"Transport costs are less then 5% of the cost of a barrel of oil at current prices."
Because most oil sold isn't shipped far, because of the aforementioned transport costs. Why would we be spending exoritant transport fees from oil from the Alyeska Pipeline, or shipped from the Grand Banks? The first is domestic and the second is from a NAFTA signatory.
"Oil is a global market."
Wal-Mart is everywhere. That doesn't mean you're going to drive two states away just to shop at one, especially when there's one just down the street.
"Since getting sattelite radio, I have pretty much stopped downloading mp3's (don't need them, too much good music on Sirius)."
Even if you wanted to, you'll find the stuff you listen to on Sirius isn't mainstream enough to appear on P2P networks. I spend most of my time listening to either Underground Garage or Left of Center and, well... just try finding the Mooney Suzuki on your network of choice.
Britney Spears, Linkin Park, and now Modest Mouse now that they've been discovered, but no Killer Barbies, no Thermals, no White Stripes...
(Heathens!)
"I'm not joking, the last album I paid money for music before this past December was Tesla's Edison's Medicine in 1991."
Ironic, since I'd never heart Tesla before I got my Sirius.:)
"Do not you think that there were plenty of astroLOGISTS at the time who might have noticed that things do not exactly add up up there, but just were not interested in following THAT route?"
We're talking about the same group of people who still haven't adjusted for the precession of the zodiac.
Astrologists say I'm a Leo, yet the sun was very much within the constellation of Cancer on the day I was born.
"Heck, you can't even get a Nobel prize in the physical sciences without being a liberal, everyone knows that."
If you didn't have the "in the physical sciences" qualifier, I'd have been forced to point out the proceedings for the 2002 Peace Prize, granted to Jimmy Carter, where the chairman of the committee, Gunnar Berg, stated:
"It (the award) should be interpreted as a criticism of the line that the current administration has taken. It's a kick in the leg to all that follow the same line as the United States."
Such apparent motivations to "stick it to the US" have not been as visible in the science awards, but it seems that you can get a peace prize not for being Jimny Carter but for not being George W Bush.
"It stipulates that driver's licenses must include a digital photograph, anticounterfeiting features and undefined machine-readable technology."
Alright, boys and girls, since we know that the excuse for this act being constitutional (since, as we all (should) know, if it's not in the constitution, Congress isn't allowed to do it) is "interstate commerce," who here can dream up just how this is related to interstate commerce?
"The India tectonic plate, one of the most mobile in recent geologic time, slipped underneath the southeast asia one causing a major uplifting, which caused the tsunami."
Don't take it too personally; working on a call floor like that sucks no matter what your accent. One of the big reasons those call centers are sprouting up in India is that few people in the US actually want the job, at least more than 2-3 weeks. They have a history of having a horrendous employee turnover because of those very same customers.
"Just because the French state has different political views and opinions to you,"
Now now, I wouldn't say the French state has aims all that different from the US. Both are in favor of expanding the power of the national government at the expense of personal and provincial rights. It's just the French are more honest about it than the GOP who cries "smaller government!" while doing the direct opposite.
Their responsibility to shareholders also means they have to try to be on top of the search engine world. If they start removing certain terms at their whim, it means their search results may not be as complete as their comptetitors.
Besides, imagine the rioting in the streets if we took your post and replaced all instances of "Google" with "Microsoft."
"...is on the US White Male 14-29 demographic. Give men some credit."
My current "real job" is sorting out incoming magazine subscription inserts (you know, those annoying cards that fall out of magazines). As such, most of my day involves sorting pictures of T&A that are on those cards; it would seem that every topic imaginable has its own series of pin-up girls.
Yeah, there are the obvious genres like outright pornography and T&A magazines*, and the somewhat less obvious ones like car rags or pop culture, but I was initially surprised when I noticed topics like, say, radio controlled model aircraft, all had product picutred with scantilly-clad women. About the only topics that don't have skin on the cover are arts & crafts and childrens magazines; even religious ones are borderline at times.
Most magazines are ultimately nothing but advertising, and they live and die by marketing. For example, those damned annoying inserts are there to begin with because, like spam, they work. And when it comes to tits and ass, marketing relies on it almost as automatically as our demographic shells out cash for it because our demographic automatically shells out cash for it.
* I find myself a little disturbed by the number of female subscribers to these magazines. There aren't that many women out there that swing that way; they're looking for someone to emulate.
"Finally, the entire anime fan community has a strong "buy a licensed version" ethos."
Is this true? All I know is myself, and I wouldn't even know about Video Girl Ai, let alone be waiting for Viz to publish the next English graphic novel, had I not read a complete fan translation of the manga on the web.
The pathetic part (on my part) is that it wasn't even the comic, just the translated text. There are a few scenes that suddenly make sense to me now that I have pictures.:)
votes for Kerry + votes for Badnarik < votes for Bush
Heck, you can even throw in the votes Nader got and it still won't add up.
If you want people outside the Democratic party to vote for your candidate, offer an acceptable candidate. Otherwise, quit bitching about how everybody has opinions different from your own. Welcome to democracy, where the mob rules.
"Did you participate in the primary or just the general?"
Ah yes, because if you're not a registered member of a political party, your opinion doesn't matter.
Primary elections are a party matter which, like all party matters, I want absolutely nothing to do with. If anything, I reject the party process outright and believe the people should be allowed to choose among all available candidates, not just the ones that the party has deigned to support.
Congress has regulated it: all men between 18 and 45 and all women serving in National Guard or state guard units are part of the militia and have to sign up for Selective Service (to facilitate transferring them from the unorganized militia to federal forces, i. e. the draft). Problem solved.
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"Transport costs are less then 5% of the cost of a barrel of oil at current prices."
Because most oil sold isn't shipped far, because of the aforementioned transport costs. Why would we be spending exoritant transport fees from oil from the Alyeska Pipeline, or shipped from the Grand Banks? The first is domestic and the second is from a NAFTA signatory.
"Oil is a global market."
Wal-Mart is everywhere. That doesn't mean you're going to drive two states away just to shop at one, especially when there's one just down the street.
"Since getting sattelite radio, I have pretty much stopped downloading mp3's (don't need them, too much good music on Sirius)."
:)
Even if you wanted to, you'll find the stuff you listen to on Sirius isn't mainstream enough to appear on P2P networks. I spend most of my time listening to either Underground Garage or Left of Center and, well... just try finding the Mooney Suzuki on your network of choice.
Britney Spears, Linkin Park, and now Modest Mouse now that they've been discovered, but no Killer Barbies, no Thermals, no White Stripes...
(Heathens!)
"I'm not joking, the last album I paid money for music before this past December was Tesla's Edison's Medicine in 1991."
Ironic, since I'd never heart Tesla before I got my Sirius.
"Do not you think that there were plenty of astroLOGISTS at the time who might have noticed that things do not exactly add up up there, but just were not interested in following THAT route?"
We're talking about the same group of people who still haven't adjusted for the precession of the zodiac.
Astrologists say I'm a Leo, yet the sun was very much within the constellation of Cancer on the day I was born.
"Heck, you can't even get a Nobel prize in the physical sciences without being a liberal, everyone knows that."
If you didn't have the "in the physical sciences" qualifier, I'd have been forced to point out the proceedings for the 2002 Peace Prize, granted to Jimmy Carter, where the chairman of the committee, Gunnar Berg, stated:Such apparent motivations to "stick it to the US" have not been as visible in the science awards, but it seems that you can get a peace prize not for being Jimny Carter but for not being George W Bush.
"It stipulates that driver's licenses must include a digital photograph, anticounterfeiting features and undefined machine-readable technology."
Alright, boys and girls, since we know that the excuse for this act being constitutional (since, as we all (should) know, if it's not in the constitution, Congress isn't allowed to do it) is "interstate commerce," who here can dream up just how this is related to interstate commerce?
"The India tectonic plate, one of the most mobile in recent geologic time, slipped underneath the southeast asia one causing a major uplifting, which caused the tsunami."
Not to mention the Himalayas...
"I had an intelligent and well developed response to that all thought out"
Bullshit, this is Slashdot.
No, he just owns the people who made the shoes.
"Why not an object with an atmosphere = planet?"
Mercury has no atmosphere. Half the time, Pluto has no atmosphere (it freezes).
"If somthing orbits that planet and also has an atmosphere, lets call it a sub-{planet}."
Europa has no atmosphere.
"if it orbits a 'planet' then call it a 'moon'."
Even without counting the artificial ones, do you have any idea how many "moons" the earth has by your definition?
Because only Microsoft could call something round "box" and get away with it. :)
"drug trafficants,"
You know, I always had my suspicions about that guy...
(You mean "traffickers")
Yeah, but when was the last time anybody got sued for crimes against humanity?
Don't take it too personally; working on a call floor like that sucks no matter what your accent. One of the big reasons those call centers are sprouting up in India is that few people in the US actually want the job, at least more than 2-3 weeks. They have a history of having a horrendous employee turnover because of those very same customers.
"Just because the French state has different political views and opinions to you,"
Now now, I wouldn't say the French state has aims all that different from the US. Both are in favor of expanding the power of the national government at the expense of personal and provincial rights. It's just the French are more honest about it than the GOP who cries "smaller government!" while doing the direct opposite.
Their responsibility to shareholders also means they have to try to be on top of the search engine world. If they start removing certain terms at their whim, it means their search results may not be as complete as their comptetitors.
Besides, imagine the rioting in the streets if we took your post and replaced all instances of "Google" with "Microsoft."
" ...is on the US White Male 14-29 demographic. Give men some credit."
My current "real job" is sorting out incoming magazine subscription inserts (you know, those annoying cards that fall out of magazines). As such, most of my day involves sorting pictures of T&A that are on those cards; it would seem that every topic imaginable has its own series of pin-up girls.
Yeah, there are the obvious genres like outright pornography and T&A magazines*, and the somewhat less obvious ones like car rags or pop culture, but I was initially surprised when I noticed topics like, say, radio controlled model aircraft, all had product picutred with scantilly-clad women. About the only topics that don't have skin on the cover are arts & crafts and childrens magazines; even religious ones are borderline at times.
Most magazines are ultimately nothing but advertising, and they live and die by marketing. For example, those damned annoying inserts are there to begin with because, like spam, they work. And when it comes to tits and ass, marketing relies on it almost as automatically as our demographic shells out cash for it because our demographic automatically shells out cash for it.
* I find myself a little disturbed by the number of female subscribers to these magazines. There aren't that many women out there that swing that way; they're looking for someone to emulate.
"as a woman"
Woah... you just admitted that? And you didn't post AC? What, do you enjoy having freaky Slashdot stalkers or something?
Really... ouch...
Looking at DS media vs PSP media, maybe Sony should have feared change a little more. DS chips don't fly out of the console.
"You've managed to bastardize my childhood worse than George Lucas and Rick Berman now"
Oooh, just had a nasty thought: What if they worked together?
"Finally, the entire anime fan community has a strong "buy a licensed version" ethos."
:)
Is this true? All I know is myself, and I wouldn't even know about Video Girl Ai, let alone be waiting for Viz to publish the next English graphic novel, had I not read a complete fan translation of the manga on the web.
The pathetic part (on my part) is that it wasn't even the comic, just the translated text. There are a few scenes that suddenly make sense to me now that I have pictures.
"The sad fact is quite a few sites require ActiveX to function properly,"
So that's why Slashdot has rendering problems in Firefox!
votes for Kerry + votes for Badnarik < votes for Bush
Heck, you can even throw in the votes Nader got and it still won't add up.
If you want people outside the Democratic party to vote for your candidate, offer an acceptable candidate. Otherwise, quit bitching about how everybody has opinions different from your own. Welcome to democracy, where the mob rules.
"Did you participate in the primary or just the general?"
Ah yes, because if you're not a registered member of a political party, your opinion doesn't matter.
Primary elections are a party matter which, like all party matters, I want absolutely nothing to do with. If anything, I reject the party process outright and believe the people should be allowed to choose among all available candidates, not just the ones that the party has deigned to support.
Congress has regulated it: all men between 18 and 45 and all women serving in National Guard or state guard units are part of the militia and have to sign up for Selective Service (to facilitate transferring them from the unorganized militia to federal forces, i. e. the draft). Problem solved.
Regulated != Organized.
As opposed to the cute and cuddly bolt-action rifles?
I can see it now: the Rainbow Monkey 30.06...