I guess I've always accepted the fact that humanity will go extinct at some point. I'm comfortable with that. Maybe my atheism and my rejection of an afterlife has something to do with it.
I fail to understand people that think colonizing other planets is not only a neat thing to do, but absolutely necessary. All the time, money, and effort to try to do something that will likely fail and probably won't benefit humankind at all... when we could be spending those same resources to make our current world a little better.
Sorry, I live here on Earth now. I'd rather invest in something that has tangible benefits in the near term, not some crazy Ark fantasy.
No no, this is America where we have to ruin a child's life in order to prevent them from ruining their life. I suggest 5-10 years of jail for sexting!
I think friends are the key. If you have a good social network, you'll have all sorts of opportunities to meet women. Not only do cousins/high school friends/sisters show up from out of town to visit one of your friends for a bbq, you are also "in" in the sense that people she knows and trusts have a certain level of confidence in you.
You'll not only get to know your friends but chances are you'll get to meet all the people they know too.
Seriously, wouldn't it be neat if there was new evidence of water on Mars based on hi res pictures and someone would actually link to said pictures? That would be neat-o.
Don't get me wrong, Defrosting Spots Over Polygonal Ground sounds interesting and all, but...
Would you have been able to sue them if your baby had blond hair when you wanted a brunette?
"No honey, of course mommy and daddy love you just the way you are... never mind the settlement we got because your hair color is wrong. It paid for all this dye!"
The problem is "we" all can't come to grips with the amount of money our politicians are spending. The amount is so staggering, we have no frame of reference. Trillions of dollars... heck, we even have a hard time imagining a million dollars.
And we've never had to pay for any of it. A billion dollar project comes up for a vote, why not? It sounds like a decent project. Another billion here, another there... and how does this affect us? It doesn't. We go on living our same lives and someone gets the benefit of the projects that are being done. All that we worry about is some nebulous debt that no one ever seems to care about and has never affected us anyway, so no big deal.
We're talking free money here.
So that's why I celebrate this roads problem in Michigan. Now people are going to be pissed. It's finally hitting close to home that you can't just spend and spend and spend. The chickens are coming home to roost. Granted, their economy is giving them no help whatsoever but maybe now we'll realize that there is no such thing as a free road.
I feel the same way about the California budget crisis. Voters don't want to cut spending. Voters don't want to increase taxes. Good for you. You made your bed, now lie in it.
Three times in one month my car was broken into and nothing was stolen but considerable damage was done to my vehicle. I asked cops if there was an option to dust for fingerprints... what do you think their answer was?
That they've got four more detectives working on the case and they're working in shifts? Did the thieves at least leave your Credence?
I just moved to Spokane from San Diego (not a Californian, though). I don't regret it for a second. Of all the places I've lived, this is pretty much perfect. The city isn't too big or too small, traffic is awesome, cost of living is awesome, real estate prices are awesome, the people are awesome, a stone's throw from all the activities you described and more.
I wish you luck finding what you want elsewhere, but for me Spokane rules.
So paying out the nose for a house, sitting in traffic all day, living the rat race, hopping between jobs every 2 years is more appealing to you?
Keep in mind in a smaller city the companies don't have such a large pool of job candidates either so they might tend to make it appealing to stick with the company for longer if you're a decent employee.
I moved from SoCal to Spokane, WA and couldn't be happier. Any job at this point would just be a source of funding for living here, enjoying the outdoors, walking around the parks, going canoeing, buying a great house, raising a family... the fact that I love my job and find it very rewarding is icing on the cake.
6'6" here and I drive an '05 Scion xB. As underpowered and as cheap as a Corolla but head room, man. HEAD ROOM! I still have 3 or 4 inches of head room. Legroom isn't bad either, especially since you're seated mostly upright. Best tall-person budget car there is. I don't know what those newer model xBs are like though.
Remember when it used to be you couldn't drunk drive? Then it was you couldn't be behind the wheel while drunk? Then it became you couldn't even be in the driver's seat with the car off while drunk? Then it became you couldn't drive if you couldn't get out and walk in a straight line? Then it became reciting your alphabet backwards... Then suddenly, you couldn't have an arbitrary percentage of alcohol in your blood to do all those things. Then it became whatever the machine said your blood alcohol might be.
There are no laws against drunk driving anymore. There are laws about not being able to potentially operate a vehicle if a machine determines you have enough alcohol on your breath.
Mosquitoes are actually mostly vegetarian to begin with. They eat sugar based meals, mostly nectar. The females only need one blood meal to get the iron and protein necessary to develop eggs. So says wikipedia.
Since it sounds like there were a bunch of witnesses around, why not get statements attesting to the fact that none of the REI employees asked him to leave, and then sue the pants off the police dept.?
The only wrong thing you could be doing that would require an arrest is refusing to leave the store when asked.
Also, I would have started talking about how it's legal to keep records of anything in public view, not to exclude putting a GPS unit on a car without a warrant, etc.
What about the 5th Amendment? Their device is on my car and I'm hauling it around gathering evidence that might be used against me. I don't think that's right.
That's the way I was thinking too. I shouldn't be required to provide the infrastructure and transportation cost to haul around a device to gather evidence that might be used against me. You want to gather evidence against me, YOU truck that device around.
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How heavy is a Library of Congress?
Right now, dollar for dollar putting a human in space to do science is much better value than the equivalent robot.
I think you're wrong.
How much did Opportunity and Spirit cost us and how valuable is their data?
I guess I've always accepted the fact that humanity will go extinct at some point. I'm comfortable with that. Maybe my atheism and my rejection of an afterlife has something to do with it.
I fail to understand people that think colonizing other planets is not only a neat thing to do, but absolutely necessary. All the time, money, and effort to try to do something that will likely fail and probably won't benefit humankind at all... when we could be spending those same resources to make our current world a little better.
Sorry, I live here on Earth now. I'd rather invest in something that has tangible benefits in the near term, not some crazy Ark fantasy.
No no, this is America where we have to ruin a child's life in order to prevent them from ruining their life. I suggest 5-10 years of jail for sexting!
I think friends are the key. If you have a good social network, you'll have all sorts of opportunities to meet women. Not only do cousins/high school friends/sisters show up from out of town to visit one of your friends for a bbq, you are also "in" in the sense that people she knows and trusts have a certain level of confidence in you.
You'll not only get to know your friends but chances are you'll get to meet all the people they know too.
Seriously, wouldn't it be neat if there was new evidence of water on Mars based on hi res pictures and someone would actually link to said pictures? That would be neat-o.
Don't get me wrong, Defrosting Spots Over Polygonal Ground sounds interesting and all, but...
$1.92M for 24 songs is unreasonable? What makes you say that?
Would you have been able to sue them if your baby had blond hair when you wanted a brunette?
"No honey, of course mommy and daddy love you just the way you are... never mind the settlement we got because your hair color is wrong. It paid for all this dye!"
The problem is "we" all can't come to grips with the amount of money our politicians are spending. The amount is so staggering, we have no frame of reference. Trillions of dollars... heck, we even have a hard time imagining a million dollars.
And we've never had to pay for any of it. A billion dollar project comes up for a vote, why not? It sounds like a decent project. Another billion here, another there... and how does this affect us? It doesn't. We go on living our same lives and someone gets the benefit of the projects that are being done. All that we worry about is some nebulous debt that no one ever seems to care about and has never affected us anyway, so no big deal.
We're talking free money here.
So that's why I celebrate this roads problem in Michigan. Now people are going to be pissed. It's finally hitting close to home that you can't just spend and spend and spend. The chickens are coming home to roost. Granted, their economy is giving them no help whatsoever but maybe now we'll realize that there is no such thing as a free road.
I feel the same way about the California budget crisis. Voters don't want to cut spending. Voters don't want to increase taxes. Good for you. You made your bed, now lie in it.
Three times in one month my car was broken into and nothing was stolen but considerable damage was done to my vehicle. I asked cops if there was an option to dust for fingerprints ... what do you think their answer was?
That they've got four more detectives working on the case and they're working in shifts? Did the thieves at least leave your Credence?
... and I DON'T KNOW is on third.
Let's just get that out of the way first and foremost.
I just moved to Spokane from San Diego (not a Californian, though). I don't regret it for a second. Of all the places I've lived, this is pretty much perfect. The city isn't too big or too small, traffic is awesome, cost of living is awesome, real estate prices are awesome, the people are awesome, a stone's throw from all the activities you described and more.
I wish you luck finding what you want elsewhere, but for me Spokane rules.
So this is pretty much like any other sales demo?
So paying out the nose for a house, sitting in traffic all day, living the rat race, hopping between jobs every 2 years is more appealing to you?
Keep in mind in a smaller city the companies don't have such a large pool of job candidates either so they might tend to make it appealing to stick with the company for longer if you're a decent employee.
I moved from SoCal to Spokane, WA and couldn't be happier. Any job at this point would just be a source of funding for living here, enjoying the outdoors, walking around the parks, going canoeing, buying a great house, raising a family... the fact that I love my job and find it very rewarding is icing on the cake.
Also, dude, chink is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
So? What's wrong with that?
6'6" here and I drive an '05 Scion xB. As underpowered and as cheap as a Corolla but head room, man. HEAD ROOM! I still have 3 or 4 inches of head room. Legroom isn't bad either, especially since you're seated mostly upright. Best tall-person budget car there is. I don't know what those newer model xBs are like though.
Damnit, I love science!
This is how it's supposed to work.
Remember when it used to be you couldn't drunk drive?
Then it was you couldn't be behind the wheel while drunk?
Then it became you couldn't even be in the driver's seat with the car off while drunk?
Then it became you couldn't drive if you couldn't get out and walk in a straight line?
Then it became reciting your alphabet backwards...
Then suddenly, you couldn't have an arbitrary percentage of alcohol in your blood to do all those things.
Then it became whatever the machine said your blood alcohol might be.
There are no laws against drunk driving anymore. There are laws about not being able to potentially operate a vehicle if a machine determines you have enough alcohol on your breath.
Mosquitoes are actually mostly vegetarian to begin with. They eat sugar based meals, mostly nectar. The females only need one blood meal to get the iron and protein necessary to develop eggs. So says wikipedia.
If these people want their devices secret, maybe they shouldn't leave their doors wide open for the public to see. Just a suggestion.
Since it sounds like there were a bunch of witnesses around, why not get statements attesting to the fact that none of the REI employees asked him to leave, and then sue the pants off the police dept.?
The only wrong thing you could be doing that would require an arrest is refusing to leave the store when asked.
Also, I would have started talking about how it's legal to keep records of anything in public view, not to exclude putting a GPS unit on a car without a warrant, etc.
What about the 5th Amendment? Their device is on my car and I'm hauling it around gathering evidence that might be used against me. I don't think that's right.
That's the way I was thinking too. I shouldn't be required to provide the infrastructure and transportation cost to haul around a device to gather evidence that might be used against me. You want to gather evidence against me, YOU truck that device around.
Trek fans are hilarious. They are even more hilarious when they turn on each other.
You twisted sicko. Watching Star Trek fans turn each other on isn't hilarious, it's disgusting.