If everyone in the country filled in the forms with a pencil, what could they do about it?
And what is your reason for not wanting to use a pencil to fill out the form?
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Maybe we should impose a road-damage fee for vehicles (along-side gas taxes or mileage fees). The weight of the vehicle is a big part of the fee. We could use the number of axles or tires to calculate how much damage is done. Even better, we can look at the surface area of those tires on the roadway.
A relatively-lightweight motorcycle with two small tires does far less damage to our highways than a loaded 18-wheeled semi on fat tires. Trucks rip the pavement (asphault or concrete) into little rocks that fly up at our windshields. Why don't they pay for that?
city planning doctrine and most transportation policy says that we should build for anticipated demand.
That would be true if we still followed city planning and transportation policy from the 1950s.
But in modern times, we have noticed that building roads also increases demand. Even a new 16-lane highway becomes congested within one year after opening, and traffic on existing roads will be the same or more.
Now, we try to use infrastructure more efficiently. Why keep building roads if the demand is never satisfied?
There are better ways to improve transportation, even with the expected population and job growth. We could work on different land use policies, transporation demand management (TDM), congestion pricing, intelligent transporation systems, etc.
Let's not keep doing the same thing over and over, expecting to get a different result.
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You are thousands of times more likely to be murdered by a common criminal than killed by foreign terrorism.
No. Not unless that 'common criminal' is your spouse, ex-spouse, ex-SO, relative, business partner, or someone else close to you personally.
Random murders are extremely rare. When you factor out the accidental deaths (i.e., the wrong person got hit, or bystanders in the area at the same time), you have even less chance of random murder taking anyone out. (Outside of the US, it is almost unheard of.)
It's not just office workers leaving the office. If you go into a Starbuck's, you see moms with their kids (baby-sat by the employees, no doubt), students, old people, and dogs.
It's the environment. If you sold the same coffee out of a vending machine, I expect you would lose money.
I agree that many companies would love to see labour costs decrease to the level of 'fruit-picking jobs'.
That said, I still see many openings at local companies (in the Seattle area) that go unfilled for months. If a job is advertised, the company probably would like to fill it. If the positions are not getting filled, is there a shortage of qualified applicants? Is the company not offering enough pay and benefits?
I really don't know why so many positions are left open for so long.
Actually, the majority of people in Taiwan do not want complete independence.
About one-third want to become an independent nation (equal in status to China), fewer than that (~20%) want to rejoin China in the future, and almost everyone else wants to keep the status quo.
Unless their opinions change dramatically, it looks like the status quo will win out for the time being.
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When is the SlashCode getting updated with new mechanisms to detect duplicates?
Russ Feingold
It took three people to 'invent' something that everyone already knew about?
Oddly, gas is not more expensive in Oregon and New Jersey (where you cannot pump your own gas) than in other states.
In reality, Ford was not able to integrate off-the-shelf Oracle products, so they went back to their good old hacked-up mainframe apps.
Maybe Mr. Carr does not know what he is talking about.
Evolution is a theory. It also might be a fact.
Are atomic landmines allowed?
If everyone in the country filled in the forms with a pencil, what could they do about it?
And what is your reason for not wanting to use a pencil to fill out the form?
A relatively-lightweight motorcycle with two small tires does far less damage to our highways than a loaded 18-wheeled semi on fat tires. Trucks rip the pavement (asphault or concrete) into little rocks that fly up at our windshields. Why don't they pay for that?
That would be true if we still followed city planning and transportation policy from the 1950s.
But in modern times, we have noticed that building roads also increases demand. Even a new 16-lane highway becomes congested within one year after opening, and traffic on existing roads will be the same or more.
Now, we try to use infrastructure more efficiently. Why keep building roads if the demand is never satisfied?
There are better ways to improve transportation, even with the expected population and job growth. We could work on different land use policies, transporation demand management (TDM), congestion pricing, intelligent transporation systems, etc.
Let's not keep doing the same thing over and over, expecting to get a different result.
No. Not unless that 'common criminal' is your spouse, ex-spouse, ex-SO, relative, business partner, or someone else close to you personally.
Random murders are extremely rare. When you factor out the accidental deaths (i.e., the wrong person got hit, or bystanders in the area at the same time), you have even less chance of random murder taking anyone out. (Outside of the US, it is almost unheard of.)
Just about every public company is at least partially foreign-owned. After all, anyone can buy shares.
What is so different about a company based in Spain than one based in the US?
Isn't there a movie about that place? 'Night Nurses', anyone?
And we are too lazy to change.
But renumbering all the exits and replacing mile markers with the appropriate markers every kilometre was very expensive, even for the richest state.
Why don't we all get together and synchronise our watches?
It's not just office workers leaving the office. If you go into a Starbuck's, you see moms with their kids (baby-sat by the employees, no doubt), students, old people, and dogs.
It's the environment. If you sold the same coffee out of a vending machine, I expect you would lose money.
Oh yeah. It's all those illiterate people who want to pretend to read the news.
This sounds more like 'Super-Ritalin'.
No. And no one is required to get either.
If you don't live in Nevada, this ruling did not apply to you.
That said, I still see many openings at local companies (in the Seattle area) that go unfilled for months. If a job is advertised, the company probably would like to fill it. If the positions are not getting filled, is there a shortage of qualified applicants? Is the company not offering enough pay and benefits?
I really don't know why so many positions are left open for so long.
Then I don't need to tell you that there will be a shitload of proctology jobs.
About one-third want to become an independent nation (equal in status to China), fewer than that (~20%) want to rejoin China in the future, and almost everyone else wants to keep the status quo.
Unless their opinions change dramatically, it looks like the status quo will win out for the time being.
Some people have claimed that, but the Bible itself does not. The Bible does not rule out evolution either.