Schtink tanks think, whatever the person who is funding the Schtink tank thinks, that they should think. You get what you pay for.
I met a guy in the US from IBM India who was working for their "Global Services" division. There were four of them living in a two bedroom apartment. I ask him out to lunch, but he said that they always cooked at home, because they couldn't afford to go out for lunch.
Yep, that the way American managers would like to keep us, as well.
Lots of theories about the demise of these civilizations.
As Jared Diamond said, all you need are: Guns, Germans and Steel. If you buy a Heckler & Koch MP7, you get three in one, and are ready to conquer South America.
Hey, you da big Inca? You think you bad, mutha fucka . . . ? Meet Heckler & Koch!
The Association of Global Automakers (Global Automakers) is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association and Lobby group whose members include international automobile and light duty truck manufacturers that build and sell products in the United States.
However, most bizarrely, here is the member list: Aston Martin, Ferrari, Honda, Hyundai, Isuzu, KIA, Maserati, McLaren, Nissan, Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota. Notably missing, the Americans and the Germans. So this looks more like this is coming from some sort of Asian lobbying group.
So I will have to correct my statement in my original post:
So simple solution . . . don't buy an Asian car, if you want to own your vehicle.
TFA doesn't say which "Automakers" are in on this. I'm guessing that this is an American-only cabal. Although Chrysler is really an Italian company, as it is owned by Fiat.
So simple solution . . . don't buy an American car, if you want to own your vehicle.
"In over 35 years as a cop, this is one of the oddest reasons I've seen for assault,"
You mean alcohol?
Pick a couple of rabid folks from the emacs vs. vi crowd, give them a case of Bud in long-necks . . . and you will probably end up with the same behavior.
Nitrous oxide, aka. NO2 or Laughing gas, would let the bastards go out laughing their asses off. Then there would be no debate about the cruelty of the death penalty method.
Actually, it doesn't make you laugh, but you space out a bit. If you want to try it, just buy a can of whipped cream at your local supermarket. DO NOT shake the can. Hold it the can upright, stick it in your mouth, press on the dispenser thing, and inhale. DO NOT exhale immediately. The effects will last about 30 seconds, during which you will have all sorts of dreamy thoughts about how huge the universe is.
If a death penalty candidate is given a steady flow of this, he will be asphyxiate, because he will be some deep in his dreams, that he will forget to breathe.
but life on Earth, even with all the messy erosion it creates, keeps continents growing
So, by their model, life, unchecked, will keep continents growing until the continents cover the whole Earth! And their will be no more oceans anymore! That would be a major blow to the surfing and beach vacation industries.
In order to fix this, we should start destroying a bit of life to keep the continents in balance, according to their model.
Gee, I thought Über's Surge Plan looked like this:
1. Über calls in a bomb threat at a major train and subway station.
2. The station gets evacuated and locked down.
3. Thousands of rail commuters are stranded, with no way to get home.
4. Everyone calls Über.
5. Surge!
6. Profit for Über!
You might say the calling in a bomb threat is illegal, but does Über care if the things they do are legal? It's just a new business model, that old folks do not understand.
I've gone through enough hurricanes to watch even land-lined phones becoming a luxury.
Well, it seem to me, that living in a hurricane zone increases your chances of dying in a disaster.
So, if you are worried about lack of FM support on phones . . . just move somewhere else.
Jokes aside, most of us live in areas that are not prone to hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, or Godzilla. If you do choose to live in such places, it is important to be prepared, and have an emergency kit. In which you can just pack in a good ole' FM battery.
Just the headline shocked me: That Josef Goebbels has an estate? Does Adolf Hitler have one, too?
And what else does this Josef Goebbels estate do? Sponsor charitable picnics with a dubious subliminal political message? Maybe burn some swastikas on hilltops?
In my opinion, the estate should have been liquidated in the early years after the end of WWII, and the funds distributed to victims of concentration camps.
Most taxi drivers I have encountered on the other hand, have ranged from standoffish to incredibly rude and sometimes hostile, frequently lying about fares to get more money.
Let me ask you, in which countries have you taken taxis?
I am American, but live in Germany. I have traveled on business to many different European countries. I have rode in taxis in England(Winchester,Southampton), the Netherlands (Delft), France (Nice, Paris), Belgium (Brussels), Greece (Samos), Switzerland (Zurich), Turkey(Istanbul), and just about every which where in Germany. I have never had a negative experience.
I am always polite to the driver, never condescending, and friendly. Guess what? The taxi driver always pays back in kind.
Do you really think they were never visited by a missionary?
Missionary? More likely "Missionary Style"! What is the first thing that they do, when an advanced culture meets a primitive culture? They mutually exchange sexually transmitted diseases!
Who knows? Maybe the villagers were visited by some folks, who didn't want to tell the government where they were, and what they were up to? Like, drug dealers, illegal good miners or illegal loggers?
Or how about contamination that occurred during the testing? People working with Ebola patients were supposed to how to isolate themselves from getting infected. And gee, looked what happened?
Well, if a catastrophe occurs, and half the human population on the planet dies, then we will have a butt-load of human corpses. Can we somehow use them to generate energy? There be lots of fat in those critters.
And, well, for the survivors, we could enslave a bunch of folks to peddle on fitness studio bikes hooked up to dynamos. Hey, all the electricity you will every need, but you will need to hire the whip guy out of Ben Hur.
So segregated schools would be the obvious (and wrong) answer? Black students go to a school with black teachers, and white kids go to a school with white teachers ?!?!?!
Ah, what ever happened to folks who thought like this:
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I guess Martin Luther King Jr. wasn't dreaming . . . give the current state of race relations in the US . . . he was fantasizing.
I dunno. With Alzheimer's, you lose your ability to create short term memories, but your long term memories remain intact. One sufferer quipped, "I get to meet someone new every day!" So the question is, do dementia sufferers even realize, that they have dementia . . . ?
A relative recently died of terminal lung cancer. She suffered in pain for a year, and knew that there was no hope. Now THAT really sucked. I'm wondering if I was bat-shit crazy, if I would even have the sense to know that I was definitely going to die in pain, really soon. Just pump me up with pain killers, and let me dream away the last days, in a sea of opiates . . .
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Schtink tanks think, whatever the person who is funding the Schtink tank thinks, that they should think. You get what you pay for.
I met a guy in the US from IBM India who was working for their "Global Services" division. There were four of them living in a two bedroom apartment. I ask him out to lunch, but he said that they always cooked at home, because they couldn't afford to go out for lunch.
Yep, that the way American managers would like to keep us, as well.
Lots of theories about the demise of these civilizations.
As Jared Diamond said, all you need are: Guns, Germans and Steel. If you buy a Heckler & Koch MP7, you get three in one, and are ready to conquer South America.
Hey, you da big Inca? You think you bad, mutha fucka . . . ? Meet Heckler & Koch!
I'm gonna just chalk this up to anti-American bias.
I'm American.
Wikipedia tells us this about the "Association of Global Automakers": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
The Association of Global Automakers (Global Automakers) is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association and Lobby group whose members include international automobile and light duty truck manufacturers that build and sell products in the United States.
However, most bizarrely, here is the member list: Aston Martin, Ferrari, Honda, Hyundai, Isuzu, KIA, Maserati, McLaren, Nissan, Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota. Notably missing, the Americans and the Germans. So this looks more like this is coming from some sort of Asian lobbying group.
So I will have to correct my statement in my original post:
So simple solution . . . don't buy an Asian car, if you want to own your vehicle.
TFA doesn't say which "Automakers" are in on this. I'm guessing that this is an American-only cabal. Although Chrysler is really an Italian company, as it is owned by Fiat.
So simple solution . . . don't buy an American car, if you want to own your vehicle.
"In over 35 years as a cop, this is one of the oddest reasons I've seen for assault,"
You mean alcohol?
Pick a couple of rabid folks from the emacs vs. vi crowd, give them a case of Bud in long-necks . . . and you will probably end up with the same behavior.
They should be split up, not merged, dammit!
I personally volunteer to do the splitting up!
. . . with a chainsaw. I think it would be best to start at the top. With their executives. The normal foot folks can stay as they are.
Nitrous oxide, aka. NO2 or Laughing gas, would let the bastards go out laughing their asses off. Then there would be no debate about the cruelty of the death penalty method.
Actually, it doesn't make you laugh, but you space out a bit. If you want to try it, just buy a can of whipped cream at your local supermarket. DO NOT shake the can. Hold it the can upright, stick it in your mouth, press on the dispenser thing, and inhale. DO NOT exhale immediately. The effects will last about 30 seconds, during which you will have all sorts of dreamy thoughts about how huge the universe is.
If a death penalty candidate is given a steady flow of this, he will be asphyxiate, because he will be some deep in his dreams, that he will forget to breathe.
Central Europe.
FTFS:
but life on Earth, even with all the messy erosion it creates, keeps continents growing
So, by their model, life, unchecked, will keep continents growing until the continents cover the whole Earth! And their will be no more oceans anymore! That would be a major blow to the surfing and beach vacation industries.
In order to fix this, we should start destroying a bit of life to keep the continents in balance, according to their model.
Gee, I thought Über's Surge Plan looked like this:
1. Über calls in a bomb threat at a major train and subway station.
2. The station gets evacuated and locked down.
3. Thousands of rail commuters are stranded, with no way to get home.
4. Everyone calls Über.
5. Surge!
6. Profit for Über!
You might say the calling in a bomb threat is illegal, but does Über care if the things they do are legal? It's just a new business model, that old folks do not understand.
Theoretically, you can design a control system that'll handle the problem. But, so far, noone has bothered to, because noone's had a need to.
Why don't you ask the Germans how they have manage to do this already . . . ?
I've gone through enough hurricanes to watch even land-lined phones becoming a luxury.
Well, it seem to me, that living in a hurricane zone increases your chances of dying in a disaster.
So, if you are worried about lack of FM support on phones . . . just move somewhere else.
Jokes aside, most of us live in areas that are not prone to hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, or Godzilla. If you do choose to live in such places, it is important to be prepared, and have an emergency kit. In which you can just pack in a good ole' FM battery.
Oh, if you are a criminal defense lawyer, this is a gift from Heaven. I see a flood of requests for appeals and retrials on the horizon.
Just the headline shocked me: That Josef Goebbels has an estate? Does Adolf Hitler have one, too?
And what else does this Josef Goebbels estate do? Sponsor charitable picnics with a dubious subliminal political message? Maybe burn some swastikas on hilltops?
In my opinion, the estate should have been liquidated in the early years after the end of WWII, and the funds distributed to victims of concentration camps.
This truncated headline would have been more pleasurable.
Most taxi drivers I have encountered on the other hand, have ranged from standoffish to incredibly rude and sometimes hostile, frequently lying about fares to get more money.
Let me ask you, in which countries have you taken taxis?
I am American, but live in Germany. I have traveled on business to many different European countries. I have rode in taxis in England(Winchester,Southampton), the Netherlands (Delft), France (Nice, Paris), Belgium (Brussels), Greece (Samos), Switzerland (Zurich), Turkey(Istanbul), and just about every which where in Germany. I have never had a negative experience.
I am always polite to the driver, never condescending, and friendly. Guess what? The taxi driver always pays back in kind.
Do you really think they were never visited by a missionary?
Missionary? More likely "Missionary Style"! What is the first thing that they do, when an advanced culture meets a primitive culture? They mutually exchange sexually transmitted diseases!
Who knows? Maybe the villagers were visited by some folks, who didn't want to tell the government where they were, and what they were up to? Like, drug dealers, illegal good miners or illegal loggers?
Or how about contamination that occurred during the testing? People working with Ebola patients were supposed to how to isolate themselves from getting infected. And gee, looked what happened?
4. Why not simply the glow from the universes out that made its way into our space before us?
Maybe the folks in the universe before us turned out the lights before they left . . . ?
It is not a "dodgy piece of dangerous equipment", it is actually very safe.
Just like with an automobile, the biggest danger is "a loose nut behind the steering wheel."
Well, if a catastrophe occurs, and half the human population on the planet dies, then we will have a butt-load of human corpses. Can we somehow use them to generate energy? There be lots of fat in those critters.
And, well, for the survivors, we could enslave a bunch of folks to peddle on fitness studio bikes hooked up to dynamos. Hey, all the electricity you will every need, but you will need to hire the whip guy out of Ben Hur.
So segregated schools would be the obvious (and wrong) answer? Black students go to a school with black teachers, and white kids go to a school with white teachers ?!?!?!
Ah, what ever happened to folks who thought like this:
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I guess Martin Luther King Jr. wasn't dreaming . . . give the current state of race relations in the US . . . he was fantasizing.
"640K should be enough for everybody."
She has been in the running for 2016 since the lost the 2008 primary.
I kinda sorta have the feeling that even after she is long dead and buried, she will still be running for President.
playing too much unreal took way more than 5% off of my grades.
playing with myself took way more than 5% off of my grades.
I dunno. With Alzheimer's, you lose your ability to create short term memories, but your long term memories remain intact. One sufferer quipped, "I get to meet someone new every day!" So the question is, do dementia sufferers even realize, that they have dementia . . . ?
A relative recently died of terminal lung cancer. She suffered in pain for a year, and knew that there was no hope. Now THAT really sucked. I'm wondering if I was bat-shit crazy, if I would even have the sense to know that I was definitely going to die in pain, really soon. Just pump me up with pain killers, and let me dream away the last days, in a sea of opiates . . .