Ungrammatical writing is, by definition, ungrammatical. Perhaps you meant to denigrate those who disdain nonstandard dialects with somewhat different grammars?
Some work environments might be harsh and likely to offend delicate sensibilities.
Famously, surgical suites. We can't actually grab nurses' asses, but as long as it has been established that no prudes are in the room, we can totally discuss how they like their asses to be grabbed.
I'm not sure where the higher per-vehicle utilization becomes a bug rather than a feature. As for the interior -- I'm a member of car2go, an existing vehicle-sharing collective, and we don't have problem.
High utilization isn't (except for maintenance) a problem, but it does mean that there aren't really going to be many (if any) fewer vehicles on the road. Parking lots might be emptier, but the number of trips isn't likely to change significantly. As for your existing vehicle-sharing collective, I wonder how much of that would scale if the entire population (instead of a small segment) were using them.
The flip side of that is that the Xbox was actually a damned fine PC for its era despite the low memory allotment. There was little incentive to emulate because all the big time classic gamers all had an Xbox for XBMC if nothing else. It's still a stellar piece of hardware for its time.
the solution is to have genuine effective regulating power.
I'm all ears to hear your plan for implementing that. "Regulate smarter" is a great slogan but doesn't really mean much in the absence of actual goals. Politically, this is a sort of Mexican standoff; unless you can show me a real example of muscular government taming out-of-control corporations without becoming a nightmarish nanny state, operating in at least one of the fifty states, and with a real and functional plan to generalize that to the rest of the country, I'm very unlikely to go along with your plan to hand the government even more control over the economy. You, likewise, are unwilling to loose the corps on the American people untrammeled.
I think we're actually playing this out at the state level right now. Texas is probably the most heavily invested in my side of the argument. I'm not sure who best typifies yours - I think saying "California" is kind of cheating, but Portlandia isn't a state, so... Colorado? Economically still a red state, though.
Not really. Plenty of talent there, of course, but the difference in production values is always striking to me when watching foreign films. Not that they are badly done; it's just that American filmmakers don't operate in an environment where the audience is willing to accept that the characters are in the living room if they are both seated in lounge chairs in an otherwise unadorned room. They want to see the coffee table, the windows, the view of the back yard. So the crew puts in a lot of attention to detail. The more you do it, the better you get. And that's why we're the best at movies, microcode, and pizza delivery.
I don't know about your cable company, but in my area Comcast still operates under a variant of an agreement with the local government that's nearly forty years old and gives it the monopoly over the cable franchise here. So it's not like they're unregulated beasts; it's just regulatory capture. That's a different - and more difficult - problem, because sometimes the solution to regulatory capture is to take the regulating power away from the government. (And yes, sometimes the solution is to accept the regulatory capture and move on. Electrical rates are usually a good example of this.)
Unlike your other pedant, I'm going to point out that the correct term is per se, a Latin expression. If nobody has ever taught them to you explicitly, you might wish to look up a list of common Latin abbreviations and sayings, as they are often subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) misused in English and you're probably screwing up more than one of them.
It might violate his contract, but I'd hardly call it immoral. Besides, how can a contract whose terms are take-it-or-leave-it pretend to be the result of a fair negotiation between the parties?
It is possible to oppose the FDA's current mission without simultaneously wanting to abolish safety testing. The FDA is far too wrapped up in making sure things are safe and effective, which sounds like the sort of thing you would want them to do until you look at how the process actually works. The FDA as it is now turns down drugs it shouldn't. (I'm still pissed off about sugammadex.)
What law is that? The one that says "it shall never be especially hot nor especially cold over a huge portion of my landmass, so you don't have to spend much to heat or cool your home"?
It defines an official departmental policy. What those officers can do is limited only to what they can get away with. In particular, there's an old saying to the effect that you may beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride. The cops will still arrest you for failure to disperse/move away/follow a lawful police order, and maybe there will be a little asterisk by his name in the next department newsletter and a court-costs settlement to you after you sue him for breaking dept policy. But there sure as hell won't be you, anywhere near where they don't want you taking pictures, taking pictures.
You are talking about the theory. He is talking about the practice. Given that experience has long shown that police in particular have a tendency to smash first and ask questions later, who's the idiot?
Hamas has state sponsorship. That makes a difference. Small, self-financing groups are the ones more likely to depend on one person to hold it all together.
For it to be entrapment, the police have to initiate the wrongdoing - e.g., if an undercover cop asks you out of the blue if you'd like to buy drugs, that's entrapment. If you call a known drug dealer and tell the guy on the other end (who happens to be a cop) of the phone you want some pot, that's not entrapment.
Small, not weak. Small engines have to go faster than large engines in order to provide adequate torque to the wheels to maintain highway speed. So you lose some of your efficiency advantage when it's on the road.
I had a Bonneville with a 3800 engine in the 90's that got about 16 mpg in town but 30 on the highway. Too bad its electrical system was possessed. In top gear 85 mph was only 2500 RPM. First car I ever owned that you noticed wind noise more than the engine. Fantastic long-distance car.
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Ungrammatical writing is, by definition, ungrammatical. Perhaps you meant to denigrate those who disdain nonstandard dialects with somewhat different grammars?
Some work environments might be harsh and likely to offend delicate sensibilities.
Famously, surgical suites. We can't actually grab nurses' asses, but as long as it has been established that no prudes are in the room, we can totally discuss how they like their asses to be grabbed.
I'm not sure where the higher per-vehicle utilization becomes a bug rather than a feature. As for the interior -- I'm a member of car2go, an existing vehicle-sharing collective, and we don't have problem.
High utilization isn't (except for maintenance) a problem, but it does mean that there aren't really going to be many (if any) fewer vehicles on the road. Parking lots might be emptier, but the number of trips isn't likely to change significantly. As for your existing vehicle-sharing collective, I wonder how much of that would scale if the entire population (instead of a small segment) were using them.
think about how many fewer automated vehicles it would take to service a large population.
And now think about how many extra miles each of those vehicles will be driving. And think about how disgusting those cars are going to be inside.
The flip side of that is that the Xbox was actually a damned fine PC for its era despite the low memory allotment. There was little incentive to emulate because all the big time classic gamers all had an Xbox for XBMC if nothing else. It's still a stellar piece of hardware for its time.
Want to be my girlfriend? ;)
I will have to insist on an EMP below the waist before we actually go anywhere with things.
Just watch out for the East German porn. They've got some extra Y chromosomes in there.
Alas, the potential for sabotage must nix any such action. Otherwise not a terrible idea.
Nerd card revoked. It will be returned upon notification that you have read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
the solution is to have genuine effective regulating power.
I'm all ears to hear your plan for implementing that. "Regulate smarter" is a great slogan but doesn't really mean much in the absence of actual goals. Politically, this is a sort of Mexican standoff; unless you can show me a real example of muscular government taming out-of-control corporations without becoming a nightmarish nanny state, operating in at least one of the fifty states, and with a real and functional plan to generalize that to the rest of the country, I'm very unlikely to go along with your plan to hand the government even more control over the economy. You, likewise, are unwilling to loose the corps on the American people untrammeled.
I think we're actually playing this out at the state level right now. Texas is probably the most heavily invested in my side of the argument. I'm not sure who best typifies yours - I think saying "California" is kind of cheating, but Portlandia isn't a state, so... Colorado? Economically still a red state, though.
Not really. Plenty of talent there, of course, but the difference in production values is always striking to me when watching foreign films. Not that they are badly done; it's just that American filmmakers don't operate in an environment where the audience is willing to accept that the characters are in the living room if they are both seated in lounge chairs in an otherwise unadorned room. They want to see the coffee table, the windows, the view of the back yard. So the crew puts in a lot of attention to detail. The more you do it, the better you get. And that's why we're the best at movies, microcode, and pizza delivery.
I don't know about your cable company, but in my area Comcast still operates under a variant of an agreement with the local government that's nearly forty years old and gives it the monopoly over the cable franchise here. So it's not like they're unregulated beasts; it's just regulatory capture. That's a different - and more difficult - problem, because sometimes the solution to regulatory capture is to take the regulating power away from the government. (And yes, sometimes the solution is to accept the regulatory capture and move on. Electrical rates are usually a good example of this.)
Unlike your other pedant, I'm going to point out that the correct term is per se, a Latin expression. If nobody has ever taught them to you explicitly, you might wish to look up a list of common Latin abbreviations and sayings, as they are often subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) misused in English and you're probably screwing up more than one of them.
It might violate his contract, but I'd hardly call it immoral. Besides, how can a contract whose terms are take-it-or-leave-it pretend to be the result of a fair negotiation between the parties?
I've done it when traveling... Gmail took a loooong time to load.
It is possible to oppose the FDA's current mission without simultaneously wanting to abolish safety testing. The FDA is far too wrapped up in making sure things are safe and effective, which sounds like the sort of thing you would want them to do until you look at how the process actually works. The FDA as it is now turns down drugs it shouldn't. (I'm still pissed off about sugammadex.)
mild laws
What law is that? The one that says "it shall never be especially hot nor especially cold over a huge portion of my landmass, so you don't have to spend much to heat or cool your home"?
It defines an official departmental policy. What those officers can do is limited only to what they can get away with. In particular, there's an old saying to the effect that you may beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride. The cops will still arrest you for failure to disperse/move away/follow a lawful police order, and maybe there will be a little asterisk by his name in the next department newsletter and a court-costs settlement to you after you sue him for breaking dept policy. But there sure as hell won't be you, anywhere near where they don't want you taking pictures, taking pictures.
You are talking about the theory. He is talking about the practice. Given that experience has long shown that police in particular have a tendency to smash first and ask questions later, who's the idiot?
Hamas has state sponsorship. That makes a difference. Small, self-financing groups are the ones more likely to depend on one person to hold it all together.
If you're talking about an actual CD-ROM, the format is described in the Yellow Book. CD-R's are in the Orange Book.
For it to be entrapment, the police have to initiate the wrongdoing - e.g., if an undercover cop asks you out of the blue if you'd like to buy drugs, that's entrapment. If you call a known drug dealer and tell the guy on the other end (who happens to be a cop) of the phone you want some pot, that's not entrapment.
Small, not weak. Small engines have to go faster than large engines in order to provide adequate torque to the wheels to maintain highway speed. So you lose some of your efficiency advantage when it's on the road.
I had a Bonneville with a 3800 engine in the 90's that got about 16 mpg in town but 30 on the highway. Too bad its electrical system was possessed. In top gear 85 mph was only 2500 RPM. First car I ever owned that you noticed wind noise more than the engine. Fantastic long-distance car.
It was CAFE, not style.
Hope it works. There are lots of salt domes on the Gulf Coastal Plain.