You fail in your first assertion. If you didn't fail in this assertion, then No Child Left Behind would have no teeth. Federal taxes support schools.
Anyway, it doesn't matter if Social Security goes bankrupt. The nation is going to be bankrupt for real from spending like an addict long before that anyway.
Yeah, I forgot to mention. The majority, the people with kids, the people who end up voting in the people in office, are fucking the children far worse than this guy ever will, by continuing to vote in nutcases who think that when you issue half a trillion in debt ever year without any intention of paying it back you're helping the children.
Yes, real engineering is definitely the right step for someone in IT. I grew up with computers and was one of those people who could have become an IT pro right out of high school, but after a couple years in the field, I decided to take a different path. I worked my ass off to make it through school, and now I do control, instrumentation, and automation engineering. Unlike in IT, you're actually assumed to be a competent person in general, which stops a lot of the stupid arguements you have to have as an IT pro with management disappear.
I just want to mention something. I'm the ultimate result of not misspending a youth. I did nothing but fight and fight and fight for a future, and I somehow managed to pay most of my way through college with cash and get an education so I can sit here now drinking expensive beers while surfing slashdot.
Take it from me: The misspent youth isn't misspent. I'm spending a lot -- A LOT of time and resources going along and trying to learn how to "misspend" my time, because living the ideal life is boring, stressful, and lonely.
You missed the point where I mentioned that there is actual proof available in terms of scientific evidence. Even conservative politicians admit that global warming phenomena exists -- it's pretty hard to deny it while the polar ice caps shrink for yet another year, while Canada gears up to open the northwest passage to transport ships for the first time in history because the area is melting enough to allow it for the first time in human history, while the United States and Denmark are posturing for that same stretch of ocean -- again, for the first time in history. The question is now whether it's man-made, or simply part of a natural cycle or process.
Cost of living, again. The farmer doesn't need 2 cars -- he lives where he works, unless he's got a second job and is really making way more money than he's trying to guilt you into thinking he makes. He doesn't likely need to pay a mortgage -- He probably inherited the farm. He doesn't need to spend nearly as much on food -- he grows food for a living. There are also economies which result from being a farmer, because you need to learn how to fix things and how to fabricate things.
The whole set of dymanics are simply different. I'm not going to pretend that farmers get what they're owed, but there wouldn't be mega-corporations raking in the cash in agriculture if it wasn't possible to make a living at it.
Embarassment is different from fear. I'd be embarassed to live in some old lady's basement for a year, but I did. I'd be afraid of living in an inner city slum, though I did that too. Honestly, I much prefer embarassment to demands made at knifepoint.
Winnipeg is a black hole for wages. Getting away from there seems, from where I'm sitting, to be a good way to double your salary.
I don't really understand why, to be honest. You'd have to pay me a LOT of money to head to the murder capital of canada, ground zero for Canada's violent, racist native street gangs(Ah, Indian Posse, you are a violent and pitiful reminder of the self-destruction of natives in Canada), with in-your-face drug problems, a car theft rate which close to approaches "If you live in Winnipeg, you WILL have your car stolen", and overall not niceness, I can't really figure out why people take pay cuts to live there.
The small town I'm living in isn't great(I'm voting Conservative next election, tax cuts will be the only thing capable of shifting the economy towards the industrial base in the north and away from the welfare addict base in the south), but they're compensating me well for the time I spend here. I'd be making 25k/yr less if I was still there.
Though I WILL admit, the experience of being robbed at knifepoint was DEFINITELY worth the money I spent living there. I got a great blog post out of it!
What kind of industry is there in a major city? A hell of a lot less than you'll find in a mining town, or a paper town, or a brewing town.
What you'll find a lot of in major cities are buildings full of people who aren't terribly important pretending they're terribly important. In fact, the major industry of many cities is self-importance (The secondary industry being Starbucks). Sure, if the major population centers in the nation were wiped out we'd still have all the people who actually do something for a living because the mines and factories in the nation are mostly in smaller towns because it's politically inconvenient to put heavy industry in cities, and the distribution networks would be alright too, but without the people in cities, how are we supposed to keep miners, farmers, and factory workers in poverty by using the fruits of their labour to power massive cities filled with massive support networks essentially designed to leech off the few and proud productive people in the world?
If you're not interested in the facts, or finding the facts, then don't bitch and complain that you're not being force-fed the facts. They're out there, and I've seen plenty of them. I'm simply using my present examples because they're the easiest to understand. My father and my fathers father both experienced much colder temperatures and much more brutal windchills than I do today -- not just one time, but for a continuous period of time. When you have nice weather for a year and bad weather for a year, it's a bit of a coincidence, but when the weather transitions from ridiculously cold to rather nice and temperate over a course of decades, most people would call it a trend.
The real question, and the only question that politicians are actually asking (Because they've got the facts and those speak for themselves), is whether the change in temperature is caused by manmade carbon emmissions, natural carbon emmissions like volcanoes, or a completely different third effect, such as energy output from the sun.
Being the sort of person who listened to his father and his father's father, I think that if we don't know, we should probably be safe rather than sorry and cut back carbon emissions at least until more is known, but some people don't like the idea of playing it safe until we determine what is causing the changes in climate.
You're an astroturfer with poor rhetorical skills. Get the fuck out.
I've presented evidence, direct, conclusive proof that can be backed up by anyone living in the North, that global warming exists and has caused significant climate changes in the past 25 years.
Isn't it scary how the Iraqi Information Minister sounds like the guys in charge of the US right now?
"The terrorists are stupid. They are stupid [dramatic pause] and they are condemned."
"There are no terrorists in Baghdad. Never!"
"That there are terrorists in Iraq is just a lie, and the media is lying."
"The terrorists are committing suicide at the gates of Baghdad."
Anyway, I agree with your point. Everyone needs to stop being such pussies all their lives. There's a greater risk of dying terribly simply driving down the highway than from terrorists. This is because the police and CIA really are paid to do their jobs and they do a good job, despite Rove et. al. trying to sabatoge them for purely political purposes. People need to grow a pair and stop begging politicians to exploit them to obtain unneccessary government powers.
An honest to God brewery would be awesome, but it would scar those poor bastards for life, because they'd end up paying like 3 bucks a beer, unable to go back to the beer flavoured alcoholic beverages the major players churn out.
Before I was born, it was routine up here to see winters where -50C didn't let up from December through April or May. My father drove down to a new job in the place I was born, and that day it was -190 with the windchill. both kinds of temperature is simply unheard of today in the winter.
Don't worry about the cost. It's not like Americans pay for anything their government does anymore. It's like Ronald Reagan said: "When your kid is spending too much, don't increase his allowance, just give him a gold card! That'll teach him!"...
You could say that to anything. You could give pencils to all the homeless people in a city, and you'd be like "Hey! They're just pencils!", but then they start exploding. What I'm saying is we should bomb apples.
The authority of the civil defense issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps, and those terrorists are monsters for such behavior.
I am not talking about the Muslim people, I am talking about those mercenaries. They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children.
Now, it was a different time back then, but back when I was a kid, ice caps shrinking year after year just as predicted and serious problems in the north caused by too much warm weather just as predicted did actually constitute proof. I know, it's not "They said it on Fox News" proof, but trust me, I'm sitting in a short sleeved shirt on my porch drinking martinis in April next to the 54th parallel.
Come to Northern Manitoba. The weather's fine. In fact, so fine that it simply doesn't compare to the weather my father and grandparents faced when they were younger.
The proof is there, and that proof is short sleeved shirts in March or April in Thompson or Flin Flon.
Some dude: "Captain Nestle! The sensors are picking up unusual tachyon emissions on that uncharted planet, planet Ford Escape 8! Shall I set a course with our EA Sports warp drive?"
Captain: "Make it so irresistable, like boating. For more information on boating, call 1-888-555-2104"
[The USS Enterprise car rentals, shaped like a giant bottle of cool, refreshing 7-up, travels to the planet Ford Escape 8]
Some dude:"Captain Nestle! Sensors by Calvin Klein are detecting enormous quantities of awesome! Ford Escape 8 is the best ever!"
Captain:"This is great! Quickly! Call headquarters and buy stock in this planet using the money in my ING bank account, where I [pause] Save [pause] my money"
It would be entertaining, but only if it wasn't serious.
Dude, don't bother grinding, just do quests. You'll level way faster that way.
I liked that quest where you try to figure out how to play the porn you just downloaded whose filename makes it sound almost illegally hardcore.
BTW, it turns out the video is just some terrible 60s softcore porn someone recorded on VHS. The other loot is good though, you get a player of video-lan, and a player of m. Still working on the quest to get the player of the ladies.
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You fail in your first assertion. If you didn't fail in this assertion, then No Child Left Behind would have no teeth. Federal taxes support schools.
Anyway, it doesn't matter if Social Security goes bankrupt. The nation is going to be bankrupt for real from spending like an addict long before that anyway.
Yeah, I forgot to mention. The majority, the people with kids, the people who end up voting in the people in office, are fucking the children far worse than this guy ever will, by continuing to vote in nutcases who think that when you issue half a trillion in debt ever year without any intention of paying it back you're helping the children.
Yes, real engineering is definitely the right step for someone in IT. I grew up with computers and was one of those people who could have become an IT pro right out of high school, but after a couple years in the field, I decided to take a different path. I worked my ass off to make it through school, and now I do control, instrumentation, and automation engineering. Unlike in IT, you're actually assumed to be a competent person in general, which stops a lot of the stupid arguements you have to have as an IT pro with management disappear.
(BTW, I'm from a third world country)
That's ok, most people here are from the USA.
I just want to mention something. I'm the ultimate result of not misspending a youth. I did nothing but fight and fight and fight for a future, and I somehow managed to pay most of my way through college with cash and get an education so I can sit here now drinking expensive beers while surfing slashdot.
Take it from me: The misspent youth isn't misspent. I'm spending a lot -- A LOT of time and resources going along and trying to learn how to "misspend" my time, because living the ideal life is boring, stressful, and lonely.
He makes up for it. You realize that he's going to subsidize your schools and other kids programs for his entire life, don't you?
You missed the point where I mentioned that there is actual proof available in terms of scientific evidence. Even conservative politicians admit that global warming phenomena exists -- it's pretty hard to deny it while the polar ice caps shrink for yet another year, while Canada gears up to open the northwest passage to transport ships for the first time in history because the area is melting enough to allow it for the first time in human history, while the United States and Denmark are posturing for that same stretch of ocean -- again, for the first time in history. The question is now whether it's man-made, or simply part of a natural cycle or process.
Cost of living, again. The farmer doesn't need 2 cars -- he lives where he works, unless he's got a second job and is really making way more money than he's trying to guilt you into thinking he makes. He doesn't likely need to pay a mortgage -- He probably inherited the farm. He doesn't need to spend nearly as much on food -- he grows food for a living. There are also economies which result from being a farmer, because you need to learn how to fix things and how to fabricate things.
The whole set of dymanics are simply different. I'm not going to pretend that farmers get what they're owed, but there wouldn't be mega-corporations raking in the cash in agriculture if it wasn't possible to make a living at it.
Embarassment is different from fear. I'd be embarassed to live in some old lady's basement for a year, but I did. I'd be afraid of living in an inner city slum, though I did that too. Honestly, I much prefer embarassment to demands made at knifepoint.
Winnipeg is a black hole for wages. Getting away from there seems, from where I'm sitting, to be a good way to double your salary.
I don't really understand why, to be honest. You'd have to pay me a LOT of money to head to the murder capital of canada, ground zero for Canada's violent, racist native street gangs(Ah, Indian Posse, you are a violent and pitiful reminder of the self-destruction of natives in Canada), with in-your-face drug problems, a car theft rate which close to approaches "If you live in Winnipeg, you WILL have your car stolen", and overall not niceness, I can't really figure out why people take pay cuts to live there.
The small town I'm living in isn't great(I'm voting Conservative next election, tax cuts will be the only thing capable of shifting the economy towards the industrial base in the north and away from the welfare addict base in the south), but they're compensating me well for the time I spend here. I'd be making 25k/yr less if I was still there.
Though I WILL admit, the experience of being robbed at knifepoint was DEFINITELY worth the money I spent living there. I got a great blog post out of it!
What kind of industry is there in a major city? A hell of a lot less than you'll find in a mining town, or a paper town, or a brewing town.
What you'll find a lot of in major cities are buildings full of people who aren't terribly important pretending they're terribly important. In fact, the major industry of many cities is self-importance (The secondary industry being Starbucks). Sure, if the major population centers in the nation were wiped out we'd still have all the people who actually do something for a living because the mines and factories in the nation are mostly in smaller towns because it's politically inconvenient to put heavy industry in cities, and the distribution networks would be alright too, but without the people in cities, how are we supposed to keep miners, farmers, and factory workers in poverty by using the fruits of their labour to power massive cities filled with massive support networks essentially designed to leech off the few and proud productive people in the world?
So you can take a cab to the Comedy Central studio and watch The Daily Show without a 3 second delay. Duh.
Don't bother arguing if you aren't going to bother reading my posts.
If you're not interested in the facts, or finding the facts, then don't bitch and complain that you're not being force-fed the facts. They're out there, and I've seen plenty of them. I'm simply using my present examples because they're the easiest to understand. My father and my fathers father both experienced much colder temperatures and much more brutal windchills than I do today -- not just one time, but for a continuous period of time. When you have nice weather for a year and bad weather for a year, it's a bit of a coincidence, but when the weather transitions from ridiculously cold to rather nice and temperate over a course of decades, most people would call it a trend.
The real question, and the only question that politicians are actually asking (Because they've got the facts and those speak for themselves), is whether the change in temperature is caused by manmade carbon emmissions, natural carbon emmissions like volcanoes, or a completely different third effect, such as energy output from the sun.
Being the sort of person who listened to his father and his father's father, I think that if we don't know, we should probably be safe rather than sorry and cut back carbon emissions at least until more is known, but some people don't like the idea of playing it safe until we determine what is causing the changes in climate.
You're an astroturfer with poor rhetorical skills. Get the fuck out.
I've presented evidence, direct, conclusive proof that can be backed up by anyone living in the North, that global warming exists and has caused significant climate changes in the past 25 years.
Go back to Fox News Channel.
There are no Mooninites in Boston! Never!
Isn't it scary how the Iraqi Information Minister sounds like the guys in charge of the US right now?
"The terrorists are stupid. They are stupid [dramatic pause] and they are condemned."
"There are no terrorists in Baghdad. Never!"
"That there are terrorists in Iraq is just a lie, and the media is lying."
"The terrorists are committing suicide at the gates of Baghdad."
Anyway, I agree with your point. Everyone needs to stop being such pussies all their lives. There's a greater risk of dying terribly simply driving down the highway than from terrorists. This is because the police and CIA really are paid to do their jobs and they do a good job, despite Rove et. al. trying to sabatoge them for purely political purposes. People need to grow a pair and stop begging politicians to exploit them to obtain unneccessary government powers.
An honest to God brewery would be awesome, but it would scar those poor bastards for life, because they'd end up paying like 3 bucks a beer, unable to go back to the beer flavoured alcoholic beverages the major players churn out.
Before I was born, it was routine up here to see winters where -50C didn't let up from December through April or May. My father drove down to a new job in the place I was born, and that day it was -190 with the windchill. both kinds of temperature is simply unheard of today in the winter.
Don't worry about the cost. It's not like Americans pay for anything their government does anymore. It's like Ronald Reagan said: "When your kid is spending too much, don't increase his allowance, just give him a gold card! That'll teach him!" ...
He....He never had kids of his own, did he?
You could say that to anything. You could give pencils to all the homeless people in a city, and you'd be like "Hey! They're just pencils!", but then they start exploding. What I'm saying is we should bomb apples.
The authority of the civil defense issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps, and those terrorists are monsters for such behavior.
I am not talking about the Muslim people, I am talking about those mercenaries. They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children.
There are no terrorists in Boston. Never!
Now, it was a different time back then, but back when I was a kid, ice caps shrinking year after year just as predicted and serious problems in the north caused by too much warm weather just as predicted did actually constitute proof. I know, it's not "They said it on Fox News" proof, but trust me, I'm sitting in a short sleeved shirt on my porch drinking martinis in April next to the 54th parallel.
Come to Northern Manitoba. The weather's fine. In fact, so fine that it simply doesn't compare to the weather my father and grandparents faced when they were younger.
The proof is there, and that proof is short sleeved shirts in March or April in Thompson or Flin Flon.
You get the exciting opportunity to buy advertisements in which you can skip the football in between them!
I can see the new Star Trek now.
Some dude: "Captain Nestle! The sensors are picking up unusual tachyon emissions on that uncharted planet, planet Ford Escape 8! Shall I set a course with our EA Sports warp drive?"
Captain: "Make it so irresistable, like boating. For more information on boating, call 1-888-555-2104"
[The USS Enterprise car rentals, shaped like a giant bottle of cool, refreshing 7-up, travels to the planet Ford Escape 8]
Some dude:"Captain Nestle! Sensors by Calvin Klein are detecting enormous quantities of awesome! Ford Escape 8 is the best ever!"
Captain:"This is great! Quickly! Call headquarters and buy stock in this planet using the money in my ING bank account, where I [pause] Save [pause] my money"
It would be entertaining, but only if it wasn't serious.
Torvalds is immortal, like lord british. You might be able to game the system and kill him once, but you won't be able to kill him a second time.
Dude, don't bother grinding, just do quests. You'll level way faster that way.
I liked that quest where you try to figure out how to play the porn you just downloaded whose filename makes it sound almost illegally hardcore.
BTW, it turns out the video is just some terrible 60s softcore porn someone recorded on VHS. The other loot is good though, you get a player of video-lan, and a player of m. Still working on the quest to get the player of the ladies.