If nobody, citizen nor criminal, had access to guns,
He would have used a sword or some type of IED, or something else completely. The gun is just a tool, of which there are millions of others that can accomplish the same thing. The real problem is the sick fuck who did this.
It's that big, nasty place, sometimes with the blue ceiling and the really really bright light bulb, other times with the black ceiling and the nice white light bulb. Either way, it's a nasty place... I stay as far away as possible.
While vacationing in Italy, I found rail travel to be fantastic. It was so simple just to go from city to city to see the sights by rail -- a couple hours from Florence, and you're in Rome. Nice.
While there, I got into a conversation with a couple from Crete who were planning to visit the US the following year. They asked if they could drive from New York to Chicago, to New Orleans. They were thinking they could do it in maybe a day! They had no idea just how much time it would take to do that.
Rail is best used for short passenger trips (ex. suburb to city daily commutes) and long haul, large capacity cargo trips in this country. Unless you're traveling in the northeast, forget rail for anything else. It's just not practical.
Battle Star Galatica (even that raping-of-my-childhood bastard new series)
See, that's why I avoided the new BSG series for two seasons before I got on board with it. But then, once I got it through my head that it has nothing to do with the series from the 70's, the show instantly became enjoyable. All you have to do is not compare the two series, realize that the new series is completely separate from the old series, and you're in business. Kinda like the Batman series of movies from the late 80's/90's and the new Batman Begins series, or like Star Trek vs. TNG -- just reboot the part of your brain that pays attention to BSG, or create a separate partition for it, and you're good to go.
2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited."
if you're rich, you'll typically choose something different.
The reason we have all of these nasty things is exactly as you said in your last paragraph -- we can't economically afford to have the type of life you put on a pedestal. Agribusiness makes food cheaper for you. Cheese with high amounts of oil is cheaper, more versatile, and doesn't spoil as quickly as cheese made from more traditional ingredients. It allows people to eat cheese who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford it. You may be able to afford to shop for all your food at Whole Paycheck, but many people can't. And this isn't because the 'rich get richer and the poor get poorer', it's a simple matter of supply constraints. You can only make so much cheese the traditional way, because it's more labor intensive, the ingredients are more expensive, and the process doesn't scale as well. Combine all these factors and you can see that it's just not economically worthwhile for cheese to be made this way anymore without charging a fortune for it, compared to the factory made agribusiness alternative. It's expensive, not because of the greedy greedy farmers who make it, but because of the high cost of production.
Say, for the sake of argument, that we were to outlaw the mass production of cheese. All cheese must now be produced by small farmers with milk from free range, antibiotic free cows. Now, cheese will become a premium product along the lines of wine or caviar, because the high cost of production would raise the price to levels unreachable by the average family making $48,000 per year.
Ok, so let's, again for the sake of argument, apply a massive tax on rich people. Say we tax 100% of income over $500,000 per year, so that the maximum anyone could make would be $500,000 per year. Take that tax money and subsidize the poorer people to raise the average income to $100,000 per year. Not only would you put productivity in the toilet, but the price of premium products like cheese would skyrocket until the same number of people who could afford to purchase them before the tax can afford to purchase them after the tax. The reason for this is simple -- it's not the price of goods that's the problem, it's the amount of effort it takes to produce them, which determines the price of a good.
The type of lifestyle you say we should all be living is simply not feasible any longer for the vast majority of people. The reason we aren't starving like many people in Africa who live according to your economic utopia is because of the efficiencies that agribusiness provides.
I work in a Fortune 500 Media company, and with our mixed environment -- Sun, Linux, Windows, Mac -- we use Samba quite extensively for workflow. It works great, it's stable, and it makes our lives so much easier when we have to mass migrate files between the different platforms.
What do you mean by 'what they deserve'? Personally, I think a teacher who isn't certified to teach math doesn't deserve to be paid as much as one who is certified to teach math. How is it that other unions, like electricians, educate and certify their members to do specific jobs, and those with higher union certifications get paid more (like those certified to do high voltage vs. residential), but the teachers' union wants teachers who aren't qualified to do their jobs to make the same as ones who are? Seems to me that the union is completely off their nut on this one.
Brother, you need to check your facts. Most dimmer switches have been Rheostats for the past 100 years or so. Maybe the new ones are 'choppers' as you say, but that dimmer switch on the wall in Grandma's parlor is still a rheostat.
The biggest problem I see is that you can't get a CFL bulb to work with a rheostat. There are far too many dimmer switches out there for this to be technically feasible at this point.
Does anyone know if LEDs will work with dimmer switches?
Market driven mass transit has been successful nowhere.
This is false. The original elevated train system in Chicago was a private company. Most train systems the world over are private companies. It wasn't until Chicago decided to socialize the city's mass transit system that it began to suck. Cities and states are now realizing that market forces applied to transit can greatly benefit the public-at-large -- see the leasing of the Indiana Toll Road and Chicago Skyway as examples of how private industry can add efficiencies to public transit systems, provide needed revenue to the city, and provide a better travel experience to the public.
I was a Democrat and even *I* would have voted for him if he had won the primary
Which is exactly why he lost the primary. Democrats liked him way too much for right-wing tastes.
That, and Karl Rove...
But, now that the center is moving leftward, I think McCain has a much better shot at winning the white house in '08. For you democrats, even if you lose in '08, you win. The centrist republicans (like me) also win with him. The only losers will be the neocons and the far right, and it's about time.
The one place that the Open Source products have a long way to go is support. Companies don't think mysql and postgres are unreliable, they're just not backed enough. The company I work for could give a rat's hindquarters about TCO -- they just want to outsource their risk so that if something breaks, the CIO/CEO/Chairman has someone to argue with. The Chairman can play golf with Larry Ellison as he tries to get more concessions out of Oracle, but he can't play WOW with the 19 year old kid who added some bit of code to mysql.
And before you say it, MySQL AG is still small potatoes compared to Oracle, Microsoft, or IBM.
That would be nice and all, if the developers actually made the decisions on what games to produce for what platform. Unfortunately, it seems the bean counters make these decisions more and more, and if they think they can make more money by developing for the PS3 than the Wii, you'll see more PS3 games. One can make a very compelling argument for producing more and better Wii games than PS3 games, though... Shorter time to market, less steep learning curve, lower cost of development, etc. Now all we need are for more Wiis in the hands of gamers than PS3s, which seems to be happening at least in the near term, and Nintendo is back on top with a console less advanced than either rival -- reminds me of how the NES beat the Genesis back in the day.
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He would have used a sword or some type of IED, or something else completely. The gun is just a tool, of which there are millions of others that can accomplish the same thing. The real problem is the sick fuck who did this.
It's that big, nasty place, sometimes with the blue ceiling and the really really bright light bulb, other times with the black ceiling and the nice white light bulb. Either way, it's a nasty place... I stay as far away as possible.
I'd mod you up if I had points.
While vacationing in Italy, I found rail travel to be fantastic. It was so simple just to go from city to city to see the sights by rail -- a couple hours from Florence, and you're in Rome. Nice.
While there, I got into a conversation with a couple from Crete who were planning to visit the US the following year. They asked if they could drive from New York to Chicago, to New Orleans. They were thinking they could do it in maybe a day! They had no idea just how much time it would take to do that.
Rail is best used for short passenger trips (ex. suburb to city daily commutes) and long haul, large capacity cargo trips in this country. Unless you're traveling in the northeast, forget rail for anything else. It's just not practical.
See, that's why I avoided the new BSG series for two seasons before I got on board with it. But then, once I got it through my head that it has nothing to do with the series from the 70's, the show instantly became enjoyable. All you have to do is not compare the two series, realize that the new series is completely separate from the old series, and you're in business. Kinda like the Batman series of movies from the late 80's/90's and the new Batman Begins series, or like Star Trek vs. TNG -- just reboot the part of your brain that pays attention to BSG, or create a separate partition for it, and you're good to go.
Pity that doesn't work for Star Wars.
Nevermind; I looked it up and stand corrected. But beer and wine making are still legal in most places.
Reference: 21st amendment, article 2 (emphasis mine):
You do realize that most places allow you to produce a certain amount of beer/wine/whiskey/whatever tax free for your own consumption, right?
The reason we have all of these nasty things is exactly as you said in your last paragraph -- we can't economically afford to have the type of life you put on a pedestal. Agribusiness makes food cheaper for you. Cheese with high amounts of oil is cheaper, more versatile, and doesn't spoil as quickly as cheese made from more traditional ingredients. It allows people to eat cheese who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford it. You may be able to afford to shop for all your food at Whole Paycheck, but many people can't. And this isn't because the 'rich get richer and the poor get poorer', it's a simple matter of supply constraints. You can only make so much cheese the traditional way, because it's more labor intensive, the ingredients are more expensive, and the process doesn't scale as well. Combine all these factors and you can see that it's just not economically worthwhile for cheese to be made this way anymore without charging a fortune for it, compared to the factory made agribusiness alternative. It's expensive, not because of the greedy greedy farmers who make it, but because of the high cost of production.
Say, for the sake of argument, that we were to outlaw the mass production of cheese. All cheese must now be produced by small farmers with milk from free range, antibiotic free cows. Now, cheese will become a premium product along the lines of wine or caviar, because the high cost of production would raise the price to levels unreachable by the average family making $48,000 per year.
Ok, so let's, again for the sake of argument, apply a massive tax on rich people. Say we tax 100% of income over $500,000 per year, so that the maximum anyone could make would be $500,000 per year. Take that tax money and subsidize the poorer people to raise the average income to $100,000 per year. Not only would you put productivity in the toilet, but the price of premium products like cheese would skyrocket until the same number of people who could afford to purchase them before the tax can afford to purchase them after the tax. The reason for this is simple -- it's not the price of goods that's the problem, it's the amount of effort it takes to produce them, which determines the price of a good.
The type of lifestyle you say we should all be living is simply not feasible any longer for the vast majority of people. The reason we aren't starving like many people in Africa who live according to your economic utopia is because of the efficiencies that agribusiness provides.
Well, at least they don't get tight. I mean, I hate it when people get all tight about things, don't you?
I work in a Fortune 500 Media company, and with our mixed environment -- Sun, Linux, Windows, Mac -- we use Samba quite extensively for workflow. It works great, it's stable, and it makes our lives so much easier when we have to mass migrate files between the different platforms.
What do you mean by 'what they deserve'? Personally, I think a teacher who isn't certified to teach math doesn't deserve to be paid as much as one who is certified to teach math. How is it that other unions, like electricians, educate and certify their members to do specific jobs, and those with higher union certifications get paid more (like those certified to do high voltage vs. residential), but the teachers' union wants teachers who aren't qualified to do their jobs to make the same as ones who are? Seems to me that the union is completely off their nut on this one.
Yeah. Try using cheat codes to get past the Grim Reaper in the original Castlevania. There aren't any! The FAQs I've seen won't do it either.
I've been trying to beat that game for twenty years.
You sound like the alien newscaster from Futurama.
PITIFUL HUMANS! HAHAHAHA!
Brother, you need to check your facts. Most dimmer switches have been Rheostats for the past 100 years or so. Maybe the new ones are 'choppers' as you say, but that dimmer switch on the wall in Grandma's parlor is still a rheostat.
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Reference: http://www.askthebuilder.com/414_Dimmer_Switch.sh
The biggest problem I see is that you can't get a CFL bulb to work with a rheostat. There are far too many dimmer switches out there for this to be technically feasible at this point.
Does anyone know if LEDs will work with dimmer switches?
This is false. The original elevated train system in Chicago was a private company. Most train systems the world over are private companies. It wasn't until Chicago decided to socialize the city's mass transit system that it began to suck. Cities and states are now realizing that market forces applied to transit can greatly benefit the public-at-large -- see the leasing of the Indiana Toll Road and Chicago Skyway as examples of how private industry can add efficiencies to public transit systems, provide needed revenue to the city, and provide a better travel experience to the public.
Wait a minute! You tricked me! Those coordinates are about 120 miles off the coast of New Jersey in the middle of the atlantic!
PS3's are not selling out any more.
- ds-and-wii-sales-slow-ps3-sales-226834.phpo n-3-sitting-not-selling/t -no-takers-225271.phpn -bestbuy-com-still/
Evidence:
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/nikkei/nikkei-on-big
http://www.unscripted360.com/2006/12/28/playstati
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/ps3/plenty-o-ps3s-bu
http://www.techimo.com/forum/t180097.html
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6162141.html
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/06/ps3-available-o
You win. You are officially the biggest geek here -- and that's saying something!
Seriously, if you have this kind of shit memorized, you really need to get laid.
Which is exactly why he lost the primary. Democrats liked him way too much for right-wing tastes.
That, and Karl Rove...
But, now that the center is moving leftward, I think McCain has a much better shot at winning the white house in '08. For you democrats, even if you lose in '08, you win. The centrist republicans (like me) also win with him. The only losers will be the neocons and the far right, and it's about time.
The one place that the Open Source products have a long way to go is support. Companies don't think mysql and postgres are unreliable, they're just not backed enough. The company I work for could give a rat's hindquarters about TCO -- they just want to outsource their risk so that if something breaks, the CIO/CEO/Chairman has someone to argue with. The Chairman can play golf with Larry Ellison as he tries to get more concessions out of Oracle, but he can't play WOW with the 19 year old kid who added some bit of code to mysql.
And before you say it, MySQL AG is still small potatoes compared to Oracle, Microsoft, or IBM.
That would be nice and all, if the developers actually made the decisions on what games to produce for what platform. Unfortunately, it seems the bean counters make these decisions more and more, and if they think they can make more money by developing for the PS3 than the Wii, you'll see more PS3 games. One can make a very compelling argument for producing more and better Wii games than PS3 games, though... Shorter time to market, less steep learning curve, lower cost of development, etc. Now all we need are for more Wiis in the hands of gamers than PS3s, which seems to be happening at least in the near term, and Nintendo is back on top with a console less advanced than either rival -- reminds me of how the NES beat the Genesis back in the day.
Anyone have a taste for popcorn?
There are lots of games for linux. Go here: http://www.linuxgames.com/ or here: http://www.tuxgames.com/ or here: http://www.happypenguin.org/ to find out more. I play Enemy Territory for about an hour a night, and also play a lot of Neverwinter Nights with the occasional UT 2003 match...
You can also see what's available via Cedega.