It is easy to argue that users of the Light Rail system are lessening the load on road maintenance, and hence funding them with road taxes makes perfect sense. Consider the gas tax to be a "transportation tax." Asking the rail users to completely fund rail use doesn't work, and the road users benefit from less traffic.
I think that is being a bit harsh on the X Files and Fox News. [Daily Mail is] just a propaganda outlet to keep a particular range of conservatives in a constant state of foaming at the mouth frenzy about immigrants, terrorists and the unemployed.
My interest in IBM's margins on one of their product lines is vastly less than my interest in the entire IBM-compatible x86 market.
I'm sure your interest is. My point is that letting the genie out of the bottle was not a good strategy for IBM and it's not a good strategy for Apple/iTunes. If you think any company is in it for the good of the people, I have a nice bridge I'd like to sell you.
Imagine if, back in the day, the "Well, they should just write their own iTunes-like application" had been applied to Compaq and the IBM-compatible clone kiddies. "Well, they can just write their own OS and set of applications..." Even back then, with the fairly minimal legacy effects, that would have retarded the development of cheap, standard, supports-the-software-you-want-to-run computers.
It may have worked out nicely for people who want cheap Chinese hardware, but how did that work out for IBM in the profit area? They sure are a powerhouse in PCs now, aren't they?
Which is why the Republicans resolutely opposed Clinton's massive illegal wiretapping program and his creation of a massive homeland security bureaucracy, as well as ongoing attempts by the Democrats to use the government to control people's marriage and reproductive choices since the 70s. And let's not even get started on the utterly obscene debts that Clinton, Carter and Johnson ran up.
Holy shit are you ass-backwards in your argument. Bush 2 is the one with the massive illegal wiretapping and massive homeland security bureaucracy (not to mention the torture, the outing of covert CIA agents, the non-compete contracts to cronies, etc). And democrats don't try to control marriage and reproductive choices - it's the repubs by blocking gay marriage and trying to stop abortion. (Democrats do not try to force people to gay-marry or have abortion). As to the debts, see above post which disproves your ignorant statement (repeated here for your convenience):
WW2 to 1980: $1T
Reagan: $1T to $3T = +2T or 200% in 8 years
Bush 1: $3T to $5T = +2T or 66% in 4 years
Clinton: $5T to $6T = +1T or 20% in 8 years
Bush Jr: $6T to $11T = +5T or 83% in 8 years
Passing on the shoulder to make a right turn isn't rude; it's an indication that a turn lane should be present.
I beg to differ. Passing on the shoulder to make a right turn indicates that you don't have the patience to wait your damn turn. The shoulder is there FOR SAFETY, not for your convenience. You risk accidents with broken down vehicles, blocking the way of emergency vehicles, interfering with cyclists and pedestrians, among other things. There is neither the money nor the land to put a right turn lane every damn place that speeds YOUR trip along.
Have a nice day - it won't kill you to wait a couple of minutes.
Ditto on the D.C. beltway. I don't understand people who slowdown for bridges or curves. It's not going to kill you to take the curve at 65mph. That's why the sign says 65 - because it was designed for high-speed travel
I don't know what part of the beltway you're driving on, but it seems like all the parts I've been on are 55 MPH speed limits.
And I have a theory about why people slow down on curves - recall that acceleration is dv/dt, and that turning causes a dv (direction). This dv is interpreted by some as an acceleration and so their deceleration is not noticed. You SHOULD feel a dv on a curve or you ARE slowing down.
The RSS measured planetary temperature has been falling sharply for the last six months.
Holy shit you must be kidding. Don't you understand the concept of fluctuation? First you deniers say that increases since the industrial revolution is too short a time to be evidence, then you say a decrease over six months shows the planet is cooling? Your head must be so far up your ass that you have a pretty good view of your tonsils.
Have you ever entered the password for a Verizon FiOS ActionTec router - where it actually inserts extra bullets as you type the password so someone watching the screen can't guess the length.
And it's even worse! It fools Safari in such a way I can't even have the password saved. I hate that shit.
I agree. And IIRC, the going price for ideas is "dime a dozen." I give my ideas away for free all the time. The value in being recognized as a thinker exceeds my desire to put my life in hock over an idea that may never see fruition. Let someone else risk their livelihood. Finally, don't flatter yourself over your ideas. Everyone has them all the time. There are truly very, very, few new ideas. The chances of you having them are infinitesimal.
I find it both hilarious and scary that a Gov't agency is stupid enough to redact ("black out") info with a marker. If you look at the scanned docs, you can CLEARLY see EXACTLY what was redacted (compare to "grayed out" areas done by author). Redaction should be done digitally to remove all traces. Incompetence, plain and simple. Sure makes you feel safe with your data in their hands.
Not much has changed in the field of checkbook balancing since the 14th century, give or take a few hundred years, so if you run Quicken 2006, you're not sacrificing a whole lot. I think I paid about $10 for my copy of Quicken 2006.
One thing that HAS changed is stock price downloads. You'll see what I mean in 2010 when your 2006 Quicken stops downloading quotes - what Intuit calls "sunsetting" and I call "extortion."
Even worse. That "father" is going to find out that I porked his wife and the kid is really mine - fodder for the Rikki Lake, Heraldo Rivera, etc show.
And you sound like someone who's never outside of a major city. It's not at all uncommon for signs in rural areas to be 100% obscured by plants. The locals know about it, they weren't planned that way, but it happens. Bullshit. You've been watching the movie 10,000 Maniacs or some other TV too much. I've been all over the US in rural areas and urban areas (I've driven across country many times). Almost always, there are warning signs about upcoming speed limit changes. You're just too busy texting your friends too notice.
i mean, why did they have to build their town right on top of the highway? why couldn't they just build an exit junction that you can turn off of like normal cities have? Are you really that dense? The town was there LONG before the road was a 65 MPH highway. The town was there when the road was a beat-up dirt track. When the state increases the speed allowed on the highway by re-doing roads, they opt NOT to put in an exit interchange because it is very expensive. They just hook up to the local municipality's main street. It is not the town's fault.
My policy is that I am on the clock from the time the paint on my front bumper enters the parking lot to the time the paint on my rear bumper exits. If I have to park 500 feet from the building due to overcrowding or badge-in to 20 doors to get my office, all the better. If my employer doesn't like it, they can fire me. My skill-set is high enough that someone else will snap me up in no time.
Technically, he wouldn't be impersonating a law enforcement agent - only being an answering service for said agent. Yes, that's a mighty fine line, but it could hold up in court.
Okay, the $400K/month was all from me. But you should see the size of my penis now. (Actually, you can. Just look out the window; I'm blocking the sun with it.)
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It is easy to argue that users of the Light Rail system are lessening the load on road maintenance, and hence funding them with road taxes makes perfect sense. Consider the gas tax to be a "transportation tax." Asking the rail users to completely fund rail use doesn't work, and the road users benefit from less traffic.
I think that is being a bit harsh on the X Files and Fox News. [Daily Mail is] just a propaganda outlet to keep a particular range of conservatives in a constant state of foaming at the mouth frenzy about immigrants, terrorists and the unemployed.
So it's only being harsh on the X Files.
My interest in IBM's margins on one of their product lines is vastly less than my interest in the entire IBM-compatible x86 market.
I'm sure your interest is. My point is that letting the genie out of the bottle was not a good strategy for IBM and it's not a good strategy for Apple/iTunes. If you think any company is in it for the good of the people, I have a nice bridge I'd like to sell you.
Imagine if, back in the day, the "Well, they should just write their own iTunes-like application" had been applied to Compaq and the IBM-compatible clone kiddies. "Well, they can just write their own OS and set of applications..." Even back then, with the fairly minimal legacy effects, that would have retarded the development of cheap, standard, supports-the-software-you-want-to-run computers.
It may have worked out nicely for people who want cheap Chinese hardware, but how did that work out for IBM in the profit area? They sure are a powerhouse in PCs now, aren't they?
Which is why the Republicans resolutely opposed Clinton's massive illegal wiretapping program and his creation of a massive homeland security bureaucracy, as well as ongoing attempts by the Democrats to use the government to control people's marriage and reproductive choices since the 70s. And let's not even get started on the utterly obscene debts that Clinton, Carter and Johnson ran up.
Holy shit are you ass-backwards in your argument. Bush 2 is the one with the massive illegal wiretapping and massive homeland security bureaucracy (not to mention the torture, the outing of covert CIA agents, the non-compete contracts to cronies, etc). And democrats don't try to control marriage and reproductive choices - it's the repubs by blocking gay marriage and trying to stop abortion. (Democrats do not try to force people to gay-marry or have abortion). As to the debts, see above post which disproves your ignorant statement (repeated here for your convenience):
WW2 to 1980: $1T
Reagan: $1T to $3T = +2T or 200% in 8 years
Bush 1: $3T to $5T = +2T or 66% in 4 years
Clinton: $5T to $6T = +1T or 20% in 8 years
Bush Jr: $6T to $11T = +5T or 83% in 8 years
Passing on the shoulder to make a right turn isn't rude; it's an indication that a turn lane should be present.
I beg to differ. Passing on the shoulder to make a right turn indicates that you don't have the patience to wait your damn turn. The shoulder is there FOR SAFETY, not for your convenience. You risk accidents with broken down vehicles, blocking the way of emergency vehicles, interfering with cyclists and pedestrians, among other things. There is neither the money nor the land to put a right turn lane every damn place that speeds YOUR trip along.
Have a nice day - it won't kill you to wait a couple of minutes.
Ditto on the D.C. beltway. I don't understand people who slowdown for bridges or curves. It's not going to kill you to take the curve at 65mph. That's why the sign says 65 - because it was designed for high-speed travel
I don't know what part of the beltway you're driving on, but it seems like all the parts I've been on are 55 MPH speed limits.
And I have a theory about why people slow down on curves - recall that acceleration is dv/dt, and that turning causes a dv (direction). This dv is interpreted by some as an acceleration and so their deceleration is not noticed. You SHOULD feel a dv on a curve or you ARE slowing down.
The word is Skeptic, not Denialist. Denialist is clearly an emotionally loaded word designed to evoke thoughts of Holocaust deniers.
So the flat-worlders are round-world skeptics, huh? When the evidence is overwhelming, that's when a skeptic becomes a denier (or just a nut).
The RSS measured planetary temperature has been falling sharply for the last six months.
Holy shit you must be kidding. Don't you understand the concept of fluctuation? First you deniers say that increases since the industrial revolution is too short a time to be evidence, then you say a decrease over six months shows the planet is cooling? Your head must be so far up your ass that you have a pretty good view of your tonsils.
Have you ever entered the password for a Verizon FiOS ActionTec router - where it actually inserts extra bullets as you type the password so someone watching the screen can't guess the length.
And it's even worse! It fools Safari in such a way I can't even have the password saved. I hate that shit.
Why isn't there an "insensitive" mod point?
Would that be +1 or -1 ?
I did not freely contract and agree to pay such a fee in return for such services, therefore noone can morally extract the tax from me.
Obviously, you did not read the EULA that was posted inside your momma's womb.
59 per cent spend between one and 10 hours a week working[snip].
There, fixed that for you.
I agree. And IIRC, the going price for ideas is "dime a dozen." I give my ideas away for free all the time. The value in being recognized as a thinker exceeds my desire to put my life in hock over an idea that may never see fruition. Let someone else risk their livelihood. Finally, don't flatter yourself over your ideas. Everyone has them all the time. There are truly very, very, few new ideas. The chances of you having them are infinitesimal.
I find it both hilarious and scary that a Gov't agency is stupid enough to redact ("black out") info with a marker. If you look at the scanned docs, you can CLEARLY see EXACTLY what was redacted (compare to "grayed out" areas done by author). Redaction should be done digitally to remove all traces. Incompetence, plain and simple. Sure makes you feel safe with your data in their hands.
Not much has changed in the field of checkbook balancing since the 14th century, give or take a few hundred years, so if you run Quicken 2006, you're not sacrificing a whole lot. I think I paid about $10 for my copy of Quicken 2006.
One thing that HAS changed is stock price downloads. You'll see what I mean in 2010 when your 2006 Quicken stops downloading quotes - what Intuit calls "sunsetting" and I call "extortion."
Yeah, then HIS sister Lucy is going to kick HER ass.
Even worse. That "father" is going to find out that I porked his wife and the kid is really mine - fodder for the Rikki Lake, Heraldo Rivera, etc show.
And you sound like someone who's never outside of a major city. It's not at all uncommon for signs in rural areas to be 100% obscured by plants. The locals know about it, they weren't planned that way, but it happens.
Bullshit. You've been watching the movie 10,000 Maniacs or some other TV too much. I've been all over the US in rural areas and urban areas (I've driven across country many times). Almost always, there are warning signs about upcoming speed limit changes. You're just too busy texting your friends too notice.
i mean, why did they have to build their town right on top of the highway? why couldn't they just build an exit junction that you can turn off of like normal cities have?
Are you really that dense? The town was there LONG before the road was a 65 MPH highway. The town was there when the road was a beat-up dirt track. When the state increases the speed allowed on the highway by re-doing roads, they opt NOT to put in an exit interchange because it is very expensive. They just hook up to the local municipality's main street. It is not the town's fault.
So I consider myself to be at work from approximately 8 Am until 10 PM every day.
Sorry to hear you're forced to work so much overtime. Hope you're getting time and half.
My policy is that I am on the clock from the time the paint on my front bumper enters the parking lot to the time the paint on my rear bumper exits. If I have to park 500 feet from the building due to overcrowding or badge-in to 20 doors to get my office, all the better. If my employer doesn't like it, they can fire me. My skill-set is high enough that someone else will snap me up in no time.
Now that's a plan that could require holding a grudge for a Guiness-length of time. And if you kick it before you're 90, you never get your revenge.
Technically, he wouldn't be impersonating a law enforcement agent - only being an answering service for said agent. Yes, that's a mighty fine line, but it could hold up in court.
Okay, the $400K/month was all from me. But you should see the size of my penis now. (Actually, you can. Just look out the window; I'm blocking the sun with it.)