So do I stop if I don't have a cell phone? What about my business? What if I miss a wedding, the birth of my child, or an important meeting because the EMS got lost? Helping is the moral thing to do, but codifying this in law just begs for abuse. Stupid law.
I wouldn't wait that long in many scenarios. For example, if you are being threatened with physical harm by a person. Massad Ayoob (a self-defense instructor) wrote a recent article in Backwoods Home about this. The police have a tendency to believe the first "complainant" is the victim, and if an incident occurs they will remember that. If you wait until your adversary decides to attack you, even if you win you lose because the loser goes in the ambulance while the "winner" goes in the police car-- because they don't know any better.
At 20 MPG, she is probably driving a full-size car. She would have to get either an uncomfortable econobox or an impractical small car like a Fiat or Smart to keep from having a car payment.
Because the market has a better chance of gravitating toward the "common good" than an economy planned by bureaucrats?
Not educating our children would be cheaper too, should we close all schools to balance our budgets? Should we close all fire departments to save a few bucks in the short term?
Conservatives attack the car because it is expensive, and only reasonably within reach of the middle class due to subsidies that every working American has to pay for. If GM had not taken a bailout AND stimulus dollars, then used the stimulus dollars to "pay off" the loan, perhaps at least that would not be a point of contention.
You're absolutely right. We haven't had anyone try to hijack a plane lately, so we should completely remove all security from airports and concentrate it in front of abortion clinics, just in case someone tries to blow out a window with a puny bomb.
Keynesian economics did too little? We didn't have enough people performing useless "work" for the CCC? We didn't strongarm enough small business with the NRA until it was mercifully killed by the Supreme Court? A 97% income tax rate wasn't high enough? Confiscating the gold of citizens, then selling it to foreigners at a profit wasn't enough? Maybe just removing the protectionist, job-killing Smoot-Hawley tariff that Hoover had imposed would have been enough, but that's wasn't tried. I'm sure that more spending on various programs would have worked. After all, as his own Treasury Secretary Morgenthau exclaimed, "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. . . . After eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started . . . and an enormous debt to boot!"
I paid $89 for Warp 3 red box, which was the Warp version of OS/2 2.1 "for Windows". It found the existing Windows installation and modified it to allow running Windows apps under OS/2. Most people could use that edition at this point, since the "Microsoft tax" resulted in nearly all retail machines being sold with Windows 3.1. The version of Warp with full Windows support (blue box) was $199, I think.
OS/2 ran DOS natively through virtual x86 mode. What you may have seen was the dual-boot mode where you could pop the DOS kernel in place, run a troublesome DOS program (usually a game that ran a non-DPMI based DOS extender), and then when you rebooted it started OS/2 again. I guess you could say the Windows NT 3.x interface was "elegant", but it was essentially the same as Windows 3.x and had no object orientation or context menus, which are pretty basic features now.
I'm not sure why you're going on about Virtual 8086 mode, because that was supported from the release of OS/2 2.0 in 1992. How do you think it ran DOS and Windows 3.x programs so well? It certainly trapped CTRL-ALT-DEL... but all it did was flush the caches and reboot. That's because it was single-user, and had no need to trap the CTRL-ALT-DEL sequence to avoid being vulnerable to password harvesting programs. OS/2 2.0 beat Windows NT to the market, so acting as if it somehow lagged in this regard seems revisionist.
Can we pick on Ireland mercilessly for naming instead of numbering their houses-- like the USA gets picked on for still using measures based on some guy's foot?
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I'm sure that in your time, hydrogen is sold at every corner drugstore but in 2012, it's a little hard to come by!
So do I stop if I don't have a cell phone? What about my business? What if I miss a wedding, the birth of my child, or an important meeting because the EMS got lost? Helping is the moral thing to do, but codifying this in law just begs for abuse. Stupid law.
People stop to help in the USA. Where did you get that idea?
I wouldn't wait that long in many scenarios. For example, if you are being threatened with physical harm by a person. Massad Ayoob (a self-defense instructor) wrote a recent article in Backwoods Home about this. The police have a tendency to believe the first "complainant" is the victim, and if an incident occurs they will remember that. If you wait until your adversary decides to attack you, even if you win you lose because the loser goes in the ambulance while the "winner" goes in the police car-- because they don't know any better.
If the current administration doesn't sign another illegal executive order, this time banning fracking.
At 20 MPG, she is probably driving a full-size car. She would have to get either an uncomfortable econobox or an impractical small car like a Fiat or Smart to keep from having a car payment.
Straw man.
Conservatives attack the car because it is expensive, and only reasonably within reach of the middle class due to subsidies that every working American has to pay for. If GM had not taken a bailout AND stimulus dollars, then used the stimulus dollars to "pay off" the loan, perhaps at least that would not be a point of contention.
Why should middle class people pay for you to buy a Volt?
Guaranteed. You're already at "0". Only certain hyperbole is allowed.
Lots of Americans hate America.
You're absolutely right. We haven't had anyone try to hijack a plane lately, so we should completely remove all security from airports and concentrate it in front of abortion clinics, just in case someone tries to blow out a window with a puny bomb.
Keynesian economics did too little? We didn't have enough people performing useless "work" for the CCC? We didn't strongarm enough small business with the NRA until it was mercifully killed by the Supreme Court? A 97% income tax rate wasn't high enough? Confiscating the gold of citizens, then selling it to foreigners at a profit wasn't enough? Maybe just removing the protectionist, job-killing Smoot-Hawley tariff that Hoover had imposed would have been enough, but that's wasn't tried. I'm sure that more spending on various programs would have worked. After all, as his own Treasury Secretary Morgenthau exclaimed, "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. . . . After eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started . . . and an enormous debt to boot!"
Warp 3 came on CD. You do need to boot from the two included floppies to install it. I'm not sure the bootable CD existed yet.
I paid $89 for Warp 3 red box, which was the Warp version of OS/2 2.1 "for Windows". It found the existing Windows installation and modified it to allow running Windows apps under OS/2. Most people could use that edition at this point, since the "Microsoft tax" resulted in nearly all retail machines being sold with Windows 3.1. The version of Warp with full Windows support (blue box) was $199, I think.
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OS/2 ran DOS natively through virtual x86 mode. What you may have seen was the dual-boot mode where you could pop the DOS kernel in place, run a troublesome DOS program (usually a game that ran a non-DPMI based DOS extender), and then when you rebooted it started OS/2 again. I guess you could say the Windows NT 3.x interface was "elegant", but it was essentially the same as Windows 3.x and had no object orientation or context menus, which are pretty basic features now.
I'm not sure why you're going on about Virtual 8086 mode, because that was supported from the release of OS/2 2.0 in 1992. How do you think it ran DOS and Windows 3.x programs so well? It certainly trapped CTRL-ALT-DEL... but all it did was flush the caches and reboot. That's because it was single-user, and had no need to trap the CTRL-ALT-DEL sequence to avoid being vulnerable to password harvesting programs. OS/2 2.0 beat Windows NT to the market, so acting as if it somehow lagged in this regard seems revisionist.
The half cent was minted in the USA until 1857. I think it took even longer for the Canucks to dump it.
Sounds like someone with a calculator and a bunch of coins could save a lot of money in several small purchases. Beats using coupons.
Ex-cashier here. Yes, it is, when you're busy.
No, it's not. It's worth something like .8 cents. But it costs 1.5 cents to make the penny.
Bugs Bunny has a Brooklyn accent.
Can we pick on Ireland mercilessly for naming instead of numbering their houses-- like the USA gets picked on for still using measures based on some guy's foot?