As I get older I hear more of these, and in many cases it's poorly thought-out writing. Mike Opelka of The Blaze calls his show "Pure Opelka". For several weeks I wondered why he called himself "puerile Pelka."
The F.B.I. actually questioned the author of the song, Richard Berry, about the lyrics. An excessive effort: the words on Berry's version of the song are pretty clear and listening to that would have made life a lot easier.
Springsteen notoriously mumbles. I found Manfred Mann's version much closer to the written lyrics.
Have you looked at the full lyrics of the song? It's a mess of sexually suggestive nonsense. "Wrapped up like a douche" makes more sense in context; fitting in well with "another runner in the night" which is capable of a wide range of interpretations. Think of running water.
Consider where douches are used, and what you might prefer to have wrapped up in that place. Considering the flowery prose that is often used in descriptions of orgasms, the mis-heard lyrics make more sense than the correct ones.
Concrete construction is brittle compared to wood construction. Even reinforced concrete will have chunks fall off. Wood houses have a lot of plaster, fiberglass, and plastic. Your chances of being hit by something that breaks, instead of something that breaks you, are a little better in a wood house.
You have no clue what a right is. Rights exist in the nature of human beings, governments recognize and codify them. Governments cannot give rights because they do not have rights to give. Governments cannot take rights away, but governments can violate rights. Governments can also recognize when a person has sacrificed a right and act accordingly; such as when a person gives up his right to life by committing murder, and the government acts against him.
I lived within a mile of the epicenter of the "Northridge" earthquake. Ordinary woodframe houses withstood that quake quite well, with only the odd chimney collapsing. Much of the damage came from dishes slipping out of cabinets, bookcases falling over, and other such things not subject to building codes.Most deaths came from a collapsing apartment building found to have been nowhere near meeting code at the time of its construction. Much of the commercial property damage was at the Northridge Mall, parts of which compacted into a stack of pancakes. (Before the collapse, a person walking in some parts of the mall could feel the vibrations of his own footsteps in the floor.) Almost all the malls in the area were badly damaged and took months rebuilding.
Most of the buildings in the Los Angeles area have had earthquake-sufficient building codes in effect for many decades, and changing requirements for woodframe family houses stinks of political hijinks. The costs are going to greatly exceed the benefits.
Thanks for the glasses info. It sounds as if the UK has licensing laws, that would push up prices. I'd guess that Japanese shops keep a large stock of lenses on hand, which then are ground to fit the frame. UK shops are probably ordering from a remote warehouse.
Cities like New York have bars to entry that make prices high. There are a limited number of legal cabs, and no possibility of getting the appropriate permits. A new entrant would have to buy a medallion from an existing taxi.
Not a big fan of blatantly breaking the law for profit either.
So laws should be broken for the sheer fun of it?
Derogatory comments about the profit motive are narrow-minded. If an action makes life better for you, it's profitable. Implying that there's something wrong if money or material goods are involved is shallow and wrong.
Where do you draw the line? If your neighbor pays you for a car ride to town, should that be illegal? How about if he does it every day? How about carpooling arrangements where not all people have cars? How about a mom who provides transportation services for her friends, in return for (food/landscaping/snowplowing/money)?
Laws making certain drugs illegal make them more expensive and dangerous. They create crime and criminals, wasting human lives enforcing the laws and jailing the offenders, and ruining the lives of the offenders.
Some, not all, weapons laws are wrong. Limitations on automatic weapons and firearm calibre are mistaken; they should not be more restricted than small single shot weapons. On the other hand, prohibitions on chemical and biological weapons are reasonable. RPGs and other devices useful for taking out aircraft and blowing up buildings don't seem to me to be something an individual has an honorable use for, and should remain illegal.
You appear to be advocating replacing control by local oligopolies and local monopolies with control by a national monopoly, the government. This means, taking the worst interpretation for each, replacing abusive pricing and poor service with political censorship and poor service. Not a wise choice.
There is a class of people, ranging from street thugs to vicious dictators, who choose to use violence or threat of violence to steal and destroy. I have two basic choices when faced with such people:
Submit. The thug prospers, I suffer and probably die early. If nearly all people do this, thugs find it an easy way to live, and the class of thugs expands until it dominates the whole world. The whole world becomes a cesspool like North Korea.
Arm myself to resist the thug, and on a national scale arm to resist thug-states. At the cost of defending myself, I can prosper in relative freedom. One of the worse costs is listening to ignorant tools like you advising me to let my throat be cut.
There are costs involved in all decisions. I can't drive a car without contributing to the cost of a road. I can't keep warm in a snowstorm without buying shelter. I can't prosper, or even live long, without paying for defense.
Do not rail against war and its expenses, but rather oppose those who use force to achieve their ends.
Read to improve your mind. Learn a craft. Educate your children instead of relying on the government to indoctrinate them. Maintain and improve your property. Fix something yourself instead of calling on the town/city/state to fix it. Give time to charity. Learn economics and history so that your vote doesn't cause damage. Get to know your neighbors. Go to a museum. Explore. Think of a difficult problem, design fixes for it, then figure out what's wrong with the fixes.
Leading edge devices will likely depart from silicon, but it's going to be a long time before silicon ceases to be the default material for active electronic devices. Silicon tolerates higher temperatures than some other semiconductors, and having a native insulating oxide is a great advantage. There's a lot of production experience with silicon, and it won't be put aside lightly.
As far as speed is concerned, in my opinion it would be greatly advantageous to have significantly faster devices. I don't like programs that take hours to run.
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As I get older I hear more of these, and in many cases it's poorly thought-out writing. Mike Opelka of The Blaze calls his show "Pure Opelka". For several weeks I wondered why he called himself "puerile Pelka."
The misunderstanding of "Bad Moon Rising" predates Weird Al. It's more common among women.
The F.B.I. actually questioned the author of the song, Richard Berry, about the lyrics. An excessive effort: the words on Berry's version of the song are pretty clear and listening to that would have made life a lot easier.
Otherwise there's partial half-wavelength cancellation with sound bouncing off the wall, at about 110 Hz for 2 feet.
'Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.' Stephen Decatur, April 1816.
Springsteen notoriously mumbles. I found Manfred Mann's version much closer to the written lyrics.
Have you looked at the full lyrics of the song? It's a mess of sexually suggestive nonsense. "Wrapped up like a douche" makes more sense in context; fitting in well with "another runner in the night" which is capable of a wide range of interpretations. Think of running water.
Consider where douches are used, and what you might prefer to have wrapped up in that place. Considering the flowery prose that is often used in descriptions of orgasms, the mis-heard lyrics make more sense than the correct ones.
Most pirates are male. From among the females, I'd certainly like to see those with K cups.
I bet you think coal is mined with pick and shovel.
Concrete construction is brittle compared to wood construction. Even reinforced concrete will have chunks fall off. Wood houses have a lot of plaster, fiberglass, and plastic. Your chances of being hit by something that breaks, instead of something that breaks you, are a little better in a wood house.
And if you have an enemy in the local government, you can find your safe, code-compliant house condemned.
You have no clue what a right is. Rights exist in the nature of human beings, governments recognize and codify them. Governments cannot give rights because they do not have rights to give. Governments cannot take rights away, but governments can violate rights. Governments can also recognize when a person has sacrificed a right and act accordingly; such as when a person gives up his right to life by committing murder, and the government acts against him.
I lived within a mile of the epicenter of the "Northridge" earthquake. Ordinary woodframe houses withstood that quake quite well, with only the odd chimney collapsing. Much of the damage came from dishes slipping out of cabinets, bookcases falling over, and other such things not subject to building codes.Most deaths came from a collapsing apartment building found to have been nowhere near meeting code at the time of its construction. Much of the commercial property damage was at the Northridge Mall, parts of which compacted into a stack of pancakes. (Before the collapse, a person walking in some parts of the mall could feel the vibrations of his own footsteps in the floor.) Almost all the malls in the area were badly damaged and took months rebuilding.
Most of the buildings in the Los Angeles area have had earthquake-sufficient building codes in effect for many decades, and changing requirements for woodframe family houses stinks of political hijinks. The costs are going to greatly exceed the benefits.
Thanks for the glasses info. It sounds as if the UK has licensing laws, that would push up prices. I'd guess that Japanese shops keep a large stock of lenses on hand, which then are ground to fit the frame. UK shops are probably ordering from a remote warehouse.
http://cseligman.com/text/planets/internalpressure.htm 50,000,000 atm at Jupiter's center.
Cities like New York have bars to entry that make prices high. There are a limited number of legal cabs, and no possibility of getting the appropriate permits. A new entrant would have to buy a medallion from an existing taxi.
So laws should be broken for the sheer fun of it?
Derogatory comments about the profit motive are narrow-minded. If an action makes life better for you, it's profitable. Implying that there's something wrong if money or material goods are involved is shallow and wrong.
Where do you draw the line? If your neighbor pays you for a car ride to town, should that be illegal? How about if he does it every day? How about carpooling arrangements where not all people have cars? How about a mom who provides transportation services for her friends, in return for (food/landscaping/snowplowing/money)?
Laws making certain drugs illegal make them more expensive and dangerous. They create crime and criminals, wasting human lives enforcing the laws and jailing the offenders, and ruining the lives of the offenders.
Some, not all, weapons laws are wrong. Limitations on automatic weapons and firearm calibre are mistaken; they should not be more restricted than small single shot weapons. On the other hand, prohibitions on chemical and biological weapons are reasonable. RPGs and other devices useful for taking out aircraft and blowing up buildings don't seem to me to be something an individual has an honorable use for, and should remain illegal.
You appear to be advocating replacing control by local oligopolies and local monopolies with control by a national monopoly, the government. This means, taking the worst interpretation for each, replacing abusive pricing and poor service with political censorship and poor service. Not a wise choice.
Capitalization is the poor man's bold.
There are costs involved in all decisions. I can't drive a car without contributing to the cost of a road. I can't keep warm in a snowstorm without buying shelter. I can't prosper, or even live long, without paying for defense.
Do not rail against war and its expenses, but rather oppose those who use force to achieve their ends.
Read to improve your mind. Learn a craft. Educate your children instead of relying on the government to indoctrinate them. Maintain and improve your property. Fix something yourself instead of calling on the town/city/state to fix it. Give time to charity. Learn economics and history so that your vote doesn't cause damage. Get to know your neighbors. Go to a museum. Explore. Think of a difficult problem, design fixes for it, then figure out what's wrong with the fixes.
Leading edge devices will likely depart from silicon, but it's going to be a long time before silicon ceases to be the default material for active electronic devices. Silicon tolerates higher temperatures than some other semiconductors, and having a native insulating oxide is a great advantage. There's a lot of production experience with silicon, and it won't be put aside lightly.
As far as speed is concerned, in my opinion it would be greatly advantageous to have significantly faster devices. I don't like programs that take hours to run.
And a jealous one, at that (Exodus 20:5 and other places).