What we really need to do as a culture is to separate legal marriage, religious marriage and "romantic" marriage from the umbrella heading of "marriage".
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and all that but damn is being eternally vigilant impossible.
Sleeping with a pistol on the nightstand with one in the chamber and the safety off gets old quick.
I'm all for the second amendment, don't get me wrong. But going the gunslinger route leaves you open to the inevitable demise of that lifestyle, eventually you let your guard down and you get dealt the deadman's hand. One of the basic foundations of civilization is mutual defense. If you had everyone in a city always in hyper-vigilance mode because they had to be you wouldn't have a city for very long.
Trying to find a proper long handled (not the stubby little D handled monstrosities) spade without special ordering one or resorting to "contractor" (price * 10) models is quite the task.
If you think a shovel == a spade, do a little research and your back will thank you.
One is for working soil. The other is for moving it.
Easy fix. Since it is a camera initiating the charge, it should be the car that should be charged and not the driver. RICO laws have taught us objects have no rights so the car has no right to the due process of law.
Find the car, tow it off, sell it for a profit. If they get the wrong car, meh, it has no rights.
No messy "rights" involved. Unless you happen to still believe in the quaint notion that a person's rights extend to their property.
Somehow I would consider any treatment that requires water to retain the memory of the vital essences of what amounts to less than a single molecule of whatever substance is supposed to treat the condition a scam. That's what homeopathy is.
The substance "used" in homeopathy might actually have a valid effect if actually taken. The less-than-trace amounts of it in the homeopathic "treatment" won't have an effect beyond being a placebo. By the theories of homeopathy generic ground water should be able to treat anything since it should have the memory of the vital essences of everything it has ever come in contact with which is basically everything.
Rep. Langevin: No American should give up the liberties granted to him by our Constitution under any circumstances.
He weasel-words his way around the "rights are enumerated not granted" problem by switching to liberties in his answer even though the question itself asked about rights, with only the quote using liberties.
Here's a neat little (relatively unknown) fact about I(ncumbent)LECs.
They are required to provide a dial tone to anyone in their service area that wants it. Even if it would take 99 years of service to make that line profitable THEY HAVE TO PROVIDE SERVICE. A government mandate that's part of the bargain for being allowed to be a monopoly in that area.
Do you really think that a market driven infrastructure (like internet service, for example) would plow a line they'd know they'd never make the money back on? Not getting cell service is bad enough but imagine having no one willing, or required, to provide you with at least a landline.
Say you're an up and coming non-evil telco and you want to spread your non-evil services to a new community over your own non-evil copper or fiber. Sounds good so far, right?
Well, to spread your non-evil copper and fiber you have to tear up a lot of streets to lay it and you have to do it in a way that doesn't damage or disrupt the existing evil copper and fiber.
Then after you've sunk all that money into the non-evil copper and fiber that's plowed into the ground you have to be able to recoup the cost and provide a better to the community you just invaded, err, saved. The evil telco, having already recouped its cost from its ancient evil copper (with some fiber), cooks up some evil bundles that it can afford to offer but that your non-evil telco can't compete with.
End result? Your non-evil fiber and copper goes dark and is added to the pile of corpses building up under the streets.
Let's see, I've got an active emusic subscription and I've paid for iTunes downloads for both video and music downloads when I can't find a reasonably priced physical copy (ie import only cds) or when a physical copy doesn't exist (Dr. Horrible).
"Wet" ethanol works almost exactly as well as pure ethanol as a fuel.
Stopping at ~196 proof saves a lot of processing energy (the energy required to increase the proof increases as the proof increases). Brazil ran 196 proof without much trouble.
You can ignore all the author bias and still be left with enough data and technical issues to be an interesting read in _Alcohol Can Be A Gas_.
Why does everyone assume that corn (and why is it always corn...) used for ethanol comes directly out of the human food stream allotment?
Human consumption and ethanol production combined pale in comparison to the amount of corn used for animal feed. Also, more corn is grown each year. So the percentages may shift around giving a slightly larger slice to ethanol production but the human use slice, while slightly less percentage wise is out of a bigger pie. And frankly, the less corn shoved into animals the better. Most animals can't handle a high corn diet without needing a lot of antibiotics. Send corn off to the ethanol plant and find something better to send to the feed lots. One thing which is better than corn is the mash left over from making ethanol. It's basically predigested corn. Still not win-win but it'd be better than what we're doing now.
Look at the usage of corn and just try to keep a straight face next time when you blame ethanol for rising food prices.
So the issue wasn't that you hypothetically bought a property whose value was so variable that a neighbor's negligence could cause its value to drop dramatically and that you were trying to use this very volatile property as a short term high yield investment? If it was that big of a deal to you, you could try to help your neighbor (and thus yourself) out. Though helping people is like socialism, so that's bad.
If you can't handle the losses, don't treat homes like short term investments. If you can handle the losses and your neighbor's property is in such poor condition as to drastically affect your property value, you could buy his undervalued property, fix it up and flip it. There, a nice happy capitalist solution to your problem.
Let's compare two neighboring states with vastly differing tax levels, Minnesota and South Dakota.
MN is known as "The Land of 10,000 Taxes". SD is pretty much the land of no taxes.
SD is sounding pretty good, right?
It will, until you need to use its infrastructure, like roads. Bridges aside, MN has very good roads. It has to, unless having all transportation outside of the twin cities grind to a halt for half the year is acceptable, which for the people of "Greater Minnesota", it isn't. Decent shoulders, pot holes are repaired (lest the snowplows run into them), sensibly spaced road signs. These all cost money.
And diet pop is so good for you. Really, you're not saving any medical costs by promoting diet pop. The effects aren't as directly obvious as HFC pops (yet) but they are there and they do cost the insurance system money.
Cane sugar pop is much better for you (plural you, not singular you) in the long run than any of the diet pops (at least until the FDA stops propping up the corn and sugar industries by acknowledging natural no-to-low calorie sweeteners like Stevia).
Cane sugar pop is still a niche product and thus already expensive (though in my locale the price of Coke and Pepsi has been catching up to the price of Jones). Yes, it has calories so you have to have some self control and not guzzle it like water (figuratively) but the ingredients aren't as harmful as HFC or the various no-calorie artificial sweeteners in the mainstream brands.
I've still got enough disposable income to burn on "luxuries" like food that isn't slowly poisoning me. The masses aren't as lucky and if given the choice for $5 artificially sweetened pop and $7.20 cane sugar pop are probably going to go with the $5 option.
Damn, I wish I had the connection speed to support that. Or that the stuff that's on BR (ie new stuff) was streamable. Or that'd I'd have a constant wireless connection for all my portable devices.
With the way the grid is currently set up anything that wants to provide baseline power needs to be a very stable and very controllable source of energy.
Sure, you can try to mimic that with wind or wave stations all over the place but then you have the problem of getting all that power to act like it was a single stable controllable source and still get that power to where it needs to go.
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Netflix may be providing videos but I don't think they count as a video programming provider.
What's to miss about better picture quality for the same bit rate?
Compare h.264 to mpeg-2.
What we really need to do as a culture is to separate legal marriage, religious marriage and "romantic" marriage from the umbrella heading of "marriage".
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and all that but damn is being eternally vigilant impossible.
Sleeping with a pistol on the nightstand with one in the chamber and the safety off gets old quick.
I'm all for the second amendment, don't get me wrong. But going the gunslinger route leaves you open to the inevitable demise of that lifestyle, eventually you let your guard down and you get dealt the deadman's hand. One of the basic foundations of civilization is mutual defense. If you had everyone in a city always in hyper-vigilance mode because they had to be you wouldn't have a city for very long.
Eat their cake and have it too.
One could write a manifesto about the abuses that phrase has suffered.
Spades are decidedly not pointy.
Trying to find a proper long handled (not the stubby little D handled monstrosities) spade without special ordering one or resorting to "contractor" (price * 10) models is quite the task.
If you think a shovel == a spade, do a little research and your back will thank you.
One is for working soil. The other is for moving it.
Easy fix. Since it is a camera initiating the charge, it should be the car that should be charged and not the driver. RICO laws have taught us objects have no rights so the car has no right to the due process of law.
Find the car, tow it off, sell it for a profit. If they get the wrong car, meh, it has no rights.
No messy "rights" involved. Unless you happen to still believe in the quaint notion that a person's rights extend to their property.
Or we could just persuade a massive volcano or three to cook off.
Krakatoa did wonders for reducing temperatures world wide. No muss or fuss, just some high explosives in the right spots and in sufficient quantities.
Somehow I would consider any treatment that requires water to retain the memory of the vital essences of what amounts to less than a single molecule of whatever substance is supposed to treat the condition a scam. That's what homeopathy is.
The substance "used" in homeopathy might actually have a valid effect if actually taken. The less-than-trace amounts of it in the homeopathic "treatment" won't have an effect beyond being a placebo. By the theories of homeopathy generic ground water should be able to treat anything since it should have the memory of the vital essences of everything it has ever come in contact with which is basically everything.
Rep. Langevin: No American should give up the liberties granted to him by our Constitution under any circumstances.
He weasel-words his way around the "rights are enumerated not granted" problem by switching to liberties in his answer even though the question itself asked about rights, with only the quote using liberties.
Here's a neat little (relatively unknown) fact about I(ncumbent)LECs.
They are required to provide a dial tone to anyone in their service area that wants it. Even if it would take 99 years of service to make that line profitable THEY HAVE TO PROVIDE SERVICE. A government mandate that's part of the bargain for being allowed to be a monopoly in that area.
Do you really think that a market driven infrastructure (like internet service, for example) would plow a line they'd know they'd never make the money back on? Not getting cell service is bad enough but imagine having no one willing, or required, to provide you with at least a landline.
Say you're an up and coming non-evil telco and you want to spread your non-evil services to a new community over your own non-evil copper or fiber. Sounds good so far, right?
Well, to spread your non-evil copper and fiber you have to tear up a lot of streets to lay it and you have to do it in a way that doesn't damage or disrupt the existing evil copper and fiber.
Then after you've sunk all that money into the non-evil copper and fiber that's plowed into the ground you have to be able to recoup the cost and provide a better to the community you just invaded, err, saved. The evil telco, having already recouped its cost from its ancient evil copper (with some fiber), cooks up some evil bundles that it can afford to offer but that your non-evil telco can't compete with.
End result? Your non-evil fiber and copper goes dark and is added to the pile of corpses building up under the streets.
Yup, totally not inefficient.
Let's see, I've got an active emusic subscription and I've paid for iTunes downloads for both video and music downloads when I can't find a reasonably priced physical copy (ie import only cds) or when a physical copy doesn't exist (Dr. Horrible).
Tell me Mr. Anderson, what good is a Game Stop if you don't have physical media to sell them?
"Wet" ethanol works almost exactly as well as pure ethanol as a fuel.
Stopping at ~196 proof saves a lot of processing energy (the energy required to increase the proof increases as the proof increases). Brazil ran 196 proof without much trouble.
You can ignore all the author bias and still be left with enough data and technical issues to be an interesting read in _Alcohol Can Be A Gas_.
Why does everyone assume that corn (and why is it always corn...) used for ethanol comes directly out of the human food stream allotment?
Human consumption and ethanol production combined pale in comparison to the amount of corn used for animal feed. Also, more corn is grown each year. So the percentages may shift around giving a slightly larger slice to ethanol production but the human use slice, while slightly less percentage wise is out of a bigger pie. And frankly, the less corn shoved into animals the better. Most animals can't handle a high corn diet without needing a lot of antibiotics. Send corn off to the ethanol plant and find something better to send to the feed lots. One thing which is better than corn is the mash left over from making ethanol. It's basically predigested corn. Still not win-win but it'd be better than what we're doing now.
Look at the usage of corn and just try to keep a straight face next time when you blame ethanol for rising food prices.
So the issue wasn't that you hypothetically bought a property whose value was so variable that a neighbor's negligence could cause its value to drop dramatically and that you were trying to use this very volatile property as a short term high yield investment? If it was that big of a deal to you, you could try to help your neighbor (and thus yourself) out. Though helping people is like socialism, so that's bad.
If you can't handle the losses, don't treat homes like short term investments. If you can handle the losses and your neighbor's property is in such poor condition as to drastically affect your property value, you could buy his undervalued property, fix it up and flip it. There, a nice happy capitalist solution to your problem.
About as bad as when any *long* term investment has to be sold before it has had the time needed to mature.
I feel for you. Paying less in property taxes really sucks. Here, have a hanky.
Let's compare two neighboring states with vastly differing tax levels, Minnesota and South Dakota.
MN is known as "The Land of 10,000 Taxes". SD is pretty much the land of no taxes.
SD is sounding pretty good, right?
It will, until you need to use its infrastructure, like roads. Bridges aside, MN has very good roads. It has to, unless having all transportation outside of the twin cities grind to a halt for half the year is acceptable, which for the people of "Greater Minnesota", it isn't. Decent shoulders, pot holes are repaired (lest the snowplows run into them), sensibly spaced road signs. These all cost money.
And diet pop is so good for you. Really, you're not saving any medical costs by promoting diet pop. The effects aren't as directly obvious as HFC pops (yet) but they are there and they do cost the insurance system money.
Cane sugar pop is much better for you (plural you, not singular you) in the long run than any of the diet pops (at least until the FDA stops propping up the corn and sugar industries by acknowledging natural no-to-low calorie sweeteners like Stevia).
Cane sugar pop is still a niche product and thus already expensive (though in my locale the price of Coke and Pepsi has been catching up to the price of Jones). Yes, it has calories so you have to have some self control and not guzzle it like water (figuratively) but the ingredients aren't as harmful as HFC or the various no-calorie artificial sweeteners in the mainstream brands.
I've still got enough disposable income to burn on "luxuries" like food that isn't slowly poisoning me. The masses aren't as lucky and if given the choice for $5 artificially sweetened pop and $7.20 cane sugar pop are probably going to go with the $5 option.
Don't forget to wear your flag pin. Can't be a patriot without that pin.
So netflix streams in BR quality now?
Damn, I wish I had the connection speed to support that. Or that the stuff that's on BR (ie new stuff) was streamable. Or that'd I'd have a constant wireless connection for all my portable devices.
Which food stream? The animal food stream where the overall majority of corn goes or the much smaller human food stream?
Yes, I read the fine article.
With the way the grid is currently set up anything that wants to provide baseline power needs to be a very stable and very controllable source of energy.
Sure, you can try to mimic that with wind or wave stations all over the place but then you have the problem of getting all that power to act like it was a single stable controllable source and still get that power to where it needs to go.