One of the sheriffs in Illinois is arguing that if the state legalizes pot all the police dogs will have to be put down.
BS. Detection dogs and patrol dogs are separate training programs. Detection dogs have not been trained to attack.
Not BS. The Sheriff's argument was that they cannot retrain the dogs to remove pot from the list of things they will hit on (which is true). It's absurd to say they have to euthanize the dogs, but the dogs WOULD have to be removed from service, because the dog can't tell you what it found, only that it found something that it's trained to search for. Every drug dealer would just keep a small quantity of pot for a dog to smell, no probable cause for a search.
I'm not going to stand up for Win 3.1x here, but suggesting that Linux was usable by J. Random User in 1993 for almost anything, much less their girlfriend insisting that they needed to install it for them has either got their dates wrong, had one heck of a girlfriend, or is making crap up. Getting Linux running in 1993 on arbitrary hardware was a royal pain in the ass if you wanted anything other than a shell.
For instance, why would you ever "buy" a boat? You probably can't use it year around no matter where you live and then you need to store it and maintain it and all a boat does is lose value. If you want a boat you lease it and you get a maintenance contract with the lease. Cars? Unless you are a collector you lease your car, and how many Astin Martins can one person buy?
Sales taxes apply to leased items, there's no free ride there. Also, I'm confused as to why you'd suggest a leased boat has no costs associated with storage and maintenance? You lease a boat for, say, three years. What do you do with it in the off season? You don't send it back to the factory at their cost, or expect the leasor to store it for you without charge. Also, the leasee bears the cost of maintenance. Go out and lease a Toyota tomorrow, and I promise you pay for every oil change during the lease period (unless there's a maintenance plan included--in which case, I promise, the cost of it is built into the transaction).
You buy houses, sure, but the taxes on home purchases aren't applied the same way as a tax on a television.
It appears that the GP is advocating changing this--his position (which I advocate neither for nor against) appears to be "Low to no taxes on necessities, higher taxes on luxury items" where I would assume your RE taxes would go DOWN on cheaper properties, and up on more expensive ones.
When you get down to toasters and televisions and computers you have the bread loaf problem. Money doesn't change the number of things you buy, just the quality. The rich might not buy a $500 flat screen, but they probably won't buy that $10,000 flat screen either unless they really thought they needed it.
Someone is buying the $10k flat screen, otherwise they wouldn't be selling it, right? I would imagine that higher taxes would decrease sales on expensive TVs, but maybe not.
A nice, upper end screen with a few more bells and whistles will do just fine. The rich won't buy ten screens, either. Just one or two. They can't watch more TV than the poor.
Not buying this. Your middle class family probably has N+1 TVs today, not one or two (one in every bedroom, one in the family room). If you have a house with 10 bedrooms, you almost certainly have more than 10 TVs. Sure, I'd imagine that most of them would be the $600 60" Vizio TV you'd buy at Walmart, but with a few sets in the $thousands around the house, and the $50k cinema style projector in your swanky house's custom built home theater with the white leather reclining seats that cost more than someone with a McJob makes in a year.
We need to maintain the roads. The "citizens" who benefit the most from roads are corporations. Why don't they pay the fucking road tax for a change?
That might work, might not. Who knows. We all agree (I think) that the roads need to be maintained, and done so with tax money (or tolls, which basically amount to the same thing). If you want to have corporations putting back into the economy, I think you first need to figure out how to discourage them from holding massive cash/equivalents like Apple without driving their profits overseas (like has already happened).
Wow, that is amazing stuff. It is almost like they log all that into a database and use information about what you were doing last Monday to predict what you are doing to do the next Monday. Truly cutting edge.
Yes, that was the "context" I was getting at and why I referred to it as "truly scary." I don't think it's magic, I understand where it's coming from.
The problem with All the Digital Assistants is that it doesn't really get context. So it comes up with silly answers to questions, because the context of the question isn't place in concern.
SOME things it has context for it and gets right in a downright scary fashion. Siri (and Google in the Samsung phone it replaced) know when I usually leave for work, or leave to go home, and pop up a notification with route, traffic, and anything else. They know that on Monday I take my daughter to Girl Scouts, that I leave work at a different time on that day and take a different route. The know that on Friday I drive to my Girlfriend's house, but that I have a doctor's appointment first, and that my ex-wife picks my daughter up on that day so I don't need to drive to school (except on those weekends I have my daughter, when I DO need to drive to school). That stuff (while, as noted, is REALLY freaking scary) is pretty useful.
Almost EVERYTHING else, it's just downright shit for. As another poster put it, "I found this wrong information on the web, which I won't read to you."
My 3.5EB F150 gets 20-21 mpg typically (been as low as 18.4 when it was really cold and I wasn't doing much interstate driving). It has less than 7k miles on it, so I expect that to improve in time. I doubt it'll ever hit the 24MPG that the EPA sticker claimed for highway miles, but the sticker is based on a 2WD single cab and not a 4WD crew cab (don't know in what universe that makes any kind of sense) so I'm ok with that. The 2.7EB is supposedly fantastic all the way around. Either way, the Ecoboost trucks are fun as HELL to drive, and the mileage is as good as the minivan it replaced.:)
I drove a 2.3EB (4cyl) Mustang and that was a blast, too. Can't speak for fuel mileage.
Adobe is actually not too bad, at least for Acrobat--We don't buy Acrobat anymore, preferring to do subscriptions as the break even is three years and we try to keep Acrobat within one version of current. For us, this was a wash either way, and the subs are more flexible than the fixed licenses were.
Microsoft is middle of the road. O365 is always going to cost more, software-wise, than perpetual office, and given that we're on a 6-7 year upgrade cycle for Office, this is a pretty serious increase in cost. Adding Exchange to that mix makes it more interesting, except for having to give up control of our email infrastructure and storage. But cost-wise, it's not terrible.
Autodesk is, as you note, absolutely terrible. Their costs are through the roof, and their transparent money grab with maintenance plan price hikes is absurd. Nevertheless, we moved our Autodesk software to subscription this year, because it was actually cheaper than staying on maintenance. If we ever forget to cut a PO, or if we ever decide the cost is too high to continue with the yearly cycle, we've lost our perpetual licenses and a roughly $200k capital investment. We're NOT happy about the position we're in, but the business decision was easy to make.
Bentley is the worst. About a decade ago, they changed their license manager from a restrictive model (like FlexLM) to a permissive seat counting model. They swore at the time they would NEVER use this for billing purposes. About three years ago, surprise, they started sending invoices when you went over your license count. There is no way to restrict license usage without going to third party products, and they count in something absurd called calendar hours (example: Alice opens ustation at 10:05AM and uses it for five minutes. Bob opens it at 10:30 and uses it for five minutes. Carol opens it at 10:45 and uses it for five minutes. Bentley says you're responsible for three licenses in use).
The money grab sucks, but it's the price of doing business. The people who thought this up can go DIAF with the epipen rent seekers, but there's basically no alternative if you want to continue to play in certain markets.
Because white people are so privileged that they can afford space travel. So privileged in fact that it's the only group you could make this comment about without tens of people jumping down your throat calling you a racist.
You might want to dial back on the angst... It's a Lone Ranger reference. The joke goes, "The Long Ranger and Tonto are surrounded by ten thousand screaming Indians. The Ranger looks at Tonto and says, 'what do we do now, faithful companion?' and Tonto replies, 'What you mean 'we' white man?'"
I'll give you ASML, but the other two do volume more than anything else; there's nothing particularly special about them other than their popularity with vendors in some niche markets. For example, siemens is popular in conditional access ISO7816 cards for satellite TV, which is no doubt where a lot of their volume comes from, but there's really nothing special about them. They also have a heavy presence in industrial and medical systems, but nothing special technology wise.
If you want to argue that Siemens isn't innovative, I'd probably agree with you--their primary growth strategy (in the US) once upon a time was "buy marketshare" which was a cycle that went: buy small competitor, gain 3% additional marketshare, attempt to "transition" customer to homegrown Siemens product, customer flees to other vendor, repeat. It was very frustrating to work for them, watching your product killed and your dev team die as they shifted the customer base running it to an inferior system.
However, that said, what you argued was:
Pretty much the only big tech company in Europe is Phillips
Siemens is huge. When I worked there we had 400k employees. They're in EVERY market, their product list is gargantuan, and they're entrenched enough that their marketing strategy in Europe is walking into the conference room and saying, "We're Siemens, you will give us your money" and walking out with a sale. THAT was also very frustrating to deal with, since they tried the same strategy in the US in industrial automation and would get laughed out of the room.
I'm not going to get in line with the idiots bashing women CEOs, but a large part of that valuation (maybe ALL of it, the rest of the business has been given a NEGATIVE valuation at points in the recent past!) is because of Yahoo's stake in Alibaba... which they bought into in 2005. That's neither a point for, nor against Mayer.
I honestly don't think anyone could have turned Yahoo around--male, female, or otherwise.
I don't disagree with you, but by the same metric, Steve Ballmer was a fantastic CEO as well. The GP's post was pretty interesting and didn't deserve to be simply dismissed.
violating state law and Comcast's constitutional rights
The Constitution of the United States does not protect "corporations", but only "persons", "the people", and "citizens". Enough of this granting protection to corporations. Corporations are a construction of the government and only exist to serve the people.
The scenario you propose would imply that the New York Times, a corporate entity, should not enjoy the protections offered by the first amendment. Corporations are not people, but people acting in concert should have the same rights as people acting separately.
Just to play devil's advocate, we are talking about the construction of a communications network so it's conceivable there's a first amendment angle. To use an analogy (though as you point out, they have their limitations) imagine Vermont mandated that the newspaper you wanted to circulate in Burlington had to offer daily home delivery in Montpelier in order to operate in the state. Would this be a legitimate exercise of the state to regulate a business, or an unconstitutional restriction of a free press?
This is actually strengthened, I would think, based on the fact that Comcast owns NBC/Universal. They're not just in the business of content delivery, but of content creation.
As I said, Devil's advocate. I don't really buy into the above argument, but it seems valid.
Johnson City isn't exactly a place with no opportunity. There is lots of good industry (largely medical/biotech) in the area, ETSU has a good medical school, there are plenty of cultural activities believe it or not, great food and music, etc.
What a stupid fucking argument. The 2nd amendment was never under ANY duress. I'm tired of this moronic NRA talking point. To get rid of the 2nd amendment it would take another amendment! No one anywhere has even drafted a constitutional amendment to even tweak the 2nd. No one was ever going to take away our guns.
This is disingenuous, and ignores the power of the courts. The 4th amendment has been gutted in the last few decades not by another amendment modifying it or repealing it, but by the courts allowing the executive and legislative branches to make end runs around it, or redefining what "reasonable" means. The 5th amendment's right to remain silent was threatened a few years ago (Salinas v Texas) with the Supreme Court saying you have to "invoke" your right to be silent... by saying so. If you don't say so, then your silence can be used against you.
I think OP's suggestion that Trump is somehow responsible for the preservation of the 2nd amendment is, at best, overstated. However, your statement that the 2nd amendment is not under duress is equally so.
I'll be more ready to agree with you the next time I see the Muslim community marching in protest of Islamic terrorist attacks instead of cheering them on or staying silent.
We have a drive in outside of Knoxville, and it's fantastic. If you don't want to sit in the car, then park facing backward and sit in the bed of your pickup, or bring those canvas fold-up chairs to sit in. Bring whatever snacks you want to from the outside world, or use the theater's snack bar, where a diner style cheeseburger costs $4.00 rather than spending $8.00 for popcorn at the regular theater that tells you you can't even bring your backpack in because you might have a bottle of water of some candy in it. See two movies (one of which is often a new release... I remember they had Avengers on opening day) for $7.00 a head.
That is ridiculous. Of course the state will incur extra costs because of this plant. To suggest otherwise is disingenuous.
How much? If you have numbers, please present them. That would be good info and a strong argument.
FWIW, the infrastructure required to support the plant will almost certainly have to be built or upgraded from what exists today. Roads, water, sewer, public safety, etc. I think the project is almost certainly a net win for Wisconsin but I agree with the OP that saying the state will not incur costs because of the plant is indeed disingenuous.
3. Let the voter either keep the ballot or a carbon copy. 4. As the votes are tallied, the serial numbers and choices are posted online on a government website so that voters can verify their vote.
If you can verify your ballot, so could someone who could put pressure on you.
Vote for $CANDIDATE or something bad happens to your job/spouse/children/whatever is a serious potential problem.
I agree it has a "weaker" flavor than lower moisture mozzarella, but he stated the texture and flavor of "wet cheese" were awful... That's simply not true, at least not in the case of mozzarella.
What you said is a nice idea but it isn't really practical or safe to use in that environment. I do with lathes, mills and welding and you wouldn't even use these glasses while operating a machine. If I have to look at a design I step away from the machine and check the design. I'm not going to have a whirly machine of death running while I am looking at the design.
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One of the sheriffs in Illinois is arguing that if the state legalizes pot all the police dogs will have to be put down.
BS. Detection dogs and patrol dogs are separate training programs. Detection dogs have not been trained to attack.
Not BS. The Sheriff's argument was that they cannot retrain the dogs to remove pot from the list of things they will hit on (which is true). It's absurd to say they have to euthanize the dogs, but the dogs WOULD have to be removed from service, because the dog can't tell you what it found, only that it found something that it's trained to search for. Every drug dealer would just keep a small quantity of pot for a dog to smell, no probable cause for a search.
I'm not going to stand up for Win 3.1x here, but suggesting that Linux was usable by J. Random User in 1993 for almost anything, much less their girlfriend insisting that they needed to install it for them has either got their dates wrong, had one heck of a girlfriend, or is making crap up. Getting Linux running in 1993 on arbitrary hardware was a royal pain in the ass if you wanted anything other than a shell.
WINDOWS machines on the Internet in 1993? I didn't think Net BEUI was routable.
IIRC, you needed Winsock and win32s in order to get Mosaic running on Win 3.1x, but it was certainly possible.
For instance, why would you ever "buy" a boat? You probably can't use it year around no matter where you live and then you need to store it and maintain it and all a boat does is lose value. If you want a boat you lease it and you get a maintenance contract with the lease. Cars? Unless you are a collector you lease your car, and how many Astin Martins can one person buy?
Sales taxes apply to leased items, there's no free ride there. Also, I'm confused as to why you'd suggest a leased boat has no costs associated with storage and maintenance? You lease a boat for, say, three years. What do you do with it in the off season? You don't send it back to the factory at their cost, or expect the leasor to store it for you without charge. Also, the leasee bears the cost of maintenance. Go out and lease a Toyota tomorrow, and I promise you pay for every oil change during the lease period (unless there's a maintenance plan included--in which case, I promise, the cost of it is built into the transaction).
You buy houses, sure, but the taxes on home purchases aren't applied the same way as a tax on a television.
It appears that the GP is advocating changing this--his position (which I advocate neither for nor against) appears to be "Low to no taxes on necessities, higher taxes on luxury items" where I would assume your RE taxes would go DOWN on cheaper properties, and up on more expensive ones.
When you get down to toasters and televisions and computers you have the bread loaf problem. Money doesn't change the number of things you buy, just the quality. The rich might not buy a $500 flat screen, but they probably won't buy that $10,000 flat screen either unless they really thought they needed it.
Someone is buying the $10k flat screen, otherwise they wouldn't be selling it, right? I would imagine that higher taxes would decrease sales on expensive TVs, but maybe not.
A nice, upper end screen with a few more bells and whistles will do just fine. The rich won't buy ten screens, either. Just one or two. They can't watch more TV than the poor.
Not buying this. Your middle class family probably has N+1 TVs today, not one or two (one in every bedroom, one in the family room). If you have a house with 10 bedrooms, you almost certainly have more than 10 TVs. Sure, I'd imagine that most of them would be the $600 60" Vizio TV you'd buy at Walmart, but with a few sets in the $thousands around the house, and the $50k cinema style projector in your swanky house's custom built home theater with the white leather reclining seats that cost more than someone with a McJob makes in a year.
We need to maintain the roads. The "citizens" who benefit the most from roads are corporations. Why don't they pay the fucking road tax for a change?
That might work, might not. Who knows. We all agree (I think) that the roads need to be maintained, and done so with tax money (or tolls, which basically amount to the same thing). If you want to have corporations putting back into the economy, I think you first need to figure out how to discourage them from holding massive cash/equivalents like Apple without driving their profits overseas (like has already happened).
No easily solutions, either way.
Wow, that is amazing stuff. It is almost like they log all that into a database and use information about what you were doing last Monday to predict what you are doing to do the next Monday. Truly cutting edge.
Yes, that was the "context" I was getting at and why I referred to it as "truly scary." I don't think it's magic, I understand where it's coming from.
The problem with All the Digital Assistants is that it doesn't really get context. So it comes up with silly answers to questions, because the context of the question isn't place in concern.
SOME things it has context for it and gets right in a downright scary fashion. Siri (and Google in the Samsung phone it replaced) know when I usually leave for work, or leave to go home, and pop up a notification with route, traffic, and anything else. They know that on Monday I take my daughter to Girl Scouts, that I leave work at a different time on that day and take a different route. The know that on Friday I drive to my Girlfriend's house, but that I have a doctor's appointment first, and that my ex-wife picks my daughter up on that day so I don't need to drive to school (except on those weekends I have my daughter, when I DO need to drive to school). That stuff (while, as noted, is REALLY freaking scary) is pretty useful.
Almost EVERYTHING else, it's just downright shit for. As another poster put it, "I found this wrong information on the web, which I won't read to you."
My 3.5EB F150 gets 20-21 mpg typically (been as low as 18.4 when it was really cold and I wasn't doing much interstate driving). It has less than 7k miles on it, so I expect that to improve in time. I doubt it'll ever hit the 24MPG that the EPA sticker claimed for highway miles, but the sticker is based on a 2WD single cab and not a 4WD crew cab (don't know in what universe that makes any kind of sense) so I'm ok with that. The 2.7EB is supposedly fantastic all the way around. Either way, the Ecoboost trucks are fun as HELL to drive, and the mileage is as good as the minivan it replaced. :)
I drove a 2.3EB (4cyl) Mustang and that was a blast, too. Can't speak for fuel mileage.
Adobe is actually not too bad, at least for Acrobat--We don't buy Acrobat anymore, preferring to do subscriptions as the break even is three years and we try to keep Acrobat within one version of current. For us, this was a wash either way, and the subs are more flexible than the fixed licenses were.
Microsoft is middle of the road. O365 is always going to cost more, software-wise, than perpetual office, and given that we're on a 6-7 year upgrade cycle for Office, this is a pretty serious increase in cost. Adding Exchange to that mix makes it more interesting, except for having to give up control of our email infrastructure and storage. But cost-wise, it's not terrible.
Autodesk is, as you note, absolutely terrible. Their costs are through the roof, and their transparent money grab with maintenance plan price hikes is absurd. Nevertheless, we moved our Autodesk software to subscription this year, because it was actually cheaper than staying on maintenance. If we ever forget to cut a PO, or if we ever decide the cost is too high to continue with the yearly cycle, we've lost our perpetual licenses and a roughly $200k capital investment. We're NOT happy about the position we're in, but the business decision was easy to make.
Bentley is the worst. About a decade ago, they changed their license manager from a restrictive model (like FlexLM) to a permissive seat counting model. They swore at the time they would NEVER use this for billing purposes. About three years ago, surprise, they started sending invoices when you went over your license count. There is no way to restrict license usage without going to third party products, and they count in something absurd called calendar hours (example: Alice opens ustation at 10:05AM and uses it for five minutes. Bob opens it at 10:30 and uses it for five minutes. Carol opens it at 10:45 and uses it for five minutes. Bentley says you're responsible for three licenses in use).
The money grab sucks, but it's the price of doing business. The people who thought this up can go DIAF with the epipen rent seekers, but there's basically no alternative if you want to continue to play in certain markets.
Because white people are so privileged that they can afford space travel. So privileged in fact that it's the only group you could make this comment about without tens of people jumping down your throat calling you a racist.
You might want to dial back on the angst... It's a Lone Ranger reference. The joke goes, "The Long Ranger and Tonto are surrounded by ten thousand screaming Indians. The Ranger looks at Tonto and says, 'what do we do now, faithful companion?' and Tonto replies, 'What you mean 'we' white man?'"
ASML, Siemens, KUKA to name a few.
I'll give you ASML, but the other two do volume more than anything else; there's nothing particularly special about them other than their popularity with vendors in some niche markets. For example, siemens is popular in conditional access ISO7816 cards for satellite TV, which is no doubt where a lot of their volume comes from, but there's really nothing special about them. They also have a heavy presence in industrial and medical systems, but nothing special technology wise.
If you want to argue that Siemens isn't innovative, I'd probably agree with you--their primary growth strategy (in the US) once upon a time was "buy marketshare" which was a cycle that went: buy small competitor, gain 3% additional marketshare, attempt to "transition" customer to homegrown Siemens product, customer flees to other vendor, repeat. It was very frustrating to work for them, watching your product killed and your dev team die as they shifted the customer base running it to an inferior system.
However, that said, what you argued was:
Pretty much the only big tech company in Europe is Phillips
Siemens is huge. When I worked there we had 400k employees. They're in EVERY market, their product list is gargantuan, and they're entrenched enough that their marketing strategy in Europe is walking into the conference room and saying, "We're Siemens, you will give us your money" and walking out with a sale. THAT was also very frustrating to deal with, since they tried the same strategy in the US in industrial automation and would get laughed out of the room.
I'm not going to get in line with the idiots bashing women CEOs, but a large part of that valuation (maybe ALL of it, the rest of the business has been given a NEGATIVE valuation at points in the recent past!) is because of Yahoo's stake in Alibaba... which they bought into in 2005. That's neither a point for, nor against Mayer.
I honestly don't think anyone could have turned Yahoo around--male, female, or otherwise.
If you're allowed to just declare a smoke break, then fuck you, I'm declaring a fap break.
I'll be in the stationary cupboard.
If that's what you're up to, I imagine it won't be stationary, but rather moving noticably. Try not to ruin the stationery while you're in there.
I don't disagree with you, but by the same metric, Steve Ballmer was a fantastic CEO as well. The GP's post was pretty interesting and didn't deserve to be simply dismissed.
The Constitution of the United States does not protect "corporations", but only "persons", "the people", and "citizens". Enough of this granting protection to corporations. Corporations are a construction of the government and only exist to serve the people.
The scenario you propose would imply that the New York Times, a corporate entity, should not enjoy the protections offered by the first amendment. Corporations are not people, but people acting in concert should have the same rights as people acting separately.
Just to play devil's advocate, we are talking about the construction of a communications network so it's conceivable there's a first amendment angle. To use an analogy (though as you point out, they have their limitations) imagine Vermont mandated that the newspaper you wanted to circulate in Burlington had to offer daily home delivery in Montpelier in order to operate in the state. Would this be a legitimate exercise of the state to regulate a business, or an unconstitutional restriction of a free press?
This is actually strengthened, I would think, based on the fact that Comcast owns NBC/Universal. They're not just in the business of content delivery, but of content creation.
As I said, Devil's advocate. I don't really buy into the above argument, but it seems valid.
Johnson City isn't exactly a place with no opportunity. There is lots of good industry (largely medical/biotech) in the area, ETSU has a good medical school, there are plenty of cultural activities believe it or not, great food and music, etc.
What a stupid fucking argument. The 2nd amendment was never under ANY duress. I'm tired of this moronic NRA talking point. To get rid of the 2nd amendment it would take another amendment! No one anywhere has even drafted a constitutional amendment to even tweak the 2nd. No one was ever going to take away our guns.
This is disingenuous, and ignores the power of the courts. The 4th amendment has been gutted in the last few decades not by another amendment modifying it or repealing it, but by the courts allowing the executive and legislative branches to make end runs around it, or redefining what "reasonable" means. The 5th amendment's right to remain silent was threatened a few years ago (Salinas v Texas) with the Supreme Court saying you have to "invoke" your right to be silent... by saying so. If you don't say so, then your silence can be used against you.
I think OP's suggestion that Trump is somehow responsible for the preservation of the 2nd amendment is, at best, overstated. However, your statement that the 2nd amendment is not under duress is equally so.
Not all muslims are ISIS suppoerters
I'll be more ready to agree with you the next time I see the Muslim community marching in protest of Islamic terrorist attacks instead of cheering them on or staying silent.
Muslim community refuses to bury french priest killer.
It happens.
We have a drive in outside of Knoxville, and it's fantastic. If you don't want to sit in the car, then park facing backward and sit in the bed of your pickup, or bring those canvas fold-up chairs to sit in. Bring whatever snacks you want to from the outside world, or use the theater's snack bar, where a diner style cheeseburger costs $4.00 rather than spending $8.00 for popcorn at the regular theater that tells you you can't even bring your backpack in because you might have a bottle of water of some candy in it. See two movies (one of which is often a new release... I remember they had Avengers on opening day) for $7.00 a head.
Best movie experience I've had in decades.
That is ridiculous. Of course the state will incur extra costs because of this plant. To suggest otherwise is disingenuous.
How much? If you have numbers, please present them. That would be good info and a strong argument.
FWIW, the infrastructure required to support the plant will almost certainly have to be built or upgraded from what exists today. Roads, water, sewer, public safety, etc. I think the project is almost certainly a net win for Wisconsin but I agree with the OP that saying the state will not incur costs because of the plant is indeed disingenuous.
3. Let the voter either keep the ballot or a carbon copy.
4. As the votes are tallied, the serial numbers and choices are posted online on a government website so that voters can verify their vote.
If you can verify your ballot, so could someone who could put pressure on you.
Vote for $CANDIDATE or something bad happens to your job/spouse/children/whatever is a serious potential problem.
I agree it has a "weaker" flavor than lower moisture mozzarella, but he stated the texture and flavor of "wet cheese" were awful... That's simply not true, at least not in the case of mozzarella.
Fresh mozzarella disagrees with you
What you said is a nice idea but it isn't really practical or safe to use in that environment. I do with lathes, mills and welding and you wouldn't even use these glasses while operating a machine. If I have to look at a design I step away from the machine and check the design. I'm not going to have a whirly machine of death running while I am looking at the design.
As far as welding goes, here's a slashdot story from five years ago. The demo video is fantastic.
Just because you can't see the use immediately doesn't mean there isn't one.
You need to incorporate a hovercraft into that, and then we're set.