They don't let me fly the plane, or drive the train or Trailways. I would give up driving my car in a second, and get back to the important stuff like drinking and smoking pot.
...is to get you to tune in at 11. You give them way too much credit. They stir the pot, scare the parents, overhype the cancer cure or weight loss drug, or show soldiers with puppy dogs as the need arises.
The constitution limits the areas where the federal government gets to tell us what to do to those specifically enumerated. All the other areas are left to the state or local governments, or to the people themselves. If we want to grant further federal rights to tell us what to do, we go through the rather laborious process of amending the constitution. It's hardly anarchist or even complicated. It's just confusing because our well meaning, progressive notions bulldozed through those complications by popular demand. Now we have unlimited government and EVERYTHING is political and we wonder what we can do stop becoming a totalitarian nation. Constitutionally limited government is the Libertarian answer to that problem.
Harry Browne refused to take his qualified matching funds in 2000 as any good Libertarian would. If we ever do win, it will be precisely because we DONT suckle at the federal troughs with all the other pigs. A lib in NJ also qualified for state fund and did take them. The LP current stance is to let the individual candidate decide to make the takings, but no Lib that takes the blood money will ever get my vote. We want to win, but not by using YOUR money to do it.
Democrats think the Electoral College cost them the presidency. We better change the constitution. Republicans think they have a potential president in a popular Austrian. We better change the constitution. 3rd parties want more votes. Better go PR, IRV, or some other method that lets people vote without "throw away" syndrome. I'm a Libertarian, and I say "Just say no" to these knee-jerk reactions. I feel the same about redistricting. We shouldn't allow ANYONE to attempt to engineer favorable outcomes. They never turn out the way we expect any way. And I say better the devil you know. As soon as we Libertarians stop running marginal candidates, more voters will be convinced to vote for us without throwing away their votes. Despite our crappy ballot access laws, we manage to do alright. When we lose, it's our fault. Let's stop blaming a system that is not half-bad and stop trying to engineer new structural outcomes. It always seems to make the mess bigger.
This is the height of pathetic victim mentality
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Personally, I am terribly annoyed by TVs in restaurants and airports: they grab my attention over and over, no matter how hard I try to ignore them, and they distract me from the conversations that I should be having with my human companions.
No technology will ever substitute for lack of an internal moral compass (and by moral I include my atheist self - this is not a religious argument). You are in TOTAL control of what you perceive and your reaction to what you perceive. America (I assume the author is a member of the growing American victim class) has become a bunch of spineless victims that can't live in a world unless it caters to their total lack of impulse control. From the drug war, to the growing food war, to all the "for the children" arguments, this type of thinking is scary, and gives cause for more government control of every aspect of our lives. We need to grow some balls and stop playing the victim at EVERY opportunity.
Only the people who believed the internet was some kind of nirvana, where all the sins of mankind were going to be washed away by technology, are disappointed with the way things are going. The rest of us deal with the quirks and it still proves most useful. And businesses are the most locked in. Are we going to go back to modems and BBSs? Not if we want to stay in business. We will deal. The internet will deal. And mankind will remain unchanged in the face of technology.
1st. Fund mechanism that self-sustains new bureaucratic structure. 2nd. Fund lucrative pension plan for members of new bureaucratic structure. 3rd. Fund lavish parties and bonuses for members of new bureaucratic structure. 4th. Do whatever it was that new bureaucratic structure was actually tasked to do with whatever funds are left over (which is zero).
It started with some innocent all-natural fang-lengthening solicitations, but it spiraled into an orgy of Vampagra spews and Transylvanian scams. After a while, I no longer knew if I was dead or undead. And I was way too uptight to play it even a little gay.
You have the pussified pap From The Garth Brooks School that infests the airways. Full of caterwauling of how great god and America are and lots of sappy rumination of how great families are and raising kids and going to Sunday school. And then you have Hank Williams Jr. and the like that is more about rebellions and a hearty "Fuck off" to those that have a problem with it. The former promotes suicide, the latter, promotes life.
A disturbing study showing that the suicide rates for whites in US metropolitan areas is higher in cities where more country music is played on the radio earned the Ig Nobel prize in Medicine for Steven Stack of Wayne State in Detroit and James Gundlach of Auburn University in Alabama.
I think some further study is needed here. My theory is that country music is not actually the culprit, but Southern Baptists are. Country music is more likely to be played in areas infested with Southern Baptists and other fundamentalist Christians. These groups are able to place stricter social controls on anything fun and are constantly harping on homosexuals and on anyone that might be having a good time and not constantly worried about damnation. This denial of the reality of free American lives eventually leads to higher suicide rates. I think we would need to start playing country music in more liberalized areas and see if that might increase the rates of buzzkill before we can blame country music exclusively.
Like all truly great cartoons, this one speaks to children and adults, often simultaneously. It has an excellent cast of fully-realized core characters and occurs in an undersea universe that has an odd (often arbitrary but strangely consistent) collection of rules that sometimes become part of the jokes (such as fires burning underwater). I particularly like how everything goes live-action whenever they go above the water surface and the odd live-action inserts. It may be pothead humor, but it works for this pothead.
It sounds like you haven't watched any episodes. You should check it out. You may be surprised.
Nobody really wants 50 miles per charge even if that covers 90% of eventualities. I like the idea of hydrogen and the gasoline hybrids because they seek to lower emissions and raise efficiencies while giving drivers what they want. The 50-60 miles on an electric charge car may get us a commute to work, but if we want to do some shopping, or take a day trip to the shore, we are stuck with a charge. People want to feel their vehicle purchase gives them choices (even when they don't use them 90% of the time), not forces a choice down our throats. I'll always bet on a solution that deals with the realities of consumer choices, rather than those than impose a morality that will never exist with most of the market.
These started showing up on Usenet over the past couple of days. Despite being downsampled to fit on a dvdr, these prints look WONDERFUL. Better than anything we've seen in pervious editions with cool commentary tracks. Well worth buying if you ask me, but could have been so much better.
Now as to what Lucas should have done, I would point to the Alien re-release. Not only do we get commentary, but we get the original theatrical release, a director's cut, and a menu option to activate scene markers. You can see 'deleted scene' or 'added scene' as the movie plays. You make the choices and are provided the information to enjoy as entertainment or study as a film student. This was what DVD was supposed to be all about in addition to better visuals.
You can see how lame and arrogant Lucas is. He says he is releasing these now because in 3 years pirates will have apparently taken over the world. What is he thinking?
Lucas: Just because the market has shifted so dramatically. A lot of people are getting very worried about piracy. That has really eaten dramatically into the sales. It really just came down to, there may not be a market when I wanted to bring it out, which was like, three years from now. So rather than just sit by and watch the whole thing fall apart, better to bring it out early and get it over with.
For someone who has no problem with MS, this is really arrogant. I don't care how much the music industry wants copy protection, I bet this letter did not go over well. On September 2nd, you give me a letter that gives me 18 whole days to make a decision that has major implications on the future of the entire industry. I bet this must leave even the most jaded observers questioning MS sanity and arrogance.
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Conservatives will never go to the stars. They are too busy trying to hold society back.
Some conservatives, the classically liberal ones, not the neo ones, are trying to hold the government back so society can go forward.
Faith has it's place for some people in society, but it didn't get us to the moon and beyond.
Tell that to many of the Apollo astronauts. Some would say their faith got them to the moon and who is this atheist to argue.
And the church has a lot to do with the birth of the scientific method.
They don't let me fly the plane, or drive the train or Trailways. I would give up driving my car in a second, and get back to the important stuff like drinking and smoking pot.
...is to get you to tune in at 11. You give them way too much credit. They stir the pot, scare the parents, overhype the cancer cure or weight loss drug, or show soldiers with puppy dogs as the need arises.
The constitution limits the areas where the federal government gets to tell us what to do to those specifically enumerated. All the other areas are left to the state or local governments, or to the people themselves. If we want to grant further federal rights to tell us what to do, we go through the rather laborious process of amending the constitution. It's hardly anarchist or even complicated. It's just confusing because our well meaning, progressive notions bulldozed through those complications by popular demand. Now we have unlimited government and EVERYTHING is political and we wonder what we can do stop becoming a totalitarian nation. Constitutionally limited government is the Libertarian answer to that problem.
Harry Browne refused to take his qualified matching funds in 2000 as any good Libertarian would. If we ever do win, it will be precisely because we DONT suckle at the federal troughs with all the other pigs. A lib in NJ also qualified for state fund and did take them. The LP current stance is to let the individual candidate decide to make the takings, but no Lib that takes the blood money will ever get my vote. We want to win, but not by using YOUR money to do it.
Democrats think the Electoral College cost them the presidency. We better change the constitution. Republicans think they have a potential president in a popular Austrian. We better change the constitution. 3rd parties want more votes. Better go PR, IRV, or some other method that lets people vote without "throw away" syndrome. I'm a Libertarian, and I say "Just say no" to these knee-jerk reactions. I feel the same about redistricting. We shouldn't allow ANYONE to attempt to engineer favorable outcomes. They never turn out the way we expect any way. And I say better the devil you know. As soon as we Libertarians stop running marginal candidates, more voters will be convinced to vote for us without throwing away their votes. Despite our crappy ballot access laws, we manage to do alright. When we lose, it's our fault. Let's stop blaming a system that is not half-bad and stop trying to engineer new structural outcomes. It always seems to make the mess bigger.
Personally, I am terribly annoyed by TVs in restaurants and airports: they grab my attention over and over, no matter how hard I try to ignore them, and they distract me from the conversations that I should be having with my human companions.
No technology will ever substitute for lack of an internal moral compass (and by moral I include my atheist self - this is not a religious argument). You are in TOTAL control of what you perceive and your reaction to what you perceive. America (I assume the author is a member of the growing American victim class) has become a bunch of spineless victims that can't live in a world unless it caters to their total lack of impulse control. From the drug war, to the growing food war, to all the "for the children" arguments, this type of thinking is scary, and gives cause for more government control of every aspect of our lives. We need to grow some balls and stop playing the victim at EVERY opportunity.
Only the people who believed the internet was some kind of nirvana, where all the sins of mankind were going to be washed away by technology, are disappointed with the way things are going. The rest of us deal with the quirks and it still proves most useful. And businesses are the most locked in. Are we going to go back to modems and BBSs? Not if we want to stay in business. We will deal. The internet will deal. And mankind will remain unchanged in the face of technology.
1st. Fund mechanism that self-sustains new bureaucratic structure.
2nd. Fund lucrative pension plan for members of new bureaucratic structure.
3rd. Fund lavish parties and bonuses for members of new bureaucratic structure.
4th. Do whatever it was that new bureaucratic structure was actually tasked to do with whatever funds are left over (which is zero).
It started with some innocent all-natural fang-lengthening solicitations, but it spiraled into an orgy of Vampagra spews and Transylvanian scams. After a while, I no longer knew if I was dead or undead. And I was way too uptight to play it even a little gay.
You have the pussified pap From The Garth Brooks School that infests the airways. Full of caterwauling of how great god and America are and lots of sappy rumination of how great families are and raising kids and going to Sunday school. And then you have Hank Williams Jr. and the like that is more about rebellions and a hearty "Fuck off" to those that have a problem with it. The former promotes suicide, the latter, promotes life.
A disturbing study showing that the suicide rates for whites in US metropolitan areas is higher in cities where more country music is played on the radio earned the Ig Nobel prize in Medicine for Steven Stack of Wayne State in Detroit and James Gundlach of Auburn University in Alabama.
I think some further study is needed here. My theory is that country music is not actually the culprit, but Southern Baptists are. Country music is more likely to be played in areas infested with Southern Baptists and other fundamentalist Christians. These groups are able to place stricter social controls on anything fun and are constantly harping on homosexuals and on anyone that might be having a good time and not constantly worried about damnation. This denial of the reality of free American lives eventually leads to higher suicide rates. I think we would need to start playing country music in more liberalized areas and see if that might increase the rates of buzzkill before we can blame country music exclusively.
Are you, like your father, not very high on atheists? If yes, is it because you get high on things other than atheists?
Hibbert: No.
Lisa: No.
Marge: No.
Wiggum: No.
Bart: No.
Patty: No.
Wiggum: No.
Ned: No.
Selma: No.
Frink: No.
Lovejoy: No.
Guy hyping Sky Captain: Yes. I mean... um, I mean, no. No, heh.
Like all truly great cartoons, this one speaks to children and adults, often simultaneously. It has an excellent cast of fully-realized core characters and occurs in an undersea universe that has an odd (often arbitrary but strangely consistent) collection of rules that sometimes become part of the jokes (such as fires burning underwater). I particularly like how everything goes live-action whenever they go above the water surface and the odd live-action inserts. It may be pothead humor, but it works for this pothead.
It sounds like you haven't watched any episodes. You should check it out. You may be surprised.
Nobody really wants 50 miles per charge even if that covers 90% of eventualities. I like the idea of hydrogen and the gasoline hybrids because they seek to lower emissions and raise efficiencies while giving drivers what they want. The 50-60 miles on an electric charge car may get us a commute to work, but if we want to do some shopping, or take a day trip to the shore, we are stuck with a charge. People want to feel their vehicle purchase gives them choices (even when they don't use them 90% of the time), not forces a choice down our throats. I'll always bet on a solution that deals with the realities of consumer choices, rather than those than impose a morality that will never exist with most of the market.
They're going after the scumbag resellers that sell these pirated/OEM copy to some naïve sucker at full retail. Good riddance says I.
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These started showing up on Usenet over the past couple of days. Despite being downsampled to fit on a dvdr, these prints look WONDERFUL. Better than anything we've seen in pervious editions with cool commentary tracks. Well worth buying if you ask me, but could have been so much better.
Now as to what Lucas should have done, I would point to the Alien re-release. Not only do we get commentary, but we get the original theatrical release, a director's cut, and a menu option to activate scene markers. You can see 'deleted scene' or 'added scene' as the movie plays. You make the choices and are provided the information to enjoy as entertainment or study as a film student. This was what DVD was supposed to be all about in addition to better visuals.
You can see how lame and arrogant Lucas is. He says he is releasing these now because in 3 years pirates will have apparently taken over the world. What is he thinking?
Lucas: Just because the market has shifted so dramatically. A lot of people are getting very worried about piracy. That has really eaten dramatically into the sales. It really just came down to, there may not be a market when I wanted to bring it out, which was like, three years from now. So rather than just sit by and watch the whole thing fall apart, better to bring it out early and get it over with.
For someone who has no problem with MS, this is really arrogant. I don't care how much the music industry wants copy protection, I bet this letter did not go over well. On September 2nd, you give me a letter that gives me 18 whole days to make a decision that has major implications on the future of the entire industry. I bet this must leave even the most jaded observers questioning MS sanity and arrogance.
"Capricornian One" sounded pretty fishy to me too, but they did boil several kettles of tea during the demo, so who knows?
I think the Mars people will get very tired of all that masturbation and gay sex well before 20 years.
My French is a little rusty, but this article claims that XP is a hamster and NT4 smelled of elderberry.
Scientists, after all, have given us heart transplants, hip replacements, penicillin and super balls.
Superballs maybe, but super balls are still in the pipeline, so to speak.
...from pigeon-based indexing to using cats?