I'd certainly agree that there should be legislation to make cars safer. But then I'm not American and don't have a bizarre aversion to government.
And there is no universal health care, but my health insurance company doesn't ask me if I ride a motorbike / drive carefully / wear a helmet when I drive, it just charges more. Your health might not be of concern to the goverment, but it's of concern to me, and I can't affect it except via voting for the government that will enact the laws that make you have more concern for your health.
Oh, except I can't, 'cos I'm not a US citizen.
But if you crashed and became brain damaged, you would be very expensive to look after, and I (and a whole bunch of other people) are going to pay for that with our insurance premiums and taxes.
It's easy to lower them - every value gets lowered to $6.55. It's hard to raise them, because you have to put them back to the correct number.
I'd guess that was the case with raising / lowering. You might be able to raise/lower by a percentage, or a particular value, but maybe you can't lower everyone to the same value.
The Hispanic thing irritates me - I design and analyze goverment surveys, and we have to ask first, if people are Hispanic/Latino, or not, and then we ask their race: White, Black, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, etc. I kind of feel we should let them say that they aren't white, they are Hispanic, if they want to. Even if it's wrong.
The people who are Hispanic always tick 'other' under race, because they don't consider themselves white. Then when we write the report we have to talk about White-Non-Hispanic and White-Hispanics.
My mother called us mongrels when we were young, and said that we therefore had hybrid vigor (she was Canadian, with some Asian-Indian ancestry, but mostly British/Irish, my father was British, with some French ancestry, but that didn't really make us especially mongrelish, I realize now. Except maybe in the small town where we lived (in England). There was once a rumor that there was a Chinese kid in our school, but I never saw them. That was the limit of our ethnic/racial diversity. Quite a change from where my kids now go to school, in Los Angeles.
What makes you say that genetic differences exist between races? Although I'll agree that there are differences between sexes, there's little agreement on what even defines a race, never mind whether there's a difference. There is massively more genetic variation in people whose ancestry is African than the differences between all the other 'races' combined.
I moved to the US 18 months ago, from the UK, and I'm amazed by the money, and how user unfriendly it is.
All the notes are the same size and color - I stand at the head of the queueline at the checkoutregister, and take notes out of my wallet, one at a time, saying "Nope, that's a single; nope, that's a single; I'm sure there's a 20 in here somewhere."
Then there are the values. in the UK, coins range from 1p (~2c) to £2 (~$4). If you want to pay for something in a vending machine, there's a coin. Here, you've got to feed in a note, clean it, try again, give up with that note, try another note, etc, etc.
If it doesn't take notes, you've got to use quarters, worth about 13p. To do our weekly washing requires a small mountain of coins, which need to be jealously hoarded.
Then there's the size of the coins - why doesn't size correlate with value? Shouldn't a dime be bigger than a nickel?
And finally, there's the fact that none of the coins say how much they are worth on them. A dime? What's that worth than? I don't know, and I can't find out.
I think it stems from the fact that your parents were the type of people who unpacked everything, even when they were tired, and they passed their genes on to you.
People end up more like the people they share genes with than the people they share homes with.
California has more people.
California has more forcible rape, cars, whisky bought, etc etc etc. That's why, when people make comparisons, they use the per capita rate. That's the rate per person.
You'll notice, if you check that California comes 37th, as opposed to Alabama's 18th.
Whether you believe that it's a good thing or a bad thing is irrelevant to whether child benefit is 'the dole' or not. Child benefit's not unemployment benefit (and if you get unemployment benefit, the amount you get is reduced if you get child benefit.)
I'd be worried about other people. If someone who's using the software has a gripe against you / your boss / the company, it's very easy for THEM to report you to FAST or whatever. I've got a story about that, but I'd have to post as AC.
Seatbelts also lead to a shortage of donor organs - at least they did after the law was introduced in the UK. And dialysis is pretty expensive, if you only want to look from an economic perspective.
Well, I bought (second hand, fairly battered) toughbook for our 4 year old.
It lasted about 4 days, before the spacebar broke. Luckily, they don't use the space bar to either type randomly, or play games on http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/.
Well, kind of, but it's different from most Googlebombs, because the page is actually about French Military Victories, and contains that text, in bold. You won't find the text 'miserable failure' in George Bush's biography.
I've just moved from the UK to the US (with kids). Maybe it's where I am (LA) but I've seen no rules about taking photos (or not taking photos) of my, or anyone else's kids. Compare this to London, where my sister was not allowed to *draw* children in a park.
This is the first trial, which means it's a phase 1 trial. Phase 1 trials are not designed to demonstrate efficacy, they are to demonstrate safety. Whether it works or not comes next.
Not exactly what you asked for, but Bad Science has some great criticism of science reporting in the news - tends to have a UK slant, which might put you off.
Many of the commenters seem to know what they are talking about as well. (Just like another website we could mention.)
Really? They obviously do a better class of kayak in the US of A (assuming that's where you're from). I've got a Sevylor inflatable (sit on) canoe, and I'm too heavy for that (I bought it 'cos I thought it would motivate me to lose a few pounds. It actually claims a max capacity of 250lbs, but I think that includes a bit of luggage - it doesn't want it all in the same place.
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I think she was also pissed off because he didn't even include quotation marks to show what was him, and what was hers.
Toyota. They give you $200. Hence the title of the post.
I'd certainly agree that there should be legislation to make cars safer. But then I'm not American and don't have a bizarre aversion to government.
And there is no universal health care, but my health insurance company doesn't ask me if I ride a motorbike / drive carefully / wear a helmet when I drive, it just charges more. Your health might not be of concern to the goverment, but it's of concern to me, and I can't affect it except via voting for the government that will enact the laws that make you have more concern for your health.
Oh, except I can't, 'cos I'm not a US citizen.
But if you crashed and became brain damaged, you would be very expensive to look after, and I (and a whole bunch of other people) are going to pay for that with our insurance premiums and taxes.
I'd guess that was the case with raising / lowering. You might be able to raise/lower by a percentage, or a particular value, but maybe you can't lower everyone to the same value.
The Hispanic thing irritates me - I design and analyze goverment surveys, and we have to ask first, if people are Hispanic/Latino, or not, and then we ask their race: White, Black, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, etc. I kind of feel we should let them say that they aren't white, they are Hispanic, if they want to. Even if it's wrong.
The people who are Hispanic always tick 'other' under race, because they don't consider themselves white. Then when we write the report we have to talk about White-Non-Hispanic and White-Hispanics.
My mother called us mongrels when we were young, and said that we therefore had hybrid vigor (she was Canadian, with some Asian-Indian ancestry, but mostly British/Irish, my father was British, with some French ancestry, but that didn't really make us especially mongrelish, I realize now. Except maybe in the small town where we lived (in England). There was once a rumor that there was a Chinese kid in our school, but I never saw them. That was the limit of our ethnic/racial diversity. Quite a change from where my kids now go to school, in Los Angeles.
What makes you say that genetic differences exist between races? Although I'll agree that there are differences between sexes, there's little agreement on what even defines a race, never mind whether there's a difference. There is massively more genetic variation in people whose ancestry is African than the differences between all the other 'races' combined.
All the notes are the same size and color - I stand at the head of the queueline at the checkoutregister, and take notes out of my wallet, one at a time, saying "Nope, that's a single; nope, that's a single; I'm sure there's a 20 in here somewhere."
Then there are the values. in the UK, coins range from 1p (~2c) to £2 (~$4). If you want to pay for something in a vending machine, there's a coin. Here, you've got to feed in a note, clean it, try again, give up with that note, try another note, etc, etc.
If it doesn't take notes, you've got to use quarters, worth about 13p. To do our weekly washing requires a small mountain of coins, which need to be jealously hoarded.
Then there's the size of the coins - why doesn't size correlate with value? Shouldn't a dime be bigger than a nickel?
And finally, there's the fact that none of the coins say how much they are worth on them. A dime? What's that worth than? I don't know, and I can't find out.
Before new coins are introduced in the UK they do research to determine the best size for them, to help blind people (and others) distinguish between them. There's a PDF here, which very briefly describes some of it. (Sorry, it's a PDF, and that's the Google link).
People end up more like the people they share genes with than the people they share homes with.
Well, by that definition little is free (as in beer). But you're right, I should have said free at point of use.
It's the UK. Everyone can afford medical care, because it's free.
California has more people.
California has more forcible rape, cars, whisky bought, etc etc etc. That's why, when people make comparisons, they use the per capita rate. That's the rate per person.
You'll notice, if you check that California comes 37th, as opposed to Alabama's 18th.
Whether you believe that it's a good thing or a bad thing is irrelevant to whether child benefit is 'the dole' or not. Child benefit's not unemployment benefit (and if you get unemployment benefit, the amount you get is reduced if you get child benefit.)
I'd be worried about other people. If someone who's using the software has a gripe against you / your boss / the company, it's very easy for THEM to report you to FAST or whatever. I've got a story about that, but I'd have to post as AC.
What happens if you don't know what GTFO means?
Seatbelts also lead to a shortage of donor organs - at least they did after the law was introduced in the UK. And dialysis is pretty expensive, if you only want to look from an economic perspective.
It lasted about 4 days, before the spacebar broke. Luckily, they don't use the space bar to either type randomly, or play games on http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/.
Well, kind of, but it's different from most Googlebombs, because the page is actually about French Military Victories, and contains that text, in bold. You won't find the text 'miserable failure' in George Bush's biography.
I've just moved from the UK to the US (with kids). Maybe it's where I am (LA) but I've seen no rules about taking photos (or not taking photos) of my, or anyone else's kids. Compare this to London, where my sister was not allowed to *draw* children in a park.
This is the first trial, which means it's a phase 1 trial. Phase 1 trials are not designed to demonstrate efficacy, they are to demonstrate safety. Whether it works or not comes next.
Yeah, safe as in "Forty nine healthy people who went up in a space shuttle came back home fine, which proves it's safe".
Didn't you mean Digg?
Many of the commenters seem to know what they are talking about as well. (Just like another website we could mention.)
Really? They obviously do a better class of kayak in the US of A (assuming that's where you're from). I've got a Sevylor inflatable (sit on) canoe, and I'm too heavy for that (I bought it 'cos I thought it would motivate me to lose a few pounds. It actually claims a max capacity of 250lbs, but I think that includes a bit of luggage - it doesn't want it all in the same place.