14 mpg
Think that's bad? According to Harper's, the Ford Excursion gets 3 mpg city, 8 mpg highway. People buy these things why? Because they cost money and thus poor people can't buy them? That's the only reason I can think of.
That is very horrible and in blatent violation of the (6th?) Amendment. But why must we have a govt control vs. corporate control argument? Why can't we limit both?
We need another bill of rights. But 2/3 Congress will never pass one.
You're exactly right about Gore/Liebermann. But, W. Bush, and his "Moral Majority" in Congress, want more govt control in things like abortion, drug war, corporate sell-outing, the CIA, and morality. Just like Liebermann. I remember him saying he wanted to teach kids in schools what is right and what is wrong. I mean, now they're telling us what to think? What is wrong with MY morals? Why do I need someone elses?
Hemp has 4 times the cellulose of corn and can make 4 times as much ethanol/methanol as corn. Corn ethanol would cost about $2.50/gal, I believe. 2.50/4 = $.625. So if we could legalize hemp, the gas "crisis" would be over, although people who buy the Excursion, which gets 3 mpg city/8mpg highway, write in letters to newspapers complaining about how they have no money. But we can't legalize hemp, because it's a naughty naughty drug. (but it's less harmful than alcohol, and kills less than tobacco).
Sure, but as humans, I feel we have a duty with all our power to not turn the planet into strip townhouses and stripmalls. Just because we can doesn't mean we should. I like nature. In Minneapolis, there is Minnehaha Creek. The city set aside a half-block wide place where there are trees, grass, small animals, and a beautiful creek. Turning it into a NASCAR speedway would be horrible. Saving some nature isn't really that hard.
Sure. There were other straws. Who knows what they were? Ostracizism? Desperation from overbearing authority? No Power Ranger viewing priveleges? Who knows... but this was a rather large straw. But I'll bet it was caused by other kids or similar circumstances.
I find Jello to be an insightful and funny human being.
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I'm not saying women don't like to shop. I agree; some rules are dumb, ie drafting and car insurance charging us men more.
I'm arguing that he's saying that the mall is for girls. Maybe if he had said "my girlfriend/wife" or "my daughters" it wouldn't be such a blanket statement. He seems to be saying, "there's a mall. Not that I care. Mall's are stupid. They're for women" in that he's distancing himself from the mall and designating it for females.
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My bike was stolen in Edina, Minnesota. It was locked up and everything. Edina is an extremely rich suburb. I've never even seen a black person there. Nor a Mexican, not an Indian. I live in a neighborhood with many Mexicans (and other Hispanics as well) and it's never been stolen before.
I realize he was making a point about crime, but he also was passing off nonwhites as crime. i.e. "mexicans" and "the neighborhood with Indians and blacks"... is that supposed to make me want to stay away?
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I am definitely not racist
great!
The city has a large african american population and a large indian (east indian) population
so?
I would stay away from Balch Springs
Just because it contains different tones of skin from what you like? You haven't said anything about it yet other than ethnicities. You certainly are a racist. The cause of such crimes is economic destitution. That's caused by people like you not caring about their plight and ignoring the problems.
and a mall (for the girls, of course)
sexist too, eh?
I would recommend, though, possibly getting reservations for a hotel in Plano, Richardson, or Addison. Plano is the farthest from Mesquite
yeah, damn niggers! I don't want any of them walking near me! Just ruins my whole day!
except it's not packed with a high mexican population and drug dealers
now, exactly what does a bunch of mexicans have to do with crime or *gasp* DRUGS?
Joe Lieberman launched a Senatorial effort to prevent such meeting from happening. He was quoted as saying, "these people have no morals. If they were Jewish, they wouldn't feel the need to 'frag' each other. The bill would also enact the enformcement of morality in public schools. Children should be taught what is right and what is wrong. These parties where kids pretend to kill each other are ruining our society."
Reminds me of Fight Club... "My collection was almost complete." "I would flip through catalogs and wonder what kind of dining set defines me as a person?" "I had everything in that suitcase. My C.K. shirts, my D.K.N.Y. shoes, my A.X ties."
And then comes Tyler.
Jack: I don't know, it's just...when you buy furniture, you tell yourself: that's it, that's the last sofa I'm gonna need. No matter what else happens, I've got that sofa problem handled. I had it all. I had a stereo that was very decent, a wardrobe that was getting very respectable. I was so close to being complete.
Tyler: Shit, man, now it's all gone... Do you know what a duvet it?
Jack: A comforter.
Tyler: It's a blanket, just a blanket. Now why guys like you and I know what a duvet is? Is this essential to our survival? In the hunter-gathered sense of the word? No. What are we then?
Jack: consumers.
Tyler: Right. We're consumers. We're by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty -- these things don't concern me. What concerns me is celebrity magazines, television with five hundred channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.
Jack: Martha Stewart.
Tyler: Fuck Martha Stewart. Martha's polishes on the brass of the Titanic. It's all going down, man! So fuck off, with your sofa units and your green stripe patterns. I say never be complete. I say stop being perfect. I say let's evolve and let the chips fall where they may. But that's me, I could be wrong, maybe it's a terrible tragedy.
Jack: No, it's just stuff.
Tyler: Well, you did lose a lot of versatile solutions for a modern life.
Jack: Fuck, you're right.... No, I don't smoke. My insurance will probably cover it, so...
Tyler: The things you own, end up owing you. But do what you like, man.
The IKEA, the starbucks... he realizes he'll always be unhappy chasing after things. The problem is not what he has but that he wants more. It's also like my mom. She gets tons of plastic surgery to make herself feel better. She doesn't realize that her problem is not that she doesn't look good enough, but that she is unhappy with herself.
Of course, most people think Fight Club is only about people hitting each other because they're mad at the world, etc. etc.
Breaking into a US computer violates US law, even if you are doing it from Russia, genius
Only Russian laws apply to Russians. American laws only apply to Americans (although they would like to think otherwise). International law also generally applies to Russia.
The reason that the FBI could nab them is that they came to the US. Upon coming to the US, they could be prosecuted,although I'm not sure if US laws can be applied to something that happened in Russia in a court trial). The judge's ruling will set a legal precedent for this.
The way George Bush and others see it, government is oppressive in regulating corporations. With free reign, they could (and are on the process of) destroying the environment, destroying the labor movement, using their money to take away individual freedoms, etc. Rather than freeing anyone, the corporations begin to oppress the people (even more). The main problem I have with corporations is the power they have.
Why boycott a company because they sell something you don't like? Why can not people with a higher libido watch porn in peace? Although I am not a porn aficianado, I don't really see anything wrong with it (except for when there are about 5 popup porn banner ads. Those are quite annoying.). Just because people are not vocal does not mean they do not exist. Just as the government should not consider nonvoters for policies, companies should remember those who are nonvocal. You may think it is morally wrong, but the man/woman posing is making his/her own choice. Perhaps if a company were selling a product that were affecting me (or others) in a way I did not like, as in CFCs or DDT, those should be banned. But porn? Nah.
Is it just me, or did Bush bring a liberal vs. conservative argument to Slashdot? The ones I see (the most highly moderated, that is) seem to mainly be complaining about liberals and their bias. But maybe that's because I see some libertarians and conservatives doing it. Not that "liberals" don't do it. My point is that I haven't noticed the whole argument much until Bush II.
A bit OT, but... when is AMD coming out with their next chip? It'll help compete with Intel. I mean, the Athlon is considered like a P3, since it came out while the P3 was out. I don't know, but I would think AMD sales would drop as people want the new chip, and one made by Intel. Intel still has status as the kind, while AMD has a rep. as a knock-off among some people.
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14 mpg Think that's bad? According to Harper's, the Ford Excursion gets 3 mpg city, 8 mpg highway. People buy these things why? Because they cost money and thus poor people can't buy them? That's the only reason I can think of.
We need another bill of rights. But 2/3 Congress will never pass one.
I voted for Nader.
Hemp has 4 times the cellulose of corn and can make 4 times as much ethanol/methanol as corn. Corn ethanol would cost about $2.50/gal, I believe. 2.50/4 = $.625. So if we could legalize hemp, the gas "crisis" would be over, although people who buy the Excursion, which gets 3 mpg city/8mpg highway, write in letters to newspapers complaining about how they have no money. But we can't legalize hemp, because it's a naughty naughty drug. (but it's less harmful than alcohol, and kills less than tobacco).
Sure, but as humans, I feel we have a duty with all our power to not turn the planet into strip townhouses and stripmalls. Just because we can doesn't mean we should. I like nature. In Minneapolis, there is Minnehaha Creek. The city set aside a half-block wide place where there are trees, grass, small animals, and a beautiful creek. Turning it into a NASCAR speedway would be horrible. Saving some nature isn't really that hard.
Better a keyboard than a semiautomatic rifle.
Sure. There were other straws. Who knows what they were? Ostracizism? Desperation from overbearing authority? No Power Ranger viewing priveleges? Who knows... but this was a rather large straw. But I'll bet it was caused by other kids or similar circumstances.
That's gotta be some sort of mistake. Obviously a simple reading of the note or asking anyone would tell him/her.
you DO realize that wasn't serious, right? I was poking fun at Lieberman/Hatch, the former of whom ran as a "liberal" for vice persident.
I find Jello to be an insightful and funny human being.
I'm arguing that he's saying that the mall is for girls. Maybe if he had said "my girlfriend/wife" or "my daughters" it wouldn't be such a blanket statement. He seems to be saying, "there's a mall. Not that I care. Mall's are stupid. They're for women" in that he's distancing himself from the mall and designating it for females.
I realize he was making a point about crime, but he also was passing off nonwhites as crime. i.e. "mexicans" and "the neighborhood with Indians and blacks"... is that supposed to make me want to stay away?
great!
The city has a large african american population and a large indian (east indian) population
so?
I would stay away from Balch Springs
Just because it contains different tones of skin from what you like? You haven't said anything about it yet other than ethnicities. You certainly are a racist. The cause of such crimes is economic destitution. That's caused by people like you not caring about their plight and ignoring the problems.
and a mall (for the girls, of course) sexist too, eh? I would recommend, though, possibly getting reservations for a hotel in Plano, Richardson, or Addison. Plano is the farthest from Mesquite
yeah, damn niggers! I don't want any of them walking near me! Just ruins my whole day!
except it's not packed with a high mexican population and drug dealers
now, exactly what does a bunch of mexicans have to do with crime or *gasp* DRUGS?
Joe Lieberman launched a Senatorial effort to prevent such meeting from happening. He was quoted as saying, "these people have no morals. If they were Jewish, they wouldn't feel the need to 'frag' each other. The bill would also enact the enformcement of morality in public schools. Children should be taught what is right and what is wrong. These parties where kids pretend to kill each other are ruining our society."
I've always thought it was Piece Of Shit
Nonetheless, the anticonsumerist message is there.
And then comes Tyler.
Jack: I don't know, it's just...when you buy furniture, you tell yourself: that's it, that's the last sofa I'm gonna need. No matter what else happens, I've got that sofa problem handled. I had it all. I had a stereo that was very decent, a wardrobe that was getting very respectable. I was so close to being complete.
Tyler: Shit, man, now it's all gone... Do you know what a duvet it?
Jack: A comforter.
Tyler: It's a blanket, just a blanket. Now why guys like you and I know what a duvet is? Is this essential to our survival? In the hunter-gathered sense of the word? No. What are we then?
Jack: consumers.
Tyler: Right. We're consumers. We're by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty -- these things don't concern me. What concerns me is celebrity magazines, television with five hundred channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.
Jack: Martha Stewart.
Tyler: Fuck Martha Stewart. Martha's polishes on the brass of the Titanic. It's all going down, man! So fuck off, with your sofa units and your green stripe patterns. I say never be complete. I say stop being perfect. I say let's evolve and let the chips fall where they may. But that's me, I could be wrong, maybe it's a terrible tragedy.
Jack: No, it's just stuff.
Tyler: Well, you did lose a lot of versatile solutions for a modern life.
Jack: Fuck, you're right.... No, I don't smoke. My insurance will probably cover it, so...
Tyler: The things you own, end up owing you. But do what you like, man.
The IKEA, the starbucks... he realizes he'll always be unhappy chasing after things. The problem is not what he has but that he wants more. It's also like my mom. She gets tons of plastic surgery to make herself feel better. She doesn't realize that her problem is not that she doesn't look good enough, but that she is unhappy with herself.
Of course, most people think Fight Club is only about people hitting each other because they're mad at the world, etc. etc.
He knows more about the Kyoto Treaty why...? Because he's rich? Because he's in politics? Because he's famous? Because you back Bush?
Breaking into a US computer violates US law, even if you are doing it from Russia, genius Only Russian laws apply to Russians. American laws only apply to Americans (although they would like to think otherwise). International law also generally applies to Russia. The reason that the FBI could nab them is that they came to the US. Upon coming to the US, they could be prosecuted ,although I'm not sure if US laws can be applied to something that happened in Russia in a court trial). The judge's ruling will set a legal precedent for this.
If the case vs. Princeton wins, then I'll try it next weekend. Thanks. I'm sure I can think of a way to exploit the situation by then.
So about 20-30% of those who were denied jobs because of this actually weren't even predisposed to HAVE carpal tunnel syndrome?
The way George Bush and others see it, government is oppressive in regulating corporations. With free reign, they could (and are on the process of) destroying the environment, destroying the labor movement, using their money to take away individual freedoms, etc. Rather than freeing anyone, the corporations begin to oppress the people (even more). The main problem I have with corporations is the power they have.
Why boycott a company because they sell something you don't like? Why can not people with a higher libido watch porn in peace? Although I am not a porn aficianado, I don't really see anything wrong with it (except for when there are about 5 popup porn banner ads. Those are quite annoying.). Just because people are not vocal does not mean they do not exist. Just as the government should not consider nonvoters for policies, companies should remember those who are nonvocal. You may think it is morally wrong, but the man/woman posing is making his/her own choice. Perhaps if a company were selling a product that were affecting me (or others) in a way I did not like, as in CFCs or DDT, those should be banned. But porn? Nah.
Is it just me, or did Bush bring a liberal vs. conservative argument to Slashdot? The ones I see (the most highly moderated, that is) seem to mainly be complaining about liberals and their bias. But maybe that's because I see some libertarians and conservatives doing it. Not that "liberals" don't do it. My point is that I haven't noticed the whole argument much until Bush II.
A bit OT, but... when is AMD coming out with their next chip? It'll help compete with Intel. I mean, the Athlon is considered like a P3, since it came out while the P3 was out. I don't know, but I would think AMD sales would drop as people want the new chip, and one made by Intel. Intel still has status as the kind, while AMD has a rep. as a knock-off among some people.