Amazing how mother nature always seems to adapt to whatever man throws at it.
And people still continue to say we can blow up the world. Earth took hits from
asteroids, wiped out the critters, adapted, evolved and moved on. Same thing with
any pollution.
Settlement awards like this!
You want to know why when you go to the doctor for "chest pains", and it ends up being nothing more than a bad case of heart burn, that they wanted to do MRI, Cat scans, dye marker tests, stress tests etc etc, THIS is why.
Doctors are scared to death of being sued for something they might miss. Too many ambulance chasing slip & fall lawyers will sue on the drop of a hat.
Drug makers have to charge a hefty fee for their drugs, because they have to have a built in profit margin, to cover themselves in the event of a lawsuit, if their drug causes a severe reaction or death. Even if it is 1 in a million, you've seen the ads on TV. "If you or a loved one took drug x, you may be "entitled" to compensation".
Crap like that drives the costs of everything up. Slip & fall on a wet spot in a business, and the ambulance chasers come out of the woodwork. I think it was Shakespeare who once said "kill all the lawyers".
THAT would be a good start!
Just think of all the computing power, resources have been WASTED over the years trying to figure out the final digits to pi.
Does it really matter if their are 1,000,000, 1,000,000,000, or 1,000,000,000,000 digits of pi?
For 99.9% of the public, 3.14xxx is good enough.
We do not live in a democracy. Never have. We (USA) are a representative republic. The founding fathers NEVER wanted us to
be a pure democracy because of the chaos that happens from being a "mob rule" type of government.
The problem we have now, in my opinion, is that the representatives do not represent the people, but represent those that contribute
the most money, namely corporations, special interest etc.
Until the money is taken out of politics, it will not change.
Why do you have people spending MILLIONS per election cycle, on a job that pays less than 200,000.00 per year?
Easy...POWER!
They crave the power the government, through their interpretation of the constitution gives them. Take away that power,
and you'll see a lot of them give up that job. The easiest way to take away their power is to completely overhaul the
tax code. How to do that? ELIMINATE the IRS via a flat tax, consumption tax or some other means that CANNOT
be tinkered with. Each year, millions of Americans spend tons of money trying to figure out the massive tax code.
Eliminate that, you'll see hidden money return to America, and investment in America rise.
Look for more stories like this, to get the (stupid) public thinking you only need so much money.
Then it will make it easier for the government to TAKE more from the wealthy, and "spread the rest"
around to those that don't have money (those that refuse to get a job, those that are flat out stupid,
those that only want a job, where there are no jobs in the first place etc.
What anyone makes is "the American dream". Work hard and you (usually) get rewarded.
I know I put in extra hours, sometimes on weekends, and I am rewarded more for it. That is how it
works. You bums out there need to get up off of your lazy butts, quit playing wii all night long and
quit screwing around. This also includes the welfare breeders who pop out a new kid every 12-18
months.
BOTH are fictitious shows. I use to love watching the alt.starwars or alt.startrek news groups before at&t canned them.
You would see arguments going on over how the phaser works, how a warp drive works, could a wookie actually fly
a space ship and other such stupidity. You can probably guess that these people sit alone, virgins, in the basements
of houses all over the world, and their only outlet in life is going to a star trek or star wars convention to see some old
has been actor. The funniest movie ever made was the pun of star trek/wars movies "Galaxy Quest".
You can spot these geeks miles away, wearing pointed ears, black glasses with tape over the middle.
It's a FLIPPING MOVIE, get over it.
Why do you think there is a vast store of non-hybrid seeds stashed away in a ice frozen vault somewhere
around Greenland or wherever they store it.
One of these days, we are going to monkey around with nature too much, and nature is going to fight back and blow
the whole shooting match up. If any humans survive, at least they can clean up the mess these gene splicers cause.
Get rid of the income tax, and make unions take LESS, along with CEO's taking LESS.
When a CEO makes hundreds of times the "average" wage, and unions make hundreds
of times the average wage, and then you have the punishing effects of EPA regulations,
government taxes, why anyone would want to do business in America is beyond me.
The only way to bring manufacturing & capital back to America is to get rid of the income
tax! http://www.fairtax.org/
All they would have to do, is have MICROSOFT to crack down on the practice, and the disks would come back.
LOL...heck, more than likely MS is the one behind this, trying to save money not having to ship disks.
What a dope....people of Minnesota (or whoever bought his election), should be ashamed of yourselves for
allowing this idiot in DC, along with the other 434 idiots that "control" us.
Can't test it in America, on it's own people, the people wouldn't stand for it, but test it on the "terrorist"
and the USA won't care, then, when they perfect it, they can bring it over to the USA, and when Obamacare
kicks in, and the rest of the constitutionally guaranteed rights are taken away and the people rise up, they
can use it on it's own people.
I should have been an ear or sound specialist.
Between kids today have 500, 1000 or more watts of boom boom boom coming from their cars,
or blasting 120db of sounds from their MP3 players to get high, we are going to have a bunch
of DEAF kids in 10-20 years.
Either that, or buy stock in hearing aid companies.
Anyone that owns an SLR or DSLR will tell you that you can put the biggest piece of fast glass on a crappy tiny sensor
and you will get a big photo of what happens when you put a big piece of fast glass on a crappy tiny sensor.
What's even more interesting is that if you watch the video when they finally get to Joe, he's sittin' on the
ground smoking a cigarette LOL. Sounds funny today, but was common back then.
The reason I have passed on ALL of the iPhones so far is I don't buy into the hype, not to mention a LOCKED
OS. Hey, if you just pick up a phone to use it, then perhaps the iPhone is for you, but,
if you are a "tinker" type, I don't see how the iPhone would be good. Even given all of the faults with WinMobile,
at least you can hack it til the cows come home.
The way I look at it is it is MY phone, and I'll screw around with it how I want to. I don't like "locked" phones.
My current phone, HTC Rhodium (Tilt2) never even had the stock OS fired up. I told the guy at the at&t store
that I would set it up later (since I already had a Touch Pro). Took it home, unlocked it, wiped out the stock
OS and put one from XDA-Developers on it and tweaked it exactly how I wanted.
Job's & Company have a MAJOR public relations nightmare on their hands, and a golden opportunity for some of their competitors to run ads that exploit this problem.
Or the other gotcha they like to do.
Your expensive OEM brick dies, you buy an aftermarket one,
plug it in and it says "cannot determine adapter type, machine
will function but not charge. Please connect a (insert type)
adapter".
So, the 5 bar thing is just a gimmick. I'm sure all phone manufacturers do the same thing, but,
are all of you fanboys still holding Steve (BJ) Jobs up on a mountain?
That site bans people at the drop of a hat. Put an image up on their photoshop this part
that casts "our lord & savior Obama the 1st" in a bad light, and you get knocked off.
They green light the dumbest links, block the good ones or they shadowblock them.
Quit going there a long time ago.
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Amazing how mother nature always seems to adapt to whatever man throws at it. And people still continue to say we can blow up the world. Earth took hits from asteroids, wiped out the critters, adapted, evolved and moved on. Same thing with any pollution.
Years ago. The built in version for XP, Vista & 7 for most people are sufficient.
Ton's of oil in the USA, but the enviro-nuts won't let anyone drill for it!
Settlement awards like this! You want to know why when you go to the doctor for "chest pains", and it ends up being nothing more than a bad case of heart burn, that they wanted to do MRI, Cat scans, dye marker tests, stress tests etc etc, THIS is why. Doctors are scared to death of being sued for something they might miss. Too many ambulance chasing slip & fall lawyers will sue on the drop of a hat. Drug makers have to charge a hefty fee for their drugs, because they have to have a built in profit margin, to cover themselves in the event of a lawsuit, if their drug causes a severe reaction or death. Even if it is 1 in a million, you've seen the ads on TV. "If you or a loved one took drug x, you may be "entitled" to compensation". Crap like that drives the costs of everything up. Slip & fall on a wet spot in a business, and the ambulance chasers come out of the woodwork. I think it was Shakespeare who once said "kill all the lawyers". THAT would be a good start!
Just think of all the computing power, resources have been WASTED over the years trying to figure out the final digits to pi. Does it really matter if their are 1,000,000, 1,000,000,000, or 1,000,000,000,000 digits of pi? For 99.9% of the public, 3.14xxx is good enough.
We do not live in a democracy. Never have. We (USA) are a representative republic. The founding fathers NEVER wanted us to be a pure democracy because of the chaos that happens from being a "mob rule" type of government. The problem we have now, in my opinion, is that the representatives do not represent the people, but represent those that contribute the most money, namely corporations, special interest etc. Until the money is taken out of politics, it will not change. Why do you have people spending MILLIONS per election cycle, on a job that pays less than 200,000.00 per year? Easy...POWER! They crave the power the government, through their interpretation of the constitution gives them. Take away that power, and you'll see a lot of them give up that job. The easiest way to take away their power is to completely overhaul the tax code. How to do that? ELIMINATE the IRS via a flat tax, consumption tax or some other means that CANNOT be tinkered with. Each year, millions of Americans spend tons of money trying to figure out the massive tax code. Eliminate that, you'll see hidden money return to America, and investment in America rise.
I use bing about 75% of the time now. I use google as a backup
Look for more stories like this, to get the (stupid) public thinking you only need so much money. Then it will make it easier for the government to TAKE more from the wealthy, and "spread the rest" around to those that don't have money (those that refuse to get a job, those that are flat out stupid, those that only want a job, where there are no jobs in the first place etc. What anyone makes is "the American dream". Work hard and you (usually) get rewarded. I know I put in extra hours, sometimes on weekends, and I am rewarded more for it. That is how it works. You bums out there need to get up off of your lazy butts, quit playing wii all night long and quit screwing around. This also includes the welfare breeders who pop out a new kid every 12-18 months.
Just use those clear vinyl sticker that are normally on cell phone LCD screens? Peel off with no glue.
BOTH are fictitious shows. I use to love watching the alt.starwars or alt.startrek news groups before at&t canned them. You would see arguments going on over how the phaser works, how a warp drive works, could a wookie actually fly a space ship and other such stupidity. You can probably guess that these people sit alone, virgins, in the basements of houses all over the world, and their only outlet in life is going to a star trek or star wars convention to see some old has been actor. The funniest movie ever made was the pun of star trek/wars movies "Galaxy Quest". You can spot these geeks miles away, wearing pointed ears, black glasses with tape over the middle. It's a FLIPPING MOVIE, get over it.
Why do you think there is a vast store of non-hybrid seeds stashed away in a ice frozen vault somewhere around Greenland or wherever they store it. One of these days, we are going to monkey around with nature too much, and nature is going to fight back and blow the whole shooting match up. If any humans survive, at least they can clean up the mess these gene splicers cause.
Alive and well, just a few years late.
Get rid of the income tax, and make unions take LESS, along with CEO's taking LESS. When a CEO makes hundreds of times the "average" wage, and unions make hundreds of times the average wage, and then you have the punishing effects of EPA regulations, government taxes, why anyone would want to do business in America is beyond me. The only way to bring manufacturing & capital back to America is to get rid of the income tax! http://www.fairtax.org/
All they would have to do, is have MICROSOFT to crack down on the practice, and the disks would come back. LOL...heck, more than likely MS is the one behind this, trying to save money not having to ship disks.
Anyone stupid enough to have the default password on anything, deserves to be hacked.
What a dope....people of Minnesota (or whoever bought his election), should be ashamed of yourselves for allowing this idiot in DC, along with the other 434 idiots that "control" us.
Can't test it in America, on it's own people, the people wouldn't stand for it, but test it on the "terrorist" and the USA won't care, then, when they perfect it, they can bring it over to the USA, and when Obamacare kicks in, and the rest of the constitutionally guaranteed rights are taken away and the people rise up, they can use it on it's own people.
I should have been an ear or sound specialist. Between kids today have 500, 1000 or more watts of boom boom boom coming from their cars, or blasting 120db of sounds from their MP3 players to get high, we are going to have a bunch of DEAF kids in 10-20 years. Either that, or buy stock in hearing aid companies.
Anyone that owns an SLR or DSLR will tell you that you can put the biggest piece of fast glass on a crappy tiny sensor and you will get a big photo of what happens when you put a big piece of fast glass on a crappy tiny sensor.
What's even more interesting is that if you watch the video when they finally get to Joe, he's sittin' on the ground smoking a cigarette LOL. Sounds funny today, but was common back then.
The reason I have passed on ALL of the iPhones so far is I don't buy into the hype, not to mention a LOCKED OS. Hey, if you just pick up a phone to use it, then perhaps the iPhone is for you, but, if you are a "tinker" type, I don't see how the iPhone would be good. Even given all of the faults with WinMobile, at least you can hack it til the cows come home. The way I look at it is it is MY phone, and I'll screw around with it how I want to. I don't like "locked" phones. My current phone, HTC Rhodium (Tilt2) never even had the stock OS fired up. I told the guy at the at&t store that I would set it up later (since I already had a Touch Pro). Took it home, unlocked it, wiped out the stock OS and put one from XDA-Developers on it and tweaked it exactly how I wanted. Job's & Company have a MAJOR public relations nightmare on their hands, and a golden opportunity for some of their competitors to run ads that exploit this problem.
Or the other gotcha they like to do. Your expensive OEM brick dies, you buy an aftermarket one, plug it in and it says "cannot determine adapter type, machine will function but not charge. Please connect a (insert type) adapter".
So, the 5 bar thing is just a gimmick. I'm sure all phone manufacturers do the same thing, but, are all of you fanboys still holding Steve (BJ) Jobs up on a mountain?
DROP DEAD! Your business model died years ago, it's just no one has pulled the plug on you & the MPAA.
That site bans people at the drop of a hat. Put an image up on their photoshop this part that casts "our lord & savior Obama the 1st" in a bad light, and you get knocked off. They green light the dumbest links, block the good ones or they shadowblock them. Quit going there a long time ago.