because Texas Instruments has lobbied very successfully to keep it that way.
Precisely WHO would TI lobby?
Not sure, but I was required to purchase a specific TI calculator for my kid just about four years ago, for a public high school trig class. If you didn't, you could fill out the forms with giving evidence as to why you couldn't afford it, or your child could take a less rigorous class. Great system, I wonder who gets paid off.
Examples of animals not worth saving would be the endangered freshwater mollusk colony in north Florida that was at risk due to low water levels caused by prolonged drought.
Sam Kinison gave the answer to that question long ago...
“I’m like anyone else on this planet — I’m very moved by world hunger. I see the same commercials, with those little kids, starving, and very depressed. I watch those kids and I go, ‘F–k, I know the FILM crew could give this kid a sandwich!’ There’s a director five feet away going, ‘DON’T FEED HIM YET! GET THAT SANDWICH OUTTA HERE! IT DOESN’T WORK UNLESS HE LOOKS HUNGRY!!!’ But I’m not trying to make fun of world hunger. Matter of fact, I think I have the answer. You want to stop world hunger? Stop sending these people food. Don’t send these people another bite, folks. You want to send them something, you want to help? Send them U-Hauls. Send them U-Hauls, some luggage, send them a guy out there who says, ‘Hey, we been driving out here every day with your food, for, like, the last thirty or forty years, and we were driving out here today across the desert, and it occurred to us that there wouldn’t BE world hunger, if you people would LIVE WHERE THE FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A DESERT! YOU LIVE IN A F–KING DESERT! NOTHING GROWS OUT HERE! NOTHING’S GONNA GROW OUT HERE! YOU SEE THIS? HUH? THIS IS SAND. KNOW WHAT IT’S GONNA BE A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW? IT’S GONNA BE SAND! YOU LIVE IN A F–KING DESERT! GET YOUR STUFF, GET YOUR SHIT, WE’LL MAKE ONE TRIP, WE’LL TAKE YOU TO WHERE THE FOOD IS! WE HAVE DESERTS IN AMERICA — WE JUST DON’T LIVE IN THEM, A–HOLES!”
Good luck getting anyone to purchase bonds with those kind of limitations. Govt. bonds have traditionally been viewed as a "safe investment"...something you could bank on when you're looking for low risk/low return. I'm using mine to fund my kids college education right now. What would qualify as a "war"...Libya?...Afghanistan?...Iraq?...the war on terror...the war on drugs? We haven't had a legally declared war since WWII, so under your plan was that the last time that counted, or would I never be able to extract my money?
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Has that been it? Anything that they're actually proposing as a party? I did a quick google, and maybe I missed it. While as I stated, it takes two sides to disagree, it takes as many to come to a compromise.
Please don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of the brinksmanship being played (I'm personally liable to be out of work if they don't pass something). But I'll confess to not having payed close attention to it since that's how political negotiations typically work (or not).
if the teabaggers weren't hell-bent on shutting down the government
If you really give a shit about getting things done, you wouldn't use inflammatory terms. It takes two (or more) sides to disagree, so you can't logically pin this on either group.
Very interesting that you would chose to quote someone who was home-schooled, not allowed to play with other kids, and has suffered a nervous breakdown by the age of 20. Okay, we get it, you don't like conservatives, but what's that got to do with net neutrality. Maybe the link was "ontopic", but it doesn't work.
I'd recommend you take a look at your P.S. section, and ask yourself...WTF was I thinking? It's a completely illogical run on rant. "100+ billion dead homo sapiens"?...have there been that many since the dawn of man?
Okay, so we're all aware that certain bad habits are likely to cause us to die at an earlier age. However, the fact remains that we will all die at some point. So, what I'd like to see is a comparison of the TOTAL costs of health care over the average lifespan of people who take care of themselves vs. those who don't. I'm curious if such a study/comparison has even been accomplished. Since most people make it at least to retirement age, and at that point they're not really paying into the system anymore, if someone dies a few years early from type 2 diabetes as opposed to 15 years later from cancer, who ended up costing the system more over time?
Sorry if my tone didn't come across sarcastically enough, but that was my intention. I in no way believe their numbers, certainly not that they dropped from 50 to 39%. Something is obviously amiss with their methodology.
"According to data gathered by Panda Security, only 39 percent of computers scanned in February were infected with malware, compared to 50 percent last month
And exactly how did 11% of them get cleaned up over the last month???
Wikipedia disagrees, but like you they're lacking a citation:
The nutritional guideline known as the food pyramid, and formally titled the Improved American Food Guide Pyramid, was originally drafted by Francesca Morris and was published by the FDB in Denmark in 1978 and later adopted by the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) in 1992 to replace the earlier food groups classification system.[citation needed]
I'd suggest that if your guess was accurate, the pyramid would have included lots of Whoppers, Coke, and curly-fries.
+1. Do we need a new word for each technology? When people invented the Xerox machine, did people start talking about "Photo-cheating?"
No, but just like with Kleenex, Bayer Aspirin, Ski-doo, Google, and many others, Xerox became the new word for the action. You didn't photocopy, you Xerox'ed. New words are created every day, and many of us flinch when hearing them, but we only get one vote.
No, what is retarded is making that statement, and the OP's title that "This is retarded", as well as all the moderators who bumped it up as Informative (an AC at that!). You don't need to be all carebear about it, offering the observations that the builder should/could have done it better would be Informative without making an ass. How about a little civility?
While newspapers have scaled way back due to the availability of news from other sources, they're far from disappearing. My wife and I still buy the weekend version of the Washington Post. I don't know of a better source for local sales/events, and I can lay on the couch and read between commercials. Yeah, it's probably all available for free on their site, but my wife doesn't need to go looking up and printing out 20 coupons that she'd simply clip.
True, and there are many that just don't give a shit about internet access, like my parents who could easily afford, and get it. I have to borrow the neighbor's wireless whenever I visit them. No matter what I've tried, I haven't been able to get them to get online...gave them a computer, webcam, etc., so they could see their only grandchild live. On the other hand, mother-in-law (73 yrs old) fell in love with it when we got her a laptop. The point being that your mileage may vary...we can't assume that everyone wants it.
All of you complaining that we're "falling behind", thinking it's an excuse that the U.S. is less dense...when you can describe a business model that will provide access to everyone, I'll buy your argument.
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This article is dead on.
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because Texas Instruments has lobbied very successfully to keep it that way.
Precisely WHO would TI lobby?
Not sure, but I was required to purchase a specific TI calculator for my kid just about four years ago, for a public high school trig class. If you didn't, you could fill out the forms with giving evidence as to why you couldn't afford it, or your child could take a less rigorous class. Great system, I wonder who gets paid off.
Examples of animals not worth saving would be the endangered freshwater mollusk colony in north Florida that was at risk due to low water levels caused by prolonged drought.
Sam Kinison gave the answer to that question long ago...
“I’m like anyone else on this planet — I’m very moved by world hunger. I see the same commercials, with those little kids, starving, and very depressed. I watch those kids and I go, ‘F–k, I know the FILM crew could give this kid a sandwich!’ There’s a director five feet away going, ‘DON’T FEED HIM YET! GET THAT SANDWICH OUTTA HERE! IT DOESN’T WORK UNLESS HE LOOKS HUNGRY!!!’ But I’m not trying to make fun of world hunger. Matter of fact, I think I have the answer. You want to stop world hunger? Stop sending these people food. Don’t send these people another bite, folks. You want to send them something, you want to help? Send them U-Hauls. Send them U-Hauls, some luggage, send them a guy out there who says, ‘Hey, we been driving out here every day with your food, for, like, the last thirty or forty years, and we were driving out here today across the desert, and it occurred to us that there wouldn’t BE world hunger, if you people would LIVE WHERE THE FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A DESERT! YOU LIVE IN A F–KING DESERT! NOTHING GROWS OUT HERE! NOTHING’S GONNA GROW OUT HERE! YOU SEE THIS? HUH? THIS IS SAND. KNOW WHAT IT’S GONNA BE A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW? IT’S GONNA BE SAND! YOU LIVE IN A F–KING DESERT! GET YOUR STUFF, GET YOUR SHIT, WE’LL MAKE ONE TRIP, WE’LL TAKE YOU TO WHERE THE FOOD IS! WE HAVE DESERTS IN AMERICA — WE JUST DON’T LIVE IN THEM, A–HOLES!”
Good luck getting anyone to purchase bonds with those kind of limitations. Govt. bonds have traditionally been viewed as a "safe investment"...something you could bank on when you're looking for low risk/low return. I'm using mine to fund my kids college education right now. What would qualify as a "war"...Libya?...Afghanistan?...Iraq?...the war on terror...the war on drugs? We haven't had a legally declared war since WWII, so under your plan was that the last time that counted, or would I never be able to extract my money?
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
I see you've visited our nations capital.
Huh? Must have been before '77 when I first started doing my own returns.
Okay, you're talking about Obama's proposal that got no traction with the rest of the party:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/16/obama-budget-proposal-dra_n_823995.html
Has that been it? Anything that they're actually proposing as a party? I did a quick google, and maybe I missed it. While as I stated, it takes two sides to disagree, it takes as many to come to a compromise.
Please don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of the brinksmanship being played (I'm personally liable to be out of work if they don't pass something). But I'll confess to not having payed close attention to it since that's how political negotiations typically work (or not).
if the teabaggers weren't hell-bent on shutting down the government
If you really give a shit about getting things done, you wouldn't use inflammatory terms. It takes two (or more) sides to disagree, so you can't logically pin this on either group.
When exactly did the democrats propose a budget?
Very interesting that you would chose to quote someone who was home-schooled, not allowed to play with other kids, and has suffered a nervous breakdown by the age of 20. Okay, we get it, you don't like conservatives, but what's that got to do with net neutrality. Maybe the link was "ontopic", but it doesn't work.
I'd recommend you take a look at your P.S. section, and ask yourself...WTF was I thinking? It's a completely illogical run on rant. "100+ billion dead homo sapiens"?...have there been that many since the dawn of man?
Okay, so we're all aware that certain bad habits are likely to cause us to die at an earlier age. However, the fact remains that we will all die at some point. So, what I'd like to see is a comparison of the TOTAL costs of health care over the average lifespan of people who take care of themselves vs. those who don't. I'm curious if such a study/comparison has even been accomplished. Since most people make it at least to retirement age, and at that point they're not really paying into the system anymore, if someone dies a few years early from type 2 diabetes as opposed to 15 years later from cancer, who ended up costing the system more over time?
I want some of whatever it is you're smokin'!
you don't help the needy at all!
You're either a troll, or completely misinformed.
What makes you think they did?
Sorry if my tone didn't come across sarcastically enough, but that was my intention. I in no way believe their numbers, certainly not that they dropped from 50 to 39%. Something is obviously amiss with their methodology.
"According to data gathered by Panda Security, only 39 percent of computers scanned in February were infected with malware, compared to 50 percent last month
And exactly how did 11% of them get cleaned up over the last month???
I don't understand how on earth you can give a peace prize to someone who supports war. What a joke.
For the same reason that the award is named after the guy that invented... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite
Wikipedia disagrees, but like you they're lacking a citation:
The nutritional guideline known as the food pyramid, and formally titled the Improved American Food Guide Pyramid, was originally drafted by Francesca Morris and was published by the FDB in Denmark in 1978 and later adopted by the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) in 1992 to replace the earlier food groups classification system.[citation needed]
I'd suggest that if your guess was accurate, the pyramid would have included lots of Whoppers, Coke, and curly-fries.
+1. Do we need a new word for each technology? When people invented the Xerox machine, did people start talking about "Photo-cheating?"
No, but just like with Kleenex, Bayer Aspirin, Ski-doo, Google, and many others, Xerox became the new word for the action. You didn't photocopy, you Xerox'ed. New words are created every day, and many of us flinch when hearing them, but we only get one vote.
I don't know if it will work, but I'm tempted to start writing on those items "Return to Sender", and see if the Post office will take them away.
Well, it won't work if they've been married long...no change.
While the military is part of the government, they play by their own set of rules, and (literally) regulations.
The real question may be legally is Facebook public or private.
Really??? Internet...public or private...REALLY??? No, there's no "grey" area at all.
You're retarded,...
No, what is retarded is making that statement, and the OP's title that "This is retarded", as well as all the moderators who bumped it up as Informative (an AC at that!). You don't need to be all carebear about it, offering the observations that the builder should/could have done it better would be Informative without making an ass. How about a little civility?
My tool hasn't been in use since I got married.
The problem is that you still think of it as yours.
D-VHS - digital home movie format killed by DVD, though it carried a higher quality picture
Good thing I still have, and use my Toshiba Betamax!
While newspapers have scaled way back due to the availability of news from other sources, they're far from disappearing. My wife and I still buy the weekend version of the Washington Post. I don't know of a better source for local sales/events, and I can lay on the couch and read between commercials. Yeah, it's probably all available for free on their site, but my wife doesn't need to go looking up and printing out 20 coupons that she'd simply clip.
True, and there are many that just don't give a shit about internet access, like my parents who could easily afford, and get it. I have to borrow the neighbor's wireless whenever I visit them. No matter what I've tried, I haven't been able to get them to get online...gave them a computer, webcam, etc., so they could see their only grandchild live. On the other hand, mother-in-law (73 yrs old) fell in love with it when we got her a laptop. The point being that your mileage may vary...we can't assume that everyone wants it.
All of you complaining that we're "falling behind", thinking it's an excuse that the U.S. is less dense...when you can describe a business model that will provide access to everyone, I'll buy your argument.