After all, how long before a New Yorker of Jewish background is no longer Jewish and just a New Yorker?
Bad analogy: "Jewish" describes a religion, not a place. The better analogy would be to ask how long before a Jewish New Yorker who emigrated from Poland stops considering himself to be Polish.
No, that's why the "companies are filled with old people who can't retire." You have to read very carefully to notice it, but that was separate from the management greed part.
Actually, after re-reading your post I realize that MARTA's problem is slightly different, and stupider. I'll just quote Jim Wooten (a conservative columnist for the AJC, whom I don't usually agree with but who summed it up well this time):
MARTA, in begging to be included in any federal bailout, demonstrates just how rotten the nation's financial system had become -- with Congress at the core of the problem. MARTA "sold" track and equipment built and purchased with public tax dollars to private companies and investors to use as a tax dodge. Then it leased the track and equipment back, paying rental for 20-25 years. The IRS finally clamped down. But now MARTA may be on the hook for $400 million because of the troubles of the insurance giant AIG. It's asking the feds to ride to the rescue. Congress is the root cause of everything bad that's happened in the financial world -- and not because of too little regulation, but because of too much mutual back-scratching, as occurred with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Crazy, ain't it?
(Aside: Boy, I wish Slashdot would join us in the 21st century and support Unicode already! I had to remove the fancy quotation marks, apostrophes, and hyphens from this quote because they weren't rendering right.)
On the other hand, I could argue that non-competes are unconstitutional and void since 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' are _unalienable_ rights.
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
The point of HOV lanes is to reduce congestion by removing vehicles from the road during rush hour by encouraging carpooling, rather than promoting fuel efficiency.
Oh yeah? Then why do people driving "alternative fuel" vehicles get to use it without passengers?
It was getting smart with the police officer (that he, himself called) that landed him in jail. If you have an ID and the police asks for it and you refuse, you are obstructing. (The blogger does also say this at the end of the article.)
That's a lie. If you read his subsequent entry you'll see that not only was he vindicated, but that Ohio law specifically reiterates that you don't have to show police ID, but rather only tell them your name, address, and age (which he was perfectly willing to do).
The lanes around here in Atlanta -- for now -- only require two occupants.
Of course, what's stupid about HOV lanes is that they don't take actual vehicle efficiency into account: two people in a 15 MPG Suburban, or one person in a 25 MPG hybrid SUV, get to use the lane while one person in a 45 MPG CRX or 50 MPG TDI (diesel) Golf don't.
Many vehicles only use a tiny fraction of their horsepower to maintain speed and the rest is for acceleration, so in an car driven by electrical motors - the gasoline recharging engines can be significantly smaller; 5-20hp (? - my civic has 140hp in comparison)
Speaking of Civics, did you know that yours has plenty more engine than it needs too? A decade or so ago, Civics had engines with 70-90 HP. It seems silly to me that everybody thinks efficiency in the 40-50 MPG range is so hard that it requires electric motors and stirling engines and whatnot, when a perfectly normal CRX HF -- the cheapest CRX -- did 45 MPG in 1988! And that's the revised figure; according to the old EPA method the combined efficiency was 54 MPG.
Of course it's propaganda! Everything that comes out of a politician's mouth is propaganda. The key is to listen to the opposition's propaganda too, so that you can filter out the bullshit and find the truth (which is usually somewhere in the middle).
Why have to "import" at all? Why does every music player have to manage a "library"? I've got a file system. I've learned to use it to manage files in ways I like. Just let me do that.
In that case, you want to use the Quicktime player, not iTunes.
My favorite thing to hear on Fox was a discussion going on to do with the state of the economy, and how "we are only now seeing the full effects of the Clinton presidency". I about fell out of my chair.
To an extent, it's true: the financial problems are due in part to the Community Reinvestment Act, which they claim was modified during the Clinton administration in such a way that it forced banks to make riskier loans.
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Bad analogy: "Jewish" describes a religion, not a place. The better analogy would be to ask how long before a Jewish New Yorker who emigrated from Poland stops considering himself to be Polish.
The trouble with walls, as we saw recently in New Orleans, is that if they break you're fucked.
Because if we didn't have the alarm, then people in Maldives would drown instead of buying new land.
No, that's why the "companies are filled with old people who can't retire." You have to read very carefully to notice it, but that was separate from the management greed part.
Actually, after re-reading your post I realize that MARTA's problem is slightly different, and stupider. I'll just quote Jim Wooten (a conservative columnist for the AJC, whom I don't usually agree with but who summed it up well this time):
Crazy, ain't it?
(Aside: Boy, I wish Slashdot would join us in the 21st century and support Unicode already! I had to remove the fancy quotation marks, apostrophes, and hyphens from this quote because they weren't rendering right.)
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
Oh yeah? Then why do people driving "alternative fuel" vehicles get to use it without passengers?
Are you talking about MARTA, or is there more than one transit agency in that predicament?
That's a lie. If you read his subsequent entry you'll see that not only was he vindicated, but that Ohio law specifically reiterates that you don't have to show police ID, but rather only tell them your name, address, and age (which he was perfectly willing to do).
No he didn't, he blamed it on "greedy asswipes" running Fortune 1000 corporations.
The lanes around here in Atlanta -- for now -- only require two occupants.
Of course, what's stupid about HOV lanes is that they don't take actual vehicle efficiency into account: two people in a 15 MPG Suburban, or one person in a 25 MPG hybrid SUV, get to use the lane while one person in a 45 MPG CRX or 50 MPG TDI (diesel) Golf don't.
Speaking of Civics, did you know that yours has plenty more engine than it needs too? A decade or so ago, Civics had engines with 70-90 HP. It seems silly to me that everybody thinks efficiency in the 40-50 MPG range is so hard that it requires electric motors and stirling engines and whatnot, when a perfectly normal CRX HF -- the cheapest CRX -- did 45 MPG in 1988! And that's the revised figure; according to the old EPA method the combined efficiency was 54 MPG.
Sounds interesting, but the only such cookware I found after a cursory Google search also contained teflon anyway!
Of course it's propaganda! Everything that comes out of a politician's mouth is propaganda. The key is to listen to the opposition's propaganda too, so that you can filter out the bullshit and find the truth (which is usually somewhere in the middle).
In that case, you want to use the Quicktime player, not iTunes.
...then you're pretty fucking stupid for continuing to use OS X at all, because iTunes is just like every other damn OS X application!
Also plutonium (or used pinball machine parts to barter for it).
"Vulgar" means "common." Now do you understand?
What, you're complaining about my subject/verb agreement? "All" is collective, and therefore plural, so "[All] are" is correct.
Because their districts are gerrymandered such that their opponent (if they even have one) has no chance of winning.
For most districts, the real election happens in the primary.
To an extent, it's true: the financial problems are due in part to the Community Reinvestment Act, which they claim was modified during the Clinton administration in such a way that it forced banks to make riskier loans.
Until Obama won the Iowa caucus, all the black people were backing Hillary Clinton anyway. They're not racists, they're just Democrats.
Your post contains invalid markup: you can't interleave tags like that.
Really? Why doesn't Wikipedia allow Dirac too?
It took you three years to notice you weren't getting the insurance discount? Don't you look at your premium before paying it?