Whenever French users search for "Lyonnaise de Garantie," Google should just return "Your search - Lyonnaise de Garantie - did not match any documents." And then a list of competing insurance companies.
Have to set it up in many places. I just wish "features" like autocomplete were disabled on default and the user was left to decide what they wanted to enable to enhance their experience. I find good ol' Google is getting on my nerves more often than not.
They should adopt as a motto: Just because we can, should we?
Every time someone rolls out something horrible like this they think it's a wunnerful thing. Well, not tal all of us. I find this stuff causes me to make typos far more often in searches, because of the distraction.
It's fine to raise the taxes - just write into the law which places the tax on petrol to use the proceeds for specific things. Unrestricted funds are what the government messes around with anyway. (Though the ***tards are sometimes clever enough to craft a law which allows them to "borrow" from those funds, without paying interest, like they did to the Social Security pot.
The oil companys might not make more money next year than they did this year. Repeated forever into the future.
And we can't have that now can we?
Sounds like a recursive function.
Of course, there's always a constant thrown in - P for Profit, they'll always make a profit.
If we all drive cars which get 100 MPG then the price per gallon will simply be adjusted, due to economy of scale - fixed costs are spread over less product, so are rolled into the unit price - say... 10$US gallon. A that point, people still stupid enough to drive 12 MPG Behemoths will feel the pain.
I think we should file this under the "what could possibly go wrong" department.
Anubis was brought in by Professor O. Siris.
Yep. Don't let them out. The Argentine Ant is a big enough problem already and they're tiny little inoccuous ants, but can have over 100,000 per colony.
Unforunately she'll be mummified and buried in ice so her last name is inappropriate.
Enough windburn and she'll be a red Skelton.
I'm certainly put off by the wind - when it hits about 20 knots it's some real work to go in. In the winds she'll be facing I can't imagine doing other than trying to simply stay in once place, without my bike being blown away - and these winds can go for more than 24 hours.
I love this idea. So there's some sort of government layer between scientists and their phones, email, blogs, and everything? That they have the infrastructure to cover this up successfully, but can't cover up when one of their own officials does one thing with one other person alone in a room in which they are the only two people? The people they'd be most interested in covering this up from are also the people who are the least likely to believe anything a scientist says anyway.
The NRA would be the first to reach out to them and preach Disintegrater Ray Rights.
Sure. It could very well be the original broadcasts of 'I Love Kleeg' and 'Zaxak's Island'. It might be quite good, if we could figure out their modulation scheme.
Perhaps if we recklessly go about reverse engineering it and violating their intellectual property rights they'll send their lawyers to us with a C & D letter.
I'm not quite certain that could be viewed as a positive development... imagine making contact with a civilization where they'd excell at legal thinking and came here to practice law? could be a scary thing.
You want to foster innovation? Make it so a company doesn't have to spend zillions on lawyers to deal with trolls.
Might also want to see there are fewer tax breaks available to companies who shift work out of the country.
I spent a portion of my life in Michigan, where tax incentives were all over the place, trying to keep GM, Ford, Chrysler in the towns they were in, but even after all the tax breaks and assistance the companies still moved a lot of manufacturing to Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Japan, etc. Now almost everyone is moving manufacturing to Thailand, China or Vietnam - with reform efforts in Burma expect investment (read: moving manufacturing and research there as well.)
Discouraging the outright offshoring of everything isn't necessarily protectionist and certainly is in line when confronting countries like China, where they've pegged their currency artificially low to draw in research, manufacturing, etc. It's how they are growing their economy, not entirely unlike how the Japan government subsidised exports for decades, which drew jobs and wealth into Japan, by way of research, manufacturing, etc.
But only with approved companies and countries. Doesn't that sound like a wonderful industry to be in - consulting who to trade aggressively with and who you shouldn't trade with (unless there's slim odds you'll get caught)?
In terms of household income, adjusted for inflation, the US has been going backwards for decades - not simply as wealth left he country, but as the means of generating GDP were pushed off shore.
Consider this: Workers at Company A buy goods from Companies B and C, while workers at Companies B and C buy from the companies other than their employers. Now, Company A lays off all but sales and marketing, putting manufacturing and packaging into offshore hands. Companies B and C have smaller pool to sell goods to. So... Company B lays off all but a few front office, outsourcing the remaining sales and marketing outside the region. The pool of those who can buy from Company A and Company B are mostly Company C. When Company C follows suit, who's left to buy from A, B and C?
Granted, that's rather simplified, but it is the exodus which has been ongoing since the first Transistor radios arrived from Japan, decades ago. A presence in the US isn't even necessary as almost every function but Board of Directors and CEO can be done elsewhere.
A grim prospect. But... this should make US a fertile ground for moving back into, in theory.
Traditional Canadian values are being traded for closer ties with US. Conservative Harper government has an ability to pass this, in exchange getting border harmonization (less restrictions on shipping) with US.
Vibes of the Helms–Burton Act, 1996. In effect: Canadian companies doing business in Cuba could not do business with US Government or US Corporations - which in this multinational world is like trying to dance through a minefield.
The whiff of influence is possibly due to sentiment, like you state, in the interest of happy cross border trade ($$$) rather than in the interests of the people of Canada.
Uhm, if everyone is tailgating and they feel they need to pass you on the shoulder... perhaps you are driving to slow?
Easy way to deal with tailgaters, move to the side and let them pass. If you feel you must drive fast, you can then follow them and let them get the speeding ticket at the next speed trap. You always want a 'rabbit'.
Driving an infuriatingly slow speed appears to be about 5 MPH over the speed limit. Though I must say, I have seen dozens of different drivers who tailgate out of habit. You can generally find them, after a rainfall, standing outside a shattered pile of plastic by the roadside.
Corporate political donations are banned in Canada and individual donations are limited, so it's not the money. It's just that the elected leaders happen to believe corporations should get whatever they want.
You've never met a politician who wasn't rewarded for loyalty after they left office. This is the retirement plan for a large share of the US House and Senate.
"I'm just waiting for the day a leak shows them going to bat for Chinese interests."
Why wait? Corporations are international. All you need is one satellite office in Wisconsin and you can funnel money into the U.S. to pay politicians to do things.
And of course that's fair, right? I mean, the U.S. pressures everyone else, it's not unreasonable that other places pressure the U.S.
Chinese were buying influence in US elections in the 1990's.
This raises a question. Unless you are down on your knees, pleading hopelessly with a language construct. I beg of you to please know what the phrase "begs the question" means. Please!
I take it more as an indication of how good the safety systems on modern vehicles are, he crashed at over 100mph with no seatbelt on, and basically the airbags and crumple zones saved his life. Twenty years ago this would have been a story about how he skidded on some black ice and died.
This is a Crown Victoria, sir, one of the very last battleships of the road from the bygone era of 20 foot long, V8-powered, family cars. It's the one I often see driven by tiny little white-haired people - presumably because "Large" is the only car size they'll buy - which gives them that advantage of surviving to drive even more years, while you and I are a smear on the pave.
Not exactly the last battleship. Now we have Suburban, Expedition, etc. They dwarf the Crown Victoria in size and weight. The survival rates in these SUV behemoths are also very good.
Actually, they are very bad. As most of these vehicles are built for larger space inside, they generally do not have strong enough roof support to keep the top from caving in due to increased mass of vehicle. There are many cars which are safer in a collision or rollover than SUVs. From the look of that Crown Vic, crashing at about 90 MPH into a "rock ledge" it's quite impressive the Lt. Guv wasn't paté. Over New Years I saw a few SUVs and Minivans which looked far worse, and were likey to have been involved in slower velocity collisions on the highway.
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Whenever French users search for "Lyonnaise de Garantie," Google should just return "Your search - Lyonnaise de Garantie - did not match any documents." And then a list of competing insurance companies.
There! Problem solved!
Did you really mean Mayonnaise?
Have you tried NoScript?
Have to set it up in many places. I just wish "features" like autocomplete were disabled on default and the user was left to decide what they wanted to enable to enhance their experience. I find good ol' Google is getting on my nerves more often than not.
They should adopt as a motto: Just because we can, should we?
Whatever you think..taxes should not be used for behavioral manipulations.
Taxes are for funding the govt services we all need...that should be it...period.
People should be free to choose to drive and spend in the fashion they wish.
Taxes weren't passed to allow a 'chosen' few to dictate citizen behavior....
So you advocate rolling back tobacco taxes?
Every time someone rolls out something horrible like this they think it's a wunnerful thing. Well, not tal all of us. I find this stuff causes me to make typos far more often in searches, because of the distraction.
It's fine to raise the taxes - just write into the law which places the tax on petrol to use the proceeds for specific things. Unrestricted funds are what the government messes around with anyway. (Though the ***tards are sometimes clever enough to craft a law which allows them to "borrow" from those funds, without paying interest, like they did to the Social Security pot.
If we save fuel all across the board...
The oil companys might not make more money next year than they did this year. Repeated forever into the future.
And we can't have that now can we?
Sounds like a recursive function.
Of course, there's always a constant thrown in - P for Profit, they'll always make a profit.
If we all drive cars which get 100 MPG then the price per gallon will simply be adjusted, due to economy of scale - fixed costs are spread over less product, so are rolled into the unit price - say... 10$US gallon. A that point, people still stupid enough to drive 12 MPG Behemoths will feel the pain.
I think we should file this under the "what could possibly go wrong" department.
Anubis was brought in by Professor O. Siris.
Yep. Don't let them out. The Argentine Ant is a big enough problem already and they're tiny little inoccuous ants, but can have over 100,000 per colony.
I saw a documentary about this! Watchit!
Well, if it gets it out there, but why Twitter? It's going to have to compete with all the usual garbage which is trending.
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Waddleduck Another show about lawyers #fail #bloodsuckers
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Unforunately she'll be mummified and buried in ice so her last name is inappropriate.
Enough windburn and she'll be a red Skelton.
I'm certainly put off by the wind - when it hits about 20 knots it's some real work to go in. In the winds she'll be facing I can't imagine doing other than trying to simply stay in once place, without my bike being blown away - and these winds can go for more than 24 hours.
I love this idea. So there's some sort of government layer between scientists and their phones, email, blogs, and everything? That they have the infrastructure to cover this up successfully, but can't cover up when one of their own officials does one thing with one other person alone in a room in which they are the only two people? The people they'd be most interested in covering this up from are also the people who are the least likely to believe anything a scientist says anyway.
The NRA would be the first to reach out to them and preach Disintegrater Ray Rights.
Yes, scared of a civilization that can't do anything to them.
Now, some global cult hiding are existence because it would be against the religious doctrine..THAT'S plausible.
How about we sic Lady Gaga on them?
or her fashion consultant!
Sure. It could very well be the original broadcasts of 'I Love Kleeg' and 'Zaxak's Island'. It might be quite good, if we could figure out their modulation scheme.
Perhaps if we recklessly go about reverse engineering it and violating their intellectual property rights they'll send their lawyers to us with a C & D letter.
I'm not quite certain that could be viewed as a positive development ... imagine making contact with a civilization where they'd excell at legal thinking and came here to practice law? could be a scary thing.
That's just what the aliens want us to believe!
Yeah. Well, what do you think of aliens on other worlds deciding to believe we do not exist?
such temerity!
But that doesn't mean they do not exist.
Let's give SETI another 20 years! T'is better to hope for alien contact than to have no hope at all! =)
You want to foster innovation? Make it so a company doesn't have to spend zillions on lawyers to deal with trolls.
Might also want to see there are fewer tax breaks available to companies who shift work out of the country.
I spent a portion of my life in Michigan, where tax incentives were all over the place, trying to keep GM, Ford, Chrysler in the towns they were in, but even after all the tax breaks and assistance the companies still moved a lot of manufacturing to Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Japan, etc. Now almost everyone is moving manufacturing to Thailand, China or Vietnam - with reform efforts in Burma expect investment (read: moving manufacturing and research there as well.)
Discouraging the outright offshoring of everything isn't necessarily protectionist and certainly is in line when confronting countries like China, where they've pegged their currency artificially low to draw in research, manufacturing, etc. It's how they are growing their economy, not entirely unlike how the Japan government subsidised exports for decades, which drew jobs and wealth into Japan, by way of research, manufacturing, etc.
But only with approved companies and countries. Doesn't that sound like a wonderful industry to be in - consulting who to trade aggressively with and who you shouldn't trade with (unless there's slim odds you'll get caught)?
In terms of household income, adjusted for inflation, the US has been going backwards for decades - not simply as wealth left he country, but as the means of generating GDP were pushed off shore.
Consider this: Workers at Company A buy goods from Companies B and C, while workers at Companies B and C buy from the companies other than their employers. Now, Company A lays off all but sales and marketing, putting manufacturing and packaging into offshore hands. Companies B and C have smaller pool to sell goods to. So... Company B lays off all but a few front office, outsourcing the remaining sales and marketing outside the region. The pool of those who can buy from Company A and Company B are mostly Company C. When Company C follows suit, who's left to buy from A, B and C?
Granted, that's rather simplified, but it is the exodus which has been ongoing since the first Transistor radios arrived from Japan, decades ago. A presence in the US isn't even necessary as almost every function but Board of Directors and CEO can be done elsewhere.
A grim prospect. But ... this should make US a fertile ground for moving back into, in theory.
Sadly, this is all but done deal.
Traditional Canadian values are being traded for closer ties with US. Conservative Harper government has an ability to pass this, in exchange getting border harmonization (less restrictions on shipping) with US.
Vibes of the Helms–Burton Act, 1996. In effect: Canadian companies doing business in Cuba could not do business with US Government or US Corporations - which in this multinational world is like trying to dance through a minefield.
The whiff of influence is possibly due to sentiment, like you state, in the interest of happy cross border trade ($$$) rather than in the interests of the people of Canada.
Uhm, if everyone is tailgating and they feel they need to pass you on the shoulder... perhaps you are driving to slow?
Easy way to deal with tailgaters, move to the side and let them pass. If you feel you must drive fast, you can then follow them and let them get the speeding ticket at the next speed trap. You always want a 'rabbit'.
Driving an infuriatingly slow speed appears to be about 5 MPH over the speed limit. Though I must say, I have seen dozens of different drivers who tailgate out of habit. You can generally find them, after a rainfall, standing outside a shattered pile of plastic by the roadside.
Same song different tune.
Time for the Swedish Copyists to open a Mission in Ottawa.
Corporate political donations are banned in Canada and individual donations are limited, so it's not the money. It's just that the elected leaders happen to believe corporations should get whatever they want.
You've never met a politician who wasn't rewarded for loyalty after they left office. This is the retirement plan for a large share of the US House and Senate.
"I'm just waiting for the day a leak shows them going to bat for Chinese interests."
Why wait? Corporations are international. All you need is one satellite office in Wisconsin and you can funnel money into the U.S. to pay politicians to do things.
And of course that's fair, right? I mean, the U.S. pressures everyone else, it's not unreasonable that other places pressure the U.S.
Chinese were buying influence in US elections in the 1990's.
This raises a question. Unless you are down on your knees, pleading hopelessly with a language construct. I beg of you to please know what the phrase "begs the question" means. Please!
It beggars belief.
This is getting beyond stupid.
In Soviet Canada government blocks YOU, eh!
I take it more as an indication of how good the safety systems on modern vehicles are, he crashed at over 100mph with no seatbelt on, and basically the airbags and crumple zones saved his life. Twenty years ago this would have been a story about how he skidded on some black ice and died.
This is a Crown Victoria, sir, one of the very last battleships of the road from the bygone era of 20 foot long, V8-powered, family cars. It's the one I often see driven by tiny little white-haired people - presumably because "Large" is the only car size they'll buy - which gives them that advantage of surviving to drive even more years, while you and I are a smear on the pave.
Not exactly the last battleship. Now we have Suburban, Expedition, etc. They dwarf the Crown Victoria in size and weight. The survival rates in these SUV behemoths are also very good.
Actually, they are very bad. As most of these vehicles are built for larger space inside, they generally do not have strong enough roof support to keep the top from caving in due to increased mass of vehicle. There are many cars which are safer in a collision or rollover than SUVs. From the look of that Crown Vic, crashing at about 90 MPH into a "rock ledge" it's quite impressive the Lt. Guv wasn't paté. Over New Years I saw a few SUVs and Minivans which looked far worse, and were likey to have been involved in slower velocity collisions on the highway.