Plenty of people only use the condom to prevent pregnancies. At some point in the relationship you start trusting the person enough not to be lieing to you about having the herp or HIV.
From my limited experience, ripping up roads to save money is a sign of extreme desperation. Things must be bad indeed in parts of Michigan.
Most of Michigan is in the dumper right now. The Grand Rapids area has unemployment about at the national average, but the state is at something like 13% overall right now. A town not more than 30 minutes from me (Muskegon Heights) has an unemployment rate around 24% last I heard. They just halved their local police force too. In a town there they always have a crime problem, that's not good!
The road thing is one of the few moves we're making that I 100% agree with though. A coworker of mine just had his road go from paved to gravel and it doesn't bug him at all. It was gravel a few years ago, went paved for a while, and they they reverted back to gravel the driving conditions improved.
Michigan's known for bad roads, but I'm not sure people realize just how bad they get. Drive too fast down a country road and you might knock your ass out from bouncing around so much, and I drive a damned SUV!
I remember tooling down an interstate in Illinois about, oh, 6-7 years ago with my younger brother. A sign came up, "DIP IN ROAD!" so I put two hands on the wheel and got ready for it. It was a tiny bump by Michigan standards, we wouldn't even bother marking it. We have pot holes so big around here that you'll seriously fark up your car if you hit them doing 35 sometimes.
Hell, big ran came through this spring and US-31 near me washed out. 30 foot of road, gone, with a drop off multiple feet high. Just saw a lawsuit today over a section of road in Allegan county that washed out and killed somebody that drove into it. Yep, we got holes in the road big enough to kill you 'round here.
Actually he could pay his bill, if you're talking about the incident in Bay City, MI. He had the cash sitting on his kitchen counter next to the bill and he left a sizable charitable donation behind in his will. I think it was $600,000.
It's more likely that he had dementia or some other issues and simply didn't know what to do to make the payment anymore.
It's a crap shoot, really. Everybody will be a little bit different. Female birth control works pretty much the same way. You never really no how long you have to be off it until you're fertile again. Depending on the time, some can take up to as long as 18 months. Took my wife between 9 and 10 months when she came off hers.
In America whiskey can either be from rye or from corn. Corn whiskey aged in a charred oak barrel is more accurately termed bourbon, a subset of the whiskey family that makes up the majority of what's sold on shelves these days in the US.
Plastics, at least the kind used in garbage bags and a whole bunch of other consumer goods, are horrible in sun light. You don't notice it in everyday life, but in agriculture that crap gets exposed to sun a whole lot. It's kinda important to the growing process.
I used to work in a greenhouse and you'd see a PVC pipe shatter into pieces if it'd been installed for, oh, 10 years, and you barely bumped it with something like a broom.
Hell the clear poly that they drape over a greenhouse is only good for 6 maybe 7 years. It starts to get brittle and weak after that.
You can not move forward by capturing energy being used to push you backwards. To move forward would require more than 100% of the energy that you're capturing. It doesn't work.
I thought about mentioning that in my "It'll blow up in C# and Java" comment but didn't want to get too pedantic. I made the same mistake when I went to verify that I was right and the compiler caught the error. I'm still trying to shake some Java habits after 2 years of being in.NET.
Well, that's not true. It doesn't have to, but you'd be crazy if you thought people were going to install a flash plugin that had direct access to the video card.
Oh, I forgot. California doesn't require a purchase permit but they do require all handgun transfers to go through an 01 FFL which means a background check. Pretty close to a "permit" if you asked me.
Nevada doesn't require a permit, but in Cook County, where Las Vegas and I believe the majority of their violent crime is, you have to register your handguns.
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Plenty of people only use the condom to prevent pregnancies. At some point in the relationship you start trusting the person enough not to be lieing to you about having the herp or HIV.
You know, before you call somebody retarded you should check your facts.
Spermicide failure rate perfect use: 18%
Spermicide failure rate for typical use: 29%
Pulling out failure rate for pefect use: 4%
Pulling out failure rate for typical use: 15-28%.
So, under typical usage they're about equal. However, if you're good at pulling out you'll be the pants off spermicide.
Most of Michigan is in the dumper right now. The Grand Rapids area has unemployment about at the national average, but the state is at something like 13% overall right now. A town not more than 30 minutes from me (Muskegon Heights) has an unemployment rate around 24% last I heard. They just halved their local police force too. In a town there they always have a crime problem, that's not good!
The road thing is one of the few moves we're making that I 100% agree with though. A coworker of mine just had his road go from paved to gravel and it doesn't bug him at all. It was gravel a few years ago, went paved for a while, and they they reverted back to gravel the driving conditions improved.
Michigan's known for bad roads, but I'm not sure people realize just how bad they get. Drive too fast down a country road and you might knock your ass out from bouncing around so much, and I drive a damned SUV!
I remember tooling down an interstate in Illinois about, oh, 6-7 years ago with my younger brother. A sign came up, "DIP IN ROAD!" so I put two hands on the wheel and got ready for it. It was a tiny bump by Michigan standards, we wouldn't even bother marking it. We have pot holes so big around here that you'll seriously fark up your car if you hit them doing 35 sometimes.
Hell, big ran came through this spring and US-31 near me washed out. 30 foot of road, gone, with a drop off multiple feet high. Just saw a lawsuit today over a section of road in Allegan county that washed out and killed somebody that drove into it. Yep, we got holes in the road big enough to kill you 'round here.
Yes.
A country's economy won't get beyond the "sweat shop" status if nobody buys their goods.
Actually he could pay his bill, if you're talking about the incident in Bay City, MI. He had the cash sitting on his kitchen counter next to the bill and he left a sizable charitable donation behind in his will. I think it was $600,000.
It's more likely that he had dementia or some other issues and simply didn't know what to do to make the payment anymore.
Really unfortunate.
They can't create a federal authority for cyberspace out of thin air
They'll just say it's authorized by the interstate commerce clause.
Right, but the state's supreme court doesn't get to decide what federal law says. That's up to a federal court.
This crap just takes time to shake out.
He's also using "to" instead of "too" in some places, "its" when it should be "it's", and the sentence about 12 year old humor isn't even complete.
God I hope my children don't go to Hope College. :)
Uh, can you name a *nix variant that won't spawn a process unless it has a certain file extension?
Go rename notepad.exe to 'ntp' and try and run it in Windows.
It's a crap shoot, really. Everybody will be a little bit different. Female birth control works pretty much the same way. You never really no how long you have to be off it until you're fertile again. Depending on the time, some can take up to as long as 18 months. Took my wife between 9 and 10 months when she came off hers.
Close.
In America whiskey can either be from rye or from corn. Corn whiskey aged in a charred oak barrel is more accurately termed bourbon, a subset of the whiskey family that makes up the majority of what's sold on shelves these days in the US.
Not good. You want your soil warm when growing plants.
Disclaimer: Grew up in a family owned greenhouse. :)
Plastics, at least the kind used in garbage bags and a whole bunch of other consumer goods, are horrible in sun light. You don't notice it in everyday life, but in agriculture that crap gets exposed to sun a whole lot. It's kinda important to the growing process.
I used to work in a greenhouse and you'd see a PVC pipe shatter into pieces if it'd been installed for, oh, 10 years, and you barely bumped it with something like a broom.
Hell the clear poly that they drape over a greenhouse is only good for 6 maybe 7 years. It starts to get brittle and weak after that.
Specter is just doing a better job of staying with the times rather than any real change in his personal convictions.
Nah, he's just avoiding the Republican primary race.
Two problems:
1) Where the heck would you even buy one?
2) Hardly any nations are going to let you into your ports with one.
You don't really know what lobbying is, do you? It's not the same thing as bribery. It's quite necessary in our system too.
You can not move forward by capturing energy being used to push you backwards. To move forward would require more than 100% of the energy that you're capturing. It doesn't work.
I may having a bit of a slow day. This series of statements doesn't seem logically sound.
It's an old joke but I can't remember the source.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. :)
I thought about mentioning that in my "It'll blow up in C# and Java" comment but didn't want to get too pedantic. I made the same mistake when I went to verify that I was right and the compiler caught the error. I'm still trying to shake some Java habits after 2 years of being in .NET.
It'll blow up in C# and Java.
Never thought I'd have to explain this on Slashdot of all places.
Let's see if this makes more sense: /* <-- we blow up right here. */ //Do something.
String tmp = null;
if (tmp.length() > 0)
{
}
Good Lord, no, not the gold standard.
Just fix the money supply to the GDP with some %/year maximums in how far it can swing.
In the US, as Dick Cheney said, people get to vote every 4 years.
Actually we vote every year. Federal elections are every 2 years.
Because it has to do it entirely in user space.
Well, that's not true. It doesn't have to, but you'd be crazy if you thought people were going to install a flash plugin that had direct access to the video card.
Oh, I forgot. California doesn't require a purchase permit but they do require all handgun transfers to go through an 01 FFL which means a background check. Pretty close to a "permit" if you asked me.
Nevada doesn't require a permit, but in Cook County, where Las Vegas and I believe the majority of their violent crime is, you have to register your handguns.