As fun as that would be, I could see a few problems with it:
1) I'd lose my job - The warehouse would start to question why I always had my Jeep full of boxes and barrels to ship out to CA, and would complain about the shipping charges.
2) I'd be arrested - After plundering every Goodwill dropoff area (a.k.a. 'Round back') for weeks on end for used underwear and rugs that have seen more cat urine than most litter boxes.
3) The ASPCA would track me down - After stealing several monkeys, which I would train to fill buckets full of monkey semen to send to the offices of the lawyers for the RIAA. Imagine hundreds of barrels of monkey semen, all no-resale and no-disposal. Think about it.
People often misquote Winston Churchill as having said that we can judge the level of civilisation in a society by the way it treats its prisoners. In fact, it was Fyodor Dostoyevsky who said: "The degree of civilisation in a society is revealed by entering its prisons." Winston Churchill actually said that a society's attitude to its prisoners, its "criminals", is the measure of "the stored up strength of a nation". Seems to me that there are elements in this country who want to make sure that the terrible allegations the terrorists make against us become, and stay, true. And there are people who remember one of the reasons this country was founded, to be able to have fair trials.
We cannot allow ourselves to become the things and people we hate. We cannot become a nation that approves of torture, approves of lawless legal system, a nation that will treat others, no matter how heinous, as they would treat us.
We cannot hope to be a beacon of light in a dark sea by covering ourselves in the same darkness. Either you do the moral thing, or the immoral thing. There is a battle in this country, between those who would have us give up our morality for naught, and those who stand against them.
The Broyhill Giannelli Leather Executive Chair. I'm not a small guy, and I've always had a lot of issues with chairs. Even the 'big man' chairs they sell at Office Depot would break with me (I'm rough on them apart from being heavy, I lean back, a lot, and HARD, I've snapped several chairs backs.)
This one is $250. Pricey? Hell yeah. After breaking several $100 chairs, though, I figure it's worth it. It's very comfortable and feels incredibly sturdy. It looks great too, my gf encouraged me heavily because it looks a heck of a lot better than any other chair I've ever had, so it doesn't upset her fung shui.
Why would they need to have any skill at it at all? They have no independent news sources. It's all state propaganda machines. After 50 years of that nonsense the average Chinese citizen has no real ability to question authority, thus the ability of people in authority to convincingly lie is lower.
I think it's because PayPal is fairly undefined. It does seem like it's a bank and so people unthinkingly treat it as if it is one, but of course it has no actual bank foundation. And, of course, they have no imperative to become a bank, because then they'd have to follow the rules.
I'm just hoping that all countries everywhere enact similar rulings. Paypal gets on my damn nerves.
Plowing up new land creates *lots* of CO2 via soil oxidation too, and quite possibly at a faster rate than the fossil fuels they are "replacing." And since oil is a fungible commodity, the oil you "replaced" will simply be sold off and burned by someone else... Nice troll, but you simply ignore the fact that the years and years of harvesting switchgrass and whatever other crops they use will recapture and recycle the carbon they 'hold' in plant/fuel form, instead of just plain releasing more CO2, so it's a net benefit. In any case the idea is we eventually wean ourselves free of the oil produced by unstable theocracies half the world away. And while the oil may be used by someone else, who gives a rats ass, at least we stop funneling our funds to people who quite frankly hate us.
Biofuels just make oil a little cheaper than it would otherwise be by decreasing demand ever so slightly. So, it's quite likely that the biofuel initiative is actually make the problem a lot worse. *BZZT* try again. What this will do most likely is buy us some time until we can get a better energy infrastructure in place. I don't think a lot of people realistically sees biofuels as a end-all solution. It's a stopgap measure. Is it perfect? No, but if it were then it would not be a stopgap measure. Anyway, the point is it can help prevent total economic collapse if our imports of foreign oil have to drop suddenly.
The biofuel initiative is also creating a giant dead zone in the gulf of Mexico due to fertilizer runoff. But don't try to tell any of this to the cult of global warming. They don't like facts interfering in their religion. Wrong, try again. The dead zone was there way before biofuels, and it will be there after they are gone most likely, just from standard farming. Biofuel farming makes up something like 3% of the crops in the U.S. Do you honestly think the only people using fertilizers are the people farming biofuels? Like I said, you're just trolling.
You can bet they will be pushing the hardware 3 kinds of ways from Sunday to develop one that is 'Optimized' for Vista. The good news is that this will probably force M$ to come up with a pared-down version. Unfortunately they'll probably keep the 'security' features and Aero stuff. Thus a deal with NVIDIA for that ultra-small GPU.
And these people dare to say they do not have faith. Yes they do. Being slashdot, with a large percentage of atheists, mod me down as you see fit. This proves some atheists are no better and no less fanatical than the worst scientologist. They just choose another religion to be a zealot of. You had me till then. It is a particularly heinous fallacy to argue that anyone who doesn't agree with you is somehow 'proof' of your position. That's like me saying I'm God and anyone who doesn't agree just proves that they are agents of Satan and thus proves I am actually God.
For that alone you deserve to be modded down. Because you make bad arguments.
Additionally, the snide remark at the end about atheists just choosing another religion is one of those fallacious arguments that the ignorant argue, with nothing to support it.
In short, while it is valid to argue against fanaticism, your argument simply exposes your own heavy biases and faulty thinking with the inclusion of these fallacies, making your entire argument void.
Oh, sure, we can use some of the money the Bush administration has been lavishing on NASA to complete his mission that we land people on the moon again.
I think the correct phrase isn't "communism done right," but rather "Communism the only way it can actually work" Yeah, because China's Govt doesn't work at all, does it?
Good luck with that. They're experiencing a population boom, and need food badly. They use that as the excuse to cut down the trees to sell to lumber mills for their ever-expanding market (China, India) and ever-dwindling supply. Also, keep in mind most of the nutrients from the jungles are all stored up in the trees. The same trees which are shipped off, and what isn't shipped off, is burned and blows away as smoke. Then they let cattle graze the grasses down to nothing and all the soil washes away, and then they obviously need to cut down more forest. This will continue until there is nothing left to cut down, the land is barren, and everyone starves.
The only ways I know of to stop this particular out of control locomotive is to educate the poor farmers in basic soil retention and agricultural techniques the Europeans discovered hundreds of years ago and to convince the lumber mills to stop imports (I.E. Go out of business). Since 1 may well happen (In fact there are efforts to ensure it) but 2 will not, I don't see how anything will change.
The scales can't be used in technological devices because they are made of fingernail-like chitin, which is not stable enough for long-term use, is not semiconducting and doesn't bend light adequately.
The obvious solution is to genetically engineer the beetles to replace the chitin with Photonic crystals. This would provide a self-reproducing source and it's show those uppity fireflies what's up.
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As fun as that would be, I could see a few problems with it:
1) I'd lose my job - The warehouse would start to question why I always had my Jeep full of boxes and barrels to ship out to CA, and would complain about the shipping charges.
2) I'd be arrested - After plundering every Goodwill dropoff area (a.k.a. 'Round back') for weeks on end for used underwear and rugs that have seen more cat urine than most litter boxes.
3) The ASPCA would track me down - After stealing several monkeys, which I would train to fill buckets full of monkey semen to send to the offices of the lawyers for the RIAA. Imagine hundreds of barrels of monkey semen, all no-resale and no-disposal. Think about it.
I am.
And I need a bucket.
Fair enough, but there IS a path back.
We cannot allow ourselves to become the things and people we hate. We cannot become a nation that approves of torture, approves of lawless legal system, a nation that will treat others, no matter how heinous, as they would treat us.
We cannot hope to be a beacon of light in a dark sea by covering ourselves in the same darkness. Either you do the moral thing, or the immoral thing. There is a battle in this country, between those who would have us give up our morality for naught, and those who stand against them.
No, actually.
http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?dest=5&item=386638
The Broyhill Giannelli Leather Executive Chair. I'm not a small guy, and I've always had a lot of issues with chairs. Even the 'big man' chairs they sell at Office Depot would break with me (I'm rough on them apart from being heavy, I lean back, a lot, and HARD, I've snapped several chairs backs.)
This one is $250. Pricey? Hell yeah. After breaking several $100 chairs, though, I figure it's worth it. It's very comfortable and feels incredibly sturdy. It looks great too, my gf encouraged me heavily because it looks a heck of a lot better than any other chair I've ever had, so it doesn't upset her fung shui.
Hey now, this wasn't redundant when I posted it, I saw no replies when I hit submit. Sheesh.
Why would they need to have any skill at it at all? They have no independent news sources. It's all state propaganda machines. After 50 years of that nonsense the average Chinese citizen has no real ability to question authority, thus the ability of people in authority to convincingly lie is lower.
This kind of reminds me of the South Park episode.
'We cannot achieve so much with such small penis, but you American, wow, penis so big, so big penis!'
Get off it already, they have as much technical expertise as Japan, India, Russia, or the USA. This is a fairly lame attempt at placating the senate.
And I was unimpressed. I'm hoping the full release will be better.
I think it's because PayPal is fairly undefined. It does seem like it's a bank and so people unthinkingly treat it as if it is one, but of course it has no actual bank foundation. And, of course, they have no imperative to become a bank, because then they'd have to follow the rules.
I'm just hoping that all countries everywhere enact similar rulings. Paypal gets on my damn nerves.
An aerodynamic one would be more useful, actually. But SUV drivers usually like big square/rectangular shapes.
I just thought Space Quest was an amusing and juvenile way to waste time as a teenager.
Because Bush Jr. wanted to show Daddy he could finish what Daddy started.
Plus Cheney/Haliburton are making insane money off the deal.
You can bet they will be pushing the hardware 3 kinds of ways from Sunday to develop one that is 'Optimized' for Vista. The good news is that this will probably force M$ to come up with a pared-down version. Unfortunately they'll probably keep the 'security' features and Aero stuff. Thus a deal with NVIDIA for that ultra-small GPU.
For that alone you deserve to be modded down. Because you make bad arguments.
Additionally, the snide remark at the end about atheists just choosing another religion is one of those fallacious arguments that the ignorant argue, with nothing to support it.
In short, while it is valid to argue against fanaticism, your argument simply exposes your own heavy biases and faulty thinking with the inclusion of these fallacies, making your entire argument void.
Oh, sure, we can use some of the money the Bush administration has been lavishing on NASA to complete his mission that we land people on the moon again.
....eh, you know, forget it.
This should be interesting. I wonder if we'll find out one of the Native American Tribes was heavily interbred with some vikings.
In any case, the really interesting thing is that this will really show us how each race of humans developed and spread, and who came from who.
Of course, we'll find that it all started 6,000 years ago, in a garden in the Middle East...
From TFA: And as long as nobody gets hurt, a decent explosion livens up any experiment.
I'm pretty certain this is how Mythbusters got started.
Also from TFA: Obviously, a proplusion system that explodes while it is in operation needs some more work.
I dunno, kinda sounds like how rockets work.
Windows 1995? I think you mean windows 95. Dork.
Good luck with that. They're experiencing a population boom, and need food badly. They use that as the excuse to cut down the trees to sell to lumber mills for their ever-expanding market (China, India) and ever-dwindling supply. Also, keep in mind most of the nutrients from the jungles are all stored up in the trees. The same trees which are shipped off, and what isn't shipped off, is burned and blows away as smoke. Then they let cattle graze the grasses down to nothing and all the soil washes away, and then they obviously need to cut down more forest. This will continue until there is nothing left to cut down, the land is barren, and everyone starves.
The only ways I know of to stop this particular out of control locomotive is to educate the poor farmers in basic soil retention and agricultural techniques the Europeans discovered hundreds of years ago and to convince the lumber mills to stop imports (I.E. Go out of business). Since 1 may well happen (In fact there are efforts to ensure it) but 2 will not, I don't see how anything will change.
The scales can't be used in technological devices because they are made of fingernail-like chitin, which is not stable enough for long-term use, is not semiconducting and doesn't bend light adequately.
The obvious solution is to genetically engineer the beetles to replace the chitin with Photonic crystals. This would provide a self-reproducing source and it's show those uppity fireflies what's up.