I wish I could mod you up. I was squished against a window by some fat guy on my way into Dallas on southwest, and of course it had all kinds of storm delays. The guy was sweaty, smelly, and not at all concerned about suffocating me. I could have only wished the guy was as fat as Smith. This guy barely fit in his seat belt with an extra seat belt to extend it.
My colander is very secure thank you. I keep it underneath the stove, and it's not connected to the internet in any fashion. In fact, I don't even plug it in.
I read a while back that in the battle between Patton and Cardenas that Patton was being fired upon, and with cool wits took aim and made an accurate connecting shot effectively ending the gunbattle.
Of course every party thinks the other party is angrier. Truth is when you get to the ends of both parties there is a lot of anger. I would however say that discontentment is more on the democrats side, because conservatism is more about staying the same, or returning to better times whereas liberalism is about correcting grave injustices right?
Who would be more discontent, the person who wants to change things, or the person who wants them to stay the same? I guess it depends on if things are changing or staying the same:).
Either way, these studies are still BS in my opinion, and the fact that the conclusions are only 60 percent is almost nothing if you have any range of inaccuracy (most polls is what, 3 or 4 percent?).
Same socialized healthcare system since 1889, mediocre care after you get old enough you can't afford private healthcare anymore. However I wasn't commenting so much on the healthcare system pro and cons, but that eugenics really can't go anywhere without it, and eugenics really belongs a hundred years behind us. I should have phrased that the turn of last century. It doesn't matter if your black, asian, have a meat face, or are pretty, there's really no reason to categorize anyone based on appearances, or to spend any money studies on it unless your planning on performing some sort of action upon that data.
It's like the stupid story I hear on the news every fricking year at one point or another that tall good looking people are more successful than short ugly people. Who really cares unless we are going to act as a society on that as a grave injustice. There's really limited options on any of these stupid physical characteristic stories as far as actions that can be taken to correct the "problem", and of those options redistribution, abortions, and euthanization have proven to have serious problems.
When the progressives nationalized healthcare system started going up in smoke I assumed eugenics wouldn't stand a chance of coming back, because if you can't force "healthcare" on people then what good is sorting them out by appearance. I'm not sure where this is going unless they truly feel they can get the socialized healthcare (circa germany turn of the century) fully implemented.
Appearance for political stance Head bumps for intelligence eyebrows for demeanor nose shape for whether you should be humanely euthanized.
On my iphone I use the jailbreak to put intelliscreen on my lock screen so I get most of what i need without going anywhere, tethering, skinning it the way I want it, putting an extra row of icons on each page, a flashlight app that actually increases the brightness of the screen (only flashlight app that doesn't SUCK on the iphone), and a few other niceties.
I hacked my wii after my kids destroyed my super mario game, and they almost got my brand new final fantasy game too. Also running my games off USB seems nicer to me in a lot of ways, but I will note that I haven't actually used the hack to play a backed up game yet.
I bought my last rent house for 35K, and spend 15K on it to gut and put in a new kitchen, a new furnace, a new bathroom, and make all the bedrooms nice, as well as put in laminate wood flooring throughout the house.
I agree, they spend millions a year to produce drivel on paper that nobody wants to buy, so it's an obvious business decision that they should sell the drivel that nobody wants to buy on the internet.
I was a sprint customer for over 10 years, I live in Amarillo TX. I switched to ATT for 2 reasons. 1 I wanted an iPhone, 2 Sprint didn't drop calls, they didn't get them to me. I have a small business and they would send people calling me right to voicemail. At first I thought maybe it was my treo or something, but then I noticed I would go to my friend on sprints voicemail without it ringing. I would call back sometimes 3 or 4 times before it rang him. It wasn't that he was out of coverage, they were just not completing the calls.
I was happy with ATT, but now I notice that they are also dropping incoming calls about 1 in 30. It's not nearly as bad as sprint got, but it still pisses me off to no end. I guess this is how providers get around dropped calls, they just never connect the call at all.
You do realize no matter how big the government numbers look, the private sector (businesses, individuals, and churches) usually trumps it in spades right?
Of course just by your statement I know what side of the political fence you are on, because conservatives are much more generous than liberals as a whole, because we feel it is our duty to take care of our family first, our neighbor second, and our government third. The left believe in government taking care of us first, our families second, and our neighbors third, and using a redistributive tax to do so.
I'm not just spouting that, it's a common difference between left and right, and way of thinking, with research from both sides of the isle finding it true. If you don't like it, then perhaps you should rethink your ideology.
Once we get a few decades of accurate water movement records from every significant body of water well surely know enough to say that we are experiencing man made current slowing due to boat propellers, and we may all be dead within 50 years if we don't give another multiple billion dollar payment to the worlds most oppresive regimes. Maybe we can have those talks in Copenhagen too. Yep that would be awesome!
30 people at 75,000 a year for ten years would be around 25 mil with benefits. Of course then there are server costs, publicity costs, office costs, hardware blah blah blah.
Seems reasonable cost to me for the end product.
I don't really agree with creating the product, because that should have been a private company creating the product at the army's direction if at all. Government really shouldn't be in the business of private industry whether it's the army, or whatever.
Your absolutely right. Consider the fee imposed by Realtors in a a real estate transaction. I had a Realtor working for me and we were looking for houses, and I mentioned that I had ruled out looking at most of the houses because I was pretty sure I woudln't like them, and I wanted to make sure he was getting good money from me for the time we spent. He looks at me and says "No, the seller is the one that pays commissions, you don't pay me anything". I asked him if he was joking, because it's the buyer that pays for all of the commissions of both realtors. He went on and on about how the seller was the one that paid all of the commissions out of the sale of the house, and I wouldn't be out of pocket anything.
I looked at him, and said, yea but who is writing the two hundred thousand dollar check at closing that the seller will use the commission? He got all pissy at that, so I found a better Realtor that understood basic economics.
Same thing with tax. People think that it's great to tax those evil corporations. Yet who owns those evil corporations. Who buys that evil products goods at the inflated price due to corporate tax. Who pays the sales tax on those goods.
It's the chump with a pitiful looking 401k account that owns the companies, and a chump with a more pitiful checking account. Usually someone like me.
That's mainly due to the manager, and the region. My town has 4 wal-mart super centers. The ones in the nice part of town are clean, and they don't bother you at the doors. In the worse part of town they are dirty, and they check everything in your cart on the way out. I was installing some register equipment there once, and was talking to the manager, and he said that he had managed two of the other wal-marts, and that at the worse off neighborhood they actually spent almost twice the amount on maintenance and groundskeeping, the people were just more likely to drop things they didn't want on the ground instead of putting them back on the shelf, and more likely to throw bags on the ground next to their car instead of walking back to put them in a trash bin.
The moral majority isn't what I'm afraid of the most concerning my freedom of speech, although they certainly can be a threat. If I'm cussing and talking shit loud with my buddies at a table in a restaurant and someone asks me to keep the cussing down because their kids are in the next booth then I can be a nice guy and comply, or be a dick and possibly get in a fight, but that's not really a freedom of speech issue.
What I'm more fearful is the left, and them classifying anything they don't like as hate speech, and then moving towards criminalizing it.
The thing is, the only speech that really needs protected is vulgar, deviant, hateful, rowdy, and inciteful, and religious. I mean the polite conversation between you and a cashier over the price of eggs isn't what our whole freedom of speech is really intending to protect.
Funny thing about freedom of speech is that everyone seems to want to protect freedom of speech until it offends them, then they throw it right out the window. If the speech wasn't offensive it wouldn't need protected.
I'm in the same boat. I use Fatwallet cash back, but lately bing has been pumping a TON of money into their shopping and cash back. Heck I think even Newegg was 6 percent there for a while. Before I hit checkout on a cart I always look on Fatwallet, SlickDeals, Google Shopping, and Bing Shopping. I love getting those random hundred dollar checks in the mail for crap I was going to buy at a given price anyways.
Umm, yes you can? If you couldn't read your way to common sense you just might just be SOL. You would likely have to learn every single lesson the hard way.
Dave Ramsey: Financial Peace University
Thomas J Stanley Stop Acting Rich:...And Start Living Like A Real Millionaire The Millionaire Next Door The Millionaire Mind
John Miller QBQ!
David Allen Getting Things Done
Stephen R. Covey The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Self made rich people act a certain way, it has very little to do with IQ. Society looks at all millionaires as investment bankers, entertainment stars, or trust fund babies. The opposite is actually true. Most millionaires are just hard working people that set a savings goal, put that savings goal at the top of their priorities, and stick to it every month. You can call this whatever you want, pay yourself first, budgeting, whatever, but that's what they do.
Thomas Stanley has some great research into how millionaires, and deca millionaires become wealthy, including IQ, inheritances, living expenses etc. I've read the "Millionaire Next Door", and the "Millionaire Mind", and I'll be reading "Stop Acting Rich:...And Start Living Like A Real Millionaire" when it drops under 10 bucks.
One of my favorite examples in his books was a millionaire giving his wife a huge pile of stock in the company for a present at the kitchen table. His wife said "thank you, this means a lot to me, it really does" and went back to cutting coupons.
If they are man boobies, it might even work better as a distraction, but the lawsuit for emotional scarring will probably be more than the cup o coffee.
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I wish I could mod you up. I was squished against a window by some fat guy on my way into Dallas on southwest, and of course it had all kinds of storm delays. The guy was sweaty, smelly, and not at all concerned about suffocating me. I could have only wished the guy was as fat as Smith. This guy barely fit in his seat belt with an extra seat belt to extend it.
My colander is very secure thank you. I keep it underneath the stove, and it's not connected to the internet in any fashion. In fact, I don't even plug it in.
I read a while back that in the battle between Patton and Cardenas that Patton was being fired upon, and with cool wits took aim and made an accurate connecting shot effectively ending the gunbattle.
I can't find a good account of the firefight, but here's the synopsis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Cardenas
I was getting really sick of the Heckler and Koch purple rifles. That's progress!
Of course every party thinks the other party is angrier. Truth is when you get to the ends of both parties there is a lot of anger. I would however say that discontentment is more on the democrats side, because conservatism is more about staying the same, or returning to better times whereas liberalism is about correcting grave injustices right?
Who would be more discontent, the person who wants to change things, or the person who wants them to stay the same? I guess it depends on if things are changing or staying the same :).
Either way, these studies are still BS in my opinion, and the fact that the conclusions are only 60 percent is almost nothing if you have any range of inaccuracy (most polls is what, 3 or 4 percent?).
Same socialized healthcare system since 1889, mediocre care after you get old enough you can't afford private healthcare anymore. However I wasn't commenting so much on the healthcare system pro and cons, but that eugenics really can't go anywhere without it, and eugenics really belongs a hundred years behind us. I should have phrased that the turn of last century. It doesn't matter if your black, asian, have a meat face, or are pretty, there's really no reason to categorize anyone based on appearances, or to spend any money studies on it unless your planning on performing some sort of action upon that data.
It's like the stupid story I hear on the news every fricking year at one point or another that tall good looking people are more successful than short ugly people. Who really cares unless we are going to act as a society on that as a grave injustice. There's really limited options on any of these stupid physical characteristic stories as far as actions that can be taken to correct the "problem", and of those options redistribution, abortions, and euthanization have proven to have serious problems.
When the progressives nationalized healthcare system started going up in smoke I assumed eugenics wouldn't stand a chance of coming back, because if you can't force "healthcare" on people then what good is sorting them out by appearance. I'm not sure where this is going unless they truly feel they can get the socialized healthcare (circa germany turn of the century) fully implemented.
Appearance for political stance
Head bumps for intelligence
eyebrows for demeanor
nose shape for whether you should be humanely euthanized.
We've seen this movie before.
NT
On my iphone I use the jailbreak to put intelliscreen on my lock screen so I get most of what i need without going anywhere, tethering, skinning it the way I want it, putting an extra row of icons on each page, a flashlight app that actually increases the brightness of the screen (only flashlight app that doesn't SUCK on the iphone), and a few other niceties.
I hacked my wii after my kids destroyed my super mario game, and they almost got my brand new final fantasy game too. Also running my games off USB seems nicer to me in a lot of ways, but I will note that I haven't actually used the hack to play a backed up game yet.
Of course she will probably file bankruptcy and receive it which will end up costing the riaa a lot more than they will ever see from her.
I bought my last rent house for 35K, and spend 15K on it to gut and put in a new kitchen, a new furnace, a new bathroom, and make all the bedrooms nice, as well as put in laminate wood flooring throughout the house.
Not everyone lives in your town :).
I agree, they spend millions a year to produce drivel on paper that nobody wants to buy, so it's an obvious business decision that they should sell the drivel that nobody wants to buy on the internet.
I was a sprint customer for over 10 years, I live in Amarillo TX. I switched to ATT for 2 reasons. 1 I wanted an iPhone, 2 Sprint didn't drop calls, they didn't get them to me. I have a small business and they would send people calling me right to voicemail. At first I thought maybe it was my treo or something, but then I noticed I would go to my friend on sprints voicemail without it ringing. I would call back sometimes 3 or 4 times before it rang him. It wasn't that he was out of coverage, they were just not completing the calls.
I was happy with ATT, but now I notice that they are also dropping incoming calls about 1 in 30. It's not nearly as bad as sprint got, but it still pisses me off to no end. I guess this is how providers get around dropped calls, they just never connect the call at all.
You do realize no matter how big the government numbers look, the private sector (businesses, individuals, and churches) usually trumps it in spades right?
Of course just by your statement I know what side of the political fence you are on, because conservatives are much more generous than liberals as a whole, because we feel it is our duty to take care of our family first, our neighbor second, and our government third. The left believe in government taking care of us first, our families second, and our neighbors third, and using a redistributive tax to do so.
I'm not just spouting that, it's a common difference between left and right, and way of thinking, with research from both sides of the isle finding it true. If you don't like it, then perhaps you should rethink your ideology.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/opinion/21kristof.html?_r=3
http://blog.fortiusone.com/2009/01/07/dataset-of-the-day-who-is-more-generous-republicans-or-democrats/
http://blog.american.com/?p=9220
Once we get a few decades of accurate water movement records from every significant body of water well surely know enough to say that we are experiencing man made current slowing due to boat propellers, and we may all be dead within 50 years if we don't give another multiple billion dollar payment to the worlds most oppresive regimes. Maybe we can have those talks in Copenhagen too. Yep that would be awesome!
30 people at 75,000 a year for ten years would be around 25 mil with benefits.
Of course then there are server costs, publicity costs, office costs, hardware blah blah blah.
Seems reasonable cost to me for the end product.
I don't really agree with creating the product, because that should have been a private company creating the product at the army's direction if at all. Government really shouldn't be in the business of private industry whether it's the army, or whatever.
John Kerry and Charlie Rangel.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/31/kerry.mccain/index.html
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/26/video-rangel-says-men-join-the-army-only-if-they-cant-have-a-decent-career/
http://sayanythingblog.com/images/recruits_by_quintile.gif
C'mon man, 2 minutes on google.
Your absolutely right. Consider the fee imposed by Realtors in a a real estate transaction. I had a Realtor working for me and we were looking for houses, and I mentioned that I had ruled out looking at most of the houses because I was pretty sure I woudln't like them, and I wanted to make sure he was getting good money from me for the time we spent. He looks at me and says "No, the seller is the one that pays commissions, you don't pay me anything". I asked him if he was joking, because it's the buyer that pays for all of the commissions of both realtors. He went on and on about how the seller was the one that paid all of the commissions out of the sale of the house, and I wouldn't be out of pocket anything.
I looked at him, and said, yea but who is writing the two hundred thousand dollar check at closing that the seller will use the commission? He got all pissy at that, so I found a better Realtor that understood basic economics.
Same thing with tax. People think that it's great to tax those evil corporations. Yet who owns those evil corporations. Who buys that evil products goods at the inflated price due to corporate tax. Who pays the sales tax on those goods.
It's the chump with a pitiful looking 401k account that owns the companies, and a chump with a more pitiful checking account.
Usually someone like me.
That's mainly due to the manager, and the region. My town has 4 wal-mart super centers. The ones in the nice part of town are clean, and they don't bother you at the doors. In the worse part of town they are dirty, and they check everything in your cart on the way out. I was installing some register equipment there once, and was talking to the manager, and he said that he had managed two of the other wal-marts, and that at the worse off neighborhood they actually spent almost twice the amount on maintenance and groundskeeping, the people were just more likely to drop things they didn't want on the ground instead of putting them back on the shelf, and more likely to throw bags on the ground next to their car instead of walking back to put them in a trash bin.
The moral majority isn't what I'm afraid of the most concerning my freedom of speech, although they certainly can be a threat. If I'm cussing and talking shit loud with my buddies at a table in a restaurant and someone asks me to keep the cussing down because their kids are in the next booth then I can be a nice guy and comply, or be a dick and possibly get in a fight, but that's not really a freedom of speech issue.
What I'm more fearful is the left, and them classifying anything they don't like as hate speech, and then moving towards criminalizing it.
The thing is, the only speech that really needs protected is vulgar, deviant, hateful, rowdy, and inciteful, and religious. I mean the polite conversation between you and a cashier over the price of eggs isn't what our whole freedom of speech is really intending to protect.
Funny thing about freedom of speech is that everyone seems to want to protect freedom of speech until it offends them, then they throw it right out the window. If the speech wasn't offensive it wouldn't need protected.
I'm in the same boat. I use Fatwallet cash back, but lately bing has been pumping a TON of money into their shopping and cash back. Heck I think even Newegg was 6 percent there for a while. Before I hit checkout on a cart I always look on Fatwallet, SlickDeals, Google Shopping, and Bing Shopping. I love getting those random hundred dollar checks in the mail for crap I was going to buy at a given price anyways.
Please feel free to put your coal fired windmill turbine nuclear waste generating power plant in my back yard.
I'll just take the money you gave me for my backyard and buy a nicer place down the road.
My neighbors sure will be pissed though.
Umm, yes you can? If you couldn't read your way to common sense you just might just be SOL. You would likely have to learn every single lesson the hard way.
Dave Ramsey:
Financial Peace University
Thomas J Stanley ...And Start Living Like A Real Millionaire
Stop Acting Rich:
The Millionaire Next Door
The Millionaire Mind
John Miller
QBQ!
David Allen
Getting Things Done
Stephen R. Covey
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
The One Minute Manager
M.D. Spencer Johnson
There's the start to your reading list.
Self made rich people act a certain way, it has very little to do with IQ. Society looks at all millionaires as investment bankers, entertainment stars, or trust fund babies. The opposite is actually true. Most millionaires are just hard working people that set a savings goal, put that savings goal at the top of their priorities, and stick to it every month. You can call this whatever you want, pay yourself first, budgeting, whatever, but that's what they do.
Thomas Stanley has some great research into how millionaires, and deca millionaires become wealthy, including IQ, inheritances, living expenses etc. I've read the "Millionaire Next Door", and the "Millionaire Mind", and I'll be reading "Stop Acting Rich: ...And Start Living Like A Real Millionaire" when it drops under 10 bucks.
One of my favorite examples in his books was a millionaire giving his wife a huge pile of stock in the company for a present at the kitchen table. His wife said "thank you, this means a lot to me, it really does" and went back to cutting coupons.
Low tech solution. Show em yer boobies.
If they are man boobies, it might even work better as a distraction, but the lawsuit for emotional scarring will probably be more than the cup o coffee.