The base salary for legislators in California is $116,000 a year. I get what your point is, but I think cutting that to minimum wage would put a dent in anyone's pocketbook.
Are you kidding? The California public employees union is one of the most powerful special interests in the state. And they, among other interests, are one of the reason that the govenator has been so ineffective in enacting any reform measures.
The minimum wage thing is actually an improvement over what these clowns usually do every year when they utterly fail to pass the budget on time. Usually the state issues IOUs to it's employees which don't get paid of until the budget gets done. This year, they are talking about actually paying people something during the impasse and making up the difference when the budget gets passed. It's not a permanent salary change.
All this hysteria is just being generated by the democrats to use as leverage against the governor in the budget talks. It's all a bunch of political bullshit.
Is anybody else getting all nostalgic from these posts? I can remember having such arguments with my friends back in the day. Of course I moved past it shortly after my mid teens, but boy does this bring back memories.
Of course, one of the really great things about the Apple was the underground warez scene-- you could find just about anything on the various Catsends and AE dial up sites. It seemed to make for a much more dynamic computer than other computers had.
But without degenerating into the inadequacies of generalizations, the point is that for many Europeans it is easy to day trip to other countries cheaply, and it is also likely in day to day business affairs that speaking another language will be of some use. In the US this is not the case. The exception being that speaking Spanish can be useful in some areas.
As for your trip, visiting some cities and landmarks in the west and flying through NY and Chicago hardly makes your point. Other than the cities where you just at the airport, everything you note is within less than a day's driving distance.
Europeans in general don't understand this, and it's probably true for most of the rest of the world. From where I live I can make it to Mexico in about 12 hours of solid driving, or to Canada in about 20 hours, but in most places in the US it's a day or more of travel time to either country. In most of Europe you can be to another country in an hour or two. Now, I've lived in both Italy and Germany (for about a total of 5 years of my life), and when I'd be talking to people, they'd talk about wanting to travel to the US and all the places they'd like to see. Want to see LA, San Francisco, New York, New Orleans, Grand Canyon, Yosemite Valley, Yellowstone, etc., and expect they could manage this in about two weeks, which, by comparison, is like wanting to travel from Moscow to London and hit all the major points in between in that kind of time frame.
The reason why many Americans speak only one language or don't spend a lot of time in other countries is based in this. For a majority of Americans there is only one language besides English that is of any utility, and that is Spanish. I was once fluent in both German and Italian, but since I've been back in the US I have yet to run into a situation where I needed to speak either language. It's not like we can day trip to France or that most businesses can deliver finished products to a foreign country with a simple truck ride of 3 or 4 hours.
I did this for about two years when I was in my mid twenties-- riding 15 miles to/from work (30 miles round trip) down dirt roads and back alleyways on a mountain bike. And while it was a PITA at times, all and all it was an enjoyable experience. It was a great way to wake up in the morning, and a nice way to wind down after work, and I was probably in the best shape of my life at the time. I wish that I was able to do it now.
No, it means if you pay 35p with your credit card, you also have to pay another 45p to process the credit card for a total of 80p. If you pay nothing, there is no credit card processing and hence no credit card processing fee.
Actually, no. There was a credit card processing fee of.45 pounds. So strangely enough, if you opted to pay nothing, there was no need for a processing fee and thusly no charge. That way you could check out the music for free, and if you decided it was worth it you could then pay whatever you liked.
I'd say it's neither flip-flopping or learning from mistakes. It's pretty much just changing position in order to pander to a particular group that has needed votes.
Except this was just a "would've" spelled incorrectly as "would of". But frankly, I find all of this idiotic. There is no reason to maintain traditional spellings. Everything should be spelled phonetically, and then we could quit wasting our time on this crap. Just think of all the mindless drudgery our students would be saved from if they didn't have to learn to spell.
NASA has lost two shuttles, so the toll is 17, not 10, but it's a faulty comparison anyways. Armadillo has barely gotten off the ground where NASA has been putting people in to space for 50 years. More time + more missions = greater chance for accident. Let's talk when Armadillo has a few manned missions under their belts.
Except that the first aid artisan quest was open to everyone, and was required to level your first aid skill past a certain point. Healing classes don't particularly need to do it because they can heal themselves without the need for bandages that the other classes have.
While 3rd party candidates have little chance of winning, I'd say it does have a significant effect on things. An examples being the major 3rd parties which are considered conservative or liberal. The Green party, for instance, is an obvious choice for disaffected liberal voters. In close elections where the Democrats lose, and there is a significant Green party vote, a message is clearly being sent to the Democrats that they've alienated their liberal base enough that it's effected the outcome of the election. In 1992 the 3rd party candidacy of Ross Perot was supported mostly by disaffected conservatives, and Bill Clinton ended up being elected with only 43% of the popular vote, with Perot taking close to 19%. Clearly that sent the Republicans a message, and more than anything resulted in the "Republican Revolution" in 1994 where they took control of congress for the first time since the Roosevelt administration, by seeking out issues that their base identified with and running on those issues.
The fact that Dell and others are still selling computers with Windows XP is not a good sign for Windows Vista.
I don't think that it's quite the death knell that you make it out to be. Dell also continued to sell computers with Windows 2000 for a couple of years after XP came out. They do that because many of their customers don't want to make the switch right away because of issues with support, training, legacy apps, and concern over compatibility and stability issues in regards to a new OS. Even at that, the number of computers with Vista installed accounted for about 4.5% of the computers browsing the web, according to Net Applications. That isn't a small number of systems, and that percentage is rapidly approaching the numbers that OS X turns in, and is already larger than "all others". So in pretty short order, Vista is going to become the 2nd most popular OS, next to XP.
They are for a lot of people. If I want a computer at a decent price, with decent specs, that can handle web surfing, email, productivity, etc., I can pick one up with a keyboard at monitor for about $600. Or I can pick up a Mini without a monitor or keyboard, and with the last generation of CPU and video. Seriously, at the low to mid range, Apple just isn't there. The Mini sales are lagging because the specs are lacking at the price it sales for, and it's soon to be dropped by Apple. The mid-range system, the iMac, is a great design and a really nice computer, but it is not meaningfully upgradeable, and the choice of components is really limited. I have nothing against Apple (been using their products since the Apple ][+, off and on), but the limited choices in hardware don't meet the needs of a lot of people, from the underpowered Mini, to the one-size-fits-all iMac, do the high powered, high priced Mac Pro, they just don't have enough breadth and depth.
This isn't a college class requiring that I cite my sources. I expressed an opinion based on experiences I've had (I'm a vetran of the US Coast Guard). As I pointed out, the USCG was called the Revenue Cutter Service at one time, and I would have thought that the term "Revenue" would have clued you in to it's origin and purpose, and what department it would have operated under. Also, Customs and Border protection and the Secret Service, along with the CG, were part of Treasury, but are now part of Homeland Security. The ATF remains a part of the Treasury department, along with the IRS. To suggest the Treasury is not involved in search and seizure when it has long play a role in law enforcement is pretty silly, particularly when some of this information is provided in the links that you provided.
IANAL, and feel free to do your own research, but last time I looked this up, the case law broke down to the fact that the government was already doing this at the time of the writing and ratifying of the constitution, and that the lawmakers knew full well that such was the case. Legal desisions based on that suggested that search and seizure without warrant, specifically in cases covered by the jurisdiction of the treasury department having to do with the boarding and seizing of ships in US territorial waters, were not considered unreasonable and were therefore legal under the 4th ammendment. This was later extended to cover the search and seizure of vehicles at US international boarders (cars and trucks during prohibition), with, I believe, a supreme court case backing it up.
That's just off the top of my head, so I'm sure you'll want to fire up google and research the matter yourself.
It is a violation of the constitution, REGARDLESS of the fifth ammendment. The treasury department does not have the right to seize or freeze assets.
Don't know where you are getting this from, but treasury has had the right to search and seizure without warrant for well over two hundred years. It was initially instituted to prevent smuggling, and the US Coast Guard (then the Revenue Cutter Service) still conducts warrantless searches and seizures.
The hypocricy of Europeans is amazing. We've invaded more countires and participated in more military conflicts than any other country, have we? Did you forget about 600 hundred fucking years of European colonialism?
Biological organisms have kludges and legacy problems that put anything that humans have made to shame. It's something that the ID people seem to gloss over, but according to ID, the designer has to be pretty half-assed in a lot of his work.
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Buy a Mac, so that your stupidity doesn't damage your OS! Apple should start a new advertising campaign with that one.
The base salary for legislators in California is $116,000 a year. I get what your point is, but I think cutting that to minimum wage would put a dent in anyone's pocketbook.
Are you kidding? The California public employees union is one of the most powerful special interests in the state. And they, among other interests, are one of the reason that the govenator has been so ineffective in enacting any reform measures.
The minimum wage thing is actually an improvement over what these clowns usually do every year when they utterly fail to pass the budget on time. Usually the state issues IOUs to it's employees which don't get paid of until the budget gets done. This year, they are talking about actually paying people something during the impasse and making up the difference when the budget gets passed. It's not a permanent salary change.
All this hysteria is just being generated by the democrats to use as leverage against the governor in the budget talks. It's all a bunch of political bullshit.
Is anybody else getting all nostalgic from these posts? I can remember having such arguments with my friends back in the day. Of course I moved past it shortly after my mid teens, but boy does this bring back memories.
Of course, one of the really great things about the Apple was the underground warez scene-- you could find just about anything on the various Catsends and AE dial up sites. It seemed to make for a much more dynamic computer than other computers had.
Christians aren't the only ones pushing this claptrap.
http://www.harunyahya.com/
Seriously. They should take a note from 3drealms, whose shooter "Duke Nukem Forever" is going to be the most amazing FPS ever!
most =/= all
But without degenerating into the inadequacies of generalizations, the point is that for many Europeans it is easy to day trip to other countries cheaply, and it is also likely in day to day business affairs that speaking another language will be of some use. In the US this is not the case. The exception being that speaking Spanish can be useful in some areas.
As for your trip, visiting some cities and landmarks in the west and flying through NY and Chicago hardly makes your point. Other than the cities where you just at the airport, everything you note is within less than a day's driving distance.
Europeans in general don't understand this, and it's probably true for most of the rest of the world. From where I live I can make it to Mexico in about 12 hours of solid driving, or to Canada in about 20 hours, but in most places in the US it's a day or more of travel time to either country. In most of Europe you can be to another country in an hour or two. Now, I've lived in both Italy and Germany (for about a total of 5 years of my life), and when I'd be talking to people, they'd talk about wanting to travel to the US and all the places they'd like to see. Want to see LA, San Francisco, New York, New Orleans, Grand Canyon, Yosemite Valley, Yellowstone, etc., and expect they could manage this in about two weeks, which, by comparison, is like wanting to travel from Moscow to London and hit all the major points in between in that kind of time frame.
The reason why many Americans speak only one language or don't spend a lot of time in other countries is based in this. For a majority of Americans there is only one language besides English that is of any utility, and that is Spanish. I was once fluent in both German and Italian, but since I've been back in the US I have yet to run into a situation where I needed to speak either language. It's not like we can day trip to France or that most businesses can deliver finished products to a foreign country with a simple truck ride of 3 or 4 hours.
I did this for about two years when I was in my mid twenties-- riding 15 miles to/from work (30 miles round trip) down dirt roads and back alleyways on a mountain bike. And while it was a PITA at times, all and all it was an enjoyable experience. It was a great way to wake up in the morning, and a nice way to wind down after work, and I was probably in the best shape of my life at the time. I wish that I was able to do it now.
No, it means if you pay 35p with your credit card, you also have to pay another 45p to process the credit card for a total of 80p. If you pay nothing, there is no credit card processing and hence no credit card processing fee.
Actually, no. There was a credit card processing fee of .45 pounds. So strangely enough, if you opted to pay nothing, there was no need for a processing fee and thusly no charge. That way you could check out the music for free, and if you decided it was worth it you could then pay whatever you liked.
I'd say it's neither flip-flopping or learning from mistakes. It's pretty much just changing position in order to pander to a particular group that has needed votes.
Except this was just a "would've" spelled incorrectly as "would of". But frankly, I find all of this idiotic. There is no reason to maintain traditional spellings. Everything should be spelled phonetically, and then we could quit wasting our time on this crap. Just think of all the mindless drudgery our students would be saved from if they didn't have to learn to spell.
NASA has lost two shuttles, so the toll is 17, not 10, but it's a faulty comparison anyways. Armadillo has barely gotten off the ground where NASA has been putting people in to space for 50 years. More time + more missions = greater chance for accident. Let's talk when Armadillo has a few manned missions under their belts.
Except that the first aid artisan quest was open to everyone, and was required to level your first aid skill past a certain point. Healing classes don't particularly need to do it because they can heal themselves without the need for bandages that the other classes have.
While 3rd party candidates have little chance of winning, I'd say it does have a significant effect on things. An examples being the major 3rd parties which are considered conservative or liberal. The Green party, for instance, is an obvious choice for disaffected liberal voters. In close elections where the Democrats lose, and there is a significant Green party vote, a message is clearly being sent to the Democrats that they've alienated their liberal base enough that it's effected the outcome of the election. In 1992 the 3rd party candidacy of Ross Perot was supported mostly by disaffected conservatives, and Bill Clinton ended up being elected with only 43% of the popular vote, with Perot taking close to 19%. Clearly that sent the Republicans a message, and more than anything resulted in the "Republican Revolution" in 1994 where they took control of congress for the first time since the Roosevelt administration, by seeking out issues that their base identified with and running on those issues.
And another big bonus is that you don't have to worry about virus protection. Not like those skanky virus ridden PCs.
I don't think that it's quite the death knell that you make it out to be. Dell also continued to sell computers with Windows 2000 for a couple of years after XP came out. They do that because many of their customers don't want to make the switch right away because of issues with support, training, legacy apps, and concern over compatibility and stability issues in regards to a new OS. Even at that, the number of computers with Vista installed accounted for about 4.5% of the computers browsing the web, according to Net Applications. That isn't a small number of systems, and that percentage is rapidly approaching the numbers that OS X turns in, and is already larger than "all others". So in pretty short order, Vista is going to become the 2nd most popular OS, next to XP.
They are for a lot of people. If I want a computer at a decent price, with decent specs, that can handle web surfing, email, productivity, etc., I can pick one up with a keyboard at monitor for about $600. Or I can pick up a Mini without a monitor or keyboard, and with the last generation of CPU and video. Seriously, at the low to mid range, Apple just isn't there. The Mini sales are lagging because the specs are lacking at the price it sales for, and it's soon to be dropped by Apple. The mid-range system, the iMac, is a great design and a really nice computer, but it is not meaningfully upgradeable, and the choice of components is really limited. I have nothing against Apple (been using their products since the Apple ][+, off and on), but the limited choices in hardware don't meet the needs of a lot of people, from the underpowered Mini, to the one-size-fits-all iMac, do the high powered, high priced Mac Pro, they just don't have enough breadth and depth.
This isn't a college class requiring that I cite my sources. I expressed an opinion based on experiences I've had (I'm a vetran of the US Coast Guard). As I pointed out, the USCG was called the Revenue Cutter Service at one time, and I would have thought that the term "Revenue" would have clued you in to it's origin and purpose, and what department it would have operated under. Also, Customs and Border protection and the Secret Service, along with the CG, were part of Treasury, but are now part of Homeland Security. The ATF remains a part of the Treasury department, along with the IRS. To suggest the Treasury is not involved in search and seizure when it has long play a role in law enforcement is pretty silly, particularly when some of this information is provided in the links that you provided.
IANAL, and feel free to do your own research, but last time I looked this up, the case law broke down to the fact that the government was already doing this at the time of the writing and ratifying of the constitution, and that the lawmakers knew full well that such was the case. Legal desisions based on that suggested that search and seizure without warrant, specifically in cases covered by the jurisdiction of the treasury department having to do with the boarding and seizing of ships in US territorial waters, were not considered unreasonable and were therefore legal under the 4th ammendment. This was later extended to cover the search and seizure of vehicles at US international boarders (cars and trucks during prohibition), with, I believe, a supreme court case backing it up.
That's just off the top of my head, so I'm sure you'll want to fire up google and research the matter yourself.
Don't know where you are getting this from, but treasury has had the right to search and seizure without warrant for well over two hundred years. It was initially instituted to prevent smuggling, and the US Coast Guard (then the Revenue Cutter Service) still conducts warrantless searches and seizures.
The hypocricy of Europeans is amazing. We've invaded more countires and participated in more military conflicts than any other country, have we? Did you forget about 600 hundred fucking years of European colonialism?
Biological organisms have kludges and legacy problems that put anything that humans have made to shame. It's something that the ID people seem to gloss over, but according to ID, the designer has to be pretty half-assed in a lot of his work.