Also you have to take into consideration the location of the individuals being polled. Some providers have excellent service in various regions, but very poor service elsewhere.
I don't mean to sound like a shill, but I have never failed to have Verizon CDMA coverage (Motorola StarTAC) anywhere I've been in the US. Meanwhile, though, the T-Mobile phone I also have (because the Handspring Treo 180 is so cool, except for the phone itself) has really terrible, spotty coverage - but I can use it in Europe, which sometimes is a real plus. Go figure.:-/
Trippel, (bottled by New Belgium Brewing Co. out of Colorado) is more than 9%, and I have yet to see any beer stronger than that one.
There are much stronger beers than that. The current record holder, I believe, is Sam Adams MMII Utopias, at 24% ABV. Jim Koch has pledged to achieve 25% in the future.
So if you want to ferment your oatmeal and get out a straw, feel free to call it breakfast. Keep in mind though that the people who lived on this diet had an average lifespan of 40 or 50 years at best, and that's with averaging the upper classes in as well.
That's because they hadn't learned about washing their hands with soap yet, not because they drank beer.
But the great thing about Social Security tax is that you only pay that 15% on the first $88,000 of your income. So under Bush's new tax cuts someone who declares $70,000 of income pays 35.03% of their income to the Federal Government, while someone who makes $1,000,000 pays only 33.81%. So much for fair.
You're damn right it's not fair. Why should the guy making a million pay $338,100 while the other guy only pays $24,521 (i.e. almost 14 times as much)? Is he receiving that much more value in services from the government?
Well, that's because contrary to what you'd expect, NYC has great tap water! The tap water here is a _lot_ better than in Cambridge, MA or South Florida, or any of the other places I've lived. They pipe it down from upstate and it's quite clean & clear.
This is true. Meanwhile, the people who actually live up there (as I did once upon a time) have to drink hard sulfurous water out of groundwells. Yuck.
Okay, that's one... Look, I'm all for Free Software (though I'm not quite as, um, rabid about it as Stallman) but you've got to admit that most Free/Open stuff is, or at least started out as, a copy of, or at least strongly modeled after, some commercial product that came before it. Free/Open software has many fine qualities, but originality and/or innovation are not often among them. At least, not lately...
OSS Community: oh yes, no problem, we just spent the last 6 months working in our free time to make this software, let me just take a few days off work to do that for you.
Well, how about this instead:
OSS Community: Well, no, we don't have that feature at the moment, but if you've got a programmer with some free time, you can implement it yourself, along with any other feature that you'd like which we (or maybe even MS!) don't have.
It's a Mallrats reference; see the movie if you haven't. Actually, see Clerks first, the Mallrats, then Chasing Amy, then Dogma. If you like all of those, see Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back and An Evening With Kevin Smith.
Skip Mallrats. Or put it after J&SBSB and AEwKS, if you decide that you really like Kevin Smith's stuff. Mallrats is so bad that Smith himself has apologized for it, in public. Clerks, Chasing Amy, and Dogma are the genuine article, though.
I've been asking them same question, but taking it a step further and wondering why we're not bothering to enforce many of the existing laws against fraud, bad advertising and so forth
Fraud? You mean my penis isn't going to get 5% larger for every ten people I send to Nigeria to collect 20 MILLION US DOLLAR? Aw, crap.
It seems to me the best solution to this is to have "lanes" in the walkway. The far left lane would move at the maximum speed, whereas successive lanes to the right would be decelerated.
See also The Roads Must Roll; Robert Heinlein's book
OK, here comes the part where everyone crawls out of the woodwork and spits on Heinlein for being an "evil fascist" for writing Starship Troopers, right? </bitter sarcasm>
If 300 million Americans donate USD$2 each, that's more noble than 16 million Hollanders donating USD$20 each?
Who said anything about "noble"? This isn't some sort of "nobility contest". Why is personal sacrifice being held as the standard of value here? Which country is helping more in your example, the one that gives $600M or the one that gives $320M? Case closed.
Also, if I am not mistaken, the US recently sdtruck down an otherwise unanimous GA decision to give drugs to poor nations for cost
Translation: A decision to take drugs from drug companies (whom I would assume would have no say in the matter). Any time a government (or government-like body) gives something to someone, it has to take it from someone else. People like to conveniently forget that sort of thing.
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Also you have to take into consideration the location of the individuals being polled. Some providers have excellent service in various regions, but very poor service elsewhere.
I don't mean to sound like a shill, but I have never failed to have Verizon CDMA coverage (Motorola StarTAC) anywhere I've been in the US. Meanwhile, though, the T-Mobile phone I also have (because the Handspring Treo 180 is so cool, except for the phone itself) has really terrible, spotty coverage - but I can use it in Europe, which sometimes is a real plus. Go figure. :-/
Trippel, (bottled by New Belgium Brewing Co. out of Colorado) is more than 9%, and I have yet to see any beer stronger than that one.
There are much stronger beers than that. The current record holder, I believe, is Sam Adams MMII Utopias, at 24% ABV. Jim Koch has pledged to achieve 25% in the future.
So if you want to ferment your oatmeal and get out a straw, feel free to call it breakfast. Keep in mind though that the people who lived on this diet had an average lifespan of 40 or 50 years at best, and that's with averaging the upper classes in as well.
That's because they hadn't learned about washing their hands with soap yet, not because they drank beer.
China never really has gotten over that "we are the center of the earth" mentality have they?
Being a New Yorker, I wouldn't know anything about that. After all, there can't be two centers of the earth, can there?
4. Tending to intrude or encroach, as upon privacy.
Yup, sounds like a polygraph to me...
So quit your US baaaad sheepspeak and get your head out of your ass, mmmmkay?
Here's a quarter. Go buy a sense of humor, mmmmkay?
It is a bad thing however for a Capitalist. We'd end up having a civil war over this.
It's not bad for capitalists at all. There's more to the creation of wealth than just energy and labor. (Hint: It's between your ears -- hopefully.)
But the great thing about Social Security tax is that you only pay that 15% on the first $88,000 of your income. So under Bush's new tax cuts someone who declares $70,000 of income pays 35.03% of their income to the Federal Government, while someone who makes $1,000,000 pays only 33.81%. So much for fair.
You're damn right it's not fair. Why should the guy making a million pay $338,100 while the other guy only pays $24,521 (i.e. almost 14 times as much)? Is he receiving that much more value in services from the government?
Well, that's because contrary to what you'd expect, NYC has great tap water! The tap water here is a _lot_ better than in Cambridge, MA or South Florida, or any of the other places I've lived. They pipe it down from upstate and it's quite clean & clear.
This is true. Meanwhile, the people who actually live up there (as I did once upon a time) have to drink hard sulfurous water out of groundwells. Yuck.
EMACS isn't original enough for you?
Okay, that's one... Look, I'm all for Free Software (though I'm not quite as, um, rabid about it as Stallman) but you've got to admit that most Free/Open stuff is, or at least started out as, a copy of, or at least strongly modeled after, some commercial product that came before it. Free/Open software has many fine qualities, but originality and/or innovation are not often among them. At least, not lately...
If blurred vision, migraine or night sweats occur, discontinue use of Happy Ogg Vorbis immediately.
OSS Community: Create it yourself, lamer.
vs:
OSS Community: oh yes, no problem, we just spent the last 6 months working in our free time to make this software, let me just take a few days off work to do that for you.
Well, how about this instead:
OSS Community: Well, no, we don't have that feature at the moment, but if you've got a programmer with some free time, you can implement it yourself, along with any other feature that you'd like which we (or maybe even MS!) don't have.
The primary goal of an artist should be to create art works by all means necessary.
Um, says you. Who are you to decree what motivation an artist, or any person, should have, so long as it isn't criminal?
It's a Mallrats reference; see the movie if you haven't. Actually, see Clerks first, the Mallrats, then Chasing Amy, then Dogma. If you like all of those, see Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back and An Evening With Kevin Smith.
Skip Mallrats. Or put it after J&SBSB and AEwKS, if you decide that you really like Kevin Smith's stuff. Mallrats is so bad that Smith himself has apologized for it, in public. Clerks, Chasing Amy, and Dogma are the genuine article, though.
(And no, I'm no relation.)
This is good news, i havn't done anything with my IIgs but play Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiago and Number Munchers.
Gee, I hope those are legal versions of Oregon Trail and Carmen Santiago, or else this really lame rapper dude will be very mad!
...or chooses that particular moment to deeble.
I've been asking them same question, but taking it a step further and wondering why we're not bothering to enforce many of the existing laws against fraud, bad advertising and so forth
Fraud? You mean my penis isn't going to get 5% larger for every ten people I send to Nigeria to collect 20 MILLION US DOLLAR? Aw, crap.
You'd think Japan would be the last place to be having trouble getting a large, heavy, stiff object to fly at great speeds.
Obviously they didn't put enough fake "Type-R" stickers on it.
How about Roadside Signs which are readable on both sides? (for that "I wonder what exit I just missed feeling)
Neat idea, but see, we've already got this technology we like to call "paint".
It seems to me the best solution to this is to have "lanes" in the walkway. The far left lane would move at the maximum speed, whereas successive lanes to the right would be decelerated.
You non-British-sensitive clod!
See also The Roads Must Roll; Robert Heinlein's book
OK, here comes the part where everyone crawls out of the woodwork and spits on Heinlein for being an "evil fascist" for writing Starship Troopers, right? </bitter sarcasm>
Microsoft better watch out. Contiki is on its way to running on every platform in the world.
Can you imagine how screaming fast it would be on a P4/3GHz/GFFX5900? Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of... *whew* sorry 'bout that.
Total $257
Um, does this include the cost of a Windows 2000 license? (Not sure whether or not I'm joking here...)
If 300 million Americans donate USD$2 each, that's more noble than 16 million Hollanders donating USD$20 each?
Who said anything about "noble"? This isn't some sort of "nobility contest". Why is personal sacrifice being held as the standard of value here? Which country is helping more in your example, the one that gives $600M or the one that gives $320M? Case closed.
Also, if I am not mistaken, the US recently sdtruck down an otherwise unanimous GA decision to give drugs to poor nations for cost
Translation: A decision to take drugs from drug companies (whom I would assume would have no say in the matter). Any time a government (or government-like body) gives something to someone, it has to take it from someone else. People like to conveniently forget that sort of thing.