Just because you are more likely to get accidentally killed by some other means does not mean that we should stop people whose main goal in life is to deliberately kill you.
I can't understand how having more friends in real life would somehow be more stressful, unless some of them are difficult to deal with, in which case, who needs them. I have a relatively small number of friends, and I spend time with them on a weekly basis or less, but I never stress out over what they might be thinking about me, whether I have sufficiently updated them on what I am doing or any of that silliness. Maybe in Junior High, but not now.
If that were true, then the older people got the more liberal they would become, as they get more exposed to the world, but the opposite seems to be the case.
The current liberal market is younger and college level educated. The conservative market are older and although contains college level educated individuals its not as high as the liberal market.
Statistics show that there are percentage wise more college educated republicans than democrats. Statistics also show that there are percentage-wise for more high school dropouts among democrats than among republicans. The only statistic which shows higher education among democrats is the slightly higher percentage of post graduate among democrats
I hate to point this out, but those same fearful old conservatives 40 years ago were probably young educated liberals, and 40 years from now, today's young educated liberals will be fearful old conservatives. That's just the way it works. When we are young and essentially have not much money money and little responsibility and are getting supported more or less by the government through the education system, we selfishly want the government to continue those social and educational benefit programs which benefit us, then when we get older, get a job, get responsibilities, get taxed, we tend to selfishly want to keep the money which we have been working so hard to get. Looking out for number one is the name of the game in both cases, but don't feel bad, because if it weren't for looking out for number one, then we wouldn't be here today.
The carriers don't want to stop this pricing model. They are trying to steer you towards it. My wife needed a new phone, just a phone. She doesn't do internet, apps or any of that crap. So we looked at what phones we could get. She could get many smartphones with retail values up to $300 for free with a two year commitment, but for dumb phones even with a two year commitment, the discounts were either non-existent or piss-poor. Of course, they are happy to give away a smartphone, because the extra $20 a month they charge you for data costs them next to nothing and you will have that phone paid for in no time.
Looking at the track list on that one, you are correct that this one has many more interesting cuts than the typical release. Nearly 8 listenable songs of out of 30 something. I think I'll still give it a skip though.
Thank goodness the other news outlets receive all of their funding from dollars falling from the skies and don't have to depend on selling ads.
Interesting how people will put up with the sensationalism and propaganda as long as it lines up with their own beliefs or political leanings.
I might have been interested if they did a classic rock version, but all of the versions they have are 90% uninteresting crap and 10% something I might want to hear. Now granted, that is the same ration that pop music uses, but that is also why I don't buy pop music. I only buy music where the whole album is interesting, which is my 95% of my collection is 70's music.
You're right. And how could they have expected it to last? It is a pretty picture on top of a Simple Simon interface. Push the right buttons at the right time. My girls have about a dozen games on the Wii that are all the same concept as well. Except that on the Wii it is actually more challenging than GH, because you have to spin around or raise up your hand or whatever at the right time.
If they really wanted to make some money they should have patented the idea of mashing a button at the right time. Too bad there is prior art.
Well, a Lexus is a car and is useful for transportation. An iphone for a 13 year old is a $100 a month toy. Giving a 13 year old an iPhone will encourage them to make equally poor decisions with their money when they grow up.
Wow, I find the complete opposite is the case. I play Gran Turismo and the other day I was just noticing how in GT I always use both feet so I can jump on the brake and back on the gas quickly, but in real life I have never even thought about using anything other than my right foot. In the real world, since you are not racing you don't need to be off the brake and back on the gas so quickly, so you can and should use one foot. I have never had any trouble with having to remind myself whether I was playing a game or driving in real life.
"Continental finds that frequent players of titles like Gran Turismo and Grand Theft Auto are more likely to crash their real-life cars than those that don't."
Really, and does it also mention that there is a strong correlation between people who play GTA and Gran Turismo and people who are relatively new and inexperienced drivers? No, why mention that. That would totally invalidate the survey that some special interest paid them to do.
I would say that you would only be able to use your device about 70% of the year in the average U.S. city based on those requirements. Do they stop charging you for service in the winter as well? Somehow doubt it.
What is a 13 year old doing with an iPhone? Does she even have a job? Are her parents aware of the ongoing worldwide economic crisis? Don't they know how difficult it is for us practical parents to keep telling our kids that they can't have what is essentially a toy until such time as they are old enough to need one and can take care of it properly?
So all of a sudden these ISPs are losing millions of dollars because they are not allowed to operate in Egypt. Is the Egyptian government going to be compensating them for this direct expense?
You are absolutely correct. In fact, even of the services you pay for, you cannot sue them if they don't provide you the service. If the electric company decides not to provide you with service, you cannot sue them, nor can you sue your gas provider, your mobile phone service provider, your broadband provider, or your cable provider. Read the fine print in your contract. You are obligated to pay them every month, but if they do not provide you the service you paid for, then you are just out of luck.
That is why we should base it upon something that remains constant, even if that something is purely theoretical, like 1000 moles of the primary ion of Hydrogen.
Well, they could put it on a scale and see how much mass it has. That would tell them if it is increasing or decreasing. Of course, that is somewhat faceticious, but really, do they actually use this sacred piece of metal for actually calibrating something else outside? My supposition is that they may have done so at some point in the past and now the other scales are now the practical standard used.
I agree that toll collection is extremely inefficient. This is just like parking meters. At first they were planned to help make extra money for inner city infrastructure, but now the parking meters basically just cover the cost of the parking meter enforcement and maintenance, so it became just a makework project.
If only there was a way to collect a tax in a centralized location base on the amount of wear and tear that a vehicle does and how many miles they drive. Oh wait, there is, we could charge a tax for every dollar of fuel sold. The more heavy vehicles buy more gas, and the ones that drive farther buy more gas, There is no need for expensive toll collectors or electronic pass infrastructure. All that crap needlessly escalates the cost of maintaining the roads, but they justify it as making jobs for people, basically middle class welfare.
Of course, by collecting taxes on fuel, electric cars get a free pass, but they usually are smaller cars and don't cause as much damage, so I am willing to give them their free pass. Perhaps in the future, there could be a tax on "fast charges" at electric fueling stations.
Seriously? Toll collectors get health insurance and pension? Maybe that is why California is going bankrupt.
Most jobs that I have worked in have advertised that they provide health insurance, but in most cases, what that meant was that they allowed you to pay for your own health insurance through the company program with pretax dollars (which Obama will be ending shortly). So the health insurance doesn't actually cost the company anything. And pension? Apparently only jobs that don't required a college education offer pensions.
I would say a more important issue is how he can be found guilty when what he did was not wrong. He avoided paying taxes, which is not illegal. He did not evade taxes that he ACTUALLY owed. When you decide not to purchase a new car, you avoid taxes, when you purchase a new car and then don't send the state the sales tax, you have evaded taxes.
This guy used the portion of the tax law which says that you only have to pay FICA tax on salary and not on dividends and does not make any specification on how much salary you have to pay yourself. The fact that they found the guy guilty means that the IRS and whatever judge made the ruling are operating in violation of United States tax code.
I thought a fundamental Christian is someone who believes in the fundamental tenets of Christianity and same same for fundamentalist Muslims. However, according to the media, a fundamentalist is someone who directly contradicts the teaching of their religion and blows things up.
Also, why would UFOs have lights? Wouldn't it be extremely unlikely that creatures from another planet (or even this one) happened to have evolved to develop eyes or some other mechanism of using light as an input source?
Also, why would creatures from some faraway galaxy happen to be approximately 6 feet tall, 180 pounds, have a similar facial structure, two arms, two legs, opposable thumbs and so forth? In other words, out of millions of other species on the Earth, why would they so resemble us? If there are little green men, what are the odds that their size would be within an order of magnitude smaller or larger than us?
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Just because you are more likely to get accidentally killed by some other means does not mean that we should stop people whose main goal in life is to deliberately kill you.
Then they should spread the rumor that Osama Bin Ladin is a pedophile and be done with it.
I can't understand how having more friends in real life would somehow be more stressful, unless some of them are difficult to deal with, in which case, who needs them. I have a relatively small number of friends, and I spend time with them on a weekly basis or less, but I never stress out over what they might be thinking about me, whether I have sufficiently updated them on what I am doing or any of that silliness. Maybe in Junior High, but not now.
This is not a plate spinning contest. Just be yourself and if they can't handle it, then let them unfriend you.
If that were true, then the older people got the more liberal they would become, as they get more exposed to the world, but the opposite seems to be the case.
The current liberal market is younger and college level educated. The conservative market are older and although contains college level educated individuals its not as high as the liberal market.
Statistics show that there are percentage wise more college educated republicans than democrats. Statistics also show that there are percentage-wise for more high school dropouts among democrats than among republicans. The only statistic which shows higher education among democrats is the slightly higher percentage of post graduate among democrats
I hate to point this out, but those same fearful old conservatives 40 years ago were probably young educated liberals, and 40 years from now, today's young educated liberals will be fearful old conservatives. That's just the way it works. When we are young and essentially have not much money money and little responsibility and are getting supported more or less by the government through the education system, we selfishly want the government to continue those social and educational benefit programs which benefit us, then when we get older, get a job, get responsibilities, get taxed, we tend to selfishly want to keep the money which we have been working so hard to get. Looking out for number one is the name of the game in both cases, but don't feel bad, because if it weren't for looking out for number one, then we wouldn't be here today.
The carriers don't want to stop this pricing model. They are trying to steer you towards it. My wife needed a new phone, just a phone. She doesn't do internet, apps or any of that crap. So we looked at what phones we could get. She could get many smartphones with retail values up to $300 for free with a two year commitment, but for dumb phones even with a two year commitment, the discounts were either non-existent or piss-poor. Of course, they are happy to give away a smartphone, because the extra $20 a month they charge you for data costs them next to nothing and you will have that phone paid for in no time.
Looking at the track list on that one, you are correct that this one has many more interesting cuts than the typical release. Nearly 8 listenable songs of out of 30 something. I think I'll still give it a skip though.
Thank goodness the other news outlets receive all of their funding from dollars falling from the skies and don't have to depend on selling ads.
Interesting how people will put up with the sensationalism and propaganda as long as it lines up with their own beliefs or political leanings.
I might have been interested if they did a classic rock version, but all of the versions they have are 90% uninteresting crap and 10% something I might want to hear. Now granted, that is the same ration that pop music uses, but that is also why I don't buy pop music. I only buy music where the whole album is interesting, which is my 95% of my collection is 70's music.
You're right. And how could they have expected it to last? It is a pretty picture on top of a Simple Simon interface. Push the right buttons at the right time. My girls have about a dozen games on the Wii that are all the same concept as well. Except that on the Wii it is actually more challenging than GH, because you have to spin around or raise up your hand or whatever at the right time.
If they really wanted to make some money they should have patented the idea of mashing a button at the right time. Too bad there is prior art.
Well, a Lexus is a car and is useful for transportation. An iphone for a 13 year old is a $100 a month toy. Giving a 13 year old an iPhone will encourage them to make equally poor decisions with their money when they grow up.
Wow, I find the complete opposite is the case. I play Gran Turismo and the other day I was just noticing how in GT I always use both feet so I can jump on the brake and back on the gas quickly, but in real life I have never even thought about using anything other than my right foot. In the real world, since you are not racing you don't need to be off the brake and back on the gas so quickly, so you can and should use one foot. I have never had any trouble with having to remind myself whether I was playing a game or driving in real life.
"Continental finds that frequent players of titles like Gran Turismo and Grand Theft Auto are more likely to crash their real-life cars than those that don't."
Really, and does it also mention that there is a strong correlation between people who play GTA and Gran Turismo and people who are relatively new and inexperienced drivers? No, why mention that. That would totally invalidate the survey that some special interest paid them to do.
I would say that you would only be able to use your device about 70% of the year in the average U.S. city based on those requirements. Do they stop charging you for service in the winter as well? Somehow doubt it.
What is a 13 year old doing with an iPhone? Does she even have a job? Are her parents aware of the ongoing worldwide economic crisis? Don't they know how difficult it is for us practical parents to keep telling our kids that they can't have what is essentially a toy until such time as they are old enough to need one and can take care of it properly?
So all of a sudden these ISPs are losing millions of dollars because they are not allowed to operate in Egypt. Is the Egyptian government going to be compensating them for this direct expense?
You are absolutely correct. In fact, even of the services you pay for, you cannot sue them if they don't provide you the service. If the electric company decides not to provide you with service, you cannot sue them, nor can you sue your gas provider, your mobile phone service provider, your broadband provider, or your cable provider. Read the fine print in your contract. You are obligated to pay them every month, but if they do not provide you the service you paid for, then you are just out of luck.
That is why we should base it upon something that remains constant, even if that something is purely theoretical, like 1000 moles of the primary ion of Hydrogen.
Well, they could put it on a scale and see how much mass it has. That would tell them if it is increasing or decreasing. Of course, that is somewhat faceticious, but really, do they actually use this sacred piece of metal for actually calibrating something else outside? My supposition is that they may have done so at some point in the past and now the other scales are now the practical standard used.
I agree that toll collection is extremely inefficient. This is just like parking meters. At first they were planned to help make extra money for inner city infrastructure, but now the parking meters basically just cover the cost of the parking meter enforcement and maintenance, so it became just a makework project.
If only there was a way to collect a tax in a centralized location base on the amount of wear and tear that a vehicle does and how many miles they drive. Oh wait, there is, we could charge a tax for every dollar of fuel sold. The more heavy vehicles buy more gas, and the ones that drive farther buy more gas, There is no need for expensive toll collectors or electronic pass infrastructure. All that crap needlessly escalates the cost of maintaining the roads, but they justify it as making jobs for people, basically middle class welfare.
Of course, by collecting taxes on fuel, electric cars get a free pass, but they usually are smaller cars and don't cause as much damage, so I am willing to give them their free pass. Perhaps in the future, there could be a tax on "fast charges" at electric fueling stations.
Seriously? Toll collectors get health insurance and pension? Maybe that is why California is going bankrupt.
Most jobs that I have worked in have advertised that they provide health insurance, but in most cases, what that meant was that they allowed you to pay for your own health insurance through the company program with pretax dollars (which Obama will be ending shortly). So the health insurance doesn't actually cost the company anything. And pension? Apparently only jobs that don't required a college education offer pensions.
I would say a more important issue is how he can be found guilty when what he did was not wrong. He avoided paying taxes, which is not illegal. He did not evade taxes that he ACTUALLY owed. When you decide not to purchase a new car, you avoid taxes, when you purchase a new car and then don't send the state the sales tax, you have evaded taxes.
This guy used the portion of the tax law which says that you only have to pay FICA tax on salary and not on dividends and does not make any specification on how much salary you have to pay yourself. The fact that they found the guy guilty means that the IRS and whatever judge made the ruling are operating in violation of United States tax code.
I thought a fundamental Christian is someone who believes in the fundamental tenets of Christianity and same same for fundamentalist Muslims. However, according to the media, a fundamentalist is someone who directly contradicts the teaching of their religion and blows things up.
Also, why would UFOs have lights? Wouldn't it be extremely unlikely that creatures from another planet (or even this one) happened to have evolved to develop eyes or some other mechanism of using light as an input source?
Also, why would creatures from some faraway galaxy happen to be approximately 6 feet tall, 180 pounds, have a similar facial structure, two arms, two legs, opposable thumbs and so forth? In other words, out of millions of other species on the Earth, why would they so resemble us? If there are little green men, what are the odds that their size would be within an order of magnitude smaller or larger than us?