In most countries the additional taxes payed by smokers more than offset the extra costs smokers put on the health services. Unless you are in the USA then it doesn't matter at all.
I use steam and got L4D for $29.95 and GRID for $9.95 they are in a computer game shop near here for $59.95 & $89.95 respectively. When I bought FarCry2 I went to a store called Harvey Norman and it was on the shelf for $129.95. i went to the game shop 30 meters away and it was $59.95 (glad I checked the other shop because I swear it's not worth the amount I paid for it).
What gets me is they seem so determined to protect us from everything.
We have no fireworks any more because they decided to legislate as if we were all like the morons who demonstrated to their friends just how cool they were because they braved closing their fists around lit bungers(small explosive).
I have recently read about high altitude cameras on balloons on various sites and decided that I would get my nephew an 'AstroCam' model rocket like the one I had when I was a kid. I went to a model/hobby shop expecting a simple transaction and that we could fly it on the weekend. I have discovered that I am unable to do this as I don't have a firearms license! Can you believe I need a gun license to fly a toy rocket? (note: a license for just an air rifle here involves hundreds of dollars and many hours of training in a special college course)
Now I am wondering if I should just build my own in the toolshed but make it a real kick-arse rocket that will hit ten thousand feet plus. If I do then I risk up to five years in gaol. The nanny state is really really really pissing me off.
it was the product I was buying as well. I had a job many years ago where I used a register and you could do the change yourself. i found that quicker and easier. i should have realised that they were now chained into the full process. But still Hot water bottles are hazardous and matches are till 20c
Except, with the Honda vehicle, if there is a failure in the computer system, you die.... I rode a Segway. It had a RISK OF DEATH (all caps) label.
If the bicycle were invented today, it would come with that label. We live in a society that is increasingly litigious and risk-averse. These both apply more for newer and higher-tech things - more so for commercial airplanes than cars, in spite of their relative risks.
I went to Coles today(Australian supermarket) to buy my wife a hot water bottle as it gets quite cold here at night. Unfortunately, I was unable to purchase one at Coles as they are a dangerous and hazardous product(so was explained to me). I asked if the risk of choking on food was something they should take into account but the checkout girl looked at me like I was a dumb arse and then used her register to calculate my change on a 20c box of matches (I had given her a 50c piece).
Could you please send me a link to the documentation. i would be very interested in seeing it as a lot of others would too.
I will happily be associated with anything if I know it to be the truth. if there are laws blocking investigation of something then I strongly suspect that there is something fishy about it.
As would anyone who believes in the scientific method over the emotional.
I won't respond to your first few points as they are empty of any objectivity.
It's a statement talking about the illegal occupation and claim on the City of Jerusalem by the Zionist state.
I am in total agreement with you about being sick of the whole thing but a little investigation shows just how badly treated the Palestinians have been by the Israeli's(and the world).
The first major problem is the claim that Israel is theirs because God gave it to them. Google the term 'Greater Israel' and you will see what I mean(there's a reason Israel want all Hezbollah weapons out of the south of lebanon up to the Litani river). This is a link to some facts on the ground.
Iran has never invaded anyone in its short history. Ahmadinejad has never outright denied the holocaust occurred as the western media like to portray all the time. he has called for studies to see whether it was just as bad as claimed. I am not saying here that it wasn't bad but there are several very glaring oddities in the story that do not appear to stand up to the test.
It's not a fight over who's religion is right it is a fight over who's land it is. Imagine if you lived for centuries on the same land as your ancestors and then one day men with guns throw you out on the street because God said it was the right thing to do. I have been to Israel and believe me if you are a Goy you are a second-class human being(although some teachings class you as a beast on two legs). here's an attitude amongst the orthodox that is quite prevalent but rarely stated so blatantly.
I am stunned that people on/. actually don;t have the nounce to realise that MEMRI has a long and splotchy record of mistranslation demonising the enemies of Israel.
Anyone who thinks he said that Israel should be wiped off the map is being dishonest or hasn;t done even the slightest rudimentary research.
And YES I speak farsi
Have you EVER looked at a map of Israel as it was mandated in 48 as opposed to what it apparently is now? As far as justification for the state to exist in the middle east? Anyone who believes that believes in the historical myth that Mr Evil Iranian thinks is wrong.
Not a chance. I am right, I am always right. I dropped out of community college to smoke dope and I have read a lot. You know those word things? Not silly numbers. I will always be right and engineers are all gay.
I come home of an evening open my/. email then open the stories I am interested in in tabs. I then take the dog for a walk and have a cup of coffee and sometimes afterwards all of the pages have loaded(i also block images).
I am on wireless 'broadband' and have gone over my monthly 10GB limit (at a cheap $129.95pm) so my traffic is SLOWED. I wish I could get dialup when this happens.
Your comment just goes to show how happy my experience has been with X and KDE. I had absolutely no idea that the ctrl+alt+backspace zap command was now disabled by default. Must be a while since I have had to resort to it. BTW: I use Mandriva (i think that makes me a criminal to a cretain type of Linux user(and yes after review I kept the spelling mistake)).
It's been many years since I was a programmer. Think PDP-11, TSX, RT11, D, RPL, Filetab, C and you get an idea of how out of date I am. I would have hoped by now that if the OS ran on the hardware then the majority of apps written for that OS would just work. Have we come that far in 30 years?
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In most countries the additional taxes payed by smokers more than offset the extra costs smokers put on the health services. Unless you are in the USA then it doesn't matter at all.
at least we now know who the one person is who drinks it
you think it will take a month?
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I use steam and got L4D for $29.95 and GRID for $9.95 they are in a computer game shop near here for $59.95 & $89.95 respectively. When I bought FarCry2 I went to a store called Harvey Norman and it was on the shelf for $129.95. i went to the game shop 30 meters away and it was $59.95 (glad I checked the other shop because I swear it's not worth the amount I paid for it).
In my view the software industry should start lobbying individual countries to declare OSS invalid and fair game for incorporation into any product.
And I nominate you for the 'Biggest Douche in the Universe'
I think that it should be fairly obvious
What gets me is they seem so determined to protect us from everything. We have no fireworks any more because they decided to legislate as if we were all like the morons who demonstrated to their friends just how cool they were because they braved closing their fists around lit bungers(small explosive). I have recently read about high altitude cameras on balloons on various sites and decided that I would get my nephew an 'AstroCam' model rocket like the one I had when I was a kid. I went to a model/hobby shop expecting a simple transaction and that we could fly it on the weekend. I have discovered that I am unable to do this as I don't have a firearms license! Can you believe I need a gun license to fly a toy rocket? (note: a license for just an air rifle here involves hundreds of dollars and many hours of training in a special college course) Now I am wondering if I should just build my own in the toolshed but make it a real kick-arse rocket that will hit ten thousand feet plus. If I do then I risk up to five years in gaol. The nanny state is really really really pissing me off.
it was the product I was buying as well. I had a job many years ago where I used a register and you could do the change yourself. i found that quicker and easier. i should have realised that they were now chained into the full process. But still Hot water bottles are hazardous and matches are till 20c
If the bicycle were invented today, it would come with that label. We live in a society that is increasingly litigious and risk-averse. These both apply more for newer and higher-tech things - more so for commercial airplanes than cars, in spite of their relative risks.
I went to Coles today(Australian supermarket) to buy my wife a hot water bottle as it gets quite cold here at night. Unfortunately, I was unable to purchase one at Coles as they are a dangerous and hazardous product(so was explained to me). I asked if the risk of choking on food was something they should take into account but the checkout girl looked at me like I was a dumb arse and then used her register to calculate my change on a 20c box of matches (I had given her a 50c piece).
Could you please send me a link to the documentation. i would be very interested in seeing it as a lot of others would too. I will happily be associated with anything if I know it to be the truth. if there are laws blocking investigation of something then I strongly suspect that there is something fishy about it. As would anyone who believes in the scientific method over the emotional. I won't respond to your first few points as they are empty of any objectivity.
It's a statement talking about the illegal occupation and claim on the City of Jerusalem by the Zionist state. I am in total agreement with you about being sick of the whole thing but a little investigation shows just how badly treated the Palestinians have been by the Israeli's(and the world). The first major problem is the claim that Israel is theirs because God gave it to them. Google the term 'Greater Israel' and you will see what I mean(there's a reason Israel want all Hezbollah weapons out of the south of lebanon up to the Litani river). This is a link to some facts on the ground. Iran has never invaded anyone in its short history. Ahmadinejad has never outright denied the holocaust occurred as the western media like to portray all the time. he has called for studies to see whether it was just as bad as claimed. I am not saying here that it wasn't bad but there are several very glaring oddities in the story that do not appear to stand up to the test. It's not a fight over who's religion is right it is a fight over who's land it is. Imagine if you lived for centuries on the same land as your ancestors and then one day men with guns throw you out on the street because God said it was the right thing to do. I have been to Israel and believe me if you are a Goy you are a second-class human being(although some teachings class you as a beast on two legs). here's an attitude amongst the orthodox that is quite prevalent but rarely stated so blatantly.
I am stunned that people on /. actually don;t have the nounce to realise that MEMRI has a long and splotchy record of mistranslation demonising the enemies of Israel.
Anyone who thinks he said that Israel should be wiped off the map is being dishonest or hasn;t done even the slightest rudimentary research.
And YES I speak farsi
Have you EVER looked at a map of Israel as it was mandated in 48 as opposed to what it apparently is now? As far as justification for the state to exist in the middle east? Anyone who believes that believes in the historical myth that Mr Evil Iranian thinks is wrong.
Once again, dark matter is the stuff the gravity waves are hiding behind. Damn it's so simple.
I would hazard a guess that a person who phrases it that way actually lives at home (and by that I mean at the mouldies house)
Do you now what version of TRS-DOS came with the model 12? Did someone want a copy?
Uh, twit, this is what I do for a living.
Really and truly? Hope your boss isn't reading.
Enlighten me. (I'm an Aero engineer)
Not a chance. I am right, I am always right. I dropped out of community college to smoke dope and I have read a lot. You know those word things? Not silly numbers. I will always be right and engineers are all gay.
I had never before considered using the power of lawsuits to drive an inter-planetary vehicle, very interesting. But is it feasible?
Beats the gravy out of bistromath
I come home of an evening open my /. email then open the stories I am interested in in tabs. I then take the dog for a walk and have a cup of coffee and sometimes afterwards all of the pages have loaded(i also block images).
I am on wireless 'broadband' and have gone over my monthly 10GB limit (at a cheap $129.95pm) so my traffic is SLOWED. I wish I could get dialup when this happens.
I'd definitely not stick my head in my 1100W kitchen microwave oven.
It might stop all those annoying /. groupies harassing you for sexual favours all the time though.
In the mornings(3am) when we used to arrive at the milking shed there was never any milk. So we would stick our coffee under 701.
Your comment just goes to show how happy my experience has been with X and KDE. I had absolutely no idea that the ctrl+alt+backspace zap command was now disabled by default. Must be a while since I have had to resort to it. BTW: I use Mandriva (i think that makes me a criminal to a cretain type of Linux user(and yes after review I kept the spelling mistake)).
It's been many years since I was a programmer. Think PDP-11, TSX, RT11, D, RPL, Filetab, C and you get an idea of how out of date I am. I would have hoped by now that if the OS ran on the hardware then the majority of apps written for that OS would just work. Have we come that far in 30 years?