Actually these days the "typical" single-serving bottle of soda is the 20 oz. Many things are also sold in 16.9 oz packages specifically because it's the closest round-to-two-places metric volume to the pint (500 ml).
Because we have to buy two sets of tools to work on our cars. Think of the mechanics! Oh, wait... let's keep both. Think of the tool company employees!
I think the size in question was referring to population more than the physical landmass area. There are a number of US states with populations higher than Australia fro what Google tells me.
1. get some magnesium sulfate 2. get some water 3. mix the magnesium sulfate and water 4. get a funnel 5. stick funnel into dog's mouth 6. pour magnesium sulfate solution down dog's throat 7. wait 8. get some tongs or gloves 9. retrieve paper
It's a longer list than you're used to seeing, and there's no "profit". There's also no "???", so I think that makes up or it.
Well, that's one silver lining to all this gloom and doom about the BRIC lending block from the very beginning. Either China keeps pegging to the dollar,and the other member countries are still tied pretty much to that, or they have to let their currency float naturally. Either way, it's not a bad thing necessarily for the US. Having the Chinese have to sell goods at a naturally valued currency could bring a lot of jobs back to the Western hemisphere, even if not to the US itself. That would at least lead to lower demand for oil with the flow of capital to China slowed and less shipping of finished goods from China to the US.
Let's face it, with the US tending to focus on lean manufacturing, imported produce, quick shipping, mechanized agriculture, semi truck freight hauling, and other really energy-intensive industries to provide the American way of life, cheaper oil is always good for the US.
It's not as good an idea to plop those Canadian quarters into a vending machine in the US as it used to be. There's less than one Canadian dollar to the US dollar these days.
The world wouldn't be, of course. I think we can agree on that. Complete isolationism doesn't work, either. However, it'd be nice to see the US scale back a bit on being bodyguard, financier, safety net, invader, or occupier worldwide. Yes, I'm an American. I think the US government should be doing less overseas (and less overall) and that what it does do should mostly directly benefit American citizens and our closest allies. A country can be helpful to another country now and then, but some moderation would be nice.
That's what makes a good soldier, really. The best soldiers have the most highly refined fighting skills and the least hesitation in using them when necessary, but they hope more than most that those skills are never needed.
My father was in Germany in the 1960s. Those on base in Stuttgart were regularly told their job in case of an invasion of Soviet or East German troops was to take or destroy as many documents as possible before enemy arrival and to get as many military personnel and civilians out of the country alive as possible, because they were never going to be massed and armed well enough to actually stop West Germany from falling if the Soviets chose to invade. Frankfurt and Rammstein may have fared better, but the the (un? semi?)official line in Stuttgart was a rather stark one.
There's no way a Socialist regime would try conquering the US by getting rid of LA or San Francisco. Why knock out large areas of your most sympathetic people on the enemy side?
They can demand taxes if there's a presence in the state to tax. In some states that means a physical building, an employee, or at least a registered agent. In others it just means an affiliate that refers the customer and gets a referral payment. Companies that get taxed on sales for being in the state want companies that ship into the state to be on a level playing field, and without the federal government regulating this facet of interstate commerce, there are loopholes a plenty for a company in one state to ship into the other 49 and leave the burden of sue tax on the consumer (who rarely pay).
A truly fiscally conservative government is de facto the most socially liberal one. You can't enforce laws petty behavior regulations if you can't put the jackboots on the ground.
Clinton put soldiers on food stamps, cut human intelligence programs that led to 9/11 because signals intelligence were unable to connect the dots, deregulated the banks and insurance companies such that they could trade securities made up of fluff and peppermint farts that caused much of the housing bubble and crash,cut inspectors at the SEC which then allowed the Enron accounting fiasco, and he got our special forces into a mess in Somalia because he wouldn't commit the proper equipment for fear of wag-the-tail allegations.
Then there's that whole felony perjury thing, for which he was convicted by the Senate and sentenced to... censure... by the House. Oh, and the very fact that he thought putting a hand on the Bible and swearing to uphold and defend the Constitution then putting the same hand on a Bible and swearing to tell the truth to the court of the country whose Constitution he was supposed to be defending but lying the whole way through the trial was no big deal, because it's just his personal life he was COMMITTING PERJURY IN FEDERAL COURT about. Now despite your thoughts or feelings about the book or what swearing an oath on it does or should represent, they were both sworn oaths in front of the judicial branch. He lied about one...
So, um, yeah. We've never had a perfect president. What's your point again?
Here are a couple of quotes from the 20th that fit rather well, too.
That Professor Goddard with his "chair" in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action and reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react—to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.
New York Times, January 13, 1920
Further investigation and experimentation have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th Century and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an atmosphere. The Times regrets the error.
New York Times, July 17, 1969 (the day after the launch of Apollo 11)
It is actually a pretty standard disclaimer. You buy the services you think you need. The vendor supplies what they say they provide. Unless the vendor is also acting as a consultant, there's generally no claim to understanding the needs of the customer better than the customer does. Unless you understand the customer's situation almost as fully as the customer, you can't really guarantee your product or service will fit their needs.
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Actually these days the "typical" single-serving bottle of soda is the 20 oz. Many things are also sold in 16.9 oz packages specifically because it's the closest round-to-two-places metric volume to the pint (500 ml).
Because we have to buy two sets of tools to work on our cars. Think of the mechanics! Oh, wait... let's keep both. Think of the tool company employees!
I think the size in question was referring to population more than the physical landmass area. There are a number of US states with populations higher than Australia fro what Google tells me.
Yeah, I hate driving my car and having to convert from leagues to mi... oh, wait... the road signs are never in leagues.
1. get some magnesium sulfate
2. get some water
3. mix the magnesium sulfate and water
4. get a funnel
5. stick funnel into dog's mouth
6. pour magnesium sulfate solution down dog's throat
7. wait
8. get some tongs or gloves
9. retrieve paper
It's a longer list than you're used to seeing, and there's no "profit". There's also no "???", so I think that makes up or it.
At least you're less likely to have grandkids in the basement after that trick.
The corners of his mouth would be in amazing shape, though!
Well, that's one silver lining to all this gloom and doom about the BRIC lending block from the very beginning. Either China keeps pegging to the dollar,and the other member countries are still tied pretty much to that, or they have to let their currency float naturally. Either way, it's not a bad thing necessarily for the US. Having the Chinese have to sell goods at a naturally valued currency could bring a lot of jobs back to the Western hemisphere, even if not to the US itself. That would at least lead to lower demand for oil with the flow of capital to China slowed and less shipping of finished goods from China to the US.
Let's face it, with the US tending to focus on lean manufacturing, imported produce, quick shipping, mechanized agriculture, semi truck freight hauling, and other really energy-intensive industries to provide the American way of life, cheaper oil is always good for the US.
They can say it for future debt. They can stop accepting US bonds payable in US dollars for newly issued debt if they really want to.
It's not as good an idea to plop those Canadian quarters into a vending machine in the US as it used to be.
There's less than one Canadian dollar to the US dollar these days.
The world wouldn't be, of course. I think we can agree on that. Complete isolationism doesn't work, either. However, it'd be nice to see the US scale back a bit on being bodyguard, financier, safety net, invader, or occupier worldwide. Yes, I'm an American. I think the US government should be doing less overseas (and less overall) and that what it does do should mostly directly benefit American citizens and our closest allies. A country can be helpful to another country now and then, but some moderation would be nice.
At that point why not just expand it in the post when the post is saved and save all the extra traffic?
That's what makes a good soldier, really. The best soldiers have the most highly refined fighting skills and the least hesitation in using them when necessary, but they hope more than most that those skills are never needed.
My father was in Germany in the 1960s. Those on base in Stuttgart were regularly told their job in case of an invasion of Soviet or East German troops was to take or destroy as many documents as possible before enemy arrival and to get as many military personnel and civilians out of the country alive as possible, because they were never going to be massed and armed well enough to actually stop West Germany from falling if the Soviets chose to invade. Frankfurt and Rammstein may have fared better, but the the (un? semi?)official line in Stuttgart was a rather stark one.
There's no way a Socialist regime would try conquering the US by getting rid of LA or San Francisco. Why knock out large areas of your most sympathetic people on the enemy side?
um, no.
Straight man ----> .....
people who take a second to get that the straight man is also making a joke .....
people like you who point out that the straight man's joke missed the joke .....
humor for pond scum
He was only prevented from messing with the PlayStation series of consoles, not volcanic features of national parks.
The "Hollywood" episode of Happy Days played on TV here in Houston today. Both parts (it was a two-parter).
Yes, that's the one where Fonzie jumps the (now proverbial) shark.
Actually hemp oil and milled hemp seeds are very nutritious and are less perishable than fresh tomatoes. Just sayin'.
They can demand taxes if there's a presence in the state to tax. In some states that means a physical building, an employee, or at least a registered agent. In others it just means an affiliate that refers the customer and gets a referral payment. Companies that get taxed on sales for being in the state want companies that ship into the state to be on a level playing field, and without the federal government regulating this facet of interstate commerce, there are loopholes a plenty for a company in one state to ship into the other 49 and leave the burden of sue tax on the consumer (who rarely pay).
A truly fiscally conservative government is de facto the most socially liberal one. You can't enforce laws petty behavior regulations if you can't put the jackboots on the ground.
Clinton put soldiers on food stamps, cut human intelligence programs that led to 9/11 because signals intelligence were unable to connect the dots, deregulated the banks and insurance companies such that they could trade securities made up of fluff and peppermint farts that caused much of the housing bubble and crash,cut inspectors at the SEC which then allowed the Enron accounting fiasco, and he got our special forces into a mess in Somalia because he wouldn't commit the proper equipment for fear of wag-the-tail allegations.
Then there's that whole felony perjury thing, for which he was convicted by the Senate and sentenced to... censure... by the House. Oh, and the very fact that he thought putting a hand on the Bible and swearing to uphold and defend the Constitution then putting the same hand on a Bible and swearing to tell the truth to the court of the country whose Constitution he was supposed to be defending but lying the whole way through the trial was no big deal, because it's just his personal life he was COMMITTING PERJURY IN FEDERAL COURT about. Now despite your thoughts or feelings about the book or what swearing an oath on it does or should represent, they were both sworn oaths in front of the judicial branch. He lied about one...
So, um, yeah. We've never had a perfect president. What's your point again?
I might digg it a little more with just a bit more redditing.
Here are a couple of quotes from the 20th that fit rather well, too.
New York Times, January 13, 1920
New York Times, July 17, 1969 (the day after the launch of Apollo 11)
Wikipedia article on Goddard
It is actually a pretty standard disclaimer. You buy the services you think you need. The vendor supplies what they say they provide. Unless the vendor is also acting as a consultant, there's generally no claim to understanding the needs of the customer better than the customer does. Unless you understand the customer's situation almost as fully as the customer, you can't really guarantee your product or service will fit their needs.