Show me a phone I can buy directly from Google and then use with a reasonably-priced service (e.g. Virgin Mobile) and I'll happily buy it. Otherwise STFU.
unless we assume that it's still meant to be possible for individuals to band together and overthrow the government by force (which, let's face it, is unlikely these days)
Why do you say that? It seems to have worked out pretty well for a few Middle Eastern countries recently...
The bigger problem is that the fuel injection system (in all new common-rail Diesels, not just VW TDIs) operates at such high pressures that the waxes present in Biodiesel tend to gum it up and break it. Given that the fuel injection system on a new Jetta costs $10K to replace, using biodiesel in such vehicles is not a wise choice.
Older Diesels, such as my 1998-model VW, do just fine on Biodiesel -- and get better fuel economy than the new ones, to boot!
I don't believe you, mostly because I can list quite a few substances that are poisonous, yet nobody would want to use them as a drug: bleach, ammonia, lye, a wide variety of herbicides and pesticides, etc.
Legroom and headroom are functionally equivalent: you increase legroom (at the expense of headroom) by moving the seat up, back and upright, and you increase headroom by moving the seat down, forward and reclined.
In other words, you might have to move the seat all the way back, but you will fit in a New Beetle no matter how tall you are. (And normal-sized people could drive one while wearing a top-hat.)
Oh, I thought when you wrote "...it really has nothing to do with potential accidents" it meant we weren't talking just about avoiding accidents anymore. Silly me.
You sure about that? I've test driven the Fiat 500; it sucked pretty bad. Even my 10-years-older Hyundai Accent was better (it even had more power), let alone my VW Beetle TDI.
Granted, the Abarth (with a manual transmission) might be decent...
The US is sitting on the largest oil reserves in the world.
More importantly, the US also has huge reserves of coal. Make no mistake: when the oil really runs out, the "alternative fuel of the future" isn't going to be hydrogen or batteries or biofuels or any sort of environmentally sane technology, it's going to be "fuck-the-world-we-need-our-delivery-trucks-to-work" coal gasification.
I think the fact that most normal people don't want triangulated beams criss-crossing the passenger compartment is the problem. Just think of how few cars even have anything similar: the Nissan 3350Z has a strut tower brace (which kills cargo capacity), and certain roadsters have roll hoops, but that's about it.
You got my argument exactly backwards: I didn't say that drugs weren't poisons, I said that poisons (without any effects that would make someone want to take them) shouldn't be classified as drugs.
So your argument is "it should be illegal because it imposes costs on society, and it imposes costs on society because it's illegal." This is called a circular argument fallacy.
If there's no conceivable reason why somebody would want to ingest a substance to begin with (such as the fact that it's poisonous enough to be used as a weapon) then it shouldn't be counted as a drug.
The fact that you are having trouble mapping the ideas to your flawed conceptual model is your own problem, not his. The defining feature of both extreme fascism and extreme socialism is that they're authoritarian, and from that perspective they look the same.
Besides, governments are schizophrenic anyway; it's perfectly reasonable to expect them to exhibit opposite traits at once!
The only companies that will put these sort of features in are usually defending some other business model. So Apple will put in measures to defend iTunes. Google will put in measures to defend their store, and it looks like Microsoft is thinking about measures to defend either their OS or their store.
But does anyone really think that the server manufacturers are going to make servers that make it hard to install Linux?
So next time I want to go buy something other than a server, who exactly do you suggest I go buy it from?!
I have no debt, other than a house loan... and that's obviously for tax purposes.
People talk about the mortgage interest deduction, but my taxes always come out cheaper without itemizing... I don't know what I'm doing wrong...
I've had credit cards for emergencies but every single one of them canceled the card on me due to lack of use. Apparently paying for a tow truck every 2 years doesn't make them enough profit.
Why did you decide not to get a rewards card (e.g. 1% or 2% cash back) and pay it off each month? Not only would you get the discount, but your money could earn interest during the grace period.
The 2nd Amendment does nothing less than affirm our right to rebel against a tyrannical government. This should not be a surprise, given that the folks who wrote it had just finished doing that exact thing!
synchronize contacts and appointments with google (so that I can dial by name instead of number, and so that it can sound alarms for appointments)
I want it to have an e-ink screen (max 2 lines of text; alphanumeric instead of bitmap is OK), 24-hour battery life, and be the same size and shape as a credit card (Ideally the same thickness too, but up to 5mm or so is OK).
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Show me a phone I can buy directly from Google and then use with a reasonably-priced service (e.g. Virgin Mobile) and I'll happily buy it. Otherwise STFU.
Those plastic coatings for metal cans are also the biggest remaining source of BPA exposure, if I remember correctly.
...Therac-25, Hyatt Regency walkway collapse...
Why do you say that? It seems to have worked out pretty well for a few Middle Eastern countries recently...
Why should Bethesda bother fixing their problems, when (as you just demonstrated) the community is perfectly happy to do it for them?
The bigger problem is that the fuel injection system (in all new common-rail Diesels, not just VW TDIs) operates at such high pressures that the waxes present in Biodiesel tend to gum it up and break it. Given that the fuel injection system on a new Jetta costs $10K to replace, using biodiesel in such vehicles is not a wise choice.
Older Diesels, such as my 1998-model VW, do just fine on Biodiesel -- and get better fuel economy than the new ones, to boot!
I don't believe you, mostly because I can list quite a few substances that are poisonous, yet nobody would want to use them as a drug: bleach, ammonia, lye, a wide variety of herbicides and pesticides, etc.
Legroom and headroom are functionally equivalent: you increase legroom (at the expense of headroom) by moving the seat up, back and upright, and you increase headroom by moving the seat down, forward and reclined.
In other words, you might have to move the seat all the way back, but you will fit in a New Beetle no matter how tall you are. (And normal-sized people could drive one while wearing a top-hat.)
Oh, I thought when you wrote "...it really has nothing to do with potential accidents" it meant we weren't talking just about avoiding accidents anymore. Silly me.
FYI, there's nothing "relatively small" about a Pontiac G6. It was the second-biggest car Pontiac made at the time!
You sure about that? I've test driven the Fiat 500; it sucked pretty bad. Even my 10-years-older Hyundai Accent was better (it even had more power), let alone my VW Beetle TDI.
Granted, the Abarth (with a manual transmission) might be decent...
More importantly, the US also has huge reserves of coal. Make no mistake: when the oil really runs out, the "alternative fuel of the future" isn't going to be hydrogen or batteries or biofuels or any sort of environmentally sane technology, it's going to be "fuck-the-world-we-need-our-delivery-trucks-to-work" coal gasification.
I think the fact that most normal people don't want triangulated beams criss-crossing the passenger compartment is the problem. Just think of how few cars even have anything similar: the Nissan 3350Z has a strut tower brace (which kills cargo capacity), and certain roadsters have roll hoops, but that's about it.
A family averaging 200 lbs per person is not "small!"
Buy yourself a 1998-2006 VW Beetle TDI. Better headroom than just about anything else (including your Mercury), 40+ MPG, and it can run on biodiesel.
You got my argument exactly backwards: I didn't say that drugs weren't poisons, I said that poisons (without any effects that would make someone want to take them) shouldn't be classified as drugs.
They don't pay tax only because it's illegal.
So your argument is "it should be illegal because it imposes costs on society, and it imposes costs on society because it's illegal." This is called a circular argument fallacy.
If there's no conceivable reason why somebody would want to ingest a substance to begin with (such as the fact that it's poisonous enough to be used as a weapon) then it shouldn't be counted as a drug.
Unless the ink dries quickly, lefties tend to smear it with the heel of their hand as they move across the page.
The fact that you are having trouble mapping the ideas to your flawed conceptual model is your own problem, not his. The defining feature of both extreme fascism and extreme socialism is that they're authoritarian, and from that perspective they look the same.
Besides, governments are schizophrenic anyway; it's perfectly reasonable to expect them to exhibit opposite traits at once!
So next time I want to go buy something other than a server, who exactly do you suggest I go buy it from?!
People talk about the mortgage interest deduction, but my taxes always come out cheaper without itemizing... I don't know what I'm doing wrong...
Why did you decide not to get a rewards card (e.g. 1% or 2% cash back) and pay it off each month? Not only would you get the discount, but your money could earn interest during the grace period.
The 2nd Amendment does nothing less than affirm our right to rebel against a tyrannical government. This should not be a surprise, given that the folks who wrote it had just finished doing that exact thing!
Leaving out games wouldn't be stupid if the phone had a non-bitmap display (e.g., alphanumeric or 7-segment).
I want a phone that does 3 tasks:
I want it to have an e-ink screen (max 2 lines of text; alphanumeric instead of bitmap is OK), 24-hour battery life, and be the same size and shape as a credit card (Ideally the same thickness too, but up to 5mm or so is OK).