I must admit to having mixed feelings about the end of the Shuttle era. While the Shuttle did not quite live up to the promise of making spaceflight "routine", this means an end to American spaceflight capability, at least for the short term.
I will echo what CmdrTaco said: I hope we return to space soon. I would also like to thank the 14 astronauts who gave their lives in the pursuit of space on the Shuttles.
Makes me wonder where the world might be if we stopped expending time, money and effort on stupid shit like litigation over the use of the word "geek".
2) 1/3rd of the human population in the US on food stamps.
Huh? Do you have a source for this? The population of the US is about 309 million. WP's article on food stamps says there were about 43 million people on food stamps in the US as of November. That makes 14%, which is quite a bit less than 1/3.
Be that as it may, but that is still an enormous amount of people who are unable to meet one of the basic needs for survival with their own resources. I call that a bad thing.
"Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot." - Scott Adams, "The Dilbert Principle"
Are you by any chance referring to the same democrat who signed off on extending them, presumably because he believes (as did Bush) that it will help the economy?
Might it be fair to now refer to them as the "Obama tax cuts"?
No, it would not. They were extended as part of a compromise with Republicans who would not have agreed to anything that caused their constituency (the wealthy) to have to pay their fair share (they actually pay less in percentage than the rest, some even pay nothing). His original goal was to have them sunset for the top 1%. To call them "Obama tax cuts" would be disingenuous at best.
Nice equipment and editing, quite poor dialogue/acting, though:
[pained, confused]: "Why did you take me here?"
[rapidly and without emotion, as a fast-paced intonation]: "I didn't mean to hurt you, I'm sorry"
[teenage angst]: "Can you at least look at me like you really mean it?"
[customer support]: "I'm sorry."
This review reminds me of a TV Guide review of Star Trek: Voyager back when it was in production. The reviewer had actually made it a point to criticize Tim Russ' "wooden and emotionless" portrayal of the Vulcan security officer Tuvok.
For the longest time, I'd have lots of problems with Fallout 3 crashing on me, until I found a tweak that involved limiting the game to 2 CPU cores. Worked great after that. Seems to me I had to make a change in an config file or something. Oh it still crashes occasionally, but nowhere near what it had been doing (crashing after 5 minutes or less).
We have shrinking budgets for education, resulting in teacher layoffs, larger class sizes, and deteriorating buildings, and this "intellectual" (my father's definition for someone educated beyond his intelligence) wants to spend it on **fancy chairs?**
This might fly in LA County, but I don't see a lot of public schools jumping at this.
And that is why I myself will not ever have a Facebook account. I'm not one to publicize my life in the first place, and the privacy issues with Facebook gives me plenty of incentive to refuse when someone prompts me.
AGW = Anthropogenic Global Warming. In other words, climate change brought about by human activities.
The Virginia Attorney General is acting like a total douchebag because he can't give up his fight against AGW (could be because he *looks* like a total douchebag).
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Get ready for a surprise!!! *boom*
We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!
Unexpected? Really? When the CEO of Diebold was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president"?
I must admit to having mixed feelings about the end of the Shuttle era. While the Shuttle did not quite live up to the promise of making spaceflight "routine", this means an end to American spaceflight capability, at least for the short term.
I will echo what CmdrTaco said: I hope we return to space soon. I would also like to thank the 14 astronauts who gave their lives in the pursuit of space on the Shuttles.
pwnd
When dealing with greedy people be prepared to be bent over a table and f***ed. Or don't deal with them at all.
No USB, so what are you plugging your keyboards into?
There is such a thing as a PS/2 port. Runs keyboards very well.
Makes me wonder where the world might be if we stopped expending time, money and effort on stupid shit like litigation over the use of the word "geek".
and a hearty *WHOOOSH* to you for missing the completely unrelated Portal reference...
"We want our cake and lie about it too."
FTFY
The cake IS a lie.
If Kent State happened today, people would just shrug their shoulders and blame "the terrorists"
No, they'd demand to know if it was going to have any effect on the price of gasoline.
Of course it would. The price of gasoline jumps if a camel in the Middle East farts sideways.
2) 1/3rd of the human population in the US on food stamps.
Huh? Do you have a source for this? The population of the US is about 309 million. WP's article on food stamps says there were about 43 million people on food stamps in the US as of November. That makes 14%, which is quite a bit less than 1/3.
Be that as it may, but that is still an enormous amount of people who are unable to meet one of the basic needs for survival with their own resources. I call that a bad thing.
Iron ore.
"Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot." - Scott Adams, "The Dilbert Principle"
Are you by any chance referring to the same democrat who signed off on extending them, presumably because he believes (as did Bush) that it will help the economy?
Might it be fair to now refer to them as the "Obama tax cuts"?
No, it would not. They were extended as part of a compromise with Republicans who would not have agreed to anything that caused their constituency (the wealthy) to have to pay their fair share (they actually pay less in percentage than the rest, some even pay nothing). His original goal was to have them sunset for the top 1%. To call them "Obama tax cuts" would be disingenuous at best.
Nice equipment and editing, quite poor dialogue/acting, though:
[pained, confused]: "Why did you take me here?"
[rapidly and without emotion, as a fast-paced intonation]: "I didn't mean to hurt you, I'm sorry"
[teenage angst]: "Can you at least look at me like you really mean it?"
[customer support]: "I'm sorry."
This review reminds me of a TV Guide review of Star Trek: Voyager back when it was in production. The reviewer had actually made it a point to criticize Tim Russ' "wooden and emotionless" portrayal of the Vulcan security officer Tuvok.
... 3 wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
You know what happened last time /. got into a user ID waving competition? http://slashdot.org/~palpatine (#94) turned up and made us all look silly.
Bah... I remember one where CmdrTaco showed up and pwnd everyone.
For the longest time, I'd have lots of problems with Fallout 3 crashing on me, until I found a tweak that involved limiting the game to 2 CPU cores. Worked great after that. Seems to me I had to make a change in an config file or something. Oh it still crashes occasionally, but nowhere near what it had been doing (crashing after 5 minutes or less).
I want a portable rotary phone dammit!
That point is debatable at best, but it is moot, as Super Mutants lose all gender traits when they mutate. Fawkes is more properly called "it".
We have shrinking budgets for education, resulting in teacher layoffs, larger class sizes, and deteriorating buildings, and this "intellectual" (my father's definition for someone educated beyond his intelligence) wants to spend it on **fancy chairs?**
This might fly in LA County, but I don't see a lot of public schools jumping at this.
And that is why I myself will not ever have a Facebook account. I'm not one to publicize my life in the first place, and the privacy issues with Facebook gives me plenty of incentive to refuse when someone prompts me.
... I will KILL the wabbit!
Yo ho ho HO!! Yo ho ho HO!!
AGW = Anthropogenic Global Warming. In other words, climate change brought about by human activities.
The Virginia Attorney General is acting like a total douchebag because he can't give up his fight against AGW (could be because he *looks* like a total douchebag).