If we start reporting on how the violence in Mexico is impacting the United States, then people might want to actually do something about it, and we can't have that.
One of the big reasons Spaceport America was built there was because it's right next to White Sands Missile Range, which is a vast area of land used by the military to test things like missiles (hence the name). Even if something goes wrong after the spacecraft has left the missile range, there's still a huge swath of lightly populated land before you get anywhere near a major city. By the time it got anywhere close to Houston or Dallas, assuming the flight path even takes it anywhere near them, there would have been plenty of time to abort and most of the fuel would have already been spent.
Sorry, but in this case we're definitely talking religious social conservatives here. Now obviously the social conservatives in places like Iran are a lot more extreme than the ones we typically find in the US, but they're still coming from the conservative side of things, as they're attempting to rule by a set of ancient religious laws that are designed in part to stifle progression and return life to a time long ago (that probably never existed) when society was morally pure.
The words "conservative" and "liberal" mean different things in different contexts and in relation to different countries and political systems, and mean even more different things when you throw in the differences between social, fiscal, and general governmental policies. A conservative in Iran is not the same as a conservative in the US, so there's really no need to take offense if you identify as a conservative and that word is used as a pejorative when describing a group in a different country and culture.
No bandwidth caps except for the fact that it takes 3 weeks to download a single episode of a TV show. I used to have dialup for similar reasons, but these days nearly every hotel has wifi available and if your DSL or cable goes down frequently enough to be a problem then you should probably switch to a different provider.
To some degree, but the first prius went on sale in the US in 2001, which was 11 years ago. Lots of people replace their cars far more often than every 11 years.
From what I've seen, diesel prices tend to be more volatile than gasoline prices. Around here, diesel will range from around 50 cents cheaper to 50 cents more expensive than gasoline depending on a number of factors (including, as far as I can tell, a coin flip). So, the price of the fuel shouldn't be an overarching factor in deciding to go for one or the other.
Having said that, though, diesels do get good mileage, and as long as you live in a decent-sized city or near a major highway there usually isn't too much difficulty in finding gas stations that sell diesel fuel.
We have a couple of problems here: As you point out, hybrids are more expensive than they should be for purely cost-concious consumers. Secondly, though, with all-electric cars (or even gasoline-assisted electrics like the Volt) coming out, it's becoming more and more obvious that hybrids are destined to be a short-lived stepping stone and not the long-term solution to our oil and pollution problems. This means the environment-concious people are more likely to buy a Leaf or a Volt than buy another hybrid.
So, basically, hybrids aren't cost effective enough for people buying primarily on cost, and they're not green enough for people buying primarily on environmental friendliness. As all-electrics continue to improve, the age of the hybrid will come to an end.
If the influx has only been happening for the past 10 years, then it's far too early to make those sorts of claims. Unemployment in Ireland has been steadily rising and they're just now starting to implement the types of austerity measures that have tipped Greece into chaos. When economic times get tough and people start losing their jobs, they start to look for people to blame. Foreign immigrants are an easy target.
You may be right that Ireland will be able to escape the rampant racism and ethnic conflicts that usually occur in situations like that when the economy goes south, but I think it's too early to tell how it will pan out.
We should extend it to cases like that, yes. Innocent people have had their lives ruined more than once due to accusations of child pornography because someone else was piggybacking on their connection. With the ubiquity of WiFi, more sophisiticated methods of determining who the culprit is are needed. The cops should not be allowed to conduct raids or make arrests based solely on an IP address.
It's not really all that unusual or all that difficult. A lot of less scrupulous moderators abuse the underrated/overrated mods because they're immune to meta-moderation. Also, Ibelieve the label on it is just the last moderation to be applied, so a +4, informative could become a +3, troll with a single troll moderation.
Why would they need to band together with others, though? In the social networking space you have Facebook on top, Google a distance second, and nobody else even worth mentioning. If there were a lot of mid-sized players out there who combined could equal a significant fraction of Facebook's user base it would make sense, but there aren't.
Yes, and then Google came along and Yahoo consistently failed to do anything to effectively meet that threat, despite plenty of opportunity to do so. Google was not always the massive behemoth it is today...had Yahoo been smarter, it could have easily pushed Google aside and remained the dominant search/portal company, but instead if took misstep after misstep until it became an afterthought.
An automated vehicle would be able to detect the moose and apply the brakes far faster than any human possibly could. There already are rudimentary collision-avoidance systems in some cars, and they'll only get better over time.
When you "like" things, you get updates from those things. It is conceivable that someone would want to see updates from some organization while not wanting their friends to know they like that organization.
Having said that, it's been clear from Facebook's inception that your "likes" are public (at least to your friends) information. It would be nice if you could pick and choose who saw your likes similar to how you can pick and choose who sees your statuses, but Facebook isn't under any legal obligation to make that happen.
MySpace and Friendster would like a word with you.
Obviously Facebook has been far more successful than any of its predecessors, but it's still an Internet property that could be replaced and fall virtually overnight at any moment. It may be a good buy now, but if you're caught holding the bag at the wrong time you could easily lose your shirt.
The best prospect for Facebook investors remains for it to be bought out by some large conglomerate so they can cash out before the bottom falls out. Young people are already abandoning it as they don't like hanging out where their parents and grandparents also hang out, and even some older people (not as many as Google had hoped) have likewise abandoned it for Google Plus. At some point, some other site will come along and eat Facebook's lunch, it's only a matter of time.
You already have a giant phallic bomb called a MASSIVE (ordnance) PENETRATOR and it's not good enough for you? Does everyone in the Pentagon have such a small penis or is it just the people in charge of purchasing?
It's also not in international waters in any meaningful sense. The British have pretty much let it be so far because it's basically harmless, but if they start posting embarrassing secrets about the US government from there, you can bet the US will put pressure on the UK to re-assert its territorial rights over it.
The only real way they could get into international waters these days would be to be mobile in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Even then, if they started putting out information the US considered truly dangerous, it would only be a matter of time before their floating fortress was "accidentally" sent to the bottom of the sea by a wayward torpedo.
This whole idea is a fantasy, of course. The only way to be safe from the US shutting it down would be to host it in a country willing to stand up against the US to protect it. I don't think there are very many countries on that list.
The moderation system is really more of like/dislike setup and has no encouragement for mods to actually say that +4 is fair score and that +5 would be too much.
That's what the overrated/underrated mods were intended for, but they've never ever been used for that purpose and probably ought to be removed. To my knowledge, the only reason people ever use them is because they're immune to meta-moderation. Well, that and so they can make posts +5, Troll or -1, Insightful.
Also, repeatedly calling the same number with the same message (as opposed to calling many numbers with the same message like the campaigns do) could be considered harassment.
The Civil War stuff was usually fairly good. Hell, even the Hitler stuff was good until it all turned into "Hitler and the Occult" and "Hitler's Alien Encounters". And back then, they would at least occasionally throw on some interesting documentary about some other time period at 3 in the morning.
Redboxes do not operate on cash, you pay with a credit card. That way, if you never return the movie, they can just charge your card for the full price and be done with it.
Redbox is useful if you want to see recently released popular movies. Coincidentally, this is exactly the sort of movie that Netflix streaming never has.
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If we start reporting on how the violence in Mexico is impacting the United States, then people might want to actually do something about it, and we can't have that.
One of the big reasons Spaceport America was built there was because it's right next to White Sands Missile Range, which is a vast area of land used by the military to test things like missiles (hence the name). Even if something goes wrong after the spacecraft has left the missile range, there's still a huge swath of lightly populated land before you get anywhere near a major city. By the time it got anywhere close to Houston or Dallas, assuming the flight path even takes it anywhere near them, there would have been plenty of time to abort and most of the fuel would have already been spent.
Sorry, but in this case we're definitely talking religious social conservatives here. Now obviously the social conservatives in places like Iran are a lot more extreme than the ones we typically find in the US, but they're still coming from the conservative side of things, as they're attempting to rule by a set of ancient religious laws that are designed in part to stifle progression and return life to a time long ago (that probably never existed) when society was morally pure.
The words "conservative" and "liberal" mean different things in different contexts and in relation to different countries and political systems, and mean even more different things when you throw in the differences between social, fiscal, and general governmental policies. A conservative in Iran is not the same as a conservative in the US, so there's really no need to take offense if you identify as a conservative and that word is used as a pejorative when describing a group in a different country and culture.
No bandwidth caps except for the fact that it takes 3 weeks to download a single episode of a TV show. I used to have dialup for similar reasons, but these days nearly every hotel has wifi available and if your DSL or cable goes down frequently enough to be a problem then you should probably switch to a different provider.
To some degree, but the first prius went on sale in the US in 2001, which was 11 years ago. Lots of people replace their cars far more often than every 11 years.
From what I've seen, diesel prices tend to be more volatile than gasoline prices. Around here, diesel will range from around 50 cents cheaper to 50 cents more expensive than gasoline depending on a number of factors (including, as far as I can tell, a coin flip). So, the price of the fuel shouldn't be an overarching factor in deciding to go for one or the other.
Having said that, though, diesels do get good mileage, and as long as you live in a decent-sized city or near a major highway there usually isn't too much difficulty in finding gas stations that sell diesel fuel.
We have a couple of problems here: As you point out, hybrids are more expensive than they should be for purely cost-concious consumers. Secondly, though, with all-electric cars (or even gasoline-assisted electrics like the Volt) coming out, it's becoming more and more obvious that hybrids are destined to be a short-lived stepping stone and not the long-term solution to our oil and pollution problems. This means the environment-concious people are more likely to buy a Leaf or a Volt than buy another hybrid.
So, basically, hybrids aren't cost effective enough for people buying primarily on cost, and they're not green enough for people buying primarily on environmental friendliness. As all-electrics continue to improve, the age of the hybrid will come to an end.
If the influx has only been happening for the past 10 years, then it's far too early to make those sorts of claims. Unemployment in Ireland has been steadily rising and they're just now starting to implement the types of austerity measures that have tipped Greece into chaos. When economic times get tough and people start losing their jobs, they start to look for people to blame. Foreign immigrants are an easy target.
You may be right that Ireland will be able to escape the rampant racism and ethnic conflicts that usually occur in situations like that when the economy goes south, but I think it's too early to tell how it will pan out.
We should extend it to cases like that, yes. Innocent people have had their lives ruined more than once due to accusations of child pornography because someone else was piggybacking on their connection. With the ubiquity of WiFi, more sophisiticated methods of determining who the culprit is are needed. The cops should not be allowed to conduct raids or make arrests based solely on an IP address.
It's not really all that unusual or all that difficult. A lot of less scrupulous moderators abuse the underrated/overrated mods because they're immune to meta-moderation. Also, Ibelieve the label on it is just the last moderation to be applied, so a +4, informative could become a +3, troll with a single troll moderation.
Why would they need to band together with others, though? In the social networking space you have Facebook on top, Google a distance second, and nobody else even worth mentioning. If there were a lot of mid-sized players out there who combined could equal a significant fraction of Facebook's user base it would make sense, but there aren't.
Yes, and then Google came along and Yahoo consistently failed to do anything to effectively meet that threat, despite plenty of opportunity to do so. Google was not always the massive behemoth it is today...had Yahoo been smarter, it could have easily pushed Google aside and remained the dominant search/portal company, but instead if took misstep after misstep until it became an afterthought.
An automated vehicle would be able to detect the moose and apply the brakes far faster than any human possibly could. There already are rudimentary collision-avoidance systems in some cars, and they'll only get better over time.
When you "like" things, you get updates from those things. It is conceivable that someone would want to see updates from some organization while not wanting their friends to know they like that organization.
Having said that, it's been clear from Facebook's inception that your "likes" are public (at least to your friends) information. It would be nice if you could pick and choose who saw your likes similar to how you can pick and choose who sees your statuses, but Facebook isn't under any legal obligation to make that happen.
I'm surprised they even bothered to offer the gift cards. Most people will gladly give up their privacy for free.
MySpace and Friendster would like a word with you.
Obviously Facebook has been far more successful than any of its predecessors, but it's still an Internet property that could be replaced and fall virtually overnight at any moment. It may be a good buy now, but if you're caught holding the bag at the wrong time you could easily lose your shirt.
The best prospect for Facebook investors remains for it to be bought out by some large conglomerate so they can cash out before the bottom falls out. Young people are already abandoning it as they don't like hanging out where their parents and grandparents also hang out, and even some older people (not as many as Google had hoped) have likewise abandoned it for Google Plus. At some point, some other site will come along and eat Facebook's lunch, it's only a matter of time.
You already have a giant phallic bomb called a MASSIVE (ordnance) PENETRATOR and it's not good enough for you? Does everyone in the Pentagon have such a small penis or is it just the people in charge of purchasing?
It's also not in international waters in any meaningful sense. The British have pretty much let it be so far because it's basically harmless, but if they start posting embarrassing secrets about the US government from there, you can bet the US will put pressure on the UK to re-assert its territorial rights over it.
The only real way they could get into international waters these days would be to be mobile in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Even then, if they started putting out information the US considered truly dangerous, it would only be a matter of time before their floating fortress was "accidentally" sent to the bottom of the sea by a wayward torpedo.
This whole idea is a fantasy, of course. The only way to be safe from the US shutting it down would be to host it in a country willing to stand up against the US to protect it. I don't think there are very many countries on that list.
The moderation system is really more of like/dislike setup and has no encouragement for mods to actually say that +4 is fair score and that +5 would be too much.
That's what the overrated/underrated mods were intended for, but they've never ever been used for that purpose and probably ought to be removed. To my knowledge, the only reason people ever use them is because they're immune to meta-moderation. Well, that and so they can make posts +5, Troll or -1, Insightful.
Right, it'll make sure they're completely hosed when they lose their e-reader for the third time this week.
Probably because development for each additional platform costs more than $0, and they don't feel that Linux is worth the expenditure.
Also, repeatedly calling the same number with the same message (as opposed to calling many numbers with the same message like the campaigns do) could be considered harassment.
The Civil War stuff was usually fairly good. Hell, even the Hitler stuff was good until it all turned into "Hitler and the Occult" and "Hitler's Alien Encounters". And back then, they would at least occasionally throw on some interesting documentary about some other time period at 3 in the morning.
These days, it's non-stop suck 24x7.
Redboxes do not operate on cash, you pay with a credit card. That way, if you never return the movie, they can just charge your card for the full price and be done with it.
Redbox is useful if you want to see recently released popular movies. Coincidentally, this is exactly the sort of movie that Netflix streaming never has.