Yeah, there was a what one would call a short-lived "rebellion" against the new tolls put on a bridge in Seattle, where a lot of drivers drove an extra 10 miles and added an extra hour to their commute rather than pay $3.50 on the bridge. That didn't last long. The only large contingent of people left complaining loudly are people who don't actually live in Seattle.
Darwinism only affects the population if the dead driver has not yet reproduced. Since the minimum age for obtaining a driver's license is generally greater than the median breeding age in rural Texas, the increased speed limit may not have any impact on Darwinism's effects on the population there.
Speed limits are at 50 in Portland, OR. 55 on I-5 in the urban areas, up to 65 in the rural areas. Washington state is at 60 in the urban areas, and 70 in the rural areas (though traffic realistically goes at about 85 in the rural areas).
I say sell it, because Apple fanbois are retarded.
I just sold a 5-year-old 2nd gen iPod touch for $125 last month. I had 4 people fighting over it. And this was in a west coast city abundant with Apple products everywhere.
" You hear stories about Canadians coming to the US and paying cash and getting right in. "
That's true, but nowhere near what a lot of people think it is.. One time, a anti-single-payer individual was showing me a chart where it showed 200 Canadians had to trek to the US for medical care in 2010. Then I pulled out my calculator and showed him that it is 0.0057% of the population (if I got my decimal points right). If that's all the people that's slipping through the cracks, sounds like they're doing a pretty fine job.
Point of reference - I have 2 uncles who are doctors in Hong Kong (and they work in a public hospital) and both drive E-class Mercedes (keep in mind cars cost 2x-3x in Hong Kong what they cost in the States).
I know a few in person. They are usually in the bottom quartile income-wise and education-wise, and genuinely believe the only thing standing in the way of their ambition to migrate from their $12/hr job to multimillionaire status is the government (while they buy houses using government FHA loans, send all their kids to public school, and check out Ayn Rand books from the public library).
Fry's Electronics advertises things like TVs or washing machines sometimes while omitting the brand and model. I've heard rumors from an employee friend there that these are most likely the Latin American market lines, and they're made to a lower spec. Same with some appliances sold at Walmart and Costco - a fridge may have a skinnier seal or a smaller motor or something like that.
Anybody have any anecdotal data on this alleged practice?
"I always wonder why the Apple store on Michigan Ave does so much business...You could order the same thing from amazon (and have it tomorrow with Prime) and save an extra $100-200 in taxes. "
The kind of people who would line up for 30 minutes in front of the Apple store and deal with crowds when they could just buy the same thing from a nearby Target with 10 of them in stock probably don't have the mental capacity to plan that far ahead and skip out on their instant gratification.
I have a brochure from the 1980s talking about the "dangers" of buying grey-market Yamaha pianos. So the term was appropriated for this use quite some time ago.
In Seattle, most car dealerships have a "Canadian Customers" website where they steer the import customers. I know that at one time, something pedestrian like a Subaru Outback could almost be double the US price when purchased in Canada.
Although the Louis Vuitton bag my wife got in Vancouver was at least $100 cheaper than in Seattle, even with BC's 12% sales tax and with the Canadian $$ at parity. (Yes, we could have bought it for even less in sales tax-free Oregon - but Vancouver's much more fun than Portland).
Also - Blu-Rays. I can buy sets (Toy Story, Bourne, Spiderman, etc.) for significantly less from Amazon UK even after paying for one-week international shipping.
I live in Bellevue right by 520 and 405 3 miles away from downtown Bellevue (so pretty urban), and I cannot get anything other than T-Mobile and Verizon. My house is on an odd side of the hill where it cuts off all AT&T and Sprint. If I walk 5 houses down to the other side of the hill, then every network will have bars.
When I bought this house, I had to go to Best Buy and get a bunch of prepaid phones to figure out which provider worked.
When accounting for population, Seattle metro typically includes parts of Pierce, Kitsap and Snohomish counties - Tacoma and Everett often gets clumped in. So that's how there's a lot of 3 million figures out there.
Just like how Portland's population includes Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, and Clark counties.
I speak English fluently, passable Mandarin, and better-than-restaurant Spanish and Japanese. This means I mostly communicate effectively with a huge chunk of the world's population. Unlike you, I travel mainly for pleasure (in business, everyone speaks English of course), and I always venture away from the tourist hotspots so knowing the local language is invaluable and one can get much more out of travel by interacting with the locals at a more meaningful level.
Don't be so sure about the "civilized" first world. In Bellevue, WA (a generally high-income place with Neiman Marcus and Louis Vuitton stores), there was a gas shortage several years ago after a winter storm. All gas stations had been stormed and emptied by nervous housewives. There was a literal pitchforks and torches crowd outside the Chevron station, with blood-shot eyed people banging loudly on the door shouting at the poor kid trying to reset the pumps. I told a couple of them that "I'm sure they'll get the pumps going pretty soon". It was ignored in their fervent wrath. Another couple hours and garbage cans would have been thrown through the door. As the pumps were finally up and running, people were shouting at each other with accusations of "cutting in line".
One issue I've always had with a military budget - why ever would the US government publish the true dollar amount of the military budget? Wouldn't it be a national security concern that foreign nations could estimate force and equipment strength based on an accurate dollar amount?
Somehow, I have my doubts that the published dollar amount is anywhere close to the real amount.
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Yeah, there was a what one would call a short-lived "rebellion" against the new tolls put on a bridge in Seattle, where a lot of drivers drove an extra 10 miles and added an extra hour to their commute rather than pay $3.50 on the bridge. That didn't last long. The only large contingent of people left complaining loudly are people who don't actually live in Seattle.
Darwinism only affects the population if the dead driver has not yet reproduced. Since the minimum age for obtaining a driver's license is generally greater than the median breeding age in rural Texas, the increased speed limit may not have any impact on Darwinism's effects on the population there.
Don't you mean "disturbing the peace" and "resisting arrest"? (sarcasm)
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/10/aclu-assails-10/
Speed limits are at 50 in Portland, OR. 55 on I-5 in the urban areas, up to 65 in the rural areas. Washington state is at 60 in the urban areas, and 70 in the rural areas (though traffic realistically goes at about 85 in the rural areas).
China had 43MPG for cars back in 2008.
Justin Long is excellent in small dozes.
I say sell it, because Apple fanbois are retarded.
I just sold a 5-year-old 2nd gen iPod touch for $125 last month. I had 4 people fighting over it. And this was in a west coast city abundant with Apple products everywhere.
" You hear stories about Canadians coming to the US and paying cash and getting right in. "
That's true, but nowhere near what a lot of people think it is.. One time, a anti-single-payer individual was showing me a chart where it showed 200 Canadians had to trek to the US for medical care in 2010. Then I pulled out my calculator and showed him that it is 0.0057% of the population (if I got my decimal points right). If that's all the people that's slipping through the cracks, sounds like they're doing a pretty fine job.
Point of reference - I have 2 uncles who are doctors in Hong Kong (and they work in a public hospital) and both drive E-class Mercedes (keep in mind cars cost 2x-3x in Hong Kong what they cost in the States).
Someone here was joking around that making Medicare into the single-payer system would be just a one line code change in their computers.
if (age >= 65) to
if (age >= 0)
(Yes, you could remove the conditional, but then it wouldn't be strictly a "one-line change").
I know a few in person. They are usually in the bottom quartile income-wise and education-wise, and genuinely believe the only thing standing in the way of their ambition to migrate from their $12/hr job to multimillionaire status is the government (while they buy houses using government FHA loans, send all their kids to public school, and check out Ayn Rand books from the public library).
Fry's Electronics advertises things like TVs or washing machines sometimes while omitting the brand and model. I've heard rumors from an employee friend there that these are most likely the Latin American market lines, and they're made to a lower spec. Same with some appliances sold at Walmart and Costco - a fridge may have a skinnier seal or a smaller motor or something like that.
Anybody have any anecdotal data on this alleged practice?
"I always wonder why the Apple store on Michigan Ave does so much business...You could order the same thing from amazon (and have it tomorrow with Prime) and save an extra $100-200 in taxes. "
The kind of people who would line up for 30 minutes in front of the Apple store and deal with crowds when they could just buy the same thing from a nearby Target with 10 of them in stock probably don't have the mental capacity to plan that far ahead and skip out on their instant gratification.
I have a brochure from the 1980s talking about the "dangers" of buying grey-market Yamaha pianos. So the term was appropriated for this use quite some time ago.
In Seattle, most car dealerships have a "Canadian Customers" website where they steer the import customers. I know that at one time, something pedestrian like a Subaru Outback could almost be double the US price when purchased in Canada.
Although the Louis Vuitton bag my wife got in Vancouver was at least $100 cheaper than in Seattle, even with BC's 12% sales tax and with the Canadian $$ at parity. (Yes, we could have bought it for even less in sales tax-free Oregon - but Vancouver's much more fun than Portland).
Also - Blu-Rays. I can buy sets (Toy Story, Bourne, Spiderman, etc.) for significantly less from Amazon UK even after paying for one-week international shipping.
The parent could be a gay girlie man, and therefore very much qualified to make a relevant comment.
I live in Bellevue right by 520 and 405 3 miles away from downtown Bellevue (so pretty urban), and I cannot get anything other than T-Mobile and Verizon. My house is on an odd side of the hill where it cuts off all AT&T and Sprint. If I walk 5 houses down to the other side of the hill, then every network will have bars.
When I bought this house, I had to go to Best Buy and get a bunch of prepaid phones to figure out which provider worked.
When accounting for population, Seattle metro typically includes parts of Pierce, Kitsap and Snohomish counties - Tacoma and Everett often gets clumped in. So that's how there's a lot of 3 million figures out there.
Just like how Portland's population includes Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, and Clark counties.
Bravo.
Well, it didn't stop the publishers of Bible Adventures from circumventing it.
I speak English fluently, passable Mandarin, and better-than-restaurant Spanish and Japanese. This means I mostly communicate effectively with a huge chunk of the world's population. Unlike you, I travel mainly for pleasure (in business, everyone speaks English of course), and I always venture away from the tourist hotspots so knowing the local language is invaluable and one can get much more out of travel by interacting with the locals at a more meaningful level.
Don't be so sure about the "civilized" first world. In Bellevue, WA (a generally high-income place with Neiman Marcus and Louis Vuitton stores), there was a gas shortage several years ago after a winter storm. All gas stations had been stormed and emptied by nervous housewives. There was a literal pitchforks and torches crowd outside the Chevron station, with blood-shot eyed people banging loudly on the door shouting at the poor kid trying to reset the pumps. I told a couple of them that "I'm sure they'll get the pumps going pretty soon". It was ignored in their fervent wrath. Another couple hours and garbage cans would have been thrown through the door. As the pumps were finally up and running, people were shouting at each other with accusations of "cutting in line".
One issue I've always had with a military budget - why ever would the US government publish the true dollar amount of the military budget? Wouldn't it be a national security concern that foreign nations could estimate force and equipment strength based on an accurate dollar amount?
Somehow, I have my doubts that the published dollar amount is anywhere close to the real amount.
Thanks to smart phones, the lowliest tribesman in Kenya now is better connected to the world than Ronald Reagan
Fer crying out loud, for the last time - he was not born in Kenya!