If this works, the next thing will be nanorobots delivering pizza and Chinese food. I just wonder how they can see over the steering wheel and reach the pedals.
If you're referring to Austrian artist Gordan Savicic, we can see in his video how smart he is. Who in their right mind would walk around town rigged up like a suicide bomber? He should try that in Tel Aviv or Baghdad if he wants to experience the pain of the world.:)
Seems that it would be a great opportunity for Fry's to buy a bunch of empty stores and gain thousands of customers. We don't have Fry's around here, but I'd shop there if they were willing to move in after CompUSA moves out.
I shop at CompUSA by default -- it's the only computer store nearby. For most common things I just go to BestBuy or one of the bigbox office supply stores, but CompUSA has items that the others don't carry.
With no CompUSA and no alternative, it looks like even more of my buying will be online.
I live in Pinson (just outside B'ham), and I don't think Larry Langford's ideas are the ones Birmingham needs. Downtown is mostly a ghost town and Birmingham has been losing one business after another for years. So his increase in the sales tax and doubling business licenses are the exact opposite of what he should do. I would say that my days of buying anything in Birmingham are over, but those days really ended years ago. I think a lot of people have given up on the city.
It's a shame. Birmingham could be a great city. The people are some of the finest in the country. They deserve better than a flim-flam man like Larry Langford.
You can't win with these people. Your arguments are good and valid, but slashdot is a not a good place to change hearts and minds.
My family (the white portion) came here in the 1600s, just poor white farmers. The other half of my family, "Native Americans", came here thousands of years before that. Neither is any better or worse than the other. Throughout history there have been injustices perpetrated on every group of every color. We can't remedy what happened to them; we can only make it better from now on. That would be the best way to honor our ancestors.
If we're going to demand reparations for past wrongs no matter how long ago, then Egypt (because I'm also a small part Jewish) and Rome (because I'm Christian) owe me a bunch.:)
Okay, so tell me what isn't a form of torture. Raising your voice? Not being polite? You people even said that what happened at Abu Ghraib was torture. Humiliation, maybe, but a far cry from torture.
Frankly, I'm to the point with the U.N. that if they said it was daylight, I'd check to see for myself. If they want me to like them or respect them, then they have to make the first move.
Mod me troll, too, but the two previous posters were correct. The U.N. has always gone out of its way to bash the United States. Tasers torture? According to the U.N. everything is torture. What a feckless, useless, corrupt bunch of weasels.
If anyone takes the time to read that report from thinktwice, they'll see that flu is grouped together with pneumonia, and that it's actually pneumonia that is responsible for the thousands of deaths.
One of the reasons I rarely shop Amazon is because of their slow shipping. Seriously, if an item is in stock, I fully expect it to ship the next business day. If it doesn't, I won't be back often. If other retailers can do it, so can Amazon.
I've tried to get my friends and relatives to switch to Firefox, but when it gobbles up their memory and slows everything down to a crawl, they usually uninstall it and give up. They aren't geeks; they just want something that works. Ordinary people don't have the time or patience to keep up with a program's development. I'm just hoping everything will eventually get fixed.
True, but aren't these soldiers the very same ones who were kids just a few years ago? They grew up in the 80s and 90s, and many were subjected to political correctness and risk avoidance back then. I would like to see the statistics state by state. I believe you would find that most are from states that were "ahead of their time" as far as PC, etc. goes. My own son was born in 1981 here in Alabama, and even then I could see what was happening in other, "more progressive" states.
I know plenty of Viet Nam vets, several Korean War vets, and a few WWII vets. They didn't have anywhere near the trouble as this generation at war. The problem of PTSD has been progressively getting worse with each generation. War is not a pleasant experience under the best of circumstances, but it is possible to make it through alive and mentally okay.
Did you see the report by the Congressional Research Service the other day about how, in certain years, we've lost more soldiers in peacetime than in some of the years in Iraq? http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf
I'm also wondering the same thing, but with a different perspective. I wonder if we're setting them up for PTSD even if they never see combat. After coddling the little ankle-biters while they're growing up, real life could be such a shock to them that they don't stand a chance of getting through it. Childhood should be a time of learning, and that learning should include some real experiences like losing at games, getting scraped knees, getting in a fight, falling, getting sick, and other assorted "bad" things. You do a child a disservice by over-protecting them.
I feel sorry for today's younger generation. And I fear for the world my grandchildren are growing up in.
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Yeah, so did I. My question now is, "Where's the beef?"
The way I see it is that science best answers the what and how, while religion best answers the why. Why are we here? What is life?
I see no conflict between science and my religion.
If this works, the next thing will be nanorobots delivering pizza and Chinese food. I just wonder how they can see over the steering wheel and reach the pedals.
If you're referring to Austrian artist Gordan Savicic, we can see in his video how smart he is. Who in their right mind would walk around town rigged up like a suicide bomber? He should try that in Tel Aviv or Baghdad if he wants to experience the pain of the world. :)
But they hired cheap people and still had high prices!
I had no idea they were so large -- their whole website fits inside my computer. :)
I shop at CompUSA by default -- it's the only computer store nearby. For most common things I just go to BestBuy or one of the bigbox office supply stores, but CompUSA has items that the others don't carry.
With no CompUSA and no alternative, it looks like even more of my buying will be online.
It's a shame. Birmingham could be a great city. The people are some of the finest in the country. They deserve better than a flim-flam man like Larry Langford.
The long-range weather forecasters' annual picnic scheduled for July 4th next year has been postponed because of rain.
My son reads slahsdot and if I said anything less, he'd be crushed. :)
Hey, Steve!
and somebody would realize that they've had the same poll question up since Moses was a little boy.
I'll just buy you a cup of coffee (or a cold beer) next time I see you and we'll call it even.
My family (the white portion) came here in the 1600s, just poor white farmers. The other half of my family, "Native Americans", came here thousands of years before that. Neither is any better or worse than the other. Throughout history there have been injustices perpetrated on every group of every color. We can't remedy what happened to them; we can only make it better from now on. That would be the best way to honor our ancestors.
If we're going to demand reparations for past wrongs no matter how long ago, then Egypt (because I'm also a small part Jewish) and Rome (because I'm Christian) owe me a bunch. :)
Who cares?
It fails on the "severe pain and suffering" part. And you include "happens" as if it were still going on. Do you have proof of that?
Frankly, I'm to the point with the U.N. that if they said it was daylight, I'd check to see for myself. If they want me to like them or respect them, then they have to make the first move.
Mod me troll, too, but the two previous posters were correct. The U.N. has always gone out of its way to bash the United States. Tasers torture? According to the U.N. everything is torture. What a feckless, useless, corrupt bunch of weasels.
they should start with an easier project. What's CowboyNeal doing for the next few days?
If anyone takes the time to read that report from thinktwice, they'll see that flu is grouped together with pneumonia, and that it's actually pneumonia that is responsible for the thousands of deaths.
One of the reasons I rarely shop Amazon is because of their slow shipping. Seriously, if an item is in stock, I fully expect it to ship the next business day. If it doesn't, I won't be back often. If other retailers can do it, so can Amazon.
I've tried to get my friends and relatives to switch to Firefox, but when it gobbles up their memory and slows everything down to a crawl, they usually uninstall it and give up. They aren't geeks; they just want something that works. Ordinary people don't have the time or patience to keep up with a program's development. I'm just hoping everything will eventually get fixed.
They simply can't say no to a tax.
I know plenty of Viet Nam vets, several Korean War vets, and a few WWII vets. They didn't have anywhere near the trouble as this generation at war. The problem of PTSD has been progressively getting worse with each generation. War is not a pleasant experience under the best of circumstances, but it is possible to make it through alive and mentally okay.
Did you see the report by the Congressional Research Service the other day about how, in certain years, we've lost more soldiers in peacetime than in some of the years in Iraq? http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf
I feel sorry for today's younger generation. And I fear for the world my grandchildren are growing up in.