There was a fundamental difference in VHS v Batamax and Bluray v HD-DVD. VCRs were a completely new thing. Whereas now, there is already a digital video standard that nearly everyone has. (DVD) Whereas, back in the day, there was no widely used video format for home use for playing back movies (other than the home variety)
Why would previous universes have the same laws as this one? Perhaps time travel was possible in another universe, and some stalwart researchers built their time machine differently to get a few more miles per gallon, and came to this universe on accident. Due to incompatible physical laws, they were stranded. Hence Earth people.
Any illegal mexican on any weekend can get a forged social security card from the swap meet for $30. How do I know? Our company fired one and one of our bilingual folks said he was grumbling about that when he left.
Yes. Not some war in a distant place, but right here. In our cities, disrupting our lives, truly threatening our freedoms. Let people wonder if they can get food today rather than whether or not someone at school posted a photoshopped picture of them pleasuring someone, called them a fag, or any other useless inanities.
We are getting a little off-topic here I know, but..
Don't the American people want to put a stop to this.
How, pray tell? Any new blood that gets "voted" into office will be turned to the darkside, if not by the end of orientation, by the end of the first year. There is quite a lot of inertia on the hill.
It takes amazing amounts of money to just get on the ballot. You could defray some of that with volunteer workers stalking people with petitions at the local DMV, but it is still expensive. Check your local state regs on what is required to get on a ballot. It's not for the faint of heart!
Any law that would change the way congressfolk are elected would have to be passed by the people who are already elected. It will snow flying pigs in hell first.
Revolution, perhaps? That would be amusing, and short lived. All the government would have to do is take public power offline. The pressure of no T.V. would quell most resistance in less than a week.
There is always a choice. In this case the choices are simple: 1. Buy vista and play game. or 2. Don't play game.
If option 2 causes such grief and anxiety that it may become life threatening and therefore is not a choice, then don't buy Vista and let natural selection run it's course.
The sort of folks who have ever seen this sort of game probably already have a high level information gathering skill. Just for fun, I should see what happens when you mix a current 10 year old and a copy of Planetfall. I'm guessing there will be some sort of explosion. Maybe along the lines of "This is stupid. It's just READING! OMGWTFBBQ!!!"
"He's saying you should be able to start using them by the seat of your pants"
You already can. It's called "Walk the stacks". If you are paying attention, the layout and general location of what you are looking for becomes fairly apparent.
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Plants vary in their sunlight requirements. Fiber optics and mirrors can spread/route sunlight to where it is needed.
Belief and faith are not the same thing. Faith is more active. I tend to think that belief is merely opinion pending proof, whereas faith is belief against reason or proof.
You can believe God is a Hyperchicken, But must have faith that he will peck out the eyes of your enemies.
yep, I just sold my Camry and bought a 1979 Camaro and a 2003 Chevy Tahoe. That's progress!! If you add the fuel mileage together on both vehicles you get 32! Damn good mileage! Keep in mind that I am married with no kids.
I noticed the same after a laptop drive died (horribly). For fun, I opened the drive and the magnetic layer was worn off the platters in spots. Nice clear view!
I would love nothing more than eliminating both the illegals and the unions across the board. (Why are Hyundais cheaper than Chevys?) This is, however, not likely to happen. Federal construction jobs, for instance, are done at "prevailing wage". For example see here
These wages are based largely on union wages. Based on a law from 1931
Lawmakers need to see the benefit, or the status quo would continue. The Labor Unions still have a lot of political clout.
I worked for a small construction company for a few years. So all theoretical nonsense about tax burden and such aside, here's how the industry works:
Construction companies hire an estimator to cost out the job ahead of time and submit a bid on a project. That estimate is then sent to the general contractor who takes bids from all similar sub-contractors. The General contractor then takes the lowest complete bid for the work.
In order for the sub contractor to make any money, they have to be able to underbid all the other guys. Now, the company I worked for, paid the workers the same whether they were Americans, Mexicans on a Visa, resident aliens, or "other" average of $18-22 an hour. Certainly not "pennies" Union scale for the same work is $25-52 per hour.
In general, Americans are lazy compared to those from down south. The company paid standard 1.5x for overtime, but generally didn't have workers work overtime.
For Concrete foundations, non union work puts a commercial foundation at approx. $6-8 per square foot. Union jobs bump that to $9-13 per square foot. your average Walmart is built with non union labor and runs 30,000-ish square foot. They also run at the high end of the cost spectrum due to pretty exacting specifications for level, flatness, etc. So: non-union Walmart foundation: $240,000.00 + Union foudation: $390,000.00+ for the same thing. where does that extra $150,000.00 come from? That's just the foundation and floor. Add to that all the other trades to build the building.
Illegal immigrants work here because the Standard of living that Americans expect is a lot higher than in Mexico. You can live like a king in Mexico for half of what we would consider middle class.
Same here. I donated as a fan of both racing and linux (champ car and FC6 respectively). I haven't watched the indy 500 in awhile as ovals don't really excite me. OTOH, good drivers can have bad days. (See Sebastian Bourdais' performance at the Las Vegas Grand Prix) With a little luck, Some great pitstops and lucky cautions, he may finish in the top ten. If he got a podium from 31st, THAT would be good for the media, and all of the sponsors.
I live 14 miles from work in a house that has been in my wife's family for 30 years. The current house market in the area is unpleasant for buyers. The office is also in an unpleasant part of town. A studio apartment costs more for rent than the 3 bedroom house I live in, etc.
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There was a fundamental difference in VHS v Batamax and Bluray v HD-DVD. VCRs were a completely new thing. Whereas now, there is already a digital video standard that nearly everyone has. (DVD)
Whereas, back in the day, there was no widely used video format for home use for playing back movies (other than the home variety)
Why would previous universes have the same laws as this one?
Perhaps time travel was possible in another universe, and some stalwart researchers built their time machine differently to get a few more miles per gallon, and came to this universe on accident. Due to incompatible physical laws, they were stranded. Hence Earth people.
Any illegal mexican on any weekend can get a forged social security card from the swap meet for $30. How do I know? Our company fired one and one of our bilingual folks said he was grumbling about that when he left.
Too bad I used up my mod points earlier! (+1 righteous Indignation)
Yes. Not some war in a distant place, but right here. In our cities, disrupting our lives, truly threatening our freedoms. Let people wonder if they can get food today rather than whether or not someone at school posted a photoshopped picture of them pleasuring someone, called them a fag, or any other useless inanities.
I agree we need a war.
How, pray tell?
Any new blood that gets "voted" into office will be turned to the darkside, if not by the end of orientation, by the end of the first year.
There is quite a lot of inertia on the hill.
It takes amazing amounts of money to just get on the ballot. You could defray some of that with volunteer workers stalking people with petitions at the local DMV, but it is still expensive. Check your local state regs on what is required to get on a ballot. It's not for the faint of heart!
Any law that would change the way congressfolk are elected would have to be passed by the people who are already elected. It will snow flying pigs in hell first.
Revolution, perhaps? That would be amusing, and short lived. All the government would have to do is take public power offline. The pressure of no T.V. would quell most resistance in less than a week.
No, I'm afraid that the U.S. is doomed.
There is always a choice. In this case the choices are simple:
1. Buy vista and play game.
or
2. Don't play game.
If option 2 causes such grief and anxiety that it may become life threatening and therefore is not a choice, then don't buy Vista and let natural selection run it's course.
The sort of folks who have ever seen this sort of game probably already have a high level information gathering skill. Just for fun, I should see what happens when you mix a current 10 year old and a copy of Planetfall. I'm guessing there will be some sort of explosion. Maybe along the lines of "This is stupid. It's just READING! OMGWTFBBQ!!!"
"He's saying you should be able to start using them by the seat of your pants"
You already can. It's called "Walk the stacks". If you are paying attention, the layout and general location of what you are looking for becomes fairly apparent.
Plants vary in their sunlight requirements. Fiber optics and mirrors can spread/route sunlight to where it is needed.
Will there be hookers and blow? And I'd like copies of all the single player games and the machinery to run it on.
My car was built in 78, but I will try that on my wife's Tahoe.
It's pretty easy to disconnect the speedo cable between inspections.
"Nope, didn't drive my car at all this year, except twice to 7-11."
never heard the beatles version.
The collective intelligence of the planet is static. Thus, as the population climbs, the individual intelleguncs fals quiklee.
I think this hypothesis should be tested.
Belief and faith are not the same thing.
Faith is more active. I tend to think that belief is merely opinion pending proof, whereas faith is belief against reason or proof.
You can believe God is a Hyperchicken, But must have faith that he will peck out the eyes of your enemies.
As well as the sexy voice saying CHEATER!
yep, I just sold my Camry and bought a 1979 Camaro and a 2003 Chevy Tahoe. That's progress!! If you add the fuel mileage together on both vehicles you get 32! Damn good mileage!
Keep in mind that I am married with no kids.
I noticed the same after a laptop drive died (horribly).
For fun, I opened the drive and the magnetic layer was worn off the platters in spots. Nice clear view!
I would love nothing more than eliminating both the illegals and the unions across the board. (Why are Hyundais cheaper than Chevys?) This is, however, not likely to happen. Federal construction jobs, for instance, are done at "prevailing wage". For example see here
These wages are based largely on union wages. Based on a law from 1931
Lawmakers need to see the benefit, or the status quo would continue. The Labor Unions still have a lot of political clout.
I worked for a small construction company for a few years. So all theoretical nonsense about tax burden and such aside, here's how the industry works:
Construction companies hire an estimator to cost out the job ahead of time and submit a bid on a project.
That estimate is then sent to the general contractor who takes bids from all similar sub-contractors.
The General contractor then takes the lowest complete bid for the work.
In order for the sub contractor to make any money, they have to be able to underbid all the other guys.
Now, the company I worked for, paid the workers the same whether they were Americans, Mexicans on a Visa, resident aliens, or "other" average of $18-22 an hour. Certainly not "pennies" Union scale for the same work is $25-52 per hour.
In general, Americans are lazy compared to those from down south. The company paid standard 1.5x for overtime, but generally didn't have workers work overtime.
For Concrete foundations, non union work puts a commercial foundation at approx. $6-8 per square foot. Union jobs bump that to $9-13 per square foot. your average Walmart is built with non union labor and runs 30,000-ish square foot. They also run at the high end of the cost spectrum due to pretty exacting specifications for level, flatness, etc. So:
non-union Walmart foundation: $240,000.00 +
Union foudation: $390,000.00+
for the same thing. where does that extra $150,000.00 come from? That's just the foundation and floor. Add to that all the other trades to build the building.
Illegal immigrants work here because the Standard of living that Americans expect is a lot higher than in Mexico. You can live like a king in Mexico for half of what we would consider middle class.
The postable URL that you, as poster, posted has an uncanny resemblance to the one posted in the original posting posted by another poster.
The other words are merely prefixed and don't have anything to do with posting.
Same here. I donated as a fan of both racing and linux (champ car and FC6 respectively). I haven't watched the indy 500 in awhile as ovals don't really excite me. OTOH, good drivers can have bad days. (See Sebastian Bourdais' performance at the Las Vegas Grand Prix)
With a little luck, Some great pitstops and lucky cautions, he may finish in the top ten. If he got a podium from 31st, THAT would be good for the media, and all of the sponsors.
I live 14 miles from work in a house that has been in my wife's family for 30 years. The current house market in the area is unpleasant for buyers. The office is also in an unpleasant part of town. A studio apartment costs more for rent than the 3 bedroom house I live in, etc.