You can rant and rave about climate change all you want, but the fact of the matter is that unless all nations have a firm agreement in place to stem the unmitigated increase of CO2 in the atmosphere, then it's pointless to try to do it unilaterally. In that case, instead of stifling industry by requiring the reduction of greenhouse gases, you should instead be trying to accumulate as many resources as possible for the inevitable climate change you claim is going to take place. If we really are at peak oil, then the market is going to take care of the carbon issue for us anyway.
And excuse me for being a bit of a conspiracy theorist, but it seems rather odd to me that the same folks who are championing climate change as a scientific issue are also trying to use it to create an international social program in the same flavor as the IMF. They want developed nations to set aside $130 billion to be distributed to 3rd world countries. And by "developed nations," they mean the US and the EU. Because reducing the pool of money available for the countries who actually invest in these green technologies, otherwise driving costs down, makes perfect sense.
Now we'll have libraries with "knowledge is power" posters everywhere.
Guy 1: Hey Joe, how many volts you need to run that there dishwasher? Guy 2 (named Joe, apparently): I reckon three Libraries of Congress oughta do it.
Interesting. I bought a Kindle because my bookshelf is struggling to keep up with the technical books I purchase for work and the books I read for leisure. The vast majority of the books on the Kindle are mobipocket format, from sources like Project Gutenberg. Technical books are a struggle to use on a device like a Kindle, but novels are just fine and dandy. And since I usually read several books at the same time, depending on whether I'm in the mood to read about science or philosophy or fiction or non-fiction, the Kindle makes it easy to jump from one to the other without having to lug 4-5 books around. I'm also more likely to purchase a book through Amazon's Kindle service than I would if it were in paper format.
Only real complaint I have is the size of the screen. But the DX solves, that problem, I guess.
You want the opportunity to use my services at your convenience? Pay me a retainer equal to X hours a month. I work any more than X, you pay me an hourly rate. I work less than X, you still owe me for those hours.
230 miles per gallon? Sure, if you want to ignore all the fuel burned to charge the vehicle. The worst part is that the EPA is falling right in line and practically sponsoring this propaganda. Fuel efficiency should be determined by figuring out how far the vehicle can move on the equivalent of one gallon of gasoline or diesel. Anything else is apples and oranges and total bullshit.
And without fan support, there IS no game... certainly not one that brings together world class athletes on a weekly or daily basis. Hence, fans feel they are entitled.
Useability? How do you rename a file in OS X again?
Oh yeah, you have to hold down the Command key, click on the file, then select Get Info, then change the filename and hit Okay.
In Windows?
Right click on file, click Rename, edit the filename right there, hit enter.
How do you backspace?
On OS X, you have to hold down the Command key and then hit the delete key.
In Windows?
You hit the fucking backspace key, because that's what it's for.
How do you run a program?
On OS X, you select Finder from the dock, then find the Applications folder, then find your app.
In Windows,
Select Start, place mouse over Programs, click on program.
Apple has spent a long ass time doing what they want "their way," not because it's better, but because it's theirs. People buy Macs when they want to dick around and they buy PCs when they actually want to be productive.
There's also the issue of storms. The most viable places to put these windmills are also places where they are most likely to be destroyed by severe storms. And unlike, say, a nuke plant like Waterford III which restored service to the local grid less than a week after Katrina, you have a severe storm touch down around these windmills and you'll basically have to rebuild the entire system.
They not only started charging for their content, but stuck with it long after other companies had moved to horifically low paying internet ads. The result is that people who subscribe to the WSJ online expect to pay for content, whereas people who use other news sites expect to get their news for free.
Then in your print stylesheet, for print specific crap, you just do:
@media print {
a {
text-decoration:none;
color: black;
}
}
Or whatever it is you wanna do. I mean, it's up to you as to how you want to define the size of your page, and they COULD add a feature to define the size of the page, but that's better handled in CSS than HTML. The entire point of CSS is to change the way the document looks or is formatted without having to create a separate document for each way you want the document to be viewed. Adding HTML tags is the exact WRONG way to go about this.
Cap and trade isn't raising taxes directly, McDipshit. It creates a new nebulous financial market where companies will be able to buy and sell credits that represent fucking AIR. The only people who will ultimatley benefit from this are those who already have enough capital to invest in these companies. It will NOT help the environment on a global scale, because the fact of the matter is that developing nations pollute, and our manufacturing base continuously gets shifted to whichever developing nation can bring us the cheapest price for goods and services.
If they REALLY wanted to tax carbon emissions, then they could have just fucking taxed carbon emissions. But that clearly is not what cap and trade is all about. It's just a way to move money around while extracting the last pound of flesh from the working class.
Between this and the health care bill fiasco, I have to wonder whether Obama hates being President and wants to cut his own balls off in protest.
Cap and trade is a SCAM. That's why Al Gore has been pushing it so hard, because he wants his cut of the market. A simple question: why is the current administration hellbent on taking the profit motive out of healthcare, but wants in turn to add it to what amounts to energy taxation? Why would you not directly tax carbon emissions directly if you were REALLY concerned about the environment? And worse still, they could have taken the money from the carbon tax and USED it to implement single payer healthcare.
Instead, we get a bunch of wishy washy idiots from big cities trying to dictate to people who actually PRODUCE things, and a President who has stated that his health care plan is good enough for everyone else, just not good enough for his own daughters.
I knew I'd see the day when the Democrats were even nuttier than the Republicans, but I didn't expect it to happen so soon.
First, stop referring to yourself as a geek. This does you no favors with anybody, and even if it's true, you need to stop defining yourself in a narrow spectrum.
Secondly, the way you get more comfortable in social situations is to actually BE in social situations and take advantage of the opportunity to talk to people. Contrary to popular belief, confidence is something that must be learned, it is not genetic.
Third, what are your flaws? What are your weaknesses? How have you worked to correct them? And if you haven't corrected them, why not? Is it because you feel that you cannot overcome them, or is it because you simply have been stuck in a rut that you have been comfortable in?
Are you a geek because you enjoy being a geek, or are you a geek because you have managed to find a set of hobbies that require minimal social contact? Also, are any of these hobbies actually restricting your ability to otherwise have this social contact? Is there anything that interests you that can actually increase your chance of mingling with people?
Keep in mind that once you've gotten out of school, social groups tend to be more about what you enjoy doing than anything else. People move in and out of these social circles all the time, but others are generally welcomed in as long as they have a good disposition and are not obnoxious.
So go and get out of the house and meet people, and find what it is out there that you enjoy doing, because hermits are rather poor company.
Yeah, but most of those women are freaking wierdos who invariably either worship some pagan vagina god who has been around for 10,000 years, or are "spiritual" and can't fucking tell you what that means.
You obviously aren't worth what you think you are, otherwise, companies would be lining up for the services of "top engineering school" graduates like yourself. The benefit of having you as an employee is outweighed by the cost to pay you.
SAP has a HUGE consulting business, and they charge higher than market rate for their services. Even if a company gave SAP 20 million dollars for their software, if they staffed the SAP with solely SAP consultants, SAP would easily bill out more than that in a single year.
A good functional consultant from SAP will run 3-400 dollars an hour. Now consider you need at least one for every module you implement (Financials, for example, is about 10 different modules), and that your implementation will take 2-3 years, if ever. That isn't even the technical staff. That's just the business analysts.
Well, there IS that one part of 3127, right in front of Dow and Oxy in St. Charles Parish. Other than that, the road crews can't even pave brand new roads correctly. It'd hurt their chances at repaving the roads a few years from now when they fall apart and need to be redone.
You must live with mommy and daddy. There is no difference whatsoever between land speculation and investing in a 401K, bonds, or stocks. You purchase stock or bonds with the hope that the company will do well and your investment will grow. When you engage in land speculation, you are hoping that someone will find your land valuable and offer you more than what you paid for it.
The housing bubble was caused by morons who purchased homes which were at the upper end of what they could possibly afford to pay, and did so with variable rate mortgages while the rates were low. The rates went up, and suddenly they couldn't afford to live in the houses they purchased AND feed their families.
Other than the fact that both involve owning a piece of property, they have NOTHING in common.
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You can rant and rave about climate change all you want, but the fact of the matter is that unless all nations have a firm agreement in place to stem the unmitigated increase of CO2 in the atmosphere, then it's pointless to try to do it unilaterally. In that case, instead of stifling industry by requiring the reduction of greenhouse gases, you should instead be trying to accumulate as many resources as possible for the inevitable climate change you claim is going to take place. If we really are at peak oil, then the market is going to take care of the carbon issue for us anyway.
And excuse me for being a bit of a conspiracy theorist, but it seems rather odd to me that the same folks who are championing climate change as a scientific issue are also trying to use it to create an international social program in the same flavor as the IMF. They want developed nations to set aside $130 billion to be distributed to 3rd world countries. And by "developed nations," they mean the US and the EU. Because reducing the pool of money available for the countries who actually invest in these green technologies, otherwise driving costs down, makes perfect sense.
Now we'll have libraries with "knowledge is power" posters everywhere.
Guy 1: Hey Joe, how many volts you need to run that there dishwasher?
Guy 2 (named Joe, apparently): I reckon three Libraries of Congress oughta do it.
Interesting. I bought a Kindle because my bookshelf is struggling to keep up with the technical books I purchase for work and the books I read for leisure. The vast majority of the books on the Kindle are mobipocket format, from sources like Project Gutenberg. Technical books are a struggle to use on a device like a Kindle, but novels are just fine and dandy. And since I usually read several books at the same time, depending on whether I'm in the mood to read about science or philosophy or fiction or non-fiction, the Kindle makes it easy to jump from one to the other without having to lug 4-5 books around.
I'm also more likely to purchase a book through Amazon's Kindle service than I would if it were in paper format.
Only real complaint I have is the size of the screen. But the DX solves, that problem, I guess.
You want the opportunity to use my services at your convenience? Pay me a retainer equal to X hours a month. I work any more than X, you pay me an hourly rate. I work less than X, you still owe me for those hours.
230 miles per gallon? Sure, if you want to ignore all the fuel burned to charge the vehicle. The worst part is that the EPA is falling right in line and practically sponsoring this propaganda. Fuel efficiency should be determined by figuring out how far the vehicle can move on the equivalent of one gallon of gasoline or diesel. Anything else is apples and oranges and total bullshit.
Those who can't, watch.
And without fan support, there IS no game... certainly not one that brings together world class athletes on a weekly or daily basis. Hence, fans feel they are entitled.
Useability? How do you rename a file in OS X again?
Oh yeah, you have to hold down the Command key, click on the file, then select Get Info, then change the filename and hit Okay.
In Windows?
Right click on file, click Rename, edit the filename right there, hit enter.
How do you backspace?
On OS X, you have to hold down the Command key and then hit the delete key.
In Windows?
You hit the fucking backspace key, because that's what it's for.
How do you run a program?
On OS X, you select Finder from the dock, then find the Applications folder, then find your app.
In Windows,
Select Start, place mouse over Programs, click on program.
Apple has spent a long ass time doing what they want "their way," not because it's better, but because it's theirs. People buy Macs when they want to dick around and they buy PCs when they actually want to be productive.
There's also the issue of storms. The most viable places to put these windmills are also places where they are most likely to be destroyed by severe storms. And unlike, say, a nuke plant like Waterford III which restored service to the local grid less than a week after Katrina, you have a severe storm touch down around these windmills and you'll basically have to rebuild the entire system.
They not only started charging for their content, but stuck with it long after other companies had moved to horifically low paying internet ads. The result is that people who subscribe to the WSJ online expect to pay for content, whereas people who use other news sites expect to get their news for free.
Ala:
<link href="http://www.michaeljacksonsmissingnose.com/screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="screen stylesheet">
<link href="http://www.michaeljacksonsmissingnose.com/print.css" type="text/css" media="print" title="print stylesheet">
Then in your print stylesheet, for print specific crap, you just do:
@media print {
a {
text-decoration:none;
color: black;
}
}
Or whatever it is you wanna do. I mean, it's up to you as to how you want to define the size of your page, and they COULD add a feature to define the size of the page, but that's better handled in CSS than HTML. The entire point of CSS is to change the way the document looks or is formatted without having to create a separate document for each way you want the document to be viewed. Adding HTML tags is the exact WRONG way to go about this.
Cap and trade isn't raising taxes directly, McDipshit. It creates a new nebulous financial market where companies will be able to buy and sell credits that represent fucking AIR. The only people who will ultimatley benefit from this are those who already have enough capital to invest in these companies. It will NOT help the environment on a global scale, because the fact of the matter is that developing nations pollute, and our manufacturing base continuously gets shifted to whichever developing nation can bring us the cheapest price for goods and services.
If they REALLY wanted to tax carbon emissions, then they could have just fucking taxed carbon emissions. But that clearly is not what cap and trade is all about. It's just a way to move money around while extracting the last pound of flesh from the working class.
Yes, but in Obamaspeak, they've "created" 5 jobs. And on top of that, who knows how many jobs they've "saved?"
That's how the universe started out -- free of commercials. But God wanted to watch the thighmaster commercial, and we've been screwed ever since.
We get to piss off the vegans, environmentalists, and anti-environmentalists, all at the same time!
This is fucking BRILLIANT!
Between this and the health care bill fiasco, I have to wonder whether Obama hates being President and wants to cut his own balls off in protest.
Cap and trade is a SCAM. That's why Al Gore has been pushing it so hard, because he wants his cut of the market. A simple question: why is the current administration hellbent on taking the profit motive out of healthcare, but wants in turn to add it to what amounts to energy taxation? Why would you not directly tax carbon emissions directly if you were REALLY concerned about the environment? And worse still, they could have taken the money from the carbon tax and USED it to implement single payer healthcare.
Instead, we get a bunch of wishy washy idiots from big cities trying to dictate to people who actually PRODUCE things, and a President who has stated that his health care plan is good enough for everyone else, just not good enough for his own daughters.
I knew I'd see the day when the Democrats were even nuttier than the Republicans, but I didn't expect it to happen so soon.
First, stop referring to yourself as a geek. This does you no favors with anybody, and even if it's true, you need to stop defining yourself in a narrow spectrum.
Secondly, the way you get more comfortable in social situations is to actually BE in social situations and take advantage of the opportunity to talk to people. Contrary to popular belief, confidence is something that must be learned, it is not genetic.
Third, what are your flaws? What are your weaknesses? How have you worked to correct them? And if you haven't corrected them, why not? Is it because you feel that you cannot overcome them, or is it because you simply have been stuck in a rut that you have been comfortable in?
Are you a geek because you enjoy being a geek, or are you a geek because you have managed to find a set of hobbies that require minimal social contact? Also, are any of these hobbies actually restricting your ability to otherwise have this social contact? Is there anything that interests you that can actually increase your chance of mingling with people?
Keep in mind that once you've gotten out of school, social groups tend to be more about what you enjoy doing than anything else. People move in and out of these social circles all the time, but others are generally welcomed in as long as they have a good disposition and are not obnoxious.
So go and get out of the house and meet people, and find what it is out there that you enjoy doing, because hermits are rather poor company.
Yeah, but most of those women are freaking wierdos who invariably either worship some pagan vagina god who has been around for 10,000 years, or are "spiritual" and can't fucking tell you what that means.
You obviously aren't worth what you think you are, otherwise, companies would be lining up for the services of "top engineering school" graduates like yourself. The benefit of having you as an employee is outweighed by the cost to pay you.
SAP has a HUGE consulting business, and they charge higher than market rate for their services. Even if a company gave SAP 20 million dollars for their software, if they staffed the SAP with solely SAP consultants, SAP would easily bill out more than that in a single year.
A good functional consultant from SAP will run 3-400 dollars an hour. Now consider you need at least one for every module you implement (Financials, for example, is about 10 different modules), and that your implementation will take 2-3 years, if ever. That isn't even the technical staff. That's just the business analysts.
Well, there IS that one part of 3127, right in front of Dow and Oxy in St. Charles Parish. Other than that, the road crews can't even pave brand new roads correctly. It'd hurt their chances at repaving the roads a few years from now when they fall apart and need to be redone.
Well, that's part of the problem. He said Louisiana but meant New Jersey.
You must live with mommy and daddy. There is no difference whatsoever between land speculation and investing in a 401K, bonds, or stocks. You purchase stock or bonds with the hope that the company will do well and your investment will grow. When you engage in land speculation, you are hoping that someone will find your land valuable and offer you more than what you paid for it.
The housing bubble was caused by morons who purchased homes which were at the upper end of what they could possibly afford to pay, and did so with variable rate mortgages while the rates were low. The rates went up, and suddenly they couldn't afford to live in the houses they purchased AND feed their families.
Other than the fact that both involve owning a piece of property, they have NOTHING in common.
Your entire post is wrong.
How much for gaming rig + cinema display?
Really? Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and Obama sans teleprompter all say hi.