I don't know if this trend is happening elsewhere, but many stores in my area charge a fee to use debit cards.
Some have a fee no matter what you owe. Some charge if it's under $x. Some don't charge at all, but it's becoming much more widespread.
I've gone from being a debit card whore (hadn't carried a bill in my wallet in about 5 years) to cash again because of this.
I wouldn't want to be forced to use my debit card and lose more money with every transaction just because I'm blind. There's not always another store a) nearby or b) carrying what I want.
I was under the impression that their numbers are low because they're counting civilian deaths that are caused by military operations. They're not counting the deaths that are a result of the civil war.
Yeah, great site for debunking. Reputable and impartial, indeed.
Canada has a similar site: Friends of Science. How cute a name, eh? About as reliable as Junkscience as well.
...but has not lost his voice completely. If you've ever listened to Robert Kennedy Jr. speak it sounds as though he's always about to cry, like he's really struggling to speak.
Cuba - communist DPRK - communist China - communist
Countries like Canada and many European countries might be labeled socialist with their vast social safety nets that are funded through increased taxes. The countries you mentioned are not socialist, they're communist and they're lead by dictators.
So you want to use an electronic voting machine. Why not have it also print out a paper record for each vote? Have the paper printout slide into a non-accessible, yet viewable window for the voter to approve/disapprove. If it's approved, it gets dropped into the mix. If not, it is shuttled into a junk pile and they re-cast.
You've now got your e-voting tallying votes quickly, and the paper trail should there be doubt cast upon the results.
How many times have you seen an interview with Dick Cheney where the "reporter" asks him about something he said in the past... he replies by saying that he didn't say [x]. The reporter moves on.
Later that night, TDS will show the interview, then go show the clip of the old interview where he said that which he denied. It's fucking ridiculous the passes that politicians get anymore.
As far as I know, it's the opposite now because of the season. Diesel prices are dictated through a different supply/demand sector than gasoline. Diesel prices through trucking, aviation, heating fuel, etc. and gasoline mostly through the general motoring public.
So in the summer when people are driving the most, the price of gas jumps while diesel generally falls. When the cooler months hit there's generally a drop in gasoline and diesel bumps up.
I often hear people comment that "you pay more for a litre of water than you do fuel" and it's a garbage argument.
If I buy 1L of water, sure that will cost more than 1L of fuel. However, I can buy an 18L jug of water at a cost of $0.27/L. I can get it even cheaper if I look harder.
Anyone remember how long it's been since gas was $0.27/L?
Look, it's very very simple. The terrorists hate us for our freedoms. Because of said hatred, they have attacked us. In order to prevent further attacks and to have the means to catch said terrorists, you are all going to have to give up a handful of your freedoms now.
It's the only way to defend those, um, freedoms that you are forced^H^H^H^H^H^Hallowing us to give up, on your behalf, a little bit at a time until the time comes that you have too little left to do anything about it. On the bright side, if it's true that they hate us for our freedoms, then they really should be loving us a little more with each passing day. Mission accomplished.
Because SUVs are generally useless. Families own minivans. I can't fault a family of 5 owning a minivan. It's not environmentally friendly, but it's functional and necessary. They'd not do so well with a car like mine (a smart fortwo).
SUVs (and the like), however, are generally seen carting around a single person, perhaps two who have perpetual hardons knowing they have one of the largest vehicles on the road. They're rarely taken off-roading because they're useless pieces of shit in that regard as well.
That's why I rag on SUVs. Oversized and impractical. And that's simply my POV.
An album these days is just a collection of 12-15 or so songs designed from the ground up for mass appeal and radio friendliness. Each song is its own entity with no relation to any other song on the album before or after it.
That's all well and good if you are into that sort of thing and enjoy making such music, but don't expect me to want to buy the whole damn thing.
Queensryche, Rush and Pink Floyd are three that immediately come to mind. While not every album of theirs are epic anthems, but many often told a story from start to finish. Some whole albums would have 4 songs at 14 minutes a piece. The theme or storyline was the entity in this case and the songs were used to tell it. In this case, I could see the artists wishing to sell the complete work... it's like buying half a painting.
I wasn't saying that the CBC was was far-left or far-right now was I? I merely suggested going to CBC's website, peruse the headlines, read a few stories and decide for yourself.
I most certainly have my own bias and my sig makes that fairly clear. But my political stance doesn't have me saying that CBC is some far-right piece of shit news source because they carry stories about Stephen Harper that don't paint him as the devil.
I may be a lefty, but I'm also quite sure that Harper is a much smarter and more capable leader than Bush. He didn't get my vote, but that doesn't mean he's incapable of doing something good or that I agree with.
When CBC carries a story that shows Harper in a good light, the more rabid leftists will be up in arms that CBC is far-right. Similarly, the rabid right will do the same thing when CBC carries a story that shows Harper in a not-so-good light.
Unlike many, I have a gray area. Harper can do right. I don't like him, but that doesn't mean everything he does is automagically evil because it was HE who did it. I won't agree with everything he does, but I surely won't trash him if I feel like he's doing a good thing like getting much tougher on crime.
My point was that there are people (both sides) who are so black-and-white that it's impossible to take them seriously.
No matter what Paul Martin, Canada's last Prime Minister, did, it'd have been bad. He could've cut personal and corporate taxes and the right would've bitched. It doesn't matter. Harper could increase social spending and there are those on the left who'd bitch... because they hate Harper that much.
I have no patience for those people. And that's the kind of person that I feel the original poster was.
What a surprising thing to hear from someone with a sig like yours.
There's no reasoning with people such as yourself so I would just suggest that anyone who'd like to make an informed decision as to whether or not Sir Redneck is spot on or not just visit the CBC website.
If a MECO spits everything that it sucks in back out again at light speed... then, wouldn't it do the same thing with light itself? Making them visible and directly observable rather than having to indirectly detect them through their interactions with objects around them?
As a rule, charities, religious organizations such as churches, educational organizations and other groups that are tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the tax code may not participate or intervene in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office.
I'm not an American, but that sounds to me like the church enjoys its income, all of it, tax-free... unless they violate the requirements of section 501(c)(3).
It may not be a cure-all and it may not cure the same condition in every person, but there are many examples like the ones above of people being cured. The beauty of the ones above is that I believe they were both cured using cord blood stem cells rather than embryonic stem cells which many express concern about.
As someone who has loved ones afflicted with three of the four conditions mentioned, I'm all for it.
I'm not religious. I don't believe that an embryo is a life. It's a collection of cells with the ability to become life if allowed to develop fully.
Please don't mod this as flamebait or troll. I'm not alone. This just happens to be my point of view and I believe that if cures and treatments may be found from such research I will support it wholly until the day I die.
It's been painful watching my Uncle deteriorate by the week. He's afflicted with ALS (Lou Gehrigs). I've attended the funeral of a six-year-old girl who died of leukemia. My uncle has lost his sight due to diabetes.
Those who oppose such research based on their religion, to me, are no better than those who deny life saving treatments to their children or themselves due to religious reasons. Religion makes people do things like this.
Why is it so hard to imagine that your God gave man the ability to do such things as a means to improve our lives?
I don't think anyone ever claimed that it couldn't be done.
It's a matter of time/cost.
I used to do on-site tech support for a variety of clients (home and small business mostly) and if you told them that the backup, format, reinstall worked out to be much quicker and cheaper than finding/removing harmful software/malware and cleaning the system out, they would, 99 times out of 100, choose to just back up their precious files and welcome a new clean installation.
I'm completely aware of the comparison with different storage... but my point was, albeit horribly made, was that I want an MP3 player that stores as much of my collection as possible.
So I bought the 30GB iPod.
I really couldn't care less what storage media is used on the device. I want as much space as possible for the money I'm laying down and the 30GB iPod clearly wins out over the 4GB Sansa. It's bigger than the Sansa but I'd hardly call it cumbersome.
If Sandisk is going on the offensive against iPods they will be competing with both Nanos and the hard drive versions as they were when I bought mine.
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I don't know if this trend is happening elsewhere, but many stores in my area charge a fee to use debit cards.
Some have a fee no matter what you owe. Some charge if it's under $x. Some don't charge at all, but it's becoming much more widespread.
I've gone from being a debit card whore (hadn't carried a bill in my wallet in about 5 years) to cash again because of this.
I wouldn't want to be forced to use my debit card and lose more money with every transaction just because I'm blind. There's not always another store a) nearby or b) carrying what I want.
I was under the impression that their numbers are low because they're counting civilian deaths that are caused by military operations. They're not counting the deaths that are a result of the civil war.
Yeah, great site for debunking. Reputable and impartial, indeed. Canada has a similar site: Friends of Science. How cute a name, eh? About as reliable as Junkscience as well.
...but has not lost his voice completely. If you've ever listened to Robert Kennedy Jr. speak it sounds as though he's always about to cry, like he's really struggling to speak.
Not to nitpick, but:
Cuba - communist
DPRK - communist
China - communist
Countries like Canada and many European countries might be labeled socialist with their vast social safety nets that are funded through increased taxes. The countries you mentioned are not socialist, they're communist and they're lead by dictators.
So you want to use an electronic voting machine. Why not have it also print out a paper record for each vote? Have the paper printout slide into a non-accessible, yet viewable window for the voter to approve/disapprove. If it's approved, it gets dropped into the mix. If not, it is shuttled into a junk pile and they re-cast.
You've now got your e-voting tallying votes quickly, and the paper trail should there be doubt cast upon the results.
How many times have you seen an interview with Dick Cheney where the "reporter" asks him about something he said in the past... he replies by saying that he didn't say [x]. The reporter moves on.
Later that night, TDS will show the interview, then go show the clip of the old interview where he said that which he denied. It's fucking ridiculous the passes that politicians get anymore.
Laws may not be applied retroactively, but pardons can be issued.
...the cause of, and solution to all of life's problems.
As far as I know, it's the opposite now because of the season. Diesel prices are dictated through a different supply/demand sector than gasoline. Diesel prices through trucking, aviation, heating fuel, etc. and gasoline mostly through the general motoring public.
So in the summer when people are driving the most, the price of gas jumps while diesel generally falls. When the cooler months hit there's generally a drop in gasoline and diesel bumps up.
You make a good point re: volume purchased.
I often hear people comment that "you pay more for a litre of water than you do fuel" and it's a garbage argument.
If I buy 1L of water, sure that will cost more than 1L of fuel. However, I can buy an 18L jug of water at a cost of $0.27/L. I can get it even cheaper if I look harder.
Anyone remember how long it's been since gas was $0.27/L?
Your governments have a message:
Look, it's very very simple. The terrorists hate us for our freedoms. Because of said hatred, they have attacked us. In order to prevent further attacks and to have the means to catch said terrorists, you are all going to have to give up a handful of your freedoms now.
It's the only way to defend those, um, freedoms that you are forced^H^H^H^H^H^Hallowing us to give up, on your behalf, a little bit at a time until the time comes that you have too little left to do anything about it. On the bright side, if it's true that they hate us for our freedoms, then they really should be loving us a little more with each passing day. Mission accomplished.
Because SUVs are generally useless. Families own minivans. I can't fault a family of 5 owning a minivan. It's not environmentally friendly, but it's functional and necessary. They'd not do so well with a car like mine (a smart fortwo).
SUVs (and the like), however, are generally seen carting around a single person, perhaps two who have perpetual hardons knowing they have one of the largest vehicles on the road. They're rarely taken off-roading because they're useless pieces of shit in that regard as well.
That's why I rag on SUVs. Oversized and impractical. And that's simply my POV.
An album these days is just a collection of 12-15 or so songs designed from the ground up for mass appeal and radio friendliness. Each song is its own entity with no relation to any other song on the album before or after it.
That's all well and good if you are into that sort of thing and enjoy making such music, but don't expect me to want to buy the whole damn thing.
Queensryche, Rush and Pink Floyd are three that immediately come to mind. While not every album of theirs are epic anthems, but many often told a story from start to finish. Some whole albums would have 4 songs at 14 minutes a piece. The theme or storyline was the entity in this case and the songs were used to tell it. In this case, I could see the artists wishing to sell the complete work... it's like buying half a painting.
Just my $0.02CDN.
His speech subroutines are really sub-par.
I wasn't saying that the CBC was was far-left or far-right now was I? I merely suggested going to CBC's website, peruse the headlines, read a few stories and decide for yourself.
I most certainly have my own bias and my sig makes that fairly clear. But my political stance doesn't have me saying that CBC is some far-right piece of shit news source because they carry stories about Stephen Harper that don't paint him as the devil.
I may be a lefty, but I'm also quite sure that Harper is a much smarter and more capable leader than Bush. He didn't get my vote, but that doesn't mean he's incapable of doing something good or that I agree with.
When CBC carries a story that shows Harper in a good light, the more rabid leftists will be up in arms that CBC is far-right. Similarly, the rabid right will do the same thing when CBC carries a story that shows Harper in a not-so-good light.
Unlike many, I have a gray area. Harper can do right. I don't like him, but that doesn't mean everything he does is automagically evil because it was HE who did it. I won't agree with everything he does, but I surely won't trash him if I feel like he's doing a good thing like getting much tougher on crime.
My point was that there are people (both sides) who are so black-and-white that it's impossible to take them seriously.
No matter what Paul Martin, Canada's last Prime Minister, did, it'd have been bad. He could've cut personal and corporate taxes and the right would've bitched. It doesn't matter. Harper could increase social spending and there are those on the left who'd bitch... because they hate Harper that much.
I have no patience for those people. And that's the kind of person that I feel the original poster was.
What a surprising thing to hear from someone with a sig like yours.
There's no reasoning with people such as yourself so I would just suggest that anyone who'd like to make an informed decision as to whether or not Sir Redneck is spot on or not just visit the CBC website.
If a MECO spits everything that it sucks in back out again at light speed... then, wouldn't it do the same thing with light itself? Making them visible and directly observable rather than having to indirectly detect them through their interactions with objects around them?
It's not often that I find myself literally laughing out loud while reading Slashdot, but that did it. Glad the mods rewarded it rightly.
From the IRS:
I'm not an American, but that sounds to me like the church enjoys its income, all of it, tax-free... unless they violate the requirements of section 501(c)(3).
Isn't the Bible the work of God?
Isn't everything the work of God in some manner or another? Doesn't that make all quests for knowledge suspect?
This woman is able to walk againis able to walk again after being paralyzed for 20 years due to an accident.
This boy was going to die before his 17th birthday from sickle cell anemia.
It may not be a cure-all and it may not cure the same condition in every person, but there are many examples like the ones above of people being cured. The beauty of the ones above is that I believe they were both cured using cord blood stem cells rather than embryonic stem cells which many express concern about.
As someone who has loved ones afflicted with three of the four conditions mentioned, I'm all for it.
I'm not religious. I don't believe that an embryo is a life. It's a collection of cells with the ability to become life if allowed to develop fully.
Please don't mod this as flamebait or troll. I'm not alone. This just happens to be my point of view and I believe that if cures and treatments may be found from such research I will support it wholly until the day I die.
It's been painful watching my Uncle deteriorate by the week. He's afflicted with ALS (Lou Gehrigs). I've attended the funeral of a six-year-old girl who died of leukemia. My uncle has lost his sight due to diabetes.
Those who oppose such research based on their religion, to me, are no better than those who deny life saving treatments to their children or themselves due to religious reasons. Religion makes people do things like this.
Why is it so hard to imagine that your God gave man the ability to do such things as a means to improve our lives?
I don't think anyone ever claimed that it couldn't be done.
It's a matter of time/cost.
I used to do on-site tech support for a variety of clients (home and small business mostly) and if you told them that the backup, format, reinstall worked out to be much quicker and cheaper than finding/removing harmful software/malware and cleaning the system out, they would, 99 times out of 100, choose to just back up their precious files and welcome a new clean installation.
I'm completely aware of the comparison with different storage... but my point was, albeit horribly made, was that I want an MP3 player that stores as much of my collection as possible.
So I bought the 30GB iPod.
I really couldn't care less what storage media is used on the device. I want as much space as possible for the money I'm laying down and the 30GB iPod clearly wins out over the 4GB Sansa. It's bigger than the Sansa but I'd hardly call it cumbersome.
If Sandisk is going on the offensive against iPods they will be competing with both Nanos and the hard drive versions as they were when I bought mine.