My Valkyrie Interstate runs plenty fast, is as comfortable as the livingroom couch, and will run for hundreds of thousands of miles without an engine rebuild.
What will impress the layman is when you figure out a way to make the electric car appeal to babes. When women of loose morals and ample busts are turned on by the electric car, then Joe Sixpack will drool over it.
The liquor laws are a symptom of the problem, and I believe Albertson was taken out of context.
Utah is an inhospitable environment if you aren't part of the dominant LDS culture.
Iomega was a great company to work for, and we worked on lots of cool stuff. The guy I worked for was as good as they come--the best manager I've ever had. The people were cool. The money wasn't bad.
If you didn't grow up there, and you don't fit in with the society where 95% of the people you encounter are members of the same religion and (consciously or not) view non-members as outsiders with suspicion, it's not a nice place to live.
Too bad, too, because it's the most beautiful place in the US. Maybe the world.
I live in Austin, now. Nothing to look at, but the motorcycle season is only 12 months long.:)
Agreed - I was just responding to the previous poster's inaccurate comment that "...in Shadow of the Hegemon bean is secondary to the Hegemon".
But that's where you're wrong. The character Bean is more prominent than the character Peter in the text of the book. The person Bean is in the shadow of the person Peter in the universe inside the text.
If I found out that someone had been using Linux without talking to me about it, I'd ask them if they'd be interested in doing more IT work.
I'd also address why they hadn't felt comfortable talking to me about it. Communication problems can bite you in the ass later on. Mostly, though, I'd be proud, and a little bit scared, to have a fellow geek on board.
That's interesting. A suggestion that Shrub, also a politician, isn't lying, being deceptive, being contradictory, and saying anything to get elected. Given a Shrub victory, let's see if that massive tax cut materializes.
Ah, very nice.
Of course, you and I both know that I didn't in any way defend Bush, but rather I pointed out flaws in your overwhelming endorsement of Gore.
Maybe they won't notice that I never said anything positive about Bush.
Maybe nobody else will notice that you couldn't defend your favorite candidate.
You can pretty easily tell whom among the responses have children and those who still are children. A protection instinct occurs with the former. That instinct may be misdirected when you don't understand a new cultural phenomena, but put yourself in the parents shoes and see where they are coming from.
... and not having children does not preclude you from being one, either.
Overcome your instincts, and participate with the rest of the adults in a rational discussion.
But many gun owners (don't forget there are 60 million or so of them) believe that registration will precede confiscation, as it did in Australia and England.
... and Nazi Germany.
Everyone should read John Ross's book UnintendedConsequences. Read the official review on Barnes & Noble, and then read the submitted reviews.
In online forums, postings such as "hot grits", "Natalie Portman", and "Beowulf" wasted bandwidth. I propose a system for automatically suppressing posts which contain the aforementioned "hot phrases".
Wait. There's already a Hot Grits Suppression System activated! Nobody can read this post! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagghhhh!
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My Valkyrie Interstate runs plenty fast, is as comfortable as the livingroom couch, and will run for hundreds of thousands of miles without an engine rebuild.
Bring it on, Hayabusa Boy.
What will impress the layman is when you figure out a way to make the electric car appeal to babes. When women of loose morals and ample busts are turned on by the electric car, then Joe Sixpack will drool over it.
The liquor laws are a symptom of the problem, and I believe Albertson was taken out of context.
:)
Utah is an inhospitable environment if you aren't part of the dominant LDS culture.
Iomega was a great company to work for, and we worked on lots of cool stuff. The guy I worked for was as good as they come--the best manager I've ever had. The people were cool. The money wasn't bad.
If you didn't grow up there, and you don't fit in with the society where 95% of the people you encounter are members of the same religion and (consciously or not) view non-members as outsiders with suspicion, it's not a nice place to live.
Too bad, too, because it's the most beautiful place in the US. Maybe the world.
I live in Austin, now. Nothing to look at, but the motorcycle season is only 12 months long.
Interesting comment, considering that the Clinton Administration has overseen the greatest reduction in your personal freedoms, ever.
Agreed - I was just responding to the previous poster's inaccurate comment that "...in Shadow of the Hegemon bean is secondary to the Hegemon".
But that's where you're wrong. The character Bean is more prominent than the character Peter in the text of the book. The person Bean is in the shadow of the person Peter in the universe inside the text.
Uh...yeah...try the works of Robert Heinlein.
Or not. Isaac Asimov is much better.
Asimov takes a scientific concept, stretches it with a "what-if" approach, and then wraps realistic characters around the consequences.
Heinlein, on the other hand, takes a scientific concept, stretches it with a "what-if" approach, and then everybody has sex.
There never has been, nor will there ever be, a more addictive game.
When you take away all that's Right, all you have is what's Left.
Facist, gun-toting, bible-thumping nazi
Three out of four ain't bad.
Your statments are a textbook example of closed-mindedness.
Uh. You obviously didn't get the joke. The music he listed was bad.
I know you Giant Canadian Crack Rabbits don't have a sense of humor up there (it froze, I suppose), but at least TRY to keep up.
My guess would be the GODAWFUL heat.
Ah, but it's worth every drop of summer sweat when you wake up on Christmas morning and it's 73 degrees.
I'm sure his responses were passed through an editor who would correct spelling/grammatical errors anyway.
I certainly am against the monstrous profits going to studio chiefs, but I also want to make damn sure that poor writers are ripped off.
Or not.
and can't forget xylophone! (even if i can't spell it)
I'm a xylophobe. The striking of metal bars to make music notes is terrifying to me.
So, is that SPAM or S-PAM?
Ah, but is that significantly different from C-SPAN?
If that were the case, "a lot" would be spelled "alot" or "allot". *Shudder*
You have a point their.
Your getting you're spellings all confused.
If I found out that someone had been using Linux without talking to me about it, I'd ask them if they'd be interested in doing more IT work.
I'd also address why they hadn't felt comfortable talking to me about it. Communication problems can bite you in the ass later on. Mostly, though, I'd be proud, and a little bit scared, to have a fellow geek on board.
I am a developer. I produce.
You work for me.
Going to Europe as a kid and seeing how much freer the people seemed to be than over here is when I realized that Europe was how a democracy worked.
Riiiiiiight.
"You want me to build a what?" -- Noah
That's interesting. A suggestion that Shrub, also a politician, isn't lying, being deceptive, being contradictory, and saying anything to get elected. Given a Shrub victory, let's see if that massive tax cut materializes.
Ah, very nice.
Of course, you and I both know that I didn't in any way defend Bush, but rather I pointed out flaws in your overwhelming endorsement of Gore.
Maybe they won't notice that I never said anything positive about Bush.
Maybe nobody else will notice that you couldn't defend your favorite candidate.
You can pretty easily tell whom among the responses have children and those who still are children. A protection instinct occurs with the former. That instinct may be misdirected when you don't understand a new cultural phenomena, but put yourself in the parents shoes and see where they are coming from.
... and not having children does not preclude you from being one, either.
Overcome your instincts, and participate with the rest of the adults in a rational discussion.
The biggest blow up in govn't size is during the 8 years Regan administration. That's Republican for you.
The biggest increase in government size and power over individual liberties occurred at the hands of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat.
But many gun owners (don't forget there are 60 million or so of them) believe that registration will precede confiscation, as it did in Australia and England.
... and Nazi Germany.
Everyone should read John Ross's book Unintended Consequences. Read the official review on Barnes & Noble, and then read the submitted reviews.
so they don't have to look at the boring, intelligent, responsible Al Gore on their TV screens.
You mean the lying, deceptive, contradictory, say-anything-to-get-elected Al Gore.
Nader's mother was a hamster, and his father smelt of elderberry!
In online forums, postings such as "hot grits", "Natalie Portman", and "Beowulf" wasted bandwidth. I propose a system for automatically suppressing posts which contain the aforementioned "hot phrases".
Wait. There's already a Hot Grits Suppression System activated! Nobody can read this post! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagghhhh!
I like the "a", "2", and "d" from Home Alone, myself. Yours had class, though, I'll give it that.
Is that for Italians?