People want free health care, people want free this, that, and the other thing.
and they will find enough people who will feel it is OK to tax X because said people don't like X. The problem is that group will get whacked by people who don't like Y.
A VAT by any other name.
The stuff has to be paid for. The fastest way to keep people dependent on the government and keep people poor is to make it easy to be dependent and poor.
I know people who would cheer those gamers being taxed, I have vegan friends who would have a parade for fatties to pay more tax...
it never ends... too many people take enjoyment by having others punished. Most get bent when it occurs because of "religious" reasons but honestly does it matter when it comes down to it?
Democracies always have problems when people finally figure out they can vote themselves other peoples money, its worse when elected officials realize it works to keep them in office. Its even worse when a sitting President uses the bully pulpit to stomp on contract law and intimidate lawful holders of guaranteed debt to give it up.
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that will relegate them to such a commodity status.
They are close to the perfect method for distribution of free computer programs/art/etc. Who needs AOL discs anymore! We can have a generation of usb key users. Of course I get lots of them from vendors in all shapes and forms, some are actually useful (led flash light, key holder, etc)
the fact that people don't understand where it comes from is more important.
As in, everything sold by intel in effect passes the cost of this judgment to the people buying the product. Since the dollar amount truly is not significant to alter intel's behavior this just becomes and embedded tax.
Really, I see the EU as Dr. Evil making a demand for an amount of money which is meaningless in today's term and Intel's board just laughing it off.
too many don't have a problem with THEIR government doing it.
Of course I have a problem with it, but I was born and raised in the United States and frankly trust Google (or other corporation) more than I trust the Government. Considering my government's willingness to spend me and my children into debt for the foreseeable future I doubt that my view will change.
Throw in the fact that far too many people think they have much more privacy than they truly do... totally forgetting how much information not using cash for transactions provides other people
First, they are usually armed. Second, they have the authority to detain you (granted they will need to figure out something if they want to keep you but they can interrupt your day), and third, their job sucks for the most part.
So where do people come off with the idea that it is OK to be anything but polite with them? Frankly if your a smartass to me I won't help you. I won't even talk to you. At least I am not armed; well not as they are. The difference is that regardless of how much an asshole someone else is there is never an excuse to anything but polite in return. This is especially true with people who are doing their job.
because he and his type find it politically expedient to vilify the oil industry.
Doing so to the solar industry, regardless of how true, has no political mileage.
Remember, Obama has advisers whose entire job is to determine how to release information and in what form. They recently released information that their studies shows the public in general cannot wrap its mind around the three trillion dollar budget but has an easier time understanding sixteen billion in savings. In other words, they are playing with public ignorance, fears, and jealousy, to do what they want. It is a brilliant show of marketing.
On a side note, with no support for nuclear what is going to be our base load supplier of electricity?
Sorry, same thing happened here. Going to borrow 50 cents for every dollar we spend this year. Having RIAA lawyers everywhere. Having tax cheats in office.
I think you overestimate the benefit of the internet. If anything it shows that people are even more ignorant than we believed possible. After all, if its on the internet it must be true. A place where anyone can make up a trusted sounding name and follow whatever agenda they want and claim to be purveyors of fact but simply slant based on omission of fact.
Because all I get from this obnoxious idea is some evil villains lair.
Honestly, does the guy not get it, that the original feature was created by nature is what made it special. Otherwise it would have been just another rock outcropping.
The only thing missing from his idea is the ability to sprout legs and arms and go marauding across the countryside.
Honestly, I would not doubt these guys invent something, let alone if they do come up with anything based on current trends will Obama go on TV and vilify people who working legally? It seems he has no qualms about doing so if someone dares stand in his way, the law be damned. I just want to know why every time the government steps in to protect me I end up feeling like I am less safe.
Uh, people buying Intel products. As such it means people all over the world will chip in their pennies to pay the EU for Intel's violation.
A better solution than taking money, banning their product for a set time. That is how you truly stop this type of anti competitive behavior. Fining them just means anyone buying the product has a new embedded tax. Locking them out gets the shareholders pissed and makes heads roll. Can you imagine the grief caused by having your major new processor line forbidden from sales? Suddenly vendors look elsewhere for product and possibly for future contracts because your past actions have now interfered with their business.
Being a government entity in need of cash I suspect the EU will fine them less than they fined MS.
Newspapers, journalist (tv and print), and the those who taught them, have a lot invested in the current system. As such they strive to portray their columns as always without bias and to portray blogs as always biased. See, papers want us to believe that opinion is confined to the opinion page when it is clearly not. The easiest method available to any journalist to express their bias is by omission.
The real mud in the eye was then Dan Rather used obviously fake documents to smear then President George Bush right before the election for his second term. It was so blatant of an attempt to sway an election and so obviously fraudulent that the press (read anyone not a blog) didn't how to handle the response from the "blogosphere" other than to discredit individual bloggers and blogging as a whole. I am sure we can all remember the disparaging images that the old press try to conjure up in the minds of the average person as to what constituted a blogger. They tried to use an unsavory image to discredit facts that they did not like.
Summary, they will do whatever it takes to maintain their image and position. Blogs threaten them because the large number of blogs means the whole story will get out. You can slant a single site but not all of them. However papers have the advantage of captive audiences which blogs don't. The Old press needs to come to terms with the fact that the old methods will not work. You cannot have an agenda when every watch dog out there will call you on it. Either report it all factually or openly declare your bias (like MSNBC which is so shameful as to give credit to blogs becoming a real force).
because my time is more valuable than finding a bus, getting to it without having to wait too long for the next, and doing what I need to during the day; I tend to consolidate most of my shopping to my lunch hour so I don't have to go out shopping after getting home.
My time is valuable to me. Using public transportation means losing hours per week I'd rather not. It also means losing flexibility. I guess if I had a guaranteed day it might work out... but even then after riding some of the available public transportation here in Atlanta I won't do except to get to the game.
The throw in the weather... well it quickly goes to hell.
Using your example of $20 an hour. I would hope they had a used car which reduces their depreciation cost from the get go.
As for damage and other mysterious things... well I haven't racked up many, let alone a hundred dollars in ten years that I can recall. I tend to favor cars that are reliable so my out of pocket expenses are normal maintenance. If I need to get it fixed I get a lift, if its long term then I rent. Big deal, the freedom is worth it.
I am not saying anything is wrong with public transportation, but from listening to the news I am safer where I live by not being accessible to people who use public transportation. I can leave my doors unlocked at night; done it before by accident to include leaving garage open. I hear only my dogs breathing when I take them out in the morning. Nothing I can save money wise compensates for that peace. I will do my drive (26 miles no interstate one way) and rest easy.
For those for whom it works, more power to them. However don't try to measure dollars versus quality of life. It doesn't add up in the favor of public transportation in my book
insightful? Or are there just certain buzzwords that people are compelled to rate higher?
The future of our climate isn't being decided by corporations, it is being decided by an overly politicized system. Contrary laws and NIMBY laws are what are screwing us. I won't even try to list what is beyond our control outside our borders that may just undo anything we can try.
Look, they have pushed this line of thought for so long that they are locked in. They have to create a new office, which in turn can issue all sorts of "findings of fact", so that they can continue their agenda. After all, a National Climate office wouldn't release opinion now would they? There would never be the slightest bias in presentation of what is fact or how to read numbers would there?
Get real.
Lets see what they are doing to help the environment?
1. Pushing new incentives for bio fuels while not curtailing the fraud of corn based ethanol. 2. Ignoring know safe energy production of nuclear because certain people in the Administration hate it, let alone the moonbats in Congress. Gee, if it works for France and even Germany is considering it it might be a good idea! 3. Cap and Trade . Backdoor tax on the poor and middle class without calling it that. 4. Remember MBTE... thank you Al for poisoning all are water supplies. 5. I am quite sure the Military isn't friendly to the environment on a whole; but I excuse a lot of what they do.
Sorry, the government does more damage when political regulations being implemented rather than scientific. The majority of their regulations seek to curry favor of specific groups or to pay them back for their activities related to elections. The preponderance of evidence against many forms of man made global warming is building faster than support for it.
No, its the moonbats coming to roost. They are going to create a new government bureaucracy where we already have more than one which does the same job. Instead of trying to find ways to save the American tax payer money they look for ways to guilt them or waste their money.
I am so tired of people doing whatever they can to justify the newest benefit to themselves or others they feel need help.
Two issues.
IT IS NOT YOUR MONEY.
Where in the hell is it in the Constitution that this is a function of government.
That is the problem with people today. Anyone can find a justification for their piece of someone else's pie. Get it ? Your demanding that other people's money be spent on a problem you perceive.
And people wonder how we end up with trillion dollar deficits. Not only is the public full of ignorant greedy people so is the government
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Along the same lines as Rogue, it is probably one of the reasons for a strategy game I still like Empire. All pieces are the same on both sides and all cities are equal. It is a game of strategy with chance rolled in; that being the frequency of finding cities or the enemy. No gimmicky special powers (read : wtf ) that one side has that the other does not.. no fancy animations to get in the way of what something does.
Simple games can be the best games... I am still waiting for someone to replicate Starflight
As for WOW and weather....
or at least someone on a message board somewhere else did, the weather effects do not affect NPCs nor their property because they have the weather effects slider set to off. Spells are not affected because their "magic". mmmmkay?
because between his vilifying AIG employees to Chrysler bond holders I think he more than qualifies.
IOW - Sanchez and company want to stop certain speech on websites because many of their opponents have been very successful there. This will go great when they find a back door method to implement the "fairness doctrine" by other means (diversity in radio or some of the child act)
So it has come to this, because we have become so good at getting the truth out about what these people are doing in Washington they now think that since they successfully got McCain-Feingold to block us from timely disclosure during an election period that they need to cover the rest of the time?
Just when is change going to happen where something good happens? This shit doesn't just pop out of Congress without someone in the White House giving it approval.
Hell Bush only listened to what we were saying private, these guys would prefer duct taping our hands together and our mouths shut.
Do we have an open square and some tanks they can use? (in eight weeks they are making eight years of Bush look friendlier)
Give me some oil and drop resistant versions and suddenly I don't need to either have books for the mechanics or have them print out stuff on a car they haven't encountered before...
hell, a soldier in a battle field might enjoy maps presented on one of these, and since it uses no battery power after changing the display its makes it even better.
of the Iraq war? 650 billion is the estimate for Iraq... Obama blew by that in just two bills and that doesn't include his budget.
Why not apply the same criteria to unsustainable social spending? Or should I say fraudulent and wasteful spending?
I was actually hoping Obama would hold Congress to his ideal of no earmarks. The problem was he redefined the word. The guy is a fraud and his budget and Congress's delight in his willingness to spend will put us in a ditch that even Bush couldn't have dreamed of digging.
One of the three was hoping for the tax liability to expire beyond the normal collection point.
Sorry, but there are so called elite of the crop and if they can't do their taxes right it either means... a) the tax code is too convoluted for even experts b) they are dishonest c) all of the above.
I guess we can thank Obama for at least identifying scoundrels in his Administration, the problem is he still allowed them in. Congress gave them a pass which isn't saying much for that group either.
I welcome the IRS to check my numbers. I know I am honest. I also know that it is right. You have to figure that not only do these guys know better but many probably had help filing. It doesn't wash.
I would love the IRS to be required to go over in detail ALL members of Congress EACH YEAR. They should be subject to the utmost scrutiny at all times. However just like Presidents too many adopt an elitist "nobility" attitude that they are too good to be closely examined. After all, it is they who protect us and therefor deserve the latitude.
from a news story I gave up. The last election made it even more pathetic. Too many of today's newspapers are nothing more than tabloids. They would have been laughed out of the industry thirty years ago.
So no, no reader is going to fix newspapers. Far too many of these papers are losing subscribers because the paper's political view is no where near in line with those who used to pay for them. Worse too many of these papers then call those people who don't subscribe over differences of opinion "ignorant" and wonder why that doesn't help.
Then again my experience is mostly with the AJC... though my buddy in LA says it is no different there.
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People want free health care, people want free this, that, and the other thing.
and they will find enough people who will feel it is OK to tax X because said people don't like X. The problem is that group will get whacked by people who don't like Y.
A VAT by any other name.
The stuff has to be paid for. The fastest way to keep people dependent on the government and keep people poor is to make it easy to be dependent and poor.
I know people who would cheer those gamers being taxed, I have vegan friends who would have a parade for fatties to pay more tax...
it never ends... too many people take enjoyment by having others punished. Most get bent when it occurs because of "religious" reasons but honestly does it matter when it comes down to it?
Democracies always have problems when people finally figure out they can vote themselves other peoples money, its worse when elected officials realize it works to keep them in office. Its even worse when a sitting President uses the bully pulpit to stomp on contract law and intimidate lawful holders of guaranteed debt to give it up.
that will relegate them to such a commodity status.
They are close to the perfect method for distribution of free computer programs/art/etc. Who needs AOL discs anymore! We can have a generation of usb key users. Of course I get lots of them from vendors in all shapes and forms, some are actually useful (led flash light, key holder, etc)
wants to claim they were specifically targeted and which government agency; most likely during Bush's term; started it.
Never underestimate the internet for created a mess, or having Washington to create distractions from their back breaking budgets
the fact that people don't understand where it comes from is more important.
As in, everything sold by intel in effect passes the cost of this judgment to the people buying the product. Since the dollar amount truly is not significant to alter intel's behavior this just becomes and embedded tax.
Really, I see the EU as Dr. Evil making a demand for an amount of money which is meaningless in today's term and Intel's board just laughing it off.
too many don't have a problem with THEIR government doing it.
Of course I have a problem with it, but I was born and raised in the United States and frankly trust Google (or other corporation) more than I trust the Government. Considering my government's willingness to spend me and my children into debt for the foreseeable future I doubt that my view will change.
Throw in the fact that far too many people think they have much more privacy than they truly do... totally forgetting how much information not using cash for transactions provides other people
being a smartass to a law officer?
First, they are usually armed. Second, they have the authority to detain you (granted they will need to figure out something if they want to keep you but they can interrupt your day), and third, their job sucks for the most part.
So where do people come off with the idea that it is OK to be anything but polite with them? Frankly if your a smartass to me I won't help you. I won't even talk to you. At least I am not armed; well not as they are. The difference is that regardless of how much an asshole someone else is there is never an excuse to anything but polite in return. This is especially true with people who are doing their job.
because he and his type find it politically expedient to vilify the oil industry.
Doing so to the solar industry, regardless of how true, has no political mileage.
Remember, Obama has advisers whose entire job is to determine how to release information and in what form. They recently released information that their studies shows the public in general cannot wrap its mind around the three trillion dollar budget but has an easier time understanding sixteen billion in savings. In other words, they are playing with public ignorance, fears, and jealousy, to do what they want. It is a brilliant show of marketing.
On a side note, with no support for nuclear what is going to be our base load supplier of electricity?
Sorry, same thing happened here. Going to borrow 50 cents for every dollar we spend this year. Having RIAA lawyers everywhere. Having tax cheats in office.
I think you overestimate the benefit of the internet. If anything it shows that people are even more ignorant than we believed possible. After all, if its on the internet it must be true. A place where anyone can make up a trusted sounding name and follow whatever agenda they want and claim to be purveyors of fact but simply slant based on omission of fact.
Because all I get from this obnoxious idea is some evil villains lair.
Honestly, does the guy not get it, that the original feature was created by nature is what made it special. Otherwise it would have been just another rock outcropping.
The only thing missing from his idea is the ability to sprout legs and arms and go marauding across the countryside.
we need money.
Honestly, I would not doubt these guys invent something, let alone if they do come up with anything based on current trends will Obama go on TV and vilify people who working legally? It seems he has no qualms about doing so if someone dares stand in his way, the law be damned. I just want to know why every time the government steps in to protect me I end up feeling like I am less safe.
So the EU fines Intel.
Exactly who is paying the fine?
Uh, people buying Intel products. As such it means people all over the world will chip in their pennies to pay the EU for Intel's violation.
A better solution than taking money, banning their product for a set time. That is how you truly stop this type of anti competitive behavior. Fining them just means anyone buying the product has a new embedded tax. Locking them out gets the shareholders pissed and makes heads roll. Can you imagine the grief caused by having your major new processor line forbidden from sales? Suddenly vendors look elsewhere for product and possibly for future contracts because your past actions have now interfered with their business.
Being a government entity in need of cash I suspect the EU will fine them less than they fined MS.
Newspapers, journalist (tv and print), and the those who taught them, have a lot invested in the current system. As such they strive to portray their columns as always without bias and to portray blogs as always biased. See, papers want us to believe that opinion is confined to the opinion page when it is clearly not. The easiest method available to any journalist to express their bias is by omission.
The real mud in the eye was then Dan Rather used obviously fake documents to smear then President George Bush right before the election for his second term. It was so blatant of an attempt to sway an election and so obviously fraudulent that the press (read anyone not a blog) didn't how to handle the response from the "blogosphere" other than to discredit individual bloggers and blogging as a whole. I am sure we can all remember the disparaging images that the old press try to conjure up in the minds of the average person as to what constituted a blogger. They tried to use an unsavory image to discredit facts that they did not like.
Summary, they will do whatever it takes to maintain their image and position. Blogs threaten them because the large number of blogs means the whole story will get out. You can slant a single site but not all of them. However papers have the advantage of captive audiences which blogs don't. The Old press needs to come to terms with the fact that the old methods will not work. You cannot have an agenda when every watch dog out there will call you on it. Either report it all factually or openly declare your bias (like MSNBC which is so shameful as to give credit to blogs becoming a real force).
because my time is more valuable than finding a bus, getting to it without having to wait too long for the next, and doing what I need to during the day; I tend to consolidate most of my shopping to my lunch hour so I don't have to go out shopping after getting home.
My time is valuable to me. Using public transportation means losing hours per week I'd rather not. It also means losing flexibility. I guess if I had a guaranteed day it might work out... but even then after riding some of the available public transportation here in Atlanta I won't do except to get to the game.
The throw in the weather... well it quickly goes to hell.
Using your example of $20 an hour. I would hope they had a used car which reduces their depreciation cost from the get go.
As for damage and other mysterious things... well I haven't racked up many, let alone a hundred dollars in ten years that I can recall. I tend to favor cars that are reliable so my out of pocket expenses are normal maintenance. If I need to get it fixed I get a lift, if its long term then I rent. Big deal, the freedom is worth it.
I am not saying anything is wrong with public transportation, but from listening to the news I am safer where I live by not being accessible to people who use public transportation. I can leave my doors unlocked at night; done it before by accident to include leaving garage open. I hear only my dogs breathing when I take them out in the morning. Nothing I can save money wise compensates for that peace. I will do my drive (26 miles no interstate one way) and rest easy.
For those for whom it works, more power to them. However don't try to measure dollars versus quality of life. It doesn't add up in the favor of public transportation in my book
insightful? Or are there just certain buzzwords that people are compelled to rate higher?
The future of our climate isn't being decided by corporations, it is being decided by an overly politicized system. Contrary laws and NIMBY laws are what are screwing us. I won't even try to list what is beyond our control outside our borders that may just undo anything we can try.
Look, they have pushed this line of thought for so long that they are locked in. They have to create a new office, which in turn can issue all sorts of "findings of fact", so that they can continue their agenda. After all, a National Climate office wouldn't release opinion now would they? There would never be the slightest bias in presentation of what is fact or how to read numbers would there?
Get real.
Lets see what they are doing to help the environment?
1. Pushing new incentives for bio fuels while not curtailing the fraud of corn based ethanol. ... thank you Al for poisoning all are water supplies.
2. Ignoring know safe energy production of nuclear because certain people in the Administration hate it, let alone the moonbats in Congress. Gee, if it works for France and even Germany is considering it it might be a good idea!
3. Cap and Trade . Backdoor tax on the poor and middle class without calling it that.
4. Remember MBTE
5. I am quite sure the Military isn't friendly to the environment on a whole; but I excuse a lot of what they do.
Sorry, the government does more damage when political regulations being implemented rather than scientific. The majority of their regulations seek to curry favor of specific groups or to pay them back for their activities related to elections. The preponderance of evidence against many forms of man made global warming is building faster than support for it.
No, its the moonbats coming to roost. They are going to create a new government bureaucracy where we already have more than one which does the same job. Instead of trying to find ways to save the American tax payer money they look for ways to guilt them or waste their money.
Can it work to stop shore erosion or do the bacteria take too long to do their work; let alone could they withstand salt water?
I will always remember 3DRealms for Terminal Velocity. I remember at the time just how impressive it looked in 1994 for what little it was.
a text book replacement.
Of course colleges would be loathe to give up the money they make selling new books to students each year...
but...
it would make the lives of students easier... done right a kiosk could let you download all the stuff you need for each class.
give me an oil and shock resistant one this size and it means the mechanic has a reference at his fingertips...
there are so many possibilities and so many with their existing revenue streams endangered...
I am so tired of people doing whatever they can to justify the newest benefit to themselves or others they feel need help.
Two issues.
IT IS NOT YOUR MONEY.
Where in the hell is it in the Constitution that this is a function of government.
That is the problem with people today. Anyone can find a justification for their piece of someone else's pie. Get it ? Your demanding that other people's money be spent on a problem you perceive.
And people wonder how we end up with trillion dollar deficits. Not only is the public full of ignorant greedy people so is the government
Along the same lines as Rogue, it is probably one of the reasons for a strategy game I still like Empire. All pieces are the same on both sides and all cities are equal. It is a game of strategy with chance rolled in; that being the frequency of finding cities or the enemy. No gimmicky special powers (read : wtf ) that one side has that the other does not.. no fancy animations to get in the way of what something does.
Simple games can be the best games... I am still waiting for someone to replicate Starflight
As for WOW and weather....
or at least someone on a message board somewhere else did, the weather effects do not affect NPCs nor their property because they have the weather effects slider set to off. Spells are not affected because their "magic". mmmmkay?
because between his vilifying AIG employees to Chrysler bond holders I think he more than qualifies.
IOW - Sanchez and company want to stop certain speech on websites because many of their opponents have been very successful there. This will go great when they find a back door method to implement the "fairness doctrine" by other means (diversity in radio or some of the child act)
So it has come to this, because we have become so good at getting the truth out about what these people are doing in Washington they now think that since they successfully got McCain-Feingold to block us from timely disclosure during an election period that they need to cover the rest of the time?
Just when is change going to happen where something good happens? This shit doesn't just pop out of Congress without someone in the White House giving it approval.
Hell Bush only listened to what we were saying private, these guys would prefer duct taping our hands together and our mouths shut.
Do we have an open square and some tanks they can use? (in eight weeks they are making eight years of Bush look friendlier)
different screens.
Give me some oil and drop resistant versions and suddenly I don't need to either have books for the mechanics or have them print out stuff on a car they haven't encountered before...
hell, a soldier in a battle field might enjoy maps presented on one of these, and since it uses no battery power after changing the display its makes it even better.
of the Iraq war? 650 billion is the estimate for Iraq... Obama blew by that in just two bills and that doesn't include his budget.
Why not apply the same criteria to unsustainable social spending? Or should I say fraudulent and wasteful spending?
I was actually hoping Obama would hold Congress to his ideal of no earmarks. The problem was he redefined the word. The guy is a fraud and his budget and Congress's delight in his willingness to spend will put us in a ditch that even Bush couldn't have dreamed of digging.
One of the three was hoping for the tax liability to expire beyond the normal collection point.
Sorry, but there are so called elite of the crop and if they can't do their taxes right it either means...
a) the tax code is too convoluted for even experts
b) they are dishonest
c) all of the above.
I guess we can thank Obama for at least identifying scoundrels in his Administration, the problem is he still allowed them in. Congress gave them a pass which isn't saying much for that group either.
I welcome the IRS to check my numbers. I know I am honest. I also know that it is right. You have to figure that not only do these guys know better but many probably had help filing. It doesn't wash.
I would love the IRS to be required to go over in detail ALL members of Congress EACH YEAR. They should be subject to the utmost scrutiny at all times. However just like Presidents too many adopt an elitist "nobility" attitude that they are too good to be closely examined. After all, it is they who protect us and therefor deserve the latitude.
in their home country for profits earned abroad? The US is one of the few who do.
It makes American business less competitive overseas so why shouldn't they avoid it.
Besides, its a misdirection to claim a business pays taxes, it only collects.
from a news story I gave up. The last election made it even more pathetic. Too many of today's newspapers are nothing more than tabloids. They would have been laughed out of the industry thirty years ago.
So no, no reader is going to fix newspapers. Far too many of these papers are losing subscribers because the paper's political view is no where near in line with those who used to pay for them. Worse too many of these papers then call those people who don't subscribe over differences of opinion "ignorant" and wonder why that doesn't help.
Then again my experience is mostly with the AJC... though my buddy in LA says it is no different there.