The view the same job market and economy reports we do, and yet see 250 million new jobs being created this year, and that the economy is doing just fine, thank you.
250 million new jobs! Holy shit, we're all gonna have to take 2nd jobs to fill these positions!
The estimate you speak of claimed 2.6 million new jobs. The administration has since backed away from that estimate, and doesn't see the need to release an accurate estimate, and it's "playing politics" to ask for one, so don't.
No, I agree with offender lists. I'm talking about badges of shame, not records. I'm not saying that criminal records and proceedings shouldn't be public. I'm saying we shouldn't be using shame as our tool of punishment. I agree with your opinion on the purpose of sex offender lists.
Whoops! My mistake! They must have caved to federal pressure, and now that you mention it, I seem to recall it occurring about 2 years ago. (But obviously I couldn't be bothered to search for it, since I didn't the first time..)
Humiliation seems to becoming the "in" thing again in punishing people. It's been a while, but remember when we used to put people in the stocks, and they had to sit in the town square for a few hours, or maybe even days? Then some people would come by and throw shit at them, or maybe just laugh. Yeah, that ruled! And, it really solved our crime problems!
We've seen this type of thing come back in niche cases recently. Remember the judge in Texas that sentenced some people who had fought to be handcuffed together? I thought that kind of thing only happened on reality shows that bombed.
Shame has also been used in the past by various movements, religous and non-religous, to deter various behaviors. The prohibition movement was based almost entirely on shame. Look where that got us.
Identifying criminals, in general, does not welcome them back into society. If criminals are not reintegrated into society after jail, they will frequently return to a life of crime, and return to jail. I realize that this profile does not really apply to DUI, but if they are willing to make laws that say DUIs have to have yellow plates, why not start using other identifiers for other vehicular infractions and crimes?
PS. The only reason they can do this is because driving is not considered a right, but a privilege. That means the government can place requirements on the ability to drive that do not have to meet constitutional standards.
The Federal limit is.08 BAC. That means a state must set their limit to.08 or lower to recieve federal highway funds. I believe Alaska is the only state that does not recieve federal highway funds. Their drinking age is also 18. Federal law states that the drinking age must be 21 to recieve federal funding. States' rights? They're a red herring.
So maybe West Nile Virus will break out in my area, and I will be able to go to DC with the names of the individuals who couldn't be bothered to take reports of dead birds...
This is totally unfair. As you explained, they do not have the funds to take reports of dead birds. You make it sound like it is the staffer's job to take the report, when in fact it is not. Staffers in government rarely get straightforward reasoning for what they are doing, which is why the staffer simply told you that they do not take reports.
*why* they don't take reports (legislature pulled their funding.)
Those are the names you can go to DC with: the names of your elected officials.
Right and Wrong. The media is hostile to all candidates, but it is more hostile to some than others. A report now shows that in the week after Iowa, John Kerry and John Edwards recieved 70-80% positive coverage by the media. In contrast, Howard Dean recieved under 40%. I'm certainly not saying this is the main reason or only reason for Dean's fall, but it contributed.
I read the Dean Campaign blogs for a while, and they were a scary place. When a campaign becomes incapable of criticizing their candidate, a bad ending is almost ensured.
I don't know which blogs you're reading, since there is certainly a fair share of criticism on the ones I read.
How much of this is true, and how much Dean being an unattractive, unsympathetic dipshit of a candidate had to do with the lack of campaign coverage for him, we'll never know.
We may never know, but you certainly talk like you think you know.
The fact that the guy has a blog should not be an excuse for him to post articles with factual errors and spin. i'm not saying that he does do this, but other posters are, and your response seems to be "well he has a blog, go argue with him".
I don't understand how his location affects the turnaround time. He has internet access, and questions were emailed to him.
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the only emphasised point in your post was this:
unlike anything else s/he would encounter on the road in Houston or indeed all of Texas
If that was not your main argument, why was it the phrase that was emphasized?
Your next paragraph starts with this:
Yes, the drivers are still in the wrong, but the designers/engineers are also very much in the wrong by assuming that drivers won't get confused by the unfamiliar lane configuration, signs and signals.
Your main argument is that the configuration is new and unfamiliar. That's a ridiculous argument and, yes, I responded in a ridiculous way.
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by your thinking, one could never change the roads! nope! too confusing! and yes, as the articles and another posted indicated, those left turns were illegal way before the trains were there.
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I fact checked and read those stories. Almost all were caused by driver error.Here's a rundown:
10. Person made an illegal left turn and hit a train head on. 9. (Couldn't find article referencing the 9th accident.. it goes from 8th to 10th) 8. Union Pacific (railroad!) workers manually lift a warning gate and drive under. However, the warning gate was functioning properly and a train was coming, which struck the vehicle. 7. (same as 9) 6. Same circumstances as #10, different intersection. 5. No article 4. No article 3. Driver made left turn into path of train (unsure if it was a legal turn, article implies it was illegal).
No other articles on specific incidents, but there is this quote from a summary article: "the four collisions thus far have involved vehicles making sudden turns into them. No horn or warning device can prevent that kind of driver error, she said, pointing to a fatal crash in Dallas on Sunday, when a woman drove her Chevrolet Blazer through a flashing crossing gate and smashed into a Dallas Area Rapid Transit light rail train."
Stop blaming the trains, designers, and engineers. Start blaming the people who are causing these accidents: The drivers.
Ive seen you flaming football on this whole thread. You should know that american football is really nothing like rugby (I have played both organized football and rugby union, here in america). Your statements are pure FUD.
Yup. However, as the cans are dented in transport, weak spots can be created in the aluminum. These weak spots require less force than the concave safety portion of the can to expand, and they will break first. Also, the concave portion can bend out so far that it will come lower than the normal bottom of the can. For this to happen while the can is normally upright, the whole container must be able to maintain a pressure sufficient enough to both expand the concave portion of the can and lift the can up.
IIRC, exit polling is still done. However, the press has agreed not to report data from exit polls until all polling locations are closed. However, in the recent New Hampshire primary, there were preliminary exit polls released in the afternoon, released through fringe sites such as The Drudge Report.
If they can't take the time to print their resumes on quality paper and carry them in a resume binder, I tend to believe they are just as careless when they are working.
Please. If the type of paper I've printed my resume on matters to you, I don't want to work for you. As long as my resume gets to you without being damaged, the type of paper (and how I transport it to you) shouldn't concern you at all.
Your cars don't have km/h on the speedometer as well as mi/h? Just about every car I've seen in the US has both units on the speedometer. Older cars, obviously, may not have this feature.
There was a movement in the early 80s to switch to the metric system. Many road signs placed during that time were in dual units. One of these signs exists on Interstate 78 Westbound, just after the interchange with Interstate 287. On the first line, the sign reads: "Phillipsburg 29 miles", and underneath it says "47 kilometers". Also, I was glancing through one of the highway standards manuals here at work (I work at a civil engineering firm) and there are actually sign standards in New Jersey for road signs in metric. The speed limit signs have a large yellow banner across the top which says "METRIC" to alert people that it's not 88 mi/h!
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That's not true. Read the White House conference transcripts. They rip Mclellan a new one daily.
The view the same job market and economy reports we do, and yet see 250 million new jobs being created this year, and that the economy is doing just fine, thank you.
250 million new jobs! Holy shit, we're all gonna have to take 2nd jobs to fill these positions!
The estimate you speak of claimed 2.6 million new jobs. The administration has since backed away from that estimate, and doesn't see the need to release an accurate estimate, and it's "playing politics" to ask for one, so don't.
No, I agree with offender lists. I'm talking about badges of shame, not records. I'm not saying that criminal records and proceedings shouldn't be public. I'm saying we shouldn't be using shame as our tool of punishment. I agree with your opinion on the purpose of sex offender lists.
Whoops! My mistake! They must have caved to federal pressure, and now that you mention it, I seem to recall it occurring about 2 years ago. (But obviously I couldn't be bothered to search for it, since I didn't the first time..)
Humiliation seems to becoming the "in" thing again in punishing people. It's been a while, but remember when we used to put people in the stocks, and they had to sit in the town square for a few hours, or maybe even days? Then some people would come by and throw shit at them, or maybe just laugh. Yeah, that ruled! And, it really solved our crime problems!
We've seen this type of thing come back in niche cases recently. Remember the judge in Texas that sentenced some people who had fought to be handcuffed together? I thought that kind of thing only happened on reality shows that bombed.
Shame has also been used in the past by various movements, religous and non-religous, to deter various behaviors. The prohibition movement was based almost entirely on shame. Look where that got us.
Identifying criminals, in general, does not welcome them back into society. If criminals are not reintegrated into society after jail, they will frequently return to a life of crime, and return to jail. I realize that this profile does not really apply to DUI, but if they are willing to make laws that say DUIs have to have yellow plates, why not start using other identifiers for other vehicular infractions and crimes?
PS. The only reason they can do this is because driving is not considered a right, but a privilege. That means the government can place requirements on the ability to drive that do not have to meet constitutional standards.
The Federal limit is .08 BAC. That means a state must set their limit to .08 or lower to recieve federal highway funds. I believe Alaska is the only state that does not recieve federal highway funds. Their drinking age is also 18. Federal law states that the drinking age must be 21 to recieve federal funding. States' rights? They're a red herring.
Some people think differently. I would never teach my hypothetical kids that the law is something to be blindly obeyed.
So maybe West Nile Virus will break out in my area, and I will be able to go to DC with the names of the individuals who couldn't be bothered to take reports of dead birds...
This is totally unfair. As you explained, they do not have the funds to take reports of dead birds. You make it sound like it is the staffer's job to take the report, when in fact it is not. Staffers in government rarely get straightforward reasoning for what they are doing, which is why the staffer simply told you that they do not take reports.
*why* they don't take reports (legislature pulled their funding.)
Those are the names you can go to DC with: the names of your elected officials.
The media is hostile to all candidates
Right and Wrong. The media is hostile to all candidates, but it is more hostile to some than others. A report now shows that in the week after Iowa, John Kerry and John Edwards recieved 70-80% positive coverage by the media. In contrast, Howard Dean recieved under 40%. I'm certainly not saying this is the main reason or only reason for Dean's fall, but it contributed.
I read the Dean Campaign blogs for a while, and they were a scary place. When a campaign becomes incapable of criticizing their candidate, a bad ending is almost ensured.
I don't know which blogs you're reading, since there is certainly a fair share of criticism on the ones I read.
How much of this is true, and how much Dean being an unattractive, unsympathetic dipshit of a candidate had to do with the lack of campaign coverage for him, we'll never know.
We may never know, but you certainly talk like you think you know.
That speech is years old, and Dr. Dean no longer agrees with that position.
Actually, both ABC and CNN have apologized for overplaying 'the scream'. Of course, that apology was barely reported...
Actually, the power to regulate commerce with foreign powers rests with the United States Congress. Article I - Legislative Branch.
The fact that the guy has a blog should not be an excuse for him to post articles with factual errors and spin. i'm not saying that he does do this, but other posters are, and your response seems to be "well he has a blog, go argue with him".
I don't understand how his location affects the turnaround time. He has internet access, and questions were emailed to him.
the only emphasised point in your post was this:
unlike anything else s/he would encounter on the road in Houston or indeed all of Texas
If that was not your main argument, why was it the phrase that was emphasized?
Your next paragraph starts with this:
Yes, the drivers are still in the wrong, but the designers/engineers are also very much in the wrong by assuming that drivers won't get confused by the unfamiliar lane configuration, signs and signals.
Your main argument is that the configuration is new and unfamiliar. That's a ridiculous argument and, yes, I responded in a ridiculous way.
by your thinking, one could never change the roads! nope! too confusing! and yes, as the articles and another posted indicated, those left turns were illegal way before the trains were there.
I fact checked and read those stories. Almost all were caused by driver error.Here's a rundown:
10. Person made an illegal left turn and hit a train head on.
9. (Couldn't find article referencing the 9th accident.. it goes from 8th to 10th)
8. Union Pacific (railroad!) workers manually lift a warning gate and drive under. However, the warning gate was functioning properly and a train was coming, which struck the vehicle.
7. (same as 9)
6. Same circumstances as #10, different intersection.
5. No article
4. No article
3. Driver made left turn into path of train (unsure if it was a legal turn, article implies it was illegal).
No other articles on specific incidents, but there is this quote from a summary article: "the four collisions thus far have involved vehicles making sudden turns into them. No horn or warning device can prevent that kind of driver error, she said, pointing to a fatal crash in Dallas on Sunday, when a woman drove her Chevrolet Blazer through a flashing crossing gate and smashed into a Dallas Area Rapid Transit light rail train."
Stop blaming the trains, designers, and engineers. Start blaming the people who are causing these accidents: The drivers.
Ive seen you flaming football on this whole thread. You should know that american football is really nothing like rugby (I have played both organized football and rugby union, here in america). Your statements are pure FUD.
When you put an (already pressurized) can of Diet Coke into a freezer for more than a few minutes, it typically explodes!
That's a hell of a freezer for it to happen in 5 minutes or so.
Yup. However, as the cans are dented in transport, weak spots can be created in the aluminum. These weak spots require less force than the concave safety portion of the can to expand, and they will break first. Also, the concave portion can bend out so far that it will come lower than the normal bottom of the can. For this to happen while the can is normally upright, the whole container must be able to maintain a pressure sufficient enough to both expand the concave portion of the can and lift the can up.
IIRC, exit polling is still done. However, the press has agreed not to report data from exit polls until all polling locations are closed. However, in the recent New Hampshire primary, there were preliminary exit polls released in the afternoon, released through fringe sites such as The Drudge Report.
If they can't take the time to print their resumes on quality paper and carry them in a resume binder, I tend to believe they are just as careless when they are working.
Please. If the type of paper I've printed my resume on matters to you, I don't want to work for you. As long as my resume gets to you without being damaged, the type of paper (and how I transport it to you) shouldn't concern you at all.
Your cars don't have km/h on the speedometer as well as mi/h? Just about every car I've seen in the US has both units on the speedometer. Older cars, obviously, may not have this feature.
There was a movement in the early 80s to switch to the metric system. Many road signs placed during that time were in dual units. One of these signs exists on Interstate 78 Westbound, just after the interchange with Interstate 287. On the first line, the sign reads: "Phillipsburg 29 miles", and underneath it says "47 kilometers". Also, I was glancing through one of the highway standards manuals here at work (I work at a civil engineering firm) and there are actually sign standards in New Jersey for road signs in metric. The speed limit signs have a large yellow banner across the top which says "METRIC" to alert people that it's not 88 mi/h!