But if punishing someone for taste were allowed on/., the boards would degenerate into Mac vs. PC, Xbox vs. PS3, Red vs. Blue, reasoned vs. impertinent...oh wait. But the Reds aren't really against the Blues, it's just a lie propagated by Red and Blue command perpetrated by the communications officer Vic.
So, what is the government capable of doing? I mean honestly, what has the US government done that hasn't resulted in at least 25% of the funds budgeted for a department ending up as waste, fraud or corruption?
Far from it, nuclear weapons are a sign of power. If I have a nuke and you don't, and I told you to give me all your porn and if you didn't I would nuke you, would you comply or risk possibly being nuked?
I just graduated from college and had an internship in my final year. It took my 3 interviews to land a job.
Interview #1: Temp job doing physical installations of technical systems, wire-running. I'm glad I didn't get the job. Interview #2: IT Consulting position with a company who primarily deals in accounting software. I was brought in for a 2nd interview, and I heard from the grape-vine the only reason they didn't select me was because of my lack of experience. Would have been a sweet job to land, the other three people in that company in that position had 7+ yrs at the company and 15+ years experience in the field. Interview #3: A manufacturing company with 5 physical locations across the US. I work with 2 other guys in the staff, each of us at a different site. They hired me because of the knowledge and theories I picked up from my internship and coursework, and a lot of it complimented the other two people. I get to learn from them, and vice versa. Granted, I want to shoot myself every day when I think about how we use a public IP address for our private network number and we lack a DNS server internally, otherwise the job is great.
What a lot of the other posters have said about recruiting new people is right. If you look for the experienced people with X number of years, it's going to take forever to find what you want. 90% of the job is attitude. It was my positive forward thinking attitude that put me in the final contention for a job against people with years of experience over me. It was my positive attitude that landed me my current job.
You have to remember that the core of Christianity is only 4 books of the Bible. The Gospels. The Old Testament is taken from the Hebrews and used more as a teaching tool than the establishment of beliefs. Consequently, the remaining books of the New Testament outside of the Gospels are also mostly prophecies and teaching tools to guide the Church.
Christianity is based upon the teaching of Jesus Christ, and those teachings are only directly taught through the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, which chronicle the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Look through the Gospels and the contradictions that you would find are more indicative of writing style and language/translation rather than true contradicting statements.
No, Apophis just was going to invade Earth, bombing us back into the bronze age.
Anubis was the one that used the Asteroid to try to hit Earth. Apparently he had seen all our Armageddon type movies, and the asteroid he used was mostly Naquaada, meaning the use of a nuclear weapon to divert or split the asteroid would have resulted in the asteroid becoming a huge explosion that would have likely engulfed Earth in the blast.
Except that in most cities it is illegal to "feed the meter". The parking meter spots are supposed to be for individuals who have 1hr or less errands to run in a specific place in a downtown location. If you're going to be downtown for more time than the meters supply (1-2 hours), then you should be parking in a parking garage.
I have seen people who have had to drive 3-5 blocks further than a place they're going to just to get a place to park for a 5 minute errand. The meters in front of those places were occupied for over 3 hours when the were 1 hour meters.
Congratulations, your post is showing just how some people want to turn this country into a bunch of non-competitive pansies. Oh, good boy Johnny, even though your baseball team came in last we're still going to give you a participation trophy.
Give me a break.
People like you are all the same, individuals who either cannot compete or don't want to spend the effort to compete, but still think they should be as good as those that do. Complain some more about it
Just because someone has a bot to level their character up doesn't mean they're going to be better than someone who spends more time doing it themselves, in fact the person that spends their time leveling up their character is going to be a much better player having that learning curve. A player can run an instance or a raid, a bot cannot.
Quick begging people to give you stuff and go out and earn it.
Skill is utilizing your knowledge in an effective fashion.
As a level 70 paladin, I have considerable knowledge of WoW, mechanics damage, etc etc. I also know how to apply that knowledge for use with my class skills for the best benefit. That is skill. If I start playing a mage, I may be able to level faster (a skill from knowledge of quests and NPCs), but I won't be able to get the best benefit from my talents and skills without playing the mage class more often, essentially by the time you reach 70 you should have a grasp of how to apply your knowledge within the new class (more skill). Consequently, if I bought an account with a lv70 mage on it, I would not automatically have the knowledge to use the mage class in an effective fashion, essentially skill-less.
However, you ignore that in every RPG, from Tabletop to MMORPGS, equipment and gear plays a role. A lv10 fighter in D&D with mundane gear is not going to be as good a lv10 fighter in D&D with magical gear.
In WoW, they have soulbound equipment. There's two types BoE and BoP, BoE is Bind on Equip and BoP is Bind on Pickup. Most of the time the best gear is BoP, meaning you have to actually do something to get it, raid or PvP essentially. Unless you buy a character off of ebay, you had to level it up, which means you should at least know how to play your class. On top of that, the quest rewards in the last expansion are at least half-decent when it comes to running instances, but I digress. In a game like WoW, gear doesn't solely define power. A lv70 warrior with quest greens versus a lv70 warrior in full epics isn't always going to result in the lv70 green warrior losing, the lv70 epics warrior could lost just because he doesn't know how to play. Equipment functions as the optimizer for your character, because you still need the skill to play.
Economic/Immigration Reform: There are some serious issues with our economic systems, we have people performing jobs that they are being over-paid for, we have individuals who are unemployable. To complicate the problem is the existence of illegal immigrants who are staying past their Visa expiration date and showing no signs of attempting to integrate into American society. To solve this I would propose a multilateral approach to fix our economy. Mind you any one of these solutions implemented separated is not going to help the problem.
1. Push for the eradication of the minimum wage. As it stands we have individuals who are unemployable at the current minimum wage. High school drop outs are the hardest hit by minimum wage as there is a limit on the number of service and manufacturing jobs that they can fill. Especially considering that less than 10% of legal Americans earning minimum are the sole provider for their family, this makes this a great approach.
2. Push an agenda to reform welfare based on the eradication of the minimum wage. Now that individuals are able to earn an income rather than no income the pressure on the Federal government for tax money to fund welfare programs would be lessened.
3. The lowering of minimum wage reduces the incentive for illegal immigrants to stay in our country, or even cross over. If they aren't going to earn much more than they would in Mexico, they aren't going to cross over.
4. Step-up enforcement of national borders. It isn't fair to those who follow our immigration system to have illegals constantly crossing into our nation. Additionally, the border enforcement will help to catch potential terrorists coming into the country.
5. Step-up enforcement of the deportation of illegals. Committing any crime (except that of being an illegal immigration) should be grounds for immediate deportation back to your home country with no chance of becoming a citizen here. Being caught as an illegal immigrant will require deportation in 1 month to allow you the chance to set whatever you need to straight to leave our country with the opportunity to later come back and apply for regular citizenship.
6. Relax all the red-tape for certifying nuclear power plants. Considering we can convert coal into jet fuel it makes perfect sense to refocus our base-load energy supply from coal to nuclear. Less dependence on oil for jet fuel means less dependence on oil.
7. Consequently provide incentives for oil companies to research low-environmental impact exploration and production drilling techniques. If they can demonstrate that they can do this, then open up the Alaskan oil fields to them. Between 6, 7 and the fact that Canada (who likes us still, I think), our dependency on middle eastern oil would take a huge dent.
8. Provide incentives for companies to research fusion reactors.
9. Start an initiative to reform our legal system. Our nation is one that is quick to litigate over minor stupid things.
10. Find some way to punish restaurants that put a mandatory gratuity on the check. Screw you, I'm not going to pay 20% tip just because you say I should. I'm going to pay a 20% tip because the service was good. A server who fails to keep a drink full, or pretty much ignores a table doesn't deserve a 20% tip.
11. Push Yucca Mountain. Having a secure nuclear waste depository will make certifying and building nuclear power plants less of a hassle.
Terrorism and all things Foreign: Terrorism is a problem, whether you want to accept it or not. Islamo-facists, Islamic Extremists, or whatever you want to call them do want to see America destroyed. This is due to the personal liberties we afford people, not based on whatever foreign interaction we may have had. Consequently, another multi-lateral approach would help with this.
1. Push for legislation granting immunity to anyone reporting suspicious behavior. The flying Imam incident is a prime example of why people
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In the case of fusion, use the following formula...
Years till Completion = (Current Year) + 20
I'm pretty sure Vash the stampede could do it..... right?
So, what is the government capable of doing? I mean honestly, what has the US government done that hasn't resulted in at least 25% of the funds budgeted for a department ending up as waste, fraud or corruption?
Why spank GoDaddy? I'd rather just spank the advertising girls.
Far from it, nuclear weapons are a sign of power. If I have a nuke and you don't, and I told you to give me all your porn and if you didn't I would nuke you, would you comply or risk possibly being nuked?
See, I have power.
Nuclear power baby.
Could people please RTFA and look at the vote counts instead of letting their partisan/paranoid bias make them lie about the results.
The images show 61 votes cast for Republican candidates and the total printout shows that 60 votes were cast Republican.
The images show 361 votes cast for Democrat candidates and the total printout shows that 362 votes were cast Democrat.
That's +1 Democrat, -1 Republican.
I just graduated from college and had an internship in my final year. It took my 3 interviews to land a job.
Interview #1: Temp job doing physical installations of technical systems, wire-running. I'm glad I didn't get the job.
Interview #2: IT Consulting position with a company who primarily deals in accounting software. I was brought in for a 2nd interview, and I heard from the grape-vine the only reason they didn't select me was because of my lack of experience. Would have been a sweet job to land, the other three people in that company in that position had 7+ yrs at the company and 15+ years experience in the field.
Interview #3: A manufacturing company with 5 physical locations across the US. I work with 2 other guys in the staff, each of us at a different site. They hired me because of the knowledge and theories I picked up from my internship and coursework, and a lot of it complimented the other two people. I get to learn from them, and vice versa. Granted, I want to shoot myself every day when I think about how we use a public IP address for our private network number and we lack a DNS server internally, otherwise the job is great.
What a lot of the other posters have said about recruiting new people is right. If you look for the experienced people with X number of years, it's going to take forever to find what you want. 90% of the job is attitude. It was my positive forward thinking attitude that put me in the final contention for a job against people with years of experience over me. It was my positive attitude that landed me my current job.
You have to remember that the core of Christianity is only 4 books of the Bible. The Gospels. The Old Testament is taken from the Hebrews and used more as a teaching tool than the establishment of beliefs. Consequently, the remaining books of the New Testament outside of the Gospels are also mostly prophecies and teaching tools to guide the Church.
Christianity is based upon the teaching of Jesus Christ, and those teachings are only directly taught through the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, which chronicle the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Look through the Gospels and the contradictions that you would find are more indicative of writing style and language/translation rather than true contradicting statements.
Disclaimer: I am not a Christian.
Looking at Ron Paul I see Microsoft Corp sitting at #4.
It's obvious. The Russian's also faked their own space program.
There never was a Cold War, it was all one big fake to move the entire world towards the new world order.
No, Apophis just was going to invade Earth, bombing us back into the bronze age. Anubis was the one that used the Asteroid to try to hit Earth. Apparently he had seen all our Armageddon type movies, and the asteroid he used was mostly Naquaada, meaning the use of a nuclear weapon to divert or split the asteroid would have resulted in the asteroid becoming a huge explosion that would have likely engulfed Earth in the blast.
Santa builds the elves that build shit. It's like how John Stewart created Conan O'Brien who Created Steven Colbert who created Mike Huckabee.
So does Will Wright's spore fall more in line with Evolution or Creationism?
Except that in most cities it is illegal to "feed the meter". The parking meter spots are supposed to be for individuals who have 1hr or less errands to run in a specific place in a downtown location. If you're going to be downtown for more time than the meters supply (1-2 hours), then you should be parking in a parking garage.
I have seen people who have had to drive 3-5 blocks further than a place they're going to just to get a place to park for a 5 minute errand. The meters in front of those places were occupied for over 3 hours when the were 1 hour meters.
Congratulations, your post is showing just how some people want to turn this country into a bunch of non-competitive pansies. Oh, good boy Johnny, even though your baseball team came in last we're still going to give you a participation trophy.
Give me a break.
People like you are all the same, individuals who either cannot compete or don't want to spend the effort to compete, but still think they should be as good as those that do. Complain some more about it
Just because someone has a bot to level their character up doesn't mean they're going to be better than someone who spends more time doing it themselves, in fact the person that spends their time leveling up their character is going to be a much better player having that learning curve. A player can run an instance or a raid, a bot cannot.
Quick begging people to give you stuff and go out and earn it.
We are not confusing knowledge with skill.
Skill is utilizing your knowledge in an effective fashion.
As a level 70 paladin, I have considerable knowledge of WoW, mechanics damage, etc etc. I also know how to apply that knowledge for use with my class skills for the best benefit. That is skill. If I start playing a mage, I may be able to level faster (a skill from knowledge of quests and NPCs), but I won't be able to get the best benefit from my talents and skills without playing the mage class more often, essentially by the time you reach 70 you should have a grasp of how to apply your knowledge within the new class (more skill). Consequently, if I bought an account with a lv70 mage on it, I would not automatically have the knowledge to use the mage class in an effective fashion, essentially skill-less.
However, you ignore that in every RPG, from Tabletop to MMORPGS, equipment and gear plays a role. A lv10 fighter in D&D with mundane gear is not going to be as good a lv10 fighter in D&D with magical gear.
In WoW, they have soulbound equipment. There's two types BoE and BoP, BoE is Bind on Equip and BoP is Bind on Pickup. Most of the time the best gear is BoP, meaning you have to actually do something to get it, raid or PvP essentially. Unless you buy a character off of ebay, you had to level it up, which means you should at least know how to play your class. On top of that, the quest rewards in the last expansion are at least half-decent when it comes to running instances, but I digress. In a game like WoW, gear doesn't solely define power. A lv70 warrior with quest greens versus a lv70 warrior in full epics isn't always going to result in the lv70 green warrior losing, the lv70 epics warrior could lost just because he doesn't know how to play. Equipment functions as the optimizer for your character, because you still need the skill to play.
Let me approach my stances in a different manner.
Economic/Immigration Reform:
There are some serious issues with our economic systems, we have people performing jobs that they are being over-paid for, we have individuals who are unemployable. To complicate the problem is the existence of illegal immigrants who are staying past their Visa expiration date and showing no signs of attempting to integrate into American society. To solve this I would propose a multilateral approach to fix our economy. Mind you any one of these solutions implemented separated is not going to help the problem.
1. Push for the eradication of the minimum wage. As it stands we have individuals who are unemployable at the current minimum wage. High school drop outs are the hardest hit by minimum wage as there is a limit on the number of service and manufacturing jobs that they can fill. Especially considering that less than 10% of legal Americans earning minimum are the sole provider for their family, this makes this a great approach.
2. Push an agenda to reform welfare based on the eradication of the minimum wage. Now that individuals are able to earn an income rather than no income the pressure on the Federal government for tax money to fund welfare programs would be lessened.
3. The lowering of minimum wage reduces the incentive for illegal immigrants to stay in our country, or even cross over. If they aren't going to earn much more than they would in Mexico, they aren't going to cross over.
4. Step-up enforcement of national borders. It isn't fair to those who follow our immigration system to have illegals constantly crossing into our nation. Additionally, the border enforcement will help to catch potential terrorists coming into the country.
5. Step-up enforcement of the deportation of illegals. Committing any crime (except that of being an illegal immigration) should be grounds for immediate deportation back to your home country with no chance of becoming a citizen here. Being caught as an illegal immigrant will require deportation in 1 month to allow you the chance to set whatever you need to straight to leave our country with the opportunity to later come back and apply for regular citizenship.
6. Relax all the red-tape for certifying nuclear power plants. Considering we can convert coal into jet fuel it makes perfect sense to refocus our base-load energy supply from coal to nuclear. Less dependence on oil for jet fuel means less dependence on oil.
7. Consequently provide incentives for oil companies to research low-environmental impact exploration and production drilling techniques. If they can demonstrate that they can do this, then open up the Alaskan oil fields to them. Between 6, 7 and the fact that Canada (who likes us still, I think), our dependency on middle eastern oil would take a huge dent.
8. Provide incentives for companies to research fusion reactors.
9. Start an initiative to reform our legal system. Our nation is one that is quick to litigate over minor stupid things.
10. Find some way to punish restaurants that put a mandatory gratuity on the check. Screw you, I'm not going to pay 20% tip just because you say I should. I'm going to pay a 20% tip because the service was good. A server who fails to keep a drink full, or pretty much ignores a table doesn't deserve a 20% tip.
11. Push Yucca Mountain. Having a secure nuclear waste depository will make certifying and building nuclear power plants less of a hassle.
Terrorism and all things Foreign:
Terrorism is a problem, whether you want to accept it or not. Islamo-facists, Islamic Extremists, or whatever you want to call them do want to see America destroyed. This is due to the personal liberties we afford people, not based on whatever foreign interaction we may have had. Consequently, another multi-lateral approach would help with this.
1. Push for legislation granting immunity to anyone reporting suspicious behavior. The flying Imam incident is a prime example of why people