or up, both have already happened, even if they haven't occurred yet. Hey, that's destiny. To believe in destiny, one should understand the absoluteness of it. To believe in destiny you would know that you were destine to post that. Also, your belief in God, or lack thereof, wouldn't be your choice. It's like the ultimate excuse.
--that children think they know everything. I'm only 24, but in my experience, even looking back on my own actions, that tends to be true
I see that as a euphemism for "can't be persuaded to learn the truth", as few children would claim to know nuclear physics. I was having a conversation with a colleague from work over lunch one day, and he dismissed me with something like "once you get older, you'll know", I looked him square in the eye and said "I'm nearly 40". Truth is that some people will always believe that they have a natural edge in any situation, whether it be age, position, race, sex, height, muscularity, taste in music,...[whatever]. As they get older, the reasons change, but the core belief often remains, I think that McCain is one of those people.
he's mocking what many people perceive to be the stereotypical self-important blogger attitude.
I believed that to be especially true with many of my elders, people whose only accomplishment, as far as I could tell, was that they had been born before me,
What I believe he was implying is that children should be seen and not heard. Of course his definition of 'children' seems to extend to all bloggers, regardless of age. Of course the First Amendment gives freedom the press, but doesn't tell us the definition of "Press", but I really doubt if the Framers meant "Government sanctioned and licensed persons"
During the opening of the Super Bowl do they re-order the introduction of the players?
Why should television bother with editing when it can just tell them what to do [i.e. TV timeout ]. Of course that would be assuming that the introduction of players is the primary feature of the Super Bowl, like it is for the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
But if the subject didn't mention Google and the article didn't feature the maps, would it be news worth distributing?
Certainly Google maps and it's API is one of the best internet tools of this decade, but I suspect that the database work and real time collection and analysis of this data, must have taken a tremendous effort. It's too bad that the pretty picture generated from the end result seems to get top billing.
I thought that it burst in 1999, and took about two years to deflate, it's actually really subjective (I was laid off in 1999). However, Wikipedia makes the assertion (right now) that it burst on March 10, 2000 (the NASDAQ peak), so 8 or 9 years is close enough for me to accept 'almost a decade'.
and that it harmonises with the purest wine vinegar of your interesting (it would be unique if not for William Shatner) punctuation style to form the salad dressing that is the perfect tribute to the dear departed.
I really am sorry that my comment didn't meet your high editorial standards, but I'm still in mourning with his loss and I didn't take a lot of time to edit. It was a long illness (cancer), and I had the misfortune to watch his six foot three frame wither in home hospice. I actually do hope that you don't have the same experience, but then again, I have a soul. I generally appreciate your atonement, but poking at me about my grammar was unnecessary. Oh, yea, I do know that I'm sometimes dealing with child-like men on this site, many times with egos far exceeding their humanity.
For the record, he used the GI bill to graduate with a Master degree from American University, while working full time and raising a family. Many of his students faced similar challenges and he admired them for their efforts to improve their lives. Ironically, his opinions on that were often expressed when defending his work against the attack from elitist fools such as yourself.
BTW, I didn't edit the post well, but hey two trolls for the price of one, what a bargain.
Well, my father who, just passed away, spent the final twenty years of his career teaching at a community college, and loved it. Thank you for insulting his intelligence.
The facts are there, you just need to look for them.
You made an outrageous claim that Bush performed an economic miracle, and you back up that claim with what? More of the same bluster? for example:
[Obama] now wants to decrease or lower taxes on those same non-rich people who benefited from the Bush Tax cut for the Rich
It's an old saying that "Two third of the economy is consumer spending"; who spends all of their income? The poor. They also are more likely to spend extra money on local services (dining out, manicures, etc). Sure government needs to be careful not to overtax anyone, but 'undertaxing' the poor has (I believe) the best return.
Investment money on the other hand will pour in from the rest of the world; that's the advantage of having the best capital market. Business owners don't hire people becuase they have extra cash in their pocket, they hire people to make money off their work, besides salaries are an expense and are deducted before taxes are assessed. These assertions seem to escape 'trickle down' people like yourself.
Forget about the dot come buble that increased revenue which was completely unique to the times and tied closely to the Capitol gains tax cuts.
How can you make that assertion? Those companies never made any money to distribute, and much of it was just pushed into more investments, and 'hidden' in hedge/mutual funds. Sure, there were some economic benefit as some smart people cashed out before the bubble burst, of course they then seemed to push the money into housing, and ran up a basic need to record levels. The Bush administration even turned a blind eye to poor lending practices, and badly bundled securities. Now oil speculation has run up to record highs. More investment money isn't always a helpful thing, in particular when combined with people who foolishly slash regulations and oversight carefully developed over decades. Conservative used to mean resistant to change, now it seems to mean reckless abandon.
But all that doesn't matter as long as the democrats take credit for it.
Clinton did sign the bills, and bipartisan support carried them though the legislative branch (the Senate takes 60%, usually). That's the problem the country is that people such as yourself do little more than whine about the Democratic party. Scott Mcclellan had it right calling it the permanent campaign, and it wouldn't work without mean spirited people, stuck on even decade old talking points. Congratulations you are part of the problem, please for the love of our country, try to appreciate the liberal viewpoint. You might find that we aren't so far apart.
It's the same a arguing with a school yard bully; sure you might be right, but they'll just keep on going. They know that some people will utterly believe, and others will think 'the truth is in the middle'. Approaches typically employed by reasonable thoughtful people don't work well, as it's hard to counter someone who is unwilling to approach things logically. The best way to fight a bully is to call them one right off the bat, people understand that. 'Bully Republican tactics' have been very successful, too bad they don't govern as well as they mislead.
I see no reason why these calls should be placed on line. I would expect them to respect my privacy, but instead they post in online without my consent.
911 calls are the 'hue and cry' of the modern age. I don't know the exact rules (I think they vary), but I believe that most consider them to be public records. Sure, names and addresses should be censored (if not already, I of course am exercising my rght not to RTFA), at least for legitimate criminal complaints. The time wasters on the other hand, I believe need to be publicly flogged, and have their phone number listed; Imagine the fun civic minded pranksters could have with these fools. However I'm willing to accept that that's over the top, and allow even the ignorant their anonymity, if they don't prosecute.
Are you suggesting that people who are pro-gun are automatically anti-gay?
Seems to work that way. However the reality is that a large number of you'all, seem willing to write off other people's freedoms (both those that are and those that should be) just to be able to protect yourself if the government decides to start treating you the way that you allow it to treat others.
...None of the owners on a street will lower their prices, so one by one the businesses die or move...until it's an avalanche and you wind up with a street full of empty storefronts on which NOBODY wants to open a business! The owners don't care because it's not a huge loss TO THEM,...
Most buildings owners I've seen have much sharper pencils than that. Empty property is always a net loss, both in terms of taxes and income which the money could be generating elsewhere. What they are far more likely to do (if they can) is rent the store at a good rate for a short term lease, then jack up the price once the place is settled. Hopefully, the business will survive at the new lease terms, otherwise they go out of business. In many cases it's 'wash, rinse, repeat', that's why it's a good idea to investigate a landlord and the prior tenants before signing a deal with them; A regular turnover of businesses is always a bad sign.
...and they know that the city will eventually sell bonds and subsidize new business in order to spruce the place up.
Waiting for the government to bail you out is a fool's errand; Republican lore has made this rare occurrence seem common place. More likely, they may condemn the empty buildings, and sell the block to a larger developer for pennies on the dollar. While some politically connected landlords may be able to game the system, it's not as easy as it sounds.
2) you can do it just "outside" your planet - much cheaper.
Then do what? Empty space really isn't that interesting; Once you get past microgravity manufacturing and some research, there really isn't a lot you can do. Besides, any significant colonies will need some serious raw materials to survive, water, in particular. So unless you find an astroid with lot of water and fuel (and be willing to park near it), planets are the only real chance for substantial colonies.
On top of handing over a second term to Bush, I despite Senator Kerry for leading the charge to cancel this plan.
The only part of Bush's 2000 platform which I both liked and thought that he might push in office was more investment in nuclear power. However, even with a Republican majority in the House and Senate, not a damn thing was done about it. Now, McSame is pushing for nuclear power. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, fool me every election cycle, then I must be a Republican voter.
Yeah, so why the hell is that? those little 140byte packets, sorry, those are $0.20 each
What's even worse, when I bought my first cell phone (one of the first digital phones), text messaging was free. Then they heard that people elsewhere were gladly paying 10 cents a message, go figure. I don't know the details for sure, but in terms of network usage it might cost them more for a ten minute phone call than a month of heavy text usage.
As an 1st generation iPhone owner, I'm excited about the new Software, which will enable all the new features save for GPS. Staying with edge support only will even save me $15 month (3G is $10 more and doesn't include the 200 messages I can already send). I'll likely upgrade with the next generation.
Sorry, but pure research has been shown to violate the Republican platform and has been suspended in favor of making the government 'smaller' by contracting all lucrative functions to loyal party members.
While I love the game, some might even know that a Lemming is a real animal, with a strong herd mentality; which btw isn't quite as suicidal as reported.
"Delaware, what state is that in?" is an actual question I've heard when mentioning it.
Delaware is a plot between the banking industry and the DuPonts to get a few free Senators.
Well, it must have been a very early plot as it was the first state to sign the Constitution, and DuPont must have managed it from France, anticipating starting a gunpowder company a dozen years later.
Losing 'a few seconds' would mean potentially hundreds of users' record changes were lost. If that happened here, it would be a huge deal. If you don't deal with financial data, it's likely that even your business would survive should such an event like that happens. Sure if it happens all the time users would flee, but I haven't seen such problems at Wikipedia. He wasn't talking about doing it regularly, just that when disaster does strike, no pointy haired guy appears to assign blame.
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Now comes the guys destined to mod you down...
or up, both have already happened, even if they haven't occurred yet. Hey, that's destiny. To believe in destiny, one should understand the absoluteness of it. To believe in destiny you would know that you were destine to post that. Also, your belief in God, or lack thereof, wouldn't be your choice. It's like the ultimate excuse.
I've now fulfilled my destiny.
--that children think they know everything. I'm only 24, but in my experience, even looking back on my own actions, that tends to be true
I see that as a euphemism for "can't be persuaded to learn the truth", as few children would claim to know nuclear physics. I was having a conversation with a colleague from work over lunch one day, and he dismissed me with something like "once you get older, you'll know", I looked him square in the eye and said "I'm nearly 40". Truth is that some people will always believe that they have a natural edge in any situation, whether it be age, position, race, sex, height, muscularity, taste in music, ...[whatever]. As they get older, the reasons change, but the core belief often remains, I think that McCain is one of those people.
he's mocking what many people perceive to be the stereotypical self-important blogger attitude.
I believed that to be especially true with many of my elders, people whose only accomplishment, as far as I could tell, was that they had been born before me,
What I believe he was implying is that children should be seen and not heard. Of course his definition of 'children' seems to extend to all bloggers, regardless of age. Of course the First Amendment gives freedom the press, but doesn't tell us the definition of "Press", but I really doubt if the Framers meant "Government sanctioned and licensed persons"
During the opening of the Super Bowl do they re-order the introduction of the players?
Why should television bother with editing when it can just tell them what to do [i.e. TV timeout ]. Of course that would be assuming that the introduction of players is the primary feature of the Super Bowl, like it is for the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
What this is really about is the VERDE program.
But if the subject didn't mention Google and the article didn't feature the maps, would it be news worth distributing?
Certainly Google maps and it's API is one of the best internet tools of this decade, but I suspect that the database work and real time collection and analysis of this data, must have taken a tremendous effort. It's too bad that the pretty picture generated from the end result seems to get top billing.
The bubble burst in 2001.
I thought that it burst in 1999, and took about two years to deflate, it's actually really subjective (I was laid off in 1999). However, Wikipedia makes the assertion (right now) that it burst on March 10, 2000 (the NASDAQ peak), so 8 or 9 years is close enough for me to accept 'almost a decade'.
and that it harmonises with the purest wine vinegar of your interesting (it would be unique if not for William Shatner) punctuation style to form the salad dressing that is the perfect tribute to the dear departed.
I really am sorry that my comment didn't meet your high editorial standards, but I'm still in mourning with his loss and I didn't take a lot of time to edit. It was a long illness (cancer), and I had the misfortune to watch his six foot three frame wither in home hospice. I actually do hope that you don't have the same experience, but then again, I have a soul. I generally appreciate your atonement, but poking at me about my grammar was unnecessary. Oh, yea, I do know that I'm sometimes dealing with child-like men on this site, many times with egos far exceeding their humanity.
No offense,...
For the record, he used the GI bill to graduate with a Master degree from American University, while working full time and raising a family. Many of his students faced similar challenges and he admired them for their efforts to improve their lives. Ironically, his opinions on that were often expressed when defending his work against the attack from elitist fools such as yourself.
BTW, I didn't edit the post well, but hey two trolls for the price of one, what a bargain.
Well said - they'd be teaching it!
Well, my father who, just passed away, spent the final twenty years of his career teaching at a community college, and loved it. Thank you for insulting his intelligence.
The facts are there, you just need to look for them.
You made an outrageous claim that Bush performed an economic miracle, and you back up that claim with what? More of the same bluster? for example:
[Obama] now wants to decrease or lower taxes on those same non-rich people who benefited from the Bush Tax cut for the Rich
It's an old saying that "Two third of the economy is consumer spending"; who spends all of their income? The poor. They also are more likely to spend extra money on local services (dining out, manicures, etc). Sure government needs to be careful not to overtax anyone, but 'undertaxing' the poor has (I believe) the best return.
Investment money on the other hand will pour in from the rest of the world; that's the advantage of having the best capital market. Business owners don't hire people becuase they have extra cash in their pocket, they hire people to make money off their work, besides salaries are an expense and are deducted before taxes are assessed. These assertions seem to escape 'trickle down' people like yourself.
Forget about the dot come buble that increased revenue which was completely unique to the times and tied closely to the Capitol gains tax cuts.
How can you make that assertion? Those companies never made any money to distribute, and much of it was just pushed into more investments, and 'hidden' in hedge/mutual funds. Sure, there were some economic benefit as some smart people cashed out before the bubble burst, of course they then seemed to push the money into housing, and ran up a basic need to record levels. The Bush administration even turned a blind eye to poor lending practices, and badly bundled securities. Now oil speculation has run up to record highs. More investment money isn't always a helpful thing, in particular when combined with people who foolishly slash regulations and oversight carefully developed over decades. Conservative used to mean resistant to change, now it seems to mean reckless abandon.
But all that doesn't matter as long as the democrats take credit for it.
Clinton did sign the bills, and bipartisan support carried them though the legislative branch (the Senate takes 60%, usually). That's the problem the country is that people such as yourself do little more than whine about the Democratic party. Scott Mcclellan had it right calling it the permanent campaign, and it wouldn't work without mean spirited people, stuck on even decade old talking points. Congratulations you are part of the problem, please for the love of our country, try to appreciate the liberal viewpoint. You might find that we aren't so far apart.
It's the same a arguing with a school yard bully; sure you might be right, but they'll just keep on going. They know that some people will utterly believe, and others will think 'the truth is in the middle'. Approaches typically employed by reasonable thoughtful people don't work well, as it's hard to counter someone who is unwilling to approach things logically. The best way to fight a bully is to call them one right off the bat, people understand that. 'Bully Republican tactics' have been very successful, too bad they don't govern as well as they mislead.
I see no reason why these calls should be placed on line. I would expect them to respect my privacy, but instead they post in online without my consent.
911 calls are the 'hue and cry' of the modern age. I don't know the exact rules (I think they vary), but I believe that most consider them to be public records. Sure, names and addresses should be censored (if not already, I of course am exercising my rght not to RTFA), at least for legitimate criminal complaints. The time wasters on the other hand, I believe need to be publicly flogged, and have their phone number listed; Imagine the fun civic minded pranksters could have with these fools. However I'm willing to accept that that's over the top, and allow even the ignorant their anonymity, if they don't prosecute.
Are you suggesting that people who are pro-gun are automatically anti-gay?
Seems to work that way. However the reality is that a large number of you'all, seem willing to write off other people's freedoms (both those that are and those that should be) just to be able to protect yourself if the government decides to start treating you the way that you allow it to treat others.
...None of the owners on a street will lower their prices, so one by one the businesses die or move...until it's an avalanche and you wind up with a street full of empty storefronts on which NOBODY wants to open a business! The owners don't care because it's not a huge loss TO THEM, ...
Most buildings owners I've seen have much sharper pencils than that. Empty property is always a net loss, both in terms of taxes and income which the money could be generating elsewhere. What they are far more likely to do (if they can) is rent the store at a good rate for a short term lease, then jack up the price once the place is settled. Hopefully, the business will survive at the new lease terms, otherwise they go out of business. In many cases it's 'wash, rinse, repeat', that's why it's a good idea to investigate a landlord and the prior tenants before signing a deal with them; A regular turnover of businesses is always a bad sign.
...and they know that the city will eventually sell bonds and subsidize new business in order to spruce the place up.
Waiting for the government to bail you out is a fool's errand; Republican lore has made this rare occurrence seem common place. More likely, they may condemn the empty buildings, and sell the block to a larger developer for pennies on the dollar. While some politically connected landlords may be able to game the system, it's not as easy as it sounds.
2) you can do it just "outside" your planet - much cheaper.
Then do what? Empty space really isn't that interesting; Once you get past microgravity manufacturing and some research, there really isn't a lot you can do. Besides, any significant colonies will need some serious raw materials to survive, water, in particular. So unless you find an astroid with lot of water and fuel (and be willing to park near it), planets are the only real chance for substantial colonies.
On top of handing over a second term to Bush, I despite Senator Kerry for leading the charge to cancel this plan.
The only part of Bush's 2000 platform which I both liked and thought that he might push in office was more investment in nuclear power. However, even with a Republican majority in the House and Senate, not a damn thing was done about it. Now, McSame is pushing for nuclear power. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, fool me every election cycle, then I must be a Republican voter.
Yeah, so why the hell is that? those little 140byte packets, sorry, those are $0.20 each
What's even worse, when I bought my first cell phone (one of the first digital phones), text messaging was free. Then they heard that people elsewhere were gladly paying 10 cents a message, go figure. I don't know the details for sure, but in terms of network usage it might cost them more for a ten minute phone call than a month of heavy text usage.
As an 1st generation iPhone owner, I'm excited about the new Software, which will enable all the new features save for GPS. Staying with edge support only will even save me $15 month (3G is $10 more and doesn't include the 200 messages I can already send). I'll likely upgrade with the next generation.
Show me some research
Sorry, but pure research has been shown to violate the Republican platform and has been suspended in favor of making the government 'smaller' by contracting all lucrative functions to loyal party members.
People come in and vote under the watchful eye of a guy who tells them if they vote the right way, they get the money.
How to stop that? Give them even more money if they turn the guy in. Maybe something like 100 times what they can prove was paid.
While I love the game, some might even know that a Lemming is a real animal, with a strong herd mentality; which btw isn't quite as suicidal as reported.
That's a myth; There is no correlation between inflation and minimum wage increases.
"Delaware, what state is that in?" is an actual question I've heard when mentioning it.
Delaware is a plot between the banking industry and the DuPonts to get a few free Senators.Well, it must have been a very early plot as it was the first state to sign the Constitution, and DuPont must have managed it from France, anticipating starting a gunpowder company a dozen years later.