That is why the companion legislation to the introduction of these cars will need to tax 4wd/SUV vehicles off the roads. Declare minimum fuel/emission standards and tax the bejeezus out of any vehicle that does not comply. Force people to adopt the new technology through economic blackmail.
And further put small farms in America out of business, leading to more mass agribuisness firms.
Except that cutting funding wouldn't force the president to pull the troops out, it would just stop him from rotating out the troops that are there. It really is just one big screw-over of the guys who are over there doing their job.
I think the correct rhyme is something like "I before e, except after c or when sounding like a as in neighbor and weigh". Weird is an exception (there always seem to be exceptions in English) that the rhyme doesn't cover. Maybe we could add "and I'll pluck out your beard if you don't think of weird".
I always learned it as "I before e, except after c; unless it sounds like a as in neighbor and weigh, and weird is weird."
It's not that big of a problem anymore. A few years ago I would run across porn accidently all the time, but I never see it now. I don't know if it's because I go to different sites now, or there is less of an issue.
Guess what. Moderate drinking of alcohol has show to have health benefits. Teaching kids at home to respect and consume wisely is much better than having it be "the forbidden alcohol!" It's legal for me to give a moderate amount of alcohol to my kid. I won't under post-puberty due to liver maturation issues, but there is no reason not too let them have A drink while under 21 at home.
if only Bush had signed the Kyoto Accords. I always like pointing out that Clintion signed the Kyoto Accords, but the Senate rejected it unanimously. Bush just simply revoked the signiture of a treaty that had no force in the US anyway.
think you are wrong about this. Pretty much everywhere you look the humans around you know how to do a lot ofthings. I am sure that if I surveyed the 400 or so people who my street I would find people with working knowledge in practically any field (medicine, engineering, biology, agriculture, etc).
Even if your society is cut down to a few thousand adults you should have enough depth in your knowledge base to get things back on track fairly quickly.
All of those fields that you mentioned are currently heavily dependent on western infrastructure to keep going. What's the doctor going to do without electricity, without the oil refinery, etc. Where is he or she going to get the perscription drugs without the pharm. corps? Really, there's a reason why most people won't even try to have a 'electricity free weekend.'
How about a different test. Go into some vaguely natural enviroment and start producing some hydroden in a way that is less harmful to said enviroment than drilling and refining fossil fuels.
The reports of overdiagnosis of ADD/ADHD are way overblown. Yes, it happened/happens, but it's not as if pills are just stuffed into kids, and the fact that there is some overdiagnosis is no reason to doubt the existence of a condition or to disparage anyone that truly has it by exaggerating statements of overdiagnosis and minimizing any real effects of the condition.
See, PP didn't do that. He pointed out that there are a number of people with ADD/ADHD. My experience about overdiagnosis is based only on personal observation, and reports from others. Overdiagnosis is a hard thing to track down scientifically. Personally, I feel that our rampant overdiagnosis hurts people who really do have ADD/ADHD, as it dilutes the help that they actually, really, do need.
You also have to bring into account what shows the kid is watching. Is it a show were the characters interact with the children? Is it simply passive viewing? Is it flashy colors and quick movements with little to connect different segments (like Sesame Street)? Does this have a difference?
Besides, Star Trek is hardly the worst case of techno-inflation. In 10 seasons Stargate SG-1 has gone from essentially current-day tech to weapons that could destroy a galaxy or three, and since it's one big series I assume that means it's supposed to have happened over 10 years(!). At least SG-1 argues that they gained this technology via interactions with aliens. Star Trek usually makes it something humans or another race with similar technology gaining huge jumps in short times.
You'll see that second passage has far less figures of style and is much more factographic, using given names instead of associations to (alegedly) famous charachters they stand for Umm... maybe because these ARE the famous characters that are then looked back to in the LotR.
IANAR (I am not a rhetorician), but I believe the grandparent post was refering to if the judgement can be used against the mirrors of spamhaus's servers which do reside in the US.
It is somewhat strange to find conservatives so hot under the collar about the property developer issue. It is a matter of record that President George W. Bush made his millions from precisely this type of theft.
I knew a liberal who drove an SUV, therefore it is somewhat strange to find liberals so hot under the collar about enviromentalism.
BTW, just so you know, many conservatives complain about GWB not being conservative enough. Many don't consider him a true conservative.
You must be blind. After killing millions of Iraqis and blowing damn near every structure of 3 bricks or more Iraq is pretty conquered. Most of the fighting now is against those who are crossing into Iraq to fight US troops. these people are coming from all over the middle-east to fight. Some are terrorists who hate us for the arms deals that provided the weapons used to kill their mothers and sisters, and some are just trying to liberate Iraq from the invaders.
Wow. Nice hyperbole. Milions of Iraqis have died? The anti-war "Iraq Body Count" has 42434 last time I looked. Iraq had ~26 million people total. If 'millions' had died, it would have been a lot more noticible (~8%)
Although, what I don't understand, is the idea the people are coming from other countries to 'liberate Iraq from the invaders' when, if they would stop it, the allied forces would leave sooner.
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And further put small farms in America out of business, leading to more mass agribuisness firms.
Yeah, that sounds like a GREAT plan.
No dragging? I stopped watching when it went from sci-fi to soap-opera-in-space.
Apparently it got good again at the end of season 3, I'll probably watch season 4 to see if it truly stopped sucking. Especially knowing it's the end.
Those of us with beards would tell both of you to stop wasting your money.
Except that cutting funding wouldn't force the president to pull the troops out, it would just stop him from rotating out the troops that are there. It really is just one big screw-over of the guys who are over there doing their job.
I think the correct rhyme is something like "I before e, except after c or when sounding like a as in neighbor and weigh". Weird is an exception (there always seem to be exceptions in English) that the rhyme doesn't cover. Maybe we could add "and I'll pluck out your beard if you don't think of weird".
I always learned it as "I before e, except after c; unless it sounds like a as in neighbor and weigh, and weird is weird."
Season 10 (at least in the US) is only half over. Sci-Fi splits the season into two so that they don't have to compete with the big networks.
It's not that big of a problem anymore. A few years ago I would run across porn accidently all the time, but I never see it now. I don't know if it's because I go to different sites now, or there is less of an issue.
Guess what. Moderate drinking of alcohol has show to have health benefits. Teaching kids at home to respect and consume wisely is much better than having it be "the forbidden alcohol!" It's legal for me to give a moderate amount of alcohol to my kid. I won't under post-puberty due to liver maturation issues, but there is no reason not too let them have A drink while under 21 at home.
if only Bush had signed the Kyoto Accords.
I always like pointing out that Clintion signed the Kyoto Accords, but the Senate rejected it unanimously. Bush just simply revoked the signiture of a treaty that had no force in the US anyway.
think you are wrong about this. Pretty much everywhere you look the humans around you know how to do a lot ofthings. I am sure that if I surveyed the 400 or so people who my street I would find people with working knowledge in practically any field (medicine, engineering, biology, agriculture, etc).
Even if your society is cut down to a few thousand adults you should have enough depth in your knowledge base to get things back on track fairly quickly.
All of those fields that you mentioned are currently heavily dependent on western infrastructure to keep going. What's the doctor going to do without electricity, without the oil refinery, etc. Where is he or she going to get the perscription drugs without the pharm. corps? Really, there's a reason why most people won't even try to have a 'electricity free weekend.'
How about a different test. Go into some vaguely natural enviroment and start producing some hydroden in a way that is less harmful to said enviroment than drilling and refining fossil fuels.
The reports of overdiagnosis of ADD/ADHD are way overblown. Yes, it happened/happens, but it's not as if pills are just stuffed into kids, and the fact that there is some overdiagnosis is no reason to doubt the existence of a condition or to disparage anyone that truly has it by exaggerating statements of overdiagnosis and minimizing any real effects of the condition.
See, PP didn't do that. He pointed out that there are a number of people with ADD/ADHD. My experience about overdiagnosis is based only on personal observation, and reports from others. Overdiagnosis is a hard thing to track down scientifically. Personally, I feel that our rampant overdiagnosis hurts people who really do have ADD/ADHD, as it dilutes the help that they actually, really, do need.
You also have to bring into account what shows the kid is watching. Is it a show were the characters interact with the children? Is it simply passive viewing? Is it flashy colors and quick movements with little to connect different segments (like Sesame Street)? Does this have a difference?
Toyota is about to pass GM as the world's biggest, and they sell SMALL CARS.
Have you SEEN the Sequoia?
I have only heard about 3/5 of the top 5, yet I knew all of the honorable mentions. Am i just old?
Besides, Star Trek is hardly the worst case of techno-inflation. In 10 seasons Stargate SG-1 has gone from essentially current-day tech to weapons that could destroy a galaxy or three, and since it's one big series I assume that means it's supposed to have happened over 10 years(!).
At least SG-1 argues that they gained this technology via interactions with aliens. Star Trek usually makes it something humans or another race with similar technology gaining huge jumps in short times.
You'll see that second passage has far less figures of style and is much more factographic, using given names instead of associations to (alegedly) famous charachters they stand for
Umm... maybe because these ARE the famous characters that are then looked back to in the LotR.
IANAR (I am not a rhetorician), but I believe the grandparent post was refering to if the judgement can be used against the mirrors of spamhaus's servers which do reside in the US.
Yeah, but this study did something that Mythbusters didn't. They showed that it didn't matter if they were on a hands-free set or not.
I wanted Mythbusters to do that one too, and to test having a conversation with a passenger.
It is somewhat strange to find conservatives so hot under the collar about the property developer issue. It is a matter of record that President George W. Bush made his millions from precisely this type of theft.
I knew a liberal who drove an SUV, therefore it is somewhat strange to find liberals so hot under the collar about enviromentalism.
BTW, just so you know, many conservatives complain about GWB not being conservative enough. Many don't consider him a true conservative.
Many mountain valleys in wilderness areas are good too. Mountains do a good job of blocking light polution.
Did you not notice the chip that he pointed out, which had EM64T?
Intel has been shipping EM64T-enabled chips for a while now.
Apple: iPod more popular than flavourless brown fizzy drinks.
Why are you calling Standard American Lager brown? It's yellow.
And, yes, they do sell below cost; it's been demonstrated in court.
Simply selling below cost isn't illegal. Almost all companies do it in order to get people into the store (so that they'll then buy something else).
Pricing enough items so that an entire store is loosing money until the other compaines go out of buisness is the problem.
"Iraq sure doesn't look very "conquored" to me"
You must be blind. After killing millions of Iraqis and blowing damn near every structure of 3 bricks or more Iraq is pretty conquered. Most of the fighting now is against those who are crossing into Iraq to fight US troops. these people are coming from all over the middle-east to fight. Some are terrorists who hate us for the arms deals that provided the weapons used to kill their mothers and sisters, and some are just trying to liberate Iraq from the invaders.
Wow. Nice hyperbole. Milions of Iraqis have died? The anti-war "Iraq Body Count" has 42434 last time I looked. Iraq had ~26 million people total. If 'millions' had died, it would have been a lot more noticible (~8%)
Although, what I don't understand, is the idea the people are coming from other countries to 'liberate Iraq from the invaders' when, if they would stop it, the allied forces would leave sooner.