We just have been happily ignorant of what much of the world has gone through because we had distance from the terrorist. While in our modern society that doesn't mean as much as it did fifty years ago it does make for quite a bit of work for overseas groups to get here. Just reading the news for many years, if not decades, shows than Europe and other areas haven't had that "safety". The terrorists didn't win or continue to win because of 9/11, time just caught up with us. European nations already have heavily guarded transport terminals and have given up rights we smugly thought we never had to worry about losing.
So while it would be nice to turn the other cheek, the terrorists don't care. Even if we act with security they will still come because they need to. It is what keeps their organizations going, if not the nation states that sponsor them. The enemy over there is a far more convenient target to let them vent than at home. Better to blame the infilled than the leadership one lives under. The common trait of any nation suppressing its people and abusing it for the betterment of those who lead - give your people an opponent. Give them one you can portray as the cause, if you can wrap it up in religious based hate then by all means.
We live in a world of bad people. Trite as that seems its true. The problem with a modern society is that it tends to come with some enlightenment. The problem is that those enlightened are the perfect targets because their own belief in their superiority checks their hand.
I found myself "forced" into online banking because writing checks became tedious. It was the only writing I had to do on a consistent basis and when I grouped my bill paying at the end of the week I would find my hand cramping or oddly, my thinking about the actual writing skewed my handwriting. I could feel the oddness of the pen in my hand. If I focused I could write very nice script, but it felt like work. I am not even a fan of signing my name when I pay by CC
I cannot imagine writing a reply to a message board using a pen input device. Perhaps that is one reason many don't miss the pen or writing recognition programs that some claimed missing from the iPad.
and there never will be with this attitude. The Democrats and Republicans have set up this defeatist attitude and revel every time it is expressed.
It really is simple, its called getting off your butt and putting in real time. Far too many people are satisfied thumping their chest here on message boards but damn, ask them to make a few calls, put out some Vote posters, and suddenly they don't have time.
Well you get out of it as much as you put into it.
First, why should it matter who exercises free speech? Why should there be limits on who can? Let alone why are some groups given exceptions from the law specifically in the bill? Simple, this about protecting those in power. Take any bill in Congress by its name and you know exactly that its purpose is to do the opposite.
I sometimes cringe when seeing what is moderated insightful on these boards, the bias of the site is so blatant at times it boggles the mind. We see knee jerk reactions, parrot head responses, and group think moderation all the time. Yet tell me what has changed since 06, let alone 08? Nothing. If anything it has gotten worse.
Let alone the idiot suggestion of the story that its only Conservative bloggers who are being paid. Very much like the story out of Digg about a group who acts as one to suppress. Well why shouldn't they. They are merely employing tactics that the other side figured out first. The problem is, one side doesn't like losing their advantage so they take all the things they know they have been doing that aren't kosher and try to firmly place those actions on their opposites. It lets them keep themselves on their self perceived high road.
It does not work, regardless of moderation here, at Digg, or any other site, those who watch these stupid games and call them for it know whats going on and laugh at it. Keep voting for your Democrats and Republicans, you deserve them.
Any act which suppresses any speech should be feared.
"Everyone knows" is the phrase tossed around when people comment on how an actor or actress looks in a photo shoot or on a movie poster. Kiera Knightley has been photoshopped more than once and commented on it, http://www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/blog1/keiramanip.htm They like to endow her with a breast size nature didn't and one she won't use surgery to obtain. From presenting perfect complexions to lightening the skin of black female celebrities; especially Beyonce; we are bombarded by what marketers perceive as the perfect image.
Technology caught up with games, yet I have found that some of the games that strive for the most in realism sometimes look more fake as one bad effect can blow the entire presentation.
People who tend to tell others how to live rarely live as such. Those who live right tend to not brag about it. You have the cynical conclusion. The natural conclusion is to live like the guy with the green home and ignore the guy in the mansion.
I would love to see a President with a sound environmental policy, however what one person declares as sound another dismisses as not enough. Bush did fine considering the history of our past Presidents. Some areas are flash points for one group or another and both will use such to disclaim any leader.
No, given what we know about the two men in question, I would invite the guy from Crawford over to dinner, more than likely the other guy wouldn't even deem to acknowledge the request.
dollars in the education budget, like improving science? They could have probably added enough computers to the LA school system to guarantee access to all students. The number of dollars here is just mind boggling. When a school system like LA is dropping teachers right and left over budget problems where is the criminal investigation to put the people who signed off on this?
If they had spent this money on something other than a school you can damn well bet people would be bitching "think of the children".
This is a monument to the school board. It should be the head stone.
Damn, that riding position reminds me of being stuck in an MRI machine. Between the that cramped arms at your side position to the openness of the canopy around your head its going to take someone with extreme mental fortitude to take the ride.
Something that seems to be too prevalent among politicians today, both locally and nationally. He is displaying nothing less than many of those in Congress or White House (as in certain Chairmen who were would have been in jail concerning their IRS problems if they were mere "voters). No, its the problem of the political class, they feel immune because they control the laws and worse they have enough lackeys among large organizations that get out the word. Hell, look at the even more recent Countrywide revelations, sweetheart deals all the way.
Vote Democratic or Republican and you get what you deserve, as soon as people start to realize both sides are equally bad and there is no such thing as voting for the lesser of two evils we might get somewhere.
don't want the Iranians to have the materials. Its not like they would not want a spike in oil prices, let alone a major competitor to them "occupied" with other concerns decreasing availability of oil.
The problem with the term undue burden is it can change depending on who is asked to determine it. Get an over zealous government bureaucrat or inventive lawyer and suddenly costs some businesses would see as burdensome are now portrayed as acts of unkindness or greed. There are lawyers and even some professional victims who will love these new rules. There is a story of a San Diego area lawyer who has filed over 1500 lawsuits since 93! He hires out severely disabled people to visit businesses he targets, then "negotiates" a settlement with the business under the threat of "if you don't agree to our terms (how much money I want) and fix the problem we will sue you in court for even more.
Welcome to laws designed to be abused. of course government sites won't be threatened. Oh sure, there will be complaints, but watch out big sites. Any site where someone of "disability" would obviously desire to participate. Not that they would ever go to the site, but its not hard to find someone who needs a grand or two to declare such intent.
I don't recall Vader's "pod" existing in the first movie.
and after viewing the Youtube interview listed elsewhere in comments here it comes across as something added when he changed the special effects out for whatever edition that was.
because ignorant replies like yours show you missed the point completely like the mods did.
It comes down to this, as other organizations have pointed out, there are many innocents in this conflict and people are willingly putting them at risk to score points, worse, when the risk is realized and those innocents are dead they will blame those who withheld the information in the first part.
Hence, it is very obvious how ignorant the self righteous here are. They have nothing to lose and freely scream their arrogance and ignorance from the safety of the computers.
Fuel economy has done well, not as good as it might have, but gasoline engine improvements are measured in percents.
When you start with an inefficient process your not going to get remarkable numbers without some major innovation.
Direct injection, turbo charging, start/stop, and other technologies are helping. Yet cars are heavier now because of all the creature comforts we desire and all the government regulations demanding the vehicles transmit the minimal amount of energy to the occupants in a crash.
Crashes that would have killed everyone in your example vehicles and left a vehicle barely recognizable now leave occupants nearly untouched and with some vehicles actually repairable.
Crashes that could not be avoided in your cars these days can be. Situations that were dangerous to drive in are very much less so.
No cars have come far, the race between efficiency and safety is erring to the side of safety.
While people throw out the bogeymen of SUVs and the like they ignore the fact that the majority of sedans get crap mileage as well.
Old beetles usually did 28 to 32 on the highway, took almost twenty seconds to reach 60. You could probably crash an infinite number of them into a new beetle before the new one was not drivable. You of course would have a lot of scrap old beetles laying around afterward.
Taking the mileage out of context does not make your argument better except at a cursory glance.
Frankly I would not dare drive most older cars everyday. Their brakes were horrid and their suspensions not much better.
As for the carb versus fuel injection comparison, get real. What you can do with direct injection shames a carb in both efficiency and pollution.
It works very much like public schools. People will bemoan the fact that schools are not doing well, except the school their child attends.
The same logic is used when voting for the incumbent. Congress is awful, but not my Congressman.
We won't get these guys out until our political process is open to everyone fairly. As it stands now it is near impossible to get a non Democratic or non Republican elected. They can redistrict that possibility out. If they cannot do that way they will make your source of campaign funding illegal, or you method of distributing your message.
Disappearing ink is used for Ethic's rules.I heard it also is used with campaign promises and that check in the mail.
Congress has long been like this, they just haven't been so cavalier about it. When one party leads the Congress and the Presidency the American people will get the shaft. The real problem now is that instead of the press harping on every thing the Congress and Presidency did while under Republicans they have suddenly clammed up.
So the people are left with one choice, the ballot box. Hopefully most will make the choice to boot incumbents out. Because as we all know, Congress sucks but not my Congressman. This is the perception that allows these people to stay in power, that and writing laws making it near impossible for any challenge to Democratic or Republican parties
Do you think that the US Government could order the shut down of thousands of factories without public outcry, let alone court battles and the like. China can do this because it isn't like the people who work at those locations have a voice. Sure some of the higher ups at each will get reassigned, but rest are probably low skilled and have lower education.
Its not that he is too busy, he thinks himself too important. He has assumed a mantle of superiority and is basking in his fame. He is an arrogant asshole who flippantly does not care if the information he releases gets people killed. After all, how can he be at fault, its the military's doing by having that information in the files.
His type is seen all the time, most just don't have the resources to recklessly endanger hundreds if not thousands of people.
so he cuts both ways, but when you only see what you want to see....
Really, people even when confronted by facts do not change their views. I have seen numerous stories on Drudge about heat waves, glaciers breaking off, and more. How is that the activities of a denier?
the $1300 tax credit will certainly help me achieve pay back sooner. Throw in averaging 42mpg on my commute and it surely beats my previous cars, too include a Murano (20 avg), G35 (22 avg), and even a Miata (30 avg)
Now the only way to save more on fuel would be to live closer, but the property and local sales taxes eat up any savings I could hope to gain. Fuel prices would have to take a serious jump before living closer to work would make up for the differences in tax, let alone the peace of life I have in the edges of suburbia
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We just have been happily ignorant of what much of the world has gone through because we had distance from the terrorist. While in our modern society that doesn't mean as much as it did fifty years ago it does make for quite a bit of work for overseas groups to get here. Just reading the news for many years, if not decades, shows than Europe and other areas haven't had that "safety". The terrorists didn't win or continue to win because of 9/11, time just caught up with us. European nations already have heavily guarded transport terminals and have given up rights we smugly thought we never had to worry about losing.
So while it would be nice to turn the other cheek, the terrorists don't care. Even if we act with security they will still come because they need to. It is what keeps their organizations going, if not the nation states that sponsor them. The enemy over there is a far more convenient target to let them vent than at home. Better to blame the infilled than the leadership one lives under. The common trait of any nation suppressing its people and abusing it for the betterment of those who lead - give your people an opponent. Give them one you can portray as the cause, if you can wrap it up in religious based hate then by all means.
We live in a world of bad people. Trite as that seems its true. The problem with a modern society is that it tends to come with some enlightenment. The problem is that those enlightened are the perfect targets because their own belief in their superiority checks their hand.
I found myself "forced" into online banking because writing checks became tedious. It was the only writing I had to do on a consistent basis and when I grouped my bill paying at the end of the week I would find my hand cramping or oddly, my thinking about the actual writing skewed my handwriting. I could feel the oddness of the pen in my hand. If I focused I could write very nice script, but it felt like work. I am not even a fan of signing my name when I pay by CC
I cannot imagine writing a reply to a message board using a pen input device. Perhaps that is one reason many don't miss the pen or writing recognition programs that some claimed missing from the iPad.
preferably someone in government, even a bus. Then again, a long haul truck would be great fun.
The question is, can they then prosecute you with tampering with federal property? I bet they would try.
and there never will be with this attitude. The Democrats and Republicans have set up this defeatist attitude and revel every time it is expressed.
It really is simple, its called getting off your butt and putting in real time. Far too many people are satisfied thumping their chest here on message boards but damn, ask them to make a few calls, put out some Vote posters, and suddenly they don't have time.
Well you get out of it as much as you put into it.
that bill is so flawed as to be beyond stupid.
First, why should it matter who exercises free speech? Why should there be limits on who can? Let alone why are some groups given exceptions from the law specifically in the bill? Simple, this about protecting those in power. Take any bill in Congress by its name and you know exactly that its purpose is to do the opposite.
I sometimes cringe when seeing what is moderated insightful on these boards, the bias of the site is so blatant at times it boggles the mind. We see knee jerk reactions, parrot head responses, and group think moderation all the time. Yet tell me what has changed since 06, let alone 08? Nothing. If anything it has gotten worse.
Let alone the idiot suggestion of the story that its only Conservative bloggers who are being paid. Very much like the story out of Digg about a group who acts as one to suppress. Well why shouldn't they. They are merely employing tactics that the other side figured out first. The problem is, one side doesn't like losing their advantage so they take all the things they know they have been doing that aren't kosher and try to firmly place those actions on their opposites. It lets them keep themselves on their self perceived high road.
It does not work, regardless of moderation here, at Digg, or any other site, those who watch these stupid games and call them for it know whats going on and laugh at it. Keep voting for your Democrats and Republicans, you deserve them.
Any act which suppresses any speech should be feared.
"Everyone knows" is the phrase tossed around when people comment on how an actor or actress looks in a photo shoot or on a movie poster. Kiera Knightley has been photoshopped more than once and commented on it, http://www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/blog1/keiramanip.htm They like to endow her with a breast size nature didn't and one she won't use surgery to obtain. From presenting perfect complexions to lightening the skin of black female celebrities; especially Beyonce; we are bombarded by what marketers perceive as the perfect image.
Technology caught up with games, yet I have found that some of the games that strive for the most in realism sometimes look more fake as one bad effect can blow the entire presentation.
People who tend to tell others how to live rarely live as such. Those who live right tend to not brag about it. You have the cynical conclusion. The natural conclusion is to live like the guy with the green home and ignore the guy in the mansion.
I would love to see a President with a sound environmental policy, however what one person declares as sound another dismisses as not enough. Bush did fine considering the history of our past Presidents. Some areas are flash points for one group or another and both will use such to disclaim any leader.
No, given what we know about the two men in question, I would invite the guy from Crawford over to dinner, more than likely the other guy wouldn't even deem to acknowledge the request.
no need to have to travel to the middle school for some ladies and cannon fodder.
dollars in the education budget, like improving science? They could have probably added enough computers to the LA school system to guarantee access to all students. The number of dollars here is just mind boggling. When a school system like LA is dropping teachers right and left over budget problems where is the criminal investigation to put the people who signed off on this?
If they had spent this money on something other than a school you can damn well bet people would be bitching "think of the children".
This is a monument to the school board. It should be the head stone.
Damn, that riding position reminds me of being stuck in an MRI machine. Between the that cramped arms at your side position to the openness of the canopy around your head its going to take someone with extreme mental fortitude to take the ride.
http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/spacecraft.php
Something that seems to be too prevalent among politicians today, both locally and nationally. He is displaying nothing less than many of those in Congress or White House (as in certain Chairmen who were would have been in jail concerning their IRS problems if they were mere "voters). No, its the problem of the political class, they feel immune because they control the laws and worse they have enough lackeys among large organizations that get out the word. Hell, look at the even more recent Countrywide revelations, sweetheart deals all the way.
Vote Democratic or Republican and you get what you deserve, as soon as people start to realize both sides are equally bad and there is no such thing as voting for the lesser of two evils we might get somewhere.
don't want the Iranians to have the materials. Its not like they would not want a spike in oil prices, let alone a major competitor to them "occupied" with other concerns decreasing availability of oil.
that audiophiles listen to the equipment, the rest of us listen to the music
The problem with the term undue burden is it can change depending on who is asked to determine it. Get an over zealous government bureaucrat or inventive lawyer and suddenly costs some businesses would see as burdensome are now portrayed as acts of unkindness or greed. There are lawyers and even some professional victims who will love these new rules. There is a story of a San Diego area lawyer who has filed over 1500 lawsuits since 93! He hires out severely disabled people to visit businesses he targets, then "negotiates" a settlement with the business under the threat of "if you don't agree to our terms (how much money I want) and fix the problem we will sue you in court for even more.
Welcome to laws designed to be abused. of course government sites won't be threatened. Oh sure, there will be complaints, but watch out big sites. Any site where someone of "disability" would obviously desire to participate. Not that they would ever go to the site, but its not hard to find someone who needs a grand or two to declare such intent.
I don't recall Vader's "pod" existing in the first movie.
and after viewing the Youtube interview listed elsewhere in comments here it comes across as something added when he changed the special effects out for whatever edition that was.
because ignorant replies like yours show you missed the point completely like the mods did.
It comes down to this, as other organizations have pointed out, there are many innocents in this conflict and people are willingly putting them at risk to score points, worse, when the risk is realized and those innocents are dead they will blame those who withheld the information in the first part.
Hence, it is very obvious how ignorant the self righteous here are. They have nothing to lose and freely scream their arrogance and ignorance from the safety of the computers.
Fuel economy has done well, not as good as it might have, but gasoline engine improvements are measured in percents.
When you start with an inefficient process your not going to get remarkable numbers without some major innovation.
Direct injection, turbo charging, start/stop, and other technologies are helping. Yet cars are heavier now because of all the creature comforts we desire and all the government regulations demanding the vehicles transmit the minimal amount of energy to the occupants in a crash.
Crashes that would have killed everyone in your example vehicles and left a vehicle barely recognizable now leave occupants nearly untouched and with some vehicles actually repairable.
Crashes that could not be avoided in your cars these days can be. Situations that were dangerous to drive in are very much less so.
No cars have come far, the race between efficiency and safety is erring to the side of safety.
While people throw out the bogeymen of SUVs and the like they ignore the fact that the majority of sedans get crap mileage as well.
Old beetles usually did 28 to 32 on the highway, took almost twenty seconds to reach 60. You could probably crash an infinite number of them into a new beetle before the new one was not drivable. You of course would have a lot of scrap old beetles laying around afterward.
Taking the mileage out of context does not make your argument better except at a cursory glance.
Frankly I would not dare drive most older cars everyday. Their brakes were horrid and their suspensions not much better.
As for the carb versus fuel injection comparison, get real. What you can do with direct injection shames a carb in both efficiency and pollution.
c) There are considerations to made in every war and putting peoples lives at risk for self glorification is never justification.
most likely increased their creativity. I would bet if they had a large budget then the PADD would have not been as visionary.
It works very much like public schools. People will bemoan the fact that schools are not doing well, except the school their child attends.
The same logic is used when voting for the incumbent. Congress is awful, but not my Congressman.
We won't get these guys out until our political process is open to everyone fairly. As it stands now it is near impossible to get a non Democratic or non Republican elected. They can redistrict that possibility out. If they cannot do that way they will make your source of campaign funding illegal, or you method of distributing your message.
Disappearing ink is used for Ethic's rules.I heard it also is used with campaign promises and that check in the mail.
Congress has long been like this, they just haven't been so cavalier about it. When one party leads the Congress and the Presidency the American people will get the shaft. The real problem now is that instead of the press harping on every thing the Congress and Presidency did while under Republicans they have suddenly clammed up.
So the people are left with one choice, the ballot box. Hopefully most will make the choice to boot incumbents out. Because as we all know, Congress sucks but not my Congressman. This is the perception that allows these people to stay in power, that and writing laws making it near impossible for any challenge to Democratic or Republican parties
not that I would want them.
Do you think that the US Government could order the shut down of thousands of factories without public outcry, let alone court battles and the like. China can do this because it isn't like the people who work at those locations have a voice. Sure some of the higher ups at each will get reassigned, but rest are probably low skilled and have lower education.
In China they spend people like we spend dollars.
Its not that he is too busy, he thinks himself too important. He has assumed a mantle of superiority and is basking in his fame. He is an arrogant asshole who flippantly does not care if the information he releases gets people killed. After all, how can he be at fault, its the military's doing by having that information in the files.
His type is seen all the time, most just don't have the resources to recklessly endanger hundreds if not thousands of people.
so he cuts both ways, but when you only see what you want to see....
Really, people even when confronted by facts do not change their views. I have seen numerous stories on Drudge about heat waves, glaciers breaking off, and more. How is that the activities of a denier?
the $1300 tax credit will certainly help me achieve pay back sooner. Throw in averaging 42mpg on my commute and it surely beats my previous cars, too include a Murano (20 avg), G35 (22 avg), and even a Miata (30 avg)
Now the only way to save more on fuel would be to live closer, but the property and local sales taxes eat up any savings I could hope to gain. Fuel prices would have to take a serious jump before living closer to work would make up for the differences in tax, let alone the peace of life I have in the edges of suburbia