Filthy heathen bastard-whore spawned from the Hellmouth! You bring up "lickable buttons" without even once mentioning how those clearly prove that the filthy hippies at Apple are blatantly inflicting the idea of so-called "foreplay" upon the innocent Genitals of our unsuspecting Christian Nation? Reproduction is a Duty to Jesus, damnit, and Shall be cold, stiff, slightly painful, and conducted under the stern, hawkish Gaze of our Lord God! I don't know how you filthy whore-beasts produce new Christians to feed the Army of Chirist, but the way me and Marsha do it does not involve any lickable buttons!
Just to make that clearer, either going with the random districts, or rigging it so it comes out 5 Democrats and 5 Republicans, which is also possible with enough maneuvering, would be gerrymandering by the rules of this game.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You want to fairly take into account politics when drawing districts. Otherwise, you leave it up to the tyrany of blind luck, which is not what you want.
Take a hypothetical state. 10 representatives, 30% Democrat, 60% Republican. If we draw the districts randomly, you ought to end up with 10 districts, each with 30% Dems and 60% Repubs. In an election, the state would then have a 100% Republican delegation, from a state that is only 60% Republican. The purpose of districting is to make sure that the Republican voters and Democratic voters are distributed in such a way that on average you will end up with 3 Democratic representatives, 6 Republican representatives, and one wildcard/independent.
Your misunderstanding is not unreasonable, and apparently quite common, but it is a misunderstanding.
If they can't be trusted in free society, why did we decide to return them to free society? I mean, releasing somebody from prison and parole seems to imply that they can be trusted in free society. If not, I want them back in jail, not wandering around my city becoming ever and ever more enraged at their lack of basic civil rights.
The issue for Florida, however, was retired guys moving from New York, without a felon voting ban, to Florida and figuring out that the bike they stole in 1952 means they can't vote after they get to the polls. Not a particularly strong issue, you move to Florida you kinda deserve what you get, but the old guys like to complain.
Yeah, the traditional argument was that it's more fair to randomly pick who gets to die than to leave it to the people who can't find a better job, but Clinton, at least, didn't buy into that. The Pentagon wouldn't really want draftees coming in anyway, not after Vietnam, so no matter who's in the White House, you're not going to have conscription until we have a French carrier halfway up the Patomac or something.
If a Democrat tries to attack Iran on Syria, they're not going to do it in such a way that a draft would be brought up. Bush logic: kill the bastard! Clinton logic: he's an evil dictator, but it's a hellava lot safer and cheaper to just kick him in the nuts every time he does something wrong and give him a planeload of food and medicine every time he does what we tell him to. If either Syria or Iran is a problem, any Democratic candidate for at least another decade or so is going to just do some the classic series of punishment bombings followed by "will ya give us what we want yet?" That doesn't raise the issue of conscription no matter how badly you do it.
Starbuck w/ penis was a dick too. The sans-penis version is just playing the character. Picard was a 80s wise mentor-type character, Starbuck was a 70s tough guy. Starbuck isn't supposed to be respectable, he's from the 70s, you didn't need respect back then, just big hair.
Nope, they charge me 15 bucks a month on my water bill for trash, plus 4 dollars "maintence" on the sewer systems. I dunno what the sewer charge is for.
To keep the two seperate.
Really, though, it's not like you can just slap up a system of pipes carrying chemically active substances and expect it to work without some serious maintenence. How much would you want to get paid for climbing down into a sewer and looking for fossilized shit clogs?
Anyway, the worst scam I've found is Time magazines. The whole family, Popular Science and everything. It's not quite as much money as some of the cell phone scams I've gotten from ATT and Verizon, but it's a lot more insulting. The cell guys at least have the decency to hide their treachery in the numbers, Time just sends you bills out of the blue with "URGENT!!!!!! FINAL NOTICE!!!! LOLOMG!!! WE FUCK YOUR CREDIT SO FUNNY!!!" all over them. The trick is that they hired an "affiliate", same as with spam, to be in charge of "encouraging" renewals. The affiliate, from Thiland or some shit so it's out of anybody's jurisdiction, sends out fake collection agency warnings threatening your credit rating and demanding a new year of subscription fees. If you call Time, they say it's not their fault, but that "they've recieved no other complaints" (sure) and intend to keep paying the fuckers. The DA for the state of Florida is trying to find somebody they can charge, but apparently Time hasn't done anything technically illegal.
In Taiwan, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has sued three P2P users who are said to have shared files on the locally-popular Kuro and Ezpeer networks.
Bush didn't steal the election, for Christ's sake, the Supreme Court did. As was befitting the fact that elections are not fucking football games the Florida Supreme Court happilly ignored both Bush and Gore and did what they felt would satisfy them that the law was being upheld. Sadly, the Supreme Court was under the impression that elections are fucking football games in which it is the responsibility of the candidate to fight his side and tough shit for the voters if he doesn't.
Since then, of course, the numbers of conservatives in the country have exploded (I think we're down to 20-something% willing to call themselves "liberal" now) resulting in the 2002 election, and the Democratic party has splintered into Clinton vs. DLC vs. Dean vs. confused conservatives (as much to blame for 2k2 as anything else) while the Republicans have transformed into fucking Voltron or something under DeLay, crushing their enemies and seeing them driven before them to the lamenting of their women.
Ultimately, though, I think that'll be what fucks the Republicans. They aren't made for unity. It burns up all the talk-radio power just holding them together at this point. Sometime soon, sooner if Bush loses, maybe 6 months later if he doesn't, the Christan/neocons are going to have to break with the normal Republicans. Sadly, I think the real Republicans are going to get the shit end of that deal. I just hope somebody's around to slow down the flying monkeys once they shed all those damn rational people that've been holding them down.
Well, I guess technically the queen is younger and more attractive than Cthulhu too, but that's not the adjective we traditionally use in these sorts of situations.
And I have to say, if I had to screw a xenomorph, Ann would not be my first choice.
No, it's just the NRO making shit up again. The guy has a book about the shuttle coming out soon, so he's using NRO (The book store that pretends it's a news site!) to try and attract some attention.
And if you're gonna troll Drudge for/. articles, could you at least have picked the one about making porn at NYU? That I would've been interested in.
God, this has to be like the 6th time I've explained this thing this week.
Go to Advanced Search and check Occurances. Those are all the places Google looks for your search phrase in relation to a page. In the title, the URL, the text, and in links to the page. Thus, every time we say miserable failure W's bio moves up in the ranks.
Eh, it worked for Lyndon. Only problem is Bush doesn't seem to have caught on to the whole "quit while you're ahead" thing that saved L. Jo's crazy Texan ass.
Actually, it was coined by the New York Times. The guy who wrote the article about the Nagasaki bombing back in '46 added "ground" to the "zero" that they put at the middle of the maps they handed out to the reporters about the projected damage to make it sound like he was all "embedded" and shit. Talking about lighting-filled clouds rising thousands of feet above "zero" sounds kinda stupid, though, so he changed it to "Ground Zero" to make it sound more dramatic and jargon-y.
CNN is indeed about as liberal as Bill Clinton. Which is to say, conservative. The problem is that Fox is the hulkish, raving kind of conservative, and CNN is the polite, calm kind of conservative. And then there's MSNBC, the drunken-high-school-girl-passed-out-by-the-pool kind of conservative, the kind that pays way too much attention to any story involving a black guy's penis. Indeed, there are staggering numbers of not-particularly-silent conservatives, and in fact, the country is almost universally moving to the right, evidenced by the fact that Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman are considered liberals as well as the size of Fox's audience.
Even if this is an artifact of Fox's target democraphic, and even if it's devotees are so numerous that resistance is futile, the point still remains that watching Fox appears to create a more erroneous view of the world than other sources of news. I maintain that this supports bringing up the subject of Fox's problematic accuracy whenever possible.
How about abortions for some, but tiny American flags for others? I'm not too excited to see which of my orifices they pick to shove the little vacuum cleaner up.
The reviewer doesn't really explain the theory, and his bit is kinda misleading.
The idea is that hydrocarbons, rather than being formed from rotting garbage or coming from outer space, are formed via big furnacey things in the mantle. This is supposed to explain events where oil fields appear to have refilled themselves, and the distribution of fields and the wierdities of the geology in and around them.
Personally, I don't buy it, even if I do agree that it's becoming reasonable to question whether organic matter is the only source of oil/gas/coal. The theory's missing anywhere close to a decently complete explaination of how this subterranean coal factory is supposed to work, and even if it does, it doesn't seem like any of the theories I've seen would support treating oil fields like bottomless pits. Whenever they talk about oil being superabundant, it's below a couple miles, where, unless I'm very much mistaken, your drill bit tends to melt like butter.
Go to Advanced Search, look at "Occurances". Title of the page, URL of the page, text of the page, in links to the page, or anywhere. If you're doing a specific type of search, tell it first. Google is not psychic. It tries, but it's just software.
...there are no fewer than twenty-six variables necessary for our universe to even consider permitting life...
The one problem everybody has with the Standard Model. [whine]It's not preeeeeety![/whine] Yes, it's unsettling when we don't have a reason figured out for fundamental shit like Planck's constant and c, but, much like the incredible mysteriousnessness!!! of both the moon and the earth being almost perfectly spherical, (what are the odds?!) it's not such a leap to presume that maybe, just maybe, there's an explaination out there waiting to be stumbled upon.
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Filthy heathen bastard-whore spawned from the Hellmouth! You bring up "lickable buttons" without even once mentioning how those clearly prove that the filthy hippies at Apple are blatantly inflicting the idea of so-called "foreplay" upon the innocent Genitals of our unsuspecting Christian Nation? Reproduction is a Duty to Jesus, damnit, and Shall be cold, stiff, slightly painful, and conducted under the stern, hawkish Gaze of our Lord God! I don't know how you filthy whore-beasts produce new Christians to feed the Army of Chirist, but the way me and Marsha do it does not involve any lickable buttons!
Just to make that clearer, either going with the random districts, or rigging it so it comes out 5 Democrats and 5 Republicans, which is also possible with enough maneuvering, would be gerrymandering by the rules of this game.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You want to fairly take into account politics when drawing districts. Otherwise, you leave it up to the tyrany of blind luck, which is not what you want.
Take a hypothetical state. 10 representatives, 30% Democrat, 60% Republican. If we draw the districts randomly, you ought to end up with 10 districts, each with 30% Dems and 60% Repubs. In an election, the state would then have a 100% Republican delegation, from a state that is only 60% Republican. The purpose of districting is to make sure that the Republican voters and Democratic voters are distributed in such a way that on average you will end up with 3 Democratic representatives, 6 Republican representatives, and one wildcard/independent.
Your misunderstanding is not unreasonable, and apparently quite common, but it is a misunderstanding.
If they can't be trusted in free society, why did we decide to return them to free society? I mean, releasing somebody from prison and parole seems to imply that they can be trusted in free society. If not, I want them back in jail, not wandering around my city becoming ever and ever more enraged at their lack of basic civil rights.
The issue for Florida, however, was retired guys moving from New York, without a felon voting ban, to Florida and figuring out that the bike they stole in 1952 means they can't vote after they get to the polls. Not a particularly strong issue, you move to Florida you kinda deserve what you get, but the old guys like to complain.
Yeah, the traditional argument was that it's more fair to randomly pick who gets to die than to leave it to the people who can't find a better job, but Clinton, at least, didn't buy into that. The Pentagon wouldn't really want draftees coming in anyway, not after Vietnam, so no matter who's in the White House, you're not going to have conscription until we have a French carrier halfway up the Patomac or something.
If a Democrat tries to attack Iran on Syria, they're not going to do it in such a way that a draft would be brought up. Bush logic: kill the bastard! Clinton logic: he's an evil dictator, but it's a hellava lot safer and cheaper to just kick him in the nuts every time he does something wrong and give him a planeload of food and medicine every time he does what we tell him to. If either Syria or Iran is a problem, any Democratic candidate for at least another decade or so is going to just do some the classic series of punishment bombings followed by "will ya give us what we want yet?" That doesn't raise the issue of conscription no matter how badly you do it.
Another thing worth mentioning is that the moon story was crap. And didn't I tell ya? I think I did.
Well, not so much anymore. All that heroin kinda killed his appetite.
Starbuck w/ penis was a dick too. The sans-penis version is just playing the character. Picard was a 80s wise mentor-type character, Starbuck was a 70s tough guy. Starbuck isn't supposed to be respectable, he's from the 70s, you didn't need respect back then, just big hair.
Nope, they charge me 15 bucks a month on my water bill for trash, plus 4 dollars "maintence" on the sewer systems. I dunno what the sewer charge is for.
To keep the two seperate.
Really, though, it's not like you can just slap up a system of pipes carrying chemically active substances and expect it to work without some serious maintenence. How much would you want to get paid for climbing down into a sewer and looking for fossilized shit clogs?
Anyway, the worst scam I've found is Time magazines. The whole family, Popular Science and everything. It's not quite as much money as some of the cell phone scams I've gotten from ATT and Verizon, but it's a lot more insulting. The cell guys at least have the decency to hide their treachery in the numbers, Time just sends you bills out of the blue with "URGENT!!!!!! FINAL NOTICE!!!! LOLOMG!!! WE FUCK YOUR CREDIT SO FUNNY!!!" all over them. The trick is that they hired an "affiliate", same as with spam, to be in charge of "encouraging" renewals. The affiliate, from Thiland or some shit so it's out of anybody's jurisdiction, sends out fake collection agency warnings threatening your credit rating and demanding a new year of subscription fees. If you call Time, they say it's not their fault, but that "they've recieved no other complaints" (sure) and intend to keep paying the fuckers. The DA for the state of Florida is trying to find somebody they can charge, but apparently Time hasn't done anything technically illegal.
In Taiwan, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has sued three P2P users who are said to have shared files on the locally-popular Kuro and Ezpeer networks.
Let this be a warning.... to you!
Bush didn't steal the election, for Christ's sake, the Supreme Court did. As was befitting the fact that elections are not fucking football games the Florida Supreme Court happilly ignored both Bush and Gore and did what they felt would satisfy them that the law was being upheld. Sadly, the Supreme Court was under the impression that elections are fucking football games in which it is the responsibility of the candidate to fight his side and tough shit for the voters if he doesn't.
Since then, of course, the numbers of conservatives in the country have exploded (I think we're down to 20-something% willing to call themselves "liberal" now) resulting in the 2002 election, and the Democratic party has splintered into Clinton vs. DLC vs. Dean vs. confused conservatives (as much to blame for 2k2 as anything else) while the Republicans have transformed into fucking Voltron or something under DeLay, crushing their enemies and seeing them driven before them to the lamenting of their women.
Ultimately, though, I think that'll be what fucks the Republicans. They aren't made for unity. It burns up all the talk-radio power just holding them together at this point. Sometime soon, sooner if Bush loses, maybe 6 months later if he doesn't, the Christan/neocons are going to have to break with the normal Republicans. Sadly, I think the real Republicans are going to get the shit end of that deal. I just hope somebody's around to slow down the flying monkeys once they shed all those damn rational people that've been holding them down.
Well, I guess technically the queen is younger and more attractive than Cthulhu too, but that's not the adjective we traditionally use in these sorts of situations.
And I have to say, if I had to screw a xenomorph, Ann would not be my first choice.
No, it's just the NRO making shit up again. The guy has a book about the shuttle coming out soon, so he's using NRO (The book store that pretends it's a news site!) to try and attract some attention.
/. articles, could you at least have picked the one about making porn at NYU? That I would've been interested in.
And if you're gonna troll Drudge for
Made With 100% Pure 42th Street Station Hobo Piss
God, this has to be like the 6th time I've explained this thing this week.
Go to Advanced Search and check Occurances. Those are all the places Google looks for your search phrase in relation to a page. In the title, the URL, the text, and in links to the page. Thus, every time we say miserable failure W's bio moves up in the ranks.
So, (miserable failure) Google is not (miserable failure) actually (miserable failure) conspiring to overthrow our beloved (miserable failure) leader, (miserable failure) it's just me. (miserable failure)
Eh, it worked for Lyndon. Only problem is Bush doesn't seem to have caught on to the whole "quit while you're ahead" thing that saved L. Jo's crazy Texan ass.
Actually, it was coined by the New York Times. The guy who wrote the article about the Nagasaki bombing back in '46 added "ground" to the "zero" that they put at the middle of the maps they handed out to the reporters about the projected damage to make it sound like he was all "embedded" and shit. Talking about lighting-filled clouds rising thousands of feet above "zero" sounds kinda stupid, though, so he changed it to "Ground Zero" to make it sound more dramatic and jargon-y.
CNN is indeed about as liberal as Bill Clinton. Which is to say, conservative. The problem is that Fox is the hulkish, raving kind of conservative, and CNN is the polite, calm kind of conservative. And then there's MSNBC, the drunken-high-school-girl-passed-out-by-the-pool kind of conservative, the kind that pays way too much attention to any story involving a black guy's penis. Indeed, there are staggering numbers of not-particularly-silent conservatives, and in fact, the country is almost universally moving to the right, evidenced by the fact that Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman are considered liberals as well as the size of Fox's audience.
Even if this is an artifact of Fox's target democraphic, and even if it's devotees are so numerous that resistance is futile, the point still remains that watching Fox appears to create a more erroneous view of the world than other sources of news. I maintain that this supports bringing up the subject of Fox's problematic accuracy whenever possible.
One counts votes, the other counts money. Of course we know which of those is imortant enough to allow for recounts and which isn't.
How about abortions for some, but tiny American flags for others? I'm not too excited to see which of my orifices they pick to shove the little vacuum cleaner up.
Uh oh. I've been using that one for taking a dump. Perhaps this explains some of those looks...
The reviewer doesn't really explain the theory, and his bit is kinda misleading.
The idea is that hydrocarbons, rather than being formed from rotting garbage or coming from outer space, are formed via big furnacey things in the mantle. This is supposed to explain events where oil fields appear to have refilled themselves, and the distribution of fields and the wierdities of the geology in and around them.
Personally, I don't buy it, even if I do agree that it's becoming reasonable to question whether organic matter is the only source of oil/gas/coal. The theory's missing anywhere close to a decently complete explaination of how this subterranean coal factory is supposed to work, and even if it does, it doesn't seem like any of the theories I've seen would support treating oil fields like bottomless pits. Whenever they talk about oil being superabundant, it's below a couple miles, where, unless I'm very much mistaken, your drill bit tends to melt like butter.
allintext: "to be or not to be"
Go to Advanced Search, look at "Occurances". Title of the page, URL of the page, text of the page, in links to the page, or anywhere. If you're doing a specific type of search, tell it first. Google is not psychic. It tries, but it's just software.
...there are no fewer than twenty-six variables necessary for our universe to even consider permitting life...
The one problem everybody has with the Standard Model. [whine]It's not preeeeeety![/whine] Yes, it's unsettling when we don't have a reason figured out for fundamental shit like Planck's constant and c, but, much like the incredible mysteriousnessness!!! of both the moon and the earth being almost perfectly spherical, (what are the odds?!) it's not such a leap to presume that maybe, just maybe, there's an explaination out there waiting to be stumbled upon.
You ever play Civilization with no other nations? Pretty boring.