I like the cut of your jib, sir, but actually, the 2nd amendment is your last defense.
While this is great in theory, I suspect that the police (and/or the government) would be even more unhappy about you exercising your 2nd amendment rights then they would be with you attaching a tracking device to a cop car.
I'm no expert, so this is just a question, but it would probably cost several billion dollars for each nuke plant. How many solar panels could be supplied for the same price as 45 nuke plants? If we took the next 20 years and got one on 50% of the rooftops in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, how much power would that produce?
Bonus: The solar would be distributed, so no terrorist target, and the grid would be several million times redundant.
If Aaron Sorkin were writing the story: We go all the way to the convention and a floor fight breaks out over the Michigan and Florida delegates. There is no way to rule on them in an impartial way without awarding the nomination to one or the other. Negotiations go all night between the Hillary and Obama camps. Edwards kept his delegates too, and has a seat at the table. Still deadlocked...
Enter the consensus candidate... Al Gore. They have no choice but to unify behind him as the nominee.
um... I think the "well-regulated" bit is the first part.
I understand that you think it should be ignored, but there must be a reason they included it. All I'd like to know it what regulations they were thinking of at the time, and if such regulations have any application today. (I don't necessarily fall on one extreme side or the other with respect to the 2nd Amendment, I just like to ask lots of questions. Read into that whatever you like.)
Although we don't have records of anyone trying to traverse the passage every year, we do have records of temperature going back many years (using various methods, such as observing tree rings, etc) and we can safely say that at no time in recorded history was the Northwest Passage ever warm enough to melt and allow a path all the way through.
You could also sell your coupon to whichever candidate was willing to pay you more for it... Or your boss could demand your coupon as a condition of keeping your job... Or your union leader could hint that it was in your best interests to turn over your coupon to the shop steward...
I don't think you've thought your plan all the way through.
There are beautiful things to see in Canada too, including mountains. We're right in the middle of picking the top 7 of these 50: http://www.cbc.ca/sevenwonders/
The whole "examining the hands" routine is something that the fire dept tells principals to do. It gets the rumor spread among the students that there is dye in the fire alarms, to act as a deterrent to pulling.
Interesting anecdote. Did you get a raise because they were testing you and then rewarded your honesty, or did you get a raise because they knew you would squeal if you left, and wanted to keep you around to keep you quiet?
I don't think you have to worry too much about this stuff. He read some of them, the ones that get forwarded to his private email box by the army of staffers that are reading his email. The only way you get all the way through to Steve is if you have exhausted the Apple Support chain of command, you have a legitimate complaint, you are polite and professional, and the SteveStaffer who screens your email is having a good day. (It probably helps to be an IT guy at MIT)
So keep right on flooding Steve with emails. He'll get the ones that he should, and his staff will take care of the rest. Also, I know its unlikely, but have you all considered the possibility that its not really Steve answering those emails? In my experience, the emails that come directly from him are very short and to the point (a few words at most). He probably also has people he trusts to reply on his behalf.
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I like the cut of your jib, sir, but actually, the 2nd amendment is your last defense.
While this is great in theory, I suspect that the police (and/or the government) would be even more unhappy about you exercising your 2nd amendment rights then they would be with you attaching a tracking device to a cop car.
A virus that is transmitted to all nearby phones via bluetooth that repeatedly calls 911 or some other number...
I'm sure that creative folks here can think of things that would be even worse...
Should there be a way to pull from all phones simultaneously? Even if its never used, would probably discourage such malware from ever being written.
I'm no expert, so this is just a question, but it would probably cost several billion dollars for each nuke plant. How many solar panels could be supplied for the same price as 45 nuke plants? If we took the next 20 years and got one on 50% of the rooftops in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, how much power would that produce?
Bonus: The solar would be distributed, so no terrorist target, and the grid would be several million times redundant.
Good idea?
Also, Barack Obama
Perhaps you should examine in your paper the ethics of asking a group to collaboratively write your paper for you.
There are a few other alternate endings...
If Aaron Sorkin were writing the story: We go all the way to the convention and a floor fight breaks out over the Michigan and Florida delegates. There is no way to rule on them in an impartial way without awarding the nomination to one or the other. Negotiations go all night between the Hillary and Obama camps. Edwards kept his delegates too, and has a seat at the table. Still deadlocked...
Enter the consensus candidate... Al Gore. They have no choice but to unify behind him as the nominee.
Hey, it could happen.
um... I think the "well-regulated" bit is the first part.
I understand that you think it should be ignored, but there must be a reason they included it. All I'd like to know it what regulations they were thinking of at the time, and if such regulations have any application today. (I don't necessarily fall on one extreme side or the other with respect to the 2nd Amendment, I just like to ask lots of questions. Read into that whatever you like.)
What do well-regulated militias have to do with anything?
Its designed only to last until the end of 2007.
Now that it is 2008, you need to buy a new one.
:-P
I registered early, to post one comment, but didn't start posting as a regular until months (years?) later in 1999.
Although we don't have records of anyone trying to traverse the passage every year, we do have records of temperature going back many years (using various methods, such as observing tree rings, etc) and we can safely say that at no time in recorded history was the Northwest Passage ever warm enough to melt and allow a path all the way through.
You could also sell your coupon to whichever candidate was willing to pay you more for it...
Or your boss could demand your coupon as a condition of keeping your job...
Or your union leader could hint that it was in your best interests to turn over your coupon to the shop steward...
I don't think you've thought your plan all the way through.
There already is a parallel, for-profit system. Especially in Vancouver, its just a short drive across the border.
Don't forget the free health care. Thats a pretty nice perk (for the company, and for the workers)
We may have won the cold war, but failed to secure the peace.
America has a socialist transportation scheme, its called "roads". Everybody pays for them, even if they don't use them.
There are beautiful things to see in Canada too, including mountains.
We're right in the middle of picking the top 7 of these 50:
http://www.cbc.ca/sevenwonders/
Did you ever actually see anyone pull the fire alarm? Its all a ruse to deter pulling. There is no chemical in there.
The whole "examining the hands" routine is something that the fire dept tells principals to do. It gets the rumor spread among the students that there is dye in the fire alarms, to act as a deterrent to pulling.
There is no dye.
The people who did the work got paid. Its the corporation who is getting ripped off, not any people.
Interesting anecdote. Did you get a raise because they were testing you and then rewarded your honesty, or did you get a raise because they knew you would squeal if you left, and wanted to keep you around to keep you quiet?
I don't think you have to worry too much about this stuff. He read some of them, the ones that get forwarded to his private email box by the army of staffers that are reading his email. The only way you get all the way through to Steve is if you have exhausted the Apple Support chain of command, you have a legitimate complaint, you are polite and professional, and the SteveStaffer who screens your email is having a good day. (It probably helps to be an IT guy at MIT)
So keep right on flooding Steve with emails. He'll get the ones that he should, and his staff will take care of the rest. Also, I know its unlikely, but have you all considered the possibility that its not really Steve answering those emails? In my experience, the emails that come directly from him are very short and to the point (a few words at most). He probably also has people he trusts to reply on his behalf.
Damn, you take this shit way too seriously.
I didn't realize I could offend someone with a Colbert quote. I should use them more often.
I'm in Toronto. Planning to visit anytime soon?