k in 1992 dollars, as ILM found when buying all those SGI workstations.
If there is no change, then time, as we know it, doesn't exist and didn't pass. Time is how we measure change, whether it be ocsilations in atoms or by any other means.
the most fantastic soundtrack Uematsu has ever written
Seriously? Hey, the overland theme is great, Cid's theme is awesome, and 1-winged angel is a legend, but compared to Uematsu's work in the super-nintendo days, FF7's soundtrack was a definite disappointment. He certainly bounced back with FF8's amazing soundtrack (best part of the game, sadly). Part of the problem was the PSX's sound synthesis when FF started developing for it actually sounded worse than the SNES's at its high point, but many of the themes from FF7, on their own, were somewhat lackluster. When I want to listen to excellent Uematsu music, I break out FF4, FF6, a few tracks from FF7, FF8, and FF10 (which was only partially written by him).
"Hey Starbuck, what are you watching?" "Oh hey Apollo. Nice Levis! Very retro! I found these videos in that old outpost we thought might lead us to Earth. Apparently they used to watch "American Idol" on Tuesday and Wednesday nights at 8pm on the FOX network. I'm all caught up to the second to last episode. I can't wait to see whether Blake or Jordon will win!" "Yeah, too bad that all happened in the past. If we'd watched the show while it was on, we could have voted for who would win."
Yeah.. product placement will work better in some shows than others.:(
How is the fine unconscionable? Fuel taxes help pay for the roads, and if you're driving on the public roads, you have to pay the fair share of the tax, whether it gets deducted at the pump or by other means.
The state didn't make a profit. Once you took out the costs for road repairs, snow removal, salt, maybe the state police, etc, my guess is that they probably broke even. I've never seen a state that makes a profit off of taxes.
Oh... I have. The state of California used to quite a bit. Sure, they don't make a profit over the entire budget, but it's not hard to bring in more fuel taxes than the roads require. What usually happened is a proposition would be introduced on the election ballot for a fuel tax to repair the roads (or, what happened in CA several times, a property tax to raise revenues for schools). Instead of going directly into the department that was mentioned on the ballot, the taxes would go into a "general fund," from which many different unrelated departments would receive funds. Then the departments that were supposed to get the funds end up not getting the full amount, and you repeat the cycle on the next election period. It's one of the reasons why gasoline prices drop 50 cents per gallon (I'm not exaggerating here) when you cross the California/Nevada border. Proposition writers, seeing this, have gotten a little smarter and nowadays you'll find a number of disclaimers written into the proposition about how revenues cannot be shunted to the general fund and how they must go directly to the needed agencies (as many people, including me, started voting down new school taxes since it didn't seem like the money was actually getting all the way to the schools).
I know my new 2005 Mazda3 gets between 26 MPG city and 32 MPG highway, and my parent's old 1987 Omni got something like 29 city/35 highway - and at times as high as 40 in its less fuel efficient days.
Do they really though? Those numbers don't actually mean that your car really will get 26 MPG in the city, they mean that the car got 26MPG in a specific test, and testing standards have changed over the years. What is an advertised 26 MPG now may not have been the same as an advertised 26 MPG 15 years ago.
That's what devices like FasTrak here in the Bay Area are for. You don't have to get your wallet out, you don't need to exchange money, it's all done electronically while you whiz past the checkpoint. And transit agencies, in an effort to reduce congestion caused by people slowing down to do it the old fashioned way, offer a discount on bridge tolls for FasTrak -- you'll be spending less money, not more.
For the most part when discussing a contentious issue, there isn't one side that's complete 'right' and the other is completely 'wrong.' You aren't supposed to moderate up an opinion because you agree with it, you moderate up comments that bring valid points to the discussion, and very few discussions are totally black and white.
Well.. theoretically, the surface of an object could contain a pigment that, should light strike that object, would absorb some colors and reflect others, regardless of whether the light actually struck the creature or simply passed through it.
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My understanding is most of the objections of the term "America" come from folks in Quebec who don't like being compared to the non-French-speakers.
(Though he did have one point -- phrases like "The election of Reagan was the final nail in the coffin of the old Republican party" are not technically facts, but instead well-supported opinions over which I suppose one could have some sort of debate.)
Unfortunately, he pretty much hit the nail on the head when discussing the Republican party. And that's coming from a former Republican. Oh, how far we have fallen.
Maybe they were using Mrs. Cartman's definition of an abortion. She wanted to get an abortion in the 27th trimester because she thought she was a bad mother.
Use a food analogy! Cheese and cake. Both had milk as a common ancestor, at some point there was a divergence. Milk became cheese and milk became cake, but cheese did not go into the cake. Unless you're making, like.. cheesecake, but it's best not to bring that up.
On the other hand, a computer with equivalent 1992 capabilities would have cost $10k in 1992 dollars, as ILM found when buying all those SGI workstations.
If there is no change, then time, as we know it, doesn't exist and didn't pass. Time is how we measure change, whether it be ocsilations in atoms or by any other means.
Seriously? Hey, the overland theme is great, Cid's theme is awesome, and 1-winged angel is a legend, but compared to Uematsu's work in the super-nintendo days, FF7's soundtrack was a definite disappointment. He certainly bounced back with FF8's amazing soundtrack (best part of the game, sadly). Part of the problem was the PSX's sound synthesis when FF started developing for it actually sounded worse than the SNES's at its high point, but many of the themes from FF7, on their own, were somewhat lackluster. When I want to listen to excellent Uematsu music, I break out FF4, FF6, a few tracks from FF7, FF8, and FF10 (which was only partially written by him).
Ah yes, the old "real artists make all their money off of merchandise and live performances" myth.
This is frickin' genius.
Only if WoWhead starts charging for their database and starts banning you from running gather addons for other databases at the same time.
It's not "Thou shalt not kill," it's "Thou shalt not murder." Those two phrases mean very different things.
Or, the BSG universe could likely exist in the present, thanks to the inspiration of Galactica 1980.
"Hey Starbuck, what are you watching?"
:(
"Oh hey Apollo. Nice Levis! Very retro! I found these videos in that old outpost we thought might lead us to Earth. Apparently they used to watch "American Idol" on Tuesday and Wednesday nights at 8pm on the FOX network. I'm all caught up to the second to last episode. I can't wait to see whether Blake or Jordon will win!"
"Yeah, too bad that all happened in the past. If we'd watched the show while it was on, we could have voted for who would win."
Yeah.. product placement will work better in some shows than others.
How is the fine unconscionable? Fuel taxes help pay for the roads, and if you're driving on the public roads, you have to pay the fair share of the tax, whether it gets deducted at the pump or by other means.
Oh... I have. The state of California used to quite a bit. Sure, they don't make a profit over the entire budget, but it's not hard to bring in more fuel taxes than the roads require. What usually happened is a proposition would be introduced on the election ballot for a fuel tax to repair the roads (or, what happened in CA several times, a property tax to raise revenues for schools). Instead of going directly into the department that was mentioned on the ballot, the taxes would go into a "general fund," from which many different unrelated departments would receive funds. Then the departments that were supposed to get the funds end up not getting the full amount, and you repeat the cycle on the next election period. It's one of the reasons why gasoline prices drop 50 cents per gallon (I'm not exaggerating here) when you cross the California/Nevada border. Proposition writers, seeing this, have gotten a little smarter and nowadays you'll find a number of disclaimers written into the proposition about how revenues cannot be shunted to the general fund and how they must go directly to the needed agencies (as many people, including me, started voting down new school taxes since it didn't seem like the money was actually getting all the way to the schools).
Do they really though? Those numbers don't actually mean that your car really will get 26 MPG in the city, they mean that the car got 26MPG in a specific test, and testing standards have changed over the years. What is an advertised 26 MPG now may not have been the same as an advertised 26 MPG 15 years ago.
That's what devices like FasTrak here in the Bay Area are for. You don't have to get your wallet out, you don't need to exchange money, it's all done electronically while you whiz past the checkpoint. And transit agencies, in an effort to reduce congestion caused by people slowing down to do it the old fashioned way, offer a discount on bridge tolls for FasTrak -- you'll be spending less money, not more.
For the most part when discussing a contentious issue, there isn't one side that's complete 'right' and the other is completely 'wrong.' You aren't supposed to moderate up an opinion because you agree with it, you moderate up comments that bring valid points to the discussion, and very few discussions are totally black and white.
Musical is the type of movie, animation is the medium.
Well.. theoretically, the surface of an object could contain a pigment that, should light strike that object, would absorb some colors and reflect others, regardless of whether the light actually struck the creature or simply passed through it.
Maybe we can be optimistic and hope his hatred is Landover-Baptist style.
For as much as people call it "The American Solution," amazing how it never happens that way in America.
Spoiler: It get sacked!!