I and someone else didn't opt in to Microsoft wasting our time. More importantly, me helping someone else doesn't save me any time overall. Perhaps that someone else bears some of the blame, but I don't think all the blame can be shifted on people who quite clearly are incapable (either intellectually or through gross lack of information available) of having truly opted in to all that was entailed.
Oh, were you forced at gun point to install MS software? If not, and you still did, you opted in.
No, but you'll have a choice of about a dozen alternators from different manufactors besides the one from the automaker that WILL all work just as well. Its not as if there's only one company making replacement parts.
Get a fucking clue ass. It's called an MP3, and you can easily import them into iTunes so they'll end up on your iPod... all without conversion. No one is telling you what to do with your device.
(*) I'm using my dad as a stereotype instead of my mother because I recently learned that using mothers as examples of clueless users is sexist. So I'm applying some affirmative action
Quite frankly, this over-sensitive horseshit is much more of a problem than whether or not a song appears on iTunes.
Yes, if you're considering a car, but not if you're considering a national fleet - they don't last forever.
Cash for clunkers was for individuals...whats you're point?
If you throw out cars before they're used up, you have to build more cars. If you move cars out of inventory, they'll get replaced with freshly manufactured cars.
Not if you're in the middle of a huge ressesion with a pile of EXCESS inventory already rotting on dealer lots.
Please actually read the link before continuing to post ignorant crap: "Subpoenas are usually issued by the clerk of the court (see below) in the name of the judge presiding over the case."
That is, a case must already be brought, which ISN'T the case during an initial investigation. Since you can't be bothered to read the article I linked, I'm not going to be bothered to read more than the first line you wrote.
It's not just fat slobs; its lazy people milking the welfare system. And once they are locked up, they won't produce more kids that just end up on welfare and further drain honest people of a living.
GM bled a lot more from over-paid janitors than what you call *overpaid* executives.
Show how I seriously doubt that. Maybe if you exclude paid country club memberships, use of a private jet whenever they want, the company paying their income tax for them, limos to go whereever they want, paid for vacations, etc. That stuff adds up REALLY fast.
I'm not even really sure WHAT a CEO does. Signs contracts? So what? Most of the hard work is NOT done by the CEO, and there is serious doubt that they really contribute anything other than "yes, we'll do this, no we won't do that."
I think the GP was talking about replacing a gas car with an electric one. At any rate my point was that cars already built have already "spent" their portion of the environment, so its irrelevent to the calculation.
Who said anything about talking to them? As was pointed out, they're using public transportation too. Or do you think the fat slobs only ride during non-rush hour times?
Cars wear sitting around too you know. And since the environment cost was already paid, trading a gasoline powered car for an electric one saves one year of having that car spit out pollution.
Actually they did a study, and its pretty evenly split as far as fault goes (47% drivers fault vs. 47% cyclist; I guess the last 6% were both at fault, or could not be determined). Bicycles are just as much at fault as drivers.
Of course, it was the bicyclests that were whining they had a "right" to use the road, the same as the car, so I blame them, because they foolishly choose to put themselves into a dangerous situation, much the same as if you choose to go rock climbing in some national park.
I never ride my bike in the road, only on sidewalks, and if that means I can't get somewhere on my bike, I drive my car. Just like you won't find me mountain climbing anytime soon, I won't be sitting on a small tube of metal with wheels surrounded by tons of metal and plastic which much more acceleration powre than I have.
No, the law says that if you were using a phone you've met the legal requirements to be fined. It does not actual prove that you were in fact distracted or dangerous. You might well have been. It's possible that everyone hold a phone is (though that seems unlikely).
No, as far as the (new) law is concerned, if you're using the phone you're distracted. The court will accept that as a matter of fact, and attempting to argue against it will get you no where. The judge will quote the law to you and say to move on.
Which was the problem with the distracted driving law as it was. Without this law, the state would have to prove you actually WERE distracted by your use of the phone, and you'd argue that in fact you were not. Of course since the burden of proof is on the state, there's a very real chance they'd lose the case, and you'd be on your way. After all, prove my use of the phone WAS distracting me? How exactly would you do that?
The rest of your post is nonsense, as that's not the issue here. The issue is that this is point the OP was making, that the existing law didn't infact work.
Uh, why are people putting money into volitile investments which they intend to use to fund retirement? I'm doing that now, but I've got a LONG way befor I retire, and as I get closer, my money will move to safer accounts.
No, it doesn't. They could be taking more of a hit to maintain their position, because MySql is supposed to be fast, and that's more important to them than reliable.
All the cable networks come in as if I were watched DVD on a standard def. TV, and the HD channels are great. Also, I have 10MB symetrical internet, and low cost telephone too. The only reason comcast raised their internet from 1.5 / 512k to where it is now is my city's telecom went online.
Police are not babysitters. They are not there to protect us from ourselves. They are there to defend property and citizens from each other. For those reasons they are important.
Ya, except they fail miserably at both. I've reported valilism. "Sorry, there's not much we can do." Reported theft. "Sorry, there's no much we can do." People are still attacked and murdered.
Oh, but go 15 over the improperly set speed limit, boy are they there quickly!
I agree with you on the rest of your post though, especially healthcare, where the most deadly diseases are related to lifestyle choices (namely, how much food people are shovling down their fat throats).
I don't support public eduction because not enough control is taken from the parents to ensure the kid can actually be educated. Studies show that home life, diet, and exercise all affect a childs ability to learn, yet those are hands off (but its still MY responsiblity to eductate kids... when I'm effectively handicapped from doing so). I also don't get a say in how many kids someone can have... so some fat slob that's not working is telling me its my job to pay for her kids education (and feed her, er, them) while she speeds her day with her legs spread.
Ya know, I'd rather cut things like welfare, food stamps, etc. Its infurating to see some fat slob with her four kids riding on a bus for two blocks FOR FREE because she's too lazy to walk, just sucking away the earings of hard working people. We need a saftey net, but we also need to cut the dead weight that doesn't contribute to society AT ALL. And believe me, there's a lot of them around.
Right. There should be no way to travel without milking every cent from people. And of course oil is the only way to power cars. Nope, can't do it with electric, hydrogen, or any other method to propel the vehicle.
Well if killing were always wrong, you'd have a point, but there are times where its justified.
Personally, I think its a great way to deal with the dregs of society; eliminate the ones causing problems, and you'll only be left with people who aren't causing problems.
Ya whatever. Thanks to my CITIES fiber optics, I have better cable TV, internet AND phone than Comcast would offer. Government has run other utilities as well, water, power, sewer. Guess what? It is better and cheaper than a private company would be offering, and I know because I've lived in ares where it wasn't a city department.
The same protections that a private company would employ are there as well, and they'd need a subpoena just like they would for a private company.
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I and someone else didn't opt in to Microsoft wasting our time. More importantly, me helping someone else doesn't save me any time overall. Perhaps that someone else bears some of the blame, but I don't think all the blame can be shifted on people who quite clearly are incapable (either intellectually or through gross lack of information available) of having truly opted in to all that was entailed.
Oh, were you forced at gun point to install MS software? If not, and you still did, you opted in.
No, but you'll have a choice of about a dozen alternators from different manufactors besides the one from the automaker that WILL all work just as well. Its not as if there's only one company making replacement parts.
Get a fucking clue ass. It's called an MP3, and you can easily import them into iTunes so they'll end up on your iPod... all without conversion. No one is telling you what to do with your device.
(*) I'm using my dad as a stereotype instead of my mother because I recently learned that using mothers as examples of clueless users is sexist. So I'm applying some affirmative action
Quite frankly, this over-sensitive horseshit is much more of a problem than whether or not a song appears on iTunes.
Yes, if you're considering a car, but not if you're considering a national fleet - they don't last forever.
Cash for clunkers was for individuals...whats you're point?
If you throw out cars before they're used up, you have to build more cars. If you move cars out of inventory, they'll get replaced with freshly manufactured cars.
Not if you're in the middle of a huge ressesion with a pile of EXCESS inventory already rotting on dealer lots.
Please actually read the link before continuing to post ignorant crap: "Subpoenas are usually issued by the clerk of the court (see below) in the name of the judge presiding over the case."
That is, a case must already be brought, which ISN'T the case during an initial investigation. Since you can't be bothered to read the article I linked, I'm not going to be bothered to read more than the first line you wrote.
It's not just fat slobs; its lazy people milking the welfare system. And once they are locked up, they won't produce more kids that just end up on welfare and further drain honest people of a living.
No, a judge must still be involved: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena
GM bled a lot more from over-paid janitors than what you call *overpaid* executives.
Show how I seriously doubt that. Maybe if you exclude paid country club memberships, use of a private jet whenever they want, the company paying their income tax for them, limos to go whereever they want, paid for vacations, etc. That stuff adds up REALLY fast.
I'm not even really sure WHAT a CEO does. Signs contracts? So what? Most of the hard work is NOT done by the CEO, and there is serious doubt that they really contribute anything other than "yes, we'll do this, no we won't do that."
I think the GP was talking about replacing a gas car with an electric one. At any rate my point was that cars already built have already "spent" their portion of the environment, so its irrelevent to the calculation.
Yes, that's the problem. If they were the norm, we'd have better services at lower cost for things that lend themselves to being a natural monopoly.
Someone else already explained why I didn't mod you. I opt-ed out of the mod system a long time ago.
Then we arrest them, put them in prision where they WILL be made to do something useful. Or shoot them.
Who said anything about talking to them? As was pointed out, they're using public transportation too. Or do you think the fat slobs only ride during non-rush hour times?
Really?
Well, here's one that IS a city department: https://www.burlingtonelectric.com/page.php?pid=1
Notice its presense as a city department on the city's website as well: http://www.ci.burlington.vt.us/departments/
Also notice the department of public works, which provides sewage, water and parking (first two hours free in any city garage).
Oh, and then notice Burlington Telecom.. which provides just what was said, phone service in addition to cable tv and internet.
Cars wear sitting around too you know. And since the environment cost was already paid, trading a gasoline powered car for an electric one saves one year of having that car spit out pollution.
Actually they did a study, and its pretty evenly split as far as fault goes (47% drivers fault vs. 47% cyclist; I guess the last 6% were both at fault, or could not be determined). Bicycles are just as much at fault as drivers.
Of course, it was the bicyclests that were whining they had a "right" to use the road, the same as the car, so I blame them, because they foolishly choose to put themselves into a dangerous situation, much the same as if you choose to go rock climbing in some national park.
I never ride my bike in the road, only on sidewalks, and if that means I can't get somewhere on my bike, I drive my car. Just like you won't find me mountain climbing anytime soon, I won't be sitting on a small tube of metal with wheels surrounded by tons of metal and plastic which much more acceleration powre than I have.
No, the law says that if you were using a phone you've met the legal requirements to be fined. It does not actual prove that you were in fact distracted or dangerous. You might well have been. It's possible that everyone hold a phone is (though that seems unlikely).
No, as far as the (new) law is concerned, if you're using the phone you're distracted. The court will accept that as a matter of fact, and attempting to argue against it will get you no where. The judge will quote the law to you and say to move on.
Which was the problem with the distracted driving law as it was. Without this law, the state would have to prove you actually WERE distracted by your use of the phone, and you'd argue that in fact you were not. Of course since the burden of proof is on the state, there's a very real chance they'd lose the case, and you'd be on your way. After all, prove my use of the phone WAS distracting me? How exactly would you do that?
The rest of your post is nonsense, as that's not the issue here. The issue is that this is point the OP was making, that the existing law didn't infact work.
Uh, why are people putting money into volitile investments which they intend to use to fund retirement? I'm doing that now, but I've got a LONG way befor I retire, and as I get closer, my money will move to safer accounts.
No, it doesn't. They could be taking more of a hit to maintain their position, because MySql is supposed to be fast, and that's more important to them than reliable.
Then you did it wrong.
All the cable networks come in as if I were watched DVD on a standard def. TV, and the HD channels are great. Also, I have 10MB symetrical internet, and low cost telephone too. The only reason comcast raised their internet from 1.5 / 512k to where it is now is my city's telecom went online.
Police are not babysitters. They are not there to protect us from ourselves. They are there to defend property and citizens from each other. For those reasons they are important.
Ya, except they fail miserably at both. I've reported valilism. "Sorry, there's not much we can do." Reported theft. "Sorry, there's no much we can do." People are still attacked and murdered.
Oh, but go 15 over the improperly set speed limit, boy are they there quickly!
I agree with you on the rest of your post though, especially healthcare, where the most deadly diseases are related to lifestyle choices (namely, how much food people are shovling down their fat throats).
I don't support public eduction because not enough control is taken from the parents to ensure the kid can actually be educated. Studies show that home life, diet, and exercise all affect a childs ability to learn, yet those are hands off (but its still MY responsiblity to eductate kids... when I'm effectively handicapped from doing so). I also don't get a say in how many kids someone can have... so some fat slob that's not working is telling me its my job to pay for her kids education (and feed her, er, them) while she speeds her day with her legs spread.
Ya know, I'd rather cut things like welfare, food stamps, etc. Its infurating to see some fat slob with her four kids riding on a bus for two blocks FOR FREE because she's too lazy to walk, just sucking away the earings of hard working people. We need a saftey net, but we also need to cut the dead weight that doesn't contribute to society AT ALL. And believe me, there's a lot of them around.
Right. There should be no way to travel without milking every cent from people. And of course oil is the only way to power cars. Nope, can't do it with electric, hydrogen, or any other method to propel the vehicle.
Well if killing were always wrong, you'd have a point, but there are times where its justified.
Personally, I think its a great way to deal with the dregs of society; eliminate the ones causing problems, and you'll only be left with people who aren't causing problems.
Ya whatever. Thanks to my CITIES fiber optics, I have better cable TV, internet AND phone than Comcast would offer. Government has run other utilities as well, water, power, sewer. Guess what? It is better and cheaper than a private company would be offering, and I know because I've lived in ares where it wasn't a city department.
The same protections that a private company would employ are there as well, and they'd need a subpoena just like they would for a private company.