If we need garbage bags, then why don't we just use old shopping bags?
You mean people don't line their wastebaskets with shopping bags? You guys must be made of money. I only buy trash bags for the kitchen or big jobs. Unrecyclable stuff goes in old shopping bags-- reuse! We built up a surplus of these bags recently, so we recycled them. We try to use durable bags for small purchases, but it's simply impractical for grocery shopping. Also, I'm sure that one of these days some rent-a-cop is going to harass me in a store for walking around with my (empty) shopping bags.
You're joking, right? Without either history or bookmarks, people would have to write the URLs down on paper or in a text file. Despite your subtly elitist attitude, most users DO visit sites other than Facebook and Hotmail. What purpose would it serve to remove those features? Save 5KB of RAM?
Time for a nuclear accident so that the President can flip-flop on this and ban all nuclear power like he's repeatedly (three times now) tried to stop off-shore oil drilling. Then his pals who've invested in "green energy" and carbon credits will hit their pay day.
It's a good thing that the USA is a republic and not a democracy, or else the uninformed Joe Averages would be much more a concern. Now you see why most politicians talk about increasing democracy, not freedom.
pretending that a woman's body is the property of the Federal Government
Wow. You don't understand what the Roe v. Wade decision was, or the content of the Constitution and the 9th and 10th amendments to it. Before RvW, states were free to choose whether to allow elective abortions within their borders. After RvW, the Supreme Court decided this power was vested in the federal government (even though it does not exist in the Constitution) and thus nullified the state laws. RvW is anti-freedom... especially if you're a fetus. So right now, the federal government IS telling you what you can do with your body... thanks to RvW. If RvW were overturned, this right would be properly returned to the states so that state citizens could choose for themselves (or move to a state that suits them better).
You have some really twisted ideas, and I'm pretty sure I do NOT want to subscribe to your newsletter.
Let's keep it simple: anyone who wants to increase government power is a progressive. Power is one thing in this world that is truly scarce: if you give more to the government, some of yours is taken away. Therefore, I oppose progressivism whether you call it left or right.
I remember "duck and cover" drills in grade school in the late 50s and early 60s, but with the death of the Soviet Union and our friendliness with Russia and China, there's almost no chance of a nuclear apocalypse.
Iran is about two years away from a nuclear ICBM and their leader believes in hastening the return of the Twelfth Imam.
In my country of residence we can't be sued into bankruptcy, due to a government department that pays for injuries arising from accidents. We are still liable for actual damages, but million dollar lawsuits for pain and suffering don't happen. As a result my yearly premium on a V6 sedan is 127 dollars.
Add up all of the money you--and your employer, on your behalf--have paid over the years for insurance, and imagine how far that money would have gone had you paid it into, I dunno, a mutual fund or something instead of paying for actuaries and marble-halled buildings.
It pretty much would have gone into the toilet over 2008-2009.
Probably not, because no one makes a V-bank four cylinder (they're all in-line or horizontally opposed) and the Mustang comes stock with a V6 which is actually pretty darn powerful.
You let your wet clothes sit in the washer all night? I'd hate to be your coworker, what with your rumpled clothes and mildew aroma. Clothes washers usually use a hard-wired 15A circuit, which makes installing a timer more difficult as well. I call BS.
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Yes. Could I have found a Slashdotter that realizes opposing progressives doesn't mean you're a Republican?
The hysterics will begin once a rich progressive like George Soros figures out how to make money from it.
Hot stuff doesn't burn your hand or leak through them?
You mean people don't line their wastebaskets with shopping bags? You guys must be made of money. I only buy trash bags for the kitchen or big jobs. Unrecyclable stuff goes in old shopping bags-- reuse! We built up a surplus of these bags recently, so we recycled them. We try to use durable bags for small purchases, but it's simply impractical for grocery shopping. Also, I'm sure that one of these days some rent-a-cop is going to harass me in a store for walking around with my (empty) shopping bags.
Or the President could stop interfering with BP and Louisiana so that the leak could be stopped and cleanup accelerated.
Yes.
You're joking, right? Without either history or bookmarks, people would have to write the URLs down on paper or in a text file. Despite your subtly elitist attitude, most users DO visit sites other than Facebook and Hotmail. What purpose would it serve to remove those features? Save 5KB of RAM?
Is it both a floor wax AND a dessert topping?
Smelly, but smart?
You'd have to be feeling pretty loose to compare an accident that caused no deaths and released no radiation to Chernobyl.
Time for a nuclear accident so that the President can flip-flop on this and ban all nuclear power like he's repeatedly (three times now) tried to stop off-shore oil drilling. Then his pals who've invested in "green energy" and carbon credits will hit their pay day.
It's a good thing that the USA is a republic and not a democracy, or else the uninformed Joe Averages would be much more a concern. Now you see why most politicians talk about increasing democracy, not freedom.
Wow. You don't understand what the Roe v. Wade decision was, or the content of the Constitution and the 9th and 10th amendments to it. Before RvW, states were free to choose whether to allow elective abortions within their borders. After RvW, the Supreme Court decided this power was vested in the federal government (even though it does not exist in the Constitution) and thus nullified the state laws. RvW is anti-freedom... especially if you're a fetus. So right now, the federal government IS telling you what you can do with your body... thanks to RvW. If RvW were overturned, this right would be properly returned to the states so that state citizens could choose for themselves (or move to a state that suits them better).
You have some really twisted ideas, and I'm pretty sure I do NOT want to subscribe to your newsletter.
Let's keep it simple: anyone who wants to increase government power is a progressive. Power is one thing in this world that is truly scarce: if you give more to the government, some of yours is taken away. Therefore, I oppose progressivism whether you call it left or right.
Like Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann.
Because water costs money for people with city water?
Sorry, I just couldn't see him being on there.
By allowing our economy to be taken over by huge multinational corporations via progressive government policies?
Iran is about two years away from a nuclear ICBM and their leader believes in hastening the return of the Twelfth Imam.
.02 isn't intoxication. Do you work for MADD?
And that's "free", right?
It pretty much would have gone into the toilet over 2008-2009.
This was modded funny, but actually I like this idea a lot better than the RIAA one.
Probably not, because no one makes a V-bank four cylinder (they're all in-line or horizontally opposed) and the Mustang comes stock with a V6 which is actually pretty darn powerful.
You let your wet clothes sit in the washer all night? I'd hate to be your coworker, what with your rumpled clothes and mildew aroma. Clothes washers usually use a hard-wired 15A circuit, which makes installing a timer more difficult as well. I call BS.