This leads to people like Warren Buffet owning million-dollar houses that they pay taxes on as if they were worth $100,000 (Buffet himself admits this is ridiculous).
While it can certainly lead to ridiculous circumstances (can *any* amount of property tax *not* sound ridiculous for someone of Warren Buffett's wealth?), the motive behind the Prop is very noble. No one should be priced out of their house due to the property taxes. Look at the runup of property values in the last decade. People would have see the "value" of their house skyrocket, and their property taxes go through the roof. Some people would have had to sell, for no other reason than that their house appreciated. Try to explain how that isn't a poor taxation scheme.
Interestingly, at my undergrad institution, they had specific performing groups for non-majors, because otherwise most people who had an interest in casually performing would never have made it through auditions.
It partly depends on how high-quality the departments are that you are comparing engineering to. If one attends a top-notch engineering school with a crappy art program, it's not *that* surprising that the engineers appear smarter. The school is attracting top-notch engineers, and not top-notch artists.
I sit in the rain counting elephants. An unpleasant task in unpleasant weather. No waterproofing?. No deal.
(seriously, what is with comments like this? firewire has never become a true standard in laptops. I've only ever owned one laptop with firewire. and subnotebooks have been successful without built-in optical drives for years. this new laptop fits fine within the category it was built for)
Do you even understand how the housing bubble has popped? People are now in houses that they can't afford payments on, that are worth far less than their mortgage is for. Do you think these people wouldn't accept a free house in exchange?
A portion of these people were told by *professionals* that the market was going to continue to rise, that in a year their house would be worth much more, and that if the payment became too much to handle, they could always sell: an easy out.
These people were screwed over by real estate snake oil salespeople.
I don't agree with a vast government bail-out, but show some compassion.
The people who bought in 2002 assuming that property values would continue to rise, and that they could always sell if interest rates went too high are safe.
The people who bought in 2003 assuming that property values would continue to rise, and that they could always sell if interest rates went too high are safe.
The people who bought in 2004 assuming that property values would continue to rise, and that they could always sell if interest rates went too high are safe.
The people who bought in 2005....well, they're screwed.
A *lot* of this is timing and luck.
And the restrictions on who qualifies for the bailout are pretty narrow. Most people in trouble don't qualify.
I'm not one of these people, and I don't necessarily agree with a government bailout. But to blame everyone for predatory lending practices is just wrong. In CA at least, people with little grasp of English were being talked into signing for loans they couldn't afford. The real estate swing was making fools of many people, and some of those people were screwing others.
well, easy if you don't care about efficacy. There are still a large percentage of depression sufferers that either haven't found a drug that works at all, or have only found drugs with intolerable side effects.
"The fact is, if you take two 22 year olds right out of school with degrees in English and mediocre grades, and one becomes a public school teacher and the other takes a clerical job in the private sector, the latter MIGHT make a few more dollars in the first years, but the expected lifetime earnings for the teacher is MUCH higher. In 30 years, those two people are 52 years old. The former is making $90,000, and now has a pension of $60k - $75k built up, while the latter is at the mercy of the market for their 401k, but probably doesn't have the $1.2m saved up to buy the annuity that would match the pension benefit, because even if they are now making $100k-$120k/year as HR manager, they have 13 more years of slaving away, while the teacher can call it a day whenever they want."
Look, I have no idea where you've lived, but I've never worked or lived in an area where new college graduates take clerical jobs, unless it's only temporary while they look for something in their *real* area. In *every* office I've worked in, the entry-level clerical and receptionist positions are held by people without college degrees. Those positions are often filled with people who are working on a degree, and they leave when they've finished it. It's completely unfair to compare entry-level work like filing and reception with a position that *requires* a college degree.
You do make a good point about the long-term fiscal benefits of being a teacher, but almost all of those benefits are held by many unionized positions. Work clerical at a University and you will retire with just as nice a pension as a teacher does. Put in your 30 years as a state employee and get the same. The hypothetical college graduate isn't limited to teaching or the private sector. In addition, those benefits are all dependent on you staying in the same place. How many credits (if any) you'll get if you move is up in the air. Choose to move to another state and those future pension benefits disappear.
Finally, using your own argument, wouldn't you agree that there's something wrong if a first-year teacher is making as little as an entry-level receptionist? Which one requires more skills and training?
And that, to me, is the thing that separates them from other games. Yes, you start as a low-level character. But it's still *fun* and engrossing. The two aren't mutually exclusive. I personally found Baldur's Gate brilliantly fun to play *because* you start the game with so little direction and so little power. Lots of things were going on, but you couldn't participate in them right away. I never felt like I was doing quests to get buff enough to take on the baddies. I would just follow the flow of the game and earn experience as I was exploring. The game design was brilliant, and allowed for a fun low-level experience. If the game starts you at a low level and you have to spend large chunks of time doing bland, mundane tasks, that's because of poor game design, not because you started at a low level.
"What are sunglasses for? Shielding your eyes from the sun. A pair of $5 glasses with a high SPF rating does just as good of a job blocking out UV as a $200 pair of designer sunglasses."
Blocking UV is hardly the only reason to wear sunglasses. I have a number of requirements when I buy a pair of sunglasses, since I use them when cycling daily. Cheap off-the-rack ones are acceptable for walking around town, but not when you use them during activities.
And even if you don't care about any fit or features, I really find it hard to believe that you wouldn't notice the enormous difference between the drugstore glasses and even a $50 pair. They distort the light less, and let you see much more clearly. If that's not an obvious benefit, you don't wear sunglasses much. I remember the first time I got a NICE pair of sunglasses. I was used to removing my sunglasses when I wanted to see more detail, but I had to eliminate that habit since removing my glasses now revealed *less* detail.
"The US already HAS a reasonable _short-haul_ intercity passenger rail system. The Northeast Corridor, California Coast, and the Northwest function well.."
Are you serious? The Northeast Corridor is the only area in the country where I might agree with that statement, and even *it* has severe flaws. The California Coast *has* an intercity passenger rail system, and while that's a thousand times better than most of the country, it doesn't make it "reasonable" or mean that it "function[s] well". Amtrak and most other public transportation in California (even as a commuter system) just isn't set up correctly. Heading into SF from my house via train almost always takes just as long (if not longer, due to transfers)as, and usually costs more than, driving in. And I'm including $0.45/mile+tolls+parking. And I can bike to a train station. I'm a huge fan of public transportation. I love riding trains. I hate sitting in traffic. But when there is a financial penalty for taking public transit, something is wrong with the system.
BART and CalTrain function pretty well, but the prices are extremely high and BART really needs to expand into other areas of the city.
On a side note of intercity travel: Look at I-80 to Tahoe from the Bay area on any Friday evening during swim or ski season. It's a parking lot. Why don't we have an express train to Tahoe? Hell, why don't we have any feasible train into Tahoe? The last time I checked, it was a 4-5 hour trip by train when it takes me only 3 in even the worst traffic (1:45 with open roads).
They may have lowered their prices on some options, but they are raising them on others. I just got a notice a month or so ago that they were raising my DSL price by 50%, but offering me "no commitment" (I had previously had 1-year contracts for 2 years). I called to investigate, and to inquire about the advertised $12.99/month deal. It turns out that the advertised special is for a new service that isn't available in my area yet, and might not be for years. So that isn't an option. ANd the company has raised prices on the old service (that I have) to encourage people to switch to the new service. But I can't switch. And after talking with three people (two different supervisors) it seems clear that they can't make any exceptions. Each person agreed it was stupid, but could offer me nothing.
So rather than simply leave me and my service alone, so I can continue to pay them every month until they have the new service to offer me, they are encouraging me to look around at other options. The only other broadband option available is Comcast. I don't like them very much, and would rather stick with my DSL, but priced over the next twelve months getting cable broadband is quite a bit cheaper. I can always reevaluate in a year.
So in some misguided attempt to encourage people to switch services, they are losing customers. ATT is going to fall quite far before it rights itself.
Two comments, and then I'll take my answer off the air.
First, I think some of your ideas are brilliant, and so simplistic that I'm shocked games haven't used them. The Paladin, in particular, tickled my fancy. I agree with most of your observations, except that the chances of one person having more than one discovery to their name isn't that small: even luck favors those that play 10+ hours a day. Those of us who are quite as committed will always lag behind.
Second, I once played with a DM who insisted that we roleplay the divying-up of loot from a large quest. It took more than an hour, and it was the last straw. We never invited him again.
You say you live in Silicon Valley, and that there aren't any WMSCs there, but you make comparisons to WMSCs you've been to, presumably elsewhere. I have no idea where these centers were, but *every* walmart I've been to (and I've lived in at least four separate regions of the US, more depending on how you define it) has been horribly understaffed. I occasionally end up going into a Walmart for some reason, and I am always amazed at the huge checkout lines. I have even left without the items I came in for, because I did not want to wait in those lines for my one or two items. In contrast, I have never waited 45 minutes at my local Costco. I've never thought Costco was an example of efficiency, but it just goes to show that these things are not constants.
How did this get modded up? Did you even read the quote you posted?
He doesn't claim that the universe requires human interaction or observation. He's simply claiming that since humans have limited faculties, the content and scope of human understanding and knowledge is limited. In other words, there may very well be things about the universe that we will never be able to understand. It's an interesting conjecture, although I'm not sure how much I agree with it, since humans are able to aid themselves in their investigations with technology.
I'm sorry, but you are displaying a complete lack of knowledge of any research in Theory of Mind from the last century.
The simplest rebuttal to your statements follows.
Behavioral patterns are not the equivalent of laws or morals.
Classical or Operant conditioning is not the same as decision making.
Enjoyment of comfort implies no knowledge of self.
Abandoning the cat for a moment, it's easy to see that we are different from other animals by comparing us to other primates. It is still unclear whether our closest relatives (the chimpanzee)have the ability to act deceitfully based on another's mental state. Some question how solid their knowledge of self is, and how well they grasp basic mechanics. Move outside of chimpanzees and these type of abilities are almost nonexistant. We have fully formed written and spoken languages. We understand both our perspective and that of others. We can question our existance. While we are only a small evolutionary step from the chimps, the difference between us is significant, and we are certainly different from other animals.
hunker down until something on the order of the EOS and this level of image handling gets reasonable.
Um, digital cameras along those lines exist, and are reasonably priced. I really don't understand what you're looking for. Do you want a little pocket-cam that is the quality of an SLR? The Digital Rebel and the new Rebel XT are wonderful entry-level digital SLRs, and they'll do everything your 35mm rig will do.
Unfortunately, when people in the rest of the country need an argument against direct democracy they simply say "California" and everyone on the other side shuts up.
Sadly, it's a good example of how direct democracy can fail. Most people don't have time to sit down and read all of the information to make an informed decision. They hear soundbites, news conferences and ads, all of which tell a very skewed tale. Then they simple pick something. Direct democracy for complex laws only works with a completely informed populace, and that's impossible to achieve.
I'm here in CA with you, and I see the stupidity that goes on every election. While you and I spend our time looking at every issue, the huge majority does not. The current system has its problems, but having opposing groups try to sway people through misleading advertising isn't really the best way to pass laws either.
and please, enough with the "radio is dead" refrain: just because you can't get a good station in east bohunk arkansas doesn't mean that those who live in a major city
I completely agree that radio isn't dead, but it's damn hard to find the good stuff that's out there. Things may have changed in the past couple years, but I've lived in the NYC area, and I was shocked that the radio there wasn't better than anywhere else. (anything large enough to be a city) Lots of stations, all filled with crap. Finding one or two good stations in any city is lucky. Getting reception indoors on a handheld device for those two low-powered stations is even trickier.
Honestly, the best reason I saw for including radio was for NPR, but with most shows including podcasts now, even that is gone.
I agree that the titles and lines are oddly similar, but in this case I think it was more a case of the NYT referencing itself, not publishing the same op-ed. (and both of these are op-eds)
The 2002 article summary reads: "Editorial backs efforts of Sens Tom Daschle, Robert Smith, John McCain and Russell Feingold to institute top-to-bottom overhaul of Army Corps of Engineers"- 630 words
2005 article: "Editorial strongly opposes bill that would shovel $17 billion at Army Corps of Engineers for water-related projects including $2.7-billion boondoggle on Mississippi River that has twice flunked inspection by National Academy of Sciences; warns bill would also weaken civilian control over fiercely independent corps that operates in parallel universe, spending billions of dollars on public works projects, often to satisfy Congress's appetite for pork" - 415 words
>But abortion is not only a "medical procedure", and not only about a "woman's choice". A life is ended. I am willing to concede that it >ultimately be better, societally, for unwanted children to not be born.
I hope you're wearing crampons for that slippery slope you're walking. I'm completely pro-choice, but the minute you try and justify abortion because the end result is 'better for society' you are very close to euthanizing the old, the infirm, the mentally retarded, and perhaps even the destitute.
I hope you have a better reason to not oppose abortion. I know I do.
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This leads to people like Warren Buffet owning million-dollar houses that they pay taxes on as if they were worth $100,000 (Buffet himself admits this is ridiculous).
While it can certainly lead to ridiculous circumstances (can *any* amount of property tax *not* sound ridiculous for someone of Warren Buffett's wealth?), the motive behind the Prop is very noble. No one should be priced out of their house due to the property taxes. Look at the runup of property values in the last decade. People would have see the "value" of their house skyrocket, and their property taxes go through the roof. Some people would have had to sell, for no other reason than that their house appreciated. Try to explain how that isn't a poor taxation scheme.
Um, wasn't the point that Wal-Mart demanded this pricing for the large jars or they would drop *all* of Vlasic's products?
At the time, they thought that the loss of not being in Wal-mart was worse than the money lost on the large jars of pickles.
Interestingly, at my undergrad institution, they had specific performing groups for non-majors, because otherwise most people who had an interest in casually performing would never have made it through auditions.
It partly depends on how high-quality the departments are that you are comparing engineering to. If one attends a top-notch engineering school with a crappy art program, it's not *that* surprising that the engineers appear smarter. The school is attracting top-notch engineers, and not top-notch artists.
I sit in the rain counting elephants. An unpleasant task in unpleasant weather. No waterproofing?. No deal.
(seriously, what is with comments like this? firewire has never become a true standard in laptops. I've only ever owned one laptop with firewire. and subnotebooks have been successful without built-in optical drives for years. this new laptop fits fine within the category it was built for)
Do you even understand how the housing bubble has popped? People are now in houses that they can't afford payments on, that are worth far less than their mortgage is for. Do you think these people wouldn't accept a free house in exchange?
A portion of these people were told by *professionals* that the market was going to continue to rise, that in a year their house would be worth much more, and that if the payment became too much to handle, they could always sell: an easy out.
These people were screwed over by real estate snake oil salespeople.
I don't agree with a vast government bail-out, but show some compassion.
The people who bought in 2002 assuming that property values would continue to rise, and that they could always sell if interest rates went too high are safe.
The people who bought in 2003 assuming that property values would continue to rise, and that they could always sell if interest rates went too high are safe.
The people who bought in 2004 assuming that property values would continue to rise, and that they could always sell if interest rates went too high are safe.
The people who bought in 2005....well, they're screwed.
A *lot* of this is timing and luck.
And the restrictions on who qualifies for the bailout are pretty narrow. Most people in trouble don't qualify.
I'm not one of these people, and I don't necessarily agree with a government bailout. But to blame everyone for predatory lending practices is just wrong. In CA at least, people with little grasp of English were being talked into signing for loans they couldn't afford. The real estate swing was making fools of many people, and some of those people were screwing others.
"That's why it's easy to create anti-depressants"
well, easy if you don't care about efficacy. There are still a large percentage of depression sufferers that either haven't found a drug that works at all, or have only found drugs with intolerable side effects.
"The fact is, if you take two 22 year olds right out of school with degrees in English and mediocre grades, and one becomes a public school teacher and the other takes a clerical job in the private sector, the latter MIGHT make a few more dollars in the first years, but the expected lifetime earnings for the teacher is MUCH higher. In 30 years, those two people are 52 years old. The former is making $90,000, and now has a pension of $60k - $75k built up, while the latter is at the mercy of the market for their 401k, but probably doesn't have the $1.2m saved up to buy the annuity that would match the pension benefit, because even if they are now making $100k-$120k/year as HR manager, they have 13 more years of slaving away, while the teacher can call it a day whenever they want."
Look, I have no idea where you've lived, but I've never worked or lived in an area where new college graduates take clerical jobs, unless it's only temporary while they look for something in their *real* area. In *every* office I've worked in, the entry-level clerical and receptionist positions are held by people without college degrees. Those positions are often filled with people who are working on a degree, and they leave when they've finished it. It's completely unfair to compare entry-level work like filing and reception with a position that *requires* a college degree.
You do make a good point about the long-term fiscal benefits of being a teacher, but almost all of those benefits are held by many unionized positions. Work clerical at a University and you will retire with just as nice a pension as a teacher does. Put in your 30 years as a state employee and get the same. The hypothetical college graduate isn't limited to teaching or the private sector. In addition, those benefits are all dependent on you staying in the same place. How many credits (if any) you'll get if you move is up in the air. Choose to move to another state and those future pension benefits disappear.
Finally, using your own argument, wouldn't you agree that there's something wrong if a first-year teacher is making as little as an entry-level receptionist? Which one requires more skills and training?
--They both were engrossing from the start
-But they both still started you off as a loser.
And that, to me, is the thing that separates them from other games. Yes, you start as a low-level character. But it's still *fun* and engrossing. The two aren't mutually exclusive. I personally found Baldur's Gate brilliantly fun to play *because* you start the game with so little direction and so little power. Lots of things were going on, but you couldn't participate in them right away. I never felt like I was doing quests to get buff enough to take on the baddies. I would just follow the flow of the game and earn experience as I was exploring. The game design was brilliant, and allowed for a fun low-level experience. If the game starts you at a low level and you have to spend large chunks of time doing bland, mundane tasks, that's because of poor game design, not because you started at a low level.
"What are sunglasses for? Shielding your eyes from the sun. A pair of $5 glasses with a high SPF rating does just as good of a job blocking out UV as a $200 pair of designer sunglasses."
Blocking UV is hardly the only reason to wear sunglasses. I have a number of requirements when I buy a pair of sunglasses, since I use them when cycling daily. Cheap off-the-rack ones are acceptable for walking around town, but not when you use them during activities.
And even if you don't care about any fit or features, I really find it hard to believe that you wouldn't notice the enormous difference between the drugstore glasses and even a $50 pair. They distort the light less, and let you see much more clearly. If that's not an obvious benefit, you don't wear sunglasses much. I remember the first time I got a NICE pair of sunglasses. I was used to removing my sunglasses when I wanted to see more detail, but I had to eliminate that habit since removing my glasses now revealed *less* detail.
No "current" games, maybe, but I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (based on Harlan Ellison's story) is a *highly* disturbing game.
But maybe I'm the only one who finds bartering with a dog for your heart disturbing.
"The US already HAS a reasonable _short-haul_ intercity passenger rail system. The Northeast Corridor, California Coast, and the Northwest function well.."
Are you serious? The Northeast Corridor is the only area in the country where I might agree with that statement, and even *it* has severe flaws. The California Coast *has* an intercity passenger rail system, and while that's a thousand times better than most of the country, it doesn't make it "reasonable" or mean that it "function[s] well". Amtrak and most other public transportation in California (even as a commuter system) just isn't set up correctly. Heading into SF from my house via train almost always takes just as long (if not longer, due to transfers)as, and usually costs more than, driving in. And I'm including $0.45/mile+tolls+parking. And I can bike to a train station. I'm a huge fan of public transportation. I love riding trains. I hate sitting in traffic. But when there is a financial penalty for taking public transit, something is wrong with the system.
BART and CalTrain function pretty well, but the prices are extremely high and BART really needs to expand into other areas of the city.
On a side note of intercity travel: Look at I-80 to Tahoe from the Bay area on any Friday evening during swim or ski season. It's a parking lot. Why don't we have an express train to Tahoe? Hell, why don't we have any feasible train into Tahoe? The last time I checked, it was a 4-5 hour trip by train when it takes me only 3 in even the worst traffic (1:45 with open roads).
They may have lowered their prices on some options, but they are raising them on others. I just got a notice a month or so ago that they were raising my DSL price by 50%, but offering me "no commitment" (I had previously had 1-year contracts for 2 years). I called to investigate, and to inquire about the advertised $12.99/month deal. It turns out that the advertised special is for a new service that isn't available in my area yet, and might not be for years. So that isn't an option. ANd the company has raised prices on the old service (that I have) to encourage people to switch to the new service. But I can't switch. And after talking with three people (two different supervisors) it seems clear that they can't make any exceptions. Each person agreed it was stupid, but could offer me nothing.
So rather than simply leave me and my service alone, so I can continue to pay them every month until they have the new service to offer me, they are encouraging me to look around at other options. The only other broadband option available is Comcast. I don't like them very much, and would rather stick with my DSL, but priced over the next twelve months getting cable broadband is quite a bit cheaper. I can always reevaluate in a year.
So in some misguided attempt to encourage people to switch services, they are losing customers. ATT is going to fall quite far before it rights itself.
Two comments, and then I'll take my answer off the air.
First, I think some of your ideas are brilliant, and so simplistic that I'm shocked games haven't used them. The Paladin, in particular, tickled my fancy. I agree with most of your observations, except that the chances of one person having more than one discovery to their name isn't that small: even luck favors those that play 10+ hours a day. Those of us who are quite as committed will always lag behind.
Second, I once played with a DM who insisted that we roleplay the divying-up of loot from a large quest. It took more than an hour, and it was the last straw. We never invited him again.
The tax doesn't apply to normal "data" cd-rs. It only applies to "Audio" cd-rs, the kind of media that can be used in home stereo cd-burners.
I haven't even seen those for sale in years.
You say you live in Silicon Valley, and that there aren't any WMSCs there, but you make comparisons to WMSCs you've been to, presumably elsewhere. I have no idea where these centers were, but *every* walmart I've been to (and I've lived in at least four separate regions of the US, more depending on how you define it) has been horribly understaffed. I occasionally end up going into a Walmart for some reason, and I am always amazed at the huge checkout lines. I have even left without the items I came in for, because I did not want to wait in those lines for my one or two items. In contrast, I have never waited 45 minutes at my local Costco. I've never thought Costco was an example of efficiency, but it just goes to show that these things are not constants.
How did this get modded up? Did you even read the quote you posted?
He doesn't claim that the universe requires human interaction or observation. He's simply claiming that since humans have limited faculties, the content and scope of human understanding and knowledge is limited. In other words, there may very well be things about the universe that we will never be able to understand. It's an interesting conjecture, although I'm not sure how much I agree with it, since humans are able to aid themselves in their investigations with technology.
I'm sorry, but you are displaying a complete lack of knowledge of any research in Theory of Mind from the last century.
The simplest rebuttal to your statements follows.
Behavioral patterns are not the equivalent of laws or morals.
Classical or Operant conditioning is not the same as decision making.
Enjoyment of comfort implies no knowledge of self.
Abandoning the cat for a moment, it's easy to see that we are different from other animals by comparing us to other primates. It is still unclear whether our closest relatives (the chimpanzee)have the ability to act deceitfully based on another's mental state. Some question how solid their knowledge of self is, and how well they grasp basic mechanics. Move outside of chimpanzees and these type of abilities are almost nonexistant. We have fully formed written and spoken languages. We understand both our perspective and that of others. We can question our existance. While we are only a small evolutionary step from the chimps, the difference between us is significant, and we are certainly different from other animals.
hunker down until something on the order of the EOS and this level of image handling gets reasonable.
Um, digital cameras along those lines exist, and are reasonably priced. I really don't understand what you're looking for. Do you want a little pocket-cam that is the quality of an SLR? The Digital Rebel and the new Rebel XT are wonderful entry-level digital SLRs, and they'll do everything your 35mm rig will do.
Unfortunately, when people in the rest of the country need an argument against direct democracy they simply say "California" and everyone on the other side shuts up.
Sadly, it's a good example of how direct democracy can fail. Most people don't have time to sit down and read all of the information to make an informed decision. They hear soundbites, news conferences and ads, all of which tell a very skewed tale. Then they simple pick something. Direct democracy for complex laws only works with a completely informed populace, and that's impossible to achieve.
I'm here in CA with you, and I see the stupidity that goes on every election. While you and I spend our time looking at every issue, the huge majority does not. The current system has its problems, but having opposing groups try to sway people through misleading advertising isn't really the best way to pass laws either.
and please, enough with the "radio is dead" refrain: just because you can't get a good station in east bohunk arkansas doesn't mean that those who live in a major city
I completely agree that radio isn't dead, but it's damn hard to find the good stuff that's out there. Things may have changed in the past couple years, but I've lived in the NYC area, and I was shocked that the radio there wasn't better than anywhere else. (anything large enough to be a city) Lots of stations, all filled with crap. Finding one or two good stations in any city is lucky. Getting reception indoors on a handheld device for those two low-powered stations is even trickier.
Honestly, the best reason I saw for including radio was for NPR, but with most shows including podcasts now, even that is gone.
I agree that the titles and lines are oddly similar, but in this case I think it was more a case of the NYT referencing itself, not publishing the same op-ed. (and both of these are op-eds)
The 2002 article summary reads: "Editorial backs efforts of Sens Tom Daschle, Robert Smith, John McCain and Russell Feingold to institute top-to-bottom overhaul of Army Corps of Engineers"- 630 words
2005 article: "Editorial strongly opposes bill that would shovel $17 billion at Army Corps of Engineers for water-related projects including $2.7-billion boondoggle on Mississippi River that has twice flunked inspection by National Academy of Sciences; warns bill would also weaken civilian control over fiercely independent corps that operates in parallel universe, spending billions of dollars on public works projects, often to satisfy Congress's appetite for pork" - 415 words
>But abortion is not only a "medical procedure", and not only about a "woman's choice". A life is ended. I am willing to concede that it >ultimately be better, societally, for unwanted children to not be born.
I hope you're wearing crampons for that slippery slope you're walking. I'm completely pro-choice, but the minute you try and justify abortion because the end result is 'better for society' you are very close to euthanizing the old, the infirm, the mentally retarded, and perhaps even the destitute.
I hope you have a better reason to not oppose abortion. I know I do.
Well, you should throw out the Linnaean system of classification, but only to move forward to a more cladistic-based system.
"We eschew such means of classification."- Arnold Kluge