I hate the default settings on google groups. However, you can make it display messages in a tree format sorted by reply or sorted by date. If you do that you'll find the interface much better. That being said, I still miss free Agent.
By the same logic you use to claim that there are no Palestinians, there are no Americans. The people living in modern Israel were called Palestinians since around 200 and have a distinct cultural identity. The history of Palestine is interesting, so I'm going to make this message even more off topic with a brief historical digression.
After the Jews rebelled against Rome around the year 200 the Romans renamed the roman province Judaea* (a name which echoed the Jewish kingdom of Judah) Palestine* (a name which echoed the name Philistines who were a neighboring people group that often fought with Judah's).
So, if you describe your self as a Palestinian you are embracing either the ancient Philistine claim on the land that the Jews conquered or with the Romans who ended Jewish domination of the area for over 1700 years. It seems as reasonable of a claim to nationhood as the one made by Zionists before the 1950's.
All this being said, I don't really have a dog in this fight over a God-forsaken piece of desert and am off to fix myself a ham sandwich.
I've often thought that more or less self-sustaining colonies in the oceans and on Antarctica would be a good indication that we're ready to start colonizing other planets. After all, both of those two environments are easier to live in than space and you don't have to spend millions to get to either one.
On a more serious note, engineering and scientific work ethics? Does that at all exist anymore? I can't imagine anyone willingly developing a technology with so many malevolent uses. Didn't we learn anything from the Manhattan project?
We learned that you can get a bunch of scientists together to make a big ass bomb. Sounds like a good deal for the person paying for it.
It isn't free, but the ONLY word processor I've found that is reasonably capable and doesn't fuck up my formatting is WordPerfect. I've used versions 8-11, so I can't speak for the latest version, but for the versions I have used, nothing comes close in ease of formatting. It's a shame that its Word compatibility isn't perfect, otherwise I wouldn't be stuck using Word for every document that I have to exchange.
I was being loose with my terms. It is 20% of the electrical energy sold by California utilities has to be generated by renewables excluding large hydro.
The problem with wind power in California is that you don't get peak power from your turbines during periods of peak demand. In addition, there is a lot of time that your 500 MW wind farm spends most of the time with its turbines sitting still, so you're looking at needing a hell of a lot more capacity from your wind farms than you would expect from comparing peak output to peak demand. Also, you can't simply replace the turbines in the California wind farms with larger ones on a one for one basis because they are much more closely spaced than is possible with modern turbines (not that replacing them isn't a good idea, just it isn't as simple as you think). Wind is probably a part of California's electricity future, but thermal solar is looking cheaper, more useful and quicker to install.
California has a mandate that 20% of its power must come from renewables (not including large hydropower plants) by 2012 and higher targets shortly after. The only cost-effective way to meet this requirement is by building massive thermal solar plants very quickly. Lots of the best land for such plants is controlled by the Federal government in one form or another. There are something like 10 500 MW solar farms planned for construction in in various parts of the Mojave desert over the next decade. So, the demand is real.
Just about all the vegans I know are weak, sickly, obese or severely underweight and generally unhealthy. This plus the fact that all of us have canines leads me to believe that we're built to have some animal protein in our diets. Being a vegan may not be as bad for you as a diet consisting entirely of meat, but it isn't optimal.
I'm not that my diet is optimal. My caffeine consumption alone would kill a lesser man.
Somalia's guns do make it a hell of a lot harder to control though. I would expect that most of those involved in the fighting prefer the current situation to being ruled by the other guy. I, for one would rather live in Somalia than in several other places in Africa which are just as poor and insecure but have more effective governments.
In any case, the meat and bones of the judgment appears to be this, as stated at pages 58 and 60: The weapons protected by the Second Amendment are those that 'were in common use at the time'. However, this appears to extend to 'classes' of weapons, rather than specific designs (for example, semi-automatic and automatic firearms were not around until the middle of the 19th century, and would therefore certainly not have been 'in common use at the time' and would likely be prohibited), so essentially limits the second amendment to pistols and rifles; I am unsure how this would apply to things like submachine guns, assault rifles, and sniper rifles which likely did not even exist as 'classes' at the time; they don't really say, except to say that "It may be objected that if weapons that are most useful in military service -M-16s and the like- may be banned..." which does imply in fact that assault rifles as a class do not survive the 'in common use' test.
Cool, I'm off top buy myself a cannon and a mortar. I always wanted to lay siege to someone.
I haven't had Firefox 3 crash for me yet (although I've only been using it since Download Day). I have noticed that it no longer gets hung up processing javascript the way Firefox 2 often did.
I myself claimed the "most automobile wreckage ever recovered from a human rectum" record last year. Though the attempt wasn't intentional, I'm damn proud to be in such noteworthy company. Pics or it didn't happen!
If you didn't read and understand the contract, how do you know you didn't get screwed? I guess you'll find out sooner or later. Seriously, I've seen people sign up for some pretty dumb things because they didn't review their contracts properly.
The problem, in general was borrowers overstating their income and knowingly committing fraud. But to answer your question, if you're paying a lawyer to explain something to you, then yes, they explain it to you. As for analyzing if you can afford something, that's your job (or your accountant's job if you hire one for that purpose).
If you don't bother to read and understand your loan documents or hire someone (a lawyer or an accountant) to explain them to you then you are an idiot. It's a freaking contract for a loan of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. A couple of hundred bucks in legal fees or a couple of hours of your time is definitely worth it.
This being said, I don't think that people not understanding their loans was a big problem. The main problem was idiotic underwriting rules opened the door for numerous unscrupulous borrowers to commit mortgage fraud on a massive scale. Most of the people who are now in foreclosure were scammers betting on rapid property appreciation to help them get rich with no work and are getting away with a ding on their credit report that will go away in a few years. My heart bleeds.
If it's loaded in pure tension, you're right, wood is stronger per unit weight. However one thing that you have be careful of with wood beams is that wood has a very low shear strength which makes beams fail at much lower loads than you would expect from the tensile strength alone. It also isn't very strong in tension across the grain which limits your design freedom.
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I hate the default settings on google groups. However, you can make it display messages in a tree format sorted by reply or sorted by date. If you do that you'll find the interface much better. That being said, I still miss free Agent.
well, if you're a cheap bastard and don't need binaries, there's groups.google.com
I think that that was pretty much just you.
By the same logic you use to claim that there are no Palestinians, there are no Americans. The people living in modern Israel were called Palestinians since around 200 and have a distinct cultural identity. The history of Palestine is interesting, so I'm going to make this message even more off topic with a brief historical digression.
After the Jews rebelled against Rome around the year 200 the Romans renamed the roman province Judaea* (a name which echoed the Jewish kingdom of Judah) Palestine* (a name which echoed the name Philistines who were a neighboring people group that often fought with Judah's).
So, if you describe your self as a Palestinian you are embracing either the ancient Philistine claim on the land that the Jews conquered or with the Romans who ended Jewish domination of the area for over 1700 years. It seems as reasonable of a claim to nationhood as the one made by Zionists before the 1950's.
All this being said, I don't really have a dog in this fight over a God-forsaken piece of desert and am off to fix myself a ham sandwich.
I've often thought that more or less self-sustaining colonies in the oceans and on Antarctica would be a good indication that we're ready to start colonizing other planets. After all, both of those two environments are easier to live in than space and you don't have to spend millions to get to either one.
On a more serious note, engineering and scientific work ethics? Does that at all exist anymore? I can't imagine anyone willingly developing a technology with so many malevolent uses. Didn't we learn anything from the Manhattan project?
We learned that you can get a bunch of scientists together to make a big ass bomb. Sounds like a good deal for the person paying for it.
The tinfoil hat might actually be one of the few ways you can block this without any special materials or equipment.
Half a Faraday cage is as good as none.
Which is why I plan to start marketing tinfoil bodysuits.
It isn't free, but the ONLY word processor I've found that is reasonably capable and doesn't fuck up my formatting is WordPerfect. I've used versions 8-11, so I can't speak for the latest version, but for the versions I have used, nothing comes close in ease of formatting. It's a shame that its Word compatibility isn't perfect, otherwise I wouldn't be stuck using Word for every document that I have to exchange.
I was being loose with my terms. It is 20% of the electrical energy sold by California utilities has to be generated by renewables excluding large hydro.
The problem with wind power in California is that you don't get peak power from your turbines during periods of peak demand. In addition, there is a lot of time that your 500 MW wind farm spends most of the time with its turbines sitting still, so you're looking at needing a hell of a lot more capacity from your wind farms than you would expect from comparing peak output to peak demand. Also, you can't simply replace the turbines in the California wind farms with larger ones on a one for one basis because they are much more closely spaced than is possible with modern turbines (not that replacing them isn't a good idea, just it isn't as simple as you think). Wind is probably a part of California's electricity future, but thermal solar is looking cheaper, more useful and quicker to install.
No, its the equivalent of taking a flamethrower to all your neighbor's houses because you think there might be a wasp flying around.
Oh, come on! Who hasn't done that?
California has a mandate that 20% of its power must come from renewables (not including large hydropower plants) by 2012 and higher targets shortly after. The only cost-effective way to meet this requirement is by building massive thermal solar plants very quickly. Lots of the best land for such plants is controlled by the Federal government in one form or another. There are something like 10 500 MW solar farms planned for construction in in various parts of the Mojave desert over the next decade. So, the demand is real.
Just about all the vegans I know are weak, sickly, obese or severely underweight and generally unhealthy. This plus the fact that all of us have canines leads me to believe that we're built to have some animal protein in our diets. Being a vegan may not be as bad for you as a diet consisting entirely of meat, but it isn't optimal.
I'm not that my diet is optimal. My caffeine consumption alone would kill a lesser man.
Hey, if I'm getting wiped out, I'm taking as many other species with me as I can!
Somalia's guns do make it a hell of a lot harder to control though. I would expect that most of those involved in the fighting prefer the current situation to being ruled by the other guy. I, for one would rather live in Somalia than in several other places in Africa which are just as poor and insecure but have more effective governments.
Fish. Now my turn:
What's in my pocket? :-P
I don't know, but can you stop playing with it for a second?In any case, the meat and bones of the judgment appears to be this, as stated at pages 58 and 60: The weapons protected by the Second Amendment are those that 'were in common use at the time'. However, this appears to extend to 'classes' of weapons, rather than specific designs (for example, semi-automatic and automatic firearms were not around until the middle of the 19th century, and would therefore certainly not have been 'in common use at the time' and would likely be prohibited), so essentially limits the second amendment to pistols and rifles; I am unsure how this would apply to things like submachine guns, assault rifles, and sniper rifles which likely did not even exist as 'classes' at the time; they don't really say, except to say that "It may be objected that if weapons that are most useful in military service -M-16s and the like- may be banned..." which does imply in fact that assault rifles as a class do not survive the 'in common use' test.
Cool, I'm off top buy myself a cannon and a mortar. I always wanted to lay siege to someone.Hey, at least they're usually kinda hairy which cuts down on the glare.
I haven't had Firefox 3 crash for me yet (although I've only been using it since Download Day). I have noticed that it no longer gets hung up processing javascript the way Firefox 2 often did.
Open Recipe cake only benefits you if you compile it yourself. Otherwise, you don't know what may have been slipped in at compile time.
If you didn't read and understand the contract, how do you know you didn't get screwed? I guess you'll find out sooner or later. Seriously, I've seen people sign up for some pretty dumb things because they didn't review their contracts properly.
The problem, in general was borrowers overstating their income and knowingly committing fraud. But to answer your question, if you're paying a lawyer to explain something to you, then yes, they explain it to you. As for analyzing if you can afford something, that's your job (or your accountant's job if you hire one for that purpose).
If you don't bother to read and understand your loan documents or hire someone (a lawyer or an accountant) to explain them to you then you are an idiot. It's a freaking contract for a loan of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. A couple of hundred bucks in legal fees or a couple of hours of your time is definitely worth it.
This being said, I don't think that people not understanding their loans was a big problem. The main problem was idiotic underwriting rules opened the door for numerous unscrupulous borrowers to commit mortgage fraud on a massive scale. Most of the people who are now in foreclosure were scammers betting on rapid property appreciation to help them get rich with no work and are getting away with a ding on their credit report that will go away in a few years. My heart bleeds.
If it's loaded in pure tension, you're right, wood is stronger per unit weight. However one thing that you have be careful of with wood beams is that wood has a very low shear strength which makes beams fail at much lower loads than you would expect from the tensile strength alone. It also isn't very strong in tension across the grain which limits your design freedom.