If you're using fines as if they were general revenue, you're doing it wrong. Don't expect people driving through to pay for your little shit town. That's what property taxes are for.
Okay, campaign contributions are very rarely used to change a politician's behavior. Its far more cost effective to contribute to someone already inclined to vote your way than it is to try and buy someone off.
I work for the largest realty company in my state. We are now a division of the 9th largest company in the world.
We were in talks with Comcast, looking to upgrade the internet connections at our dozens of offices. Things looked great, until they wanted over $9k to run cable to my home office (in a shopping center in the middle of a busy suburb for which they are the only provider). We could have gotten them to drop it, but at the last minute they told us we had to sign 3-year "triple play" contracts for each office.
They are going into one of our mini branch offices. They'll be there between 8AM and noon.
Ah! And right there at the end you've come back to my central point.
What if things had been turned around and it was the bible-thumpers who came out and announced that God was ticked off because we got his planet dirty, so he's going to crank up the heat as a punishment? If you're like me (or the rest of the species), then your first reaction would be, "shut up idiot." Which you would follow up with the assumption that its all part of trying to take evolution out of schools.
At which point the volume of evidence needed to convince you skyrockets.
I'm not describing my own position, just explaining how we got here.
We aren't dealing with empirical data, we're dealing with people. If you pipe them data in the wrong format they'll reject it and drop any further connection attempt.
They weren't, but it was quickly co-opted by those who were already radically opposed to industry and development. As a result, climate change became associated with their radical position, and rejected with it.
Had it been framed in the terms and manners of a conservative argument, and not presented by those whose arguments are dismissed out of hand, it would not be the controversy it is now.
Of course it looks that way! All of our programs and simulations are reflections of the universe itself, reproducing it on a small scale using the same rule set. Its akin to looking at a painting and thinking that it looks so real that maybe reality is just a painting.
Rodman is a ridiculous character. The CIA has used ridiculous people as intelligence assets in the past. Rodman gets to hang out with the leader of the most infamously impenetrable nation in the world and nobody questions it.
Am I the only one who thinks the CIA was knocking at his door the instant he got the invite? He's a crazy dick, who would suspect?
Okay, there's really only one thing to complain about with 8, and that's the Start Screen instead of a Start Menu. Classic Shell turns 8 into the hands-down best desktop OS I've ever used.
Well, it does try to push you into a roaming account, and adding printers is now completely retarded, but those are relatively minor issues I wouldn't even notice if it wasn't part of my job to add those printers.
..to glue tags onto 5000 bees? Workers only live for a few weeks, so unless they have a LOT of bee-gluers hard at work won't their tagged bees start dying before they finish?
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If you're using fines as if they were general revenue, you're doing it wrong. Don't expect people driving through to pay for your little shit town. That's what property taxes are for.
Okay, campaign contributions are very rarely used to change a politician's behavior. Its far more cost effective to contribute to someone already inclined to vote your way than it is to try and buy someone off.
Well that's all well and good for Mr. Nobody, but what about the rest of us and our less-than unique names?
Its not like he can mail somebody a 3.25 floppy! Well, he can, but who could read it?
I suppose my lack of familiarity is due only to the shortage of my disposable income!
My video cards are DVI and HDMI, monitors are DVI and VGA...
We were in talks with Comcast, looking to upgrade the internet connections at our dozens of offices. Things looked great, until they wanted over $9k to run cable to my home office (in a shopping center in the middle of a busy suburb for which they are the only provider). We could have gotten them to drop it, but at the last minute they told us we had to sign 3-year "triple play" contracts for each office.
They are going into one of our mini branch offices. They'll be there between 8AM and noon.
But hey, at least they treat business customers just as crappilly as they do residential customers!
Okay, not really a good thing, but at least its fair. ish.
Alright, they are unrepentant bastards.
What if things had been turned around and it was the bible-thumpers who came out and announced that God was ticked off because we got his planet dirty, so he's going to crank up the heat as a punishment? If you're like me (or the rest of the species), then your first reaction would be, "shut up idiot." Which you would follow up with the assumption that its all part of trying to take evolution out of schools.
At which point the volume of evidence needed to convince you skyrockets.
We aren't dealing with empirical data, we're dealing with people. If you pipe them data in the wrong format they'll reject it and drop any further connection attempt.
Had it been framed in the terms and manners of a conservative argument, and not presented by those whose arguments are dismissed out of hand, it would not be the controversy it is now.
You don't need to be an AV geek to see why Comcast's complaints about Netflix et. all burdening their lines is utter bull.
Of course it looks that way! All of our programs and simulations are reflections of the universe itself, reproducing it on a small scale using the same rule set. Its akin to looking at a painting and thinking that it looks so real that maybe reality is just a painting.
if Climate Change hadn't been hijacked by wild-eyed hippies who insisted on pushing it in a way that turned off the people they needed to convince.
Insurance companies don't actually like paying out, so why are they paying when they know damn well the government has a fund that covers it?
Am I the only one who thinks the CIA was knocking at his door the instant he got the invite? He's a crazy dick, who would suspect?
Well, it does try to push you into a roaming account, and adding printers is now completely retarded, but those are relatively minor issues I wouldn't even notice if it wasn't part of my job to add those printers.
That was brutal...
...why not put piezos in the mouthpiece so you can charge the battery with your bite?
..to glue tags onto 5000 bees? Workers only live for a few weeks, so unless they have a LOT of bee-gluers hard at work won't their tagged bees start dying before they finish?
The guy wouldn't turn off his phone. After being asked, complaints to management... He was a jerk, and he got shot for it. Good.
Though I guess a Russian prison is a pretty severe punishment as-is.
They should feel like pricks.
Though I am willing to entertain the, "Yeah, but chimps are assholes" argument.