Please note that I used quotation marks around inexpensive as I am fully aware of the subsidies that occur to bring E85 to the people that are screwing themselves over by using it. Nevermind the fact that we are forced to use it in Minnesota as part of our regular gasoline and the fuel economy drops as well as the increased possibility that wear and tear on the engine will occur.
Yup and it's really hurting everyone from large pizza chains right down to the local Asian restaurant my wife and I frequent at least three times a month.
Flour prices have skyrocketed due to the corn (as you have mentioned) and the fact that farmers are then locked into subsidy land because farmers who grow other crops on corn acreage lose their subsidy for the current year and are fined the market value of the crop they chose to grow instead but are also threatened that they may be permanently ineligible to receive future subsidies (link).
So while we are getting more "inexpensive" gas and we are lessening our dependencies on foreign oil, we are creating an uncomfortable situation in our food stores and prices. I'd rather we deal with more mass transit and alternative fuel sources that don't fuck with our domestic food supplies.
Not that I 100% disagree with this, just remember that anyone is likely to be calmed by the effects of an outside influence on their brain. It's when they are away from that "fix" for a prolonged time that they may become agitated.
Bloggers are complaining that making millions wasn't as easy as they'd like? Cry me a river...
I don't think that's the point they are trying to make. I think that what they were trying to get across was that blogging has become just as difficult to keep up with as traditional media but instead of having a team of researchers working around the clock to handle news feeds, fact checking, etc, you have less than a handful of people doing the work that used to take many many more.
And we know Microsoft (or any other corporate "blogger" (I'm sorry, let's call him what he is: Shill) would never do such a thing - right?
No, he's not a shill because everyone knew what the blog was and who was hosting it. He also openly admits that he was working for Microsoft which is completely opposite of what a shill would do while astroturfing.
To call him an asshole might be true, I don't know him personally but to call him an asshole because you confused about what the words you use mean is another story all together.
Hulu owns too. Fucking Airwolf? I spent most of my Saturday afternoon (recovering from Friday's half-bottle of scotch induced hangover) watching season 1. Hooked the wife's laptop to the stereo and TV and played it through. It was decent quality, flash player, required a quick sign-up with fake information, and sounded fine. The commercials were less annoying than TV commercials (and much shorter) and I was fine with it.
IMHO it isn't proving what you seem to believe it does.
Instead, it makes a great case for doing the research on the front end to eliminate lengthy repetition of useless iterations to shorten the overall time.
Flying cars? Fuck flying cars, I want my four hour work day god damn it:
People have more time for leisure activities in the year 2008. The average work day is about four hours. But the extra time isn't totally free. The pace of technological advance is such that a certain amount of a jobholder's spare time is used in keeping up with the new developments--on the average, about two hours of home study a day.
They were just confused that the ease in which we can accomplish four 1968 work hours would eliminate us from having to do an additional four hours of additional work.
Sheesh, why does this have to be so difficult. We can conduct trillions of dollars of business electronically, but we still don't have an effective digital voting system? I think the conspiracy here is by someone who hates technology likes to kill trees for paper balloting, not that digital voting is being rigged.
Because money is one thing and those that control how that money is spent is another.
Not a cop. I just think of pulling someone over at 3 AM and wondering, every single time, if you're going to walk up to that window and get shot.
I come into work every day, at a college, and wonder the same thing. I'm not quite sure how that makes me believe that I shouldn't be able to exercise free speech.
While I believe that the lack of 3G is kinda lame, I must admit that the device itself bests anything else available and certainly will become the innovative device to match. I would love to move to the Android platform (as I appreciate not being locked-in to AT&T) but the prototype devices are still the same old, same old. Give me the iPhone with a hidden full QWERTY along with the ability to plug into a LCD/wireless keyboard so I can do some real work with it when I'm able and then you'll have a sale.
The MacBook Air is also a sweet device. My wife drools over those commercials like I drool over the iPhone commercials. I know they aren't the fastest things on the planet but personally I've been using a P3-800 (after an upgrade from a P-133 -- yes, first generation Pentium) and it's just fine for surfing the web and writing code via SSH.
Thats what MS used to do. Its not really in a situation to do that anymore though.
Why not? I guarantee you that the EU would spend more money and more time moving off of the Microsoft platform than would be economically viable for the next 15 to 25 years.
Microsoft isn't going to end up doing anything they want -- just like they didn't here in the US.
Such tactics are not unheard of in Washington DC, but how appropriate are they in a regional meeting on a college campus?
Huh? I am all for thinking that this is dick move but to ask "how appropriate" it is seems a little ridiculous. It's a fucking college campus -- if anything, it shouldn't be permitted in "Washington, DC" (whatever that means) but if someone wants to fill a campus auditorium with highlighter toting narcoleptics, so be it.
All this shows is that Comcast is willing to play dirtier than ever to ensure that their network operates in the manner they deem necessary. Normally I couldn't care less what a private business does with its customers but when they have a permitted monopoly in as many areas as they do, they should be held accountable for the bullshit they have been pulling using pipes that my tax dollars helped fund.
This post shows exactly how ridiculous the teacher in the discussion is acting. Someone was able to show that they can and do overcome adversity in educational and real life settings and become better people for it.
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You know, even adults in high positions are just humans, and vulnerable.
Oh fuck that. I put up with and shelled out a ton of grief (I still do) in secondary school. You didn't see me hiding inside my house because assholes insisted that because I swam and shaved once a year that I was gay and that was before I was an adult... I expect that an adult be able to handle criticism, especially if it's fucking true.
Hell, just a few months ago I was tipping the scales at 260 lbs and got poked fun at by my buddies, co-workers and people who didn't know me. Did I fucking hide out in my house and cry and say, "woe is me"? No, I fucking did something about it and lost 80 lbs -- sadly now I'm thinner than those bastards who thought it was funny to poke fun and they instead tell me I'm too thin.
I wrote one (on the same "platform") that caused the computer to beep and wait. I copied it to all 25+ computers in the typing lab and ran them so it would beep in succession and then repeat.
I thought it was pretty damn funny, even when I got 25 hours of detention for malicious use of the computer system:roll:
This is all ridiculous and breeds future behavior!
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In the so-called "Teacher Sux" case in Pennsylvania, for example, a high school student put up a website about a teacher with threats and comments such as "she shows off her fat... legs."
Critics, however, contend that words like "annoy" and "embarrass" are too broad and may infringe upon First Amendment protections of parody.
Honestly, if she had fat legs and someone pointed it out to her in person would they have criminal/civil court documents filed over it? No, they would get detention/short-term suspension and move on with their lives. The recent rise in people being upset that a co-worker won't speak to them and is "threatening" because they dress in all black and wear sunglasses or that someone doesn't like them is created by this trend in secondary education that teaches people to behave like this.
I just can't understand why a grown adult would not be able to leave the house because some little fucking bastard said she had fat legs on the Internet. Both the adult and the student need to grow up -- fast.
Well thank god these aren't Internet Pranks and are instead internet Pranks. Lord knows what teachers would do if they really used the Internet to pull this shit off!
The continued labeling of it as theft is dishonest marketing.
All that matters is that the dishonest marketing is working and working well. It's nearly as bad as the whole HDTV vs Digital TV thing. They are more than happy to confuse the two so that people will rush out to buy an unnecessarily expensive HDTV so that they can continue to watch their cable TV -- oh wait...
If I had the money I'd splash myself all over the place to dissuade people from falling for the bullshit that is spreading via mainstream media but alas I can only preach to the choir:(
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Please note that I used quotation marks around inexpensive as I am fully aware of the subsidies that occur to bring E85 to the people that are screwing themselves over by using it. Nevermind the fact that we are forced to use it in Minnesota as part of our regular gasoline and the fuel economy drops as well as the increased possibility that wear and tear on the engine will occur.
Yup and it's really hurting everyone from large pizza chains right down to the local Asian restaurant my wife and I frequent at least three times a month.
Flour prices have skyrocketed due to the corn (as you have mentioned) and the fact that farmers are then locked into subsidy land because farmers who grow other crops on corn acreage lose their subsidy for the current year and are fined the market value of the crop they chose to grow instead but are also threatened that they may be permanently ineligible to receive future subsidies (link).
So while we are getting more "inexpensive" gas and we are lessening our dependencies on foreign oil, we are creating an uncomfortable situation in our food stores and prices. I'd rather we deal with more mass transit and alternative fuel sources that don't fuck with our domestic food supplies.
Not that I 100% disagree with this, just remember that anyone is likely to be calmed by the effects of an outside influence on their brain. It's when they are away from that "fix" for a prolonged time that they may become agitated.
Bloggers are complaining that making millions wasn't as easy as they'd like? Cry me a river...
I don't think that's the point they are trying to make. I think that what they were trying to get across was that blogging has become just as difficult to keep up with as traditional media but instead of having a team of researchers working around the clock to handle news feeds, fact checking, etc, you have less than a handful of people doing the work that used to take many many more.
And we know Microsoft (or any other corporate "blogger" (I'm sorry, let's call him what he is: Shill) would never do such a thing - right?
No, he's not a shill because everyone knew what the blog was and who was hosting it. He also openly admits that he was working for Microsoft which is completely opposite of what a shill would do while astroturfing.
To call him an asshole might be true, I don't know him personally but to call him an asshole because you confused about what the words you use mean is another story all together.
The RIAA is creating a whole generation of enemies by going after College students. Their demise can't happen soon enough.
That's what the hippy's thought in the 1960s with free love, drug law reform, and peace. Look at that generation now...
Hulu owns too. Fucking Airwolf? I spent most of my Saturday afternoon (recovering from Friday's half-bottle of scotch induced hangover) watching season 1. Hooked the wife's laptop to the stereo and TV and played it through. It was decent quality, flash player, required a quick sign-up with fake information, and sounded fine. The commercials were less annoying than TV commercials (and much shorter) and I was fine with it.
IMHO it isn't proving what you seem to believe it does.
Instead, it makes a great case for doing the research on the front end to eliminate lengthy repetition of useless iterations to shorten the overall time.
Flying cars? Fuck flying cars, I want my four hour work day god damn it:
People have more time for leisure activities in the year 2008. The average work day is about four hours. But the extra time isn't totally free. The pace of technological advance is such that a certain amount of a jobholder's spare time is used in keeping up with the new developments--on the average, about two hours of home study a day.
They were just confused that the ease in which we can accomplish four 1968 work hours would eliminate us from having to do an additional four hours of additional work.
Or, your brother might just have different interests than you did/do.
Sheesh, why does this have to be so difficult. We can conduct trillions of dollars of business electronically, but we still don't have an effective digital voting system? I think the conspiracy here is by someone who hates technology likes to kill trees for paper balloting, not that digital voting is being rigged.
Because money is one thing and those that control how that money is spent is another.
Yes, but nothing is stopping Sequoia from being hung in the court of public opinion.
Sure there is, apathy.
Just speechless.
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You are speechless for the right reasons but the majority of the American public will be speechless for another and far more unfortunate reason
Not a cop. I just think of pulling someone over at 3 AM and wondering, every single time, if you're going to walk up to that window and get shot.
I come into work every day, at a college, and wonder the same thing. I'm not quite sure how that makes me believe that I shouldn't be able to exercise free speech.
While I believe that the lack of 3G is kinda lame, I must admit that the device itself bests anything else available and certainly will become the innovative device to match. I would love to move to the Android platform (as I appreciate not being locked-in to AT&T) but the prototype devices are still the same old, same old. Give me the iPhone with a hidden full QWERTY along with the ability to plug into a LCD/wireless keyboard so I can do some real work with it when I'm able and then you'll have a sale.
The MacBook Air is also a sweet device. My wife drools over those commercials like I drool over the iPhone commercials. I know they aren't the fastest things on the planet but personally I've been using a P3-800 (after an upgrade from a P-133 -- yes, first generation Pentium) and it's just fine for surfing the web and writing code via SSH.
To each their own.
Thats what MS used to do. Its not really in a situation to do that anymore though.
Why not? I guarantee you that the EU would spend more money and more time moving off of the Microsoft platform than would be economically viable for the next 15 to 25 years.
Microsoft isn't going to end up doing anything they want -- just like they didn't here in the US.
Such tactics are not unheard of in Washington DC, but how appropriate are they in a regional meeting on a college campus?
Huh? I am all for thinking that this is dick move but to ask "how appropriate" it is seems a little ridiculous. It's a fucking college campus -- if anything, it shouldn't be permitted in "Washington, DC" (whatever that means) but if someone wants to fill a campus auditorium with highlighter toting narcoleptics, so be it.
All this shows is that Comcast is willing to play dirtier than ever to ensure that their network operates in the manner they deem necessary. Normally I couldn't care less what a private business does with its customers but when they have a permitted monopoly in as many areas as they do, they should be held accountable for the bullshit they have been pulling using pipes that my tax dollars helped fund.
Please note, I am not an Obama supporter (I don't support any of them actually.)
It all stems from them watching videos of Obama Girl including Saturday's SNL spoof of the Democrat Debates.
This post shows exactly how ridiculous the teacher in the discussion is acting. Someone was able to show that they can and do overcome adversity in educational and real life settings and become better people for it.
You know, even adults in high positions are just humans, and vulnerable.
Oh fuck that. I put up with and shelled out a ton of grief (I still do) in secondary school. You didn't see me hiding inside my house because assholes insisted that because I swam and shaved once a year that I was gay and that was before I was an adult... I expect that an adult be able to handle criticism, especially if it's fucking true.
Hell, just a few months ago I was tipping the scales at 260 lbs and got poked fun at by my buddies, co-workers and people who didn't know me. Did I fucking hide out in my house and cry and say, "woe is me"? No, I fucking did something about it and lost 80 lbs -- sadly now I'm thinner than those bastards who thought it was funny to poke fun and they instead tell me I'm too thin.
You can't win.
I wrote one (on the same "platform") that caused the computer to beep and wait. I copied it to all 25+ computers in the typing lab and ran them so it would beep in succession and then repeat.
:roll:
I thought it was pretty damn funny, even when I got 25 hours of detention for malicious use of the computer system
In the so-called "Teacher Sux" case in Pennsylvania, for example, a high school student put up a website about a teacher with threats and comments such as "she shows off her fat ... legs."
Critics, however, contend that words like "annoy" and "embarrass" are too broad and may infringe upon First Amendment protections of parody.
Honestly, if she had fat legs and someone pointed it out to her in person would they have criminal/civil court documents filed over it? No, they would get detention/short-term suspension and move on with their lives. The recent rise in people being upset that a co-worker won't speak to them and is "threatening" because they dress in all black and wear sunglasses or that someone doesn't like them is created by this trend in secondary education that teaches people to behave like this.
I just can't understand why a grown adult would not be able to leave the house because some little fucking bastard said she had fat legs on the Internet. Both the adult and the student need to grow up -- fast.
Well thank god these aren't Internet Pranks and are instead internet Pranks. Lord knows what teachers would do if they really used the Internet to pull this shit off!
The continued labeling of it as theft is dishonest marketing.
:(
All that matters is that the dishonest marketing is working and working well. It's nearly as bad as the whole HDTV vs Digital TV thing. They are more than happy to confuse the two so that people will rush out to buy an unnecessarily expensive HDTV so that they can continue to watch their cable TV -- oh wait...
If I had the money I'd splash myself all over the place to dissuade people from falling for the bullshit that is spreading via mainstream media but alas I can only preach to the choir