In states where people don't drink as much, there are more alcohol related fatalities! Why? Because they can neither drive nor handle their liquor! (ducks)
If you ARE intoxicated, then you're a hazard and I hope (and trust) that either method will recognize you as the fool that you are. Drunk drivers deserve the convictions.
I'm going to defend the unpopular viewpoint here!
Most people drive more carefully when they're under the influence because they know the potential hazard... and usually it's at an hour when nobody's on the road to "hazard" anyway. So the hazard is getting caught.
I'd presume that the police would have no motive to pull over such cautious drivers, then, but it probably depends on where you live and how they view alcohol.
I guess it's easy to judge if you live in a dense city with public transportation, but believe it or not, millions of people drive under the influence all the time and don't hurt anyone. If they do, it's often themselves.
There are some states that have very high binge drinking rates when compared to the national average, and are more rural in nature. The inhabitants are more aware of their limits, have higher tolerance, and have absolutely no way of getting home. Because alcohol is such a part of the culture, designated drivers are few. A "designated driver" may have 5 beers instead of their normal 8 or 16.
It's just the culture, and probably as many people die in drunk accidents as regular accidents in these places. Being stupid is being stupid, and that involves knowing your limits and knowing who's driving.
If it isn't obvious, I'm from Wisconsin. We have the highest "binge drinking rate" in the nation. The only people I know who have "designated drivers" or "get cabs" are from out of state. I don't know anyone with a DUI or who has been injured in an alcohol-related accident. Mostly what I've heard of are single guys getting caught drifting off-road or hitting a tree. By far I hear about more teen-related shenanigans causing deaths and injuries.
Brick houses are expensive. Many "brick" homes just have a brick face to make them look fancy & expensive.
Yes, you can get a brick house. Or a stone house. But that will significantly raise the price, so it's more of a luxury option. Plus, all the interior walls are going to be wood anyway.
Not to mention, the OP said "easier, cheaper, faster". Brick is none of those adjectives compared to wood with vinyl siding.
This is exactly what I learned 12 years (or more?) ago when I played Sim City for the first time.
Maybe we should get these politicians a copy so they can see what happens when you jack up taxes - abandoned warehouses, skyscrapers, and houses. Whoops!
Congratulations on making it to middle management! You have successfully demonstrated your ability to offend the least amount of people and an uncanny inability to say "no".
Now that you have this position, it's time to start forming your own thoughts and opinions again before your underlings figure this out.
As a manager, you should be a leader. You should have opinions and be intelligent. But you should delegate important tasks to people wiser than you. You should respect them, even though they might have edgier personalities than you (you cool cool cat)!
Because the moment they find out that you have no backbone and no power, they're going to write you off as irrelevant. Which you are, but you must keep up their illusion. It's a tough line to walk, over that abyss of hopelessness, isn't it?
You know, I never had a problem with my guitar falling until I put strap locks on.
Maybe I'm just buying the wrong kind of strap locks. Sure, the locking mechanism works great, but the lock doesn't actually stay on the strap. It twists to clamp onto the strap, and just loosens over time...
My solution was to glue the locks so they stay on the strap.
Not to mention the other problem with the strap locks: the screws for the knobs seem to like coming out of the guitar. Ah well...
Considering that it only happens to those who are in mourning, it's much more likely that it's a phenomenon entirely within that person's cognition.
As others in this thread have noted, people tend to have a hard time readjusting to the true perception when their environment unexpectedly changes. I wouldn't say that New Yorkers seeing the twin towers is supernatural, so why would I say that someone seeing their dead pet is supernatural?
Moreover, what hallucinations are formed as part of our culture.
I once heard a theory that the Aztecs didn't even notice the Conquistadors' ships because they were so out of context in relation to the world the natives knew.
I seem to recall there once was an initiative to push ISPs to have local p2p caches or somesuch. Of course, they want nothing to do with that. Pretty sure I read it on/., but too lazy to find a link.
It all depends highly on the context. Language is not always black and white.
McDonald's and friends push the "sandwich" moniker since it's easier to include fish/chicken items while talking, and also it makes them sound fancier.
For most Americans, the term sandwich does not, by default, include hamburgers. However, the two are similar enough such that sandwich, when used in a broad context, can refer to any sandwich-like object.
For your second point, yes, sometimes "burger" may only refer to the patty. That is typically used in a grilling context. "I'm grilling some burgers. Did you bring the buns?" If you were to ask for a burger in a restaurant, you would get the entire sandwich.
There are a grand total of zero people who have continued on after they died and communicated with us what happens. The evidence strongly favors the One Life Theory.
For Christians, there is a grand total of one. They think Jesus came back from the dead and talked to them.
When it comes down to how you want to live your life, do you want to live your life thinking you'll get a second chance after you die? Procrastinating and putting things off because this life doesn't matter as much? Not appreciating people and things to the fullest?
The "eternal soul" is a comfort to all who fear death and losing those they love, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Even if there is a soul, evidence suggests that once the body dies, it has absolutely nothing to do with our earthly lives. Which most likely means the same thing to your earth-bound ego: death.
So, the soul is irrelevant or non-existent. Occam's razor...
The older I get, the more I realize that nobody ever really grows up. Most people are still acting out insecurities that they developed when they were children.
I fully recognize the MSNBC bias and admit it as much as I recognize the Fox bias. Both networks have some good shows, and some clowns. Just because I am liberal does not mean I don't see a biased show for what it is. I wonder though if conservatives can tell the same.
Ugh, in your own effort to be unbiased, you have equated MSNBC with Fox. Let me tell you what's wrong with Fox.
Fox is reactionary, sensationalist garbage. I don't care about their ideology. The fact that not one person on that channel can say something without a cynical tone communicates to me that they have a non-informative agenda.
I'd rank CNN about just as bad as Fox using this metric.
While MSNBC may be ideologically biased at times, I find them the most tolerable in this respect. Even when their commentators are obviously "just doing their job" by going with the cues the producer gives them, they do it with a degree of thoughtfulness that is lacking in the other two networks.
I cant look at the BBC RSS feed without thinking either US news is incompetent or purposely burying world news. Either excuse is disturbing.
Option C: US news corporations do what they have to do to compete for ratings. With the American public the way it is, and with such a high barrier of entry into the national news market, the news companies have very little pressure to change.
Also, isn't the BBC somewhat publicly funded? So NPR would probably be a better comparison.
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So I suppose this falls under "programs"? Kind of dubious if you ask me.
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Here is some additional data, for those interested:
Binge Drinking by State
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_alc_con_bin_dri-health-alcohol-consumption-binge-drinkers
DUI Laws by State - notice how the binge drinking states have lower fines
http://www.1800duilaws.com/forms/statesduilaws.asp
Drunk Driving Statistics - notice how the high binge drinking states do not correlate to high percentage of drunk driving fatalities
http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html
In states where people don't drink as much, there are more alcohol related fatalities! Why? Because they can neither drive nor handle their liquor! (ducks)
If you ARE intoxicated, then you're a hazard and I hope (and trust) that either method will recognize you as the fool that you are. Drunk drivers deserve the convictions.
I'm going to defend the unpopular viewpoint here!
Most people drive more carefully when they're under the influence because they know the potential hazard... and usually it's at an hour when nobody's on the road to "hazard" anyway. So the hazard is getting caught.
I'd presume that the police would have no motive to pull over such cautious drivers, then, but it probably depends on where you live and how they view alcohol.
I guess it's easy to judge if you live in a dense city with public transportation, but believe it or not, millions of people drive under the influence all the time and don't hurt anyone. If they do, it's often themselves.
There are some states that have very high binge drinking rates when compared to the national average, and are more rural in nature. The inhabitants are more aware of their limits, have higher tolerance, and have absolutely no way of getting home. Because alcohol is such a part of the culture, designated drivers are few. A "designated driver" may have 5 beers instead of their normal 8 or 16.
It's just the culture, and probably as many people die in drunk accidents as regular accidents in these places. Being stupid is being stupid, and that involves knowing your limits and knowing who's driving.
If it isn't obvious, I'm from Wisconsin. We have the highest "binge drinking rate" in the nation. The only people I know who have "designated drivers" or "get cabs" are from out of state. I don't know anyone with a DUI or who has been injured in an alcohol-related accident. Mostly what I've heard of are single guys getting caught drifting off-road or hitting a tree. By far I hear about more teen-related shenanigans causing deaths and injuries.
Brick houses are expensive. Many "brick" homes just have a brick face to make them look fancy & expensive.
Yes, you can get a brick house. Or a stone house. But that will significantly raise the price, so it's more of a luxury option. Plus, all the interior walls are going to be wood anyway.
Not to mention, the OP said "easier, cheaper, faster". Brick is none of those adjectives compared to wood with vinyl siding.
You must be fun to hang out with.
This is exactly what I learned 12 years (or more?) ago when I played Sim City for the first time.
Maybe we should get these politicians a copy so they can see what happens when you jack up taxes - abandoned warehouses, skyscrapers, and houses. Whoops!
Until they make cash illegal.
You know the day's coming...
Due to statistical findings, we can safely assume you make more money than her. So don't feel too bad.
In the rare case you don't... well, I'm sorry you suck at life. :(
Congratulations on making it to middle management! You have successfully demonstrated your ability to offend the least amount of people and an uncanny inability to say "no".
Now that you have this position, it's time to start forming your own thoughts and opinions again before your underlings figure this out.
As a manager, you should be a leader. You should have opinions and be intelligent. But you should delegate important tasks to people wiser than you. You should respect them, even though they might have edgier personalities than you (you cool cool cat)!
Because the moment they find out that you have no backbone and no power, they're going to write you off as irrelevant. Which you are, but you must keep up their illusion. It's a tough line to walk, over that abyss of hopelessness, isn't it?
You know, I never had a problem with my guitar falling until I put strap locks on.
Maybe I'm just buying the wrong kind of strap locks. Sure, the locking mechanism works great, but the lock doesn't actually stay on the strap. It twists to clamp onto the strap, and just loosens over time...
My solution was to glue the locks so they stay on the strap.
Not to mention the other problem with the strap locks: the screws for the knobs seem to like coming out of the guitar. Ah well...
Posting AC so my wife won't hit me.
He is probably that guy who built the robot wife from the story yesterday.
+1 Informative
The article yesterday said that the robot, indeed, was programmed to slap people for misbehavior.
... cheaper.
Wow, I'm going to hell for saying that.
Considering that it only happens to those who are in mourning, it's much more likely that it's a phenomenon entirely within that person's cognition.
As others in this thread have noted, people tend to have a hard time readjusting to the true perception when their environment unexpectedly changes. I wouldn't say that New Yorkers seeing the twin towers is supernatural, so why would I say that someone seeing their dead pet is supernatural?
Moreover, what hallucinations are formed as part of our culture.
I once heard a theory that the Aztecs didn't even notice the Conquistadors' ships because they were so out of context in relation to the world the natives knew.
I seem to recall there once was an initiative to push ISPs to have local p2p caches or somesuch. Of course, they want nothing to do with that. Pretty sure I read it on /., but too lazy to find a link.
It all depends highly on the context. Language is not always black and white.
McDonald's and friends push the "sandwich" moniker since it's easier to include fish/chicken items while talking, and also it makes them sound fancier.
For most Americans, the term sandwich does not, by default, include hamburgers. However, the two are similar enough such that sandwich, when used in a broad context, can refer to any sandwich-like object.
For your second point, yes, sometimes "burger" may only refer to the patty. That is typically used in a grilling context. "I'm grilling some burgers. Did you bring the buns?" If you were to ask for a burger in a restaurant, you would get the entire sandwich.
Hope that helps!
If you ask John McCain, he'll tell you that Obama pals around with terrorists. Perhaps this was a case of national security!
No, he meant criminals and criminals.
For example, 'desegregated' means something like: something was segregated and now it ain't.
Fixed! Sorry, I heard that with a southern accent in my head due to the subject matter.
There are a grand total of zero people who have continued on after they died and communicated with us what happens. The evidence strongly favors the One Life Theory.
For Christians, there is a grand total of one. They think Jesus came back from the dead and talked to them.
When it comes down to how you want to live your life, do you want to live your life thinking you'll get a second chance after you die? Procrastinating and putting things off because this life doesn't matter as much? Not appreciating people and things to the fullest?
The "eternal soul" is a comfort to all who fear death and losing those they love, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Even if there is a soul, evidence suggests that once the body dies, it has absolutely nothing to do with our earthly lives. Which most likely means the same thing to your earth-bound ego: death.
So, the soul is irrelevant or non-existent. Occam's razor...
The older I get, the more I realize that nobody ever really grows up. Most people are still acting out insecurities that they developed when they were children.
Because space stations and shuttles are kinda like submarines for space. And we know how well the Russians do with submarines.
I fully recognize the MSNBC bias and admit it as much as I recognize the Fox bias. Both networks have some good shows, and some clowns. Just because I am liberal does not mean I don't see a biased show for what it is. I wonder though if conservatives can tell the same.
Ugh, in your own effort to be unbiased, you have equated MSNBC with Fox. Let me tell you what's wrong with Fox.
Fox is reactionary, sensationalist garbage. I don't care about their ideology. The fact that not one person on that channel can say something without a cynical tone communicates to me that they have a non-informative agenda.
I'd rank CNN about just as bad as Fox using this metric.
While MSNBC may be ideologically biased at times, I find them the most tolerable in this respect. Even when their commentators are obviously "just doing their job" by going with the cues the producer gives them, they do it with a degree of thoughtfulness that is lacking in the other two networks.
I cant look at the BBC RSS feed without thinking either US news is incompetent or purposely burying world news. Either excuse is disturbing.
Option C: US news corporations do what they have to do to compete for ratings. With the American public the way it is, and with such a high barrier of entry into the national news market, the news companies have very little pressure to change.
Also, isn't the BBC somewhat publicly funded? So NPR would probably be a better comparison.
Eh, let's just get rid of the licenses, and let everyone do whatever they think is best for their own person.
If I think Joe down the street is good at pairing symptoms with drugs, let both of us take a voluntary risk.
* U.S. Governmental departments, programs, and agencies on the federal level
* Federally recognized Indian Tribes (-NSN.gov domain)
* State governmental entities/programs
* Cities and townships represented by an elected body of officials
* Counties and parishes represented by an elected body of officials
* U.S. territories
So I suppose this falls under "programs"? Kind of dubious if you ask me.