What I understand after having just spoken to a near bankrupt Hollywood accountant is that there hasn't been a single movie since 1923 that hasn't lost toilet-loads of money. Apparently the only reason we still have a motion picture industry at all is due to the generosity of the filmmakers who have sometimes had to rely on food stamps and charity just to survive as they pump absolutely all of their money into the medium.
How do you determine which features are must-have?
My only must haves are that it starts/stops, has good fuel economy, and that the body is roughly straight.
If you think those decisions are not being constantly manipulated by others, guess again.
I can honestly say that no one has ever manipulated any of my car buying decisions. There used to be an advertisement here in AU that pushed the idea that your car would be the second biggest purchase of your life(a house being the first I guess). Most of the people I knew at the time would have agreed wholeheartedly. I cannot remember anyone ever ever asking 'Why?'.
So, side effects which are enough to put someone off taking the meds for a disease which will kill them, if untreated?
I am currently on a medication which makes me forget words. An example being a conversation a couple of weeks back where the correct word would have been 'eroded'. The closest thing that I could come up with at the time was 'ground corrosion' which thankfully my friend understood. To my friend this episode was inconsequential but to me it was fucking horrific(having happened more than once and at some very inopportune times). If I had to take this medication for the rest of my life to keep me alive I would rather give the reaper a great big hug. It has really opened my eyes to Alzheimer's and other similar diseases. Being able to watch mental degeneration from the inside is an eye opening experience and may even explain some of those unexpected, out of the blue suicides amongst older people. Sorry I rambled but IMHO quality of life trumps quantity of it always.
I personally don't believe the magnetism theories but I certainly haven't written them off completely. I don't discount people because they may believe in theories/ideas that are contrary to my own. I try my best to maintain an open mind on most things and have even allowed weird new-age stuff to be performed on me with on two occasions startling and somewhat spooky results(not that I have become a new age convert).
What I find of most concern is the changes I have noticed in/. over the last few years. Once upon a time this site was filled with people prepared to learn and have their beliefs challenged. Now it is full of straw man/ad hominen BS that gets modded up instead of to the garbage where it belongs. My above post has actually earnt me a foe. My first foe I am so proud.
I don't believe every solution. Most of it I think is BS. Closing your mind completely to the other side is counterproductive and in the example I cited the doctors nearly cost Allan his life because they were so stuck in their own personal grooves.
If you are an educator then the book linked above is a must read. The chapter entitled Intellectual Espionage is a must read for those who love standardised testing.
I have a disposable income. I choose to buy a lottery ticket every now and then as while there is only a minute chance of winning it is infinitely better than if I hadn't bought a ticket at all. Those who call it a tax on the stupid/ignorant/poor/etc should get off their fucking high horses and work out why the importance of calling other people stupid/ignorant is so important to their world-view/self-image.
I guarantee you that this bullshit will stop the first time somebody releases a "Girls Gone Wild TSA Style" video showing a bunch of goons sitting around watching nude X-ray pics of hot women who walked through the scanners. And statistically speaking, it's only a matter of time before this happens and it turns into a public outcry the likes of which the government has not seen since Vietnam.
I don't think the US people are capable of that sort of outcry/protest anymore. The American mindset/psyche has changed radically in just fifty years. When this inevitable video gets out of TSA employees all sitting around spanking their monkeys to backscatter porn all it will take is anyone important enough to be on TV to say the words 'just a few bad apples' and 'think of the children' and it will be business as usual. What did happen to the people in the US? One of my friends believes that all of the best and brightest male genetic material was destroyed in a century of insane warfare. I guess this will be modded down to the depths of hell. I just hope those moderating examine their motives afterwards.
I remember I had to stay somewhere for a while and the only water available was for drinking purposes only. I had to stay in that particular environment for around two weeks(some ppl here would know what I mean). I would pity the poor TSA worker who had to get anywhere near my balls or arse. It was like rancid soup mix down there for a while. If I went to have a piss I was actually scared to touch my own willy(the smell was indescribable) so imagine what it would be like for others. Even a ten dollar whore would have been violently ill before telling me to fsck off. Maybe all those traveling should not wash their privates for a fortnight before traveling and make it really, really uncomfortable.
I'm looking forward to reading the story about the person who opts out and then strips off in the terminal to prove they aren't carrying anything. It has to happen sometime soon.
Thank you for that one link to back up your wide ranging assertions regarding vaccination, quack doctors, and GMO foods. Me wonders why you are so defensive that you have to use terms like woo-woo to get your argument across.
Here's an interesting video clip about a man called Allan Smith who was in hospital in New Zealand. The doctors decided he was beyond hope and were going to turn off life-support. His family demanded that he be given high doses of Vitamin C and it was administered although the doctors tried their best to stop it from happening. Poor old Allan then came back from the dead. It's terrible that quack sites push the idea that modern medicine doesn't have all the answers.
Every single thing you have stated above can be contradicted by using Google. You may even find peer reviewed scientific papers supporting the assertion that GMOs aren't proven to be safe/beneficial.
And everyone knows that a tin foil helmet can protect a person from the voices in their head.
To go beyond mechanism to get a numerical estimate of climate change, you unavoidably need a model. And take it from me, the one they're using is a good one.
A judge who believes a 4 year old can reasonably foresee when her actions could foreseeable harm others is a judge who has never spent any time with a 4 year old. Maybe he has heard about them, or seen one in pictures?
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What I understand after having just spoken to a near bankrupt Hollywood accountant is that there hasn't been a single movie since 1923 that hasn't lost toilet-loads of money. Apparently the only reason we still have a motion picture industry at all is due to the generosity of the filmmakers who have sometimes had to rely on food stamps and charity just to survive as they pump absolutely all of their money into the medium.
What determines how much you are willing to pay?
Never ever more than $1000AU.
How do you determine which features are must-have?
My only must haves are that it starts/stops, has good fuel economy, and that the body is roughly straight.
If you think those decisions are not being constantly manipulated by others, guess again.
I can honestly say that no one has ever manipulated any of my car buying decisions. There used to be an advertisement here in AU that pushed the idea that your car would be the second biggest purchase of your life(a house being the first I guess). Most of the people I knew at the time would have agreed wholeheartedly. I cannot remember anyone ever ever asking ' Why? '.
So, side effects which are enough to put someone off taking the meds for a disease which will kill them, if untreated?
I am currently on a medication which makes me forget words. An example being a conversation a couple of weeks back where the correct word would have been 'eroded'. The closest thing that I could come up with at the time was 'ground corrosion' which thankfully my friend understood. To my friend this episode was inconsequential but to me it was fucking horrific(having happened more than once and at some very inopportune times). If I had to take this medication for the rest of my life to keep me alive I would rather give the reaper a great big hug. It has really opened my eyes to Alzheimer's and other similar diseases. Being able to watch mental degeneration from the inside is an eye opening experience and may even explain some of those unexpected, out of the blue suicides amongst older people. Sorry I rambled but IMHO quality of life trumps quantity of it always.
I personally don't believe the magnetism theories but I certainly haven't written them off completely. I don't discount people because they may believe in theories/ideas that are contrary to my own. I try my best to maintain an open mind on most things and have even allowed weird new-age stuff to be performed on me with on two occasions startling and somewhat spooky results(not that I have become a new age convert). /. over the last few years. Once upon a time this site was filled with people prepared to learn and have their beliefs challenged. Now it is full of straw man/ad hominen BS that gets modded up instead of to the garbage where it belongs. My above post has actually earnt me a foe. My first foe I am so proud.
What I find of most concern is the changes I have noticed in
I don't believe every solution. Most of it I think is BS. Closing your mind completely to the other side is counterproductive and in the example I cited the doctors nearly cost Allan his life because they were so stuck in their own personal grooves.
Thank God for that. I no longer feel ashamed of being horny whenever I see roadkill.
Speaking as someone with a liberal arts degree I have no need of my brain at all
For more of the history of school: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm
If you are an educator then the book linked above is a must read. The chapter entitled Intellectual Espionage is a must read for those who love standardised testing.
Modern society much prefers that the majority of people don't understand it at all. The system works a lot smoother that way.
I have a disposable income. I choose to buy a lottery ticket every now and then as while there is only a minute chance of winning it is infinitely better than if I hadn't bought a ticket at all. Those who call it a tax on the stupid/ignorant/poor/etc should get off their fucking high horses and work out why the importance of calling other people stupid/ignorant is so important to their world-view/self-image.
I think someone censored the last half of your post
I guarantee you that this bullshit will stop the first time somebody releases a "Girls Gone Wild TSA Style" video showing a bunch of goons sitting around watching nude X-ray pics of hot women who walked through the scanners. And statistically speaking, it's only a matter of time before this happens and it turns into a public outcry the likes of which the government has not seen since Vietnam.
I don't think the US people are capable of that sort of outcry/protest anymore. The American mindset/psyche has changed radically in just fifty years. When this inevitable video gets out of TSA employees all sitting around spanking their monkeys to backscatter porn all it will take is anyone important enough to be on TV to say the words 'just a few bad apples' and 'think of the children' and it will be business as usual. What did happen to the people in the US? One of my friends believes that all of the best and brightest male genetic material was destroyed in a century of insane warfare. I guess this will be modded down to the depths of hell. I just hope those moderating examine their motives afterwards.
If a terrorist could exploit a loophole in the pat down procedure, then he wouldn't care whether it was anymore embarrassing.
If a terrorist could exploit a poophole in the pat down procedure, then he wouldn't care whether it was anymore embarrassing.
Just to relieve my boredom, I might even pretend to be enjoying it.
Just body build your sphincter up to the point where you could trap his finger with a simple clench.
I remember I had to stay somewhere for a while and the only water available was for drinking purposes only. I had to stay in that particular environment for around two weeks(some ppl here would know what I mean). I would pity the poor TSA worker who had to get anywhere near my balls or arse. It was like rancid soup mix down there for a while. If I went to have a piss I was actually scared to touch my own willy(the smell was indescribable) so imagine what it would be like for others. Even a ten dollar whore would have been violently ill before telling me to fsck off. Maybe all those traveling should not wash their privates for a fortnight before traveling and make it really, really uncomfortable.
I'm looking forward to reading the story about the person who opts out and then strips off in the terminal to prove they aren't carrying anything. It has to happen sometime soon.
don't tasers spark a lot?
does this mean you are finally coming out?
I am so glad I don't live in the land of the free. Here in AU the cops would most likely laugh and call you a d**khead.
What's my name again?
Thank you for that one link to back up your wide ranging assertions regarding vaccination, quack doctors, and GMO foods. Me wonders why you are so defensive that you have to use terms like woo-woo to get your argument across.
Here's an interesting video clip about a man called Allan Smith who was in hospital in New Zealand. The doctors decided he was beyond hope and were going to turn off life-support. His family demanded that he be given high doses of Vitamin C and it was administered although the doctors tried their best to stop it from happening. Poor old Allan then came back from the dead. It's terrible that quack sites push the idea that modern medicine doesn't have all the answers.
Every single thing you have stated above can be contradicted by using Google. You may even find peer reviewed scientific papers supporting the assertion that GMOs aren't proven to be safe/beneficial.
And everyone knows that a tin foil helmet can protect a person from the voices in their head.
The term ScepDic seems just so appropriate.
Can't see it myself
To go beyond mechanism to get a numerical estimate of climate change, you unavoidably need a model. And take it from me, the one they're using is a good one.
Michael Mann is that you?
anti-GMO is just another form of baseless pseudoscientific crank denialism woowoo
You are joking there aren't you? Or just not paying attention?
A judge who believes a 4 year old can reasonably foresee when her actions could foreseeable harm others is a judge who has never spent any time with a 4 year old. Maybe he has heard about them, or seen one in pictures?
Naked pictures most likely