the whole Star Wars universe. The original was clearly a kid's movie, as were all the follow on stories. It's like Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny- there's something wrong with you if you haven't grown out of it by the time you're 8 YO. I mean really, one of the movies had teddy bears ferchrissakes!
I do a lot of 3D printing and I swear if I see one more Yoda head or storm trooper head or light saber being printed by an adult I'm going to scream! If you look at sites like Thingiverse or Youmagine, 70% of it is iPhone cases, 29.9% is star wars figures, and the rest is good/useful/interesting stuff with some artistic or functional merit. I wish they'd spin off separate sites for that stuff so I could avoid searching through all that dreck...
of the road" and therefore electable without demonstrating what a real far right nut job is? The Republican party made a deal with Trump to make its real candidates look less nutty by having Trump act like a clown. Even Ted Cruz looks sane compared to Trump. THAT's exactly what they wanted. It hasn't cost them a dime in advertising because everywhere Trump goes and every time he opens his mouth the press is all over him. I wonder how much they are paying him for his circus side-show act?
of the cars blows a tire, hits a deer or piece of trash that fell off a pickup, or has some other problem. Then you get a 50 car pileup, even with all of the cars operating under control of a single system. Traveling that close assumes that the cars all have similar braking characteristics, tires, engines, and suspension in good condition, etc. Look at cars going down the road today. Every 3rd or 4th car spews smoke, is rusty, and probably has other problems due to little to no maintenance.
The cars will need a grading system based on design, performance, and maintenance history before being allowed to join such a "train".
So based on your logic, since these guys shot a bunch of people, they must have obtained the guns illegally. How is it that you know that these people obtained their guns illegally?
I don't have any stats in front of me, but I'd bet that the vast majority of the mass shootings that have been taking place are done with legally obtained guns. That's the problem. It's too easy to obtain guns legally.
tuition are a scam. It's all been financially engineered to extract as much baby boomer money as possible. The idea is to enslave the kids to inescapable debt (thanks, republicans!) from which the only rescue is for mom and dad to pay off the loans for them either while they're still alive or via inheritance after they're gone.
There's no policy that limits loans to courses of study that are likely to result in sufficient income to service the debt. There's no policy to encourage people to go into the fields that are considered good for the economy, such as STEM, by offering loans at no or even just lower interest. Why? because the purpose of the loans is to make money. You want to get a PHd in underwater basket weaving? Sure, here's $300k to fund your education and you don't even have to think about repaying it until you finish school. While you're at it, here's a couple credit cards to pay for pizza and beer with your friends and a new 60" TV!
I don't think Apple is new to poor user interface design. I installed iTunes (because there was no other easy way to put music on the dumb thing) and tried to copy some music files to the iPod. What a nightmare. That was a few years ago. I remember wondering what all the fuss about the "Apple user experience" was about. It seemed like the worst thing since Windows to me.
Previously, I had used SanDisk Sansa mp3 players. They couldn't have been simpler or easier to use. Apple could have learned a lot from them, if they cared about anything but trying to extract as much cash out of you as possible.
Disclaimer: I own Apple stock (which has been very good to me) but no Apple products. Please keep buying Apple products...I'm sure the usability will improve.
1 part in 1000 is 0.1%- good enough for most things you need to calculate. It got people to the moon and back. If your engineering depends on some digit 13 places past the decimal place, your engineering sucks.
They are pros. They now all the tricks. They will beat you. They have what you want. You are at a disadvantage. After all your haggling they are going to screw you anyway because they are experts. Save yourself the anxiety, time, and effort, give them their price, and take your car home. It will only be as difficult as you make it.
As I understand the Citizen's United decision, money is speech. You can't interfere with free speech, so you can't interfere with money in politics.
If money is speech, speech must be money, so political comments (or any other speech) has a $ value. I wonder how the IRS is going to deal with all my contributions to charities given in the form of speech...
Really? If you have even 1 billion dollars, you "earn" 100X more from your investments in the time it takes to eat a meal than the most expensive meal you can find. Why not pay the bill for everyone in the party? For chrissakes, how much is enough? Of course people want to hang out with you because you're rich. You have cool cars, houses, and lots of really nice toys. Why not let others enjoy your stuff as much or more than you do?
Earlier in life you may have had to work for your money, which might make you reluctant to give up some of it for either your own or others' pleasure. It's time to let go of that idea. You've made it. You won the prize. You reached the goal. You have so much of it that you can't possibly spend it as fast as you make it. You and the next 10 generations of your descendants will have enough so they never have to worry about having to work for their entire lives. Now it's time to enjoy it and if that means wasting some of it by buying cars for your relatives and friends, just do it and feel good about it.
Billionaires think BIG. They hang out with other billionaires because that's where the money is. If you're a billionaire, everyone you know, especially the other billionaires, are trying to figure out ways to get your billions. And you hang out with them because you're trying to get their billions. Billions isn't enough any more than millions was. The one who dies with the most wins!
It's called Choctaw Bingo by the James McMurtry and the Heartless Bastards. See it performed live on Austin City Limits- there's some smokin' guitar work...
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to this and what the loop holes are.
Me too, at least until a month or so ago when I got a new wireless router. Maybe someone should tell NY about SamKnows.
the whole Star Wars universe. The original was clearly a kid's movie, as were all the follow on stories. It's like Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny- there's something wrong with you if you haven't grown out of it by the time you're 8 YO. I mean really, one of the movies had teddy bears ferchrissakes!
I do a lot of 3D printing and I swear if I see one more Yoda head or storm trooper head or light saber being printed by an adult I'm going to scream! If you look at sites like Thingiverse or Youmagine, 70% of it is iPhone cases, 29.9% is star wars figures, and the rest is good/useful/interesting stuff with some artistic or functional merit. I wish they'd spin off separate sites for that stuff so I could avoid searching through all that dreck...
of the road" and therefore electable without demonstrating what a real far right nut job is? The Republican party made a deal with Trump to make its real candidates look less nutty by having Trump act like a clown. Even Ted Cruz looks sane compared to Trump. THAT's exactly what they wanted. It hasn't cost them a dime in advertising because everywhere Trump goes and every time he opens his mouth the press is all over him. I wonder how much they are paying him for his circus side-show act?
of the cars blows a tire, hits a deer or piece of trash that fell off a pickup, or has some other problem. Then you get a 50 car pileup, even with all of the cars operating under control of a single system. Traveling that close assumes that the cars all have similar braking characteristics, tires, engines, and suspension in good condition, etc. Look at cars going down the road today. Every 3rd or 4th car spews smoke, is rusty, and probably has other problems due to little to no maintenance.
The cars will need a grading system based on design, performance, and maintenance history before being allowed to join such a "train".
So based on your logic, since these guys shot a bunch of people, they must have obtained the guns illegally. How is it that you know that these people obtained their guns illegally?
I don't have any stats in front of me, but I'd bet that the vast majority of the mass shootings that have been taking place are done with legally obtained guns. That's the problem. It's too easy to obtain guns legally.
Yeah, 20 more people shooting. I wonder how many would have been killed by the cross-fire...
I don't ever want to be around "trained" amateurs looking for an excuse to start shooting in public.
tuition are a scam. It's all been financially engineered to extract as much baby boomer money as possible. The idea is to enslave the kids to inescapable debt (thanks, republicans!) from which the only rescue is for mom and dad to pay off the loans for them either while they're still alive or via inheritance after they're gone.
There's no policy that limits loans to courses of study that are likely to result in sufficient income to service the debt. There's no policy to encourage people to go into the fields that are considered good for the economy, such as STEM, by offering loans at no or even just lower interest. Why? because the purpose of the loans is to make money. You want to get a PHd in underwater basket weaving? Sure, here's $300k to fund your education and you don't even have to think about repaying it until you finish school. While you're at it, here's a couple credit cards to pay for pizza and beer with your friends and a new 60" TV!
I don't think Apple is new to poor user interface design. I installed iTunes (because there was no other easy way to put music on the dumb thing) and tried to copy some music files to the iPod. What a nightmare. That was a few years ago. I remember wondering what all the fuss about the "Apple user experience" was about. It seemed like the worst thing since Windows to me.
Previously, I had used SanDisk Sansa mp3 players. They couldn't have been simpler or easier to use. Apple could have learned a lot from them, if they cared about anything but trying to extract as much cash out of you as possible.
Disclaimer: I own Apple stock (which has been very good to me) but no Apple products. Please keep buying Apple products...I'm sure the usability will improve.
monatomic gold! That stuff makes red mercury look like candy!
and they'll be cost competitive with Tesla's new batteries? One would hope so.
1 part in 1000 is 0.1%- good enough for most things you need to calculate. It got people to the moon and back. If your engineering depends on some digit 13 places past the decimal place, your engineering sucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They are pros. They now all the tricks. They will beat you. They have what you want. You are at a disadvantage. After all your haggling they are going to screw you anyway because they are experts. Save yourself the anxiety, time, and effort, give them their price, and take your car home. It will only be as difficult as you make it.
As I understand the Citizen's United decision, money is speech. You can't interfere with free speech, so you can't interfere with money in politics.
If money is speech, speech must be money, so political comments (or any other speech) has a $ value. I wonder how the IRS is going to deal with all my contributions to charities given in the form of speech...
Just my 2 cents worth....
Creating a false record of someone's presence is another way to use it.
Hmmmm.
Really? If you have even 1 billion dollars, you "earn" 100X more from your investments in the time it takes to eat a meal than the most expensive meal you can find. Why not pay the bill for everyone in the party? For chrissakes, how much is enough? Of course people want to hang out with you because you're rich. You have cool cars, houses, and lots of really nice toys. Why not let others enjoy your stuff as much or more than you do?
Earlier in life you may have had to work for your money, which might make you reluctant to give up some of it for either your own or others' pleasure. It's time to let go of that idea. You've made it. You won the prize. You reached the goal. You have so much of it that you can't possibly spend it as fast as you make it. You and the next 10 generations of your descendants will have enough so they never have to worry about having to work for their entire lives. Now it's time to enjoy it and if that means wasting some of it by buying cars for your relatives and friends, just do it and feel good about it.
Billionaires think BIG. They hang out with other billionaires because that's where the money is. If you're a billionaire, everyone you know, especially the other billionaires, are trying to figure out ways to get your billions. And you hang out with them because you're trying to get their billions. Billions isn't enough any more than millions was. The one who dies with the most wins!
Listen to it on "Live in Aught Three"- much higher energy!
It's called Choctaw Bingo by the James McMurtry and the Heartless Bastards. See it performed live on Austin City Limits- there's some smokin' guitar work...
Physicists are quantized, so they want everything else to be quantized.
He cooks that crystal meth because the shine don't sell
You know he likes that money, he don't mind the smell!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Hmmm. A professionally designed and installed charger system is a fire risk but selling cigarettes and lighters near the gasoline isn't?