The dumb phones are still available. Do you go picket every new car release, complaining that walking is fast enough for you? If not, then why do you bother to come here to complain about this?
And it ALL came, 100% of it, from the teachers on the union. NOTHING to do with the school district.
Yet the school district signed it. Did the School District offer to double the teacher's pay, rather than halving the specialist's pay? Did the School District offer contracting roles to anyone doing the work, even if they were already employees? What did the school district do in negotiations, other than complain about the union, while agreeing with the union (proved by their signature on the agreement)?
I have to wonder how the ballots got into the box.
Ah yes, the "I can't think of how to crack it, so it must be perfect" defense. Once they are in there, what do you do? They aren't under observation 100% of the time, as the poll workers will occasionally take a break for biological needs (though that would still require a conspiracy), or you could stage a distraction. How they get in doesn't matter. The fact of the matter is, once they are in, the vote is provably invalid, but nobody cares.
The number of votes can be determined by the records kept at the voting place (it's a matter of legal record that I was given a ballot in the 2014 election, although what happened to it between my getting it and it going through the tabulating machine into the box is not recorded).
And it doesn't match most of the time. but nobody cares. And the times it's been bad enough off that discussions of re-votes were mentioned, the re-votes were found unconstitutional. Dead people have the right to vote. And if even a single person from the original vote is now dead (or otherwise an invalid voter), then the re-election would be invalid. So nobody has ever re-voted a provably spoiled election.
It's dumb like that which proves (at least to me) that open voting is so much better than what we have now.
And don't forget, the AC peak is correlated with the solar output peak. So more solar would help ease the peaks (At least in he US south, southwest, and west).
So he's following the old American model where the raw materials went in one end, and the cars came out the other? I would have thought that the electronics and such would come in pre-made, and assembled, rather than made on site. Assembly of parts (batteries, electronics) would be easier than manufacture. The panels and such should be easy enough to make on-site.
A number of them started as airplane engine manufacturers. And some others started as small engine manufacturers (motorbike and such). Subaru, a subsidiary of Fuji Heavy Industries (or something like that) was well funded by a dedicated parent company, might as well be state support. Kia and Hyundai started aiming at the mass-market, at least that's how it looked when they hit the US shores. I'm not Korean.
A lot of the electrical problems are traced to bad engineering. Vibrations are hard on connectors, and rather than building one that worked, they took "standard" ones that didn't work that well, and used those. When they start failing, you get poor power (gaps/sparks, voltage drop, and such) that fry electronics.
They know the problems, and choose to not fix them because the fix is expensive.
I had 3 transmission failures in an '87 GM before I sold it (family hand-down). My mother had an engine replacement, partially covered by warranty out of warranty by Audi, a 2000 model, work done in '07. '81 Accord lasted about 10 years, died with a complete engine failure, and had a bad transmission for the last 5 years or so of its life.
I've seen many cars have major powertrain failures.
And with regenerative brakes, you need to do the brakes less often.
for the most part, the biggest profit center in most car dealerships is the service center
I thought it was the used lot. New cars make them $200 to $5000 (depending on the area and the specific car), but a used car makes $2000 to $10000. Service is ok, but they don't make a mint on it. Certainly not in the '70s and '80s (when independent repair shops were common and able to fix anything in a car). Not sure if that's turning around with in-car DRM on parts.
Yes. The rail runs in Alaska stay open. I lived less than one mile from the rail line. And I could hear it year long. At least here I'll never hear another train. I live as far from a train line as possible, while still living in a town/city served by a train. And yes, the route past me went through mountains.
Yes, the "I hate them for good reasons, but won't give any" excuse. At least I named a state. The one I grew up in and spent many years in the schools system of.
I took a class from the highest paid teacher in DISD. She had been there so long, that they lowered the cap, then put in mandatory cost-of-living increases, so it's impossible for anyone who starts teaching today to ever reach her level of pay (unless the contracts change). The law states that "collective bargaining" is illegal in Texas, but they still have a union. I think there is collective bargaining, despite it being illegal. But it's more passive. The union posts "recommendations" and "requests" and it's illegal for them to even threaten a strike, so they don't get all they want, or even much of it. But are involved in the contract process.
If she's actively working as a teacher, it's not unusual to move states and pick up a contract that counts years "served" elsewhere.
It falls under both. The FDA has chosen to "give" the enforcement to the DEA, but could take it back when they want. It's schedule 1, but, if the history were ignored and it were brought out today, is more in line with Schedule 3 or 4. If the FDA reclassified it, then the DEA would not be enforcing the rules anymore, as they are dependent on its schedule.
In the places with government mandated national broadband networks, the government has no more say over the network after than before. But the people have better connectivity for less.
What iPhone new today has "ancient" software and will never see an update? They don't sell the 4/4S new anymore directly. I can't speak for any stores near you claiming to sell the 3GS new.
Don't know. Don't care. If your state is screwed up, that's your problem. Why don't you go vote on that issue? Too worried about gay marriage, gun rights, and abortion to ask about the other issues? There's a reason why the two parties focus on the divisive issues. Othewise, people would find out they don't represent the people.
Hell, if it's a big enough issue to you, move to Texas. It's not like the system that's more like you assert as "ideal" runs any better in practice. By law, the unions in Texas have no power. Yet the education is no better or worse than anywhere else in the US. Seems unions are unrelated to the education problems. But if you don't have the unions to complain about, what would you do? Nah, you'll still complain about unions. Oh, and I did find out if it applies elsewhere. http://education.findlaw.com/t... But you'll note, the unions don't correlate with school performance. But don't let reality interfere with your irrational hatred of unions.
"Blacks" never counted 3/5 (it was a different differentiator you are obviously not aware of). You are so confused about history, I can see why you wouldn't want to learn from it. Why do you hate knowledge?
Only the weak minded with no facts to support their side attack the method of the message, and not the message itself. Open voting is less susceptible to fraud, in a stable environment.
I've never seen a case where a school location was decided by anything other than the School Board, and a principal is generally banned from sharing district information with anyone, including the teachers there. So that's something that should be taken up with the school board, not the PTA.
And from my experience your experience was atypical. My mother was president of my PTA. But I think that was at least partly from lack of interest by others.
Cargo from China would be cheaper on train that boat.
That and if it ever does take off, my property in Alaska will shoot up in value. I'm holding off selling until they build a natural gas pipeline (to canada or along the oil pipeline) or connection to Russia. One of them will probably happen sometime.
They certainly do from Australia. Australia took a huge economic hit when China slowed orders of metal. Sure, they don't buy Ford or GM, but they do buy from abroad.
And don't forget "environmental problem" includes moving people from sub-standard housing to nicer homes elsewhere. I saw the slums torn down for the Olympics. No running water, and other problems. Rather than tearing them down to build new ones in the same spot, they built new ones elsewhere, and the people living in the slums got an upgrade. But it's still a human rights violation because a renter had to move apartments. And somehow any human rights issue is an "environmental" issue.
I just hope someone starts building the Bering Bridge/tunnel soon. Then my property in Alaska will go up in value, and I can sell it for a tidy profit. If the land goes up as it did for the '80s pipeline, I could retire when building starts.
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The dumb phones are still available. Do you go picket every new car release, complaining that walking is fast enough for you? If not, then why do you bother to come here to complain about this?
So I'll ask you the same question as I did the GP. Do you have evidence of politicians taking large sums of money and not being prosecuted for that?
Yes. When the large sums are called "campaign contributions".
And it ALL came, 100% of it, from the teachers on the union. NOTHING to do with the school district.
Yet the school district signed it. Did the School District offer to double the teacher's pay, rather than halving the specialist's pay? Did the School District offer contracting roles to anyone doing the work, even if they were already employees? What did the school district do in negotiations, other than complain about the union, while agreeing with the union (proved by their signature on the agreement)?
They were delivered in an Amazon box.
I have to wonder how the ballots got into the box.
Ah yes, the "I can't think of how to crack it, so it must be perfect" defense. Once they are in there, what do you do? They aren't under observation 100% of the time, as the poll workers will occasionally take a break for biological needs (though that would still require a conspiracy), or you could stage a distraction. How they get in doesn't matter. The fact of the matter is, once they are in, the vote is provably invalid, but nobody cares.
The number of votes can be determined by the records kept at the voting place (it's a matter of legal record that I was given a ballot in the 2014 election, although what happened to it between my getting it and it going through the tabulating machine into the box is not recorded).
And it doesn't match most of the time. but nobody cares. And the times it's been bad enough off that discussions of re-votes were mentioned, the re-votes were found unconstitutional. Dead people have the right to vote. And if even a single person from the original vote is now dead (or otherwise an invalid voter), then the re-election would be invalid. So nobody has ever re-voted a provably spoiled election.
It's dumb like that which proves (at least to me) that open voting is so much better than what we have now.
And don't forget, the AC peak is correlated with the solar output peak. So more solar would help ease the peaks (At least in he US south, southwest, and west).
So he's following the old American model where the raw materials went in one end, and the cars came out the other? I would have thought that the electronics and such would come in pre-made, and assembled, rather than made on site. Assembly of parts (batteries, electronics) would be easier than manufacture. The panels and such should be easy enough to make on-site.
A number of them started as airplane engine manufacturers. And some others started as small engine manufacturers (motorbike and such). Subaru, a subsidiary of Fuji Heavy Industries (or something like that) was well funded by a dedicated parent company, might as well be state support. Kia and Hyundai started aiming at the mass-market, at least that's how it looked when they hit the US shores. I'm not Korean.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
I thought you could buy a car on Amazon, though only 3 were sold that way.
A lot of the electrical problems are traced to bad engineering. Vibrations are hard on connectors, and rather than building one that worked, they took "standard" ones that didn't work that well, and used those. When they start failing, you get poor power (gaps/sparks, voltage drop, and such) that fry electronics.
They know the problems, and choose to not fix them because the fix is expensive.
I had 3 transmission failures in an '87 GM before I sold it (family hand-down). My mother had an engine replacement, partially covered by warranty out of warranty by Audi, a 2000 model, work done in '07. '81 Accord lasted about 10 years, died with a complete engine failure, and had a bad transmission for the last 5 years or so of its life.
I've seen many cars have major powertrain failures.
And with regenerative brakes, you need to do the brakes less often.
for the most part, the biggest profit center in most car dealerships is the service center
I thought it was the used lot. New cars make them $200 to $5000 (depending on the area and the specific car), but a used car makes $2000 to $10000. Service is ok, but they don't make a mint on it. Certainly not in the '70s and '80s (when independent repair shops were common and able to fix anything in a car). Not sure if that's turning around with in-car DRM on parts.
Yes. The rail runs in Alaska stay open. I lived less than one mile from the rail line. And I could hear it year long. At least here I'll never hear another train. I live as far from a train line as possible, while still living in a town/city served by a train. And yes, the route past me went through mountains.
Yes, the "I hate them for good reasons, but won't give any" excuse. At least I named a state. The one I grew up in and spent many years in the schools system of.
I took a class from the highest paid teacher in DISD. She had been there so long, that they lowered the cap, then put in mandatory cost-of-living increases, so it's impossible for anyone who starts teaching today to ever reach her level of pay (unless the contracts change). The law states that "collective bargaining" is illegal in Texas, but they still have a union. I think there is collective bargaining, despite it being illegal. But it's more passive. The union posts "recommendations" and "requests" and it's illegal for them to even threaten a strike, so they don't get all they want, or even much of it. But are involved in the contract process.
If she's actively working as a teacher, it's not unusual to move states and pick up a contract that counts years "served" elsewhere.
It falls under both. The FDA has chosen to "give" the enforcement to the DEA, but could take it back when they want. It's schedule 1, but, if the history were ignored and it were brought out today, is more in line with Schedule 3 or 4. If the FDA reclassified it, then the DEA would not be enforcing the rules anymore, as they are dependent on its schedule.
In the places with government mandated national broadband networks, the government has no more say over the network after than before. But the people have better connectivity for less.
What iPhone new today has "ancient" software and will never see an update? They don't sell the 4/4S new anymore directly. I can't speak for any stores near you claiming to sell the 3GS new.
Don't know. Don't care. If your state is screwed up, that's your problem. Why don't you go vote on that issue? Too worried about gay marriage, gun rights, and abortion to ask about the other issues? There's a reason why the two parties focus on the divisive issues. Othewise, people would find out they don't represent the people.
Hell, if it's a big enough issue to you, move to Texas. It's not like the system that's more like you assert as "ideal" runs any better in practice. By law, the unions in Texas have no power. Yet the education is no better or worse than anywhere else in the US. Seems unions are unrelated to the education problems. But if you don't have the unions to complain about, what would you do? Nah, you'll still complain about unions. Oh, and I did find out if it applies elsewhere. http://education.findlaw.com/t... But you'll note, the unions don't correlate with school performance. But don't let reality interfere with your irrational hatred of unions.
"Blacks" never counted 3/5 (it was a different differentiator you are obviously not aware of). You are so confused about history, I can see why you wouldn't want to learn from it. Why do you hate knowledge?
Only the weak minded with no facts to support their side attack the method of the message, and not the message itself. Open voting is less susceptible to fraud, in a stable environment.
Without that in a dictionary, how am I supposed to know how many "r"s are in it?
I've never seen a case where a school location was decided by anything other than the School Board, and a principal is generally banned from sharing district information with anyone, including the teachers there. So that's something that should be taken up with the school board, not the PTA.
And from my experience your experience was atypical. My mother was president of my PTA. But I think that was at least partly from lack of interest by others.
Cargo from China would be cheaper on train that boat.
That and if it ever does take off, my property in Alaska will shoot up in value. I'm holding off selling until they build a natural gas pipeline (to canada or along the oil pipeline) or connection to Russia. One of them will probably happen sometime.
They certainly do from Australia. Australia took a huge economic hit when China slowed orders of metal. Sure, they don't buy Ford or GM, but they do buy from abroad.
And don't forget "environmental problem" includes moving people from sub-standard housing to nicer homes elsewhere. I saw the slums torn down for the Olympics. No running water, and other problems. Rather than tearing them down to build new ones in the same spot, they built new ones elsewhere, and the people living in the slums got an upgrade. But it's still a human rights violation because a renter had to move apartments. And somehow any human rights issue is an "environmental" issue.
I just hope someone starts building the Bering Bridge/tunnel soon. Then my property in Alaska will go up in value, and I can sell it for a tidy profit. If the land goes up as it did for the '80s pipeline, I could retire when building starts.