Why do we keep subsidizing broken businesses? The NFL isn't like the airlines or Amtrak, our country could still function normally if some of the less profitable teams folded.
This is, for several reasons, a relatively ignorant statement. The first problem with the statement involves categorizing the NFL a "broken business." The NFL has a nice profit sharing system that is damn near communistic. In fact, because of the sharing scheme, even the worst teams make alot of money, and cities, essentially, have to pay for the privledge of having a team, even a terrible one.
The NFL is far from broken business, in fact, it is the most popular professional sport in the U.S. today. I agree that stadiums should not be funded by taxpayer dollars; they should be funded by the businesses that sponsor them. Heinz field, for example, should not have been funded by the people of pittsburgh, but by the ultra-rich heinz corporation.
On another note, many of the stadiums which team executives complain are "obsolete" are perfectly acceptable. Case in point: the Herbert Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minn. Red "Greedy" McCombs insists that Minnesota build him a new stadium so that they may continue to experience the priviledge of watching his crappy, go 15-1 and choke in the playoffs type of football. The Metrodome is consistently the loudest stadium in the league, and it has some of the best fans, yet "Red" is threatening to move the team.
In any event, I agree that the NFL should not be subsidized, since it is one of the most profitable business in the U.S. today. However, on that same token, neither should Amtrak or the airlines. Only through a lack of funds will those corporations ever be able to slim down enough so that they become profitable. If the government continues to pour money that they coerced from private individuals into their coffers, the airlines and Amtrak will continue to operate less and less efficiently, effectively becoming yet another extension of bloated government bureaucracy. Southwest airlines, crappy as it may be, manages to avoid operating in the red.
Second, voters are very unlikely to go from Republican to Libertarian.
This is, simply, not true! The only libertarian high level officials in the U.S. have all been republicans. Two term New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, a Republican, advocated legalization of all drugs, and promoted the non-agression principle. Congressman Ron Paul, M.D., the 1988 Libertarian party presidential candidate, is a "Republican," although he votes only for legislation if it adheres to his libertarian principles. Additionally, Jeff Flake, a very libertarian congressman from Arizona, is a Republican.
If you believe any libertarian would vote for Kerry, you are sorely mistaken! Understand what a libertarian is before you post, and mod this terrible bullshit parent DOWN.
Orrin Hatch is NOT a libertarian, nor is Bush, they are both conservatives, but there is, and always will be, a percentage of the republican party that is libertarian/classically liberal.
Name a SINGLE libertarian democrat in the congress!!!
Hey people, how can 30 seconds of flakey microgravity compare with *WEEKS* of flakey microgravity on board the ISS? Science. Humph. Just more propaganda for elitist crap universities (versus the poor good ones). (ex Bristol UK grad in chemistry)
I would agree, except that many of the best RGSFOP teams are from small Universities. Actually, in my extensive experience with the program, the worst teams are from the "best" schools. Take a look at this years teams for more info:
As an individual who has participated in the RGSFOP program, I have seen a number of novel experiments, but this particular experiment is a retread that has been done many, many times. Last March, for example, Washington-St. Louis did a very interesting experiment involving zero-gravity orientation of a space vehicle. The typical RGSFOP experiment fails, however, although my University did experience a success this year.
I'd rather give Kerry a chance to f-k it up in his own special way than let Bush to CONTINUE f-king it up in his spectacularly inept, lack of statesmanship, idiotic, 3 year old finger pointing way.
Of course...the albuquerque metro area also has its downfalls, such as being ranked the 8th overall most dangerous metro area in the United State http://www.morganquitno.com/cit04pop.htm#METRO
Couldn't this be placed in a more, you know, useful location? I hate to offend the New Mexicanites but why is this not in San Diego where I live?
The albuquerque-Santa Fe metro area not only has two national laboratories Sandia and LANL, but it has a huge INTEL factory in Rio Rancho.
New Mexico also has, despite being named The dumbest state in the US(I dislike harvard...almost as much as I dislike MIT...) New Mexico has the highest concentration of Ph.D.'s in the United States today.
Get real...New Mexico is WAYYYY more relevant than San Diego...besides the Chargers and Aztecs both suck.
Customs will put a stop to this so fast, it will make your head spin. Current laws allow you to ship yourself ONE dvd/vhs/video game from overseas AT A TIME, and something tells me that 50 freaking game consoles and thousands of games would not make it through customs. Customs would assume that some of them had to be pirated, and would just keep the stuff, with likely there being some legal problems for the bidder.
Not only is the grammar bad...but since when was the Soviet Union/Russian Federation NOT part of Europe. Hell, in the cold war days the MAJORITY of eastern europe was part of the Soviet Union... There have been PLENTY of all european manned missions to space...
I still use NT 4, so does my university. Hell, they only upgraded some of their machines from linux 1.x about a year ago.
Three years from now a sizable portion of the windows server marketbase will still be using windows nt. NT SP6 is a solid product: if it works, why upgrade? Sure it might have security issues, but if you think new MS OS'es dont you're insane.
geiger counters wouldn't help you. dead time would overwhelm the counter near any significant source of radiation. You would need some other kind of survey meter.
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Why do we keep subsidizing broken businesses? The NFL isn't like the airlines or Amtrak, our country could still function normally if some of the less profitable teams folded.
This is, for several reasons, a relatively ignorant statement. The first problem with the statement involves categorizing the NFL a "broken business." The NFL has a nice profit sharing system that is damn near communistic. In fact, because of the sharing scheme, even the worst teams make alot of money, and cities, essentially, have to pay for the privledge of having a team, even a terrible one.
The NFL is far from broken business, in fact, it is the most popular professional sport in the U.S. today. I agree that stadiums should not be funded by taxpayer dollars; they should be funded by the businesses that sponsor them. Heinz field, for example, should not have been funded by the people of pittsburgh, but by the ultra-rich heinz corporation.
On another note, many of the stadiums which team executives complain are "obsolete" are perfectly acceptable. Case in point: the Herbert Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minn. Red "Greedy" McCombs insists that Minnesota build him a new stadium so that they may continue to experience the priviledge of watching his crappy, go 15-1 and choke in the playoffs type of football. The Metrodome is consistently the loudest stadium in the league, and it has some of the best fans, yet "Red" is threatening to move the team.
In any event, I agree that the NFL should not be subsidized, since it is one of the most profitable business in the U.S. today. However, on that same token, neither should Amtrak or the airlines. Only through a lack of funds will those corporations ever be able to slim down enough so that they become profitable. If the government continues to pour money that they coerced from private individuals into their coffers, the airlines and Amtrak will continue to operate less and less efficiently, effectively becoming yet another extension of bloated government bureaucracy. Southwest airlines, crappy as it may be, manages to avoid operating in the red.
Second, voters are very unlikely to go from Republican to Libertarian.
This is, simply, not true! The only libertarian high level officials in the U.S. have all been republicans. Two term New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, a Republican, advocated legalization of all drugs, and promoted the non-agression principle. Congressman Ron Paul, M.D., the 1988 Libertarian party presidential candidate, is a "Republican," although he votes only for legislation if it adheres to his libertarian principles. Additionally, Jeff Flake, a very libertarian congressman from Arizona, is a Republican.
The libertarian party believes that we should eliminate essentially all taxation eliminate all gun laws and eliminate all environmental regulations
If you believe any libertarian would vote for Kerry, you are sorely mistaken! Understand what a libertarian is before you post, and mod this terrible bullshit parent DOWN.
Orrin Hatch is NOT a libertarian, nor is Bush, they are both conservatives, but there is, and always will be, a percentage of the republican party that is libertarian/classically liberal.
Name a SINGLE libertarian democrat in the congress!!!
Hey people, how can 30 seconds of flakey microgravity compare with *WEEKS* of flakey microgravity on board the ISS? Science. Humph. Just more propaganda for elitist crap universities (versus the poor good ones). (ex Bristol UK grad in chemistry)
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I would agree, except that many of the best RGSFOP teams are from small Universities. Actually, in my extensive experience with the program, the worst teams are from the "best" schools. Take a look at this years teams for more info:
http://microgravityuniversity.jsc.nasa.gov/active
NASA already provides tons of photographs of previous experiments
http://zerog.jsc.nasa.gov/studentmain.html
As an individual who has participated in the RGSFOP program, I have seen a number of novel experiments, but this particular experiment is a retread that has been done many, many times. Last March, for example, Washington-St. Louis did a very interesting experiment involving zero-gravity orientation of a space vehicle. The typical RGSFOP experiment fails, however, although my University did experience a success this year.
A list of active RGSFOP teams
Vote Badnarik: he opposes the patriot act, NAFTA, WTO, the IRS, etc.
http://www.meervrijheid.nl/myfiles/badnarik.png
www.badnarik.org
I'd rather give Kerry a chance to f-k it up in his own special way than let Bush to CONTINUE f-king it up in his spectacularly inept, lack of statesmanship, idiotic, 3 year old finger pointing way.
OR you could vote your conscience: you could vote libertarian. http://www.badnarik.org
Such a vote will send a message to both parties that we value our bill of rights, in its entirety.
Of course...the albuquerque metro area also has its downfalls, such as being ranked the 8th overall most dangerous metro area in the United State http://www.morganquitno.com/cit04pop.htm#METRO
Couldn't this be placed in a more, you know, useful location? I hate to offend the New Mexicanites but why is this not in San Diego where I live?
The albuquerque-Santa Fe metro area not only has two national laboratories Sandia and LANL, but it has a huge INTEL factory in Rio Rancho.
New Mexico also has, despite being named The dumbest state in the US(I dislike harvard...almost as much as I dislike MIT...) New Mexico has the highest concentration of Ph.D.'s in the United States today.
Get real...New Mexico is WAYYYY more relevant than San Diego...besides the Chargers and Aztecs both suck.
Van los lobos, baten a aztecas!
BTW it is New Mexicans, NOT New Mexicanites
Nope...this stuff will not get into the US.
e =UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=customs+seize+dvd & http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q= customs+seize+nintendo
Customs will put a stop to this so fast, it will make your head spin. Current laws allow you to ship yourself ONE dvd/vhs/video game from overseas AT A TIME, and something tells me that 50 freaking game consoles and thousands of games would not make it through customs. Customs would assume that some of them had to be pirated, and would just keep the stuff, with likely there being some legal problems for the bidder.
DOn't belive me? http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&i
Bart has been 13 for 15 straight years
Actually, bart is ten...
Not only is the grammar bad...but since when was the Soviet Union/Russian Federation NOT part of Europe. Hell, in the cold war days the MAJORITY of eastern europe was part of the Soviet Union...
There have been PLENTY of all european manned missions to space...
Dark Blue being an advertising agent...surely the techniques of the winner will end up in some sort of ad scheme...
IRC is the best way for trading files anyway...
It is wiser to use that than p2p clients...
There are many such bound series available...but since we are talking upwards of 1000 comics in the X-Universe...
5 108459/qid=1051974731/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-108143 4-6039167?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
1 35988X/qid=1051974807/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/104-108143 4-6039167?v=glance&s=books
To start off, I would look at Uncanny X-Men Masterworks http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/078
And the New X-Men Masterworks is also a good place to start http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/087
There are several volumes available, and are a good way to begin your journey into the X-Universe
Seems like every 80s comic book had a similar plot...just say no..
I'm glad my athlon doesnt use illicit substances...although my 680x0 machines have had substance abuse problems
Its a JOKE people
Utah? Dont you mean deseret..
No wonder my 1.53GHz Athlon has been so slow lately...
My point is this: power users upgrade, those who just need something that works probably dont.
If what you have works fine, and you are in an operational environment why change it?
I still use NT 4, so does my university. Hell, they only upgraded some of their machines from linux 1.x about a year ago.
Three years from now a sizable portion of the windows server marketbase will still be using windows nt. NT SP6 is a solid product: if it works, why upgrade? Sure it might have security issues, but if you think new MS OS'es dont you're insane.
geiger counters wouldn't help you. dead time would overwhelm the counter near any significant source of radiation. You would need some other kind of survey meter.
Yes...vote...but not for republicans or democrats. Vote libertarian or green or for some other third party.
Why use X (as in windows) with OS X (as in "ten")? Newsflash: it already has a superior graphical environment (IMHO).
Why? because I feel that I have a moral obligation to use free(as in speech) software whenever I can.
XDarwin...ha!
Well...sorta.
Under NT 4 SP 6 it works SPECTACULAR for me
Under 98 the latest version still often crashes..
But that isnt gimp's fault, only poor 98 engineering.
's true.
Big Bro- I mean Apple's take:
free software is proprietary.
open is closed.
yours is ours.