You don't understand, when conservatives talk about personal responsibility, they are talking about other people.
No, when personal responsibility is talked about, it is about EVERYBODY taking responsibility. Just because you see the "conservative" politicians trying to weasel their way out of a situation, does not apply to what everybody else is talking about.
If the gun blows up because of a manufacturing defect, then there is a case to be had to sue the manufacturer if they did not take care of the problem. However, somebody taking a gun and shooting 20 children is not the responsibility of the manufacturer.
What we already do for cars today goes well beyond any gun control measures that are even being considered. Which is odd.
Really? Where is the DEMAND that no car exceed "x" MPH? Where are the calls that nobody needs a car that can go 200 MPH?
I am of the belief that gun control is hitting your target. Being a SAFE owner I know how to handle my firearms, and when I let somebody handle my firearms I make sure they do the same things I do to make sure it is safe. You cannot legislate away stupidity, see here.
Back to the article, I find it absolutely amazing that he compares using the CPSC to sue manufacturers of a non-defective product. Hell given the CPSC's ability to keep lead paint out of toys.
If auto makers and owners bore the cost of the resulting mayhem, market forces could be unleashed to work their magic and arbitrary government mandates like loaded round indicators would be unnecessary because vested interests would have a financial incentive to solve the problem. Right?
Made a slight change. The last year I have seen records for, automobile fatalities excluding pedestrians were a bit more than 4 times the number of firearms fatalities. Why has there been no national debate on how to make them more idiot proof?
That's because of hardware, and has nothing to do with AT&T. The iPhone sounds absolutely fantastic. When it works.
I've just got one issue with the iPhone. Yesterday it decided to fill up 1/2 of it's memory with "other". Nobody could tell me what it was. I head to the local Apple store and there I get a unpleasant surprise. I was told that the water submersion sensors were tripped and that they couldn't help me anymore. I'd like to know how a water sensor trips when it doesn't get wet.
I work for a company that makes HGS systems for commercial aircraft. One of the reason most pilots love this system is that it makes the landings much easier.
Speaking as a pilot, I was always more concerned with the landing bit then taking off and flying bit. Things tend to jump out of nowhere on you during approach.
Why would you cut back on the one thing that the government is suppose to do? Provide for the common defense is the JOB of government. Not supplying bail-outs to companies that were mis-managed. The estimated cost of just the damm bail outs is over 6 trillion dollars that the US government is on the hook for. What needs to be cut, how about farm subsidies? Read a story that a family bought a house and the realitor said that they would get money from the government, farm subsidiy, because they were in the right area. The house wasn't even in a farming area. That's where the government needs to fix it's self.
The reason that I chose Sirius over XM is due to the NFL Sunday Drive. I like the NFL so I went with the one I want. Another note, is NASCAR. I was happy when Sirius announced that NASCAR will be on Sirius in 07. Stern is NOT the reason that I subscribed to Sirius.
Ugh... I hate that... I live in over in Oregon, and though I'm not quite sure if its THE LAW, it's at least THE RULE. Bike on road, person on sidewalk, which I've always thought was the most idiotic thing in the world...
Well at least the law in Portland Oregon is that bikes are allowed to ride on the sidewalk. I can understand it a little given the fact that I do, when there is traffic, ride on the sidewalk. I don't trust the drivers on the one way streets here , I've seen enough ppl driving the wrong way down the MAX Tracks, and after seeing that, I won't trust any driver during rush hour.
Such as finances, credit, family problems, etc? I have not committed crimes, and I don't ever want to have an ID system that can provide a ton of information about me. I do have something to hide - my personal life, because my life is my business, not Uncle Sam's.
I think you already, if you are an american, have a nice little ID number that can give people all sorts of private information about you. It's called you Social Security Number. If you want to do anything in america, work, pay taxes (if you work), get a bank account, get credit, etc., you HAVE to have one of them.
I havent shot a roll of 35mm film in my SLR for over 2 years now and I havent looked back.
I was waiting for a digital SLR to come out on the market. I ended up getting the Canon D60 (6.3 megapixel) and to tell the truth, I love the camera. The reason that I was willing to shell out the 2200 bucks and the 4 month wait for the camera was the fact that I already own about $2000 worth of Canon EF lenses for my rebel that I own. I will say one great thing about this D60, it is the only camera that I have owned that I have had the opportunity to be able to sell the pictures that I have taken. That is a true bonus:) I have been having poeple that I know tell me that I have wasted my money on a camera that is 6.3 Megapixel but when I do a re-size of the picture or have to crop it, I do not lose any of the image quality.
One rather important reason why airliners are tubes is that that is a good shape to resist preasure differences. Indeed there were problems with cracking on the front part of the 747.
Another reason that passengers may not like this design is that when people in the seats out from the centerline of the aircraft will possibly encounter more vertigo. Which translates into motion sickness. I have only had one flight that I had motion sickness on and I really hated that flight.
His father told Reuters from his home in the al-Fara refugee camp, near Nablus, that he was "very happy" to hear that his son was the bomber.
This will probally get modded WAY down but this is just something I just have to say. I have been seeing comercials on TV about how Saudia Arabia is America's partner in fighting terrorism. Well, this father that I just quoted got some money from there. How is that supporting the "fight aganst terrorism"? I think that this is supporting terrorism. Maybe I am just FSCK'ed in the head but why do we bother to listen to and help defend a country like this. Oh wait, never mind, I now remeber, it's OIL.
This is just a little something to add to your writing. While I was in the US Navy, for 2 years in a row, during the time the congress was unable to come up with a budget (aside from giving themsleves a 25% raise). I was being told that my paychecks were on a well maybe you'll get it this time. Several of the people that I was serving with were getting really pissed off at this attitude of our elected represenitives. I really don't think that they even heard any of our voices (we didn't make enough money) about this and the only way that we had to make ourselves heard would have made us all go into the brig then to Ft. Levenworth to make smaller rocks out of big rocks.
The more I think about it, the more it seems that the United States is the only industrialized country which actively takes rights away from its own citizens.
It's not that I am not proud to be an American. I am. I am very proud of my country. The only thing is that I am VERY afraid of my goverment. It's really not the country that is taking away our rights, it's the idiots, the people that we wouldn't want to invite into our own homes that are being bought by big buisness and taking our rights away.
I don't know if you have read anything about Windows/Office XP. In order to get them to work for more than 30 days, you have to get a passport account. This is so that MS can get the info of what machine (not Processor ID #) but what type of processor, how much ram, type and size of HD's, etc. I will give MS one good statement, they can make an awesome licence agreement, just too bad that they can't make a decent OS.
I've been looking for an IT support job in New York for five months, and I've had all of three interviews.
So why are you living in NY still. When I got out of the Navy I was moving every month unitl I wound up in Oregon with a job offer. Just because you like the place doesn't mean that you can't find another place to like with a job!
Nothing in my computer, has had a commercial about it. Nothing. There isn't much of anything on the boob toob that I will buy. Given the fact that I do have digital cable, I think that it is funny that they will try to profile me by what I watch. I am alwasy flipping thru the channels when a commercial comes on any way.
I read another story today that said that movie companies might need to start cleaning up their act because the last year's harsher enforcement of not letting under 17's buy tickets to R-rated movies was costing movies millions of dollars on the opening week 'cause fewer teens were going to see them without parental supervision.
When it comes down to it, support usually has nothing to do with it. The attitude is usually something like:
Since it is free it must be crappy since people weren't paid to make it.
It must be crappy because the people who made it aren't capitalizing on it.
It's no good, so they're giving it away for free.
This reminds me of a manager that I have to work with occasionally. He swore at StarOffice (now OpenOffice). His opinion was that if anything is free, you get what you pay for. The funny thing is that after I showed it to him on my PC at home (we do BBQ's) he asked me to burn him a copy so that he could use it. Maybe this isn't the greatest example but hey, I got one person to convert.
And most times if you don't address the letters correctly then they don't answer, good thing to know.
It is one thing to address your employer as like that, but I have problems with addressing an employee that way. Maybe that is why I had gotten (or at least seemed to) a nice response from Mr. Woo in congress when he came to where I worked. I was the only person that was asking him questions without trying to look like I was kissing his ass. Kinda annoyed my boss's boss tho.
You are aware, are you not, that along with all the other union members, you have the right to vote on whether or not you will strike?
Well, there is only one problem with the vote to strike. There are several big wigs in a union that can turn your "no strike" vote into a "yes strike" vote. I have read the rules and regs of a couple of unions that will remain un-named and in each of them there was at least 5 people in the union that could do that.
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You don't understand, when conservatives talk about personal responsibility, they are talking about other people.
No, when personal responsibility is talked about, it is about EVERYBODY taking responsibility. Just because you see the "conservative" politicians trying to weasel their way out of a situation, does not apply to what everybody else is talking about.
If the gun blows up because of a manufacturing defect, then there is a case to be had to sue the manufacturer if they did not take care of the problem. However, somebody taking a gun and shooting 20 children is not the responsibility of the manufacturer.
What we already do for cars today goes well beyond any gun control measures that are even being considered. Which is odd.
Really? Where is the DEMAND that no car exceed "x" MPH? Where are the calls that nobody needs a car that can go 200 MPH? I am of the belief that gun control is hitting your target. Being a SAFE owner I know how to handle my firearms, and when I let somebody handle my firearms I make sure they do the same things I do to make sure it is safe. You cannot legislate away stupidity, see here. Back to the article, I find it absolutely amazing that he compares using the CPSC to sue manufacturers of a non-defective product. Hell given the CPSC's ability to keep lead paint out of toys.
If auto makers and owners bore the cost of the resulting mayhem, market forces could be unleashed to work their magic and arbitrary government mandates like loaded round indicators would be unnecessary because vested interests would have a financial incentive to solve the problem. Right?
Made a slight change. The last year I have seen records for, automobile fatalities excluding pedestrians were a bit more than 4 times the number of firearms fatalities. Why has there been no national debate on how to make them more idiot proof?
That's because of hardware, and has nothing to do with AT&T. The iPhone sounds absolutely fantastic. When it works.
I've just got one issue with the iPhone. Yesterday it decided to fill up 1/2 of it's memory with "other". Nobody could tell me what it was. I head to the local Apple store and there I get a unpleasant surprise. I was told that the water submersion sensors were tripped and that they couldn't help me anymore. I'd like to know how a water sensor trips when it doesn't get wet.
I work for a company that makes HGS systems for commercial aircraft. One of the reason most pilots love this system is that it makes the landings much easier. Speaking as a pilot, I was always more concerned with the landing bit then taking off and flying bit. Things tend to jump out of nowhere on you during approach.
Why would you cut back on the one thing that the government is suppose to do? Provide for the common defense is the JOB of government. Not supplying bail-outs to companies that were mis-managed. The estimated cost of just the damm bail outs is over 6 trillion dollars that the US government is on the hook for. What needs to be cut, how about farm subsidies? Read a story that a family bought a house and the realitor said that they would get money from the government, farm subsidiy, because they were in the right area. The house wasn't even in a farming area. That's where the government needs to fix it's self.
Hey just remember, Hollywood SUPPORTED Democrats.
"Besides, we're doing it for the children."
You got that wrong, it because of the terrirst!
The reason that I chose Sirius over XM is due to the NFL Sunday Drive. I like the NFL so I went with the one I want. Another note, is NASCAR. I was happy when Sirius announced that NASCAR will be on Sirius in 07. Stern is NOT the reason that I subscribed to Sirius.
Ugh... I hate that... I live in over in Oregon, and though I'm not quite sure if its THE LAW, it's at least THE RULE. Bike on road, person on sidewalk, which I've always thought was the most idiotic thing in the world...
Well at least the law in Portland Oregon is that bikes are allowed to ride on the sidewalk. I can understand it a little given the fact that I do, when there is traffic, ride on the sidewalk. I don't trust the drivers on the one way streets here , I've seen enough ppl driving the wrong way down the MAX Tracks, and after seeing that, I won't trust any driver during rush hour.
Such as finances, credit, family problems, etc? I have not committed crimes, and I don't ever want to have an ID system that can provide a ton of information about me. I do have something to hide - my personal life, because my life is my business, not Uncle Sam's.
I think you already, if you are an american, have a nice little ID number that can give people all sorts of private information about you. It's called you Social Security Number. If you want to do anything in america, work, pay taxes (if you work), get a bank account, get credit, etc., you HAVE to have one of them.
Just think, it could get rid of the RIAA and the MPAA :)
I havent shot a roll of 35mm film in my SLR for over 2 years now and I havent looked back.
:) I have been having poeple that I know tell me that I have wasted my money on a camera that is 6.3 Megapixel but when I do a re-size of the picture or have to crop it, I do not lose any of the image quality.
I was waiting for a digital SLR to come out on the market. I ended up getting the Canon D60 (6.3 megapixel) and to tell the truth, I love the camera. The reason that I was willing to shell out the 2200 bucks and the 4 month wait for the camera was the fact that I already own about $2000 worth of Canon EF lenses for my rebel that I own. I will say one great thing about this D60, it is the only camera that I have owned that I have had the opportunity to be able to sell the pictures that I have taken. That is a true bonus
One rather important reason why airliners are tubes is that that is a good shape to resist preasure differences. Indeed there were problems with cracking on the front part of the 747.
Another reason that passengers may not like this design is that when people in the seats out from the centerline of the aircraft will possibly encounter more vertigo. Which translates into motion sickness. I have only had one flight that I had motion sickness on and I really hated that flight.
His father told Reuters from his home in the al-Fara refugee camp, near Nablus, that he was "very happy" to hear that his son was the bomber.
This will probally get modded WAY down but this is just something I just have to say. I have been seeing comercials on TV about how Saudia Arabia is America's partner in fighting terrorism. Well, this father that I just quoted got some money from there. How is that supporting the "fight aganst terrorism"? I think that this is supporting terrorism. Maybe I am just FSCK'ed in the head but why do we bother to listen to and help defend a country like this. Oh wait, never mind, I now remeber, it's OIL.
This is just a little something to add to your writing. While I was in the US Navy, for 2 years in a row, during the time the congress was unable to come up with a budget (aside from giving themsleves a 25% raise). I was being told that my paychecks were on a well maybe you'll get it this time. Several of the people that I was serving with were getting really pissed off at this attitude of our elected represenitives. I really don't think that they even heard any of our voices (we didn't make enough money) about this and the only way that we had to make ourselves heard would have made us all go into the brig then to Ft. Levenworth to make smaller rocks out of big rocks.
The more I think about it, the more it seems that the United States is the only industrialized country which actively takes rights away from its own citizens.
It's not that I am not proud to be an American. I am. I am very proud of my country. The only thing is that I am VERY afraid of my goverment. It's really not the country that is taking away our rights, it's the idiots, the people that we wouldn't want to invite into our own homes that are being bought by big buisness and taking our rights away.
Found another place to download the demo from it's here
http://www.gamesdomain.com/demos/demo/1577.html
I have a really good download speed from the 4th mirror
I don't get this, they don't force us.
I don't know if you have read anything about Windows/Office XP. In order to get them to work for more than 30 days, you have to get a passport account. This is so that MS can get the info of what machine (not Processor ID #) but what type of processor, how much ram, type and size of HD's, etc. I will give MS one good statement, they can make an awesome licence agreement, just too bad that they can't make a decent OS.
I've been looking for an IT support job in New York for five months, and I've had all of three interviews.
So why are you living in NY still. When I got out of the Navy I was moving every month unitl I wound up in Oregon with a job offer. Just because you like the place doesn't mean that you can't find another place to like with a job!
Nothing in my computer, has had a commercial about it. Nothing. There isn't much of anything on the boob toob that I will buy. Given the fact that I do have digital cable, I think that it is funny that they will try to profile me by what I watch. I am alwasy flipping thru the channels when a commercial comes on any way.
I read another story today that said that movie companies might need to start cleaning up their act because the last year's harsher enforcement of not letting under 17's buy tickets to R-rated movies was costing movies millions of dollars on the opening week 'cause fewer teens were going to see them without parental supervision.
Heh, that's why I think that the movie Pearl Harbor sucked so badly. They had to go and make it a Hollywood Love Story© and get rid of most of the story of Pearl Harbor and The Doolittle Raid. (ok, so I wanted a little more blood then allowded by PG-13)
When it comes down to it, support usually has nothing to do with it. The attitude is usually something like:
Since it is free it must be crappy since people weren't paid to make it.
It must be crappy because the people who made it aren't capitalizing on it.
It's no good, so they're giving it away for free.
This reminds me of a manager that I have to work with occasionally. He swore at StarOffice (now OpenOffice). His opinion was that if anything is free, you get what you pay for. The funny thing is that after I showed it to him on my PC at home (we do BBQ's) he asked me to burn him a copy so that he could use it. Maybe this isn't the greatest example but hey, I got one person to convert.
And most times if you don't address the letters correctly then they don't answer, good thing to know.
It is one thing to address your employer as like that, but I have problems with addressing an employee that way. Maybe that is why I had gotten (or at least seemed to) a nice response from Mr. Woo in congress when he came to where I worked. I was the only person that was asking him questions without trying to look like I was kissing his ass. Kinda annoyed my boss's boss tho.
You are aware, are you not, that along with all the other union members, you have the right to vote on whether or not you will strike?
Well, there is only one problem with the vote to strike. There are several big wigs in a union that can turn your "no strike" vote into a "yes strike" vote. I have read the rules and regs of a couple of unions that will remain un-named and in each of them there was at least 5 people in the union that could do that.