"Republicans control both houses. Republican president (Bush). Economy tanking. Democrats fault because...well, it's still their fault (I mean, just because you control both houses and the white house doesn't mean it is your fault)."
I deal with these accusations on almost a daily basis because I also hang around a political forum. I can give you some of the reasons the republican sympathizers give.
1. Clinton set up the dot.bomb which started the economy plumiting.
2. Clinton stiffled the military and intelligence which helped cause the events of 9/11 that further soured the economy.
3. And it is still the democrats fault because they resisted the GOP and Dubya's tax cut (which is somehow garrenteed to work) and only let a "crippled" amount pass (so if the economy doesn't recover, it is still the democrats fault).
4. The economy is not in a recession because large corporations have not reported losses for 3 straight quarters yet. (Thanks to downsizing, corporate welfare, and creative accounting, I surmise.) So it must be the fault of the people who are not spending enough, in other words, the poor and the lower part of the middle class, who have a tendency to vote for democrats.
For the record, I don't like either party. Almost all of them at the federal level and most of the ones at state level are a bunch of self serving scumbags. So the armchair patriots can properly stuff their "commie!" cries up their asses, where shit belongs.
You are lucky. I live in a city here in the USA and I have the cheapest broadband access in town. 46 USians a month for 256/128kbit cable (that in ADSL is $68 a month). I found out from one of the local government agencies that their 256 fractional T1 is costing them around $480 a month from the local baby bell.
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150 Mbit/s DSL.
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On that note, now that I use cable modem based internet access, I am thinking of dropping my $31 a month "$22 a month" basic phone line that I almost never use for a $19.99 a month stripped down cell phone plan (400 minutes).
Ok, this is something that is bothering me like nails on a chalkboard. I keep seeing people griping that in order to use electrolysis, you need electricity. But that is not what is ticking me off. You miss the most frickin obvious solution and say they have to burn fossil fuels. Hello! This can easily be the fix for the problem on why wind and solar power are not viable in most areas! Use the solar or wind power to extract the hydrogen from water, and then store the hydrogen in a way that it is used like a buffer. Combine at a steady averaged rate via fuel cells so that despite that it is cloudy or there is no wind, your power plant is still producing electricity. They even sell fuel cell kits with built in solar cells!
How many people can miss the completely obvious?
Hey, on a power plant scale, you may even be able to use a thermal turbine exploiting a possible temperature difference and overall flow between the byproduct water and the water being split to help drive the electolysis.
Something tells me there is going to be a rush of new Darwin Award contenders once methanol fuel cells become popular. Only a few drops injested blind and kill.
"Reasonable stuff? Like the porn movies shown on public TV. Or the free housing and dole for illegal immigrants.
Yep, lots of "reasonable" stuff. I'm glad you love the welfare state of Sweden."
Cool! Beats a facist police state anyday. *marks Sweden as a place to go when he leaves the US.* Well, when I can afford it...
Oops, did I imply that the US was anything other than a Freedom Loving Democrasy (TM) ? *Does 30 hail Bushes and prays to the almighty dollar as penance to appease the armchair patriots and the corporate gods.*
Hypocritical lobbying groups are not unknown in our government. They are great for sabotaging and undermining grassroots efforts. I can't think of any specific examples at the moment but "evironmental protection" interest groups funded by smokestack and toxic waste industry and "consumer protection" interest groups funded by megacorporations and marketing firms come to mind.
That is the way it is taught to us. However, in reality the Democrats support the interests of lawyers and media conglomerates while the Republicans support the interests of industry. Very few actually fight for the rights of the people that vote for them, and usually only around re-election time.
Rumor has it that it is because there are almost always only 2 contenders likely to win the election and voting for anything else other than a Democrat or a Republican is usually a throw away vote. Both groups are almost wholey owned by the formentioned interests; so, we basically get stuck voting between a pot and a kettle.
"The day that linux worms run rampant is the day it becomes a successful desktop."
Then what the hell am I running on this machine? OS/2? It sure the hell isn't windows. Seems like its pretty successful for me. Oh, you mean whenever, ifever, it overcomes windows entrenchment in the personal computer market.
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" -Patrick Henry
Oh, but this is the modern day United States; we're all supposed to be corporate butt boys and prostitute our lives as wage slaves. All hail the almighty dollar!...for nothing is more important!
Just apply for the idea of storing, dividing, and combining information storage structures inside of complex bio-organic systems for the purpose of system repair and/or replicating bio-organic systems of the same type. That patent is mine. Don't like it? Tough shit.
If I remember correctly, Canada has recently had to raise the level of qualifications of who can apply for citizenship there. I wonder if it has to do with a rising tide of immigrants from the states?
This is hadron collision, right? Hadrons are protons and neutrons, right? Use protons (which are positively charged) and hold it in a magnetic bottle. Unless for some reason collapsed matter looses its electromagnetic properties, it should work.
Matter is mostly empty space, so much so, that every time you touch something, there is a small amount of overlap before the electromagnetic repulsion of the electron shells is enough to stop it. If they are dealing with what I think they are (no I haven't RTFA yet), these are probably micro black holes that are subatomic in size.
Even though the mass has colapsed, the black hole still has the mass of its creation (from the hadron collision). Think of it this way, if the sun suddenly collapsed in on itself and became a black hole (It doesn't have enough mass to do it itself, but lets just say.), the earth and all the other planets would still orbit it. They would not spontainiously be drawn to it more, for the sun, despite its change of state, still has the same mass.
Taking these two points, the gravity effect on the surrounding matter is not enough to draw it into the black hole because gravity has very little effect on the subatomic level. So, the black hole would have to practically wander into other particles in order to gain mass. Except matter is mostly empty space, so that it is unlikely. Even if it does gain mass by colliding with another subatomic particle, the chances of it not disapainting before it smacks into another are very slim. I am not exact on the theories, but I think the probability is a technicality kind of like the one where it is technically possible to run through a wall without disturbing the wall (it is how diodes work).
You may have a point if it does not dissapate, but even then, it is not as bad as you think.
I've got Jury duty coming up. Too bad it is in a completely different state.
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I remember something about this I saw a few years ago. While the damage from EMP is permanent, some of the other EM style weapons -specifically the ones one could make at home- would only take down electronics for a few minutes (the car battery and radioshack parts type). They mentioned military HERF guns, but didn't say if the damage from those was permanent.
Sorry to piss on your little parrade, but after income, sales, property, luxery, and the slew of other taxes here in the U.S., the average middle class American spends about 55% of their income in taxes.
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Yeah, it looks almost exactly like Norton's dos AV client.
"Republicans control both houses. Republican president (Bush). Economy tanking. Democrats fault because...well, it's still their fault (I mean, just because you control both houses and the white house doesn't mean it is your fault)."
I deal with these accusations on almost a daily basis because I also hang around a political forum. I can give you some of the reasons the republican sympathizers give.
1. Clinton set up the dot.bomb which started the economy plumiting.
2. Clinton stiffled the military and intelligence which helped cause the events of 9/11 that further soured the economy.
3. And it is still the democrats fault because they resisted the GOP and Dubya's tax cut (which is somehow garrenteed to work) and only let a "crippled" amount pass (so if the economy doesn't recover, it is still the democrats fault).
4. The economy is not in a recession because large corporations have not reported losses for 3 straight quarters yet. (Thanks to downsizing, corporate welfare, and creative accounting, I surmise.) So it must be the fault of the people who are not spending enough, in other words, the poor and the lower part of the middle class, who have a tendency to vote for democrats.
For the record, I don't like either party. Almost all of them at the federal level and most of the ones at state level are a bunch of self serving scumbags. So the armchair patriots can properly stuff their "commie!" cries up their asses, where shit belongs.
You are lucky. I live in a city here in the USA and I have the cheapest broadband access in town. 46 USians a month for 256/128kbit cable (that in ADSL is $68 a month). I found out from one of the local government agencies that their 256 fractional T1 is costing them around $480 a month from the local baby bell.
On that note, now that I use cable modem based internet access, I am thinking of dropping my $31 a month "$22 a month" basic phone line that I almost never use for a $19.99 a month stripped down cell phone plan (400 minutes).
Ok, this is something that is bothering me like nails on a chalkboard. I keep seeing people griping that in order to use electrolysis, you need electricity. But that is not what is ticking me off. You miss the most frickin obvious solution and say they have to burn fossil fuels. Hello! This can easily be the fix for the problem on why wind and solar power are not viable in most areas! Use the solar or wind power to extract the hydrogen from water, and then store the hydrogen in a way that it is used like a buffer. Combine at a steady averaged rate via fuel cells so that despite that it is cloudy or there is no wind, your power plant is still producing electricity. They even sell fuel cell kits with built in solar cells!
How many people can miss the completely obvious?
Hey, on a power plant scale, you may even be able to use a thermal turbine exploiting a possible temperature difference and overall flow between the byproduct water and the water being split to help drive the electolysis.
Something tells me there is going to be a rush of new Darwin Award contenders once methanol fuel cells become popular. Only a few drops injested blind and kill.
"Reasonable stuff?
Like the porn movies shown on public TV. Or the free housing and dole for illegal immigrants.
Yep, lots of "reasonable" stuff. I'm glad you love the welfare state of Sweden."
Cool! Beats a facist police state anyday. *marks Sweden as a place to go when he leaves the US.*
Well, when I can afford it...
Oops, did I imply that the US was anything other than a Freedom Loving Democrasy (TM) ? *Does 30 hail Bushes and prays to the almighty dollar as penance to appease the armchair patriots and the corporate gods.*
Hypocritical lobbying groups are not unknown in our government. They are great for sabotaging and undermining grassroots efforts. I can't think of any specific examples at the moment but "evironmental protection" interest groups funded by smokestack and toxic waste industry and "consumer protection" interest groups funded by megacorporations and marketing firms come to mind.
That is the way it is taught to us. However, in reality the Democrats support the interests of lawyers and media conglomerates while the Republicans support the interests of industry. Very few actually fight for the rights of the people that vote for them, and usually only around re-election time.
Rumor has it that it is because there are almost always only 2 contenders likely to win the election and voting for anything else other than a Democrat or a Republican is usually a throw away vote. Both groups are almost wholey owned by the formentioned interests; so, we basically get stuck voting between a pot and a kettle.
"The day that linux worms run rampant is the day it becomes a successful desktop."
Then what the hell am I running on this machine? OS/2? It sure the hell isn't windows. Seems like its pretty successful for me. Oh, you mean whenever, ifever, it overcomes windows entrenchment in the personal computer market.
...die than live in bondage.
...for nothing is more important!
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" -Patrick Henry
Oh, but this is the modern day United States; we're all supposed to be corporate butt boys and prostitute our lives as wage slaves. All hail the almighty dollar!
..err...just DON'T apply...
Its monday morning and I have yet to have my coffee. Hey, wait, there is another patent! Coffee on monday morning! I'll get right on it.
Just apply for the idea of storing, dividing, and combining information storage structures inside of complex bio-organic systems for the purpose of system repair and/or replicating bio-organic systems of the same type. That patent is mine. Don't like it? Tough shit.
Oh, and I believe you owe me royalties.
If I remember correctly, Canada has recently had to raise the level of qualifications of who can apply for citizenship there. I wonder if it has to do with a rising tide of immigrants from the states?
For those who don't know:
It is generally not a good idea to purchace computer parts made in China during the Chinesse new year.
Speaking of the eBay lawsuit. They lost the suit yesterday. $35 million awarded. Of course, they are appealing though.
/. editors will allow it to be submitted.
Side note: apparently the news has to age a good 2 or 3 days before
This is hadron collision, right? Hadrons are protons and neutrons, right? Use protons (which are positively charged) and hold it in a magnetic bottle. Unless for some reason collapsed matter looses its electromagnetic properties, it should work.
Matter is mostly empty space, so much so, that every time you touch something, there is a small amount of overlap before the electromagnetic repulsion of the electron shells is enough to stop it. If they are dealing with what I think they are (no I haven't RTFA yet), these are probably micro black holes that are subatomic in size.
Even though the mass has colapsed, the black hole still has the mass of its creation (from the hadron collision). Think of it this way, if the sun suddenly collapsed in on itself and became a black hole (It doesn't have enough mass to do it itself, but lets just say.), the earth and all the other planets would still orbit it. They would not spontainiously be drawn to it more, for the sun, despite its change of state, still has the same mass.
Taking these two points, the gravity effect on the surrounding matter is not enough to draw it into the black hole because gravity has very little effect on the subatomic level. So, the black hole would have to practically wander into other particles in order to gain mass. Except matter is mostly empty space, so that it is unlikely. Even if it does gain mass by colliding with another subatomic particle, the chances of it not disapainting before it smacks into another are very slim. I am not exact on the theories, but I think the probability is a technicality kind of like the one where it is technically possible to run through a wall without disturbing the wall (it is how diodes work).
You may have a point if it does not dissapate, but even then, it is not as bad as you think.
I don't know any names, but something tells me that many of them will have law degrees.
^It has a tendancy to make a great many things legal or illegal that would not be otherwise.
I've got Jury duty coming up. Too bad it is in a completely different state.
I remember something about this I saw a few years ago. While the damage from EMP is permanent, some of the other EM style weapons -specifically the ones one could make at home- would only take down electronics for a few minutes (the car battery and radioshack parts type). They mentioned military HERF guns, but didn't say if the damage from those was permanent.
Sorry to piss on your little parrade, but after income, sales, property, luxery, and the slew of other taxes here in the U.S., the average middle class American spends about 55% of their income in taxes.
(Funny, why does my AC option keep disappearing?)
..."entrepreneurs, law scholars, economists and politicians"...
...respectively of course.
Read as extreamely wealthy C?O's, their lawers, lobbyists, and the polititions they "donated money to."
Go to Open Secrets and look up the offending polly wanna dollar politition's political donations.