What's wrong with that? We have zero inflation and a healthy economic growth rate thanks to all of us selling houses and massages and burgers to each other.
[Movies] aren't as emotionally manipulative as music
This must be the most intellectually dishonest thing I've ever heard.
And by the way - before you begin - my day job is to play with a large city symphony on the West coast, so I do know a thing or two about music and its redeeming qualities. However, to say that other artforms are less or more emotionally manipulative / redeeming / entertaining as music as an absolute rule is just plain simplistic and wrong.
This reminds me of a 70-year-old neighbor of mine that has Alzheimer's. When we have him over for dinner, he would sometimes blurt out "Be sure to eat all your food, son, and dontcha waste it! There are kids in Japan starving right now..."
Likewise, your taste in movies must be very questionable if you don't have more than several movies which can be watched many times over the course of its lifetime.
And as an aside, it REALLY pisses me off that such an insignifcant blip is the focus of so much US military attention. Is Taiwan REALLY important enough to go to war with China over?
It certainly used to be about 5-10 years ago, when 99% of the world's PCs, laptops, and RAM were manufactured in Taiwan. Now that most of that's gone to mainland China, this reason no longer applies.
However, Taiwan still serves as a strategically important spot for the US military. Along with Okinawa and South Korea, if the US had the balls to build a base in Taiwan, it would be a total containment of mainland China on the Pacific Rim (and some war hawk's wet dream, I'm sure).
Well, as another poster already mentioned, medical services is just that - a service. It's not like you're shipping a 3,000-lb Honda back to Japan to get it fixed. It's quite trivial to fly oneself to India (that's what the UK's National Health Service is doing more and more now) or wherever for costly medical procedures. Some old folks don't seem to mind getting their drugs from "FDA-non-tested" Canadian drugs. It's just a matter of cold, hard cash to nudge them past the impressions of "scary ferriner doctors."
And disregarding Indian medical service providers, there seems to be a trend to push more and more "mundane" duties typically done by doctors to nurses and pharmacists. If this goes on, a friend of mine in the field says that doctors will concentrate their trade more in the surgical areas. Pretty interesting to think about.
How can you respect any institution such as WSU which puts commercials on TV featuring people opening a door to a "physics" class and seeing a space shuttle launch and opening a door to a "French" class and seeing a picture of the Eiffel Tower?
Speaking as a completely fair, unbiased Huskie.:-)
I've worked in organizations big and small, both public and private sectors, and there is no difference in inefficiencies or corruption.
In fact, my fiancee's 3 coworkers (normal bankers) at a bank just racked up $150 in a bar tab for "business expenses" and that's after they booked a client meeting next week at the Bellagio. I don't think typical government employees get away with doing stuff like that for very long.
My coworker sits extremely tight-cross-legged and flails his hands in extremely feminine gestures when speaking, and will tell you how much "he justh loves hith Mac!" every chance he gets while flailing his arms and legs in a very extremely feminine fashion.
The kicker is that he and his wife+kids vote staunchly Republican. Now maybe if he grew up in San Francisco instead of backwards Georgia...
So which is better - me driving a Mercedes and being $50,000 in debt with no guarantee of future income or me driving a Civic and being $0 in debt with no guarantee of future income? Does driving a Mercedes prove a "boon" to my personal finances?
The Bush administration agreed Wednesday to release oil from emergency stockpiles to help Gulf Coast refiners hobbled by a loss of shipments due to Hurricane Katrina. The administration also moved to temporarily ease some pollution standards on gasoline and diesel fuel to avert shortages.
So are we going to see a lot of clogged up catalytic converters in the next few years?
Well, the fact is most Southeast Asian food in the U.S. are cooked by Chinese people who can't cook (this is due to the fact that most people who have the financial means of owning a business in Southeast Asia are ethnically Chinese). So whenever someone tells me about "this awesome new Thai place" that purportedly will blow my mind away, it will almost always taste like bad Cantonese food with spices on it to cover up for the fact that it's bad Cantonese food.
As for real authentic Thai or something like that, the last place I was in that seemed to have a better selection was San Francisco. Thai Tom in the U District seems to be a popular favorite, but when I went to try it, they actually had 2 waiters physically run after me on the street because I forgot to put down a tip (I thought my fiancee had put it down already) and verbally assault me with every kind of racial epithet imaginable, so I can't say I can judge their food fairly.:-)
The measles were possibly spread to 2 local restaurants - tried them both before and they're both overpriced and not very good - Thai Ginger in Redmond Town Center and Malay Satay Hut on 24th.
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...which resulted in booth bunnies and logo-ed blinking bouncy balls
What's wrong with that? We have zero inflation and a healthy economic growth rate thanks to all of us selling houses and massages and burgers to each other.
Offering Dallas as a relocation alternative will increase the attrition flow quite nicely...
My brother managed to graduate valedictorian from high school on the honors track and is now in the honors program of a 4-year university.
He can't do fraction addition and flunked out of freshmen calculus.
Under "race" on the 2000 census, I put down "200 meter hurdles".
[Movies] aren't as emotionally manipulative as music
This must be the most intellectually dishonest thing I've ever heard.
And by the way - before you begin - my day job is to play with a large city symphony on the West coast, so I do know a thing or two about music and its redeeming qualities. However, to say that other artforms are less or more emotionally manipulative / redeeming / entertaining as music as an absolute rule is just plain simplistic and wrong.
This reminds me of a 70-year-old neighbor of mine that has Alzheimer's. When we have him over for dinner, he would sometimes blurt out "Be sure to eat all your food, son, and dontcha waste it! There are kids in Japan starving right now..."
Likewise, your taste in movies must be very questionable if you don't have more than several movies which can be watched many times over the course of its lifetime.
Imagine swapping RFID chips from various underwear vendors with your next-door neighbors.
Hilarity ensues from these outlyers of the marketing data.
And as an aside, it REALLY pisses me off that such an insignifcant blip is the focus of so much US military attention. Is Taiwan REALLY important enough to go to war with China over?
It certainly used to be about 5-10 years ago, when 99% of the world's PCs, laptops, and RAM were manufactured in Taiwan. Now that most of that's gone to mainland China, this reason no longer applies.
However, Taiwan still serves as a strategically important spot for the US military. Along with Okinawa and South Korea, if the US had the balls to build a base in Taiwan, it would be a total containment of mainland China on the Pacific Rim (and some war hawk's wet dream, I'm sure).
Well, California and Texas belong to Mexico for historical reasons, and Newfoundland belongs to Britain for historical reasons.
Independence is defined by the ability to defend your land from both military and cultural invasions. Everything else is moot.
You can store 5 minutes DV-quality porn on a 1GB stick.
If you are a man of questionable tolerance and determination, I suggest you use some kind of compression.
Oh - you mean like a "real real" drought or some other real natural disaster? Oh sorry.
(Goes back to work)
Well, as another poster already mentioned, medical services is just that - a service. It's not like you're shipping a 3,000-lb Honda back to Japan to get it fixed. It's quite trivial to fly oneself to India (that's what the UK's National Health Service is doing more and more now) or wherever for costly medical procedures. Some old folks don't seem to mind getting their drugs from "FDA-non-tested" Canadian drugs. It's just a matter of cold, hard cash to nudge them past the impressions of "scary ferriner doctors."
And disregarding Indian medical service providers, there seems to be a trend to push more and more "mundane" duties typically done by doctors to nurses and pharmacists. If this goes on, a friend of mine in the field says that doctors will concentrate their trade more in the surgical areas. Pretty interesting to think about.
Did you know 1 in 10 Europeans were conceived on an IKEA bed?
It defaults to a 200ms delay for autocompletion. Maybe you should try to play around with that number in the settings.
How can you respect any institution such as WSU which puts commercials on TV featuring people opening a door to a "physics" class and seeing a space shuttle launch and opening a door to a "French" class and seeing a picture of the Eiffel Tower?
:-)
Speaking as a completely fair, unbiased Huskie.
I've worked in organizations big and small, both public and private sectors, and there is no difference in inefficiencies or corruption.
In fact, my fiancee's 3 coworkers (normal bankers) at a bank just racked up $150 in a bar tab for "business expenses" and that's after they booked a client meeting next week at the Bellagio. I don't think typical government employees get away with doing stuff like that for very long.
Pardon my Freudian slip - I meant "backwoods."
My coworker sits extremely tight-cross-legged and flails his hands in extremely feminine gestures when speaking, and will tell you how much "he justh loves hith Mac!" every chance he gets while flailing his arms and legs in a very extremely feminine fashion.
The kicker is that he and his wife+kids vote staunchly Republican. Now maybe if he grew up in San Francisco instead of backwards Georgia...
Average annual income of whites in NO - $30,000
Average annual income of blacks in NO - $11,000
Disregarding the dispicable disparity between the two figures, even a $30,000 is really paltry for uprooting a whole family to move to another city.
So which is better - me driving a Mercedes and being $50,000 in debt with no guarantee of future income or me driving a Civic and being $0 in debt with no guarantee of future income? Does driving a Mercedes prove a "boon" to my personal finances?
The Bush administration agreed Wednesday to release oil from emergency stockpiles to help Gulf Coast refiners hobbled by a loss of shipments due to Hurricane Katrina. The administration also moved to temporarily ease some pollution standards on gasoline and diesel fuel to avert shortages.
So are we going to see a lot of clogged up catalytic converters in the next few years?
Well, the fact is most Southeast Asian food in the U.S. are cooked by Chinese people who can't cook (this is due to the fact that most people who have the financial means of owning a business in Southeast Asia are ethnically Chinese). So whenever someone tells me about "this awesome new Thai place" that purportedly will blow my mind away, it will almost always taste like bad Cantonese food with spices on it to cover up for the fact that it's bad Cantonese food.
:-)
As for real authentic Thai or something like that, the last place I was in that seemed to have a better selection was San Francisco. Thai Tom in the U District seems to be a popular favorite, but when I went to try it, they actually had 2 waiters physically run after me on the street because I forgot to put down a tip (I thought my fiancee had put it down already) and verbally assault me with every kind of racial epithet imaginable, so I can't say I can judge their food fairly.
The measles were possibly spread to 2 local restaurants - tried them both before and they're both overpriced and not very good - Thai Ginger in Redmond Town Center and Malay Satay Hut on 24th.
The software that AOL runs on keeps throwing a divide-by-zero exception, just as the following:
try {
int i = iRevenue / iNumExistingCustomers;
} catch (...) {}