...and not dystopian for some. I have a friend who lost a brother who fell asleep at the wheel, crashed and died. Fatigue (or at the least, closed eyes) should be detectable with current technology, and could save lives now.
Churches could limit events to traditional weddings and reject things like dom/sub 'bondings', civil union receptions (even when they aren't legally weddings), plural marriage additions, and the rest. But now in some states they are compelled to take them all. Their banners, logos, signs, and name are being associated with something contrary to their religious standards. This is not right.
The way around this is to set a generic, non-discrimatory policy that they will perform marriages only for members of their own congregation. Everything else is just a money-grab. If a minister is out there in the world at large, offering to sell his or her services as a marriage officiant, then that minister has forfeited all right to pick and choose who they will marry.
Similarly, if I were of a persuasion that is discriminated against, do you think I would WANT a photographer or caterer or florist who disapproved of me or my lifestyle? No way! I wouldn't try to hire that person in the first place, because they're not going to put their best effort into the product, whatever it is.
Matches my experience. Good managers in particular know when the hell to shut up and get out of the way of the engineers.
True, when the engineers are doing what they're supposed to do. Better managers are listening to the customer and re-directing the team when they either veer off course or the goal changes. And to be the buffer between the engineers who have to deal with the customer's moving target and the customer who doesn't understand the havoc he or she is wreaking.
So, that shows that there's really no difference health-wise, so both of our experiences anecdotally are skewed. I also never asserted what you said in claiming of cross-breeding as a panacea--I was just trying to make the point that "accidental" breeding can result in a dog that is just as wonderful as anything with a 200-year pedigree. AND that in the realm of pets or companion animals, making room in your heart and home for a mixed breed is of more benefit to society than going out to find the "best" in terms of bloodlines. I do see the benefit of consistency in dogs to shepherds and others whose livelihoods depend on the dog performing to a certain standard, but the rest of us shouldn't care. We'll see how the mixed breeds fare in the agility trials at Westminster this week...
Bonehead reporter couldn't even open the Macbook Air box! It shows him *tearing* one end open like it's a mailer. I would venture to say that every Apple product made in this century has pretty elegant "Frustration Free" (TM-Amazon) packaging. What an idiot.
It's probably because of the usual logic they attach--the fact that only Apple makes iPhones. Therefore 40% of the smartphones are made by Apple. Of the 51% Android, no other single vendor has more than 25% overall market share.
Which would be great, but the Insignia I tried with that feature*also* refused to HDMI handshake with my Panasonic Blu Ray player (which, if you know VieraCast, you know why the add-on media stick is needed). Back to the store it went.
There's no way I'll ever drop the Panny, because it has my critical feature of 5.1 analog audio outputs.
Its more like marketing. BTW the only MP3 player I ever bought was from Creative Labs and at least their bundled headphones weren't a complete POS. I plugged it in and i looked just like any other USB pen and I can drag and drop MP3 files into it easily. Much better than having to use iTunes.
Two words: smart playlists. I can and do have iTunes populate my iPod based on metadata--play count, last played date, genre, personal rating, whatever. I haven't had to drag and drop anything in over a decade.
I would love a true solar watch that looks good and will last forever. Screw all that smart stuff.
Check out the 'Eco-Drive' models from Citizen. There are some beautiful solar models, and even a few that will synchronize with the atomic clock broadcasts, so you never have to touch anything (like for Daylight Savings Time, 30-day months, leap days).
I don't know what kind of 'canine professional' you are, but it's clearly not in the area of veterinary science. Yes, it's true that mutts don't 'lose' bad genes, but they have DIFFERENT bad genes than pure-breds do. The probability of expression of recessive traits is reduced drastically through hybridization. It's basic Mendelian inheritance. If both 'pure bred' parents carry an autosomal recessive disorder, the probability of expression in the offspring is 1/4, and the probability of the offspring also being carriers to the next generation is 1/2. If one of the parents is without the allele (different line or a 'mutt'), then the chance of expression is zero, with a 1/4 chance of the offspring being a carrier. Just look at human equivalents like cystic fibrosis or sickle-cell disease.
The problem with the canine industry is that people continue to breed dogs that are carriers of recessive disorders endemic to their breeds. It appears that the worst abuses--breeding of dogs actually afflicted with the diseases--has gone down, but your observation of a 90% 'problem dog,' medically, does just not line up with what veterinarians have told me and what I have observed in my 40 years of owning and loving dogs. I have NEVER seen a mutt with tear staining or cherry eye, and yet both are extremely common in the pedigreed animals I've encountered.
2.) My dog isn't from a puppy mill; she's from a reputable breeder
There's your problem. Get a shelter mutt. They are healthier, more easygoing, and you can feel like you're contributing to the solution, not the problem.
Says the former owner of a cocker spaniel from a "reputable breeder" that developed cataracts at three years old.
I just don't see your system working. If I have a stand-alone solar array, and I charge my car with it using none of your resources -- on what basis do you think you can tax me? Because you feel entitled to it?
Road usage--wear and tear on the surfaces, lights and signage. That's rolled into a gasoline tax now. You expect to get it for free if you don't use gas?
Most people I know who have a Mac Book or a Mac Book Pro have it nearly since a decade and did not buy a new one (well, they don't play games on them, so that might be one reason).
Well, not quite. The first MacBooks came out in February 2006, so they're only going on eight years old. However, my main iron is a Powerbook G4 that *is* 10 years old, and it runs just fine for everything I want. I'm just very lucky that the very last version of the OS that I can run is the very FIRST version compatible with iOS6, and for which Adobe released their DNG translation software for my camera's RAW files.
The Powerbook I had before this one lasted 12 years, and the part that failed was the ribbon cable to the display. I kept using it with lines through the screen until I could no longer sync my iPod Touch or iPhone.
When a government is corrupt, dishonest, and incompetent, then a whistleblower and a spy are essentially the same thing, as they threaten the positions and livelihoods of the corrupt, dishonest, and incompetent politicians and bureaucrats who comprise it.
No--people are using the word incorrectly. Technically, a whistleblower goes to the Inspector General of the Agency in question (or possibly a Congressional oversight committee) to report the issue. Manning & Snowden are "leakers," which, yes, is the same as a spy in the eyes of the Government
>What's special about Norco that they get their very own law in the vehicle code? Are their horses especially fragile?
It's HorseTown, USA! I would guess that the state legislator representing the region was looking out for the livelihood of his or her constituents. Like a good legislator should.
if you're young and listen to recent music, then owning is not that expensive
if you're older than dirt like myself and want to listen to lots of music from the last 40 years or longer than renting is a lot cheaper. add to this the fact that there is so much music to listen to that there is no sense in buying even single songs you might listen to a few times and then go on to something else
I don't get this logic. I'm older, but I *was* young once. When I was young, I bought my music because that was the only way to gear what I wanted to listen to. The only "streaming" service was FM radio. Now that I'm older, I already own it all, and I certainly don't need streaming (I listen to Pandora and TuneIn at Christmastime). the only way this statement makes sense is if you're older, and you were too cheap to buy LPs and CDs when you were under 30.
WTF do you need to ask questions that are really none of your business?
Because if the OP can afford a 4,000 sq ft house, he can certainly afford a professional consultant to help with this "problem," and not try to sponge free advice here.
If you have a Gmail account, you have a Google+ account. I don't know about old YouTube accounts.
I was able to keep mine separate until I decided to watch a pay-per-view movie on YouTube, then I needed a Google Play account (which, of course, is tied to gmail and G+).
If anyone would have bothered to read either UPS's or FedEx's website, they would have seen around the 19th of December they had NO guarenteed delivery date deals. Those promises were purely from the retailers at that point. It's a shame though of course the curriers are the ones who catch the flack.(snip)
Absolutely. The retailers should be taking the flack here, not the parcel carriers. UPS and FedEx have my absolute sympathy. I placed an order through Amazon Prime to a "covered" Amazon partner on the 11th. They didn't hand my package over to UPS until the 16th. I consider myself EXTREMELY lucky that my wife's gift arrived at 7:30 pm on Christmas Eve.
The Beatles gold mine ran out of salable ore long ago. So all they can do is to sell slag to the tourists.
Even though I'm a hardcore Beatles fan, I never bought the last remastered box-set release. I might do that one day, though, when the price of used copies finally comes down on eBay. Gives me something to look forward to.
Even with my tin ears, there was a LOT of music in the mono recordings that I had never "noticed" before. Highly recommended.
Thanks for the pointers. That's kind of scary if you needed a better antenna just 4 miles away. I'm in Clear Lake. I thought I'd be better off than those in Kingwood/Conroe, but I'm guessing I shouldn't get my hopes up.
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Why would Apple want Office on iOS? the iWork suite is just dandy.
...and not dystopian for some. I have a friend who lost a brother who fell asleep at the wheel, crashed and died. Fatigue (or at the least, closed eyes) should be detectable with current technology, and could save lives now.
Or two-three feet off the ground.
Churches could limit events to traditional weddings and reject things like dom/sub 'bondings', civil union receptions (even when they aren't legally weddings), plural marriage additions, and the rest. But now in some states they are compelled to take them all. Their banners, logos, signs, and name are being associated with something contrary to their religious standards. This is not right.
The way around this is to set a generic, non-discrimatory policy that they will perform marriages only for members of their own congregation. Everything else is just a money-grab. If a minister is out there in the world at large, offering to sell his or her services as a marriage officiant, then that minister has forfeited all right to pick and choose who they will marry. Similarly, if I were of a persuasion that is discriminated against, do you think I would WANT a photographer or caterer or florist who disapproved of me or my lifestyle? No way! I wouldn't try to hire that person in the first place, because they're not going to put their best effort into the product, whatever it is.
Matches my experience. Good managers in particular know when the hell to shut up and get out of the way of the engineers.
True, when the engineers are doing what they're supposed to do. Better managers are listening to the customer and re-directing the team when they either veer off course or the goal changes. And to be the buffer between the engineers who have to deal with the customer's moving target and the customer who doesn't understand the havoc he or she is wreaking.
So, that shows that there's really no difference health-wise, so both of our experiences anecdotally are skewed. I also never asserted what you said in claiming of cross-breeding as a panacea--I was just trying to make the point that "accidental" breeding can result in a dog that is just as wonderful as anything with a 200-year pedigree. AND that in the realm of pets or companion animals, making room in your heart and home for a mixed breed is of more benefit to society than going out to find the "best" in terms of bloodlines. I do see the benefit of consistency in dogs to shepherds and others whose livelihoods depend on the dog performing to a certain standard, but the rest of us shouldn't care. We'll see how the mixed breeds fare in the agility trials at Westminster this week...
Bonehead reporter couldn't even open the Macbook Air box! It shows him *tearing* one end open like it's a mailer. I would venture to say that every Apple product made in this century has pretty elegant "Frustration Free" (TM-Amazon) packaging. What an idiot.
It's probably because of the usual logic they attach--the fact that only Apple makes iPhones. Therefore 40% of the smartphones are made by Apple. Of the 51% Android, no other single vendor has more than 25% overall market share.
Which would be great, but the Insignia I tried with that feature*also* refused to HDMI handshake with my Panasonic Blu Ray player (which, if you know VieraCast, you know why the add-on media stick is needed). Back to the store it went. There's no way I'll ever drop the Panny, because it has my critical feature of 5.1 analog audio outputs.
Its more like marketing. BTW the only MP3 player I ever bought was from Creative Labs and at least their bundled headphones weren't a complete POS. I plugged it in and i looked just like any other USB pen and I can drag and drop MP3 files into it easily. Much better than having to use iTunes.
Two words: smart playlists. I can and do have iTunes populate my iPod based on metadata--play count, last played date, genre, personal rating, whatever. I haven't had to drag and drop anything in over a decade.
I would love a true solar watch that looks good and will last forever. Screw all that smart stuff.
Check out the 'Eco-Drive' models from Citizen. There are some beautiful solar models, and even a few that will synchronize with the atomic clock broadcasts, so you never have to touch anything (like for Daylight Savings Time, 30-day months, leap days).
I don't know what kind of 'canine professional' you are, but it's clearly not in the area of veterinary science. Yes, it's true that mutts don't 'lose' bad genes, but they have DIFFERENT bad genes than pure-breds do. The probability of expression of recessive traits is reduced drastically through hybridization. It's basic Mendelian inheritance. If both 'pure bred' parents carry an autosomal recessive disorder, the probability of expression in the offspring is 1/4, and the probability of the offspring also being carriers to the next generation is 1/2. If one of the parents is without the allele (different line or a 'mutt'), then the chance of expression is zero, with a 1/4 chance of the offspring being a carrier. Just look at human equivalents like cystic fibrosis or sickle-cell disease.
The problem with the canine industry is that people continue to breed dogs that are carriers of recessive disorders endemic to their breeds. It appears that the worst abuses--breeding of dogs actually afflicted with the diseases--has gone down, but your observation of a 90% 'problem dog,' medically, does just not line up with what veterinarians have told me and what I have observed in my 40 years of owning and loving dogs. I have NEVER seen a mutt with tear staining or cherry eye, and yet both are extremely common in the pedigreed animals I've encountered.
2.) My dog isn't from a puppy mill; she's from a reputable breeder
There's your problem. Get a shelter mutt. They are healthier, more easygoing, and you can feel like you're contributing to the solution, not the problem. Says the former owner of a cocker spaniel from a "reputable breeder" that developed cataracts at three years old.
Yeah, but for $400, it should include a discounted upgrade path to a "real" guitar...
I just don't see your system working. If I have a stand-alone solar array, and I charge my car with it using none of your resources -- on what basis do you think you can tax me? Because you feel entitled to it?
Road usage--wear and tear on the surfaces, lights and signage. That's rolled into a gasoline tax now. You expect to get it for free if you don't use gas?
Most people I know who have a Mac Book or a Mac Book Pro have it nearly since a decade and did not buy a new one (well, they don't play games on them, so that might be one reason).
Well, not quite. The first MacBooks came out in February 2006, so they're only going on eight years old. However, my main iron is a Powerbook G4 that *is* 10 years old, and it runs just fine for everything I want. I'm just very lucky that the very last version of the OS that I can run is the very FIRST version compatible with iOS6, and for which Adobe released their DNG translation software for my camera's RAW files. The Powerbook I had before this one lasted 12 years, and the part that failed was the ribbon cable to the display. I kept using it with lines through the screen until I could no longer sync my iPod Touch or iPhone.
When a government is corrupt, dishonest, and incompetent, then a whistleblower and a spy are essentially the same thing, as they threaten the positions and livelihoods of the corrupt, dishonest, and incompetent politicians and bureaucrats who comprise it.
No--people are using the word incorrectly. Technically, a whistleblower goes to the Inspector General of the Agency in question (or possibly a Congressional oversight committee) to report the issue. Manning & Snowden are "leakers," which, yes, is the same as a spy in the eyes of the Government
>What's special about Norco that they get their very own law in the vehicle code? Are their horses especially fragile?
It's HorseTown, USA! I would guess that the state legislator representing the region was looking out for the livelihood of his or her constituents. Like a good legislator should.
In which case, why isn't she denying that the device was in use? Seems like that would be a good element to her defense...
that was precisely her defense.
if you're young and listen to recent music, then owning is not that expensive
if you're older than dirt like myself and want to listen to lots of music from the last 40 years or longer than renting is a lot cheaper. add to this the fact that there is so much music to listen to that there is no sense in buying even single songs you might listen to a few times and then go on to something else
I don't get this logic. I'm older, but I *was* young once. When I was young, I bought my music because that was the only way to gear what I wanted to listen to. The only "streaming" service was FM radio. Now that I'm older, I already own it all, and I certainly don't need streaming (I listen to Pandora and TuneIn at Christmastime). the only way this statement makes sense is if you're older, and you were too cheap to buy LPs and CDs when you were under 30.
WTF do you need to ask questions that are really none of your business?
Because if the OP can afford a 4,000 sq ft house, he can certainly afford a professional consultant to help with this "problem," and not try to sponge free advice here.
If you have a Gmail account, you have a Google+ account. I don't know about old YouTube accounts.
I was able to keep mine separate until I decided to watch a pay-per-view movie on YouTube, then I needed a Google Play account (which, of course, is tied to gmail and G+).
If anyone would have bothered to read either UPS's or FedEx's website, they would have seen around the 19th of December they had NO guarenteed delivery date deals. Those promises were purely from the retailers at that point. It's a shame though of course the curriers are the ones who catch the flack.(snip)
Absolutely. The retailers should be taking the flack here, not the parcel carriers. UPS and FedEx have my absolute sympathy. I placed an order through Amazon Prime to a "covered" Amazon partner on the 11th. They didn't hand my package over to UPS until the 16th. I consider myself EXTREMELY lucky that my wife's gift arrived at 7:30 pm on Christmas Eve.
The Beatles gold mine ran out of salable ore long ago. So all they can do is to sell slag to the tourists.
Even though I'm a hardcore Beatles fan, I never bought the last remastered box-set release. I might do that one day, though, when the price of used copies finally comes down on eBay. Gives me something to look forward to.
Even with my tin ears, there was a LOT of music in the mono recordings that I had never "noticed" before. Highly recommended.
Thanks for the pointers. That's kind of scary if you needed a better antenna just 4 miles away. I'm in Clear Lake. I thought I'd be better off than those in Kingwood/Conroe, but I'm guessing I shouldn't get my hopes up.