The UK has tons of CCTV cameras all over the place, but that doesn't stop it from having a violent crime rate of about 2000 per 100,000 people. Hmm...an entire country that's almost as bad as Detroit? Unless they so far as counting profanity laced insults as a violent crime, that's messed up.
#4 No one has ever short changed the LA National Guard on their response. Additional response from a Federal Government that has military forces "capable of being anywhere on the planet with humanitarian aid in 72 hours".....a bit late is an understatement.
Much of this is due to Blanco being slow to authorize help from outside of Louisiana. Once that was done, things started to move. A friend in the Ohio National Guard was on his way to NOLA 2-3 hours after the appropriate paperwork was faxed in. Mississippi had more damage, but was actually on the ball, so they were helped sooner. There are laws in place to prevent the Federal Govt from just stepping in and taking over. Blanco did file for Federal financial aid the Saturday before the hurricane hit, so like a typical Louisiana politician, she was quick to put the hand out for $$$ but really slow on actually doing something.
Some disease testing is also done at that time, correct? IMHO, the application for the virtual 3D cattle market would be for purebred breeding stock. The 'traditional auction' for feeder calves, slaughter animals, etc. aren't going to benefit much from this since the auction barn brings multiple buyers and sellers in one spot to trade animals. They aren't going to want to make multiple trips all over the place to buy or sell their animals.
Natural gas is a part of his plan to reduce petroleum imports. Use wind turbines to generate electricity and use the natural gas that would have been used for generating electricity for transportation uses instead.
No, you get vacation days and put on projects with deadlines such that you can't ever really take time off. Even if you do, in reality, you spend them working on these projects at home.
The more YOU cut down on YOUR energy usage, the more the Feds can suck up for themselves. This is from a guy that during the campaign said that Americans shouldn't expect to "keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times", but he keeps his office in the 80s during the winter.
The cost of living is going to be a lot less than northern Virginia, so there may be some willing to transfer to get away from the high costs and humidity of VA.
You must have skipped over the part about work getting in the way. Last year was the first year I actually used up all my vacation and my father had to die in order for that to happen.
Aren't some Canadian politicians talking about scrapping the Federal gun registry because it's been shown to be a complete waste of money. (BTW, the 12ga would be for fowl: ducks, pheasants, quail, etc).
If had to move to Canada, I'd probably pick Saskatchewan since it's the most like home.
and at about 4% of GDP, it's twice the 2% average for the world. But there are other nations that spend much more of the GDP on the military that the US does.
Five weeks of vacation would be great! Unfortunately work always gets in the way, it seems like I always have to scramble at the end of the year to figure out when to take the 3 weeks I get. My employer will only let us carry over 1 week from year to year, so if one doesn't take the time in excess of that, it is lost. It would be nice to just carry all of it over or just get paid for the excess, but the HR people don't want to do that for some reason.
I was recording Billy Joe Shaver in a bar one night and the 9 volt battery in my microphones' amplifier died. I had to run down to a gas station to buy another one (forgot to bring a spare) and as a result the 1st 15-20 minutes of his set didn't come out very well. After the show, I mentioned that to him and his response was "you should have just asked...we got lots of 9 volts in the van". He's a nice guy (will even ask "where do you want it?" if he shoots ya), but I wouldn't have thought he would stop a set so a taper could bum a 9v battery.
If you want cheap energy we need wind, solar, nuclear, tidal, algae and carbon sequestering.
It's too bad that the greenies think that it can be done w/o nuclear & carbon sequestering, effectively limiting power generation to sources that can fluctuate a lot.
Speaking of carbon sequestering, couldn't some of these groups that are always demanding that something be done, buy some land, plant a bunch of fast growing trees, cut them down in a few years, grind them up into a slurry, and pump it into an abandoned coal mine? Repeat as often as possible.
From reading some of the comments here, you'd never guess that our environment is in far better shape than it was 15 years ago, and it was in better shape then than the 15 years prior, etc. Almost every single enviromental indice is improving, and has been for a long time.
True. It just shows how far the environmental propaganda has been spread in society, not to mention that it's a better fund raising/political tactic to be always claiming the sky is falling.
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I ran Windows 3.0 on a IBM PCjr too, but like you said, it was good to run notepad, solitaire, and the clock.
A parallel port SCSI adapter could also be used like mentioned in this old article: http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue147/102_CDROM_to_go.php
The UK has tons of CCTV cameras all over the place, but that doesn't stop it from having a violent crime rate of about 2000 per 100,000 people. Hmm...an entire country that's almost as bad as Detroit? Unless they so far as counting profanity laced insults as a violent crime, that's messed up.
Paragould?
Much of this is due to Blanco being slow to authorize help from outside of Louisiana. Once that was done, things started to move. A friend in the Ohio National Guard was on his way to NOLA 2-3 hours after the appropriate paperwork was faxed in. Mississippi had more damage, but was actually on the ball, so they were helped sooner. There are laws in place to prevent the Federal Govt from just stepping in and taking over. Blanco did file for Federal financial aid the Saturday before the hurricane hit, so like a typical Louisiana politician, she was quick to put the hand out for $$$ but really slow on actually doing something.
that's why all of them need to be kicked out and replaced with ones that want to eliminate the nanny state.
Instead of putting druggies in prison, let's just flog or cane them.
Some disease testing is also done at that time, correct? IMHO, the application for the virtual 3D cattle market would be for purebred breeding stock. The 'traditional auction' for feeder calves, slaughter animals, etc. aren't going to benefit much from this since the auction barn brings multiple buyers and sellers in one spot to trade animals. They aren't going to want to make multiple trips all over the place to buy or sell their animals.
Natural gas is a part of his plan to reduce petroleum imports. Use wind turbines to generate electricity and use the natural gas that would have been used for generating electricity for transportation uses instead.
Do you think she controls it even at work?
No, you get vacation days and put on projects with deadlines such that you can't ever really take time off. Even if you do, in reality, you spend them working on these projects at home.
The more YOU cut down on YOUR energy usage, the more the Feds can suck up for themselves. This is from a guy that during the campaign said that Americans shouldn't expect to "keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times", but he keeps his office in the 80s during the winter.
The cost of living is going to be a lot less than northern Virginia, so there may be some willing to transfer to get away from the high costs and humidity of VA.
True, although I imagine most people would use it as an excuse to buy another beer or head for the restroom.
You must have skipped over the part about work getting in the way. Last year was the first year I actually used up all my vacation and my father had to die in order for that to happen.
Aren't some Canadian politicians talking about scrapping the Federal gun registry because it's been shown to be a complete waste of money. (BTW, the 12ga would be for fowl: ducks, pheasants, quail, etc).
If had to move to Canada, I'd probably pick Saskatchewan since it's the most like home.
and at about 4% of GDP, it's twice the 2% average for the world. But there are other nations that spend much more of the GDP on the military that the US does.
Don't forget LBJ, Carter, Clinton, and the founder of the entitlement class, FDR.
Five weeks of vacation would be great! Unfortunately work always gets in the way, it seems like I always have to scramble at the end of the year to figure out when to take the 3 weeks I get. My employer will only let us carry over 1 week from year to year, so if one doesn't take the time in excess of that, it is lost. It would be nice to just carry all of it over or just get paid for the excess, but the HR people don't want to do that for some reason.
Or if your divorced: 1/3 taxes, 1/3 child support, 1/3 everything else.
I was recording Billy Joe Shaver in a bar one night and the 9 volt battery in my microphones' amplifier died. I had to run down to a gas station to buy another one (forgot to bring a spare) and as a result the 1st 15-20 minutes of his set didn't come out very well. After the show, I mentioned that to him and his response was "you should have just asked...we got lots of 9 volts in the van". He's a nice guy (will even ask "where do you want it?" if he shoots ya), but I wouldn't have thought he would stop a set so a taper could bum a 9v battery.
I thought Hell was located somewhere in north Queensland? :)
It's too bad that the greenies think that it can be done w/o nuclear & carbon sequestering, effectively limiting power generation to sources that can fluctuate a lot. Speaking of carbon sequestering, couldn't some of these groups that are always demanding that something be done, buy some land, plant a bunch of fast growing trees, cut them down in a few years, grind them up into a slurry, and pump it into an abandoned coal mine? Repeat as often as possible.
No. That would be somewhat responsible. This will be spent on some other nonsense.
True. It just shows how far the environmental propaganda has been spread in society, not to mention that it's a better fund raising/political tactic to be always claiming the sky is falling.