While reading that, the "Who's on first" routine kept going through my head. One of the many reasons I stopped using FF. I might try it again in a month when they get to version 28 though.
We're already focused on alternative fuels. We're making massive leaps in that area too. The problem is that those alternatives are still more expensive and less efficient than oil so they can't replace it. Forcing a switch would drastically increase the cost of energy for millions of poor people who would only become far more poor than they already are now. That would guarantee that any politician forcing such a change would never be re-elected.
We are energy independant already. The bulk of the oil we import is resold abroad as gasoline. If we stopped selling gasoline to the rest of the world we wouldn't have to import anything. It's not the US that's dependent on foreign energy. It's the rest of the world that's dependent on us to refine oil into gas.
That's the thing about freedom. To live in a free society we have to be willing to allow other's their freedom as well. If someone wants an 8 cylinder engine, or if they want to be atheist, or if they want to eat meat or use 100W incandescent bulbs it doesn't matter. Everyone is free to choose how they live and what they spend their money on and it's a crime against the idea of liberty to try and deny someone their freedoms.
It drives me insane when I hear someone say how much they hate Christians trying to push their religion on them, then turn around and do the exact same thing with their views on meat, the environment, or whatever.
While this does work, when AT&T discovers you're using tethering they'll automatically add the tethering charge to your bill. It happened to a couple of my friends last year.
Yes, these new plans will save me money. I have a family plan with three smart phones and one dumb phone. My bill will go down by $40 and I will gain tethering which I don't have now. If all you want to do with your phone is talk then stick with a prepaid dumb phone. These plans are for the majority of people who use text and data more than they talk.
If you've got more details I'd love to hear them. I'm at 23 years on my student loans that I can't repay due to income levels and a special needs child. Any URL's you have that I can look at would be great.
The banks didn't get bailed out until near the end of Bush's term when he started making liberal economic policies. Please explain why people would be pissed off years before an event happened. Besides, nothing in my post said they had a monopoly on it. Not sure where you got that either.
America is a country full of people who care nothing for their health. We have an obesity epidemic which in turn has created a diabetes epidemic as well as hundreds of other health problems. We have millions who eat crap food and don't exercise. There isn't enough money on the planet to provide for healthcare for everyone in a situation like ours. The health care debate is nothing more than an issue that the Democrats use to pull your heartstrings to keep you hateful and angry and to keep you voting for them.
So being pissed off that the government wasted tax dollars bailing out banks makes someone crazy? Seriously? If a group of people who peacefully protested (literally, as in no vandalism, no destruction of personal property, no assaults on police officers, no drug overdoses, no rapes, etc.) is "crazy" I'd hate to see the words you use to describe the occupy movement.
If scientists found a single living cell on mars it would be proclaimed from every news agency in the world that "LIFE" was found, yet a cluster of cells inside a woman isn't life? We've had rules for the taking of life for a long time. We have rules for when it's okay to take a life. Killing an embryo just because the mother just feels like it is wrong, plain and simple.
You obviously don't remember the 70s and 80s if you think there was never a global cooling frenzy. The only difference is that people figured out how to make millions from fear in ways they could only dream of back then.
It's less than trivial to find not-useful ones. The easiest is Al Gore telling everyone we have only 10 years left for the past 30 years now. He's not the only one either.
First, it may have a 40 mile range but that's when it's constantly moving at one speed. When you're driving in a congested city with lots of stops and starts, your range will drop dramatically. There's also going to be plenty of time you sit not moving at all while running a heater or a/c, and then what if you need to run errands before or after work? That 40 mile range doesn't actually exist in real life driving situations and is why this car is near useless for most people.
We're saying what we've always said. The earth has always experienced climate change. For hundreds of thousands of years it's gone through periods of warming and cooling. It's just doing what it's always done. We just refuse to let a natural cycle of the planet turn us into paranoid delusionals that make it possible for people like Al Gore to become filthy rich from spreading fear.
Actually, they need to distinguish between a lit tree being "bad" because of religion, and a lit tree being "bad" because it let's the N. Koreans see what life is like with electricity.
That's exactly what the tea party protests did. They followed the law. They respected others rights. They protested in allowed zones They followed police orders. A protest itself will never change anything. It's just an effective way of warning politicians that they will be handed walking papers if they don't listen, and that is exactly what happened in the 2010 election. That is how you effectively protest.
You really also should learn the definition of "civil disobedience" because you're using it wrong, just like everyone else at OWS, where you think it's a justification for being an asshole. It's a method of getting a law into court so you can challenge it. The idea is that you deliberately break a law in public so everyone can see. You do it quietly and respectfully, and you peacefully allow the police to arrest you. Once arrested and in court you can challenge the law and have it overturned. If you act like a dick, then the courts are going to ignore your challenge and put you in jail because nobody who acts like a dick is going to get any respect from anyone.
You know the story of the ugly duckling? Since there is no such thing as a talking duck we should stop telling that story to children, shouldn't we. The problem less in two places. We have religious people who think you have to believe talking ducks are real, and atheists who are obsessed with mocking anyone who uses talking ducks in a story. Both are missing the whole point of everything. We certainly shouldn't ever discuss the story of the ugly duckling. It might give the story teller credibility.
Look at the story of the Ugly Duckling. It's about talking Ducks. The moral of the story is that it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, it's inner beauty that matters. People who don't understand the difference between personal truth and universal truth can't separate the story from the moral and think that just because there's no such thing as a talking duck, then the moral of the story has to be wrong too.
Personal truth is anything you believe to be true, hopefully to help you be a better person. Universal truth is simply the scientific definition of how things are. This is why people who actually understand their religion whether it be Christiantiy, Buddhism, or whatever, simply write off those who attempt to tell us we're wrong because we believe in an invisible man in the sky. "Love one another" is a very valid and helpful teaching regardless of who teaches it, and so what if it comes from an invisible man in the sky. If the Flying Spaghetti Monster taught it would it be any more or less valid?
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The Red Cross has lobbyists. They're not doing it just for the.....oh wait.....
What's next? They just might make smoking marijuana illegal.
They're not nearly as cool as Garbage Pail Kids.
While reading that, the "Who's on first" routine kept going through my head. One of the many reasons I stopped using FF. I might try it again in a month when they get to version 28 though.
We're already focused on alternative fuels. We're making massive leaps in that area too. The problem is that those alternatives are still more expensive and less efficient than oil so they can't replace it. Forcing a switch would drastically increase the cost of energy for millions of poor people who would only become far more poor than they already are now. That would guarantee that any politician forcing such a change would never be re-elected.
We are energy independant already. The bulk of the oil we import is resold abroad as gasoline. If we stopped selling gasoline to the rest of the world we wouldn't have to import anything. It's not the US that's dependent on foreign energy. It's the rest of the world that's dependent on us to refine oil into gas.
That's the thing about freedom. To live in a free society we have to be willing to allow other's their freedom as well. If someone wants an 8 cylinder engine, or if they want to be atheist, or if they want to eat meat or use 100W incandescent bulbs it doesn't matter. Everyone is free to choose how they live and what they spend their money on and it's a crime against the idea of liberty to try and deny someone their freedoms.
It drives me insane when I hear someone say how much they hate Christians trying to push their religion on them, then turn around and do the exact same thing with their views on meat, the environment, or whatever.
While this does work, when AT&T discovers you're using tethering they'll automatically add the tethering charge to your bill. It happened to a couple of my friends last year.
Yes, these new plans will save me money. I have a family plan with three smart phones and one dumb phone. My bill will go down by $40 and I will gain tethering which I don't have now. If all you want to do with your phone is talk then stick with a prepaid dumb phone. These plans are for the majority of people who use text and data more than they talk.
If you've got more details I'd love to hear them. I'm at 23 years on my student loans that I can't repay due to income levels and a special needs child. Any URL's you have that I can look at would be great.
So does this mean I now have to avoid buying tech products made on Mondays and Fridays?
The banks didn't get bailed out until near the end of Bush's term when he started making liberal economic policies. Please explain why people would be pissed off years before an event happened.
Besides, nothing in my post said they had a monopoly on it. Not sure where you got that either.
America is a country full of people who care nothing for their health. We have an obesity epidemic which in turn has created a diabetes epidemic as well as hundreds of other health problems. We have millions who eat crap food and don't exercise. There isn't enough money on the planet to provide for healthcare for everyone in a situation like ours. The health care debate is nothing more than an issue that the Democrats use to pull your heartstrings to keep you hateful and angry and to keep you voting for them.
So being pissed off that the government wasted tax dollars bailing out banks makes someone crazy? Seriously? If a group of people who peacefully protested (literally, as in no vandalism, no destruction of personal property, no assaults on police officers, no drug overdoses, no rapes, etc.) is "crazy" I'd hate to see the words you use to describe the occupy movement.
If scientists found a single living cell on mars it would be proclaimed from every news agency in the world that "LIFE" was found, yet a cluster of cells inside a woman isn't life? We've had rules for the taking of life for a long time. We have rules for when it's okay to take a life. Killing an embryo just because the mother just feels like it is wrong, plain and simple.
You obviously don't remember the 70s and 80s if you think there was never a global cooling frenzy. The only difference is that people figured out how to make millions from fear in ways they could only dream of back then.
It's less than trivial to find not-useful ones. The easiest is Al Gore telling everyone we have only 10 years left for the past 30 years now. He's not the only one either.
You're missing a few things here.
First, it may have a 40 mile range but that's when it's constantly moving at one speed. When you're driving in a congested city with lots of stops and starts, your range will drop dramatically. There's also going to be plenty of time you sit not moving at all while running a heater or a/c, and then what if you need to run errands before or after work? That 40 mile range doesn't actually exist in real life driving situations and is why this car is near useless for most people.
I had a Timex Sinclair 1000 and it only had 512 bytes of ram.
We're saying what we've always said. The earth has always experienced climate change. For hundreds of thousands of years it's gone through periods of warming and cooling. It's just doing what it's always done. We just refuse to let a natural cycle of the planet turn us into paranoid delusionals that make it possible for people like Al Gore to become filthy rich from spreading fear.
Actually, they need to distinguish between a lit tree being "bad" because of religion, and a lit tree being "bad" because it let's the N. Koreans see what life is like with electricity.
"kids don't behave or speak correctly."
Fixed that for you ya damn whippersnapper.
That's exactly what the tea party protests did. They followed the law. They respected others rights. They protested in allowed zones They followed police orders. A protest itself will never change anything. It's just an effective way of warning politicians that they will be handed walking papers if they don't listen, and that is exactly what happened in the 2010 election. That is how you effectively protest.
You really also should learn the definition of "civil disobedience" because you're using it wrong, just like everyone else at OWS, where you think it's a justification for being an asshole. It's a method of getting a law into court so you can challenge it. The idea is that you deliberately break a law in public so everyone can see. You do it quietly and respectfully, and you peacefully allow the police to arrest you. Once arrested and in court you can challenge the law and have it overturned. If you act like a dick, then the courts are going to ignore your challenge and put you in jail because nobody who acts like a dick is going to get any respect from anyone.
You know the story of the ugly duckling? Since there is no such thing as a talking duck we should stop telling that story to children, shouldn't we.
The problem less in two places. We have religious people who think you have to believe talking ducks are real, and atheists who are obsessed with mocking anyone who uses talking ducks in a story. Both are missing the whole point of everything.
We certainly shouldn't ever discuss the story of the ugly duckling. It might give the story teller credibility.
You're confused on the definition of "truth."
Look at the story of the Ugly Duckling. It's about talking Ducks. The moral of the story is that it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, it's inner beauty that matters. People who don't understand the difference between personal truth and universal truth can't separate the story from the moral and think that just because there's no such thing as a talking duck, then the moral of the story has to be wrong too.
Personal truth is anything you believe to be true, hopefully to help you be a better person. Universal truth is simply the scientific definition of how things are. This is why people who actually understand their religion whether it be Christiantiy, Buddhism, or whatever, simply write off those who attempt to tell us we're wrong because we believe in an invisible man in the sky. "Love one another" is a very valid and helpful teaching regardless of who teaches it, and so what if it comes from an invisible man in the sky. If the Flying Spaghetti Monster taught it would it be any more or less valid?