If anything, once a few rich guys die waiting in the queue, if I were a rich guy, I'd take that as a sign that my money can't buy my way in the line, so maybe it's time to start throwing a few million a year into medical research to produce artificial or vat grown organ replacements, lobby my legislators to lift bans on stem cell research, etc so just in case I, or someone I love is put in a similar position, it may no longer be a problem.
Copperheads are actually pretty "sweet" for a snake, if you can give them a disposition. I've stepped on one by accident and it didn't strike at me, but continued on to the wood pile and are generally just content to leave you alone if you leave it alone. Cottonmouths, on the other hand, are vicious, nasty buggers. Of course, YMMV and it doesn't matter how sweet or vicious one or the other is once you get bitten...
...But I had more fun with JJ Abrams' reboot than anything else. At least, if it's someone who's not in it for the long haul/payoff, I see nothing wrong with showing them that movie and with the caveat "Okay, so this is Star Trek, but it's not Star Trek.."
There's an oft repeated phrase that comes to mind: "It's only Free if you don't value your time". Spend a few hours learning one configuration and then deploying to 300 identical machines vs. spending a few dollars to obtain 300 junkers off of ebay/craigslist that now require refurbishing, formatting, checking to see what distro will support each hardware configuration, etc etc etc. I've been down this road and it sucks.
Of course I know the difference between Persians and East Boisans. Persians have the annoying tendency to say "Bro" after every other word, drive Mercedes and threaten to cut your balls off if you even look at a Persian girl. East Boisans say "Y'all" after ever other word, drive Ford F150s and fantasize about their sisters.
Correct, that's the common scam. You scan a bunch of "similar" items and see what they're attached to in the system (easy test: buy a bag full and match up to the receipt). Then pick the ones the look "close enough" on the description with the right price delta that won't trigger the mental "no way this 52" Plasma TV is a pack of bubblegum" from a cashier, if you're not using the self-checkout. If using the self checkout, just use the "skip bagging" option to avoid the weight check (if used) and go for it.
blah blah blah. Even with the oppressive government, I still managed to start a business, pay rent, eat delicious food, buy luxury items, etc.
But more importantly, what makes you fucking think the STATE government is any better at maintaining infrastructure, etc than the FEDERAL government? "Let's get rid of Big Government! But let's increase the responsibilities of the State!" how the fuck does that make sense to anyone that proclaims to be for "small government?"
Big Government is Big Government whether or not it's at Federal, State, or even Local./* Why the fuck do you think the states have zero money to tackle any of this crumbling infrastructure? THE GOVERNMENT KEEPS TAKING IT ALL FROM THEM */
I mean, surely you see the fallacy there? The government doesn't have any money because the government takes all the money... State government is still "The Government".
Honestly, since ditching my desktop, I've been loving my A-series A8 based laptop (upgraded it from an A4). I get respectable gaming performance, and it's perfectly fine for my music and media creation, although I will say that if I were a music and media pro I'd probably fork out the dollars for a real rig. It does everything I need it to do decent, the price was certainly right, and for anyone looking in the $500 laptop market that needs some graphics ability and isn't crunching a lot of numbers (i.e., most college students), this platform is pretty hard to beat. Honestly, if they could figure out how to shoe-horn the A-series into the 10.6" netbook format that's currently inhabited by the E-450s, I'd line up to grab one.
While on the Gold Standard, the banks were still under the Federal Reserve, who dictated monetary policy rather than let "the market" figure it out. I don't know if the end result would have been better or worse, but part of what Ron Paul and other gold-buggers rail on is the lack of accountability and the "legislation" of our monetary supply/demand. Give the banks the ability to create their own money and let the consumers decide which to use. (and yes, while competing currencies would be very inconvenient for the consumers, I can hazard a guess that fiat, paper-money would be ditched almost wholesale to be replaced with precious metals and/or redeemable certificates for precious metals.
Which is pretty interesting in itself in that they weren't saying "no taxes, period," but "we understand taxes are necessary, but we'd like a say-so in the what/when/where/how part of things."
If you still want an external solution, pick up one of the rotating LCD displays out there that go from landscape to portrait mode to solve this. It would be very interesting to see a laptop with a "portrait" layout, as well (768x1366, for example). The old IBM trackright technology could come in handy to keep keyboard sizes normal.
Furthermore... you should also be able to appreciate the difference between what really hurts. Nerd, dork, geek, dweeb, that doesn't hurt. Fists and feet (and once a brick) hurt.
Therein lies the rub: The Libertarian party is a mish-mash of competing idealogies, from anarcho-capitalism to liberal socialism, with a large "base" somewhere in the fiscal conservative/socially liberal range. Because "the libertarian party" does not actively enforce any sort of standard ideology, it can be difficult to peg a certain sort of beliefs for the group. We're not talking about the random "pro-choice" Republican, the Libertarian party truly does contain socialists, communists, anarchists, "capitalists", etc, diametrically opposed theologies whose only rallying point is "The current system sucks".
It's true, though. It is a form of slavery, and hand-waving "compassion" over it doesn't change that fact. It would be better if you'd just call a spade a spade and say "You know what? Fuck you. You will pay for medical care whether you want to or not. You will pay for emergency services. You will pay for these roads. You will pay for the education of your fellow citizens. You don't have to like it, you can cry about it and even vote to change the amounts, but these are things we, as civilized people, accept as necessary to keep society civil, reasonable, and advancing. If you want to cry about being treated as a child, then stop acting like a child."
In the best-case scenario, these people would go find a gulch and jump off it.
One of my favorite short stories I read recently (can't remember the author/title, though) had to do with the idea that we detect an incoming alien ship (actually, a comet), get all antsy about "what are we going to say, how do we say it, OMG this is awesome!" only to discover that not only did the aliens seem wholly uninterested in Earth or its inhabitants, but was actually headed to Venus where it engaged in a brief battle with an unknown "venusian" alien race that also showed similar disinterest in the human species. It was a very interesting take on the usual "egoistic, we're super important!" first contact...
While the Balducci can be used on camera, it does not need one to be effective. One of the key things a "magician" must be aware of at all times is the angle of performance. There's almost always one (or more) angles where a misdirect, shuffle, palm, whatever can be viewed from and thus one must maintain control over those angles to prevent being caught out.
Of course, some would say "but that's cheating and it's not really magic!" and I'd say "HA! YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC YOU FUCKING MORON!". It's entertainment. If we can believe that the latest pop-diva actually writes her own songs, that Hollywood doesn't churn out formula movies, or Iraqi WMD to justify a war, a guy pretending to have the power to levitate for OUR AMUSEMENT isn't a big deal at all.
..Did you actually see the new 21 Jumpstreet? Because they actually used the fact that they looked like they were 30 as part of a "joke". Very self-aware and surprisingly good. Hell, it's doing great on rottentomatoes, as well.
And hey, no one's stopping you from writing your own goddamned movies.
Selling them or getting them made, that's another story...
Singapore has a death penalty installed for drugs and they still have drug abuse issues. So no, even installing a draconian death penalty won't stop people from doing drugs.
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If anything, once a few rich guys die waiting in the queue, if I were a rich guy, I'd take that as a sign that my money can't buy my way in the line, so maybe it's time to start throwing a few million a year into medical research to produce artificial or vat grown organ replacements, lobby my legislators to lift bans on stem cell research, etc so just in case I, or someone I love is put in a similar position, it may no longer be a problem.
Copperheads are actually pretty "sweet" for a snake, if you can give them a disposition. I've stepped on one by accident and it didn't strike at me, but continued on to the wood pile and are generally just content to leave you alone if you leave it alone. Cottonmouths, on the other hand, are vicious, nasty buggers. Of course, YMMV and it doesn't matter how sweet or vicious one or the other is once you get bitten...
$50 windows 7 HP, $100 family pack and I'll upgrade ALL of my machines to Win7 from XP. So, I concur.
...But I had more fun with JJ Abrams' reboot than anything else. At least, if it's someone who's not in it for the long haul/payoff, I see nothing wrong with showing them that movie and with the caveat "Okay, so this is Star Trek, but it's not Star Trek.."
There's an oft repeated phrase that comes to mind: "It's only Free if you don't value your time". Spend a few hours learning one configuration and then deploying to 300 identical machines vs. spending a few dollars to obtain 300 junkers off of ebay/craigslist that now require refurbishing, formatting, checking to see what distro will support each hardware configuration, etc etc etc. I've been down this road and it sucks.
Of course I know the difference between Persians and East Boisans. Persians have the annoying tendency to say "Bro" after every other word, drive Mercedes and threaten to cut your balls off if you even look at a Persian girl. East Boisans say "Y'all" after ever other word, drive Ford F150s and fantasize about their sisters.
Greetings from LA.
Correct, that's the common scam. You scan a bunch of "similar" items and see what they're attached to in the system (easy test: buy a bag full and match up to the receipt). Then pick the ones the look "close enough" on the description with the right price delta that won't trigger the mental "no way this 52" Plasma TV is a pack of bubblegum" from a cashier, if you're not using the self-checkout. If using the self checkout, just use the "skip bagging" option to avoid the weight check (if used) and go for it.
blah blah blah. Even with the oppressive government, I still managed to start a business, pay rent, eat delicious food, buy luxury items, etc.
But more importantly, what makes you fucking think the STATE government is any better at maintaining infrastructure, etc than the FEDERAL government? "Let's get rid of Big Government! But let's increase the responsibilities of the State!" how the fuck does that make sense to anyone that proclaims to be for "small government?" /* Why the fuck do you think the states have zero money to tackle any of this crumbling infrastructure?
Big Government is Big Government whether or not it's at Federal, State, or even Local.
THE GOVERNMENT KEEPS TAKING IT ALL FROM THEM */
I mean, surely you see the fallacy there? The government doesn't have any money because the government takes all the money... State government is still "The Government".
I have a similar experience and found that it's basically a strange reader.google.com for me, so I just stick with reader and ignore g+.
Honestly, since ditching my desktop, I've been loving my A-series A8 based laptop (upgraded it from an A4). I get respectable gaming performance, and it's perfectly fine for my music and media creation, although I will say that if I were a music and media pro I'd probably fork out the dollars for a real rig. It does everything I need it to do decent, the price was certainly right, and for anyone looking in the $500 laptop market that needs some graphics ability and isn't crunching a lot of numbers (i.e., most college students), this platform is pretty hard to beat. Honestly, if they could figure out how to shoe-horn the A-series into the 10.6" netbook format that's currently inhabited by the E-450s, I'd line up to grab one.
For those too lazy to look it up: http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=education_campus_libertarians
While on the Gold Standard, the banks were still under the Federal Reserve, who dictated monetary policy rather than let "the market" figure it out. I don't know if the end result would have been better or worse, but part of what Ron Paul and other gold-buggers rail on is the lack of accountability and the "legislation" of our monetary supply/demand. Give the banks the ability to create their own money and let the consumers decide which to use. (and yes, while competing currencies would be very inconvenient for the consumers, I can hazard a guess that fiat, paper-money would be ditched almost wholesale to be replaced with precious metals and/or redeemable certificates for precious metals.
Which is pretty interesting in itself in that they weren't saying "no taxes, period," but "we understand taxes are necessary, but we'd like a say-so in the what/when/where/how part of things."
If you still want an external solution, pick up one of the rotating LCD displays out there that go from landscape to portrait mode to solve this. It would be very interesting to see a laptop with a "portrait" layout, as well (768x1366, for example). The old IBM trackright technology could come in handy to keep keyboard sizes normal.
Furthermore... you should also be able to appreciate the difference between what really hurts. Nerd, dork, geek, dweeb, that doesn't hurt. Fists and feet (and once a brick) hurt.
Uh, I got picked on plenty and was probably in more fights than you (a week with only ONE fight was an easy week).
So, shut the fuck up, pussy.
I took my nerd and dork and wore it with pride. My parents gave me a solid enough of an upbringing to be confident in my intelligence.
So, shut the fuck up, nerd. It only hurts if you let it.
Therein lies the rub: The Libertarian party is a mish-mash of competing idealogies, from anarcho-capitalism to liberal socialism, with a large "base" somewhere in the fiscal conservative/socially liberal range. Because "the libertarian party" does not actively enforce any sort of standard ideology, it can be difficult to peg a certain sort of beliefs for the group. We're not talking about the random "pro-choice" Republican, the Libertarian party truly does contain socialists, communists, anarchists, "capitalists", etc, diametrically opposed theologies whose only rallying point is "The current system sucks".
See: Murray Rothbard
It's true, though. It is a form of slavery, and hand-waving "compassion" over it doesn't change that fact. It would be better if you'd just call a spade a spade and say "You know what? Fuck you. You will pay for medical care whether you want to or not. You will pay for emergency services. You will pay for these roads. You will pay for the education of your fellow citizens. You don't have to like it, you can cry about it and even vote to change the amounts, but these are things we, as civilized people, accept as necessary to keep society civil, reasonable, and advancing. If you want to cry about being treated as a child, then stop acting like a child."
In the best-case scenario, these people would go find a gulch and jump off it.
One of my favorite short stories I read recently (can't remember the author/title, though) had to do with the idea that we detect an incoming alien ship (actually, a comet), get all antsy about "what are we going to say, how do we say it, OMG this is awesome!" only to discover that not only did the aliens seem wholly uninterested in Earth or its inhabitants, but was actually headed to Venus where it engaged in a brief battle with an unknown "venusian" alien race that also showed similar disinterest in the human species. It was a very interesting take on the usual "egoistic, we're super important!" first contact...
While the Balducci can be used on camera, it does not need one to be effective. One of the key things a "magician" must be aware of at all times is the angle of performance. There's almost always one (or more) angles where a misdirect, shuffle, palm, whatever can be viewed from and thus one must maintain control over those angles to prevent being caught out.
Of course, some would say "but that's cheating and it's not really magic!" and I'd say "HA! YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC YOU FUCKING MORON!". It's entertainment. If we can believe that the latest pop-diva actually writes her own songs, that Hollywood doesn't churn out formula movies, or Iraqi WMD to justify a war, a guy pretending to have the power to levitate for OUR AMUSEMENT isn't a big deal at all.
..Did you actually see the new 21 Jumpstreet? Because they actually used the fact that they looked like they were 30 as part of a "joke". Very self-aware and surprisingly good. Hell, it's doing great on rottentomatoes, as well.
And hey, no one's stopping you from writing your own goddamned movies.
Selling them or getting them made, that's another story...
Singapore has a death penalty installed for drugs and they still have drug abuse issues. So no, even installing a draconian death penalty won't stop people from doing drugs.
Add to that Box2D as a physics engine, and you'd be half-way there. I'm partial to the impactjs + box2D stack, myself, but impact isn't free.