Where is that assistance supposed to come from? Pretending that the U.S. is not going to go broke providing 'assistance' at every turn will bring us financial ruin before it brings us $10/gal gas.
You are mixing your commodities. Oil is a raw good, and gasoline is a refined good. Once a product has been refined, it is no longer on the same market and can't be compared to the raw good any longer. We already know that profits are high on gasoline, and the companies that sell the stuff wish for them to remain high, when the U.S. stops buying because it's too high, the companies wish to keep making high profits instead of meet the domestic market where it is, so they sell to an international market.
What, and suddenly the 260,000,000 autos out there are supposed to become more fuel efficient? All the people that own those autos are supposed to suddenly buy a more fuel efficient auto? The people who can least afford this option are also the people that can least afford a new auto.
There's a third thing to consider, that being that last year the U.S.'s largest export was....gasoline! It comes down to the fact that the U.S. is using less gas, and instead of lowering prices to encourage more consumption to increase profit margins, the gas companies sell it off outside the U.S., largely to South America, keeping prices high.
I own a Windows Phone, as well as my wife and a few friends. It's just fun simple and easy. It's like the argument people have about making a desktop a tool, when nobody looks at their desktop, they have applications taking up the whole screen, either in shared space or singly taking it all up. I want to get to my app quickly and with no need for decoration I'm only going to see momentarily. Also, the tiles are able to provide complex information at a glance, with no need to open some apps, till more interaction is required. You reach a point in gui design, where you get tired of the constant progression to replicating the look and feel of a physical desktop at the sacrifice of usability and speed.
As for why conversion is "discouraged", it has absolutely nothing to do with ethnicity. The idea of "discouraging" someone from converting is that accepting all of the religious laws of Judaism is a serious commitment, and anyone that wants to convert needs to be certain that they want to make that commitment.
A serious commitment? A serious commitment to a task usually entails taking on something that is possible, or where there is at least a hope of success. There is none where the 613 laws, not to mention the talmudic and rabbinic laws heaped on top, are concerned. There is not one Jew today that adheres to all of them, so rather than use the reverent phrase 'serious commitment', maybe they should own up that they don't want to say they can't do it, and don't want to share their unique status of a group of people that know they will fail at being themselves forever, and will arrogantly continue to do so in spite of that failure.
That's because so much of Christianity has been hijacked by doctrine that comes from the modern Jew, that states that even if you're an atheist, if you were born a Jew, you are a Jew, even if you deny you're Jewishness. And being a Jew is something that is both racial/ethnic as well as religious at the same time. IF you were to convert to Judaism, you would also be changing you're race/ethnicity. One of the many reasons they do not encourage the practice.
I suppose getting turned into a bloody stain on my front door is better than a bloody stain on the floor of a room that doesn't exist. Of course, by the time they are done, my house wont exist either, so....
Because it has 'robotics' and 'Uncanny Valley' in its word cloud. Now you know how to get to front page of Slashdot.
No, because it's science fiction. Romney is going to be a god one day and rule over a celestial kingdom of planets far, far away with lots and lots of wives, the nerd dream.
"companies are still trying to figure out how to receive dollars spent on games they make"
Did they not make money off the game when they sold it? Now the person who bought it wishes to make money off his possession, Curt is supposed to make money off that too?
The definition of Socialism is being allowed to own personal property, but not being allowed to profit from it. i.e. I own a boat, somebody wants me to take them across a lake to the other side. I may do this, but if I get paid for it, I must hand over the profit to {insert socialist authority}.
A species is engineered to perpetuate itself. Just because there are aberrant examples of the opposite does not take away from the fact. Whether you are a 'religious nutjob' or fully adhere to the theory of evolution, the engineering is towards perpetuation. Also, the future possibility of forcing the merger of same sex chromosomes into a life form does not validate the aberration either.
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Where is that assistance supposed to come from? Pretending that the U.S. is not going to go broke providing 'assistance' at every turn will bring us financial ruin before it brings us $10/gal gas.
You are mixing your commodities. Oil is a raw good, and gasoline is a refined good. Once a product has been refined, it is no longer on the same market and can't be compared to the raw good any longer. We already know that profits are high on gasoline, and the companies that sell the stuff wish for them to remain high, when the U.S. stops buying because it's too high, the companies wish to keep making high profits instead of meet the domestic market where it is, so they sell to an international market.
We're taking about gas prices here, not oil prices, and the petrochemical science lab is next door.
What, and suddenly the 260,000,000 autos out there are supposed to become more fuel efficient? All the people that own those autos are supposed to suddenly buy a more fuel efficient auto? The people who can least afford this option are also the people that can least afford a new auto.
...and you have a limited amount that you can sell...
The limitations are imagined, otherwise the largest export for the U.S. last year would not have been gasoline.
There's a third thing to consider, that being that last year the U.S.'s largest export was....gasoline! It comes down to the fact that the U.S. is using less gas, and instead of lowering prices to encourage more consumption to increase profit margins, the gas companies sell it off outside the U.S., largely to South America, keeping prices high.
I own a Windows Phone, as well as my wife and a few friends. It's just fun simple and easy. It's like the argument people have about making a desktop a tool, when nobody looks at their desktop, they have applications taking up the whole screen, either in shared space or singly taking it all up. I want to get to my app quickly and with no need for decoration I'm only going to see momentarily. Also, the tiles are able to provide complex information at a glance, with no need to open some apps, till more interaction is required. You reach a point in gui design, where you get tired of the constant progression to replicating the look and feel of a physical desktop at the sacrifice of usability and speed.
Maybe it wasn't propelled so much as....let go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev8JGqDO8nk&feature=endscreen
As for why conversion is "discouraged", it has absolutely nothing to do with ethnicity. The idea of "discouraging" someone from converting is that accepting all of the religious laws of Judaism is a serious commitment, and anyone that wants to convert needs to be certain that they want to make that commitment.
A serious commitment? A serious commitment to a task usually entails taking on something that is possible, or where there is at least a hope of success. There is none where the 613 laws, not to mention the talmudic and rabbinic laws heaped on top, are concerned. There is not one Jew today that adheres to all of them, so rather than use the reverent phrase 'serious commitment', maybe they should own up that they don't want to say they can't do it, and don't want to share their unique status of a group of people that know they will fail at being themselves forever, and will arrogantly continue to do so in spite of that failure.
That's because so much of Christianity has been hijacked by doctrine that comes from the modern Jew, that states that even if you're an atheist, if you were born a Jew, you are a Jew, even if you deny you're Jewishness. And being a Jew is something that is both racial/ethnic as well as religious at the same time. IF you were to convert to Judaism, you would also be changing you're race/ethnicity. One of the many reasons they do not encourage the practice.
I suppose getting turned into a bloody stain on my front door is better than a bloody stain on the floor of a room that doesn't exist. Of course, by the time they are done, my house wont exist either, so....
Eric: Who is it? Strangers: The people who make you disappear. Eric: Why? Strangers: You stood in the way of them. Eric: Oh.
NOT!!!
Let Apple fans have their toys, they wouldn't know what to do with Office now anyway, it doesn't have any birds.
Oh wait, you patented that too....
bought a penis pump, ordered synthetic Viagra or sent money to Nigeria are automatically exempt from this study.
with only one or two pieces showing up in the junk folder every couple weeks. I've been using Hotmail(Live) for a few years now.
How is this /. material?
Because it has 'robotics' and 'Uncanny Valley' in its word cloud. Now you know how to get to front page of Slashdot.
No, because it's science fiction. Romney is going to be a god one day and rule over a celestial kingdom of planets far, far away with lots and lots of wives, the nerd dream.
That gives Windows 7 phone one half of one percent of the Windows 7/IPhone/Android/BlackBerry 'ecosystem'.
Correction, all you know is: That gives Windows 7 phone Facebook App one half of one percent of the Windows 7/IPhone/Android/BlackBerry 'ecosystem'.
Windows Phone, according to Facebook -> https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=135892916448833
"companies are still trying to figure out how to receive dollars spent on games they make" Did they not make money off the game when they sold it? Now the person who bought it wishes to make money off his possession, Curt is supposed to make money off that too? The definition of Socialism is being allowed to own personal property, but not being allowed to profit from it. i.e. I own a boat, somebody wants me to take them across a lake to the other side. I may do this, but if I get paid for it, I must hand over the profit to {insert socialist authority}.
https://www.jailbreakingisnotacrime.org/
Hence it being aberrant behavior.
A species is engineered to perpetuate itself. Just because there are aberrant examples of the opposite does not take away from the fact. Whether you are a 'religious nutjob' or fully adhere to the theory of evolution, the engineering is towards perpetuation. Also, the future possibility of forcing the merger of same sex chromosomes into a life form does not validate the aberration either.