grammarians being the type to quickly adopt new ideas without heed to proper procedure whoa, was this supposed to be a sarcastic statement? i think a sarcmark would remove the mystery, to my displeasure. seriously. but, love the copulative compound. (?)
the meteor crater in arizona looks very much like the classic splash of a pebble in water, frozen. the rim is way above the flat plane, sharp drop on the inside and parabolic slop back to the plain. Plus there's ripples that occur for miles. It's very impressive to see. the splashback may have also occurred, there's a large but localized pile of rubble in the bottom. (but i doubt that since the earth is a bit less fluid), but that detail is a minor departure overall. this pic is fair: http://travelandtweet.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/meteorcrater.jpeg.jpg
Wow, where to begin to unwind the arrogance here. first of all we have "their wider spiritual culture, based as it was mostly on twoddle, has rightly been sidelined as an historic artefact" Sidelined by YOU, in your considerable opinion, but how is your opinion relevant in any way in judging this culture?
"Interesting to study, but void of incite about the real world." In the "real world" that they inhabit, it runs circles around your awesome knowledge base. iow, you'd last 24-72 hours out there without a good load of imported technology, and without regular re-supply you'd quickly perish. Your hubris would vanish and you'd be begging like a baby for their technology!
It gets funnier; "in the west, most of us, long ago pushed our superstitions to one side, and reappraised the world around us. The aboriginal people would do well to do the same and move on" How well would they do i wonder, and why haven't they jumped at this fine opportunity sooner? Your answer is something along the lines of "obviously they're untemensch" but could it be instead that they would no longer be able to maintain a sustainable lifestyle, they would be forced into the model that requires vast amounts of energy, pillage and slave labor to maintain, a pyramid scheme that is patently terminal? no, they're just aborigines, so how could they be smart enough to know that, yeah?
This one takes the cake; "It's about time liberal, middle class, white people got over their fear of appearing racist, and rid themselves of the pretence that they believe all this baloney. It does nobody any good, least of all the aboriginals." double-plus wow. cf. "the white man's burden" seriously dude, take a philosophy course already. it has nothing to do with "belief", or should i say, everything has to do with belief, even your vaunted axiomatic theorems. Your Science is, at the end of the day, a description of what works. as soon as something works better, it magically becomes the new science. it is not the end of the story. In that outback, their strange voodoo works, it kicks your butt. you dont understand it any better than they understand your voodoo. I'm sure they have their own racist equivalent word to describe Western science. It only appears to you as superior because of its energy inputs, it has shown itself to be far far far from comprehensive, so show some intelligence already.
correction, the USA does not lack leadership, it is a surfeit of leadership that is causing the problem you mention. we just need a good ol' fascist govt. to get the trains to run on time.
sarcasm! sorry, thought the text was obvious but the winky should've tipped you off... anyway. there is a dearth of manufacturing in the USA due to the factors I mentioned. sucks, i know, but the logic of capitalism is inexorable. resistance is futile.
Which investor is going to put money into that business plan? American workers are spoiled rotten with their 40 hour work weeks, overtime laws, work breaks and paid days off...not to mention safety equipment, legal rights. Why, some even successfully unionize and bargain for a bigger slice of the pie they baked. Exactly how is one supposed to make money for nothing under these conditions? silly provincialist;>
The phone companies in the US are a lot more rapacious in their policies because they are not under consumer-oriented regulatory regimes.
"Socialistic (Fascist)".. wtf doofus-ism is that? The phone companies in the US are like every other corporation in the US, like pigs in shit, dealing with a consumer base comprised of a high percentage of morons who are more worried about boogey-men than their own rational self-interest. these consumers stand by and watch their "representatives" get paid off by their adversaries to sell them down the river and then they thank them for it cuz this is the greatest nation on earth by Gawd so shut-up and leave it if you don't love it. do i have that about right?
This is a lousy business model. not sure what you can sell that used phone for, but it ain't full retail. maybe this scam is worth it to some kid with no expenses, but i doubt Verizon would allow them to make a habit of it.
Second, Verizon does not pay 600 for that phone. if they pay more than $200 per unit i'd be surprised. Verizon does not lose money on any retail transaction whatsoever. This double fee is just extortion-as-usual, they are paving the way for a new standard. expect the others to quietly double up within the next few months. People will just grumble and pay it anyway.
um,, they SHOT her laptop. what f-ing circumstance warrants that? pure spite in any possible scenario. maybe she pissed them off, flaunted their authority, called them names that hit a nerve, but whatever she did, the bullets in the laptop is the signature of a thug. not an isolated instance of thuggery coming from the IDF i might add.
indeed. history is written by the victors and that becomes an accepted reality, the rationale comes _afterwards_. Capitalism differs from Feudalism only in symbol and myth. Both are violent exploitation, yet even the lowliest serfs defend it. It is popular to say "it's a lousy system, except for all the others" never realizing the self-hypnosis at work. You get up each day and perpetuate your own exploitation, you might even join an army and fight to the death for it. A curious thing. Better arrangements are obvious, and usually successful until violently suppressed.
but it also doesnt mean you aren't ignorant of the subject. and it appears you are, in fact.
true, this would be my ignorant guesstimation of your awareness of the illness of depression, but stating that 'taking time off and going on holiday' is clearly not a valid effort to combat depression smacks of a lack of deep thought.
While it sounds like an excellent choice to me as _work_, in many cases, requires full time attention to things other than what you personally find inspiring and fulfilling. What's worse, this work thing often results in fatigue, frustration and a creeping sense of futility as you watch the best of your precious precious time on this earth slip down the hour glass, traded for pieces of silver to help fund the owners' lavish holiday...those pieces of silver immediately traded for the basics of survival in a slow downward spiral of diminishing health and desire to take a holiday, should time off and surplus income become available next year.
I live 15 minutes away from work by car and 45 minutes away by CalTrain. I calculated that if I took CalTrain I would save $3 a month, in exchange for sacrificing 20 hours of my time a month.
Calculating car-cost at.50/mile, (slightly lower than actual, but easier to figure), i suspect your savings on train are greater.
and how you gain so much time on the train is interesting, must not be peak times, but the quality of the time spent in either scenario, riding along doing what-have-you vs. piloting an automobile, should compare well also.
ymmv
it is distracting, disturbing yet oddly cool watching someone type in their thoughts or ideas real-time, backspacing over errors or rewording entire sentences while replying to something you've said.
oh woops, we have a problem. i have many times freely expressed what i really think, expletives un-deleted, then after venting, i edit it to a more nice, professional and constructive reply before hitting enter. not to mention my dyslexic typnig. i sure hope there's a way to send a completed message rather than this real-time keylogging broadcast!
Aliases - instead of having to keep a bunch of throwaway accounts with Yahoo, MSN, etc - I just set up a few aliases. Every so often they're purged, thus the spammers rarely get a hold of my address.
How many people travel from San Diego to SF on a regular basis ? Not many
there's probably a few thousand people travelling btwn LA and SF every day. A bullet train has the advantage of saving tons of fuel, tons of cash, and dozens of minutes. go train go!!!
that wikipedia article is only one paragraph and puts a completely different spin on the "Rule" (and it is an inviolable rule from what i am told) as it fails to mention that the entity with the deeper pockets is spared the inconvenience of a lawsuit in many cases due strictly to the cost of entry.
For example, to reclaim a small piece of property a certain neighbor expropriated from me, it will cost me $20K. Mind you, this is a case with zero gray area, no dispute where the boundary line is, as a permanent survey marker sits in plain view. He has deep pockets and went ahead and built knowing exactly what it would take for me to dispute it. sure enough, i have reluctantly decided to let him keep it because $20K is just too much of my modest fortune to spend on 200 sq ft of land. If a case involves more debatable things, expert opinions, more depositions, witnesses, research etc., the costs go up quickly. parties of average income just usually can't afford to mount even the simplest of lawsuits. Judges can award 'damages' that can offset the costs of litigation, but there has to be some recognizable suffering or tangible loss. they cant just award you the money simply bc the defendant is a flaming douchebag.
of course the plotters knew you'd expect statistically likely numbers, so they used numbers that no-one in their right mind would publish so that you were FORCED not only to believe them due to the sheer irrationality of choosing such numbers, and at the same time, to be humbled by their awesome machismo and daring-do.
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grammarians being the type to quickly adopt new ideas without heed to proper procedure
whoa, was this supposed to be a sarcastic statement? i think a sarcmark would remove the mystery, to my displeasure. seriously. but, love the copulative compound. (?)
the meteor crater in arizona looks very much like the classic splash of a pebble in water, frozen. the rim is way above the flat plane, sharp drop on the inside and parabolic slop back to the plain. Plus there's ripples that occur for miles. It's very impressive to see. the splashback may have also occurred, there's a large but localized pile of rubble in the bottom. (but i doubt that since the earth is a bit less fluid), but that detail is a minor departure overall. this pic is fair: http://travelandtweet.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/meteorcrater.jpeg.jpg
Wow, where to begin to unwind the arrogance here. first of all we have "their wider spiritual culture, based as it was mostly on twoddle, has rightly been sidelined as an historic artefact" Sidelined by YOU, in your considerable opinion, but how is your opinion relevant in any way in judging this culture?
"Interesting to study, but void of incite about the real world." In the "real world" that they inhabit, it runs circles around your awesome knowledge base. iow, you'd last 24-72 hours out there without a good load of imported technology, and without regular re-supply you'd quickly perish. Your hubris would vanish and you'd be begging like a baby for their technology!
It gets funnier; "in the west, most of us, long ago pushed our superstitions to one side, and reappraised the world around us. The aboriginal people would do well to do the same and move on"
How well would they do i wonder, and why haven't they jumped at this fine opportunity sooner? Your answer is something along the lines of "obviously they're untemensch" but could it be instead that they would no longer be able to maintain a sustainable lifestyle, they would be forced into the model that requires vast amounts of energy, pillage and slave labor to maintain, a pyramid scheme that is patently terminal? no, they're just aborigines, so how could they be smart enough to know that, yeah?
This one takes the cake; "It's about time liberal, middle class, white people got over their fear of appearing racist, and rid themselves of the pretence that they believe all this baloney. It does nobody any good, least of all the aboriginals." double-plus wow. cf. "the white man's burden" seriously dude, take a philosophy course already. it has nothing to do with "belief", or should i say, everything has to do with belief, even your vaunted axiomatic theorems. Your Science is, at the end of the day, a description of what works. as soon as something works better, it magically becomes the new science. it is not the end of the story. In that outback, their strange voodoo works, it kicks your butt. you dont understand it any better than they understand your voodoo. I'm sure they have their own racist equivalent word to describe Western science. It only appears to you as superior because of its energy inputs, it has shown itself to be far far far from comprehensive, so show some intelligence already.
correction, the USA does not lack leadership, it is a surfeit of leadership that is causing the problem you mention. we just need a good ol' fascist govt. to get the trains to run on time.
One should assume that any well run business ratchets all prices up to the maximum that the market will bear, routinely.
(Maybe there will be a proposed regulation tabled in some committee somewhere instead.)
sarcasm! sorry, thought the text was obvious but the winky should've tipped you off... anyway. there is a dearth of manufacturing in the USA due to the factors I mentioned. sucks, i know, but the logic of capitalism is inexorable. resistance is futile.
Which investor is going to put money into that business plan? American workers are spoiled rotten with their 40 hour work weeks, overtime laws, work breaks and paid days off...not to mention safety equipment, legal rights. Why, some even successfully unionize and bargain for a bigger slice of the pie they baked. Exactly how is one supposed to make money for nothing under these conditions? silly provincialist;>
hey dumbass moderator. you are an ignorant fuck....you too anonymous cowtard
"Socialistic (Fascist)" .. wtf doofus-ism is that? The phone companies in the US are like every other corporation in the US, like pigs in shit, dealing with a consumer base comprised of a high percentage of morons who are more worried about boogey-men than their own rational self-interest. these consumers stand by and watch their "representatives" get paid off by their adversaries to sell them down the river and then they thank them for it cuz this is the greatest nation on earth by Gawd so shut-up and leave it if you don't love it. do i have that about right?
Second, Verizon does not pay 600 for that phone. if they pay more than $200 per unit i'd be surprised. Verizon does not lose money on any retail transaction whatsoever. This double fee is just extortion-as-usual, they are paving the way for a new standard. expect the others to quietly double up within the next few months. People will just grumble and pay it anyway.
Verizon...losing money...
bwahahahahahaHAH!
clueless a tad?
true, i really can't. can you?
um,, they SHOT her laptop. what f-ing circumstance warrants that? pure spite in any possible scenario. maybe she pissed them off, flaunted their authority, called them names that hit a nerve, but whatever she did, the bullets in the laptop is the signature of a thug. not an isolated instance of thuggery coming from the IDF i might add.
and here i thought they were some kind of westernized democratic nation that we support with billions of dollars and oil drums of our own kids' blood.
indeed. history is written by the victors and that becomes an accepted reality, the rationale comes _afterwards_. Capitalism differs from Feudalism only in symbol and myth. Both are violent exploitation, yet even the lowliest serfs defend it. It is popular to say "it's a lousy system, except for all the others" never realizing the self-hypnosis at work. You get up each day and perpetuate your own exploitation, you might even join an army and fight to the death for it. A curious thing. Better arrangements are obvious, and usually successful until violently suppressed.
indeed, that's why i prefer the rhetoric of the Republicans over the Democrats
but it also doesnt mean you aren't ignorant of the subject. and it appears you are, in fact. true, this would be my ignorant guesstimation of your awareness of the illness of depression, but stating that 'taking time off and going on holiday' is clearly not a valid effort to combat depression smacks of a lack of deep thought. While it sounds like an excellent choice to me as _work_, in many cases, requires full time attention to things other than what you personally find inspiring and fulfilling. What's worse, this work thing often results in fatigue, frustration and a creeping sense of futility as you watch the best of your precious precious time on this earth slip down the hour glass, traded for pieces of silver to help fund the owners' lavish holiday...those pieces of silver immediately traded for the basics of survival in a slow downward spiral of diminishing health and desire to take a holiday, should time off and surplus income become available next year.
I'd hate to be your elderly parent.
Calculating car-cost at .50/mile, (slightly lower than actual, but easier to figure), i suspect your savings on train are greater.
and how you gain so much time on the train is interesting, must not be peak times, but the quality of the time spent in either scenario, riding along doing what-have-you vs. piloting an automobile, should compare well also.
ymmv
oh woops, we have a problem. i have many times freely expressed what i really think, expletives un-deleted, then after venting, i edit it to a more nice, professional and constructive reply before hitting enter. not to mention my dyslexic typnig. i sure hope there's a way to send a completed message rather than this real-time keylogging broadcast!
everyone should have a spamgourmet acct! http://spamgourmet.com/
there's probably a few thousand people travelling btwn LA and SF every day. A bullet train has the advantage of saving tons of fuel, tons of cash, and dozens of minutes. go train go!!!
not even Penthouse?
that wikipedia article is only one paragraph and puts a completely different spin on the "Rule" (and it is an inviolable rule from what i am told) as it fails to mention that the entity with the deeper pockets is spared the inconvenience of a lawsuit in many cases due strictly to the cost of entry.
For example, to reclaim a small piece of property a certain neighbor expropriated from me, it will cost me $20K. Mind you, this is a case with zero gray area, no dispute where the boundary line is, as a permanent survey marker sits in plain view. He has deep pockets and went ahead and built knowing exactly what it would take for me to dispute it. sure enough, i have reluctantly decided to let him keep it because $20K is just too much of my modest fortune to spend on 200 sq ft of land. If a case involves more debatable things, expert opinions, more depositions, witnesses, research etc., the costs go up quickly. parties of average income just usually can't afford to mount even the simplest of lawsuits. Judges can award 'damages' that can offset the costs of litigation, but there has to be some recognizable suffering or tangible loss. they cant just award you the money simply bc the defendant is a flaming douchebag.
of course the plotters knew you'd expect statistically likely numbers, so they used numbers that no-one in their right mind would publish so that you were FORCED not only to believe them due to the sheer irrationality of choosing such numbers, and at the same time, to be humbled by their awesome machismo and daring-do.