You almost get it. SUVs are vehicles that can do many things, but none of them especially well.
Sure, a pickup can tow better than my Blazer or my Jimmy, but how comfortably can you pack four passengers into an S-10 pickup?
Sure, any mid-sized sedan can fit four passengers, but not comfortably (three in the back seat sucks) and how much of their stuff can you fit in the back?
A compact or a hybrid will get much better gas mileage than any SUV but if that's your sole deciding factor, why not get yourself a moped?
Most SUV owners would be much better served by having two vehicles instead of trying to have one vehicle that does everything (poorly). Need to carry cargo or tow stuff sometimes? Get a used, cheap pick-up. Need to carry lots of people sometimes? Get a used, cheap minivan. Need 4WD because of bad weather? Get a Suburu.
I can comfortably afford to maintain and pay for one vehicle, not three. How about you?
I'm a Myst fan, so I am inclined to say that there have been great Mac games since the DOS days.
Windows 3.1 was around when Myst launched. There were Mac games around long before that though. If we ignore Jobs' boneheaded position that encouraging game development for the Mac would cause people to think of them more as toys than as legitimate business tools, even back in the late 80's there were still Mac games. I bought Sim City, Falcon 2.0 and Carrier Command for the Mac back in 1990.
A fake ID, besides being illegal to create in the United States, is a derivative work of the United States Government, and is not an original creative work of authorship.
My ID was issued by the State of Pennsylvania, not the United States.
Once they criminialze your average Joe from selling used CDs person-to-person like it's a controlled substance, the pitchforks and torches will come out.
We must close the "'CD Show' loophole" it allows unscrupulous individuals to sell dangerous "Assault CDs" to just anyone without even a minimum of control or oversight and allows these dangerous criminals to avoid the entire registration process.
Me thinks thou doth protest too much. Actually, I was implying that Mac users masturbate a lot. You get all excited about the smooth edges and pearly white colors on your machines and then you can't help yourselves. The fact that you read that as an accusation of homosexuality says much more about you than it does about me.
You see, we Mac users have these acquaintances we call our "friends," with whom we can "go out" and "socialize," maybe having a drink or three, or shooting speedballs, or even stealing a casual fuck in the bathroom of Union Pool.
PC Gamers get laid too you know. The main difference is that for us, it's usually with women.
15 years ago, political correctness was what people used to call "common courtesy" If someone didn't like certain language, the polite thing to do was to not use it in their presence.
It changed, it became about ways to silence unpopular speech. It became about preventing people from asking questions that you didn't want to answer.
Moral desensitization leads to legal deregulation.
Not always. Sometimes legal deregulation leads the way. In 1973 Roe V. Wade legalized abortion, until the end of that decade most Americans did not agree with it.
Several years ago, in Pittsburgh, a local college student was carrying a couple of pounds of powdered vitamins on an airplane. I have no idea why he was doing something so stupid, but when he was searched, they found approx 1 kilogram of a white powdery substance. The field test was positive for cocaine, so the guy was locked up. It took several months before they had a proper lab test done and verified that indeed it was vitamins and dropped the charges but not before the guy had to pay bail, attorney's feet and get his face plastered all over the news
I have always had serious issues with giving my credit card number to any high profile service like Steam primarily because I don't like "virtual" purchases, I like to have physical tangible objects in return for my money but this is just another reason for me.
A regulation on a video game, but in Virginia it's perfectly ok to by a gun without even a license or cooling-of period.
Outside of places like NYC, you don't need a license to purchase a pistol. Virginia actually has more stringent gun laws than many states. They limit handgun purchases to one per month.
An assault weapon is ok if its not "to be used in anger".
Despite the fact that the real reason there are few women in CS -- men in the field discriminating against women -- is put blatantly before them every time they look in the mirror.
Discriminating how? By making them learn math?
Encouraging women, letting them know that there are people in the field who welcome them, that the ones telling them what they want to do with their own lives are dinosaurs on the way out, that's helpful.
Are you aware that there is a difference between encouraging women to get into the field and changing what is taught to appeal to women?
I'd love to have more women in CompSci, but not at the expense of making CompSci a BA degree.
The problem is that if you think that we are at that point, today, where sex discrimination doesn't exist? Then you're 1) male and 2) delusional.
Sex discrimination most certainly does exist and it cuts both ways.
I don't see many women in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical, or Computer Engineering either, should we stop building cars, satellites, and circuits too?
The hottest woman that I have ever seen at work is a Mechanical Engineer.
If *your* government is breaking your own laws, no matter which party they belong to, go after them. If you don't, eventually they'll be coming after you. I thought you guys were in favor of small accountable government?
You raise a valid point. We *SHOULD* go after them, no matter which party they belong to. The fly in the ointment is that no matter how guilty the last administration was, their die hard supporters did nothing to hold them accountable. Since they did it for their guy, I don't understand how they could expect us to do any different for our guy.
I just wanted to write and say: thank you for proving my point.
You're quite welcomed. I agree completely. When the people act as if their appalled when Republicans do something, we take great delight in pointing out that the Democrats have done the same thing.
Seriously, who is crazy enough to post a real opinion on a public forum without being anonymous.
Being that a check on my registration will not return the name "Lord Kano", I feel completely free to say that all cops take it in the pooper and that they like to go ass to mouth.
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You almost get it. SUVs are vehicles that can do many things, but none of them especially well.
Sure, a pickup can tow better than my Blazer or my Jimmy, but how comfortably can you pack four passengers into an S-10 pickup?
Sure, any mid-sized sedan can fit four passengers, but not comfortably (three in the back seat sucks) and how much of their stuff can you fit in the back?
A compact or a hybrid will get much better gas mileage than any SUV but if that's your sole deciding factor, why not get yourself a moped?
Most SUV owners would be much better served by having two vehicles instead of trying to have one vehicle that does everything (poorly). Need to carry cargo or tow stuff sometimes? Get a used, cheap pick-up. Need to carry lots of people sometimes? Get a used, cheap minivan. Need 4WD because of bad weather? Get a Suburu.
I can comfortably afford to maintain and pay for one vehicle, not three. How about you?
LK
Except that your extra horsepower is constantly being used to drag around your huge SUV that you somehow believe is compensating for your small penis.
Yeah, just like those micro-dicks who brag about the size of their other body parts like it will make people believe that their penises match.
Right, "massivefoot"?
LK
I'm a Myst fan, so I am inclined to say that there have been great Mac games since the DOS days.
Windows 3.1 was around when Myst launched. There were Mac games around long before that though. If we ignore Jobs' boneheaded position that encouraging game development for the Mac would cause people to think of them more as toys than as legitimate business tools, even back in the late 80's there were still Mac games. I bought Sim City, Falcon 2.0 and Carrier Command for the Mac back in 1990.
LK
A fake ID, besides being illegal to create in the United States, is a derivative work of the United States Government, and is not an original creative work of authorship.
My ID was issued by the State of Pennsylvania, not the United States.
LK
Once they criminialze your average Joe from selling used CDs person-to-person like it's a controlled substance, the pitchforks and torches will come out.
We must close the "'CD Show' loophole" it allows unscrupulous individuals to sell dangerous "Assault CDs" to just anyone without even a minimum of control or oversight and allows these dangerous criminals to avoid the entire registration process.
LK
Even though noone "deserves" to be cheated on, it should remail illegal to snoop on anyone else's telephone conversations.
If you think she's cheating, hire a PI.
LK
Implying Mac users are gay...
Me thinks thou doth protest too much. Actually, I was implying that Mac users masturbate a lot. You get all excited about the smooth edges and pearly white colors on your machines and then you can't help yourselves. The fact that you read that as an accusation of homosexuality says much more about you than it does about me.
LK
You see, we Mac users have these acquaintances we call our "friends," with whom we can "go out" and "socialize," maybe having a drink or three, or shooting speedballs, or even stealing a casual fuck in the bathroom of Union Pool.
PC Gamers get laid too you know. The main difference is that for us, it's usually with women.
LK
15 years ago, political correctness was what people used to call "common courtesy" If someone didn't like certain language, the polite thing to do was to not use it in their presence.
It changed, it became about ways to silence unpopular speech. It became about preventing people from asking questions that you didn't want to answer.
LK
It's funny how "free speech" advocates are silent when people silence speech that they disagree with.
LK
Moral desensitization leads to legal deregulation.
Not always. Sometimes legal deregulation leads the way. In 1973 Roe V. Wade legalized abortion, until the end of that decade most Americans did not agree with it.
LK
Several years ago, in Pittsburgh, a local college student was carrying a couple of pounds of powdered vitamins on an airplane. I have no idea why he was doing something so stupid, but when he was searched, they found approx 1 kilogram of a white powdery substance. The field test was positive for cocaine, so the guy was locked up. It took several months before they had a proper lab test done and verified that indeed it was vitamins and dropped the charges but not before the guy had to pay bail, attorney's feet and get his face plastered all over the news
The wheels of justice grind slowly.
LK
So does this mean you avoid e-tickets or sending out flash greeting cards?
I have sent flash greeting cards, free ones. I have never bought an e-ticket.
LK
32 innocent college students murdered and this asshole is as healthy as ever.
LK
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I have always had serious issues with giving my credit card number to any high profile service like Steam primarily because I don't like "virtual" purchases, I like to have physical tangible objects in return for my money but this is just another reason for me.
LK
Now if they can only bring back the old "reasonable and prudent" daytime speed limits, also in defiance of the federal government...
When the Republicans took over congress in 1995, one of the things they did was uncouple federal highway funds from the 55 speed limit.
LK
A regulation on a video game, but in Virginia it's perfectly ok to by a gun without even a license or cooling-of period.
Outside of places like NYC, you don't need a license to purchase a pistol. Virginia actually has more stringent gun laws than many states. They limit handgun purchases to one per month.
An assault weapon is ok if its not "to be used in anger".
How do you define "Assault Weapon"?
LK
Despite the fact that the real reason there are few women in CS -- men in the field discriminating against women -- is put blatantly before them every time they look in the mirror.
Discriminating how? By making them learn math?
Encouraging women, letting them know that there are people in the field who welcome them, that the ones telling them what they want to do with their own lives are dinosaurs on the way out, that's helpful.
Are you aware that there is a difference between encouraging women to get into the field and changing what is taught to appeal to women?
I'd love to have more women in CompSci, but not at the expense of making CompSci a BA degree.
The problem is that if you think that we are at that point, today, where sex discrimination doesn't exist? Then you're 1) male and 2) delusional.
Sex discrimination most certainly does exist and it cuts both ways.
LK
I don't see many women in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical, or Computer Engineering either, should we stop building cars, satellites, and circuits too?
The hottest woman that I have ever seen at work is a Mechanical Engineer.
LK
About a month ago, I bought a Sun Ultra 10 on eBay. An 8 year old 64-bit computer puts out a good deal of heat.
LK
If *your* government is breaking your own laws, no matter which party they belong to, go after them. If you don't, eventually they'll be coming after you. I thought you guys were in favor of small accountable government?
You raise a valid point. We *SHOULD* go after them, no matter which party they belong to. The fly in the ointment is that no matter how guilty the last administration was, their die hard supporters did nothing to hold them accountable. Since they did it for their guy, I don't understand how they could expect us to do any different for our guy.
LK
I just wanted to write and say: thank you for proving my point.
You're quite welcomed. I agree completely. When the people act as if their appalled when Republicans do something, we take great delight in pointing out that the Democrats have done the same thing.
That was your point, right?
LK
Seriously, who is crazy enough to post a real opinion on a public forum without being anonymous.
Being that a check on my registration will not return the name "Lord Kano", I feel completely free to say that all cops take it in the pooper and that they like to go ass to mouth.
LK
Sounds great, unless one of those 275 is someone that you care about.
LK
Typical wingerdom on display here folks...
Pot...Kettle...Black...
Your guys never "lost" any emails, huh?
LK