Really it sounds like the D.C. area needs to stop relying on just the Beltway to carry traffic. IMHO they should extend I-66 so you can drive directly across the city instead of going around it. Ditto with an I-270 extension, so you can go straight through to Richmond, instead of having to detour around the beltway. Also I-85 should be extended northward and run semi-parallel to I-95 upto Boston... that way the traffic load can be split across both interstates.
In my view, traffic stoppages on interstates are a symptom of not having enough of them. Blaming other things is illogical. Just as you add more pipes if you want to carry more water, likewise you need to add more interstates if you want to carry more cars to handle the growing population. (Or else stop population growth to maintain the status quo, which would not be politically acceptable.)
Well that would explain why FOX News is 3 times and 4 times more-popular than CNN and MSNBC according to Nielsen Ratings.
(Ducks a tomato... or is it to-mat-o?) (To-mate-o, to-mat-o, po-tate-o, po-tat-o - ahhh let's call the whole thing off.) (Yes 1920s culture lives on because it's now public domain. Frak you RIAA.)
>>>my Youtube account was sharing my name (username)
Which one? The good news is that if you're over age 35, the advertisers ignore you. They are only interested in the young malleable people (seriously) who are easily-convinced to try new products. The rest of us are old and set in our ways, and therefore of little interest to advertisers.
I just gave last.fm a try, and I was unimpressed. It kept picking obscure songs from Lindsay Lohan or Ashley Tisdale. I'd rather keep listening to my local Hot A/C-Urban station.
>>>This is the obligatory "What are long distance charges?" post.
It's what happens when you're in a hotel room, use their phone to make a call, and the friendly computer operator asks for your credit card. Long distance charges.
When Hurricane Agnus hit my home, the phone was the only thing that still worked. It allowed my mom (female parental unit) to call the electric company and request reconnection for our house.
The phone system is simple but robust. And if the three-strike law happens, and my high-speed internet gets cut off by the MAFIAA, the phone line may be my only avenue for connecting to the internet (50k dialup).
In other words you're presumed guilty, and your internet cutoff immediately, without trial.
Why the hell do we Americans, Europeans, and Australians put-up with this bullshit? Why aren't we rising-up and terminating with extreme prejudice our governmental employees?
If you do that (have a directly-elected Senate or Commission or Council), then the European Union will end-up looking like our United States, and your local UK or French or German government will merely be a puppet of the centralized power. As is the case when the U.S. forces all 50 states to ban gay marriage, or drop speed limits to 55, or install a three-strike law.
I would advise you to avoid that route. It has not worked well for us.
I would rather have half of the legislative body consist of State governors/leaders, in order to preserve the States' power and independence, and block the power of the central US or EU government to ram through dictatorial laws.
>>>The standard debt numbers are something like $15 trillion and there are ~$300 million people in the US. That's a per capita debt number of ~$50,000. Your numbers and presentation are so far off they're not even wrong. >>>
Ahhh yes, but I said PER HOME. Please learn to read. That's $15 tril/110 mil homes == $136,000 per home using the debt figure you provided.
The reason I don't like the "per person" number is obvious - Children don't work. They can not be expected to pay-off the debt, which means their share of the debt actually falls upon the head of the household. A "per home" number is a more logical method of measurement - just the same way we measure our mortgage debt.
Well I for one am extremely happy with this bill, and all the previous actions of Clinton, Bush, and Obama.
Their ever-increasingly central control via government of private citizens' lives, homes, and communications will make it MUCH easier for me. I and my brownshirts will be able to sweep-in to the Congress, declare emergency powers, turn-off the communication networks, and consolidate power with ease. Thank you Bill, George and Barak.
Open your eyes. This is not liberalism; it's a throwback to conservative government circa 1700. The leaders are rebuilding a Middle Age-style oligarchy where they run your life as if you were a serf.
If that's what you think I said, then English must not be your first language.
In fact the statement says government should let us do whatever we want, with the sole exception when we physically harm another, at which point we should be jailed. So that means - you could be a rabid communist but as long as you did not assault another human being, you'd be free to say or do anything you desire.
Got a solution for that problem Mr. "I want to run your life" Environmentalist? No. Then I will continue to live in the suburb and drive my hybrid to work.
>>>>>I also suspect this article was meant to be humourous. >> >>You suspect humour?
Not what I said. I said I suspect the article was "meant" to be humourous (i.e. it failed miserably). Apparently lack of reading skills is not just an American trait.
>>>The third biggest cause was government that failed to regulate.
The government did regulate - in the wrong direction. In the late 90s the Clinton administration and HUD was encouraging banks to make loans to poor people.
>>>Everyone in the financial industry knew two things: 1) The bubble would collapse, and 2) The U.S. government, led by the Federal Reserve Bank, composed of former financial industry executives, would make the taxpayers give money to the financial institutions. >>>
Number two is where it falls apart. The execs had no idea what government would do. Remember the Bailout Bill did fail to pass the first time it was voted upon..... it could have easily stayed that way and the execs would have received no assistance. So number two if flat wrong.
>>>You didn't read the Rolling Stone article linked in the grandparent comment, did you?
Of course. This is actually the second time I read it. It reads a lot like those stupid articles written by fear-mongers who think 9/11 was a deliberate demolition by George Bush. It's an opinion piece bordering on paranoia, not fact.
Congressman Barney Frank has already admitted, on camera, that the public option will mutate into a sole-provider monopoly (like the UK has) within the next decade. He says this is just the first step towards that ultimate goal.
And even if Harry's wrong, the current bill still forces me to pay a ~$3000 fine every year for not having medical insurance. A monopoly over my wallet is still a monopoly. Plus the fact it's unconstitutional and anti-liberty. (What's next? I get fined $1000 a year because I bought a conventional vehicle instead of a hybrid?)
Open your eyes. This is not liberalism; it's a throwback to conservative government circa 1700. The leaders are rebuilding a Middle Age-style oligarchy where they run your life as if you were a serf.
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Really it sounds like the D.C. area needs to stop relying on just the Beltway to carry traffic. IMHO they should extend I-66 so you can drive directly across the city instead of going around it. Ditto with an I-270 extension, so you can go straight through to Richmond, instead of having to detour around the beltway. Also I-85 should be extended northward and run semi-parallel to I-95 upto Boston... that way the traffic load can be split across both interstates.
In my view, traffic stoppages on interstates are a symptom of not having enough of them. Blaming other things is illogical. Just as you add more pipes if you want to carry more water, likewise you need to add more interstates if you want to carry more cars to handle the growing population. (Or else stop population growth to maintain the status quo, which would not be politically acceptable.)
Well that would explain why FOX News is 3 times and 4 times more-popular than CNN and MSNBC according to Nielsen Ratings.
(Ducks a tomato... or is it to-mat-o?) (To-mate-o, to-mat-o, po-tate-o, po-tat-o - ahhh let's call the whole thing off.) (Yes 1920s culture lives on because it's now public domain. Frak you RIAA.)
>>>my Youtube account was sharing my name (username)
Which one? The good news is that if you're over age 35, the advertisers ignore you. They are only interested in the young malleable people (seriously) who are easily-convinced to try new products. The rest of us are old and set in our ways, and therefore of little interest to advertisers.
LIES! All lies!
Images searched: Jane Asher - carrie fisher fat - natalie portman bikini - natalie portman fat - Jane_March - woodgrain iPod - naked animals - whip antenna - ACLU 100 mile zone
Doesn't matter. In my experience most people are happy when you lose their phone number.
Or maybe that's just me.
P.S.
I also enjoy listening to Radio Jackie in London - http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=225101 (dialup) - http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=715112 (broadband)
I just gave last.fm a try, and I was unimpressed. It kept picking obscure songs from Lindsay Lohan or Ashley Tisdale. I'd rather keep listening to my local Hot A/C-Urban station.
Also known as DSL. Good example since the company uses the existing twisted-pair wires by upgrading from narrowband POTS to wideband DSL.
What's a handset? My phone has a bell-shaped device that I hold to my ear, and I speak into a horn in the base, you insensitive clod! - Image: http://atomsofjustice.com/BrassGoggles/candlestickphone.jpg
>>>This is the obligatory "What are long distance charges?" post.
It's what happens when you're in a hotel room, use their phone to make a call, and the friendly computer operator asks for your credit card. Long distance charges.
Yeah but "He was pissed off" is the perfect slashdot message. What better way to celebrate post 30 million?
When Hurricane Agnus hit my home, the phone was the only thing that still worked. It allowed my mom (female parental unit) to call the electric company and request reconnection for our house.
The phone system is simple but robust. And if the three-strike law happens, and my high-speed internet gets cut off by the MAFIAA, the phone line may be my only avenue for connecting to the internet (50k dialup).
In other words you're presumed guilty, and your internet cutoff immediately, without trial.
Why the hell do we Americans, Europeans, and Australians put-up with this bullshit? Why aren't we rising-up and terminating with extreme prejudice our governmental employees?
If you do that (have a directly-elected Senate or Commission or Council), then the European Union will end-up looking like our United States, and your local UK or French or German government will merely be a puppet of the centralized power. As is the case when the U.S. forces all 50 states to ban gay marriage, or drop speed limits to 55, or install a three-strike law.
I would advise you to avoid that route. It has not worked well for us.
I would rather have half of the legislative body consist of State governors/leaders, in order to preserve the States' power and independence, and block the power of the central US or EU government to ram through dictatorial laws.
jabjoe == Troll? Really??? All he did was express his opinion. I disagree with his viewpoint, but I don't think he's a troll.
>>>The standard debt numbers are something like $15 trillion and there are ~$300 million people in the US. That's a per capita debt number of ~$50,000. Your numbers and presentation are so far off they're not even wrong.
>>>
Ahhh yes, but I said PER HOME. Please learn to read. That's $15 tril/110 mil homes == $136,000 per home using the debt figure you provided.
The reason I don't like the "per person" number is obvious - Children don't work. They can not be expected to pay-off the debt, which means their share of the debt actually falls upon the head of the household. A "per home" number is a more logical method of measurement - just the same way we measure our mortgage debt.
Well I for one am extremely happy with this bill, and all the previous actions of Clinton, Bush, and Obama.
Their ever-increasingly central control via government of private citizens' lives, homes, and communications will make it MUCH easier for me. I and my brownshirts will be able to sweep-in to the Congress, declare emergency powers, turn-off the communication networks, and consolidate power with ease. Thank you Bill, George and Barak.
Signed,
Napoleon the X
EXAMPLE: Man detained by U.S. government because he was carrying $4000 in cash from St.Louis to Arlington Virginia - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMB6L487LHM
As I just posted elsewhere:
Open your eyes. This is not liberalism; it's a throwback to conservative government circa 1700. The leaders are rebuilding a Middle Age-style oligarchy where they run your life as if you were a serf.
If that's what you think I said, then English must not be your first language.
In fact the statement says government should let us do whatever we want, with the sole exception when we physically harm another, at which point we should be jailed. So that means - you could be a rabid communist but as long as you did not assault another human being, you'd be free to say or do anything you desire.
>>>"Niggardly" is a synonym for "stingy".
Precisely. The previous poster, by insisting members of Mensa were akin to stupid females (mensa in Spanish) was acting like a stingy old codger.
I can't live in a city.
It makes me claustrophobic.
Got a solution for that problem Mr. "I want to run your life" Environmentalist? No. Then I will continue to live in the suburb and drive my hybrid to work.
>>>>>I also suspect this article was meant to be humourous.
>>
>>You suspect humour?
Not what I said. I said I suspect the article was "meant" to be humourous (i.e. it failed miserably). Apparently lack of reading skills is not just an American trait.
>>>The third biggest cause was government that failed to regulate.
The government did regulate - in the wrong direction. In the late 90s the Clinton administration and HUD was encouraging banks to make loans to poor people.
>>>Everyone in the financial industry knew two things: 1) The bubble would collapse, and 2) The U.S. government, led by the Federal Reserve Bank, composed of former financial industry executives, would make the taxpayers give money to the financial institutions.
>>>
Number two is where it falls apart. The execs had no idea what government would do. Remember the Bailout Bill did fail to pass the first time it was voted upon..... it could have easily stayed that way and the execs would have received no assistance. So number two if flat wrong.
>>>You didn't read the Rolling Stone article linked in the grandparent comment, did you?
Of course. This is actually the second time I read it. It reads a lot like those stupid articles written by fear-mongers who think 9/11 was a deliberate demolition by George Bush. It's an opinion piece bordering on paranoia, not fact.
Congressman Barney Frank has already admitted, on camera, that the public option will mutate into a sole-provider monopoly (like the UK has) within the next decade. He says this is just the first step towards that ultimate goal.
And even if Harry's wrong, the current bill still forces me to pay a ~$3000 fine every year for not having medical insurance. A monopoly over my wallet is still a monopoly. Plus the fact it's unconstitutional and anti-liberty. (What's next? I get fined $1000 a year because I bought a conventional vehicle instead of a hybrid?)
Open your eyes. This is not liberalism; it's a throwback to conservative government circa 1700. The leaders are rebuilding a Middle Age-style oligarchy where they run your life as if you were a serf.