Don't you think if they're going to cover the loan losses that the loan should be fully forgiven and the people should keep the collateral?
Not when you are using my tax dollars to cover the loan losses. I want that house back, to be sold to pay back what is owed. It is not just the banks or investment bankers or mortgage brokers who are at fault here, but also the borrowers who helped inflate housing prices, by taking loans that they could not afford to pay, for no money down, in the hopes that they would continue to appreciate in value.
If you bought a house at more than 3x your annual income you deserve to get foreclosed on.
"If you start branching real small into stuff like Jainism, you find some that don't believe in creationism, but the key here isn't teaching religion, but a basic tenet/belief that is shared by the majority of the people on the planet that a Creator exists on some level."
But it is not science. Intelligent design does not even pretend (very well) to be science. Intelligent design textbooks are 1970's era books that have had a find/replace run on them with creationism. Science by and large is not a popularity contest. It is a continuous journey of the search for truths and models that best explain the evidence at hand. It is the "hows and whys" of our universe. Creationism does not answer these questions with science. It is bullshit.
Carter is the only president in my living memory who actually ACTED like a Christian. GW Bush, not so much, despite his profession to be one. McCain and Palin seem to fall in to this "lip-service" Christian area to me. Obama, I have no idea, but his personal philosophy and community organizing leads me to believe that he most likely sincere in his faith.
In reading up on Palin and the Troopergate stuff, she seems to be a bit power hungry and vengeful, which does not seem very Christian. Old testament maybe, but that would just make her Jewish.
Wait, they did the test EXTERNAL to the laptop? That would seem to not take in to account the reduced heat of the SSDs resulting in less fan use resulting in less overall power drain.
Who uses their laptop with an external drive?
"Huge wind farms in the Midwest will only benefit the Midwest."
Well if we can generate enough wind power to take Chicago off the grid that is that much less coal and nat gas that we would need elsewhere. So, it is not JUST the Midwest that would benifit.
"Actually, Obama lost in many traditionally large democrat hold out states."
In votes for the Democratic nomination, where voter turn-out was VERY low and Rush recommending that Republican voters, vote for Hilary. The national election is a completely different animal in both demographics and turn-out.
"Lets asume for a minute that 60% of the state votes democrat in each election. Now your putting someone that better then 50% of those voters rejected on the ticket."
My argument is that in any state where 60% of the voters vote democrat, Barak needs no help from the Hilary hold-out camp. Of the "50%" who voted for Hilary in the Democratic nomination, they would represent less than 10% of those who vote in the general election, making them a non-issue, as most of them will vote the party ticket anyway.
"So even if half of the people who voted against Obama in the primaries go third party, you are still looking at 25% of the vote which mean the democrats will end up losing that stronghold."
The voters who vote in a Democratic Primary are not representative of voters in a general election as both turnout and the presence of independent voters are radically different. There is no way that bitter Hilary supporters represent 25% of those voting in a general election.
"Then why not pick Hillary who would've easily solidified the Democrat base?"
Because she could not graciously concede, once it became apparent to all who understood delegate math, that she would be unable to get enough delegates for nomination. Instead she had to bitterly and derisively, carry on until the last possible moment. Which is entirely her and her campaigns right, in my opinion. But I suspect that from the view of the Obama Campaign and the Democratic party, she put herself before her party and so lost any rational claim to be V.P.
Also, for those who can understand electoral math, the bitter holdouts are not as important to winning the election as the non-party voters in key battleground states.
"People who can create should not be treated like someone who flips burgers. "
Wait, what? Anyone can create, some better than others. Burger flippers create burgers.
"When a creative person makes something new, (or better) it provides jobs for CEO's and marketing and sales and manufacturing and shipping and so on. After providing the fuel and justification for all of this employment and commerce, why shouldn't the creative person be entitled to remuneration, for as long as all of these other people are benefiting monetarily off of the creative persons efforts and gift?"
PC's are by and large, open platform general purpose machines. They were not even initially designed to play games. id can just release their titles on the console but they probably would not be able to run thier latest stuff and id would have to share the profits with Sony/MS/and Nintendo since those are closed platforms.
Kind of stupid to bitch about the very traits of a platform that makes your content viable. Hardware vendors should not be the software police.
I suspect that it is in there, under "Leaders ($10,000 and above)." Viacom, Inc. and PepsiCo. Inc. which brings to mind the "Reformed Downloaders," Super Bowl ad.
Now, I am not a conspiracy theorist by nature, but this is beginning to look more and more like a concerted effort by content providers to sway public opinion against fair use.
How long until we have the first rat-brained cruise missile? ICBM? How far are we ahead of the Chinese in rat-brain technology? How big is the rat-brain GAP? Will anyone miss Wisconsin?
Some people can learn by being told what not to do, some can learn from observing the mistakes of others, and some have to pee on the electric fence themselves.
With at 30% incident rate, I highly doubt that low dopamine levels is a defect.
As a company with no chip production facilities of its own, Rambus conducts business by filing patents and then licensing technologies. For example, Nintendo licensed Rambus memory for the Nintendo 64, as did Sony for use in the PlayStation 2. However, the most famous agreement was with Intel Corporation in 1996, under which Intel became obligated to use RDRAM as the primary memory technology for all Intel platforms until 2002.
In exchange for this, Intel was given a cut of Rambus's royalties, which Intel management anticipated would be a lucrative source of high margin revenue. In reality, the RDRAM standard did not prove to be popular, and motherboard manufacturers simply bought chipsets that supported SDRAM technology from VIA Technologies rather than more expensive RDRAM chipsets from Intel. Ironically in this manner, one of the most enduring achievements of Rambus was to facilitate the rise of VIA Technologies by creating a lucrative market vacuum.
I had heard but can not find with Google, that Gambrinus Brewing Co. (The owner of the Spoetzel Brewerey where Shiner is Brewed), has a distribution deal with Miller (Owned by SABMiller)
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Don't you think if they're going to cover the loan losses that the loan should be fully forgiven and the people should keep the collateral? Not when you are using my tax dollars to cover the loan losses. I want that house back, to be sold to pay back what is owed. It is not just the banks or investment bankers or mortgage brokers who are at fault here, but also the borrowers who helped inflate housing prices, by taking loans that they could not afford to pay, for no money down, in the hopes that they would continue to appreciate in value. If you bought a house at more than 3x your annual income you deserve to get foreclosed on.
Please run for office. Preferably in my district.
Man oh man, I would be hesitant to click on that. Only 211 seeders at this time, and probably all Feds.
"If you start branching real small into stuff like Jainism, you find some that don't believe in creationism, but the key here isn't teaching religion, but a basic tenet/belief that is shared by the majority of the people on the planet that a Creator exists on some level."
But it is not science. Intelligent design does not even pretend (very well) to be science. Intelligent design textbooks are 1970's era books that have had a find/replace run on them with creationism. Science by and large is not a popularity contest. It is a continuous journey of the search for truths and models that best explain the evidence at hand. It is the "hows and whys" of our universe. Creationism does not answer these questions with science. It is bullshit.
Carter is the only president in my living memory who actually ACTED like a Christian. GW Bush, not so much, despite his profession to be one. McCain and Palin seem to fall in to this "lip-service" Christian area to me. Obama, I have no idea, but his personal philosophy and community organizing leads me to believe that he most likely sincere in his faith. In reading up on Palin and the Troopergate stuff, she seems to be a bit power hungry and vengeful, which does not seem very Christian. Old testament maybe, but that would just make her Jewish.
"a parade of cash-guzzling corporation-fellating litigation-whores"
And me without mod points. Fucking criminal.
Wait, they did the test EXTERNAL to the laptop? That would seem to not take in to account the reduced heat of the SSDs resulting in less fan use resulting in less overall power drain. Who uses their laptop with an external drive?
"I thought many of those hyped benefits haven't panned out," on Vista...
Are these numbers really right for CO2 concentrations? I would think that 4% would occur naturally?
Benefit from the cheaper alternatives such as coal and nat gas as those who stop using them result in a price drop.
"Huge wind farms in the Midwest will only benefit the Midwest."
Well if we can generate enough wind power to take Chicago off the grid that is that much less coal and nat gas that we would need elsewhere. So, it is not JUST the Midwest that would benifit.
I like this. That way you could have a car recharge while driving. Or no/minimal fuel.
Don't get too cocky. Cali is only about 1-2 years behind Michigan in regard to housing.
"Actually, Obama lost in many traditionally large democrat hold out states."
In votes for the Democratic nomination, where voter turn-out was VERY low and Rush recommending that Republican voters, vote for Hilary. The national election is a completely different animal in both demographics and turn-out.
"Lets asume for a minute that 60% of the state votes democrat in each election. Now your putting someone that better then 50% of those voters rejected on the ticket."
My argument is that in any state where 60% of the voters vote democrat, Barak needs no help from the Hilary hold-out camp. Of the "50%" who voted for Hilary in the Democratic nomination, they would represent less than 10% of those who vote in the general election, making them a non-issue, as most of them will vote the party ticket anyway.
"So even if half of the people who voted against Obama in the primaries go third party, you are still looking at 25% of the vote which mean the democrats will end up losing that stronghold." The voters who vote in a Democratic Primary are not representative of voters in a general election as both turnout and the presence of independent voters are radically different. There is no way that bitter Hilary supporters represent 25% of those voting in a general election.
"Then why not pick Hillary who would've easily solidified the Democrat base?"
Because she could not graciously concede, once it became apparent to all who understood delegate math, that she would be unable to get enough delegates for nomination. Instead she had to bitterly and derisively, carry on until the last possible moment. Which is entirely her and her campaigns right, in my opinion. But I suspect that from the view of the Obama Campaign and the Democratic party, she put herself before her party and so lost any rational claim to be V.P.
Also, for those who can understand electoral math, the bitter holdouts are not as important to winning the election as the non-party voters in key battleground states.
"People who can create should not be treated like someone who flips burgers. "
Wait, what? Anyone can create, some better than others. Burger flippers create burgers.
"When a creative person makes something new, (or better) it provides jobs for CEO's and marketing and sales and manufacturing and shipping and so on. After providing the fuel and justification for all of this employment and commerce, why shouldn't the creative person be entitled to remuneration, for as long as all of these other people are benefiting monetarily off of the creative persons efforts and gift?"
So no different than a burger flipper then.
PC's are by and large, open platform general purpose machines. They were not even initially designed to play games. id can just release their titles on the console but they probably would not be able to run thier latest stuff and id would have to share the profits with Sony/MS/and Nintendo since those are closed platforms.
Kind of stupid to bitch about the very traits of a platform that makes your content viable. Hardware vendors should not be the software police.
I suspect that it is in there, under "Leaders ($10,000 and above)." Viacom, Inc. and PepsiCo. Inc. which brings to mind the "Reformed Downloaders," Super Bowl ad. Now, I am not a conspiracy theorist by nature, but this is beginning to look more and more like a concerted effort by content providers to sway public opinion against fair use.
You forgot, telephone sanitizers, hairdressers, and advertising account executives and the other fine members of the Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship B
How long until we have the first rat-brained cruise missile? ICBM? How far are we ahead of the Chinese in rat-brain technology? How big is the rat-brain GAP? Will anyone miss Wisconsin?
Some people can learn by being told what not to do, some can learn from observing the mistakes of others, and some have to pee on the electric fence themselves.
With at 30% incident rate, I highly doubt that low dopamine levels is a defect.
http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/malaria_sickle.html
VIA broke the back of Intel's scheme to use their relative monopoly in processors to dominate the memory market.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambus
Licensing
As a company with no chip production facilities of its own, Rambus conducts business by filing patents and then licensing technologies. For example, Nintendo licensed Rambus memory for the Nintendo 64, as did Sony for use in the PlayStation 2. However, the most famous agreement was with Intel Corporation in 1996, under which Intel became obligated to use RDRAM as the primary memory technology for all Intel platforms until 2002.
In exchange for this, Intel was given a cut of Rambus's royalties, which Intel management anticipated would be a lucrative source of high margin revenue. In reality, the RDRAM standard did not prove to be popular, and motherboard manufacturers simply bought chipsets that supported SDRAM technology from VIA Technologies rather than more expensive RDRAM chipsets from Intel. Ironically in this manner, one of the most enduring achievements of Rambus was to facilitate the rise of VIA Technologies by creating a lucrative market vacuum.
http://www.anheuser-busch.com/
I had heard but can not find with Google, that Gambrinus Brewing Co. (The owner of the Spoetzel Brewerey where Shiner is Brewed), has a distribution deal with Miller (Owned by SABMiller)
OK, you got me there. Fannie and Freddie is hard to beat. 1.2 Trillion in outstanding debt...