As a gadget/games nerd I am very excited about going to Akihabara in Tokyo in about 6 weeks. Apparently it's the Mecca for people like me. Even with the strong Yen (vs USD) I'm hoping to find some good deals on electronics.
Have you tried locking your doors from the inside and when you close the driver's side door make sure you hold the door handle up as you shut it. This is what some auto makers implemented as a way to keep you from locking yourself out before keyless entry was near standard equipment. Having to physically have the door handle open is a last reminder to make sure keys are in hand.
Well, keep in mind that lawyers try to weed out potential jurors that may be able to think on their own. They want the sheeple they feel they can manipulate.
That being said, I'm almost 30 and have never been on a jury. I've only been summoned once but in that month I had 2 business trips planned that would keep me away from home for half the month so I was automatically dismissed. I fear, though, that because of the professions of my parents that I'll never get to see a jury box anyway. My dad is a retired sheriff and my mom is still a court reporter for the county common pleas judge. Every lawyer in this region knows my parents, I'd probably get dismissed by the defense attorny right away.
Of course I have also gotten out of a few speeding tickets, so I've got that going for me!
Even if the gov't does nothing there will be some vigilante script kiddies that take up the fight and go after anything related to N. Korea... even if no proof the attacks originated from there is ever found.
Of course we could just blame Michael Jackon's funeral for the internet meltdown.
Considering Honda put the first hybrid on the road (that anyone could own), I don't think they have anything to worry about. That and the systems are quite different.
Nah, in this case it would be more like you drove your cousin Bob to the store after he said he felt like he was going to rob it (though maybe you thought it was a joke). You stay in the car and aren't really sure what goes on inside, he comes back out, you leave and get arrested a few blocks away and charged.
So what happens when just about everyone has an electric or super efficient hybrid? Same amount of miles being driven but much less gas being bought.
They are trying to be somewhat proactive and determine a better way of implementing this tax. I'm not sure I like the idea of a gps-based system... but I do believe the majority of tax should be based on miles driven. They shouldn't totally get rid of the tax on gasoline though, those with less efficient vehicles should still pay more. Maybe another part of the solution could be a tax based on your vehicle's make/model. You pull up to the pump in a Hummer that gets 15mpg, you've got to pay $.05/gal tax. Roll up in a Civc DX that gets 40mph and you only have to pay $.01/gal tax.
No matter what course of action Wikipedia or The Times took, half of the people here would be bitching about it and the other half would be defending it.
So how come the Mayo Clinic, where doctors are on salary and get paid the same whatever they do, has some of the best outcomes in the country?
The Cleveland Clinic is in the same boat, doctors are salaried so there is no incentive for them to run as many tests as they can fit in to milk the patient/insurance company out of as much money as they can.
But the US won't be able to afford socialized health care until they do away with the insane wrongful death/negligence payouts. The lawsuits have driven up insurance costs for doctors so high that their only way to stay afloat is to raise prices. If the government was picking up the tab... err I mean taxpayers... then we're just hurting ourselves even more.
If the doctor is really that bad he should lose his license to practice, not have to pay out $10 million and get to keep going.
I think it would be interesting seeing a picture of Earth taken from Mars.. even if it was only a faint dot of light in the sky. I imagine the cameras could do this even if it isn't a great picture.
Well, for one thing, a manned space program keeps some very intelligent scientists and engineers employed. It also hopefully captures the imagination of the youth to provide us with another generation of scientists and engineers.
We keep complaining that math and science education in this country keeps sliding. Giving kids something tangible that says "math and science can be fun and exciting" is what we need.
Plus it's not like 100 billion dollars gets strapped to a rocket and blasted into space. Most of the money spent is put straight into the economy (through salaries). The only actual "loss" is the cost of the raw material sent into space.
Your attitude is common among circumcised males. Most people don't want to dwell on the fact that their parents cut off a piece of their body unnecessarily when they were infants. I've even had circumcised men get angry when it's suggested that they don't feel as much as uncircumcised men. It is, unfortunately, very obviously true. Ask any woman who has performed oral sex on both which one is more sensitive.
Honestly I don't care that I'm circumsized. I have never known life otherwise. It doesn't bother me that may be more sensitive, maybe because I have great sex with my gf as is.
And there's no way of knowing that it would be better had I been left with the foreskin. Dwelling on it is stupid.
Oh, and I don't like to wear condoms because then I always have to crawl out of bed to the bathroom and clean off. It's much less of a mess when I can leave my deposit.
Simple questions get much harder when you're on national tv, sitting across a desk from a celebrity, with bright lights and cameras in your face. I know because my gf was on the Japanese version about a decade ago. The question she ended up missing was something she knew, but for some reason she just couldn't come up with the answer will sitting in the chair.
Maybe he knew it, maybe he didn't... but I wouldn't use 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' as an indicator. When I first read your post, I wasn't sure what you were talking about either and it even took about 5 seconds after seeing the symbols to register what the answer was.
They aren't going to build the production facilities in Sillicon Valley, costs are way too high. Maybe the company HQ will be there, but the MFG will probably stay in the mid-west where land is plentiful and cheap and the cost of living is much lower.
Unfortunately Dayton, OH should be on that list. Just lost NCR.. you know it's bad when a company that was founded in your city over 100 years ago packs up shop without even giving the host city/state a chance to appease them.
That's the same way I look at it. Either you use the gold coins at face value and don't pay tax on them, or you sell the gold coins at a profit and must claim that 'investment' income on your year end taxes.
Maybe you keep bartering that gold coin for goods/services worth the approximate value of the gold in the coin, but it seems that eventually someone would cash it out and have to pay taxes on that...
Do some people still feel the EU would be better off handling ICANN instead of the US? I know not every country in Europe has taken this path, but just having one member of the EU doing something like this is a bit troubling.
Why is the scapegoat always religous whackos? I think embreyo screening is a bad idea and I'm not religous. Not everyone who disagrees with a specific scientific "breakthrough" is a zealot.
Some of us just like to err on the side of caution. It's dangerous to engineer life.
me: Uhh... my car is 1 year old and a company owned lease
them: *click*
And that was on my cell phone. The lady I sit next to at work got called on her home, cell AND work phone. I guess I got lucky by only getting called on my cell.
All I would ask is to have the grocer send me one of the posters. I would think it would make a great wall hanging for a rec room. A picture of your family advertising the weekly sale in a foreign language.... great conversational piece!
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As a gadget/games nerd I am very excited about going to Akihabara in Tokyo in about 6 weeks. Apparently it's the Mecca for people like me. Even with the strong Yen (vs USD) I'm hoping to find some good deals on electronics.
Guinness and Jameson are key ingredients in making an Irish Car Bomb. Our local pub also uses a bit of Bailey's.
haha dammit, that's going to be stuck in my head all day now!
Have you tried locking your doors from the inside and when you close the driver's side door make sure you hold the door handle up as you shut it. This is what some auto makers implemented as a way to keep you from locking yourself out before keyless entry was near standard equipment. Having to physically have the door handle open is a last reminder to make sure keys are in hand.
Well, keep in mind that lawyers try to weed out potential jurors that may be able to think on their own. They want the sheeple they feel they can manipulate.
That being said, I'm almost 30 and have never been on a jury. I've only been summoned once but in that month I had 2 business trips planned that would keep me away from home for half the month so I was automatically dismissed. I fear, though, that because of the professions of my parents that I'll never get to see a jury box anyway. My dad is a retired sheriff and my mom is still a court reporter for the county common pleas judge. Every lawyer in this region knows my parents, I'd probably get dismissed by the defense attorny right away.
Of course I have also gotten out of a few speeding tickets, so I've got that going for me!
There needs to be a "sad but true" moderation option.
Even if the gov't does nothing there will be some vigilante script kiddies that take up the fight and go after anything related to N. Korea... even if no proof the attacks originated from there is ever found.
Of course we could just blame Michael Jackon's funeral for the internet meltdown.
Considering Honda put the first hybrid on the road (that anyone could own), I don't think they have anything to worry about. That and the systems are quite different.
Nah, in this case it would be more like you drove your cousin Bob to the store after he said he felt like he was going to rob it (though maybe you thought it was a joke). You stay in the car and aren't really sure what goes on inside, he comes back out, you leave and get arrested a few blocks away and charged.
So what happens when just about everyone has an electric or super efficient hybrid? Same amount of miles being driven but much less gas being bought.
They are trying to be somewhat proactive and determine a better way of implementing this tax. I'm not sure I like the idea of a gps-based system... but I do believe the majority of tax should be based on miles driven. They shouldn't totally get rid of the tax on gasoline though, those with less efficient vehicles should still pay more. Maybe another part of the solution could be a tax based on your vehicle's make/model. You pull up to the pump in a Hummer that gets 15mpg, you've got to pay $.05/gal tax. Roll up in a Civc DX that gets 40mph and you only have to pay $.01/gal tax.
No matter what course of action Wikipedia or The Times took, half of the people here would be bitching about it and the other half would be defending it.
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The Cleveland Clinic is in the same boat, doctors are salaried so there is no incentive for them to run as many tests as they can fit in to milk the patient/insurance company out of as much money as they can.
But the US won't be able to afford socialized health care until they do away with the insane wrongful death/negligence payouts. The lawsuits have driven up insurance costs for doctors so high that their only way to stay afloat is to raise prices. If the government was picking up the tab... err I mean taxpayers... then we're just hurting ourselves even more.
If the doctor is really that bad he should lose his license to practice, not have to pay out $10 million and get to keep going.
I think it would be interesting seeing a picture of Earth taken from Mars.. even if it was only a faint dot of light in the sky. I imagine the cameras could do this even if it isn't a great picture.
Well, for one thing, a manned space program keeps some very intelligent scientists and engineers employed. It also hopefully captures the imagination of the youth to provide us with another generation of scientists and engineers.
We keep complaining that math and science education in this country keeps sliding. Giving kids something tangible that says "math and science can be fun and exciting" is what we need.
Plus it's not like 100 billion dollars gets strapped to a rocket and blasted into space. Most of the money spent is put straight into the economy (through salaries). The only actual "loss" is the cost of the raw material sent into space.
If you made that much of a mess, you're doing it wrong.
Honestly I don't care that I'm circumsized. I have never known life otherwise. It doesn't bother me that may be more sensitive, maybe because I have great sex with my gf as is.
And there's no way of knowing that it would be better had I been left with the foreskin. Dwelling on it is stupid.
Oh, and I don't like to wear condoms because then I always have to crawl out of bed to the bathroom and clean off. It's much less of a mess when I can leave my deposit.
That's what people on /. do, beat a dead horse.
Simple questions get much harder when you're on national tv, sitting across a desk from a celebrity, with bright lights and cameras in your face. I know because my gf was on the Japanese version about a decade ago. The question she ended up missing was something she knew, but for some reason she just couldn't come up with the answer will sitting in the chair.
Maybe he knew it, maybe he didn't... but I wouldn't use 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' as an indicator. When I first read your post, I wasn't sure what you were talking about either and it even took about 5 seconds after seeing the symbols to register what the answer was.
They aren't going to build the production facilities in Sillicon Valley, costs are way too high. Maybe the company HQ will be there, but the MFG will probably stay in the mid-west where land is plentiful and cheap and the cost of living is much lower.
Unfortunately Dayton, OH should be on that list. Just lost NCR.. you know it's bad when a company that was founded in your city over 100 years ago packs up shop without even giving the host city/state a chance to appease them.
That's the same way I look at it. Either you use the gold coins at face value and don't pay tax on them, or you sell the gold coins at a profit and must claim that 'investment' income on your year end taxes.
Maybe you keep bartering that gold coin for goods/services worth the approximate value of the gold in the coin, but it seems that eventually someone would cash it out and have to pay taxes on that...
Do some people still feel the EU would be better off handling ICANN instead of the US? I know not every country in Europe has taken this path, but just having one member of the EU doing something like this is a bit troubling.
Why is the scapegoat always religous whackos? I think embreyo screening is a bad idea and I'm not religous. Not everyone who disagrees with a specific scientific "breakthrough" is a zealot.
Some of us just like to err on the side of caution. It's dangerous to engineer life.
Mine went like...
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me: Uhh... my car is 1 year old and a company owned lease
them: *click*
And that was on my cell phone. The lady I sit next to at work got called on her home, cell AND work phone. I guess I got lucky by only getting called on my cell.
All I would ask is to have the grocer send me one of the posters. I would think it would make a great wall hanging for a rec room. A picture of your family advertising the weekly sale in a foreign language.... great conversational piece!