"We expected the Antarctic sea ice to be gone by now, but what we observe is that it has not only grown but is trapping ships in austral midsummer, so to save the Church of Warminetics' bacon we have to come up with a new handwave"
Chicken pox becomes even more harmful at about the time you retire. A case of shingles, which anyone who carries the chickenpox virus can get, can ruin your dreams of travel and adventure.
Instead of loser pays or, worse, having the government decide on damage caps, I would eliminate the special lawyer-enriching set of privileges the civil legal system enjoys by making it operate by the same stringent rules as criminal procedure. I would put civil plaintiffs in the same legal position as criminal prosecutors: they would have to win cases on a unanimous jury vote, rather than a majority, and using a 'beyond a reasonable doubt' evidence standard, rather than 'preponderance of evidence'. The junk forms of evidence allowable in civil cases, such as hearsay, would also get chucked in favor of criminal-quality standards. Doing this would cause huge wads of junk torts to simply never get filed.
I'm involved with wilderness hiking that can include need for mountain rescue. Here in northern Arizona, cell coverage for SMS is surprisingly good even in a lot of places where voice does not get through. I have witnessed several incidents with victims who could have gotten help much sooner with the ability to text 911
Atari was too proud to let the market set the price and discount off the games, though it could have made a little money this way. But to its credit, it did not lobby for a federal video game assistance subsidy to "facilitate" customer acceptance of an unpopular game.
Despite the loss of our heavy manufacturing, our economy is still dependent on the unemployment checks that have replaced that manufacturing. What happens when the world economy runs out of faith in the money being printed to cover those checks?
Actually, coal has come back into style in Germany, as a replacement for nukes that still had years of life on them. Renewables are being ramped up fast, and given those lush German taxes and feed-in tariffs (artificial high producer bonuses for wind and solar) will probably reach their ultimate 20% of power consumption before long. No fear of the country running out of energy, though, because it has lots of brown coal to burn.
Fortunately it's not an ABC show, because I would be blocked from watching back episodes in the US because my cable provider is not one of the handful of cats and dogs in the network's "verify to watch" list.
...we turn loose a process that works like the vascularization of a tumor. As soon as you let power flow to the center, and let it accumulate more power for the sake of power, abominations like this are going to keep happening. The NSA revelations were one step along this path. This story is another. Let's just declare Eric Holder il Duce and be done with it.
And Smith was right in that there is no such thing as "overproduction." Produce more of a valued good, and the market reacts by lowering the price, opening up more uses for the good. It's a story not just as old as human trade, but as old as life in Earth. When early plants feasted on the carbon dioxide that filled our atmosphere and produced oxygen, a "market" came into being for species that could consume oxygen.
I'm firmly on the side of allowing Tesla to try out an unconventional sales model, but what does happen, exactly, when your Tesla needs service? Are you supposed to handle in-warranty service using the standard electronics model - request an RMA, mail your car in to Moonachie, NJ, and then wait several weeks? Conventional dealerships are used by many buyers as a trusted service base, and this is especially going to be true for the early adopters who are buying Teslas now.
And since it will be years before regular garage mechanics will be able to work on Teslas, how does the company intend to handle road service and after-warranty service?
The reason the ham service cannot innovate like this is that to be a worldwide service it has to operate by rules that are a lowest common denominator of all the rule sets imposed by all the countries in which it operates.
if you're comparing manned missions, NASA's asteroid-first plan actually makes more sense than Mars-first. Our most urgent need in manned space missions beyond LEO is to develop ways of deflecting asteroids. Landing on a nearby one is an obvious first step.
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"We expected the Antarctic sea ice to be gone by now, but what we observe is that it has not only grown but is trapping ships in austral midsummer, so to save the Church of Warminetics' bacon we have to come up with a new handwave"
Chicken pox becomes even more harmful at about the time you retire. A case of shingles, which anyone who carries the chickenpox virus can get, can ruin your dreams of travel and adventure.
Instead of loser pays or, worse, having the government decide on damage caps, I would eliminate the special lawyer-enriching set of privileges the civil legal system enjoys by making it operate by the same stringent rules as criminal procedure. I would put civil plaintiffs in the same legal position as criminal prosecutors: they would have to win cases on a unanimous jury vote, rather than a majority, and using a 'beyond a reasonable doubt' evidence standard, rather than 'preponderance of evidence'. The junk forms of evidence allowable in civil cases, such as hearsay, would also get chucked in favor of criminal-quality standards. Doing this would cause huge wads of junk torts to simply never get filed.
I'm involved with wilderness hiking that can include need for mountain rescue. Here in northern Arizona, cell coverage for SMS is surprisingly good even in a lot of places where voice does not get through. I have witnessed several incidents with victims who could have gotten help much sooner with the ability to text 911
Atari was too proud to let the market set the price and discount off the games, though it could have made a little money this way. But to its credit, it did not lobby for a federal video game assistance subsidy to "facilitate" customer acceptance of an unpopular game.
Or starts playing music, especially if it's Strauss.
Despite the loss of our heavy manufacturing, our economy is still dependent on the unemployment checks that have replaced that manufacturing. What happens when the world economy runs out of faith in the money being printed to cover those checks?
Actually, coal has come back into style in Germany, as a replacement for nukes that still had years of life on them. Renewables are being ramped up fast, and given those lush German taxes and feed-in tariffs (artificial high producer bonuses for wind and solar) will probably reach their ultimate 20% of power consumption before long. No fear of the country running out of energy, though, because it has lots of brown coal to burn.
To see that slut bitch coming before she bites off your head.
In economics this process is called 'disruption'. Think of those primordial plants as being the medallion cabdrivers of the Cretaceous.
To accomplish that, we first have to remediate a certain 200-lb mass of toxic biohazard waste (D-NV)
So THAT's why nobody watches MSNBC. I was wondering about that.
Fortunately it's not an ABC show, because I would be blocked from watching back episodes in the US because my cable provider is not one of the handful of cats and dogs in the network's "verify to watch" list.
I think it was more likely to be the idea that a bunch of technical workers is depicted as affording to live outside of a company dorm.
Time to realize that Democrats and Republicans are two faces of the same beast.
An Article 5 convention just proposes amendments. They still have to be ratified by the states.
...we turn loose a process that works like the vascularization of a tumor. As soon as you let power flow to the center, and let it accumulate more power for the sake of power, abominations like this are going to keep happening. The NSA revelations were one step along this path. This story is another. Let's just declare Eric Holder il Duce and be done with it.
And Smith was right in that there is no such thing as "overproduction." Produce more of a valued good, and the market reacts by lowering the price, opening up more uses for the good. It's a story not just as old as human trade, but as old as life in Earth. When early plants feasted on the carbon dioxide that filled our atmosphere and produced oxygen, a "market" came into being for species that could consume oxygen.
The revolutionary Ticonderoga word processing system with built-in deletion module!
I'm firmly on the side of allowing Tesla to try out an unconventional sales model, but what does happen, exactly, when your Tesla needs service? Are you supposed to handle in-warranty service using the standard electronics model - request an RMA, mail your car in to Moonachie, NJ, and then wait several weeks? Conventional dealerships are used by many buyers as a trusted service base, and this is especially going to be true for the early adopters who are buying Teslas now.
And since it will be years before regular garage mechanics will be able to work on Teslas, how does the company intend to handle road service and after-warranty service?
pi-goggles $ apt-get photo-app
pi-goggles $ photo-app -c "Take photo of approaching fist" -s "facebook.com" -a "Blow, Joseph"
*** CRUNCH! ***
And with encryption allowed.
The reason the ham service cannot innovate like this is that to be a worldwide service it has to operate by rules that are a lowest common denominator of all the rule sets imposed by all the countries in which it operates.
Your post is legal in Airstrip One because it doesn't insult a famous person anywhere in the world.
if you're comparing manned missions, NASA's asteroid-first plan actually makes more sense than Mars-first. Our most urgent need in manned space missions beyond LEO is to develop ways of deflecting asteroids. Landing on a nearby one is an obvious first step.
150 years ago, the same set of economic constraints applied to California. Yet thousands of people signed up for one-way trips to it.