If it is to have better chances to get a job interview, I can understand...
That's exactly the reason, especially if you are young and starting to try to get your foot in the door for a new career.
Most places will not even look at your resume if you don't have a Bachelors degree of some type. Today, a Bachelors degree is what a High School diploma was decades ago...minimum requirement to get any kind of decent job (ie not flipping burgers).
But unless your Dad owns the company in question or you know someone that is very high up in the company, your application/resume will go straight into the trash can if you don't at least have a basic diploma from an accredited 4yr college.
Now...once you have job experience under your belt...that's pretty much all that matters as you move from job to job increasing your salary/bill rate.
Honestly, I don't see how anyone can afford the price of the average new car these days. Maybe I am just in the wrong line of work, but with the price of the average new car approaching half my salary (and me being in the supposedly upper middle class), it is no small wonder to me that the auto industry is failing. How about building a car that a mere upper middle class wage earner can afford?
Well, avg car price in the US (I think on the CBS evening news the other night) was just under $25K.
So, if your salary is $50K...hate to say it...you are not UPPER middle class...that is at the middle maybe of middle class...maybe a touch lower in todays economy. $100K and up is more upper middle class....it sure ain't rich like it used to be in the old days.
So restricting one of the most inefficient and wasteful uses of electricity isn't a bad thing, it saves money and resources and decreases pollution
Strangely...I cannot for the life of me, think of any of the limited enumerated powers that the Federal US govt has in the constitution....gives them this power..?
75k is definitely not a "RegularCar". 30-40k is closer to a reasonable high end sedan. Most sedans are still in the 20-30k range, but at least 30-40 would be a consideration for a lot more people.
I think it was on the CBS evening news in the last week or so...they said the avg US car price had hit an all time high...I'm trying to say it was like $24K-$28K.
And that prices were increasing...largely due to lack of cars being produced due to shortages of parts caused by the Japanese problems.
The Lotus Elise, which closely resembles and was the initial test mule for the Roadster, costs around 40k US, and that's a standard gasoline engine. How the hell would Tesla get their tech anywhere near 30k?
If they could have gotten it into the range of a corvette, I'd likely own one.
Too bad I wasn't in CO a few years back, when they had a tax rebate snafu that I'd heard of on electric vehicles. I think they had a huge percentage tax credit...with no cap for awhile. I heard you could have gotten a tesla for in the $50K range with all the credits....
In a similar situation should a guy sleep with someone he consider's ugly on the first date, they'll do the same song and dance.
Not really...but they'll chew their arm off to try to get out the next morning without waking her up...and hope their friends didn't see them leave with 'Lassie'....
But hardly any guys try to go back and justify that their actions, They at least got laid...and just hope they don't get razzed too much by their friends afterwards. And the razzing isn't THAT bad...I mean, most every guy beds an ugly/fat chick at least once or twice...but they don't mentally have to go through everything trying to justify their actions...
We're guys....we just do this stuff. We try to get laid, and occasionally the booze adjusts your boundaries...but you still got laid.
You started with a legitimate question and then followed with bullshit.
Not really...although I did say it forcefully with a couple of explicatives.
But from my findings over the years with many women...and when talking to many other men over the years...we all pretty much come up with the fact that despite both sexes being human, and having the same base needs (food, air, water, etc)...when it comes to the brain and thought patterns and behavior and reactions to social situation...women are completely and totally different than men.
Women just do NOT share the same though processes as men do.
The main one that fascinates me, is woman's tendency for backwards rationalization.
She'll go back tracing why she did something, or reacted to a situation...and basically change her reality of the situation to fit her needs.
Say she goes out and sleeps with a guy that picks her up...the girl will often rationalize sex with a this man on the first night based on his ease with women, and the accidentally nature of it all, or she was 'tipsy', when in reality she wanted it as much as he did, but had to convince herself and her social circle that she is âoenot that easyâ, as least most of the time.
That last part in particular.
She will often go back...rationalizing her actions, and will actually often change her beliefs on what actually transpired through the past....and believe it as if it really happened.
Sure men and women have this trait, but men not nearly as so as women who use it on a seemingly constant basis.
Do the nym accounts still work out there....tools like mixmaster....bouncing things about remailers encrypted on each step....having final post as encrypted on a USENET group...etc?
Been over a decade since I last played with stuff...but when I tried awhile back..most of it seemed dying or dead as far as nodes go...or dependability of uptime on the ones that did still seem to work.
I always thought that was pretty darned anonymous.....
If you really want to bring women into gaming at a mainstream level, you have to make games specifically tailored for women.
That's the thing...WTF do women want in gaming ?
Hell, we can't for the most part figure out what the the fuck they want in real life....much less what to put in a game that would entice them to buy and play.
The recent police shooting in Florida that made the news after it was filmed and the photographer was arrested was filmed using an HTC Evo, not an iPhone.
Ok, and exactly WHY as a iPhone customer, would I want such 'feature' on my phone?? Rather limiting I'd say.
I don't want my electronic gadgets to be told what to do by other sources....I want it up to ME what I film and don't film,etc.
So, when the cops are beating someone, will they be deploying or wearing these nifty IR devices to prevent us, the general public from filming them?!?!?
I mean, aside from the lameness of this, fixing a problem that isn't there....what about the abuses of this?
Sure I may check out some racy pics of celebrities or models, but the more 'intense' stuff was solved when I got married 10 years ago.
So...you don't get at least a little tired of looking at the same nekkid chick every day for the rest of your life?
I mean, I've had some beautiful girlfriends with great pussy....but after a few months...I still like to look at a little 'strange'. And after 10yrs of marriage, I'd have to imagine you'd need a little imagery of someone different while doing your wife..to keep it interesting, no?
It has nothing to do with love...just that men are prone to liking variety....and find it exciting.
The Free State Project is a failure because they picked the wrong state. They want 20,000 freedom loving people to move to NH, while 10,000 massholes move there each year, canceling out the FSP efforts in 2 years.
Not to mention it is too fucking cold up there for too much of the year.
Pick somewhere more temperate....and friendly (think more southern in direction).
On a semi-serious note what's up with attractive equaling super skinny? I like my women to actually look like women and not kids.
Well, not super skinny, but I do prefer them to not be fat. I try to take care of myself, so I want a woman that does too.
That and over the years I've found that after I get in any longer term relationship with a chick...she usually starts to plump up on me. I like to cook, eat and drink....and they usually do too.
So, I find if I start with them skinny enough...when they gain a little..they'll be about right, and not fat.
I don't want anorexic...but a slim waist and a nice ass and perky tits.....well, that turns me on. I don't think I"m totally alone in this.
Even if the drug trade were legal, we'd still have a large number of so-called consenting adults not hurting anybody but themselves actively hurting everyone and themselves.
Sure you would, but at least if drugs weren't illegal, we could save the billions and billions spent on prisons, and enforcement and redirect some of it to helping those who do want help (and wouldn't be as fearful of coming out of the shadows for help), and also go towards paying off the US debt....not to mention, if you take that much profit out of criminal hands, violence should decrease accordingly.
And to pay for the lawyers when you get sued for distributing someone else's content.
I was figuring...plenty of amateur stuff out there...people posted of themselves, etc. Not likely anyone going searching for those to sue you for...
Heck..at the very least...what about links into videos on RedTube...or is there a law against linking now?
Anyway...just looking to experiment maybe and see HOW much people would pay. And if you got notice...just comply and pull that image off.
Just was talking for fun with friends one night....wondering "Hey..why NOT put some ads on craigslist locally...see what you could get girls to do on film, for how much and signing the rights to you producing the video."
At the very least...might be a fun way to get laid a bit more. I mean, from what I understand, if you pay a girl to have sex, it is prostitution and illegal. If you get her to sign forms and film it...perfectly legal.
There are a lot of people out there....either stupid or uneductated about things enough to have no clue you can find pr0n for free.
For a fun experiment, I've been thinking of doing some kind of USENET scraping...to gather some porn for free....set up a web server and charge suckers for it, just to see how many try to pay me for free porn I get.
I have to guess I'd get a decent amount of money....just got to target the code to be careful to NOT get anything illegal out there and post it on the site.
It really sounds like they are trying to treat individuals the same as businesses, which long have been sued from companies for sometimes inadvertent uses of entertainment. (like how professional sports cannot be shown in a bar without paying a fee)
It also sounds like big business (or their representatives/lobbyist) have fully started buying state legislatures. I guess easier and cheaper to bribe on the state level?
I know that the govt, especially in this case the state govt isn't listening to their constituency....I mean, I cannot believe if they polled their voters that they'd come up with the idea that this was a good idea to "the people".
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That's exactly the reason, especially if you are young and starting to try to get your foot in the door for a new career.
Most places will not even look at your resume if you don't have a Bachelors degree of some type. Today, a Bachelors degree is what a High School diploma was decades ago...minimum requirement to get any kind of decent job (ie not flipping burgers).
But unless your Dad owns the company in question or you know someone that is very high up in the company, your application/resume will go straight into the trash can if you don't at least have a basic diploma from an accredited 4yr college.
Now...once you have job experience under your belt...that's pretty much all that matters as you move from job to job increasing your salary/bill rate.
Well, avg car price in the US (I think on the CBS evening news the other night) was just under $25K.
So, if your salary is $50K...hate to say it...you are not UPPER middle class...that is at the middle maybe of middle class...maybe a touch lower in todays economy. $100K and up is more upper middle class....it sure ain't rich like it used to be in the old days.
Strangely...I cannot for the life of me, think of any of the limited enumerated powers that the Federal US govt has in the constitution....gives them this power..?
I think it was on the CBS evening news in the last week or so...they said the avg US car price had hit an all time high...I'm trying to say it was like $24K-$28K.
And that prices were increasing...largely due to lack of cars being produced due to shortages of parts caused by the Japanese problems.
If they could have gotten it into the range of a corvette, I'd likely own one.
Too bad I wasn't in CO a few years back, when they had a tax rebate snafu that I'd heard of on electric vehicles. I think they had a huge percentage tax credit...with no cap for awhile. I heard you could have gotten a tesla for in the $50K range with all the credits....
This is about the ONLY electric (or even for hybrid class) type cars I'd ever be remotely interested in...
Everything else out so far, is fugly...and boringly utilitarian.
Oh well, guess I'll stick with gas powered cars, with performance that I can shift...till they outlaw gasoline, which I don't envision in my lifetime.
If something isn't fun to drive...might as well take a fucking bus with the winos.
Not really...but they'll chew their arm off to try to get out the next morning without waking her up...and hope their friends didn't see them leave with 'Lassie'....
But hardly any guys try to go back and justify that their actions, They at least got laid...and just hope they don't get razzed too much by their friends afterwards. And the razzing isn't THAT bad...I mean, most every guy beds an ugly/fat chick at least once or twice...but they don't mentally have to go through everything trying to justify their actions...
We're guys....we just do this stuff. We try to get laid, and occasionally the booze adjusts your boundaries...but you still got laid.
Not really...although I did say it forcefully with a couple of explicatives.
But from my findings over the years with many women...and when talking to many other men over the years...we all pretty much come up with the fact that despite both sexes being human, and having the same base needs (food, air, water, etc)...when it comes to the brain and thought patterns and behavior and reactions to social situation...women are completely and totally different than men.
Women just do NOT share the same though processes as men do.
The main one that fascinates me, is woman's tendency for backwards rationalization.
She'll go back tracing why she did something, or reacted to a situation...and basically change her reality of the situation to fit her needs.
Say she goes out and sleeps with a guy that picks her up...the girl will often rationalize sex with a this man on the first night based on his ease with women, and the accidentally nature of it all, or she was 'tipsy', when in reality she wanted it as much as he did, but had to convince herself and her social circle that she is âoenot that easyâ, as least most of the time.
That last part in particular.
She will often go back...rationalizing her actions, and will actually often change her beliefs on what actually transpired through the past....and believe it as if it really happened.
Sure men and women have this trait, but men not nearly as so as women who use it on a seemingly constant basis.
Any suggestions?
Do the nym accounts still work out there....tools like mixmaster....bouncing things about remailers encrypted on each step....having final post as encrypted on a USENET group...etc?
Been over a decade since I last played with stuff...but when I tried awhile back..most of it seemed dying or dead as far as nodes go...or dependability of uptime on the ones that did still seem to work.
I always thought that was pretty darned anonymous.....
That's the thing...WTF do women want in gaming ?
Hell, we can't for the most part figure out what the the fuck they want in real life....much less what to put in a game that would entice them to buy and play.
Isn't that more of a blessing than a drawback?
I'd not heard of this event.
Why was the photographer arrested?
I don't want my electronic gadgets to be told what to do by other sources....I want it up to ME what I film and don't film,etc.
So, when the cops are beating someone, will they be deploying or wearing these nifty IR devices to prevent us, the general public from filming them?!?!?
I mean, aside from the lameness of this, fixing a problem that isn't there....what about the abuses of this?
There's nothing illegal about owning and being proud of guns (at least in the US)...so I don't get this comment on the article.
It isn't like being a gun owner would prevent anyone from getting a job or anything...never heard of that one.
I thought it was so they could get the Jet database engine from FP...and put it into that abomination called Access....
So...you don't get at least a little tired of looking at the same nekkid chick every day for the rest of your life?
I mean, I've had some beautiful girlfriends with great pussy....but after a few months...I still like to look at a little 'strange'. And after 10yrs of marriage, I'd have to imagine you'd need a little imagery of someone different while doing your wife..to keep it interesting, no?
It has nothing to do with love...just that men are prone to liking variety....and find it exciting.
Not to mention it is too fucking cold up there for too much of the year.
Pick somewhere more temperate....and friendly (think more southern in direction).
Well, not super skinny, but I do prefer them to not be fat. I try to take care of myself, so I want a woman that does too.
That and over the years I've found that after I get in any longer term relationship with a chick...she usually starts to plump up on me. I like to cook, eat and drink....and they usually do too.
So, I find if I start with them skinny enough...when they gain a little..they'll be about right, and not fat.
I don't want anorexic...but a slim waist and a nice ass and perky tits.....well, that turns me on. I don't think I"m totally alone in this.
From the name Homeland Security, it just doesn't sound like it is something they would be charged with as a responsibility....?
Are we in danger of copyright terrorists blowing up planes over here or something? Is the Pirate Party threatening to invade us?
Why don't they worry about something that sounds like it should be right up their alley.....like securing our extremely porous borders?
Why?
I mean, just about everyone likes to look at nekkid chicks....(not the fat ones).
Sure you would, but at least if drugs weren't illegal, we could save the billions and billions spent on prisons, and enforcement and redirect some of it to helping those who do want help (and wouldn't be as fearful of coming out of the shadows for help), and also go towards paying off the US debt....not to mention, if you take that much profit out of criminal hands, violence should decrease accordingly.
I was figuring...plenty of amateur stuff out there...people posted of themselves, etc. Not likely anyone going searching for those to sue you for...
Heck..at the very least...what about links into videos on RedTube...or is there a law against linking now?
Anyway...just looking to experiment maybe and see HOW much people would pay. And if you got notice...just comply and pull that image off.
Just was talking for fun with friends one night....wondering "Hey..why NOT put some ads on craigslist locally...see what you could get girls to do on film, for how much and signing the rights to you producing the video."
At the very least...might be a fun way to get laid a bit more. I mean, from what I understand, if you pay a girl to have sex, it is prostitution and illegal. If you get her to sign forms and film it...perfectly legal.
There are a lot of people out there....either stupid or uneductated about things enough to have no clue you can find pr0n for free.
For a fun experiment, I've been thinking of doing some kind of USENET scraping...to gather some porn for free....set up a web server and charge suckers for it, just to see how many try to pay me for free porn I get.
I have to guess I'd get a decent amount of money....just got to target the code to be careful to NOT get anything illegal out there and post it on the site.
Maybe the juveniles of today, are too busy doing meth...
It also sounds like big business (or their representatives/lobbyist) have fully started buying state legislatures. I guess easier and cheaper to bribe on the state level?
I know that the govt, especially in this case the state govt isn't listening to their constituency....I mean, I cannot believe if they polled their voters that they'd come up with the idea that this was a good idea to "the people".