We have a choice where I live. Several service stations here sell pure gasoline. It's a little higher priced, but I buy it for my small engines. They run so much better and I don't have to worry about damage to the engines.
I agree completely with you, sjames. The way we're going now makes the government much more dangerous than any terrorists ever thought about being. Of course, I believe that's the whole point of the government's actions. They want the citizens to be afraid of their government.
The Superconducting Super Collider was to be about 87 km in circumference, and about 27 km of the tunnel has already been bored. Why not start the project from there?
That's it exactly! Yours is the most insightful comment yet on this subject. We should focus on educating the students on the basics, and throw away all the indoctrination crap.
It would be interesting to know how much business the USPS loses each year from not delivering politically incorrect items. I can order snus from Sweden on Sunday and UPS has it to me by Wednesday, but I can't even send one leaf of tobacco to my neighbor by USPS. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!
This deal with USPS delivering Amazon packages on Sunday is only an experiment in limited areas of the country, and may take years to be fully operational. Amazon is planning on having their own fleet of delivery vehicles in the not too distant future for same-day delivery, so it may not long before Amazon tells them to forget it.
Until USPS gets better, more timely package tracking, I think I'll stick with UPS
Had this happened to a mere handful of Toyotas or Hondas or Nissans, every politician would have been clamoring for somebody's head and lawyers would have been filing lawsuits right and left.
Sure, car fires aren't rare, but when they happen amongst so small a group of cars you have to take notice. What percent of Teslas are burnt toast now? I bet it's a higher percentage than burnt Nissans.
We tried that with alcohol - didn't work out so well. I don't think anybody wants to go through that again. "FDA" must stand for "Fucking Draconian Attitude" nowadays, because that's what they've become.
Here in my state the taxes levied by the state, county and city on tobacco products are included in the price of the product, but you STILL pay sales tax. That's paying tax on taxes!!
You don't do that when you buy gasoline, which has all the various taxes include in the price. Why are tobacco products treated differently? Political correctness, of course. If you even suspect that I have a snus portion in my mouth, you might get cancer! Panic, panic, panic!
You don't pay sales tax on newspapers, but if you buy one from some retailers, you pay sales tax. That's illegal and they still get away with it.
You don't pay sales tax on labor, but you better look at you bill from your local garage before you pay it. Some charge tax on labor and try to get away with it.
What I don't understand is that if you buy something while you're on vacation or while you're working in another state, you pay the local sales tax where you buy the product and your home state doesn't give a rat's ass about it. They would be hard pressed to prove where you bought it. But if you buy online over the "internet", your home state thinks they deserve to tax your purchase.
We know what works in education, but we apparently are unable or unwilling to do it. Take a look at some of the tests from a hundred years ago and try your luck at passing them, or read reports written by sixth graders in 1900. Impressive, huh?
We need better discipline in schools and less political correctness. Zero-tolerance should be replaced with common sense and mature judgement. Teachers who can't teach (even if they know their subject backwards and forwards) should be fired. It should be possible for anyone with the proper qualifications to teach whether they have a "teaching certificate" or not; imagine a person retiring from IBM teaching a computer class or a retiree from the financial field teaching economics.
There's no need to experiment with our children using untested methods that may or may not work. We know how to do this. It ain't rocket surgery, for Christ's sake.
You may be pretty close to being right. Even if this bill is passed and becomes law, how would we know the spying has actually ended? They may just keep doing it and keep lying about it.
The insurance companies did not write the ACA. It was written before 0bama's first election by the Tides Foundation, a George Soros funded group. Congress simply passed the legislation although few had even read it. That's why the President and Congresscritters didn't know much about the law (and most still don't).
Don't believe me? Look it up for yourself. Just don't rely on sites like this or HuffPost for your info.
That's because you're not looking hard enough. Search for "IPAB", the Independent Payment Advisory Board. It's essentially a rationing board. Believe it or not, that's how it's going to function. "Death Panel" may be hyperbole, but it's not really too far off the mark, especially if you're the one being denied the care you need.
I spend many of my days driving less than 2 mph along the side of the road, usually with the two right tires about 2 or 3 feet off the pavement. Sometimes I'm on the wrong side of the road doing the same thing. All the while looking at an instrument; looking for changes in vegetation; keeping up with how far I've traveled; watching for traffic; reading a map; watching out for holes, broken glass, mailboxes, low-hanging limbs, etc; and trying my best to get near where the gas pipeline is buried. Show me a computer controlled vehicle that can handle that and I'll buy one today. I could sit back, watch the instrument and sip coffee.
Oh, did I mention backing around a mailbox with a 6 foot PVC arm sticking out to the side of the truck? Try that some time; it's a skill not many have. I can back into places where YOU couldn't even drive out of.
I first voted for President in the 1972 election - Nixon vs. McGovern. Nixon was the lesser of two evils. Most everybody by then was anti-war, like McGovern, and the war was about to end anyway, so I voted for Nixon. McGovern was not even in my calculations.
Since then the worst President I've seen was Jimmy Carter (I actually voted for him!). Smart, compassionate man who was totally unfit to be a leader, even leader of his local peanut gang. Obama is in the same mold - smart, compassionate, and totally unfit to lead. Hell, he doesn't even want to lead! He just likes the power and perks that come with the office, and is comfortable "leading from the rear". That's not what this country needs. Pity is that I don't see anyone on the horizon who could be a great replacement. Maybe somebody good will run next time; I'm not counting on it.
It's worse than that. You can fill an Ender Chest with all that cobblestone (or whatever), take another Ender Chest thousands of blocks away, and both chests will still contain the same items. The items are in two (or more) locations at the same time.
It comes in handy because you can fill the one you leave at your base with spare tools and extra food, and take another one to the mine. Then while you're away down in the mines you can use up the food and tools and replace them with items you've quarried. Go back to base and all the loot you've mined is already there!
Let me explain this to all of you. You've probably heard the old expression, "time is money", and never thought too much deeper about it. Well, time (i.e. our life) is all a person ever really has. Nobody knows how much time they have so that makes it a precious thing. We work and give part of our time (life) in exchange for a paycheck. When somebody DEMANDS that we pay a part of that paycheck (part of our life), and let the government give it to them, they are in reality demanding to own part of our life. That used to be called slavery.
I don't mind paying taxes for things that "promote the general welfare". You all misunderstand what the hell that means. It's not welfare. It's things that benefit everybody - roads, schools, defense, police, fire protection, road signs, etc.. It's simply wrong to take money from the public and give it to an individual. That's the job of charity. Oh, you say charity doesn't give enough? Probably not enough for somebody to have a big flatscreen, a cell phone, a new car, and such, but it can provide enough to keep a person alive.
The worst thing you can do to the poor is to make them comfortable in poverty. Make it a little bit miserable and they'll have an incentive to put forth more effort.
Now mod me down, kids. I haven't lived 60 years just to listen to the "wisdom" of brats living in their mom's basement.
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Cows rarely ever fart. It's their belching that is the problem. I think most posters here have never been around cattle.
Post your knot jokes here.
We call a business complex a "campus", and we call a school a "plant".
That, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with the country.
As a Roku owner this affects me how? Who uses a PC to view Netflix content? Yes, it's possible, but it's not the best way.
We have a choice where I live. Several service stations here sell pure gasoline. It's a little higher priced, but I buy it for my small engines. They run so much better and I don't have to worry about damage to the engines.
I agree completely with you, sjames. The way we're going now makes the government much more dangerous than any terrorists ever thought about being. Of course, I believe that's the whole point of the government's actions. They want the citizens to be afraid of their government.
The Superconducting Super Collider was to be about 87 km in circumference, and about 27 km of the tunnel has already been bored. Why not start the project from there?
"Excessive per-capita resource consumption in rich countries must now be reduced."
And that is where the "making us miserable" comes in. Try to deny it now.
That's it exactly! Yours is the most insightful comment yet on this subject. We should focus on educating the students on the basics, and throw away all the indoctrination crap.
It would be interesting to know how much business the USPS loses each year from not delivering politically incorrect items. I can order snus from Sweden on Sunday and UPS has it to me by Wednesday, but I can't even send one leaf of tobacco to my neighbor by USPS. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!
This deal with USPS delivering Amazon packages on Sunday is only an experiment in limited areas of the country, and may take years to be fully operational. Amazon is planning on having their own fleet of delivery vehicles in the not too distant future for same-day delivery, so it may not long before Amazon tells them to forget it.
Until USPS gets better, more timely package tracking, I think I'll stick with UPS
Had this happened to a mere handful of Toyotas or Hondas or Nissans, every politician would have been clamoring for somebody's head and lawyers would have been filing lawsuits right and left.
Sure, car fires aren't rare, but when they happen amongst so small a group of cars you have to take notice. What percent of Teslas are burnt toast now? I bet it's a higher percentage than burnt Nissans.
And the correct spelling of the state's name is Flori-duh.
We tried that with alcohol - didn't work out so well. I don't think anybody wants to go through that again. "FDA" must stand for "Fucking Draconian Attitude" nowadays, because that's what they've become.
In the U.S. we hire our pedophiles and perverts to work for the TSA. No need to spy on them.
Here in my state the taxes levied by the state, county and city on tobacco products are included in the price of the product, but you STILL pay sales tax. That's paying tax on taxes!!
You don't do that when you buy gasoline, which has all the various taxes include in the price. Why are tobacco products treated differently? Political correctness, of course. If you even suspect that I have a snus portion in my mouth, you might get cancer! Panic, panic, panic!
You don't pay sales tax on newspapers, but if you buy one from some retailers, you pay sales tax. That's illegal and they still get away with it.
You don't pay sales tax on labor, but you better look at you bill from your local garage before you pay it. Some charge tax on labor and try to get away with it.
What I don't understand is that if you buy something while you're on vacation or while you're working in another state, you pay the local sales tax where you buy the product and your home state doesn't give a rat's ass about it. They would be hard pressed to prove where you bought it. But if you buy online over the "internet", your home state thinks they deserve to tax your purchase.
Don't you think it's about time for the FairTax?
The sun and/or moon in their various cycles can effect the tides on Earth, but they have no effect on changes in the climate?
We know what works in education, but we apparently are unable or unwilling to do it. Take a look at some of the tests from a hundred years ago and try your luck at passing them, or read reports written by sixth graders in 1900. Impressive, huh?
We need better discipline in schools and less political correctness. Zero-tolerance should be replaced with common sense and mature judgement. Teachers who can't teach (even if they know their subject backwards and forwards) should be fired. It should be possible for anyone with the proper qualifications to teach whether they have a "teaching certificate" or not; imagine a person retiring from IBM teaching a computer class or a retiree from the financial field teaching economics.
There's no need to experiment with our children using untested methods that may or may not work. We know how to do this. It ain't rocket surgery, for Christ's sake.
You may be pretty close to being right. Even if this bill is passed and becomes law, how would we know the spying has actually ended? They may just keep doing it and keep lying about it.
The insurance companies did not write the ACA. It was written before 0bama's first election by the Tides Foundation, a George Soros funded group. Congress simply passed the legislation although few had even read it. That's why the President and Congresscritters didn't know much about the law (and most still don't).
Don't believe me? Look it up for yourself. Just don't rely on sites like this or HuffPost for your info.
That's because you're not looking hard enough. Search for "IPAB", the Independent Payment Advisory Board. It's essentially a rationing board. Believe it or not, that's how it's going to function. "Death Panel" may be hyperbole, but it's not really too far off the mark, especially if you're the one being denied the care you need.
I spend many of my days driving less than 2 mph along the side of the road, usually with the two right tires about 2 or 3 feet off the pavement. Sometimes I'm on the wrong side of the road doing the same thing. All the while looking at an instrument; looking for changes in vegetation; keeping up with how far I've traveled; watching for traffic; reading a map; watching out for holes, broken glass, mailboxes, low-hanging limbs, etc; and trying my best to get near where the gas pipeline is buried. Show me a computer controlled vehicle that can handle that and I'll buy one today. I could sit back, watch the instrument and sip coffee.
Oh, did I mention backing around a mailbox with a 6 foot PVC arm sticking out to the side of the truck? Try that some time; it's a skill not many have. I can back into places where YOU couldn't even drive out of.
Indeed.
How about a country where they can arrest you and hold you indefinitely without a trial and without letting you talk to a lawyer? Like the U.S..
How about a country where they can kill you with an armed drone without a trial? Like the U. S..
How about a country where they spy on your every move and all of your communications? Like the U.S..
Which country were we talking about? This is not the United States any more. I don't recognize it as the country I was born in 60 years ago.
I first voted for President in the 1972 election - Nixon vs. McGovern. Nixon was the lesser of two evils. Most everybody by then was anti-war, like McGovern, and the war was about to end anyway, so I voted for Nixon. McGovern was not even in my calculations.
Since then the worst President I've seen was Jimmy Carter (I actually voted for him!). Smart, compassionate man who was totally unfit to be a leader, even leader of his local peanut gang. Obama is in the same mold - smart, compassionate, and totally unfit to lead. Hell, he doesn't even want to lead! He just likes the power and perks that come with the office, and is comfortable "leading from the rear". That's not what this country needs. Pity is that I don't see anyone on the horizon who could be a great replacement. Maybe somebody good will run next time; I'm not counting on it.
It's worse than that. You can fill an Ender Chest with all that cobblestone (or whatever), take another Ender Chest thousands of blocks away, and both chests will still contain the same items. The items are in two (or more) locations at the same time.
It comes in handy because you can fill the one you leave at your base with spare tools and extra food, and take another one to the mine. Then while you're away down in the mines you can use up the food and tools and replace them with items you've quarried. Go back to base and all the loot you've mined is already there!
Let me explain this to all of you. You've probably heard the old expression, "time is money", and never thought too much deeper about it. Well, time (i.e. our life) is all a person ever really has. Nobody knows how much time they have so that makes it a precious thing. We work and give part of our time (life) in exchange for a paycheck. When somebody DEMANDS that we pay a part of that paycheck (part of our life), and let the government give it to them, they are in reality demanding to own part of our life. That used to be called slavery.
I don't mind paying taxes for things that "promote the general welfare". You all misunderstand what the hell that means. It's not welfare. It's things that benefit everybody - roads, schools, defense, police, fire protection, road signs, etc.. It's simply wrong to take money from the public and give it to an individual. That's the job of charity. Oh, you say charity doesn't give enough? Probably not enough for somebody to have a big flatscreen, a cell phone, a new car, and such, but it can provide enough to keep a person alive.
The worst thing you can do to the poor is to make them comfortable in poverty. Make it a little bit miserable and they'll have an incentive to put forth more effort.
Now mod me down, kids. I haven't lived 60 years just to listen to the "wisdom" of brats living in their mom's basement.