What cash? All they did was send 4000 form letters. All that costs is the time one Scientologist took to write the thing, and then a few cents per letter for copying and postage.
I imagine the extra load brought by actually prosecuting perjury cases would be not insubstantial. This would be a reason not to resort to criminal prosecution.
That doesn't stop them from jailing all the pot smokers...
When the banks wrote the mortgages and held them, they were less likely to give money to unqualified buyers. When they were allowed to repackage the debt and sell it to other corporations, to no one's surprise, everyone got greedy and started trading the debt.
And then the idiots who took out loans they couldn't afford file for bankruptcy, and the banks that stupidly lent them that money go out of business. That is not a problem -- it's the market fixing itself.
All these bailouts do is screw over me, as both a taxpayer and a person who otherwise* would be able to afford to buy a house!
(*I'm a college student, so I would actually be a good candidate for one of these ARMs: by the time it adjusted, I'd have graduated and be making enough money to pay for it. But nooo -- first there was the housing bubble and everything was way too expensive, and now that the market has corrected all the loans have dried up -- the irresponsible dumbasses ruined it for everybody else!)
Let me guess, you believe that same stupid shit, that because VAG owns Audi, that a Jetta and an A4 are the same?
No, I just don't think the differences are important. At least, they're certainly not worth the price premium of an A4 over a Jetta -- not by a long shot.
If I were going to buy a $30K+ German sedan, it'd be a BMW 3-series, not an Audi.
However, it is not obvious as to how you'd get from a free-floating RNA/DNA strand and a prion to a living cell, so there must be other stages in between, if that indeed was the sequence.
I'm no biologist, but I imagine viruses are one of those in-between stages...
So you are opposed to net neutrality ? Because every law I've seen about net neutrality forbids payment of any kind for prioritising traffic by end-users, making your second option worthless.
You're either ignorant or trolling. Net neutrality is not about normal QoS (i.e., prioritizing by packet type: higher for things like ACKs and VOIP, lower for latency-tolerant stuff like BitTorrent), nor is it about uniformly throttling the customer of the ISP (e.g. if he goes over a transfer limit). What it is about, is solely prioritizing based on packet destination, i.e., the same type of packet, sent by the same user at the same time, but to different URLs. Or in other words, its about preventing the ISP from giving packets to (e.g.) Google preference over those sent to Yahoo because Yahoo didn't capitulate to the ISP's extortion.
You're a fucking dumbass! Don't you realize that credit cards have limits by default? I guess you're too damn stupid to realize that if "just like" that with cell phones, then it's the service provider who should institute the fucking cap, not you!
And what is stopping you from negotiating your own terms? As far as I know, this is physically possible and even legal.
It's legal, but it's not physically possible. The corporation you're "negotiating" with has orders of magnitude more bargaining power than you do, so the reality is that almost all contracts are "take it or leave it."
When you are making $50,000 a year you should know you shouldn't take out a 100% mortgage on a $400,000 house regardless of whether or not someone would offer the loan.
But most people weren't doing that! They were taking out 0% (zero percent!) mortgages on $400,000 houses <font size="0.00001">that, by the way, balloon to 100% a year from now</font>. That's a big difference.
It is necessarily true. Old passport - picture and a magnetic strip on funky paper. New passport - picture, RFID and magnet strip on funky paper. It is necessarily harder (even if just trivialy) to copy 4 pieces rather than three.
That's only if the other three pieces still matter afterward. Read the other reply to my post for more insight in this regard.
The insight started with gas motor by default so it made noise when you started unless you did more than 3 starts and stops in a short period.
The Insight worked that way because it had a normal transmission. It was not capable of moving without the gasoline engine turning (except when coasting in neutral with the manual transmission model).
If you are happy with a car that can fit 2 not quite full size adults, a bag of groceries, and not much else, buy a Smart, or maybe complain about the poor mileage of the MINI Cooper compared to similarly sized vehicles of yesteryear.
The Smart gets shitty mileage for its size, too! And both the Smart and Mini are fugly (although the Smart moreso). Why can't they make a small car that looks good, like the Honda CRX did?
And I'm never, ever going to buy a hybrid unless it has a manual transmission.
The original Insight did have a manual transmission.
However, Prius-style hybrids don't have transmissions at all, in the normal sense. They have planetary gearsets instead, which are directly coupled to the engine and wheels at all times, without any need for clutches or torque converters.
The CRX HF (note: specifically the HF trim level) got mileage comparable to the most efficient trim level of the Geo Metro too, and its essentially the same as an Insight (except made of steel and non-hybrid).
Nope, he meant the Insight, which (along with Honda's old CRX) had that same rear window design.
'Course, I'm 5'10" too and I didn't think the rear visibility was a problem when I test-drove an Insight once (or when I test-drove a CRX, for that matter).
VW's current TDI models also pack a ridiculous amount of torque for cars of their size
That's true of hybrids, too: the electric motor makes maximum torque at 0 RPM, you know. As for actual acceleration, IIRC the Insight's 0-60 time was ~12 seconds without any electric assist, but ~8 with full assist.
You have to buy a hybrid with the mindset that you will not drag race or street race. Theory goes you should also buy a regular vehicle under that same premise.
The difference is that with the hybrid, you can make a game out of going slow because you have instant and lifetime MPG gauges to keep score with.
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What cash? All they did was send 4000 form letters. All that costs is the time one Scientologist took to write the thing, and then a few cents per letter for copying and postage.
That doesn't stop them from jailing all the pot smokers...
And then the idiots who took out loans they couldn't afford file for bankruptcy, and the banks that stupidly lent them that money go out of business. That is not a problem -- it's the market fixing itself.
All these bailouts do is screw over me, as both a taxpayer and a person who otherwise* would be able to afford to buy a house!
(*I'm a college student, so I would actually be a good candidate for one of these ARMs: by the time it adjusted, I'd have graduated and be making enough money to pay for it. But nooo -- first there was the housing bubble and everything was way too expensive, and now that the market has corrected all the loans have dried up -- the irresponsible dumbasses ruined it for everybody else!)
No, I just don't think the differences are important. At least, they're certainly not worth the price premium of an A4 over a Jetta -- not by a long shot.
If I were going to buy a $30K+ German sedan, it'd be a BMW 3-series, not an Audi.
And sadly, only a Libertarian President would do the right thing about it, and that's not gonna happen.
I'm no biologist, but I imagine viruses are one of those in-between stages...
And not only that, but they fraudulently impersonated both their users and the entity the users were connecting to to do it!
You're either ignorant or trolling. Net neutrality is not about normal QoS (i.e., prioritizing by packet type: higher for things like ACKs and VOIP, lower for latency-tolerant stuff like BitTorrent), nor is it about uniformly throttling the customer of the ISP (e.g. if he goes over a transfer limit). What it is about, is solely prioritizing based on packet destination, i.e., the same type of packet, sent by the same user at the same time, but to different URLs. Or in other words, its about preventing the ISP from giving packets to (e.g.) Google preference over those sent to Yahoo because Yahoo didn't capitulate to the ISP's extortion.
Everything is destined to become ISPs! Cellphone carriers, landline carriers, cable TV carriers, all of them.
It should be the job of the FCC and FTC (and equivalent organizations internationally) to ensure that this transition happens as quickly as possible.
You're a fucking dumbass! Don't you realize that credit cards have limits by default? I guess you're too damn stupid to realize that if "just like" that with cell phones, then it's the service provider who should institute the fucking cap, not you!
So in other words, OzEmail won because it got to ruin your credit?
No, he was saying that EVERYONE, INCLUDING YOU is too stupid to read the contract they agreed to!
Have you read every word of every contract you've ever entered into? If you say yes, you're a fucking liar!
It's legal, but it's not physically possible. The corporation you're "negotiating" with has orders of magnitude more bargaining power than you do, so the reality is that almost all contracts are "take it or leave it."
But most people weren't doing that! They were taking out 0% (zero percent!) mortgages on $400,000 houses <font size="0.00001">that, by the way, balloon to 100% a year from now</font>. That's a big difference.
That's only if the other three pieces still matter afterward. Read the other reply to my post for more insight in this regard.
The Insight worked that way because it had a normal transmission. It was not capable of moving without the gasoline engine turning (except when coasting in neutral with the manual transmission model).
The Smart gets shitty mileage for its size, too! And both the Smart and Mini are fugly (although the Smart moreso). Why can't they make a small car that looks good, like the Honda CRX did?
The original Insight did have a manual transmission.
However, Prius-style hybrids don't have transmissions at all, in the normal sense. They have planetary gearsets instead, which are directly coupled to the engine and wheels at all times, without any need for clutches or torque converters.
The CRX HF (note: specifically the HF trim level) got mileage comparable to the most efficient trim level of the Geo Metro too, and its essentially the same as an Insight (except made of steel and non-hybrid).
Nope, he meant the Insight, which (along with Honda's old CRX) had that same rear window design.
'Course, I'm 5'10" too and I didn't think the rear visibility was a problem when I test-drove an Insight once (or when I test-drove a CRX, for that matter).
I don't see where there's any important difference between that and the Jetta TDI that they actually do offer.
That's true of hybrids, too: the electric motor makes maximum torque at 0 RPM, you know. As for actual acceleration, IIRC the Insight's 0-60 time was ~12 seconds without any electric assist, but ~8 with full assist.
The difference is that with the hybrid, you can make a game out of going slow because you have instant and lifetime MPG gauges to keep score with.
So is your car, unless it's at least 10 years old and has a four-cylinder engine. Anything fancier than that is a waste of money!
Unless you bought an (original) Insight. Those are still the highest-MPG hybrids by a wide margin.