Personaly, I often end up using both. When going up this one hill, I'm not going any faster than a fast walker/slow jogger. The speed limit on the road is 40. Most cars do at least 45. I go up on the sidewalk. Coming down, however, I'm doing at least 35 even if I don't pedal, so I'm firmly in the street.
For the most part, if the speed limit is 30 mph, I'm in the street. If traffic is especially heavy, I'll move to the sidewalk. If there's lots of people walking, I'll move to the street. Too many on both? Alternate route.
Okay, name me some of Kerry's flaws that aren't shared by Bush to a greater degree.
Position on gun control. Spending habits, as bad as bush is.
Except that the Democratic party today is a very conservative party. The Dems today are more conservative than the GOP was 30 years ago, before the God-gun nut-uber capitalist jihad was assembled.
Say what? Maybe the party is, but I find many democratic candidates to be downright socialists.
Ah yes. This reminds me of a single issue voter I knew of around the time of the election, who delcared he would not vote for Kerry because he would support gun control. I pointed out that Bush also supported gun control, when he said he would resign the assualt weapons ban. He went ahead and voted for Bush anyway, as opposed to the Libertarian candidate, for example. It's awsome when principles turn out to be an excuse.
I, at least, voted libertarian even though I believe Badnirk would have been a bad president. Though, now, maybe not so bad. And the fact remains, at least Bush let the AWB die a quite death, whereas Kerry was promising to activly pursue it. Activly pursue a cosmetic gun law that had no effect on violent gun crime.
There is no federal law that requires vacation time, though the national standard is two weeks. As a part time worker when I was in high school, I earned vacaction time at a set rate per hour worked. I think it was a day(8 hours) for each 200 hours worked. It worked out to two weeks a year.
I haven't lived in a state that mandates it, though it's been a while since I read the required employment poster. This can, of course, be supplimented by the individual states, even down to cities/counties. Unions can push this up as well.
The only problem with this is that there's still a substantial discount on manufacturing costs between a kinkos level publishing operation and a large scale printer.
500 pages at $.05/page is $25. And that's generally b&w, and you still have to come up with legitimate content that is either not copywrited, or that you have permission to duplicate...
After ten years at one of the companies I worked for, I would have gotten double the leave/year. Heck, right now I get a whole month a year, plus bank holidays.
Like many things in america, there are published 'minimums' in many states, but that doesn't mean that the companies can't offer more if they choose to do so.
First, I didn't vote for him. I couldn't vote for Kerry either. Everthing I disliked about Bush, I felt Kerry was worse. Though today I wonder if returning to gridlock might have been better.
I can understand the president just fine. Of course, having grown up in the midwest, my speech patterns are closer to his than the east coast's.
Just so you understand that I'm a moderate, not a tool of the republicans, here's my positions: 1. Anti gun-control. I don't hunt, I do own guns. Leave them alone. 2. Pro choice 3. Pro drug legalization(End the war on (some) drugs! 4. Pro Death penalty 5. Balance the bloody budget 6. I have no objection to gay marriage 7. I'd like to see social security go away in favor of personal savings.
You could say that I'm a pro-freedom, economic conservative, social liberal. AKA libertarian.
You see, during one of the 2000 debates, Bush took credit for Texas being the first state to allow states to sue their HMO's, when in fact he vetoed the bill. The media was far too obsessed with inventing Gore "fibs" at the time to take notice, however.
Yeah, remember what I said. "I voted for a third party". I'm sorry, but Kerry rubbed me the wrong way. 'Everything I object to about Bush, Kerry's worse'. I automatically assume that politicians lie, but the question is how much?
The problem the Dems have is that they can run very tough races against other Dems. But against a Republican, they suddenly turn into spinless pussies for no apprant reason. It's as if all the Democrats campaign managers and consultants were on the GOP payroll.
I think that it's they know how to campaign for democrat votes, but not for moderate/republican votes. Thus, they say and take positions that tend to turn off the moderates.
And before you think that I'm a tool of the republican party, I'll give a quick rundown on my positions: 1: Anti-gun control
And as I'm a very anti-gun control person, he lost my vote at that moment.
As for responding to the hurricane, My impression is that the City of New Orleans and Louisiana are the ones that fell down. Federal response was within federal time guidelines. Besides, people should be able to take care of themselves for a few days. I mean, I can survive, evacuated, for over three days with just what I can carry from my place, fairly comfortably.
My grandparents live down in the hurricane zone. The feds usually take a week to show up in their area afterwards. It's always been that way.
I'd have to say that you'd also have to figure in that the expenses for the workers are much less as well. Most of them don't own a motor vehicle. I pay 14% of my net for my car alone, and I don't have anywhere near the car that many do.
If they have a TV & DVD player, I can also see them doing what I did in my youth: Trade. We'd trade our computer & video games around, effectivly increasing our entertainment on the dollar.
It's a balance of values, each person has their own weighing system. 1. Convienence to obtain, how easy is it? Do I have to drive to the store, wait a week for it to come in the mail, etc. Or find it on a file sharing program and mark it for download 2. Price: Free vs. $ 3. Quality: MP3's vary in quality, even DVD's to 4. Legitamancy: For many people, legality is a good thing. If nothing else, you don't have to worry about being sued/prosecuted if you keep it legal. 5. Annoyance: As what many people have said, copy 'protection' annoys them, and actually makes the illegal copies easier to use for their intended purposes. For my part, I don't own a CD player, so why would I want to get my music on CD's? If I do, the first stop is the computer to rip it into MP3.
If legitimate companies reduce the price of their product and get rid of the annoyances, they can be very competitive. They're a guarenteed quality source*, after all.
*Excepting the ocasional FUBAR, of course, but it happens less than with file sharing.
I'd say that it had more to do with the lousyness of who the Democrats put up. Kerry's career as a Senator gave very good indicators as to his politics. You only had to look at his voting record to see that it didn't match what was coming out of his mouth. He'd even say one thing before a crowd, then another two days later to another. That was a better campaign strategy 20 years ago, but you can't do that today, the internet will spread word of the inconsistancies. He came across as a man who likes every non-military spending bill he sees, every taxation(as long as it doesn't hit the uber-rich like him), every gun control(he even interuppted his campaign to vote for the AWB), expansion of government, etc...
The George Bush vs. John Kerry Election had more people voting against the other guy than any I've heard of before. I threw my vote to a third party candidate because I couldn't stand to vote for either of them, but I would have voted for Bush if I felt Kerry had a chance of winning my state.
Don't take it as a vote for Bush, it would have been against Kerry.
I'm thinking about when there's still more than 50% of the tickets left. Once it hits that level, yes, there would be an increasing urgency to purchasing tickets.
Too quick of a drop off would encourage people to wait, lowering the overall profits. I also think that a number of early purchase bonuses would encourage quick sales(best seats, backstage passes, etc...)
No wonder the richies are building their 'green' power-neutral homes. It might take 300 years to pay off the investment, but they can afford it and can leave the condition of power to the common masses.
But with this complaint, I guess we're back to nuclear power.
I'm supprised that they don't first offer tickets at $500, starting from the best seats. Then, a week later, drop it down to $400 and so on. Again, in order to spur people into buying at the earlier, higher price, offer the best seats first. Sell out too quickly? You didn't start high enough.
Then again, you might have huge numbers of people trying to wait until it's only a $100
if the concerts sold out in a half hour each, Madonna could also increase her income by raising the pricing of the tickets, without having to do more concerts.
Not as much 'exposure' that way, but oh well.
Concerts are expensive and complicated to set up at the level of the top acts like Madonna. It's not like simply hiring a local band to play in a bar.
I'm another one of those people who wouldn't pay $250 for a Madonna concert. I might pay $20. This is consumerism. There's only so many seats available at a concert. If she priced it at $20, it'd sell out as fast as ticketmaster could sell. Priced even at $200, it still sells out within minutes. $250? Day or two. $500? Empty seats.
I guess you could say that I'm a person who doesn't mind the rich getting 'ahead' through the spending of more dollars. That way they're no longer quite as rich. The people who can't afford $250 gets to keep the $100 or so that they would have paid. I'd suggest doing something useful with it, like investing or saving it.
Who cares if they have a 100mpg patent for a carburetor?
1. No one in there right mind would use a carburetor these days.
If it was true(it's not), people would be perfectly willing to have a caburetor if it tripled their gas milage. That's part of the reason for transitioning to fuel injection. It enabled better gas milage.
2. There are already superminis with diesel engines that do 100mpg (85mpg with petrol). The Citroen C1 springs to mind.
This is part of my thinking. A 100mpg carb? Hooked up to what? Cars vary from two seat minis to oldsmobile style landyachts. A more beneficial claim would be something like 3x the gas milage. Besides, it's easy to figure out the theoretical maximum efficiency of gasoline engines, and no carb is going to triple gas milage. I'd hold out more hope for something like a steam engine that gathers some more power out of the waste heat heading out the tailpipe.
I mean, the six stroke engine I read about holds more promise. The idea there is that after the power cycle you inject some water, which flashes to steam, giving you another power stroke.
And if you have, then the statement really ought to be "Anyone who tried that on me when I was a kid ended up in the woods somewhere." Otherwise you're just talking about something you don't know about.
Oh sure, I should admit to being an accessory to murder... Fortunately, the closest I came to it was a possible kidnap attempt. Classical people in a cargo van offering treats and a ride. I ran, a little girl about my age at the time ended up going missing around a van of the same description... Of course, I didn't find out about the complete details until I was an adult.
It's easy to say that but people of all ages have been known to be abused for years and never say anything.
The point that I was making is that my parents had such a relationship with me that I something like that happened and I talked, they would have listened and taken action. I've heard of a number of those stories, and the kids usually talk, but are disregarded, disbelieved, and sometimes repremanded for lying. Talking having failed, they then shut up.
We've already smacked the non-discriminate predators hard enough that, statistically speaking, the parents are the more extreme threat to their own kids. If you're under 12, you're most likely to be murdered/abused by your own parents.
Your neighbor's desk lamp probably has a bad ballast. While both wear out, ballasts last alot longer than tubes, so they're seperate items in commercial installs. You replace tubes like once every couple years, ballasts are like once every couple decades. CFL's have their own ballasts, because they're designed to go into sockets like a incandescent.
There's actually not much difference between tubes today and 20 years ago. The difference is the usage of computer power supply type switching technology to ramp the frequecies up even higher, resulting in effectivly flicker-free light as compared to before.
I was thinking more of an auto-fire RPG or one with some sort of MIRV system, but yes, this indeed raises the barrier for successful prosecution of war.
Actually, it was stupid emissions controls that killed consumer diesel, but yeah. The east coast could have had better mass transit. You can probably blame airport subsidies on this as well. The europeans still have higher density than even the east coast and they've paid a high price for their transit systems. You could even argue that the destruction of WWII paved the way for some of the improvements.
Personally I have high hopes for PRT, which would solve many of the problems mass transit faces in the USA.
Development and adoption of standardized containers that can be carried by trucks, trains, and cargo ships have really reduced the number of long-haul trucking going on. There's alot fewer trucks on the road compared to when I was a kid. There used to be a big labor penalty in unloading and reloading onto trucks, thus making it cheaper to ship all the way in trucks. This is both labor and fuel inefficient. A train can haul hundreds of containers with only a few workers. The fuel efficiency is greaty increased, rails average much less friction than rubber wheels, you have less wind resistance at a given speed, and the larger size of trains allows the engines to be built with more energy saving features
and also on investing in a rail system that doesn't suck, which is more than I can say for the US
The problem with the US rail system is the same as other mass transit. Our average population density is so much less than other countries that it's hard to achieve the necessary number of people traveling the same route for it to be practical.
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Maybe he had the 12 gauge shotgun attachment? Along with the proper biker attire, people would be scared to get too close. ;)
Saw the shottie on a forum not too long ago.
Personaly, I often end up using both. When going up this one hill, I'm not going any faster than a fast walker/slow jogger. The speed limit on the road is 40. Most cars do at least 45. I go up on the sidewalk. Coming down, however, I'm doing at least 35 even if I don't pedal, so I'm firmly in the street.
For the most part, if the speed limit is 30 mph, I'm in the street. If traffic is especially heavy, I'll move to the sidewalk. If there's lots of people walking, I'll move to the street. Too many on both? Alternate route.
Okay, name me some of Kerry's flaws that aren't shared by Bush to a greater degree.
Position on gun control. Spending habits, as bad as bush is.
Except that the Democratic party today is a very conservative party. The Dems today are more conservative than the GOP was 30 years ago, before the God-gun nut-uber capitalist jihad was assembled.
Say what? Maybe the party is, but I find many democratic candidates to be downright socialists.
Ah yes. This reminds me of a single issue voter I knew of around the time of the election, who delcared he would not vote for Kerry because he would support gun control. I pointed out that Bush also supported gun control, when he said he would resign the assualt weapons ban. He went ahead and voted for Bush anyway, as opposed to the Libertarian candidate, for example. It's awsome when principles turn out to be an excuse.
I, at least, voted libertarian even though I believe Badnirk would have been a bad president. Though, now, maybe not so bad. And the fact remains, at least Bush let the AWB die a quite death, whereas Kerry was promising to activly pursue it. Activly pursue a cosmetic gun law that had no effect on violent gun crime.
There is no federal law that requires vacation time, though the national standard is two weeks. As a part time worker when I was in high school, I earned vacaction time at a set rate per hour worked. I think it was a day(8 hours) for each 200 hours worked. It worked out to two weeks a year.
I haven't lived in a state that mandates it, though it's been a while since I read the required employment poster. This can, of course, be supplimented by the individual states, even down to cities/counties. Unions can push this up as well.
The only problem with this is that there's still a substantial discount on manufacturing costs between a kinkos level publishing operation and a large scale printer.
500 pages at $.05/page is $25. And that's generally b&w, and you still have to come up with legitimate content that is either not copywrited, or that you have permission to duplicate...
It'd work for some courses, but not all.
I can confirm this, my mother went back for her bachelor's degree, it was a music appreciation class at the University of Lincoln, NE.
As for complaints, well, he'd been doing it for many years, with the admins turning a blind eye.
He's getting the minimum standard vacation time.
After ten years at one of the companies I worked for, I would have gotten double the leave/year. Heck, right now I get a whole month a year, plus bank holidays.
Like many things in america, there are published 'minimums' in many states, but that doesn't mean that the companies can't offer more if they choose to do so.
First, I didn't vote for him. I couldn't vote for Kerry either. Everthing I disliked about Bush, I felt Kerry was worse. Though today I wonder if returning to gridlock might have been better.
I can understand the president just fine. Of course, having grown up in the midwest, my speech patterns are closer to his than the east coast's.
Just so you understand that I'm a moderate, not a tool of the republicans, here's my positions:
1. Anti gun-control. I don't hunt, I do own guns. Leave them alone.
2. Pro choice
3. Pro drug legalization(End the war on (some) drugs!
4. Pro Death penalty
5. Balance the bloody budget
6. I have no objection to gay marriage
7. I'd like to see social security go away in favor of personal savings.
You could say that I'm a pro-freedom, economic conservative, social liberal. AKA libertarian.
You see, during one of the 2000 debates, Bush took credit for Texas being the first state to allow states to sue their HMO's, when in fact he vetoed the bill. The media was far too obsessed with inventing Gore "fibs" at the time to take notice, however.
Yeah, remember what I said. "I voted for a third party". I'm sorry, but Kerry rubbed me the wrong way. 'Everything I object to about Bush, Kerry's worse'. I automatically assume that politicians lie, but the question is how much?
The problem the Dems have is that they can run very tough races against other Dems. But against a Republican, they suddenly turn into spinless pussies for no apprant reason. It's as if all the Democrats campaign managers and consultants were on the GOP payroll.
I think that it's they know how to campaign for democrat votes, but not for moderate/republican votes. Thus, they say and take positions that tend to turn off the moderates.
And before you think that I'm a tool of the republican party, I'll give a quick rundown on my positions:
1: Anti-gun control
And as I'm a very anti-gun control person, he lost my vote at that moment.
As for responding to the hurricane, My impression is that the City of New Orleans and Louisiana are the ones that fell down. Federal response was within federal time guidelines. Besides, people should be able to take care of themselves for a few days. I mean, I can survive, evacuated, for over three days with just what I can carry from my place, fairly comfortably.
My grandparents live down in the hurricane zone. The feds usually take a week to show up in their area afterwards. It's always been that way.
I'd have to say that you'd also have to figure in that the expenses for the workers are much less as well. Most of them don't own a motor vehicle. I pay 14% of my net for my car alone, and I don't have anywhere near the car that many do.
If they have a TV & DVD player, I can also see them doing what I did in my youth: Trade. We'd trade our computer & video games around, effectivly increasing our entertainment on the dollar.
It's a balance of values, each person has their own weighing system.
1. Convienence to obtain, how easy is it? Do I have to drive to the store, wait a week for it to come in the mail, etc. Or find it on a file sharing program and mark it for download
2. Price: Free vs. $
3. Quality: MP3's vary in quality, even DVD's to
4. Legitamancy: For many people, legality is a good thing. If nothing else, you don't have to worry about being sued/prosecuted if you keep it legal.
5. Annoyance: As what many people have said, copy 'protection' annoys them, and actually makes the illegal copies easier to use for their intended purposes. For my part, I don't own a CD player, so why would I want to get my music on CD's? If I do, the first stop is the computer to rip it into MP3.
If legitimate companies reduce the price of their product and get rid of the annoyances, they can be very competitive. They're a guarenteed quality source*, after all.
*Excepting the ocasional FUBAR, of course, but it happens less than with file sharing.
I'd say that it had more to do with the lousyness of who the Democrats put up. Kerry's career as a Senator gave very good indicators as to his politics. You only had to look at his voting record to see that it didn't match what was coming out of his mouth. He'd even say one thing before a crowd, then another two days later to another. That was a better campaign strategy 20 years ago, but you can't do that today, the internet will spread word of the inconsistancies. He came across as a man who likes every non-military spending bill he sees, every taxation(as long as it doesn't hit the uber-rich like him), every gun control(he even interuppted his campaign to vote for the AWB), expansion of government, etc...
The George Bush vs. John Kerry Election had more people voting against the other guy than any I've heard of before. I threw my vote to a third party candidate because I couldn't stand to vote for either of them, but I would have voted for Bush if I felt Kerry had a chance of winning my state.
Don't take it as a vote for Bush, it would have been against Kerry.
I'm thinking about when there's still more than 50% of the tickets left. Once it hits that level, yes, there would be an increasing urgency to purchasing tickets.
Too quick of a drop off would encourage people to wait, lowering the overall profits. I also think that a number of early purchase bonuses would encourage quick sales(best seats, backstage passes, etc...)
No wonder the richies are building their 'green' power-neutral homes. It might take 300 years to pay off the investment, but they can afford it and can leave the condition of power to the common masses.
But with this complaint, I guess we're back to nuclear power.
Sheesh...
I'm supprised that they don't first offer tickets at $500, starting from the best seats.
Then, a week later, drop it down to $400 and so on. Again, in order to spur people into buying at the earlier, higher price, offer the best seats first. Sell out too quickly? You didn't start high enough.
Then again, you might have huge numbers of people trying to wait until it's only a $100
if the concerts sold out in a half hour each, Madonna could also increase her income by raising the pricing of the tickets, without having to do more concerts.
Not as much 'exposure' that way, but oh well.
Concerts are expensive and complicated to set up at the level of the top acts like Madonna. It's not like simply hiring a local band to play in a bar.
I'm another one of those people who wouldn't pay $250 for a Madonna concert. I might pay $20. This is consumerism. There's only so many seats available at a concert. If she priced it at $20, it'd sell out as fast as ticketmaster could sell. Priced even at $200, it still sells out within minutes. $250? Day or two. $500? Empty seats.
I guess you could say that I'm a person who doesn't mind the rich getting 'ahead' through the spending of more dollars. That way they're no longer quite as rich. The people who can't afford $250 gets to keep the $100 or so that they would have paid. I'd suggest doing something useful with it, like investing or saving it.
Who cares if they have a 100mpg patent for a carburetor?
1. No one in there right mind would use a carburetor these days.
If it was true(it's not), people would be perfectly willing to have a caburetor if it tripled their gas milage. That's part of the reason for transitioning to fuel injection. It enabled better gas milage.
2. There are already superminis with diesel engines that do 100mpg (85mpg with petrol). The Citroen C1 springs to mind.
This is part of my thinking. A 100mpg carb? Hooked up to what? Cars vary from two seat minis to oldsmobile style landyachts. A more beneficial claim would be something like 3x the gas milage. Besides, it's easy to figure out the theoretical maximum efficiency of gasoline engines, and no carb is going to triple gas milage. I'd hold out more hope for something like a steam engine that gathers some more power out of the waste heat heading out the tailpipe.
I mean, the six stroke engine I read about holds more promise. The idea there is that after the power cycle you inject some water, which flashes to steam, giving you another power stroke.
And if you have, then the statement really ought to be "Anyone who tried that on me when I was a kid ended up in the woods somewhere." Otherwise you're just talking about something you don't know about.
Oh sure, I should admit to being an accessory to murder... Fortunately, the closest I came to it was a possible kidnap attempt. Classical people in a cargo van offering treats and a ride. I ran, a little girl about my age at the time ended up going missing around a van of the same description... Of course, I didn't find out about the complete details until I was an adult.
It's easy to say that but people of all ages have been known to be abused for years and never say anything.
The point that I was making is that my parents had such a relationship with me that I something like that happened and I talked, they would have listened and taken action. I've heard of a number of those stories, and the kids usually talk, but are disregarded, disbelieved, and sometimes repremanded for lying. Talking having failed, they then shut up.
We've already smacked the non-discriminate predators hard enough that, statistically speaking, the parents are the more extreme threat to their own kids. If you're under 12, you're most likely to be murdered/abused by your own parents.
Your neighbor's desk lamp probably has a bad ballast. While both wear out, ballasts last alot longer than tubes, so they're seperate items in commercial installs. You replace tubes like once every couple years, ballasts are like once every couple decades. CFL's have their own ballasts, because they're designed to go into sockets like a incandescent.
There's actually not much difference between tubes today and 20 years ago. The difference is the usage of computer power supply type switching technology to ramp the frequecies up even higher, resulting in effectivly flicker-free light as compared to before.
Agreed. It's always 'For the children'.
I'm sorry, but anybody who'd tried that on me when I was a kid would have ended up buried in the woods somewhere.
I was thinking more of an auto-fire RPG or one with some sort of MIRV system, but yes, this indeed raises the barrier for successful prosecution of war.
Actually, it was stupid emissions controls that killed consumer diesel, but yeah. The east coast could have had better mass transit. You can probably blame airport subsidies on this as well. The europeans still have higher density than even the east coast and they've paid a high price for their transit systems. You could even argue that the destruction of WWII paved the way for some of the improvements.
Personally I have high hopes for PRT, which would solve many of the problems mass transit faces in the USA.
Development and adoption of standardized containers that can be carried by trucks, trains, and cargo ships have really reduced the number of long-haul trucking going on. There's alot fewer trucks on the road compared to when I was a kid. There used to be a big labor penalty in unloading and reloading onto trucks, thus making it cheaper to ship all the way in trucks. This is both labor and fuel inefficient. A train can haul hundreds of containers with only a few workers. The fuel efficiency is greaty increased, rails average much less friction than rubber wheels, you have less wind resistance at a given speed, and the larger size of trains allows the engines to be built with more energy saving features
and also on investing in a rail system that doesn't suck, which is more than I can say for the US
The problem with the US rail system is the same as other mass transit. Our average population density is so much less than other countries that it's hard to achieve the necessary number of people traveling the same route for it to be practical.
Still, I agree with the investment of technology.