if the managers had listened to the engineers and not had an attack of press-on-itis...
Well, NASA had a schedule to keep thanks in no small part to that old cowboy fool Reagan. Reagan wanted to keep up a schedule of shuttle launches to show that Americans had bigger dicks than Russians. In the end, look what happened: Feynman was pilloried for predicting a failure rate of 1/100 but it turns out that even he was too conservative, and the Russians really did have something that was cheaper and safer.
The EU and the EC are getting a rep for disagreeing with US counterparts.
They're getting a rep for doing their jobs, in other words. The same cannot be said for their U.S. counterparts who have assumed the role of the fox guarding the hen house.
Seriously. My wife and I finally gave up on the US. It's not possible to fix the problems. So we took our money and moved elsewhere.
Amen, brother. It's nice when you figure out that it's not you, it's them, eh?
The problems are as obvious as the solutions, which will never be implemented.
Yup. Before I left, my progressive friends told me I needed to "stay and fight." Piffle. Fat lot of good that did. America has been the world's laughingstock for a long time. Sarah Palin? Dan Quayle? Michelle Bachmann? Glenn Beck? I could go on, but it would be too painful. The empire is in decline, as all empires must eventually be.
Bottom line: America is quickly turning into a Third World nation. Well, if that's what my former countrymen want, if they're that determined to drive the country off of a cliff, fine, but I won't be sitting in the passenger seat.
Watching news from the states is like watching the band play on the Titanic.
When I watch the health care debate and hear about "death panels" (other than the ones run by the for-profit private insurers) and how supposedly awful the health care is in the rest of the world, I have to laugh to keep from crying.
A civilized nation should provide free education to the highest level each person wishes to attain, because that's part of believing that the nation's most most important resource is its people.
If any UK citizens or other Europeans would care to join me, I'll show you the *real* United States.
You mean the dying small town shitholes where there are no jobs to be had? Said towns that are inhabited by poor rednecks who vote Republican despite living in substandard conditions with little to no access to health care? Places where people don't believe in evolution, think the Earth is 6,000 years old and have signs up that say "God Hates Fags" and "AIDS Cures Homosexuality"? Yeah, that's the real United States for you.
The real United States is a giant expanse of mostly grass with lots of cows, and just a few oasses of civilization (cities) dotting the landscape.
In other words, outside of the oases of civilization and sanity, it largely resembles a Third World country? Yeah, that's pretty accurate.
Standard rabidly anti-free market/pro unregulated market behavior we see everywhere these days.
All of those problems are because of massive over-regulation of the pharmaceutical industry. If we just repeal the Pure Food and Drug Act and let the market take care of itself, all will be well.
Hardest hit are regions in the Deep South, along the Mississippi River, in Appalachia and also the southern part of the Midwest reaching into Texas. The culprits -- largely preventable with better diet and access to medical services -- are diabetes, cancers and heart disease caused by smoking, high blood pressure and obesity.
And those are the areas of the country that most consistently vote Republican, i.e., against their own best interests. But hey, at least dem fags ain't gunna git mur-reed!
Then can you explain to me why the violent crime rate in Maricopa County has gone up, not down, when in the rest of the state, it has gone down, not up. Also, the MCSO response times are up, crime clearance rates are down, etc.
In other words, with apologies to Al Gore, everything that should be down is up, and everything that should be up is down.
Hint: It isn't because "them libs" are for lax border enforcement.
It's because the business lobby (i.e., huge corporations) wants a class of what amounts to slave labour. So the next time you hear some Republican bellyaching on Fox News about illegal immigration, it would be best to suggest that he take a good, hard look in the mirror.
America could solve its illegal immigration problem tomorrow. How? Fine the hell out of the businesses that hire illegals. I believe the maximum fine is something like $10,000 per worker per day. If a few companies got slapped with those fines, I guarantee you all businesses would very quickly get religion about asking for "tarjeta azul." 'Course, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the other usual suspects would say that's "excessive governmental interference in free enterprise."
Oh, and Arpaio is a petty, vindictive asshole. When he was a DEA agent, he was known as "Nickel Bag Joe" for all of his small-time, chickenshit busts.
Yes, it is true that sheriffs get sued all the time, but Arpaio gets sued a lot more than most. I remember reading that Maricopa County has the highest municipal insurance premiums in the country. That alone should tell you that something is seriously out of whack. Still, that won't stop the mouthbreathing rednecks from voting for his stupid ass because Rush told them to do so.
Right, and Mother Theresa campaigned against it. Of course, she was happy that her "good friend" Princess Di was able to get out of her "unhappy" marriage.
Yet another example of the Catholic Church affording the rich special privileges while requiring the rest of us to live up to an impossibly high standard of conduct.
The RIAA's campaign of litigation terrorism is exactly why. Also, the RIAA should be entitled to actual damages only. In other words, they should be required to prove up exactly how many sales were lost to file sharing.
As such, he believes that Joseph Smith, a convicted fraudster, found a cache of gold plates that were supposedly left there by a tribe of Israelites (Nephites) who came to America. Said convicted fraudster allegedly dug up said gold plates and a pair of sacred spectacles that allowed him to read said plates. The story gleaned from this became the Book of Mormon, a tome full of tales that are utterly absurd and have no basis in any mainstream science.
Given that Orrin Hatch believes this crap, it's only a short hop to believing that Canada is as bad as China and Russia with respect to copyright infringement.
Actually, in online poker, you have access to all the cards you ever played. You can look at your last 10,000 hands and see if the cards you get have any statistical anomalies. Try doing that at a bricks-and-mortar casino.
You do know that every bricks-and-mortar casino has literally thousands of surveillance cameras, right? And that said cameras record every transaction made, right?
. . . the $50,000-a-year 'porn cops' also keep Facebook safe for corporate advertisers.
They wouldn't give a ripshit otherwise. It's sorta like how eBay doesn't give a ripshit about scammers, but woe betide you if you have the temerity to try and resell an authentic Burberry scarf or somesuch.
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if the managers had listened to the engineers and not had an attack of press-on-itis...
Well, NASA had a schedule to keep thanks in no small part to that old cowboy fool Reagan. Reagan wanted to keep up a schedule of shuttle launches to show that Americans had bigger dicks than Russians. In the end, look what happened: Feynman was pilloried for predicting a failure rate of 1/100 but it turns out that even he was too conservative, and the Russians really did have something that was cheaper and safer.
Why not let the restaurant industry regulate itself and let the market decide? Sure worked great when we tried it with the banks, didn't it?
The EU and the EC are getting a rep for disagreeing with US counterparts.
They're getting a rep for doing their jobs, in other words. The same cannot be said for their U.S. counterparts who have assumed the role of the fox guarding the hen house.
What need do you have of smart, capable people?
Further proof of America's continuing decline towards Third World status.
Mod me to hell, I don't care.
Seriously. My wife and I finally gave up on the US. It's not possible to fix the problems. So we took our money and moved elsewhere.
Amen, brother. It's nice when you figure out that it's not you, it's them, eh?
The problems are as obvious as the solutions, which will never be implemented.
Yup. Before I left, my progressive friends told me I needed to "stay and fight." Piffle. Fat lot of good that did. America has been the world's laughingstock for a long time. Sarah Palin? Dan Quayle? Michelle Bachmann? Glenn Beck? I could go on, but it would be too painful. The empire is in decline, as all empires must eventually be.
Bottom line: America is quickly turning into a Third World nation. Well, if that's what my former countrymen want, if they're that determined to drive the country off of a cliff, fine, but I won't be sitting in the passenger seat.
Watching news from the states is like watching the band play on the Titanic.
When I watch the health care debate and hear about "death panels" (other than the ones run by the for-profit private insurers) and how supposedly awful the health care is in the rest of the world, I have to laugh to keep from crying.
A civilized nation should provide free education to the highest level each person wishes to attain, because that's part of believing that the nation's most most important resource is its people.
Who says the U.S. is a civilized nation?
And in a related story, the sun rose this morning, in the East specifically.
I think most of the hijackers had entered the US legally, too.
They all had. In fact, the American immigration authorities issued student visas to the hijackers AFTER 9/11!
If any UK citizens or other Europeans would care to join me, I'll show you the *real* United States.
You mean the dying small town shitholes where there are no jobs to be had? Said towns that are inhabited by poor rednecks who vote Republican despite living in substandard conditions with little to no access to health care? Places where people don't believe in evolution, think the Earth is 6,000 years old and have signs up that say "God Hates Fags" and "AIDS Cures Homosexuality"? Yeah, that's the real United States for you.
The real United States is a giant expanse of mostly grass with lots of cows, and just a few oasses of civilization (cities) dotting the landscape.
In other words, outside of the oases of civilization and sanity, it largely resembles a Third World country? Yeah, that's pretty accurate.
Standard rabidly anti-free market/pro unregulated market behavior we see everywhere these days.
All of those problems are because of massive over-regulation of the pharmaceutical industry. If we just repeal the Pure Food and Drug Act and let the market take care of itself, all will be well.
Losertarian logic at its best.
Now pass me the crack pipe again.
Thank you for pointing this stuff out. The amount of legal illiteracy and shithouse lawyering on /. never ceases to amaze me.
You fail. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply at the border, period, at least as far as searches are concerned.
As one defence lawyer I know put it, "you're fish in a barrel at the border."
Korean peaceful people! Japanese negative three!
Hardest hit are regions in the Deep South, along the Mississippi River, in Appalachia and also the southern part of the Midwest reaching into Texas. The culprits -- largely preventable with better diet and access to medical services -- are diabetes, cancers and heart disease caused by smoking, high blood pressure and obesity.
And those are the areas of the country that most consistently vote Republican, i.e., against their own best interests. But hey, at least dem fags ain't gunna git mur-reed!
Then can you explain to me why the violent crime rate in Maricopa County has gone up, not down, when in the rest of the state, it has gone down, not up. Also, the MCSO response times are up, crime clearance rates are down, etc.
In other words, with apologies to Al Gore, everything that should be down is up, and everything that should be up is down.
Linkie.
But don't let facts get in the way of Lush Limbaugh and Fixed News telling you what to think.
Hint: It isn't because "them libs" are for lax border enforcement.
It's because the business lobby (i.e., huge corporations) wants a class of what amounts to slave labour. So the next time you hear some Republican bellyaching on Fox News about illegal immigration, it would be best to suggest that he take a good, hard look in the mirror.
America could solve its illegal immigration problem tomorrow. How? Fine the hell out of the businesses that hire illegals. I believe the maximum fine is something like $10,000 per worker per day. If a few companies got slapped with those fines, I guarantee you all businesses would very quickly get religion about asking for "tarjeta azul." 'Course, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the other usual suspects would say that's "excessive governmental interference in free enterprise."
Oh, and Arpaio is a petty, vindictive asshole. When he was a DEA agent, he was known as "Nickel Bag Joe" for all of his small-time, chickenshit busts.
Yes, it is true that sheriffs get sued all the time, but Arpaio gets sued a lot more than most. I remember reading that Maricopa County has the highest municipal insurance premiums in the country. That alone should tell you that something is seriously out of whack. Still, that won't stop the mouthbreathing rednecks from voting for his stupid ass because Rush told them to do so.
her FAVORITE TREAT - Chocolate!
You do know that the theobromine in chocolate is neurotoxic and cardiotoxic to dogs, don't you?
A dog knows 200 words? A two-year-old child only knows two: "no!" and "mine!"
Someone needs to show their execs Conary, YUM, or apt-get...
Or emerge or port.
Never RPM.
divorce was only introduced in the 90's
Right, and Mother Theresa campaigned against it. Of course, she was happy that her "good friend" Princess Di was able to get out of her "unhappy" marriage.
Yet another example of the Catholic Church affording the rich special privileges while requiring the rest of us to live up to an impossibly high standard of conduct.
The RIAA's campaign of litigation terrorism is exactly why. Also, the RIAA should be entitled to actual damages only. In other words, they should be required to prove up exactly how many sales were lost to file sharing.
So much for the Celtic Tiger, eh?
As such, he believes that Joseph Smith, a convicted fraudster, found a cache of gold plates that were supposedly left there by a tribe of Israelites (Nephites) who came to America. Said convicted fraudster allegedly dug up said gold plates and a pair of sacred spectacles that allowed him to read said plates. The story gleaned from this became the Book of Mormon, a tome full of tales that are utterly absurd and have no basis in any mainstream science.
Given that Orrin Hatch believes this crap, it's only a short hop to believing that Canada is as bad as China and Russia with respect to copyright infringement.
Actually, in online poker, you have access to all the cards you ever played. You can look at your last 10,000 hands and see if the cards you get have any statistical anomalies. Try doing that at a bricks-and-mortar casino.
You do know that every bricks-and-mortar casino has literally thousands of surveillance cameras, right? And that said cameras record every transaction made, right?
. . . the $50,000-a-year 'porn cops' also keep Facebook safe for corporate advertisers.
They wouldn't give a ripshit otherwise. It's sorta like how eBay doesn't give a ripshit about scammers, but woe betide you if you have the temerity to try and resell an authentic Burberry scarf or somesuch.