Whatever -- Day Two, then. The guy's been in office for five years now -- in fact, the "last administration" that you blamed in your previous post was also the Obama administration (term 1) -- so he's had plenty of fucking time to get rid of the bullshit.
The fact that he hasn't means he is complicit -- no, scratch that, he endorses it -- and has zero excuses.
The goddamn worthless lying piece of shit even campaigned on closing Gitmo (which is why I voted for him in 2008)... we see how that worked out (which is why I voted against him in 2012)!
Check your reading comprehension. TFA says that the FISA court ruled NSA's actions illegal, which means that they were not operating under the laws passed by congress.
Obama is responsible.... Impeachment is the strongest signal we can peacefully send, and that vote is a clear dividing line on who in Congress is for us and who is against us.
If you want Congress to impeach Obama over this, you should sign this.
(By the way, you do realize the Republican pundit shows are just going to continue whining about Obamacare and other partisan but unimportant bullshit, right? Dealing with an issue like this is really up to us, the Actual Citizens, not the idiots on the radio.)
"The most common blend of modern concrete, known as Portland cement, a formulation in use for nearly 200 years, canâ(TM)t come close to matching that track record..." (emphasis added)
Note that they didn't say "best available" blend, they said "most common." It's not the most common because it's strong or durable; it's the most common because it's cheap.
From the press release:
"Analysis of samples provided by team member Marie Jackson pinpointed why the best Roman concrete was superior to most modern concrete in durability..." (again, emphasis added)
Logic 101: if the "best" of thing A (Roman concrete) is superior to only "most" of thing B (modern concrete), it means that the "best" of thing B is even better.
Like I said, we can build structures just as durable as the Roman ones. We just can't be bothered to spend the money to do so.
Oh, by the way: we've known about pozzolanic materials since forever. The reason why Portland cement is so much more popular is that you can actually get it in Portland, Maine (where there aren't any volcanoes) just as easily as you can in Portland, Oregon.
A bubble package with a few nuts and washers is the kind of item that is most profitable.
I have never gotten a bubble package from Amazon. Even the smallest order I've ever had was packed in something with volume at least equal to a shoebox (and 90+% air)!
Also, I don't think you know what you're talking about re: Lowe's to begin with. If little packets of hardware are so profitable, why do I have to drive (literally!) past the Lowe's and to an Ace to find the right thing?!
Personally, I'd be perfectly happy if Amazon etc. killed off all the big-box stores so that mail-order and mom-and-pop neighborhood stores were all that remained.
You mean to tell me that they arbitrarily choose to substitute and then fail to mark down the substitute's price to the same unit-price as the thing you actually wanted? That's ridiculous!
Did you know that Azerbaijan, Belarus or Georgia are European countries?
No. The boundary between Europe and Asia is the Caucasus Mountains, and Georgia and Azerbaijan are on the Asian side. A handy rule of thumb: if the most convenient way to get to Brussels, Belgium is through Russia, then you're not in Europe.
Rome has a lot more than a flag left standing; their concrete quality was far superior to modern concrete, so there's all kinds of Roman-built stuff still standing and in pretty good shape considering it's 2000 years old. Anything we make out of concrete is usually falling apart after 50 years.
This is mostly because the Romans didn't use steel reinforcement, and could only build structures loaded in compression (e.g arches, but no beams). That means their structures were not only much more massive (since half the potential strength was wasted) but they don't suffer the primary (deterioration) failure mode of modern structures, which is the rebar rusting away.
We could build stuff just as durable as Roman buildings these days if we wanted to; we just choose not to because (a) it's much more expensive, and (b) half the time we tear stuff down before it's worn out anyway because the use case has changed.
If you're in Minnesota, you shouldn't be able to use this idea anyway because the insulation in your roof should be thicker than the height of the bottle!
Huntsman was the only candidate in the entire race (perhaps aside from some minor third-parties) that I felt like I could actually vote for, rather than "against the alternative."
Face it, health 'insurance' made since when the only thing a doctor could do was a) amputate and b) give out aspirin.
On the contrary, health insurance only "made sense" because during World War 2 businesses were prohibited from increasing wages to attract workers (because it would increase costs of material for the war effort), so they started offering employer-sponsored health insurance instead. Once the war ended, the idea stopped making sense again (but stuck around anyway).
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Whatever -- Day Two, then. The guy's been in office for five years now -- in fact, the "last administration" that you blamed in your previous post was also the Obama administration (term 1) -- so he's had plenty of fucking time to get rid of the bullshit.
The fact that he hasn't means he is complicit -- no, scratch that, he endorses it -- and has zero excuses.
The goddamn worthless lying piece of shit even campaigned on closing Gitmo (which is why I voted for him in 2008)... we see how that worked out (which is why I voted against him in 2012)!
Compared to civil liberties? No, it really fucking isn't!
Check your reading comprehension. TFA says that the FISA court ruled NSA's actions illegal, which means that they were not operating under the laws passed by congress.
Seriously?! Obama could have abolished this nonsense on Day One if he'd wanted to; the fact that he didn't means he's just as evil!
You know signing a petition and writing congresscritters aren't mutually exclusive options, right?
If you want Congress to impeach Obama over this, you should sign this.
How about right now?
(By the way, you do realize the Republican pundit shows are just going to continue whining about Obamacare and other partisan but unimportant bullshit, right? Dealing with an issue like this is really up to us, the Actual Citizens, not the idiots on the radio.)
If that's what you want, then sign the petition!
Here's a petition asking for exactly that!
I've created a petition demanding that the administration to hold itself accountable (or that Congress should do so if the administration won't).
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Every account of the issue that I've read -- even the ones from way back in the beginning -- called him a Private First Class.
From the linked article:
Note that they didn't say "best available" blend, they said "most common." It's not the most common because it's strong or durable; it's the most common because it's cheap.
From the press release:
Logic 101: if the "best" of thing A (Roman concrete) is superior to only "most" of thing B (modern concrete), it means that the "best" of thing B is even better.
Like I said, we can build structures just as durable as the Roman ones. We just can't be bothered to spend the money to do so.
Oh, by the way: we've known about pozzolanic materials since forever. The reason why Portland cement is so much more popular is that you can actually get it in Portland, Maine (where there aren't any volcanoes) just as easily as you can in Portland, Oregon.
Because kuru, that's why!
I have never gotten a bubble package from Amazon. Even the smallest order I've ever had was packed in something with volume at least equal to a shoebox (and 90+% air)!
Also, I don't think you know what you're talking about re: Lowe's to begin with. If little packets of hardware are so profitable, why do I have to drive (literally!) past the Lowe's and to an Ace to find the right thing?!
Personally, I'd be perfectly happy if Amazon etc. killed off all the big-box stores so that mail-order and mom-and-pop neighborhood stores were all that remained.
You mean to tell me that they arbitrarily choose to substitute and then fail to mark down the substitute's price to the same unit-price as the thing you actually wanted? That's ridiculous!
No. The boundary between Europe and Asia is the Caucasus Mountains, and Georgia and Azerbaijan are on the Asian side. A handy rule of thumb: if the most convenient way to get to Brussels, Belgium is through Russia, then you're not in Europe.
I'll give you Belarus, though.
This is mostly because the Romans didn't use steel reinforcement, and could only build structures loaded in compression (e.g arches, but no beams). That means their structures were not only much more massive (since half the potential strength was wasted) but they don't suffer the primary (deterioration) failure mode of modern structures, which is the rebar rusting away.
We could build stuff just as durable as Roman buildings these days if we wanted to; we just choose not to because (a) it's much more expensive, and (b) half the time we tear stuff down before it's worn out anyway because the use case has changed.
Albert Einstein is too mainstream... if Google+ were really great, they'd have been talking about Tesla or someone!
Bear Grylls's shows are staged. Les Stroud's shows are not.
If you're in Minnesota, you shouldn't be able to use this idea anyway because the insulation in your roof should be thicker than the height of the bottle!
Huntsman was the only candidate in the entire race (perhaps aside from some minor third-parties) that I felt like I could actually vote for, rather than "against the alternative."
Well, damn. I stand corrected!
On the contrary, health insurance only "made sense" because during World War 2 businesses were prohibited from increasing wages to attract workers (because it would increase costs of material for the war effort), so they started offering employer-sponsored health insurance instead. Once the war ended, the idea stopped making sense again (but stuck around anyway).
"Wasteland and ideal" is right, I think. Presumably, seismic stability is less important than keeping it away from farmland.
By the way, you should have zoomed in a little more on your map link; it would make the craters more obvious.
I hate to break it to you, but right now is the most corrupt, dysfunctional time in the nations history.