Hi. Louisianaian here. Some areas of it did, actually. Large areas that had strong cultural traditions did, in fact, disintergrate.
economy did not implode,
Your extreme ignorance is showing quite strongly. The fact that you were actually able to type that shows how very, very little you know. You speak of things you do not know at all, kid. Grow up, and speak only when you have knowledge.
people did not even die (except those subjected to immediate impact and flooding, so there were no deathly riots due to migrants from NO area for instance).
Actually violent crime shot the hell up. There were no riots, true, but the working poor were no longer working, they were moved to cities where they had nowhere to stay, no jobs, little money (You try and keep a family of 4 alive on $2000 of FEMA money for 6 months) and humanatarian aid was stretched thin, even with the massive efforts put forth by some very good people.
So yeah, roving bands of broke and broken people became common sighs all through the SE USA and muggings, burgalry, shoplifting and the like shot up.
These were not bad people, mind you. They were desprate and afraid, and do not think for even a moment that if you were in the same situation you woulde do much different.
but I think the consensus was that Civ IV was a flop. The game got rid of some nice gameplay elements and expanded on others (diplomacy). That may be your kind of game-- after all, I loved the original Railroad Tycoon and intensely disliked the follow-up, but my opinion runs contrary to the masses there. But hopefully they've learned from their mistakes in Civ IV.
You could not be more wrong, actually. That's like saying 'I heard that Google project those guys were working on was a flop'
I could never figure out what the hell I was supposed to do with it. I played with it for hours, got a few people to join, but it was basically just a weird hybrid IM/Forum thing with some document handling. Thing is I didn't need any of that crap, so we all just stopped using it.
BP & others are selling refined gasoline at significantly less than $3/gallon. Speak to your government about the enormous taxes they pile on top of that price.
Actually, it's because the USA heavily, heavily subsidizes gasoline, whereas other countries do not, to the tune of (Conservatively) $9.1 billion dollars a year.
No shit. The only thing they want is to keep people in jail longer, without having to prove as much. Proving premeditation is hard, and just because you looked up someone's address doesn't automatically make it premeditation. This makes them 'hard on crime' that the conservatives down here get such hard dicks for. I hate my state sometimes.
I was told by one of my old girlfriends who works for Schlumberger (she has her own sources) that this isn't a permanent fix. They are doing a top fill because it is faster than waiting for the relief well to do a bottom fill. This top fill is likely a temporary measure, and they are still going to have to drill a relief well to intercept the main well which is going to take time.
We can only pray that once they cap this, it sticks till they can get the relief well fully drilled.
No, we need an Environmental Protection Agency that actually protects the environment instead of business interests. Non-mandatory pollution reduction programs instead of regulations - who knew only 2 businesses in the country would sign up for them and reduce pollution on their own without being legally obligated to do so?
The real issue is that it literally costs the Telecos nothing at all to provide texting services. There's some extra space in the overhead with the cell phones communications with the towers. That's where they put the text messages (And thus the reason for the limit of the text messages length)
So yeah, they could provide it for free. Easily. And eyah, they could charge for it. And do so.
Issue is that if you don't have a plan, it can cost you, the consumer, up to $.50 a text message, and outrageously more for texting between countries.
Why has the price gone from $0.00 up to these rates? Because no one can stop them. All the telecos raise their rates to match each other.
This is why the tea partiers/free market fanatics are so very much misguided.
In their ideal world, a service costing companies nothing at all and providing a good service to their customers would be free. Lambs would jump though meadows and butterflies would fly and the laughter of children could be heard.
However, such utopias can never exist. In the real world, what happens is all the telecos raise their rates together, and screw the consumers. Do they get together and plan it out? No. They don't have to. There needs to be no communication. They observe each other, get the idea, and cooperate to fuck over the working man. People are basically cattle, and don't resist.
The free market they envision would simply lead to tyranny by corporations. Oh, sure, some say 'Well there would be some government reglation to stop that sort of thing'. But in the flowery pictures of their little utopias they present, the government would be too small, too weak, and too dependent on these companies to actually have any meaningful authority over them.
The massive overcharging for texting is simply an example of this.
Have you lived without access to news for the last few decades? Have you missed every instance of atheists and agnostics filing lawsuits saying they were "offended" by Christian displays and the resulting court verdicts restricting the right to the free expression of religion? Did you miss the entire controversy about the cross honoring WWI veterans? Do you live in a black hole where news is concerned?
No, I simply do not have the same persecution complex you do. In the only specific case you mentioned, it was regarding using federal lands for promotion of religion. Which is specifically prohibited in the constitution. The same way restriction of free speech is specifically prohibited. My reading comprehension is fine. Your comprehension of life in general is poor.
Explain to me where your undeserved persecution complex comes from, please?
Seriously, lets go though this incoherent tripe a point at a time.
Seriously, self-censorship is a good thing, often under-practiced.
I agree.
And as to the ACLU fighting to say profanity is everyone's right, well, it's everyone's right to be a fool too, but that doesn't mean it's the best thing to be.... Is the ACLU going to go to court and support the Constitutional right be a fool too? It makes about as much sense.
Actually you are right, here. It does make about as much sense. If PA decided to make a law saying 'you cannot be/call yourself a fool' I'm sure the ACLU would take them to court over it. And it'd make the same amount of sense. Do you have a point? It's beyond silly and blatantly anti-first amendment in both cases.
I find it amazing that people will say a Christian doesn't have the right to spread/proselytize their religion, or the symbols of Christianity offend them, and want all symbols of Christianity wiped out, while they will fight for the right to offend someone else with their profanity. It's nothing but pure hypocrisy.
Who says that, exactly? Sure, you could find someone out there who thinks that 'all symbols of Christianity should be wiped out', but they're as dumb as you are. Certainly the ACLU has never said any such thing. Now, the ACLU HAS said that the government may not promote a religion, which I suspect you, in your adle-brained way, are trying (and failing) to say. And that's perfectly true. I don't see how in any way that is even the slightest bit hypocritical, though. It's not as if anyone in the Government has proposed putting up a giant monument that says FUCK on federal lands. If they had and if the ACLU had encouraged it, you'd kind of have a point. However, that has never happened. So, kid, you don't have a point. At all. And it's sad that you think you do.
Well, you know those MIT guys are known for being crafty. They probably made certain the inside was filled with helium and the whole thing was made out of Styrofoam. And those idiots at NASA, well, everyone KNOWS how dumb they are. Like, has NASA ever done anything that required great amounts of intelligence? Never! I'm sure they'd overlook a plane that didn't account for any internals.
They did. They had a blowout valve in place that was supposed to kill the oil flow. It failed. Not something that has ever happened before and not something that could have been predicted.
We could conduct offshore drilling for the next hundred years and probably not see another failure via this route.
See:
"The blowout preventer failing is unheard of in the oil industry."
A 1999 government report found at least 117 failures. Amazing what you can do with a simple google search.
Anyone who says otherwise is clueless or lying or both.
Now, my question to you is why did you claim that it was "Not something that has ever happened before and not something that could have been predicted. "?
Did you get that from a source somewhere, do did you just plain make shit up?
It even said in the FA that they were maps of the 3G coverage. As long as the maps are accurate, I can't see what they are complaining about. Nowhere is it implied that the normal service is limited to those same maps.
A case of sour grapes by AT&T.
Maybe if they'd use some of that iPhone money to expand their infrastructure instead of hiring lawyers and racking up executive bonuses...but nah, that's crazy talk.
If you opened it to anyone, all of the conservative pundits (Beck, Coulter, O'Riley, Limbaugh) would cry and cry about how much Obama hates America because he let everyone bid.
Well, if I really wanted to be a pedant about it, I could point out that you are incorrect in stating that the United States as a whole "incorporated all of the common law of England up to that point" as Louisiana State law is based on the Napoleonic Code and Spanish Law, which were both derived from Roman Law.
SpaceX is also using a brand-new rocket, recently designed and based off of all the technical expertise gained through decades of experience because of the groundwork NASA laid.
The shuttles are the first and only shuttles ever designed, and are decades old.
Just to make sure we have the car analogy: This is like complaining the owner of an original Model T won't drive in the same conditions the owner of a F150 will.
I've seen this happen too. The pipecleaner-obsessed cat was a 19 LB neutered male (black). People did not like to argue with me when he was around. When I was a kid, the family cat went after my sister when we got in a screaming match.
Similar things have happened with me. When I was a kid I had a big Siamese (Neutered). One time my grandmother was dragging me out back to get a willow branch to spank me because me and my sister had been fighting. I was resisting her and crying and whatnot, and my cat jumped on her back, bit and clawed her up pretty bad actually, and I ran off to my room. By time I opened the window he was there waiting to be let in.
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Society did not disintegrate,,
Hi. Louisianaian here. Some areas of it did, actually. Large areas that had strong cultural traditions did, in fact, disintergrate.
economy did not implode,
Your extreme ignorance is showing quite strongly. The fact that you were actually able to type that shows how very, very little you know. You speak of things you do not know at all, kid. Grow up, and speak only when you have knowledge.
people did not even die (except those subjected to immediate impact and flooding, so there were no deathly riots due to migrants from NO area for instance).
Actually violent crime shot the hell up. There were no riots, true, but the working poor were no longer working, they were moved to cities where they had nowhere to stay, no jobs, little money (You try and keep a family of 4 alive on $2000 of FEMA money for 6 months) and humanatarian aid was stretched thin, even with the massive efforts put forth by some very good people.
So yeah, roving bands of broke and broken people became common sighs all through the SE USA and muggings, burgalry, shoplifting and the like shot up.
These were not bad people, mind you. They were desprate and afraid, and do not think for even a moment that if you were in the same situation you woulde do much different.
I actually didn't notice any more ads, and usually this doesn't actually make my searches any faster.
I have Antiques Roadshow episodes on my brand-new EVO, the first smartphone I've ever gotten.
but I think the consensus was that Civ IV was a flop. The game got rid of some nice gameplay elements and expanded on others (diplomacy). That may be your kind of game-- after all, I loved the original Railroad Tycoon and intensely disliked the follow-up, but my opinion runs contrary to the masses there. But hopefully they've learned from their mistakes in Civ IV.
You could not be more wrong, actually. That's like saying 'I heard that Google project those guys were working on was a flop'
Ever been to CivFanatics?
http://forums.civfanatics.com/index.php
Anyway, there are a few people out there who liked Civ3 more, but
I could never figure out what the hell I was supposed to do with it. I played with it for hours, got a few people to join, but it was basically just a weird hybrid IM/Forum thing with some document handling. Thing is I didn't need any of that crap, so we all just stopped using it.
Possible death because you accepted an MLS patient's heart transplant > Very definite death because you didn't.
In other words, don't look a gift organ in the ventricle.
Haha I wish.
Signed,
The rest of the world
Dear the rest of the world;
BP & others are selling refined gasoline at significantly less than $3/gallon.
Speak to your government about the enormous taxes they pile on top of that price.
Signed,
The USA
P.S. Since I'm in the USA, here's the NY spot price for gasoline
Actually, it's because the USA heavily, heavily subsidizes gasoline, whereas other countries do not, to the tune of (Conservatively) $9.1 billion dollars a year.
No shit. The only thing they want is to keep people in jail longer, without having to prove as much. Proving premeditation is hard, and just because you looked up someone's address doesn't automatically make it premeditation. This makes them 'hard on crime' that the conservatives down here get such hard dicks for. I hate my state sometimes.
I was told by one of my old girlfriends who works for Schlumberger (she has her own sources) that this isn't a permanent fix. They are doing a top fill because it is faster than waiting for the relief well to do a bottom fill. This top fill is likely a temporary measure, and they are still going to have to drill a relief well to intercept the main well which is going to take time.
We can only pray that once they cap this, it sticks till they can get the relief well fully drilled.
Sources? Like what? Every major news agency?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1990767,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
Go away, Conserva-Troll
To trademark the term geek. Everyone else has to stop using it. I mean it! STOP IT YOU GUYS!
No, we need an Environmental Protection Agency that actually protects the environment instead of business interests. Non-mandatory pollution reduction programs instead of regulations - who knew only 2 businesses in the country would sign up for them and reduce pollution on their own without being legally obligated to do so?
People with functioning brains?
The real issue is that it literally costs the Telecos nothing at all to provide texting services. There's some extra space in the overhead with the cell phones communications with the towers. That's where they put the text messages (And thus the reason for the limit of the text messages length)
So yeah, they could provide it for free. Easily. And eyah, they could charge for it. And do so.
Issue is that if you don't have a plan, it can cost you, the consumer, up to $.50 a text message, and outrageously more for texting between countries.
Why has the price gone from $0.00 up to these rates? Because no one can stop them. All the telecos raise their rates to match each other.
This is why the tea partiers/free market fanatics are so very much misguided.
In their ideal world, a service costing companies nothing at all and providing a good service to their customers would be free. Lambs would jump though meadows and butterflies would fly and the laughter of children could be heard.
However, such utopias can never exist. In the real world, what happens is all the telecos raise their rates together, and screw the consumers. Do they get together and plan it out? No. They don't have to. There needs to be no communication. They observe each other, get the idea, and cooperate to fuck over the working man. People are basically cattle, and don't resist.
The free market they envision would simply lead to tyranny by corporations. Oh, sure, some say 'Well there would be some government reglation to stop that sort of thing'. But in the flowery pictures of their little utopias they present, the government would be too small, too weak, and too dependent on these companies to actually have any meaningful authority over them.
The massive overcharging for texting is simply an example of this.
Have you lived without access to news for the last few decades? Have you missed every instance of atheists and agnostics filing lawsuits saying they were "offended" by Christian displays and the resulting court verdicts restricting the right to the free expression of religion? Did you miss the entire controversy about the cross honoring WWI veterans? Do you live in a black hole where news is concerned?
No, I simply do not have the same persecution complex you do. In the only specific case you mentioned, it was regarding using federal lands for promotion of religion. Which is specifically prohibited in the constitution. The same way restriction of free speech is specifically prohibited. My reading comprehension is fine. Your comprehension of life in general is poor.
Explain to me where your undeserved persecution complex comes from, please?
Seriously, lets go though this incoherent tripe a point at a time.
Seriously, self-censorship is a good thing, often under-practiced.
I agree.
And as to the ACLU fighting to say profanity is everyone's right, well, it's everyone's right to be a fool too, but that doesn't mean it's the best thing to be.... Is the ACLU going to go to court and support the Constitutional right be a fool too? It makes about as much sense.
Actually you are right, here. It does make about as much sense. If PA decided to make a law saying 'you cannot be/call yourself a fool' I'm sure the ACLU would take them to court over it. And it'd make the same amount of sense. Do you have a point? It's beyond silly and blatantly anti-first amendment in both cases.
I find it amazing that people will say a Christian doesn't have the right to spread/proselytize their religion, or the symbols of Christianity offend them, and want all symbols of Christianity wiped out, while they will fight for the right to offend someone else with their profanity. It's nothing but pure hypocrisy.
Who says that, exactly? Sure, you could find someone out there who thinks that 'all symbols of Christianity should be wiped out', but they're as dumb as you are. Certainly the ACLU has never said any such thing. Now, the ACLU HAS said that the government may not promote a religion, which I suspect you, in your adle-brained way, are trying (and failing) to say. And that's perfectly true. I don't see how in any way that is even the slightest bit hypocritical, though. It's not as if anyone in the Government has proposed putting up a giant monument that says FUCK on federal lands. If they had and if the ACLU had encouraged it, you'd kind of have a point. However, that has never happened. So, kid, you don't have a point. At all. And it's sad that you think you do.
Well, you know those MIT guys are known for being crafty. They probably made certain the inside was filled with helium and the whole thing was made out of Styrofoam. And those idiots at NASA, well, everyone KNOWS how dumb they are. Like, has NASA ever done anything that required great amounts of intelligence? Never! I'm sure they'd overlook a plane that didn't account for any internals.
They did. They had a blowout valve in place that was supposed to kill the oil flow. It failed. Not something that has ever happened before and not something that could have been predicted.
We could conduct offshore drilling for the next hundred years and probably not see another failure via this route.
See:
"The blowout preventer failing is unheard of in the oil industry."
A 1999 government report found at least 117 failures. Amazing what you can do with a simple google search.
http://www.mms.gov/tarprojects/319/319AA.pdf
Anyone who says otherwise is clueless or lying or both.
Now, my question to you is why did you claim that it was "Not something that has ever happened before and not something that could have been predicted. "?
Did you get that from a source somewhere, do did you just plain make shit up?
Who pays for the mistakes?
The fishermen, shrimpers, restaurants, diners, and taxpayers.
Hurricane season does indeed start in another few weeks, but realistically we don't see any in the Gulf till around August. (Baton Rouge Native)
Scientology members complaining about being harassed is like Mormons bitching about missionaries knocking on their doors.
It even said in the FA that they were maps of the 3G coverage. As long as the maps are accurate, I can't see what they are complaining about. Nowhere is it implied that the normal service is limited to those same maps.
A case of sour grapes by AT&T.
Maybe if they'd use some of that iPhone money to expand their infrastructure instead of hiring lawyers and racking up executive bonuses...but nah, that's crazy talk.
If you opened it to anyone, all of the conservative pundits (Beck, Coulter, O'Riley, Limbaugh) would cry and cry about how much Obama hates America because he let everyone bid.
Well, if I really wanted to be a pedant about it, I could point out that you are incorrect in stating that the United States as a whole "incorporated all of the common law of England up to that point" as Louisiana State law is based on the Napoleonic Code and Spanish Law, which were both derived from Roman Law.
SpaceX is also using a brand-new rocket, recently designed and based off of all the technical expertise gained through decades of experience because of the groundwork NASA laid.
The shuttles are the first and only shuttles ever designed, and are decades old.
Just to make sure we have the car analogy: This is like complaining the owner of an original Model T won't drive in the same conditions the owner of a F150 will.
I've seen this happen too. The pipecleaner-obsessed cat was a 19 LB neutered male (black). People did not like to argue with me when he was around. When I was a kid, the family cat went after my sister when we got in a screaming match.
Similar things have happened with me. When I was a kid I had a big Siamese (Neutered). One time my grandmother was dragging me out back to get a willow branch to spank me because me and my sister had been fighting. I was resisting her and crying and whatnot, and my cat jumped on her back, bit and clawed her up pretty bad actually, and I ran off to my room. By time I opened the window he was there waiting to be let in.