Pay-pal monetary holds based on some 14-year-old child's mommy-backed but invalid complaints got a LITTLE STALE after a while. eBay is full of scammers and low-buck douchebags trying to squeeze you for a nickle...and not much product I actually want.
In my mind, if you won't pay the merchant fees on the Credit Cards, you are too shady and you wouldn't get my money anyway.
hate to pick a nit, but when you look at the state-wide budget, there are vastly more red states than blue states which take more in federal money than they contribute! My state got $0.61 for every $1.00 it sent to the IRS!
Of course 'red' vs 'blue' is kind of a lame division...but I think it is a telling comparison.
I've been railing aginst the invasion since before it began. I support immediate pull-out of all US troops. I never gave a shit about Iraq...never thought the terrorists were there, never thought it had WMDs, never cared about its people. Well, I cared, but invading and deposing Saddam to put up a theocracy wouldn't cause enough good to ballance out the evil of the invasion.
I agree...no politician would let it lapse. So the big question is, who's going to be picking up the tab? You can fix anything if you throw enough money at it...but where is that money going to come from? Punitive taxes? Subjugating some other nation? Man, I dunno...but it's not gonna be good.
The point is, that these fundamentalist nutters claim the USA to be a "Christian Nation" when they push to have their specific religious rules codified in secular law. This high divorce rate...one divorce for every two marriages in recent years...goes strongly against this claim.
And besides, the Founding Fathers were Deists...not Christians!
I knew in the late 90s that there was going to be no Social Security left over for me. The old fuckers wouldn't give up a little to help the future. The Baby Boomers are going to bankrupt the system, and all that money you paid in is GONE.
Unless some magical economic upswing and a trade deficit reversal occur.
Garden varieties have been bred, but the breeders don't sue you if they find some of your heirloom tomatoes were polinated with their 'custom' breed. The GM douche-bags do. Their shit could pollute an entire country's selection of a species...and it's perfectly legal for them to demand payment. That's MY issue.
Besides, subverting the usual selection mechanisms, and breeding only a limited number of generations, and restricting interaction with the 'real world' means that many issues in these GM crops could go un-noticed. They could take years to become apparant...and by then...how hard will it be to start over with the 'original' strains? Hopefully someone will keep them going...as long as they don't get polluted by the 'copywritten' GM strains....and then the grower gets sued.
Heh. It'll work. Seems like the poor and hyper-religious peoples love to crap out babies. The current tax code encourages this. What future jobs are there for people who dismiss any science they can't comprehend with a 12th-grade or lower education? Not many I would say.
So we encourage the most ignorant and dependent segment of our society to breed. Why would that be? Because children indoctrinated at birth to a world-view have a very tough time dislodging that world-view. It's good for religion, it's good for nationalism. It's good for blind following.
I guess I don't have a real answer for you. I guess we scientific types will have to outperform the religious peoples. They have advantage in numbers with their breeding practices, but we can still favor quality over quantity.
I usually watch the Address, but I skipped last night. Did he invent any new words?
I think that last bit was just pandering to the far-right religious wack-jobs. They got him into office, and he's been neglecting their hot issues: - preventing gays from mayying and ruining the institution of marriage (now >50% divorce rate!) - Keeping Freedom safe from Terrorists
You can't get everything. You can't have freedom without some risk. I'm sorry, but the whole 'child kidnapping' thing is a bunch of hype. My cynical side says it's hype originated by the media to grab viewers, and exploited by the government to grab power.
For me, I'm willing to risk not having the FBI arround to investigate my child's kidnapping.
Besides, how many go missing right now even with the FBI? LOTS. Where are the stats on kidnapped children actually found by the FBI? I don't know, but I bet the percentage is LOW.
So rather than spend some money and help these people into a life where they can follow that most basic, essential urge and yet not get AIDS...
You want them to oppress themselves with laws about who can have sex with who? Shit, while you're at it, why don't you outlaw having more than 1 child?
We should have invaded Africa instead of Iraq. They need Freedom even more than the Iraqis!
Besides, the best way to protest is to move. very. slowly. If I feel some GED-bearing TSA employee is singling me out, I just begin to talk slowly, respond slowly, walk slowly. I tell anyone who asks about it that I have a terrible migraine headache.
Usually cheap to fix and insure, and you can get a better equipped model than if you bought new. Plus, you're not pissing away money trying to impress someone you don't know with a shiney new auto. Depreciation is a bitch, and used car dealers? Bahahahah...yeah...funny how those pre-owned warranties are so tough to claim against. Besides, you can shine up your used car for a fraction of the price.
But if you must know, my 1998 Jetta has more than three feet (possibly more, but I would have to measure) between the rear of the front seats and the tank. The tank is under the trunk and does not appear to protrude under the rear seats. I know, I had to put in a new in-tank fuel pump which was really annoying.
I suppose I should have used more precise language.
Every car I've ever owned in the USA had the gas tank under the trunk/boot. Several feet BEHIND the passenfer. I find it very hard to believe that the gas tank manages to get repositioned UNDER the passenger compartment before rupturing and burning. Most colissions from the rear compress the auto but do not fold it up. Neither do side impacts general distort the chassis such that the user is OVER the tank.
I think you are talking out of your ass. You have a point about saftey, but don't lie to get your point accross.
I can write a book about anything, doesn't mean I know what I'm talking about. If Larry the Cable Guy wrote a book about how.NET sucked and Java was the best thing ever, would you take his word for it?
Need to use some kinda algae. More efficient and easier to feed as it is a much simpler plant. Algae can grow in vats, and need not deplete the soil like a traditional 'plant' would.
I am concerned that short-sighted adoption of biodiesel will hasten the depletion of our farmlands begun by food crops...
What will we fertilize with if not the oil-based fertilizers? Do we have enough pig shit?:)
Where are the 15k SATA drives? But other than that, SATA RAID card is pretty good if you just want one giant volume for storage and maybe a disk or two more for OS and swap.
That's why many people refused to use iTunes when it came out. Waste of money in my mind, others had even harsher things to say. If you like the convenience of d/ling a file direct (I can rip a CD in minutes, and don't mind waiting a few days to get it) then you gotta live with the crippled usage rights. I declined. emusic.com man!
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Pay-pal monetary holds based on some 14-year-old child's mommy-backed but invalid complaints got a LITTLE STALE after a while. eBay is full of scammers and low-buck douchebags trying to squeeze you for a nickle...and not much product I actually want.
In my mind, if you won't pay the merchant fees on the Credit Cards, you are too shady and you wouldn't get my money anyway.
hate to pick a nit, but when you look at the state-wide budget, there are vastly more red states than blue states which take more in federal money than they contribute! My state got $0.61 for every $1.00 it sent to the IRS!
Of course 'red' vs 'blue' is kind of a lame division...but I think it is a telling comparison.
I've been railing aginst the invasion since before it began. I support immediate pull-out of all US troops. I never gave a shit about Iraq...never thought the terrorists were there, never thought it had WMDs, never cared about its people. Well, I cared, but invading and deposing Saddam to put up a theocracy wouldn't cause enough good to ballance out the evil of the invasion.
Seriously, laws which legislate morality are never successful without an oppressive regime to enforce them.
I agree...no politician would let it lapse. So the big question is, who's going to be picking up the tab? You can fix anything if you throw enough money at it...but where is that money going to come from? Punitive taxes? Subjugating some other nation? Man, I dunno...but it's not gonna be good.
The rates of various nations are available.
The point is, that these fundamentalist nutters claim the USA to be a "Christian Nation" when they push to have their specific religious rules codified in secular law. This high divorce rate...one divorce for every two marriages in recent years...goes strongly against this claim.
And besides, the Founding Fathers were Deists...not Christians!
I knew in the late 90s that there was going to be no Social Security left over for me. The old fuckers wouldn't give up a little to help the future. The Baby Boomers are going to bankrupt the system, and all that money you paid in is GONE.
Unless some magical economic upswing and a trade deficit reversal occur.
Garden varieties have been bred, but the breeders don't sue you if they find some of your heirloom tomatoes were polinated with their 'custom' breed. The GM douche-bags do. Their shit could pollute an entire country's selection of a species...and it's perfectly legal for them to demand payment. That's MY issue.
Besides, subverting the usual selection mechanisms, and breeding only a limited number of generations, and restricting interaction with the 'real world' means that many issues in these GM crops could go un-noticed. They could take years to become apparant...and by then...how hard will it be to start over with the 'original' strains? Hopefully someone will keep them going...as long as they don't get polluted by the 'copywritten' GM strains....and then the grower gets sued.
Heh. It'll work. Seems like the poor and hyper-religious peoples love to crap out babies. The current tax code encourages this. What future jobs are there for people who dismiss any science they can't comprehend with a 12th-grade or lower education? Not many I would say.
So we encourage the most ignorant and dependent segment of our society to breed. Why would that be? Because children indoctrinated at birth to a world-view have a very tough time dislodging that world-view.
It's good for religion, it's good for nationalism. It's good for blind following.
I guess I don't have a real answer for you. I guess we scientific types will have to outperform the religious peoples. They have advantage in numbers with their breeding practices, but we can still favor quality over quantity.
I usually watch the Address, but I skipped last night. Did he invent any new words?
I think that last bit was just pandering to the far-right religious wack-jobs. They got him into office, and he's been neglecting their hot issues:
- preventing gays from mayying and ruining the institution of marriage (now >50% divorce rate!)
- Keeping Freedom safe from Terrorists
You can't get everything. You can't have freedom without some risk. I'm sorry, but the whole 'child kidnapping' thing is a bunch of hype. My cynical side says it's hype originated by the media to grab viewers, and exploited by the government to grab power.
For me, I'm willing to risk not having the FBI arround to investigate my child's kidnapping.
Besides, how many go missing right now even with the FBI? LOTS. Where are the stats on kidnapped children actually found by the FBI? I don't know, but I bet the percentage is LOW.
Therefore, not worth the loss of freedom.
So rather than spend some money and help these people into a life where they can follow that most basic, essential urge and yet not get AIDS...
You want them to oppress themselves with laws about who can have sex with who? Shit, while you're at it, why don't you outlaw having more than 1 child?
We should have invaded Africa instead of Iraq. They need Freedom even more than the Iraqis!
Certainly not the insurgency in Iraq! They had plenty of warnings to take deep cover when the bogus reasons for invasion were shopped arround.
Besides, the best way to protest is to move. very. slowly. If I feel some GED-bearing TSA employee is singling me out, I just begin to talk slowly, respond slowly, walk slowly. I tell anyone who asks about it that I have a terrible migraine headache.
If everyone did this, things would change.
Usually cheap to fix and insure, and you can get a better equipped model than if you bought new. Plus, you're not pissing away money trying to impress someone you don't know with a shiney new auto. Depreciation is a bitch, and used car dealers? Bahahahah...yeah...funny how those pre-owned warranties are so tough to claim against. Besides, you can shine up your used car for a fraction of the price.
But if you must know, my 1998 Jetta has more than three feet (possibly more, but I would have to measure) between the rear of the front seats and the tank. The tank is under the trunk and does not appear to protrude under the rear seats. I know, I had to put in a new in-tank fuel pump which was really annoying.
I suppose I should have used more precise language.
Every car I've ever owned in the USA had the gas tank under the trunk/boot. Several feet BEHIND the passenfer. I find it very hard to believe that the gas tank manages to get repositioned UNDER the passenger compartment before rupturing and burning. Most colissions from the rear compress the auto but do not fold it up. Neither do side impacts general distort the chassis such that the user is OVER the tank.
I think you are talking out of your ass. You have a point about saftey, but don't lie to get your point accross.
I remember watching this on a television. Nobody ever claimed it to be live, we might have assumed it was since they interrupted school.
I can write a book about anything, doesn't mean I know what I'm talking about. If Larry the Cable Guy wrote a book about how .NET sucked and Java was the best thing ever, would you take his word for it?
Yeah, he has a doctorate. But what has he done lately but write 10-grade-reading-level airport novels and Television Serials? Please.
This is the only Earth we have. Humans are not in danger of going extinct if they slow down their breeding.
Let's all not shit in our only house, K?
Need to use some kinda algae. More efficient and easier to feed as it is a much simpler plant. Algae can grow in vats, and need not deplete the soil like a traditional 'plant' would.
:)
I am concerned that short-sighted adoption of biodiesel will hasten the depletion of our farmlands begun by food crops...
What will we fertilize with if not the oil-based fertilizers? Do we have enough pig shit?
And all the conservative, mid-western corn farmers HATE a free market. It's like that hated communism. Oh wait...
Where are the 15k SATA drives? But other than that, SATA RAID card is pretty good if you just want one giant volume for storage and maybe a disk or two more for OS and swap.
That's why many people refused to use iTunes when it came out. Waste of money in my mind, others had even harsher things to say. If you like the convenience of d/ling a file direct (I can rip a CD in minutes, and don't mind waiting a few days to get it) then you gotta live with the crippled usage rights. I declined. emusic.com man!