That doesn't sound too out of the norm. Typically people dislike congress in general but like their own congress critters. It is similar to schools, public schools suck except for the one their children go to.
Unfortunately as long as they have the R or D behind their name and are in the correctly colored district they more than likely won't be voted out. Granted you can see big swings like the 2010 elections, but those tend to be more a throw the bums out and it doesn't matter who the bums are or what bums replace them. Most people don't follow politics and aren't active. When they do follow them it is in the weeks leading up to the election and there you find out that candidate A like to kick puppies and is a pinko commie while candidate B hates apple pie and is a fascist (the specific accusations vary but the themes are the same).
Unfortunately there are certain key words that make people push their own anger aside. These set of words usually includes:
Terrorist
Terrorism
Pedophile
Children
Drugs
War
If you suggested that government was going to search everyone (using the airport scanners) leaving a store to ensure that they didn't steal anything there would be blood in the street.
The "Christmas tree bomber" incident in Oregon is a really piss poor example to use since it was the suspects own father who turned the suspect over to the FBI who decided that they would use him as a patsy and provide him with the support and materials needed. Now granted they provided defective materials and incompentent support but they just kept stringing the suspect along instead of stopping it there. They then arrested the suspect with his defective bomb, provided by the US government, and wow now we have some great PR since he had a bomb and was going to a public event. Same thing with "Operation Fast and Furious" but that one appears to have failed miserably.
So in how many of these cases was the investigator unable to get a warrant for a wire tap, a search, or anything else they might want or need? My understanding is that the FISA court basically hands them out like candy and can even hand them out after surveillance has begun.
It was probably copier paper that met the government's official standard for what copier paper is and had all the associated documentation signed in triplicate demonstrating that it was in fact government approved copier paper of the correct weight, brightness, texture, and flavor from an approved copier paper vendor who probably spend months or years jumping though hoop to become a certified copier paper vendor (or was related to someone in government).
Sounds about right, similar things happen in the US. When my father in law was in the naval reserve he noticed that there was a specification for ketchup and that when more was received there was associated documentation to ensure that what they actually received was actually ketchup by the official US government specification. I guess some of this has changed in recent years but I gather that a lot of it still happens.
If it makes you feel better I like my Hasselblad with those nice fast Zeiss lenses on a tripod. To convert to digital I load the film into my scanner which will do up to 19??? by 19??? per inch hardware resolution at 16bits per channel. I don't develop my own film as I don't want to do that so I take it to a place that caters more to the pro and prosumer market that can actually develop the file and follow instructions. I just get the developed film back and scan it at the max hardware settings save it and go from there. I will also pay for proper printing of digital files. I also have an old Pentax SLR with that takes the M42 screw mount lenses and a bunch of Honeywell or Asahi Pentax lenses that I take everywhere. That camera seem to be damn near indestructible.
So I am not the only one who noticed this. I don't listen to my ear buds overly loud (frequently I can hear other peoples crappy music from their ear buds with mine in) but since I mostly listen to music at the gym on a mp3 player I was shocked at how much I missed when I connected the mp3 player up to my car system on a long road trip last year.
Personally I would love some pro gear even if it is older and used. I once got to listen to some music played back on some really nice pro equipment at a place I worked and was really impressed with the clarity and also how it would still sound really good when cranked up. The person who showed this to me also point out that the speakers would play wall current, that was painful as he just went an connected a stripped power cable to the terminals on the back of a speaker. If any one know what kind of speakers these might have been I would love to know.
Mr. Boom Box in public still exists. Now instead of being able to carry the boom box the individual now rides in it. It still sounds as crappy as ever. Also I can still hear other people's music from their ear buds through my ear buds while I am at the gym. So there are still plenty of people who are trying to overpower the world with their music.
sounds like when I am driving my 88 Bronco II. I finally went and bought some speakers that would fit. Since I really didn't care about the quality, I was replacing 23 year old speakers 2 of which didn't work the other 2 were blown and hooked up to the "premium" sounds system (AM/FM radio with cassette deck) it had, I went and bought the cheapest I could. $20 or so later I had a set of 4 open box return speakers that I put in from best buy (I said I didn't care) that sounded orders of magnitude better the the old OEM ones.
Really. I can probably get close to that in a few days. I do a lot of mapping and GIS work in my spare time and have been known to run things in a batch mode late at night to gather or send off entire state wide data sets. Now add in that all of TV viewing in my house (wife and child mostly) is done over the internet and 500GB is a trivial amount.
The problem is the "legislative push" aspect of it. Now if you have a strong dictator that isn't an issue but given how fickle the political winds are I wouldn't bet on a legislative push being the solution.
So similar to noses specifically nostrils then. Larger ones act as a heat sink and aid in cooling so typically people from a more equatorial area have larger nostrils. Skin pigment is one that seems somewhat backwards at first since darker skin would absorb more heat, but I guess it was better to have the additional sunburn protection at lower latitudes and the better frost bit protection at higher latitudes. These were all things I got from a human evolution course I took in college.
Probably racist as hell as stories like these really bring them out. I think that people who are racists really should go and take a physical anthropology class (basically human evolution) as it might do them some good. Unfortunately there seems to be a strong overlap between the groups that are racist as hell and those who believe in creationism so they would probably just view the class as "a bunch of lies propagated by those liberal scientists who want to destroy American values".
You are confused between latitude (how far north or south of the equator you are) and altitude (how far above sea level you are). Usually at higher altitudes you see smaller creatures (this is of creatures of the same type) compared to those at lower altitudes since in general there are fewer resources for them.
I guess I am lucky then since this the the layout of my steering wheel. It was a good design so I don't know why they discontinued that layout and went to the 3 spoke design with buttons on 2 of the spokes. And no that isn't my car, it is way to clean to be mine plus it probably his fewer miles on it.
For most people -10F is really cold and that is hard on electronics I chose those values as they would normally be considered extreme by most people. You might like Minnesota, we don't get quite that cold, but it can get down into the -30F range with -40F being record setting territory. Unless you are running some 0 weight oil -10F is hard on a car until it gets warm enough to have some good flow properties. Personally I like a nice crisp day where the temp is -10F with little to no wind.
Given its position earth will never clear its orbit, but then I guess Jupiter shouldn't be considered one either as it also has an asteroids trapped at its Lagrange points, as does Neptune and Mars.
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That doesn't sound too out of the norm. Typically people dislike congress in general but like their own congress critters. It is similar to schools, public schools suck except for the one their children go to.
Unfortunately as long as they have the R or D behind their name and are in the correctly colored district they more than likely won't be voted out. Granted you can see big swings like the 2010 elections, but those tend to be more a throw the bums out and it doesn't matter who the bums are or what bums replace them. Most people don't follow politics and aren't active. When they do follow them it is in the weeks leading up to the election and there you find out that candidate A like to kick puppies and is a pinko commie while candidate B hates apple pie and is a fascist (the specific accusations vary but the themes are the same).
You keep saying this, but in how many of these cases was the investigator unable to get a real warrant?
Unfortunately there are certain key words that make people push their own anger aside. These set of words usually includes:
Terrorist
Terrorism
Pedophile
Children
Drugs
War
If you suggested that government was going to search everyone (using the airport scanners) leaving a store to ensure that they didn't steal anything there would be blood in the street.
The "Christmas tree bomber" incident in Oregon is a really piss poor example to use since it was the suspects own father who turned the suspect over to the FBI who decided that they would use him as a patsy and provide him with the support and materials needed. Now granted they provided defective materials and incompentent support but they just kept stringing the suspect along instead of stopping it there. They then arrested the suspect with his defective bomb, provided by the US government, and wow now we have some great PR since he had a bomb and was going to a public event. Same thing with "Operation Fast and Furious" but that one appears to have failed miserably.
So in how many of these cases was the investigator unable to get a warrant for a wire tap, a search, or anything else they might want or need? My understanding is that the FISA court basically hands them out like candy and can even hand them out after surveillance has begun.
The number of incidents is probably similar per elected official but the scale of each is probably greater in the US.
Well you could retrain them when the next version of MS office comes out.
It was probably copier paper that met the government's official standard for what copier paper is and had all the associated documentation signed in triplicate demonstrating that it was in fact government approved copier paper of the correct weight, brightness, texture, and flavor from an approved copier paper vendor who probably spend months or years jumping though hoop to become a certified copier paper vendor (or was related to someone in government).
Sounds about right, similar things happen in the US. When my father in law was in the naval reserve he noticed that there was a specification for ketchup and that when more was received there was associated documentation to ensure that what they actually received was actually ketchup by the official US government specification. I guess some of this has changed in recent years but I gather that a lot of it still happens.
If it makes you feel better I like my Hasselblad with those nice fast Zeiss lenses on a tripod. To convert to digital I load the film into my scanner which will do up to 19??? by 19??? per inch hardware resolution at 16bits per channel. I don't develop my own film as I don't want to do that so I take it to a place that caters more to the pro and prosumer market that can actually develop the file and follow instructions. I just get the developed film back and scan it at the max hardware settings save it and go from there. I will also pay for proper printing of digital files. I also have an old Pentax SLR with that takes the M42 screw mount lenses and a bunch of Honeywell or Asahi Pentax lenses that I take everywhere. That camera seem to be damn near indestructible.
You are still doing better than I am. I use an old steel coat hanger to make the connection.
So I am not the only one who noticed this. I don't listen to my ear buds overly loud (frequently I can hear other peoples crappy music from their ear buds with mine in) but since I mostly listen to music at the gym on a mp3 player I was shocked at how much I missed when I connected the mp3 player up to my car system on a long road trip last year.
Personally I would love some pro gear even if it is older and used. I once got to listen to some music played back on some really nice pro equipment at a place I worked and was really impressed with the clarity and also how it would still sound really good when cranked up. The person who showed this to me also point out that the speakers would play wall current, that was painful as he just went an connected a stripped power cable to the terminals on the back of a speaker. If any one know what kind of speakers these might have been I would love to know.
Mr. Boom Box in public still exists. Now instead of being able to carry the boom box the individual now rides in it. It still sounds as crappy as ever. Also I can still hear other people's music from their ear buds through my ear buds while I am at the gym. So there are still plenty of people who are trying to overpower the world with their music.
sounds like when I am driving my 88 Bronco II. I finally went and bought some speakers that would fit. Since I really didn't care about the quality, I was replacing 23 year old speakers 2 of which didn't work the other 2 were blown and hooked up to the "premium" sounds system (AM/FM radio with cassette deck) it had, I went and bought the cheapest I could. $20 or so later I had a set of 4 open box return speakers that I put in from best buy (I said I didn't care) that sounded orders of magnitude better the the old OEM ones.
Really. I can probably get close to that in a few days. I do a lot of mapping and GIS work in my spare time and have been known to run things in a batch mode late at night to gather or send off entire state wide data sets. Now add in that all of TV viewing in my house (wife and child mostly) is done over the internet and 500GB is a trivial amount.
The problem is the "legislative push" aspect of it. Now if you have a strong dictator that isn't an issue but given how fickle the political winds are I wouldn't bet on a legislative push being the solution.
So similar to noses specifically nostrils then. Larger ones act as a heat sink and aid in cooling so typically people from a more equatorial area have larger nostrils. Skin pigment is one that seems somewhat backwards at first since darker skin would absorb more heat, but I guess it was better to have the additional sunburn protection at lower latitudes and the better frost bit protection at higher latitudes. These were all things I got from a human evolution course I took in college.
Hey I can honk my own horn.
Probably racist as hell as stories like these really bring them out. I think that people who are racists really should go and take a physical anthropology class (basically human evolution) as it might do them some good. Unfortunately there seems to be a strong overlap between the groups that are racist as hell and those who believe in creationism so they would probably just view the class as "a bunch of lies propagated by those liberal scientists who want to destroy American values".
You are confused between latitude (how far north or south of the equator you are) and altitude (how far above sea level you are). Usually at higher altitudes you see smaller creatures (this is of creatures of the same type) compared to those at lower altitudes since in general there are fewer resources for them.
I guess I am lucky then since this the the layout of my steering wheel. It was a good design so I don't know why they discontinued that layout and went to the 3 spoke design with buttons on 2 of the spokes. And no that isn't my car, it is way to clean to be mine plus it probably his fewer miles on it.
For most people -10F is really cold and that is hard on electronics I chose those values as they would normally be considered extreme by most people. You might like Minnesota, we don't get quite that cold, but it can get down into the -30F range with -40F being record setting territory. Unless you are running some 0 weight oil -10F is hard on a car until it gets warm enough to have some good flow properties. Personally I like a nice crisp day where the temp is -10F with little to no wind.
I should have corrected my initial post:
Given its position earth will never clear its orbit, but then I guess Jupiter shouldn't be considered one either as it also has an asteroids trapped at its Lagrange points, as does Neptune and Mars.