It's easy to let somebody else's house burn, but when it's your own property going up it's a different story.
The really big, destructive fires here in Colorado the past few years have all been exaggerated by drought and short-term weather conditions. "Letting it burn" doesn't work in these situations; if you don't stop fires quickly, you wind up losing hundreds of houses, as we've been through several times recently.
Here is a 2008 report with statistics from NHTSA about accident causes. The number of ways they break down accident causes is kind of overwhelming, but there are a few interesting things you can extract. One of them is that "other vehicle encroachment from adjacent lane" is the "critical pre-crash event" in only 0.5% of accidents, while "travelling over the lane line" accounts for 10.8%."Turning or crossing intersection" accounted for 36.9%, and "travelling off the edge of the road" accounted for 22.2%.
When was the last time you actually counted as high as 507? I'm not talking about counting to 100 five times and then another seven, but actually counting each number from 1 to 507?
I tried it just now, but around 30 I got bored and started browsing the web instead.
Grandparent doesn't have a clue what chess is about. Anyone who thinks chess is just memorizing openings has never played it seriously. I spent about ten years playing in tournaments, getting up to a USCF expert rating, and never found it necessary to memorize much beyond a couple of move. Most games diverge from anything resembling any other recognizable game within the first 5 to 10 moves, after which the real fun starts. Strategy, tactics, positional play, endgames - this is a really wonderfully complicated game that most people can't handle, so they try to put it down as "memoization" (sic) or "a solved game". If you don't like it, that's fine, but you shouldn't try to comment on things you don't understand.
Remember, each game of chess means there's one less mistake to be made.:)
Getting a 10% commission on every book sold for that Kindle seems like a good deal for the bookseller. Note that they don't have to sell the book to the Kindle owner themselves.
Of course, the cynical response to this proposal would be "what independent bookstores?". Not many of them are left, so the few survivors might as well get what they can out of this.
It may have been "started by locals", but it quickly became a national cause. The anti-Morse campaign was funded by $500K of anonymous outside money by some organization that wasn't required to file campaign statements - sounds like the Koch brothers greasy fingerprints to me. If you live in Colorado Springs (as I do) you would find it obvious that the recall proponents were well-funded, since we got bombarded by negative anti-Morse ads. Morse lost by only about 350 votes (out of about 15000), so the Kochs actually spent over $1000 for each decisive vote. Since the turnout was so low, the activist loonies got a much larger share of influence - most of the Democratic side wasn't really engaged enough to bother voting in this off-year off-cycle election, hence the 20% turnout.
Good, we need an article about how Bloomberg and another billionaire tried to derail the NRA and Koch brothers funded effort to recall those two Colorado anti-gun rights state senators.
Fixed it for you.
Contrary to your misconceptions, this recall was about controlling the Colorado state Senate and threatening legislators, not just about gun rights. Also, the "grass roots" recall of Senate President John Morse drew only a 20% turnout, there were more petition signatures to put it on the ballot than votes to recall in the actual election, and about $100 spent by outside donors for every vote actually cast.
For my family, the biggest front-end problem is getting rejected for Medicaid. Once that's done (and it's required to get the tax credit), the rest should be simple, but the Medicaid application is blocking the road forward like a fallen tree at this point.
Bush didn't invent the Free Speech Zone. It was actually the democrats who first did that, at their 1988 convention.
Try the UC Berkeley administration in response to the student Free Speech movement in 1965. Backlash against this movement propelled Ronald Reagan to a political career, and half a century later, well, here we are.
I also think that every non-vegetarian should be willing to butcher an animal
Once per lifetime, or anytime a vegetarian requests it?
Back on topic, I had an allergic reaction to sodium thiopental during a surgery as a kid. I'm kind of happy (in a selfish way) that I won't be given it in the future.
IMO, capital punishment should be banned on grounds of practicality. It has large costs (including the anesthetic shortage) and few benefits (arguably it isn't even a deterrence, as it isn't reliably carried out).
For this profile, we mainly focused on two job categories as defined by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics: network and computer systems administrator, and computer support specialist.
So they looked at the two lowest-paying job categories out of the 8 defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and drew conclusions about the education levels of other six. Hmmm, maybe that's not the best approach...
Are the Feds going to stop harassing banks that accept marijuana businesses as customers? Currently, medical dispensaries have to operate as cash-only businesses, which leaves them vulnerable to robberies.
The movie industry is just moving from "All is Lost" to "Dark Night of the Soul". There should be a big resurgence in the movie industry soon. That's the way the plot has to go, right?
That's nothing, a year ago in this quarter they wrote down $6.2 billion for their acquisition of aQuantive. Who the hell was aQuantive, you ask? Beats me, I guess that was part of the problem. I guess Microsoft can't piss away their money fast enough these days, so they have to take a big bath every year on some stupid decision. I predict next year's writedown will be the XBone.
The problem with these statistics is that they don't count the victims recovered because of the alert. That's kind of like claiming that a tornado warning saved 50,000 lives because only 158 people were killed in Joplin, Missouri in 2011.
In another kind of mission creep, we recently got a Pet Amber Alert call at o-dark-thirty. Holy moly, if I actually found the lost dog they were looking for I'd probably keep it, as their owners are apparently dumber than their dog. The PAA people claim to be exempt from do-not-call lists because they're an "emergency notification service". Great. Turn your phones off at night, it's only going to get worse.
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It's supposed to burn.
It's easy to let somebody else's house burn, but when it's your own property going up it's a different story.
The really big, destructive fires here in Colorado the past few years have all been exaggerated by drought and short-term weather conditions. "Letting it burn" doesn't work in these situations; if you don't stop fires quickly, you wind up losing hundreds of houses, as we've been through several times recently.
I'm sure online businesses will be eager to add a tag that says "don't visit my site".
Here is a 2008 report with statistics from NHTSA about accident causes. The number of ways they break down accident causes is kind of overwhelming, but there are a few interesting things you can extract. One of them is that "other vehicle encroachment from adjacent lane" is the "critical pre-crash event" in only 0.5% of accidents, while "travelling over the lane line" accounts for 10.8%."Turning or crossing intersection" accounted for 36.9%, and "travelling off the edge of the road" accounted for 22.2%.
When was the last time you actually counted as high as 507? I'm not talking about counting to 100 five times and then another seven, but actually counting each number from 1 to 507?
I tried it just now, but around 30 I got bored and started browsing the web instead.
Some of us are not sheep, and are incapable of reacting as sheep.
90% of Americans think that 90% of Americans are sheep.
Remember, each game of chess means there's one less mistake to be made. :)
Of course, the cynical response to this proposal would be "what independent bookstores?". Not many of them are left, so the few survivors might as well get what they can out of this.
It may have been "started by locals", but it quickly became a national cause. The anti-Morse campaign was funded by $500K of anonymous outside money by some organization that wasn't required to file campaign statements - sounds like the Koch brothers greasy fingerprints to me. If you live in Colorado Springs (as I do) you would find it obvious that the recall proponents were well-funded, since we got bombarded by negative anti-Morse ads. Morse lost by only about 350 votes (out of about 15000), so the Kochs actually spent over $1000 for each decisive vote. Since the turnout was so low, the activist loonies got a much larger share of influence - most of the Democratic side wasn't really engaged enough to bother voting in this off-year off-cycle election, hence the 20% turnout.
Good, we need an article about how Bloomberg and another billionaire tried to derail the NRA and Koch brothers funded effort to recall those two Colorado anti-gun rights state senators.
Fixed it for you.
Contrary to your misconceptions, this recall was about controlling the Colorado state Senate and threatening legislators, not just about gun rights. Also, the "grass roots" recall of Senate President John Morse drew only a 20% turnout, there were more petition signatures to put it on the ballot than votes to recall in the actual election, and about $100 spent by outside donors for every vote actually cast.
For my family, the biggest front-end problem is getting rejected for Medicaid. Once that's done (and it's required to get the tax credit), the rest should be simple, but the Medicaid application is blocking the road forward like a fallen tree at this point.
Or there's (c) - turn off your phone before you start painting or mowing or whatever.
Bush didn't invent the Free Speech Zone. It was actually the democrats who first did that, at their 1988 convention.
Try the UC Berkeley administration in response to the student Free Speech movement in 1965. Backlash against this movement propelled Ronald Reagan to a political career, and half a century later, well, here we are.
I also think that every non-vegetarian should be willing to butcher an animal
Once per lifetime, or anytime a vegetarian requests it?
Back on topic, I had an allergic reaction to sodium thiopental during a surgery as a kid. I'm kind of happy (in a selfish way) that I won't be given it in the future.
IMO, capital punishment should be banned on grounds of practicality. It has large costs (including the anesthetic shortage) and few benefits (arguably it isn't even a deterrence, as it isn't reliably carried out).
Which, on looking deeper at the BLS info, represents only about a third of IT workers.
For this profile, we mainly focused on two job categories as defined by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics: network and computer systems administrator, and computer support specialist.
So they looked at the two lowest-paying job categories out of the 8 defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and drew conclusions about the education levels of other six. Hmmm, maybe that's not the best approach...
It never ends well.
Yes, businesses can evade all the regulations via fraud. So what?
Are the Feds going to stop harassing banks that accept marijuana businesses as customers? Currently, medical dispensaries have to operate as cash-only businesses, which leaves them vulnerable to robberies.
plans to jettison one of the magazine's most dated elements - a fondness for extraterrestrials and conspiracy theories.
They're just doing what their new insect overlords command them to.
They aren't stupid animals and this one figured it out quick.
1991, 1999, 2010. One attack every decade is "quick"?
the government using my private keys to sign a packet that I didn't create is substantially similar.
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The movie industry is just moving from "All is Lost" to "Dark Night of the Soul". There should be a big resurgence in the movie industry soon. That's the way the plot has to go, right?
That's nothing, a year ago in this quarter they wrote down $6.2 billion for their acquisition of aQuantive. Who the hell was aQuantive, you ask? Beats me, I guess that was part of the problem. I guess Microsoft can't piss away their money fast enough these days, so they have to take a big bath every year on some stupid decision. I predict next year's writedown will be the XBone.
John Henry won the battle, but lost the war. How is being outcalculated by a computer news? Just because it's a hard problem?
In another kind of mission creep, we recently got a Pet Amber Alert call at o-dark-thirty. Holy moly, if I actually found the lost dog they were looking for I'd probably keep it, as their owners are apparently dumber than their dog. The PAA people claim to be exempt from do-not-call lists because they're an "emergency notification service". Great. Turn your phones off at night, it's only going to get worse.