When you give one party 2/3+ of the parliament, you are explicitly allowing them to do anything they like until their term of office expires.
If the people don't like it, they can vote them out at the next election. That's the way it works.
Either one of two things is going to happen: 1) Some way will be found to continue the suburban lifestyle (electric cars, mr. fusion, etc.) or 2) the suburbs will empty out slowly as fuel prices rise and people vote with their wallets.
Exactly. Those who say the US can use mass transit have never been here.
San Francisco is not like Denton...
You also can't use mass transit in farming communities.
There is no reason that Lincoln couldn't have been developed in a dense and mass-transit friendly way over the last 75 years. If it had been, then you wouldn't have people living as far out at Denton commuting by car into Lincoln.
it's a democracy - though right now the EU and US are making lots of noise about it being less of one. (Hungary)
That's odd... when a government is elected with a massive majority that's somehow undemocratic? Or is it only undemocratic if you don't like the democratically elected government's politics?
Mass transit is better suited to the higher population densities of European cities, much of the USA is too spread out.
While true, it is important to remember that the lower population densities and sprawling suburbs of the USA are an intentional creation of the auto industry, not just an accidental development or a law of nature.
North Korea has agreed to allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to verify and monitor the moratorium on uranium enrichment and confirm disablement of its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.
Back in the day postscript didn't exist.
"lp0" stands for "Line Printer 0" -- you know, 132 columns, tractor feed, green-and-white-striped paper, massive clattering mechanical wheels spinning.
Now GET OFF MY LAWN!
Solution:
What? you paid $1500 for that TV? It's only 1920x1080? What a POS!
BUY the NEW 2880x1620 SUPER HI DEF TV !!!!
For the LOW LOW price of ONLY $9999 !!!!
In Detroit, you should be buying up all the empty lots and abandoned homes, tear down any structures, grease a few palms down at city hall to keep them off your back, and wait for global warming to make the area liveable. Then you sell high to all the people fleeing the flooding in New York and Los Angeles.
I've gotta say, someone has to be completely OCD about his Apple/Google position to run multiple accounts over the long term, just so that he can post some nice, long, properly linked post the instant that a story becomes publicly available.
Wow guys (ain't no girls around here) I really don't think my post is worth either downmodding or upmodding. Crazy that there's mod war on this worthless two-liner.
'course, since my first three posts all got modded +5, I was expecting to be modded +5 all the time, just cause it's little 'ol me, so go ahead and mod up if you want to.
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When you give one party 2/3+ of the parliament, you are explicitly allowing them to do anything they like until their term of office expires.
If the people don't like it, they can vote them out at the next election. That's the way it works.
SUV means different things in USA and Europe. European SUVs are more like what Americans call crossovers.
Either one of two things is going to happen: 1) Some way will be found to continue the suburban lifestyle (electric cars, mr. fusion, etc.) or 2) the suburbs will empty out slowly as fuel prices rise and people vote with their wallets.
Exactly. Those who say the US can use mass transit have never been here.
San Francisco is not like Denton...
You also can't use mass transit in farming communities.
There is no reason that Lincoln couldn't have been developed in a dense and mass-transit friendly way over the last 75 years. If it had been, then you wouldn't have people living as far out at Denton commuting by car into Lincoln.
The alternative is to live closer to your primary destinations.
it's a democracy - though right now the EU and US are making lots of noise about it being less of one. (Hungary)
That's odd... when a government is elected with a massive majority that's somehow undemocratic? Or is it only undemocratic if you don't like the democratically elected government's politics?
Mass transit is better suited to the higher population densities of European cities, much of the USA is too spread out.
While true, it is important to remember that the lower population densities and sprawling suburbs of the USA are an intentional creation of the auto industry, not just an accidental development or a law of nature.
I still do that.
That only works with frozen herring.
North Korea has agreed to allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to verify and monitor the moratorium on uranium enrichment and confirm disablement of its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.
Hans Brix!
Back in the day postscript didn't exist.
"lp0" stands for "Line Printer 0" -- you know, 132 columns, tractor feed, green-and-white-striped paper, massive clattering mechanical wheels spinning.
Now GET OFF MY LAWN!
Bah! Back in the day we recompiled the kernel to add a printer!
AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY!!
Masterful comment!
I can't tell if it's serious or just trolling.
Since the advent of 64-bit pointers, the garbage collector in all of my C/C++ compilers has been working great.
S-expressions, continuations, hygenic macros...
That said, as a professional C++ developer working in HPC, this is exciting.
Stop pretending and get back to your FORTRAN!
Laser Beams.
That's all.
Solution:
What? you paid $1500 for that TV? It's only 1920x1080? What a POS!
BUY the NEW 2880x1620 SUPER HI DEF TV !!!!
For the LOW LOW price of ONLY $9999 !!!!
Does this mean that Falcone has your money?
Too bad.
How about they pay full price for spectrum licensed for high power terrestrial transmission instead?
I wonder what would happen if Apple told Foxconn to transition their work to another country (say India) within 18 months.
I've been waiting anxiously for this for, like, 6 years!!!!
In Detroit, you should be buying up all the empty lots and abandoned homes, tear down any structures, grease a few palms down at city hall to keep them off your back, and wait for global warming to make the area liveable. Then you sell high to all the people fleeing the flooding in New York and Los Angeles.
I've gotta say, someone has to be completely OCD about his Apple/Google position to run multiple accounts over the long term, just so that he can post some nice, long, properly linked post the instant that a story becomes publicly available.
What else is there to do when you're in jail?
Wow guys (ain't no girls around here) I really don't think my post is worth either downmodding or upmodding. Crazy that there's mod war on this worthless two-liner.
'course, since my first three posts all got modded +5, I was expecting to be modded +5 all the time, just cause it's little 'ol me, so go ahead and mod up if you want to.