You are incorrectly assuming that, in the absence of Clear Channel stations, some other broadcaster would not choose to use those same frequencies.
Another way to look at is that Clear Channel owns all the high-power stations in the area, leaving the little guys no room but to broadcast on low-power frequencies.
Having a larger government does not necessarily mean having a more prepared government - it generally means having more layers of bureaucracy and more people who's jobs are not directly tied to their performance.
The metal in a penny is already worth more than a penny. Congress solved this dilemma by making it illegal to melt down pennies to resell the metal.
There's a plan to move all cash transactions to 5 cents by making them all round up or down appropriately, while having all electronic transactions remain accurate to the penny. But, as you can guess, certain members of Congress who are more attached to sentimental ways vowed to save the American penny, and so they instead outlawed melting them down as a I mentioned above.
There are plenty of hard-core LEGO enthusiasts who only use official LEGO-brand rubber bands. There are enough sets that have come with a rubber band, various pieces of string, etc., to make that possible. Back when I bought sets and resold them as parts in the late 90s, the rubber bands and string and such were hot sellers.
The pen, though.... I can't think of any set that has come with a pen. Maybe use one from LEGOLAND?
4M Plus for the win! Awesome printer. With a JetDirect card all these printers integrate easily into a modern network. (Just put the printer near the wireless router and use one of the hard wire ports.)
Gorillas are pre-sapient at best. Close, but not there. Though if we were to try to splice some human genes in and/or breed to create a second sapient species, I would fully expect those offspring to at some point be granted the full rights of society.
Your choice of clothing offends me. I demand you wear a burka immediately. (I don't care if you're male or female.)
Your voting habits offend me. I demand you vote for the Green or Libertarian candidate.
Your existence offends me. I demand you kill yourself at this moment so that I am no longer offended.
Since you know these things offend me, any further attempts to show your body in public, vote for a major-party candidate, or live are clearly designed to intentionally offend me. Therefore under your own reasoning they must be stopped.
Do you really think those on the left would allow the Department of Education to be re-chartered under the premise of national defense?
Likewise, do you really think those on the right, who want to kill the Department of Education, would want it to receive new justification under the premise of national defense?
While I think that's the most-likely constitutional justification for having Federal oversight into local schools, this isn't the time that anything with that motivation will occur.
Sapience. If you are sentient you get all the rights of any free person.
The next level to me is the ability to feel pain. If a species can feel pain, we shouldn't necessarily and cruelly afflict it. That doesn't mean I won't breed or euthanize (mmm steak), but I want it done "humanely" (whatever that means).
Below that it's all a blur. I don't think insects or crustaceans able to feel pain, so I treat them just like I do plants - killable when I feel like it. (Not that I don't get upset if a plant I've cultivated dies, but that's because I've investing time in it.)
If they program a great software for sorting and handling animals in animal shelters, they've effectively made it that anyone who uses the software cannot euthanize animals. Not a bad move, though it could open a whole can of worms.
Fortunately PETA is rabidly against canning worms, so that problem will solve itself!
I don't know where you got the "50,000 miles worth of gasoline" number, or how to convert that to energy when we're specifically talking about cars with a variety of gas-to-mileage ratios. But let's assume that you meant "the equivalent of 2,000 gallons of gas" required to manufacture a typical new car.
Over the 300,000 mile life you claim, a car with 15.8 mpg will use 18,987 gallons. A car with 24.9 mpg will use 12,048 gallons. So the average new car bought with the program, after adding the "2,000" gallon construction cost, still saves almost 5000 gallons of gas over the vehicle life. (Yes, assuming all the cars were gasoline. More savings for diesels.)
To me the "one way or another" implied he was specifically including DVRs, both home made and vendor-bought. It wasn't that clear at all.
And 90% is certainly wrong if he meant general-purpose computers. My laptop has been hooked up to my TV exactly twice in 7 years. Why would I bother when my Dish DVR grabs most everything I want to watch?
For most of us geeks, it's inferior to the setups we already have... But for my mom, for example, this would be great. With GoogleTV, she can view all the LOLcats she wants from the comfort of her living room sofa.
Meanwhile, Microsoft wonders why they bothered to buy WebTV in 1997 and then clearly not capitalize on it...
We've also confirmed with Xerox that they securely wipe all units returned from lease before releasing or selling them so it's not an issue for us.
They securely wipe? So you let a few guys from the local service company load it on a truck and take it away, hoping that it's kept securely until it gets back to Xerox's factory, makes it through their receiving queue, and gets an inter-lease refurb?
Seems like, if you really cared, you'd rather have it wiped before it leaves your sight.
So said someone who hasn't seen both options in person.
Do I want to live my last twenty years with diving bell syndrome? No. But I'd rather live them bad eyesight and an inability to walk than live them knowing my mental performance was degraded.
The catch-phrase slogan is five-a-day for fruits and veggies, so if you make sure to get some vegetables with your evening meal you're probably "ok".
We just joined a CSA (community supported agriculture). While I like the idea of eating food produced locally, organically, in season, I really like the concept of being given large batches of food and having to cook with it. In one session it's broken us out of our usual dining ruts; over the past week we've had several vegetables I'd never eaten before...
First ever beet, in a beet and carrot slaw (shredded beets and carrots, lemon zest and juice, a bit of honey, a few drops hot sauce, served raw).
First ever kohlrabi (didn't even know how to cut it or what part was edible at first, but diced it and some potato, tossed in olive oil, added a bit of pepper, and baked at 450 for half an hour, stirring occasionally).
Now I hope we don't get those every week for the next year, but in a few weeks they'll be gone and something new will be unexpectedly thrust upon me. Interesting concept but it's working so far.
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You are incorrectly assuming that, in the absence of Clear Channel stations, some other broadcaster would not choose to use those same frequencies.
Another way to look at is that Clear Channel owns all the high-power stations in the area, leaving the little guys no room but to broadcast on low-power frequencies.
Having a larger government does not necessarily mean having a more prepared government - it generally means having more layers of bureaucracy and more people who's jobs are not directly tied to their performance.
And this is different from larger industry how?
Tell that to Bobby Jindal.
Without taking the production system down, what would they practice restoring to? The backup system?
The metal in a penny is already worth more than a penny. Congress solved this dilemma by making it illegal to melt down pennies to resell the metal.
There's a plan to move all cash transactions to 5 cents by making them all round up or down appropriately, while having all electronic transactions remain accurate to the penny. But, as you can guess, certain members of Congress who are more attached to sentimental ways vowed to save the American penny, and so they instead outlawed melting them down as a I mentioned above.
There are plenty of hard-core LEGO enthusiasts who only use official LEGO-brand rubber bands. There are enough sets that have come with a rubber band, various pieces of string, etc., to make that possible. Back when I bought sets and resold them as parts in the late 90s, the rubber bands and string and such were hot sellers.
The pen, though.... I can't think of any set that has come with a pen. Maybe use one from LEGOLAND?
4M Plus for the win! Awesome printer. With a JetDirect card all these printers integrate easily into a modern network. (Just put the printer near the wireless router and use one of the hard wire ports.)
Gorillas are pre-sapient at best. Close, but not there. Though if we were to try to splice some human genes in and/or breed to create a second sapient species, I would fully expect those offspring to at some point be granted the full rights of society.
Your choice of clothing offends me. I demand you wear a burka immediately. (I don't care if you're male or female.)
Your voting habits offend me. I demand you vote for the Green or Libertarian candidate.
Your existence offends me. I demand you kill yourself at this moment so that I am no longer offended.
Since you know these things offend me, any further attempts to show your body in public, vote for a major-party candidate, or live are clearly designed to intentionally offend me. Therefore under your own reasoning they must be stopped.
Do you really think those on the left would allow the Department of Education to be re-chartered under the premise of national defense?
Likewise, do you really think those on the right, who want to kill the Department of Education, would want it to receive new justification under the premise of national defense?
While I think that's the most-likely constitutional justification for having Federal oversight into local schools, this isn't the time that anything with that motivation will occur.
Obviously they should keep the keyboard and eliminate the screen then, right?
They must HATE these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di3w1yV4Ehg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Vh9_Hi1kY
Sapience. If you are sentient you get all the rights of any free person.
The next level to me is the ability to feel pain. If a species can feel pain, we shouldn't necessarily and cruelly afflict it. That doesn't mean I won't breed or euthanize (mmm steak), but I want it done "humanely" (whatever that means).
Below that it's all a blur. I don't think insects or crustaceans able to feel pain, so I treat them just like I do plants - killable when I feel like it. (Not that I don't get upset if a plant I've cultivated dies, but that's because I've investing time in it.)
If they program a great software for sorting and handling animals in animal shelters, they've effectively made it that anyone who uses the software cannot euthanize animals. Not a bad move, though it could open a whole can of worms.
Fortunately PETA is rabidly against canning worms, so that problem will solve itself!
Sure the program was flawed. But stop spewing the biased implication that the program's result was just "going from 20 to 25mpg".
That may have been allowed under the law. But the actual results were that the average trade-in went from 15.8 to 24.9mpg.
I don't know where you got the "50,000 miles worth of gasoline" number, or how to convert that to energy when we're specifically talking about cars with a variety of gas-to-mileage ratios. But let's assume that you meant "the equivalent of 2,000 gallons of gas" required to manufacture a typical new car.
Over the 300,000 mile life you claim, a car with 15.8 mpg will use 18,987 gallons. A car with 24.9 mpg will use 12,048 gallons. So the average new car bought with the program, after adding the "2,000" gallon construction cost, still saves almost 5000 gallons of gas over the vehicle life. (Yes, assuming all the cars were gasoline. More savings for diesels.)
To me the "one way or another" implied he was specifically including DVRs, both home made and vendor-bought. It wasn't that clear at all.
And 90% is certainly wrong if he meant general-purpose computers. My laptop has been hooked up to my TV exactly twice in 7 years. Why would I bother when my Dish DVR grabs most everything I want to watch?
For most of us geeks, it's inferior to the setups we already have... But for my mom, for example, this would be great. With GoogleTV, she can view all the LOLcats she wants from the comfort of her living room sofa.
Meanwhile, Microsoft wonders why they bothered to buy WebTV in 1997 and then clearly not capitalize on it...
One right we absolutely don't have is the right to not be offended.
I support censoring people who close unopened parenthesis. The one in your smiley would have been sufficient. ((((((((((((((
Some also permanently store other sets of information such as the contents of every file copied, etc. ;p
We've also confirmed with Xerox that they securely wipe all units returned from lease before releasing or selling them so it's not an issue for us.
They securely wipe? So you let a few guys from the local service company load it on a truck and take it away, hoping that it's kept securely until it gets back to Xerox's factory, makes it through their receiving queue, and gets an inter-lease refurb?
Seems like, if you really cared, you'd rather have it wiped before it leaves your sight.
But I'd rather live them bad eyesight and an inability to walk than live them knowing my mental performance was degraded.
Living them with the ability to words out of sentences, though, I'm perfectly comfortable with.
So said someone who hasn't seen both options in person.
Do I want to live my last twenty years with diving bell syndrome? No. But I'd rather live them bad eyesight and an inability to walk than live them knowing my mental performance was degraded.
I'll link to your post here next time I see someone bitching about kdawson.
Now, I need to go read the article you've successfully hyped..
The catch-phrase slogan is five-a-day for fruits and veggies, so if you make sure to get some vegetables with your evening meal you're probably "ok".
We just joined a CSA (community supported agriculture). While I like the idea of eating food produced locally, organically, in season, I really like the concept of being given large batches of food and having to cook with it. In one session it's broken us out of our usual dining ruts; over the past week we've had several vegetables I'd never eaten before...
First ever beet, in a beet and carrot slaw (shredded beets and carrots, lemon zest and juice, a bit of honey, a few drops hot sauce, served raw).
First ever kohlrabi (didn't even know how to cut it or what part was edible at first, but diced it and some potato, tossed in olive oil, added a bit of pepper, and baked at 450 for half an hour, stirring occasionally).
Now I hope we don't get those every week for the next year, but in a few weeks they'll be gone and something new will be unexpectedly thrust upon me. Interesting concept but it's working so far.