For me, Heretics was a struggle and Chapterhouse was unreadable until after I read the House books. It was in the House books that some of the technology that seemed to come out of nowhere in Chapterhouse was introduced and then it fit in. They weren't as well written as the original books, but the House series did do a nice job of filling in much of the backstory.
I suppose you are referring to the Rocky Mountain region of the US where it has always been illegal to divert the rains from the rivers to an extent that you are withholding more than the allotment accompanying the title to your land. Small-scale wars were fought over this. Read history, it really does have more to it than "white people were mean to non-whites" and "men were mean to women."
$1 a month simply does not add up to $500 over the course of 6 months, at least no according to the calculator built into Windows 7. Maybe the calculators built into Linus are more accurate, I don't know.
Whatever, I'll pay $6k - $12k more for my next truck than "the market" would suggest because of those "subsidies" you mention. I need a truck to pull certain things that are heavy and it is simply is not feasible to do that and achieve 40 MPG so my truck price will include a penalty to the government for not meeting that standard. Exactly where is this subsidy you mention? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Yes, as long as you never leave "home". As you said, you can do this without altering your lifestyle because you have the typical Bay area attitude and cannot imagine that life exists on the other side of those mountains to the East.
Except for situations where the "commuter" car is for a sales job that routinely puts 40k - 50k miles a year on the car (travelling 3 or 4 days a week on average) and the other is for pulling campers and boats in addition to other "household" duties. I can give other real situations as well but just one real example should be enough to start imaginations working to realize that not everybody lives in a major city and drives 30 miles to "the office" and then home again.
Why the hell are college students considered novice drivers? They should have at least two years of driving under their belts and that means "not novice". Do you live in one of those backwards places that thinks pushing the driving age to 18 instead of 16 actually solves problems?
You really think that is that far-fetched when we have actual proof that guys are being expelled from colleges even after the so-called "victim" is on tape admitting that they are only upset because she thought the one night stand was the beginning of a relationship and he thought it was a one night stand. Rape after the fact is very real so I don't see why this scenario would be any different.
Forgiveness and forgetting are the same when speaking of the Lord but not of humans. Forgiveness does not mean that we don't expect punishment nor does forgiveness require that we forget that our neighbor repeated molested our oldest daughter and let him babysit her younger sister; it means that we sincerely hope he can overcome his issues and make himself right with the Lord.
He never said that you didn't have the right to ask your friend to remove it. He said that your friend had the right to refuse to remove it. Those are two very different rights. Sorry if you don't understand the difference.
Well, you know books do cause people to have differing viewpoints and differing viewpoints are just one of the many microaggressions out there, so we probably should be burning them all, except maybe the ones that help convince us how our microaggressions are hurting others.
Yes it does cost. Even with "at will" employment, employers must fully document the reasoning as protection against discrimination lawsuits. Employers must also pay unemployment costs when they fire employees "without cause" (such as for embezzlement, etc.).
"Also helpful: fewer laws and fewer police. Every action and inaction doesn't need to be regulated and policed by petty government officials."
Heresy. he problem is that we have far too few laws. We should pass new laws that mandate that everyone memorize all laws and obey all laws, that way we will have less crime because everyone will know the laws and the law will require that we obey it. As it now stands, we have no law that says one must obey the law so far too many people think the existing laws are optional.
Or hoard it for the rainy day that will never come because they can lobby for government handouts far better than the for-profits simply because the are non-profits and "profits" are evil in our society now.
Uh, liberals have been very much at the forefront of this risk aversion. Liberals dreamed up the CPSC and use it to remove all manner of "danger" from our lives. Trial lawyers donate almost exclusively to liberal politicians and their main source of income is lawsuits claiming that not enough was done to remove risk.
Not only do we have to respect her life choices, we need to make sure that once she does choose to go back to work, she starts off with pay not equal to where it was when she left but equal to where she would be had she not left and continued to receive COLAs and promotions, etc. Or are you really stupid enough to believe that the woman sitting next to you doing the same work as you at the same level as you who has never had children and worked reduced hours and taken maternity leave, etc. really is being paid less than you?
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For me, Heretics was a struggle and Chapterhouse was unreadable until after I read the House books. It was in the House books that some of the technology that seemed to come out of nowhere in Chapterhouse was introduced and then it fit in. They weren't as well written as the original books, but the House series did do a nice job of filling in much of the backstory.
I suppose you are referring to the Rocky Mountain region of the US where it has always been illegal to divert the rains from the rivers to an extent that you are withholding more than the allotment accompanying the title to your land. Small-scale wars were fought over this. Read history, it really does have more to it than "white people were mean to non-whites" and "men were mean to women."
Well, 100+% still counts as significant in my book.
$1 a month simply does not add up to $500 over the course of 6 months, at least no according to the calculator built into Windows 7. Maybe the calculators built into Linus are more accurate, I don't know.
I think the point is that until they meet the needs of the 85% you mention, they won't sell (which seems to be the case).
And using any of them not connected to your house may be considered theft.
Whatever, I'll pay $6k - $12k more for my next truck than "the market" would suggest because of those "subsidies" you mention. I need a truck to pull certain things that are heavy and it is simply is not feasible to do that and achieve 40 MPG so my truck price will include a penalty to the government for not meeting that standard. Exactly where is this subsidy you mention? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Yes, as long as you never leave "home". As you said, you can do this without altering your lifestyle because you have the typical Bay area attitude and cannot imagine that life exists on the other side of those mountains to the East.
Oh yeah, nothing like going from the upper midwest to the South or the Rockies taking over 30 hours instead of ~20.
Except for situations where the "commuter" car is for a sales job that routinely puts 40k - 50k miles a year on the car (travelling 3 or 4 days a week on average) and the other is for pulling campers and boats in addition to other "household" duties. I can give other real situations as well but just one real example should be enough to start imaginations working to realize that not everybody lives in a major city and drives 30 miles to "the office" and then home again.
Why the hell are college students considered novice drivers? They should have at least two years of driving under their belts and that means "not novice". Do you live in one of those backwards places that thinks pushing the driving age to 18 instead of 16 actually solves problems?
Well, you do realize the ultimate goal of the left IS to have us give up this irrational lifestyle of visiting family and vacationing and such.
You really think that is that far-fetched when we have actual proof that guys are being expelled from colleges even after the so-called "victim" is on tape admitting that they are only upset because she thought the one night stand was the beginning of a relationship and he thought it was a one night stand. Rape after the fact is very real so I don't see why this scenario would be any different.
Forgiveness and forgetting are the same when speaking of the Lord but not of humans. Forgiveness does not mean that we don't expect punishment nor does forgiveness require that we forget that our neighbor repeated molested our oldest daughter and let him babysit her younger sister; it means that we sincerely hope he can overcome his issues and make himself right with the Lord.
He never said that you didn't have the right to ask your friend to remove it. He said that your friend had the right to refuse to remove it. Those are two very different rights. Sorry if you don't understand the difference.
Well, you know books do cause people to have differing viewpoints and differing viewpoints are just one of the many microaggressions out there, so we probably should be burning them all, except maybe the ones that help convince us how our microaggressions are hurting others.
Yes it does cost. Even with "at will" employment, employers must fully document the reasoning as protection against discrimination lawsuits. Employers must also pay unemployment costs when they fire employees "without cause" (such as for embezzlement, etc.).
"Also helpful: fewer laws and fewer police. Every action and inaction doesn't need to be regulated and policed by petty government officials."
Heresy. he problem is that we have far too few laws. We should pass new laws that mandate that everyone memorize all laws and obey all laws, that way we will have less crime because everyone will know the laws and the law will require that we obey it. As it now stands, we have no law that says one must obey the law so far too many people think the existing laws are optional.
Small towns are the most likely places where everyone knows everyone and less likely to have corruption like that.
Oh, you're right. We should do away with the molestation laws to prevent the kidnapping and murder. Seriously f'ed up thinking there.
that would be the "rainbowiest"
Or hoard it for the rainy day that will never come because they can lobby for government handouts far better than the for-profits simply because the are non-profits and "profits" are evil in our society now.
Meanwhile the not-for-profit ones continue to grow their endowments unchecked but that isn't considered "profit".
Uh, liberals have been very much at the forefront of this risk aversion. Liberals dreamed up the CPSC and use it to remove all manner of "danger" from our lives. Trial lawyers donate almost exclusively to liberal politicians and their main source of income is lawsuits claiming that not enough was done to remove risk.
Not only do we have to respect her life choices, we need to make sure that once she does choose to go back to work, she starts off with pay not equal to where it was when she left but equal to where she would be had she not left and continued to receive COLAs and promotions, etc. Or are you really stupid enough to believe that the woman sitting next to you doing the same work as you at the same level as you who has never had children and worked reduced hours and taken maternity leave, etc. really is being paid less than you?