"Libertarians seem utterly clueless as to what real wilderness is, versus some piddly little recreational area like what you're talking about. If only every second landowner is interested in preservation, you'll end up with a patchwork of land, some preserved, some not, and nothing that resembles an ecosystem of scale."
Google Percival P. Baxter some time. He bought 201,018 acres of land for conservation purposes. And no, that land isn't patchwork.
Also there are numerous private conservation efforts which do make a huge difference such as:
I'm not an economist and I don't know for sure, but...One reason might be that in the memory market the product is always changing. While I might have wanted SDRAM 133 DIMMS at one point as a buyer I'm now going to want something like DDR 400 RAM. I suspect that this rapid rate of change makes it difficult for a futures market to smooth out fluctuations in prices as well as it is able to in other markets.
What is wrong with this world. Do the people reading this post and moderating it up understand what they are reading?
The PRK is covered with military installations. This JInterest states that we should use "strategic nuclear weapons against the PRK to destroy every military installation." Yes, because nuking a country of 22 million people is the right thing to do.
You think WWII was bad? I agree, it was. But if you start a nuclear war in this day and age things will be much, much worse.
"Never underestimate the instinct of most tyrants for self-preservation." Which is why North Korea would never use a nuclear weapon unless attacked to begin with. They would be utterly and completely wiped out. There wouldn't be half a dozen North Koreans left alive.
I still can't believe a post basicly promoting the genocide of a population of 22 million people has been modded up!
What is wrong with you people. I watched the movie the gray zone the other night and I was amazed at what people would go along with in those circumstances. I thought how did that happen.
But all JInterest had to do was say OMG there is a big scary guy over there and he's bad and might hurt us and people are willing to go nuke a country. WHAT THE FUCK!
Burn my Karma, I don't care. This needed to be said. Fucking Sheeple.
The threats of nuclear development are for three main reasons: intimidate South Korea and Japan; provide more material for propaganda and awe at the power of the state; and most importantly, as a bargaining device to use with the rest of the world (namely the U.S.) to secure more aid, avoid sanctions, etc.
Actualy I would have to say that the most important reason for them to develope these weapons is a valid national security reason. If they have these weapons nobody in Washington, Kerry, Bush, whoever, is going to attack North Korea. It would be MAD. Okay, maybe they don't have to have the ability to destory us if we attack them the way the russians had but they don't have to either. They just have to be able to hit Seoul or any single US city or maybe a carrier group or a Japanese city. If they have that ability then they are UNTOUCHABLE. The only thing they could do to incite an attack at that point in time is use one of them.
This is the thing that pissed me off the most about Bush's rhetoric. That we were going to war to stop the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction but by unilateraly invading a country without WMDs the only thing you end up doing is ensuring that WMDs do proliferate. Its the ONLY way to ensure that the US cannot attack you. Nukes are a Big Fucking Stick that say "Leave us the fuck alone or else!!" and we just proved that you had better have a Big Fucking Stick if you want to be left alone.
At this point in time the competition between banks for customers is incredibly fierce. If your bank doesn't allow you to use their site with Mozilla or Firefox you should definetly let them know that this bothers you; maybe even find another bank and let them know why you're leaving. The cost to design the web page correctly is minimal in comparison to losing customers. My bank's web site (I bank with Wells Fargo) has never had any problems rendering correctly in Mozilla or Firefox but I know that if it did they would hear from me and that if they didn't fix the problem they would lose a customer.
Maybe keeping it in a seperate plastic contair isn't that bad idea. Definetly better than some I've seen in some of the other replies. I'm picturing something like that tranlucent quarentine tent that they had in E.T. Maybe not practicle but then again if the smell is really that unbearable...
This is a ueseless piece of trivia but what the hell. Did all you Ewok fans out there know that there is an actual Lake Ewok? Its a little man made lake on Skywalker Ranch.
Funny sidenote to that. I lifeguarded for LucasFilm's Fourth of July company picnic there a year ago. Yup, I lifeguarded Lake Ewok. Anyway I got a Skywalker Ranch hat for doing that and every now and then I wear it. Last time I wore it out to dinner the waiter asked me if I was a moisture farmer! I couldn't stop laughing for the rest of dinner.
I don't get what you're saying. If MS does indeed produce a player that only costs $50 and holds as many songs then they will indeed put Apple in a bad position. Yes, people like the IPOD and are willing to pay more for it but not $250 more. This is assuming that the player MS is touting is comparable in size and function.
If thats true then thats really sick. Lets even assume that what the government says is true and that for security reasons they can't reveal what they were exposed to then the government should have them treated at a military hospital. It probably would have been cheaper than dealing with a lawsuit, too.
"I really don't think George Bush is holding satanic rituals underground with his nazi armys and the illuminati planning to take over the world and enslave humanity when ET lands."
The city is cool and Berkely has its good points. The San Jose area is known for being dull. I go to school out here so I don't worry about it to much, but when I get out and go job hunting it probably won't be around here.
"The cost of college in the 80s, cost of a house, cost of car, etc. all had "Skyrocked" since those lucky people in the 60s were getting jobs."
I didn't just say that they had gone up but that they had gone up as a percentage of income. We have to put a much higher percentage of our income towards buying a house and paying for school and paying taxes than earlier generations. This may have been true for your generation also.
My main reason for the post was that I had read a bunch of previous posts that were sort of "woe is me, I'm old" which irritated me. I didn't intend it as whining, I'm doing ok and I intend to "make it" anyhow.
But following what I said, the cost of a house, etc, being higher as a percentage of income it makes it hard to get started. Its not impossible, yet (Depending on where you live. The median home price in the county I live in (Marin, CA) is somewhere in the $600,000 range. I definetly won't be getting started here!), but it is I think getting harder.
I sometimes wonder what kind of struggle any children I have will face. The more people there are the more scarce things such as land will become; the problem is only going to get worse.
As to the higher insurance premiums, yes, I understand that they are based off of statistics but to say that they aren't disciminatory is wrong. Its a statistical fact that African-Americans are more likely to default on a loan than a Caucasian but banks can't charge them higher iterest rates because thats discriminatory.
Discrimination is basing a decision on what somebody is (Black, Female, Young, etc) as opposed to who they are (Driver w/ a clean record, individual w/ perfect credit, etc.) You can argue that the discimination against young drivers is legal (it is) and fair (that is debateable) but not that it isn't discrimination.
I never understood age descrimination. I've always sort of assumed that even in fast changing fields like high tech that experience would be a good thing.
If its because the older workers get paid more and won't work for less money then its a pay issue and not really an age discrimination issue. If you wan't the job that badly work for less; nobody owes you anything.
And before you think its just so much easier for us youngsters...
Age descrimination works both ways. I worked for a couple years in California at an orgization that would match 12% (Yes, 12) of your pay and put it in a 401K for you but they wouldn't do this for you if you were under 21. Thats age discrimination and apperently its perfectly legal.
Oh...Yeah, did I mention how much more us youngsters have to pay for our car insurance even if we have a clean record?
Or that the cost of college compared to the average income has skyrocketed making it much more expensive for us to get an education.
Or that the cost of a house compared to the average income has also been steadily increasing making it more expensive to get a foot in the door and buy a house.
Or that even with all of the above those of us starting out have to pay a higher percentage of our income in taxes making it harder for us to save up enough to put a down payment on a house.
Or how we have to pay tons of money into social security (a much higher percentage than previous generations) even though its possible (probable?) that we'll never see any of that back.
Dude, this is/. Most (no, not all, but most) of the people here are Americans. Given this, we all got dizzy and terribly confused the second you mentioned a third political party. And a Fourth! I, personaly, passed out after reading that. So please, for the safety of your southern neighbors, don't do that again.
The only terrorist attacks that come to my mind that happened in America somewhat recently are the 9/11 attacks and the Oklahoma City bombing. For a grand total of 19 terrorists. And this list brings up a 120,000 potential terrorists.
I would fucking hate to be on that list. These are going to be the people that can't fly because they're blacklisted, that can't get government jobs because they're blacklisted, or who knows, can't take out a mortgage because they're blacklisted. Even though the odds are overwhelmingly in their favor that they aren't a terrorist.
And what exactly do you have to do to get on this list? I mean you could say that Mr. McVeagh (sp?), the only American out of the aforementioned 19 terrorists, was an extremist libertarian...Do we suspect all of the libertarians? Its a sad time for a once free country when you seriosly have to consider what you register [to vote] as because you might end up on some list because even if you're peaceful they're not going to know that.
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"Libertarians seem utterly clueless as to what real wilderness is, versus some piddly little recreational area like what you're talking about. If only every second landowner is interested in preservation, you'll end up with a patchwork of land, some preserved, some not, and nothing that resembles an ecosystem of scale."
Google Percival P. Baxter some time. He bought 201,018 acres of land for conservation purposes. And no, that land isn't patchwork.
Also there are numerous private conservation efforts which do make a huge difference such as:
http://www.massland.org/pages/neartrust/mainlist.http://www.lta.org/index.shtml
I'm not an economist and I don't know for sure, but...One reason might be that in the memory market the product is always changing. While I might have wanted SDRAM 133 DIMMS at one point as a buyer I'm now going to want something like DDR 400 RAM. I suspect that this rapid rate of change makes it difficult for a futures market to smooth out fluctuations in prices as well as it is able to in other markets.
What is wrong with this world. Do the people reading this post and moderating it up understand what they are reading?
The PRK is covered with military installations. This JInterest states that we should use "strategic nuclear weapons against the PRK to destroy every military installation." Yes, because nuking a country of 22 million people is the right thing to do.
You think WWII was bad? I agree, it was. But if you start a nuclear war in this day and age things will be much, much worse.
"Never underestimate the instinct of most tyrants for self-preservation." Which is why North Korea would never use a nuclear weapon unless attacked to begin with. They would be utterly and completely wiped out. There wouldn't be half a dozen North Koreans left alive.
I still can't believe a post basicly promoting the genocide of a population of 22 million people has been modded up!
What is wrong with you people. I watched the movie the gray zone the other night and I was amazed at what people would go along with in those circumstances. I thought how did that happen.
But all JInterest had to do was say OMG there is a big scary guy over there and he's bad and might hurt us and people are willing to go nuke a country. WHAT THE FUCK!
Burn my Karma, I don't care. This needed to be said. Fucking Sheeple.
The threats of nuclear development are for three main reasons: intimidate South Korea and Japan; provide more material for propaganda and awe at the power of the state; and most importantly, as a bargaining device to use with the rest of the world (namely the U.S.) to secure more aid, avoid sanctions, etc.
Actualy I would have to say that the most important reason for them to develope these weapons is a valid national security reason. If they have these weapons nobody in Washington, Kerry, Bush, whoever, is going to attack North Korea. It would be MAD. Okay, maybe they don't have to have the ability to destory us if we attack them the way the russians had but they don't have to either. They just have to be able to hit Seoul or any single US city or maybe a carrier group or a Japanese city. If they have that ability then they are UNTOUCHABLE. The only thing they could do to incite an attack at that point in time is use one of them.
This is the thing that pissed me off the most about Bush's rhetoric. That we were going to war to stop the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction but by unilateraly invading a country without WMDs the only thing you end up doing is ensuring that WMDs do proliferate. Its the ONLY way to ensure that the US cannot attack you. Nukes are a Big Fucking Stick that say "Leave us the fuck alone or else!!" and we just proved that you had better have a Big Fucking Stick if you want to be left alone.
--HC
At this point in time the competition between banks for customers is incredibly fierce. If your bank doesn't allow you to use their site with Mozilla or Firefox you should definetly let them know that this bothers you; maybe even find another bank and let them know why you're leaving. The cost to design the web page correctly is minimal in comparison to losing customers. My bank's web site (I bank with Wells Fargo) has never had any problems rendering correctly in Mozilla or Firefox but I know that if it did they would hear from me and that if they didn't fix the problem they would lose a customer.
--HC
I know that this was meant as a joke but...
Maybe keeping it in a seperate plastic contair isn't that bad idea. Definetly better than some I've seen in some of the other replies. I'm picturing something like that tranlucent quarentine tent that they had in E.T. Maybe not practicle but then again if the smell is really that unbearable...
--HC
Shit. And here I was worried about the bloody contractors!
--HC
This is a ueseless piece of trivia but what the hell. Did all you Ewok fans out there know that there is an actual Lake Ewok? Its a little man made lake on Skywalker Ranch.
Funny sidenote to that. I lifeguarded for LucasFilm's Fourth of July company picnic there a year ago. Yup, I lifeguarded Lake Ewok. Anyway I got a Skywalker Ranch hat for doing that and every now and then I wear it. Last time I wore it out to dinner the waiter asked me if I was a moisture farmer! I couldn't stop laughing for the rest of dinner.
--HC
"But Hypercard was *perfect* for..."
:)
Only two letters away from perfection...
--HC
"Never underestimate the complexity possible from the emergent behaviour of single entities..."
Now thats advice to hold onto.
--HC
I don't get what you're saying. If MS does indeed produce a player that only costs $50 and holds as many songs then they will indeed put Apple in a bad position. Yes, people like the IPOD and are willing to pay more for it but not $250 more. This is assuming that the player MS is touting is comparable in size and function.
--HC,
If thats true then thats really sick. Lets even assume that what the government says is true and that for security reasons they can't reveal what they were exposed to then the government should have them treated at a military hospital. It probably would have been cheaper than dealing with a lawsuit, too.
--HC
"I really don't think George Bush is holding satanic rituals underground with his nazi armys and the illuminati planning to take over the world and enslave humanity when ET lands."
:)
I was with you up til that.
--HC
The city is cool and Berkely has its good points. The San Jose area is known for being dull. I go to school out here so I don't worry about it to much, but when I get out and go job hunting it probably won't be around here.
And SF really does have flavor and culture.
--HC
"But in the suburbs anyone can afford a decent-sized house."
Spoken like someone who's never experienced the bay area. Not that houses are cheap in S.F., but the surrounding area isn't any better.
--HC
You got to admit the Starbucks parody was freak'n hilarious though.
--HC
I was well into the next comment before that whole fruit thing hit me. That was slick.
--HC
"The cost of college in the 80s, cost of a house, cost of car, etc. all had "Skyrocked" since those lucky people in the 60s were getting jobs."
I didn't just say that they had gone up but that they had gone up as a percentage of income. We have to put a much higher percentage of our income towards buying a house and paying for school and paying taxes than earlier generations. This may have been true for your generation also.
My main reason for the post was that I had read a bunch of previous posts that were sort of "woe is me, I'm old" which irritated me. I didn't intend it as whining, I'm doing ok and I intend to "make it" anyhow.
But following what I said, the cost of a house, etc, being higher as a percentage of income it makes it hard to get started. Its not impossible, yet (Depending on where you live. The median home price in the county I live in (Marin, CA) is somewhere in the $600,000 range. I definetly won't be getting started here!), but it is I think getting harder.
I sometimes wonder what kind of struggle any children I have will face. The more people there are the more scarce things such as land will become; the problem is only going to get worse.
As to the higher insurance premiums, yes, I understand that they are based off of statistics but to say that they aren't disciminatory is wrong. Its a statistical fact that African-Americans are more likely to default on a loan than a Caucasian but banks can't charge them higher iterest rates because thats discriminatory.
Discrimination is basing a decision on what somebody is (Black, Female, Young, etc) as opposed to who they are (Driver w/ a clean record, individual w/ perfect credit, etc.) You can argue that the discimination against young drivers is legal (it is) and fair (that is debateable) but not that it isn't discrimination.
--HC
I never understood age descrimination. I've always sort of assumed that even in fast changing fields like high tech that experience would be a good thing.
If its because the older workers get paid more and won't work for less money then its a pay issue and not really an age discrimination issue. If you wan't the job that badly work for less; nobody owes you anything.
And before you think its just so much easier for us youngsters...
Age descrimination works both ways. I worked for a couple years in California at an orgization that would match 12% (Yes, 12) of your pay and put it in a 401K for you but they wouldn't do this for you if you were under 21. Thats age discrimination and apperently its perfectly legal.
Oh...Yeah, did I mention how much more us youngsters have to pay for our car insurance even if we have a clean record?
Or that the cost of college compared to the average income has skyrocketed making it much more expensive for us to get an education.
Or that the cost of a house compared to the average income has also been steadily increasing making it more expensive to get a foot in the door and buy a house.
Or that even with all of the above those of us starting out have to pay a higher percentage of our income in taxes making it harder for us to save up enough to put a down payment on a house.
Or how we have to pay tons of money into social security (a much higher percentage than previous generations) even though its possible (probable?) that we'll never see any of that back.
The Quotation at the bottom of /. after I read this article was:
"Is something VIOLENT going to happen to a GARBAGE CAN?"
I think there is more to that fortune program than is generaly acknowledged.
--HC
Dude, this is /. Most (no, not all, but most) of the people here are Americans. Given this, we all got dizzy and terribly confused the second you mentioned a third political party. And a Fourth! I, personaly, passed out after reading that. So please, for the safety of your southern neighbors, don't do that again.
Sincerly,
--HC
That one has always been my favorite.
"I'm more likely to be struck by lighting while being bitten by a shark"
I hope you're not all that much more likely. Because getting struck by lightning while you're being bitten by a shark REALLY, REALLY sucks.
Happy Surfing,
-HC
Dude, your sig....Never HIDE the evidence. You do that and they can find it. You have to DESTROY it.
Happy Denying,
--HC
The only terrorist attacks that come to my mind that happened in America somewhat recently are the 9/11 attacks and the Oklahoma City bombing. For a grand total of 19 terrorists. And this list brings up a 120,000 potential terrorists.
I would fucking hate to be on that list. These are going to be the people that can't fly because they're blacklisted, that can't get government jobs because they're blacklisted, or who knows, can't take out a mortgage because they're blacklisted. Even though the odds are overwhelmingly in their favor that they aren't a terrorist.
And what exactly do you have to do to get on this list? I mean you could say that Mr. McVeagh (sp?), the only American out of the aforementioned 19 terrorists, was an extremist libertarian...Do we suspect all of the libertarians? Its a sad time for a once free country when you seriosly have to consider what you register [to vote] as because you might end up on some list because even if you're peaceful they're not going to know that.
--HC