What subsidies? You claim they exist, but you don't name a single one.
Gas is more expensive in other countries (especially Europe) because it's massively taxed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_and_diesel_usage_and_pricing Most European countries have high fuel taxes. The prices have traditionally been three to four times the price in the United States, with prices during 2000-2005 of 1,50/litre (about US$2.14/l or $8.10/gal) while the US had prices around $1.50/gal or $0.40/l.
Police are supposed to be citizens that just have the full time job of policing. They're not supposed to be some kind of super citizen with enhanced rights.
Really? Fighting against earmarks isn't fighting against corruption?...there will have to be Nazi-style crackdowns for there to be a chance of the US populace putting down the remote and going outside.
They're right there, right in front of your face, doing it, and it's still not good enough for you.
Highschool calc? I've yet to encounter a problem outside of the classroom that needed Calculus to solve.
It's sad that people can't figure out square footage though.
Want a fun question? Give people a cubic meter of concrete and ask them how much area that would cover. I've asked 4 people and have gotten 4 complete different approaches to it.
I'm getting mixed messages on the unemployment benefit extension.
NPR said it was just for applying for the benefits. But the speech that Obama gave indicated that people who were on unemployment would get another 13 months of money.
Now, after that, I have to go through groping or naked picture time, it becomes oppressive.
Get it?
And the TSA is talking about doing trains and buses with the same security level. So you can't go ANYWHERE without driving yourself, unless you submit.
Nonsense. Everyone wants to get the most out of their work.
Lets try this again, why would someone want to work for those 9 guys for the rest of his life, instead of just 10 years and retiring? Or 20 years and having enough money to start a new business venture?
And finally, there's no such thing as "Making more money than you can spend in your lifetime". You can spend Bill Gates fortune in an afternoon, and by actually buying things. Not just giving it away.
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What subsidies? You claim they exist, but you don't name a single one.
Gas is more expensive in other countries (especially Europe) because it's massively taxed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_and_diesel_usage_and_pricing
Most European countries have high fuel taxes. The prices have traditionally been three to four times the price in the United States, with prices during 2000-2005 of 1,50/litre (about US$2.14/l or $8.10/gal) while the US had prices around $1.50/gal or $0.40/l.
Actually, that's a good idea.
You'd save a lot of fuel that's used during takeoff.
I think that commercial airports should get this technology also.
An EMP situation?
You mean, after being hit by a Nuke, would they have trouble launching airplanes?
Yes. Yes they would.
It depends on how many high priced lawyers I could afford.
Eh?
Last time I checked being a police officer gives you no powers or abilities that the normal citizen has.
They are not "Enhanced citizens". They're citizens who do policing full time.
Police are supposed to be citizens that just have the full time job of policing. They're not supposed to be some kind of super citizen with enhanced rights.
Really? Fighting against earmarks isn't fighting against corruption? ...there will have to be Nazi-style crackdowns for there to be a chance of the US populace putting down the remote and going outside.
They're right there, right in front of your face, doing it, and it's still not good enough for you.
You have *issues* man.
Playing it by yourself, yeah, it was pretty boring.
Starting up a server and playing with your friends is a ton of fun though, unless they have no creativity.
We've built a castle together. To help find it after being killed by random mobs, I've created a giant tower with a central pillar of lava.
That was our first weekend playing it. We just added a mod for creating magic symbols that create effects.
Dwarf Fortress has a first person view?
When I tried it, it was all top-down to me. I'm just not that interested in another nethack.
Feel free to spend 40 million of your own money on an original idea.
Suddenly, guaranteed return doesn't seem so bad now, does it?
So, you have a thousand mirrors pointing at a target, heating the salt in it to the melting point.
What in the world is that target made of? It has to be able to conduct heat, be immune to liquid sodium's effects, AND not melt or burn at 1500f+
This just in! Previous poster discovers that power plants are dangerous!
Your logic doesn't make sense.
Are you saying that Infrastructure is invested in and kept up in the US? Because if you are, that's an incredibly wrong statement.
http://pennysleuth.com/free-reports/investing-in-infrastructure/
Highschool calc? I've yet to encounter a problem outside of the classroom that needed Calculus to solve.
It's sad that people can't figure out square footage though.
Want a fun question? Give people a cubic meter of concrete and ask them how much area that would cover. I've asked 4 people and have gotten 4 complete different approaches to it.
I'm getting mixed messages on the unemployment benefit extension.
NPR said it was just for applying for the benefits. But the speech that Obama gave indicated that people who were on unemployment would get another 13 months of money.
Oh! That's easy.
Because I don't want to do them.
Now, after that, I have to go through groping or naked picture time, it becomes oppressive.
Get it?
And the TSA is talking about doing trains and buses with the same security level. So you can't go ANYWHERE without driving yourself, unless you submit.
Media is against him because he's cutting into their business, for free.
Last I checked, they're paying off the government with loan money they haven't spent yet.
Are they solidly in the black?
Starts out high. Then the magic of the capitalism does it's work and soon everyone can get TONS of the stuff for cheap.
Unless you plan on having big government programs manage it. Then you're fucked.
The armor is an engineering problem. The power source is still in the realm of Theoretical Physics.
A good friend of mine was in Africa. He got dysentery from washing his toothbrush in the hotel faucet water.
So, yes.
Wow, so as a 3rd world county, all we have to do is attack a 1st world one, and get infrastructure upgrades free of charge!
[sarcasm]I don't see how that plan could POSSIBLY backfire. [/sarcasm]
Last time I checked, you can't catch Diabetes from someone else who has it.
Nonsense. Everyone wants to get the most out of their work.
Lets try this again, why would someone want to work for those 9 guys for the rest of his life, instead of just 10 years and retiring? Or 20 years and having enough money to start a new business venture?
And finally, there's no such thing as "Making more money than you can spend in your lifetime". You can spend Bill Gates fortune in an afternoon, and by actually buying things. Not just giving it away.
Why would you manage a bar for less money for the other 9 guys, when you could open your own bar and make more?