One problem with all of this is that it's one giant broken window fallacy. Every dollar sent to Washington produces a net 60 cents back. If every state kept that dollar, they'd have a dollar instead of whatever proportion of 60 cents they get back. Even if you get 140% back, that's still just the same dollar someone else paid (after gov't overhead).
Which is why the Los Angeles County Prosecutor has a 96% conviction rate, last I heard. (Most of which are for trivial misdemeanors, but they still count.)
Does anyone REALLY believe that 96% of all those accused are actually guilty??
Every one I've heard about has been a Rep-reg'd voter too. Does make a person wonder.
I don't know if any state does a provisional ballot for citizens presently out of their home state and deprived of their absentee ballot, tho I believe in Idaho you can show up with ID and cast a provisional ballot. In Calif, you can cast a provisional ballot anywhere.
I've heard a number of "absentee ballot never arrived" stories this year, from people I know (not just random voices online). It does make one wonder, when all the other mail seems to arrive just fine...
Me, I moved and had to reregister, signed up for an absentee ballot at the same time, got it in my POBox, and a few days later dropped it off at the election office... thereby discovered huge lines for "early voting".
So you reverse-engineer not a modern machine, but rather a 1940ish John Deere tractor. Many an old tractor from that era is still in use because someone with a machine shop hand-cranked the needful repair parts, simply by eyeballing and trial-and-error until the thing ran again.
Generally you just need to go as deep as 2nd water; that's usually isolated from the surface. (And far less likely to be affected by drought or neighboring wells.)
Nor did they wear bulletproof vests as everyday gear. Now, at least in SoCal (and probably many other metros), they DO.
Crime is down dramatically, yet police departments are becoming more and more militarized... as you say, a trend not to be ignored... but how can We The People reverse that trend, when it's now damnear impossible to get elected unless you pander to the fear element by touting "tough on crime"??
Altho I'd say the constitutional sheriffs movement may be a start. I just voted for one whose entire campaign was based on "the local sheriff is the citizen's last defense against an overbearing federal government" and didn't once mention "law enforcement".
And when they do MP-speak... whether it'll be real pixels or some manner of interpolated.
On that note... I have a cheap digital camera that I got to drag around in the truck ($20 made it disposable) that *claims* to be 12MP. After messing with it a bit and examining the images made at its various settings, I concluded that it's actually 1.2MP (yes, THAT low) with a shitload of interpolation, none of which was admitted to in the packaging. (Kodak EasyShare)
I have two older but fully functional 21" CRTs... I was gonna shitcan 'em (too much trouble to move these 75 pound beasts cross-country), but after reading all the comments about the *reduction* in vertical pixels and thus workspace... maybe not. (I know they do at least 1600x1200, maybe higher.)
"People with full insurance pay nothing or next to nothing for medical treatment."
Well, except for the insurance premiums. Most people don't notice the cost because their employer picks up much of the tab (which in turn comes out of their salaries, if only as lower wages than if the cost of an employee wasn't so high), but if you're self-employed... then health insurance can cost you close to $1000 per MONTH for ordinary coverage. Out of your own pocket.
County health care system geared toward the indigent and illegal aliens... from the sign on the wall with all the pay-in-advance prices: ANY surgery, $400. No shit. Someone asked the receptionist why it was so low, and she said that was actual cost. Price was higher if not paid in advance due to the difficulty in collecting the money.
"You know the best part of killing someone? The look on their face. It's that look. Not when they're threatened. Not when you hurt them. Not even when they see the knife. It's when they feel the knife go in. That's it. It's surprise. They just can't believe it's really happening to them." -- from 8MM
I think we're about halfway between these two states.
Along with being so piggy, I can't stand FF's dumbed-down interface, but if you must use it... try Palemoon instead, it's an optimized FF and is definitely leaner and faster.
For everyday, tho, I use SeaMonkey. It's faster, less resource-piggy (tho it still leaks, which seems to be a cache-handling bug) and a great deal easier to make play how *I* want it, not how pleased some developer.
And I always add PrefBar, without which ALL of 'em drive me batshit. No more dumpster-diving in the config menu to toggle something on/off.
I was gonna ask... how is the US Gov't "forcing" extraditions for minor offenses, without the compliance of the other government? Cuz you need either that, or an armed invasion force.
Well, yeah, once it's bootstrapped it should be fine, but what does it take to get there? Wouldn't want to get into another debacle like corn ethanol, which by one reckoning takes 5 gallons of diesel to make 4 gallons of ethanol.:/
I always had both hens and roosters, but I imagine you're right.... it's the same with other animals, if you have only females you get a LOT more fights than when there's also a male present.
"The article said the Northside Independent School District receives about $30 per day in state funding for each student reporting."
I'm wondering how that $30/day per student gets spent. At my old high school, 1500 students, that would have been $45,000 per day if all the fannies arrived in the seats (which they did, without such measures)... enough to fund one whole teacher for the year... the school year is what, 150 days or so? for a school of that size, that's $6.75M dollars.
Considering some of the Chicken Wars that I've witnessed, and the midnight Snake vs Chicken fights... methinks it's a durn good thing there are no longer 30-foot-tall chickens:D
[The chicken won the fight, but the snake still got all the eggs:( ]
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One problem with all of this is that it's one giant broken window fallacy. Every dollar sent to Washington produces a net 60 cents back. If every state kept that dollar, they'd have a dollar instead of whatever proportion of 60 cents they get back. Even if you get 140% back, that's still just the same dollar someone else paid (after gov't overhead).
Like this one:
Oklahoma cop tickets mom for 3-year-oldâ(TM)s âpublic urinationâ(TM) outside his family home; fine comes to $2,500.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/okla-tickets-tot-3-public-urination-article-1.1197591
Which is why the Los Angeles County Prosecutor has a 96% conviction rate, last I heard. (Most of which are for trivial misdemeanors, but they still count.)
Does anyone REALLY believe that 96% of all those accused are actually guilty??
Every one I've heard about has been a Rep-reg'd voter too. Does make a person wonder.
I don't know if any state does a provisional ballot for citizens presently out of their home state and deprived of their absentee ballot, tho I believe in Idaho you can show up with ID and cast a provisional ballot. In Calif, you can cast a provisional ballot anywhere.
I've heard a number of "absentee ballot never arrived" stories this year, from people I know (not just random voices online). It does make one wonder, when all the other mail seems to arrive just fine...
Me, I moved and had to reregister, signed up for an absentee ballot at the same time, got it in my POBox, and a few days later dropped it off at the election office... thereby discovered huge lines for "early voting".
So you reverse-engineer not a modern machine, but rather a 1940ish John Deere tractor. Many an old tractor from that era is still in use because someone with a machine shop hand-cranked the needful repair parts, simply by eyeballing and trial-and-error until the thing ran again.
Generally you just need to go as deep as 2nd water; that's usually isolated from the surface. (And far less likely to be affected by drought or neighboring wells.)
Ordinary hunting rifles might suffice; they're a lot more readily found among We The People, and a lot easier to conceal. Citizen Snipers, anyone??
BTW I know a guy who nailed a coyote at a one-mile range; I'm sure he could take out a drone at, say, half that.
Nor did they wear bulletproof vests as everyday gear. Now, at least in SoCal (and probably many other metros), they DO.
Crime is down dramatically, yet police departments are becoming more and more militarized... as you say, a trend not to be ignored... but how can We The People reverse that trend, when it's now damnear impossible to get elected unless you pander to the fear element by touting "tough on crime"??
Altho I'd say the constitutional sheriffs movement may be a start. I just voted for one whose entire campaign was based on "the local sheriff is the citizen's last defense against an overbearing federal government" and didn't once mention "law enforcement".
Analytic thought: normally not so much "screw the group", as "screw OTHER groups who are not part of my tribe".
Abnormally, tho -- as you said.
And when they do MP-speak... whether it'll be real pixels or some manner of interpolated.
On that note... I have a cheap digital camera that I got to drag around in the truck ($20 made it disposable) that *claims* to be 12MP. After messing with it a bit and examining the images made at its various settings, I concluded that it's actually 1.2MP (yes, THAT low) with a shitload of interpolation, none of which was admitted to in the packaging. (Kodak EasyShare)
I have two older but fully functional 21" CRTs... I was gonna shitcan 'em (too much trouble to move these 75 pound beasts cross-country), but after reading all the comments about the *reduction* in vertical pixels and thus workspace... maybe not. (I know they do at least 1600x1200, maybe higher.)
"People with full insurance pay nothing or next to nothing for medical treatment."
Well, except for the insurance premiums. Most people don't notice the cost because their employer picks up much of the tab (which in turn comes out of their salaries, if only as lower wages than if the cost of an employee wasn't so high), but if you're self-employed... then health insurance can cost you close to $1000 per MONTH for ordinary coverage. Out of your own pocket.
County health care system geared toward the indigent and illegal aliens... from the sign on the wall with all the pay-in-advance prices: ANY surgery, $400. No shit. Someone asked the receptionist why it was so low, and she said that was actual cost. Price was higher if not paid in advance due to the difficulty in collecting the money.
So, yeah. Like you said.
"You know the best part of killing someone? The look on their face. It's that look. Not when they're threatened. Not when you hurt them. Not even when they see the knife. It's when they feel the knife go in. That's it. It's surprise. They just can't believe it's really happening to them." -- from 8MM
I think we're about halfway between these two states.
Along with being so piggy, I can't stand FF's dumbed-down interface, but if you must use it... try Palemoon instead, it's an optimized FF and is definitely leaner and faster.
For everyday, tho, I use SeaMonkey. It's faster, less resource-piggy (tho it still leaks, which seems to be a cache-handling bug) and a great deal easier to make play how *I* want it, not how pleased some developer.
And I always add PrefBar, without which ALL of 'em drive me batshit. No more dumpster-diving in the config menu to toggle something on/off.
I was gonna ask... how is the US Gov't "forcing" extraditions for minor offenses, without the compliance of the other government? Cuz you need either that, or an armed invasion force.
Well, yeah, once it's bootstrapped it should be fine, but what does it take to get there? Wouldn't want to get into another debacle like corn ethanol, which by one reckoning takes 5 gallons of diesel to make 4 gallons of ethanol. :/
And how much power, from what sources, does it take to run the process?
I always had both hens and roosters, but I imagine you're right.... it's the same with other animals, if you have only females you get a LOT more fights than when there's also a male present.
Not quite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap#Roman_history
Soap had been around for a couple thousand years at that point, that we know of.
"The article said the Northside Independent School District receives about $30 per day in state funding for each student reporting."
I'm wondering how that $30/day per student gets spent. At my old high school, 1500 students, that would have been $45,000 per day if all the fannies arrived in the seats (which they did, without such measures) ... enough to fund one whole teacher for the year... the school year is what, 150 days or so? for a school of that size, that's $6.75M dollars.
Yeah, I've noticed that too... nifty idea that guy had. Wonder what the biomechanism is? not all birds have it.
Considering some of the Chicken Wars that I've witnessed, and the midnight Snake vs Chicken fights... methinks it's a durn good thing there are no longer 30-foot-tall chickens :D
[The chicken won the fight, but the snake still got all the eggs :( ]
Mine lived variously in a chicken coop and loose around the farm. Lordy, are chickens violent creatures when left to their own devices!