I am very sorry about what happened to your mother.
The main reason that any vehicle is barely controllable on icy roads is that stupid Americans don't buy proper winter tires. Having a bunch of AWD vehicles around has only made this problem worse, because with AWD you can get moving even under the most marginal of traction conditions, but then you can't control the vehicle. Also, we let people drive with grossly inadequate training which no doubt contributed to the SUV driver losing control. Your mother was obviously a responsible driver, but the person in the SUV was, as other posters have pointed out, the beneficiary of welfare payments to the oil, etc. industries.
This program is basically designed to justify our bombing of Iran that, justified or no, will be happening sometime in President Willrack Obomaney's term.
BTW, I think it bears pointing out that having "independent nation states that look after their own interests" is a VERY GOOD THING. Yes, it creates the potential for war, but the alternative creates the inevitability of the monolithic dictatorship that none can oppose.
IBM mainframes had disc packs that you sort of unscrewed with this cake cover looking thing and removed from the drive probably back in the 60s. (I first saw one in the early 70s.) The cake cover was to protect the discs when you removed them from the drive, and so that you didn't touch them with your greasy fingers whilst picking them up.
Wow! Simple minded much? As if everything that anyone has was all acquired on some kind of isolated treasure hunt that had nothing to do with anyone or anything else. And no, stupid, the EU is not falling apart financially because of ideas about what things government should provide out of tax revenues. The EU is falling apart financially because of large scale monetary manipulation that we in the US happen to benefit from, although our benefit is the last thing that the players care about.
Socialist and fascist policies have nothing to do with the malaise in Europe. You have been suckered. There is a hidden war going on at all times for the control of monetary systems. So far the strategy has been to use the power of the US economy to make the dollar superior, not because the players give a fuck about the citizens of the US - they don't!, but because the nature of US politics makes it easier for them to control the rest of the world from a position of control of the dollar and of the dollar as the reserve currency. You are not supposed to know any of this...
Why do so many fools cling to the myth of the captured regulatory process and its resulting ills justifying the abolition of regulation????????? For fuck's sake!
People who deride lawyers and our legal system are idiots who are ignorant of history. Throughout most of the history of civilization justice was dispensed by fiat. The adversarial system, while not perfect is much better than that. Our political system could use a major overhaul, but our legal system is pretty damn good - don't conflate the two.
What you fail to realize is that there are two ways of making the supply/demand equation balance: increasing supply, and reducing demand. Long before fossil fuels become sufficiently expensive that alternatives are cost competitive, demand will first be reduced by reducing population. Hope you don't get "reduced".
Good misdirect. Sure it's silly to say "corporations" control the government, however something does control the government. Clue: look at who controls the money supply. Hint: it ain't the government!
The answer to all these ethical questions would be to somehow find a way to modify our genes post conception. Then I can decide that although I am basically happy with my twisted psyche, I would like to have a larger appendage and be able to use it more then a couple times a week.
In regard to AGW, so what is the answer? The only viable strategy for this nation that I can see would be to cover the nation with breeder reactors to be built and operated by a new branch of the federal government, and with a good percentage of the labor to be supplied by draft age young adults. Then we could reduce the cost of electricity to nearly 0, and that would spur the adoption of electricity based transportation and heating infrastructure to replace our petroleum and coal based infrastructure. Have you got a better idea?
Lord, it makes my teeth grind to read what you wrote here. I understand where you are coming from - it's that place that distresses me so much. The place where booms and busts are like part of the weather - facts of life that you deal with one way or another. NO! Booms and busts are caused by permitting banks to engage in fractional reserve lending. Ban FRL, and booms and busts are no more.
The other problem here is that you are an anti-conspiracy kook: All conspiracy theories are automatically false because they are conspiracy theories seems to be your religion. Lots of what 9/11 "truthers" say is nonsense, but no one has ever put forth a plausible explanation for what happened to Building 7. We do not know the truth about 9/11.
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I am very sorry about what happened to your mother.
The main reason that any vehicle is barely controllable on icy roads is that stupid Americans don't buy proper winter tires. Having a bunch of AWD vehicles around has only made this problem worse, because with AWD you can get moving even under the most marginal of traction conditions, but then you can't control the vehicle. Also, we let people drive with grossly inadequate training which no doubt contributed to the SUV driver losing control. Your mother was obviously a responsible driver, but the person in the SUV was, as other posters have pointed out, the beneficiary of welfare payments to the oil, etc. industries.
I thought that in Europe you guys had decent public transportation. No?
This program is basically designed to justify our bombing of Iran that, justified or no, will be happening sometime in President Willrack Obomaney's term.
BTW, I think it bears pointing out that having "independent nation states that look after their own interests" is a VERY GOOD THING. Yes, it creates the potential for war, but the alternative creates the inevitability of the monolithic dictatorship that none can oppose.
Why is RSS feed retarded?
IBM mainframes had disc packs that you sort of unscrewed with this cake cover looking thing and removed from the drive probably back in the 60s. (I first saw one in the early 70s.) The cake cover was to protect the discs when you removed them from the drive, and so that you didn't touch them with your greasy fingers whilst picking them up.
Wow! Simple minded much? As if everything that anyone has was all acquired on some kind of isolated treasure hunt that had nothing to do with anyone or anything else. And no, stupid, the EU is not falling apart financially because of ideas about what things government should provide out of tax revenues. The EU is falling apart financially because of large scale monetary manipulation that we in the US happen to benefit from, although our benefit is the last thing that the players care about.
Fuck being profound. For Christ's sake, learn the proper use of the apostrophe!!
Socialist and fascist policies have nothing to do with the malaise in Europe. You have been suckered. There is a hidden war going on at all times for the control of monetary systems. So far the strategy has been to use the power of the US economy to make the dollar superior, not because the players give a fuck about the citizens of the US - they don't!, but because the nature of US politics makes it easier for them to control the rest of the world from a position of control of the dollar and of the dollar as the reserve currency. You are not supposed to know any of this...
Why do so many fools cling to the myth of the captured regulatory process and its resulting ills justifying the abolition of regulation????????? For fuck's sake!
People who deride lawyers and our legal system are idiots who are ignorant of history. Throughout most of the history of civilization justice was dispensed by fiat. The adversarial system, while not perfect is much better than that. Our political system could use a major overhaul, but our legal system is pretty damn good - don't conflate the two.
I have the right to shoot you in the head if you are raping my daughter. Point being, dumbass, nobody said that dude was being disruptive.
I got news for you: eat bananas and your risk of cancer just jumped up a significant amount. Leave them for the apes.
>> The list of Ecuador human rights violations is hundreds of times larger than the USA's is.
Ask that of the millions of humans in US state and federal prisons.
What you fail to realize is that there are two ways of making the supply/demand equation balance: increasing supply, and reducing demand. Long before fossil fuels become sufficiently expensive that alternatives are cost competitive, demand will first be reduced by reducing population. Hope you don't get "reduced".
Nuclear fission plants should be built and operated by a new branch of the Department of Defense. Duh!
Good misdirect. Sure it's silly to say "corporations" control the government, however something does control the government. Clue: look at who controls the money supply. Hint: it ain't the government!
The answer to all these ethical questions would be to somehow find a way to modify our genes post conception. Then I can decide that although I am basically happy with my twisted psyche, I would like to have a larger appendage and be able to use it more then a couple times a week.
As an example of philosophy in fail mode, yeah, OK.
Religion is the cesspool of philosophy where people debase themselves by trading their dignity for lies.
He is, by definition, on the good side!
In regard to AGW, so what is the answer? The only viable strategy for this nation that I can see would be to cover the nation with breeder reactors to be built and operated by a new branch of the federal government, and with a good percentage of the labor to be supplied by draft age young adults. Then we could reduce the cost of electricity to nearly 0, and that would spur the adoption of electricity based transportation and heating infrastructure to replace our petroleum and coal based infrastructure. Have you got a better idea?
Yeah, but there are more, way more, of him than there are of us. Now who's depressed and useless?
Lord, it makes my teeth grind to read what you wrote here. I understand where you are coming from - it's that place that distresses me so much. The place where booms and busts are like part of the weather - facts of life that you deal with one way or another. NO! Booms and busts are caused by permitting banks to engage in fractional reserve lending. Ban FRL, and booms and busts are no more.
The other problem here is that you are an anti-conspiracy kook: All conspiracy theories are automatically false because they are conspiracy theories seems to be your religion. Lots of what 9/11 "truthers" say is nonsense, but no one has ever put forth a plausible explanation for what happened to Building 7. We do not know the truth about 9/11.
>> $5000 per person per election
Fuck that. No money at all. Communication media to donate equal space to each candidate.