I don't know of any popular arab female singers warbling "I'm a towelhead woman!" Not to venture too far off the topic, but if you think the use of a pejorative by those whom the pejorative has been typically used against makes it less of a pejorative, I highly recommend you try saying the N-word to a group of urban youths espically after you hear them call each other that repeatedly.
I think you need XP Pro - you can't downgrade to XP Home... but I could be wrong (Vista Home->XP Home? I know Vista Buziness+ -> XP Pro). According to Microsoft the only copies that let you downgrade are Vista Business and Vista Ultimate, there is no downgrade rights w/ Vista Home.
All earnings from property are taxed. What is the difference here? You don't have to earn any money from real property for it to be taxed. Last time I checked the contents of the Disney vault wasn't taxed even though it enjoys the protection of US copyright law.
There really should be a law that all vendors must state clearly in any advertisement what the main country of manufacture of their goods actually is. By Jingo, you're right there ought to be a law!
9T in private citizens savings is HUGE no matter how you look at it. Now is that in real yen(or other currency)? Or is that in the value of Japanese real-estate held by the private citizens(b/c the Japanese have had some crazy ideas about how much money their little islands are worth)?
. My blue-collar neighbors still have 2 - 3 vehicles in their driveways...Lots of SUVs are still carting fat asses to work at various non-union machine shops and department stores on the other side of town. Well I don't know where you live but in my neck of the woods one of those SUVs in the driveway has a for sale sign on it. And is it your supposition that only non-union workers drive SUVs? But, if you're going to subsidize low-energy travel don't forget us poor bastards on bicycles. Only if you promise to remember that stop signs apply to you as well.
But again, no one bothers questioning his opponent on this issue, because already they know how corrupt and unaccountable he's become. Umm, no his opponent hasn't built a cult of personality around himself based on a belief that only He can change the system. I expect Obama will vote present, should he be there when the Senate votes.
If they sell Yahoo it has to be in whole or they will waste the total value of the company for a very small one-time gain. That's the modus operandi of Carl Icahn see TWA circa 1985. Btw calling him an activist investor is like calling Genghis Khan an activist equestrian.
Whoa, are we lining up to pledge allegiance to the new king? I thought we were voting to choose a president. The president is supposed to run one branch of the government, not the entire country. Remember, unless you work for some federal agency the president is not your boss -- as a civilian you outrank him and he is your employee. Cool, so as his boss I can order him to give me a ride on his really cool jet? I can get in touch with him anytime I want during regular working hours? If the answers to these questions is no, then I am not his boss.
As for laughing at activists, the only people I've met who consider that worthwhile are people who haven't done anything good and decent with their lives, and resent people who have. But whatever, go denigrate people who've dedicated their lives to making the world a better place if that helps you sleep at night. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Sometimes today's activist was yesterday's puritan, so it is totally acceptable to laugh at, just like it is totally acceptable to lecture someone on the internet for a tiny little bit of schedenfreude.
He explains, "Part of this inattention blindness shuts down their own processing and their own assessment of how well they're driving. So they themselves are not as aware of their driving performance while they're using a cell phone."'
I believe this is true of all drivers with or without cellphone, after all have you met anyone who considered themselves to be a below average driver?
Did you even consider the possibility that maybe the other guy might have been a crazy moron? Especially considering the fact that the other guy was tailgating the OP before the high-speed road-rage chase... Once, maybe. Twice, seems less likely, The simplier explanation would be that perhaps the whole "I shall not move out of the way of people looking to go faster in the left lane when I can," is the problem. Remember it takes two cars to have a high speed chase through a metropolitan area. What, so being threatened with physical violence immediately implies that you were in the wrong? Since the incident(as described by the parent poster) involved several levels of escalation neither party was in the right. What sort of twisted logic is that? The same logic that disallows dueling b/c your honor has been offended. But hey when the parent poster is eating catfood after a wrongful death suit perhaps he'll reflect on this advice, "Slower traffic, keep right."
Efforts to regulate carbon dioxide are an attempt by the global Left to gain control of the U.S. economy. lolwut?
What do you think happens when you structure global CO2 agreements in a way to send all manufacturing to the 3rd world? Some greens are watermelons, and really don't care about the polar bears.
But in reality we all know it's for power, or money or land, or oil, or It is a sad state of events, and "We the People" are powerless to change it, because if we did rise up and revolt, who would we place in power? Wouldn't they just become the same thing that is power now? Congrats, you discovered the will to power, and now you get the joy of trying to reconcile the many different wills to power to create a least bad scenario.
Yet after the first incident you didn't think wow, maybe if I had moved over then there wouldn't have been a high speed chase through downtown Seattle? I am a polite and courteous driver, but I don't feel the need to yield to assholes. Newsflash you aren't, if you were you probably wouldn't have been chased down twice. I'm 60+ years old with grey hair, Too bad age!= wisdom. HTH.
No, i meant the Spitzer who had balls and who kicked the asses of Large Banks for you and me and made them realize there is a larger power than themselves.
I didn't mean the dad who chickened out on fighting in Vietnam and who made sure his under-age daughters dranl alcohol to their hearts content and made sure daddy was there to bail them out. Well, after he did that he did the drivers license thing which pissed everybody off. Though that was a nice non sequitur about Bush, to prove I'm not a partisan hack, I'll add my own the 43rd president's grandfather worked w/ the Nazis. However, that doesn't change the fact that Elliot was no saint and pride goes before a fall.
The conservative justices are supposed to have a strict constructionist reading of the constitution...I don't know how you can read the Constitution and come to the decision the four dissenting justices came to. Just to play devil's advocate, something along the lines of these suspects don't fall under the "We the people of the United States..." ergo have no protection under said Constitution. Just a thought
And don't expect Pelosi or Dems to support Obama. They will let him dry out just like the way they refused to help Spitzer. You mean Emperor Spitzer who pissed in the face of his own legislature when he couldn't get his way over the drivers' licenses? Or is there another Democratic Spitzer left high and dry I am unaware of?
The ideological purity tests are killing the party just like they killed the Republicans in the late 80s. Last time they (the Democrates) put up a candidate with lots of experience but virtually no charisma they lost. So that's why they put up a cult of personality figure like Obama, experience be damned, and following any other Republican incumbent this election wouldn't even be close. However, with approval and right track vs wrong track ratings this low anybody who isn't outright crazy(sorry Gravel and Kucinich) has a pretty good shot.
If you could snap your fingers and convert every automotive vehicle to fully electric in one day, you would then have a really hard time getting all the gigawatts to supply all those "electro-stations". But that's another issue... Oh it's worse than that petrol has an energy density of 131 MJ/gal or 36.4 kWh per US gallon. So take a filling speed of approx 10 sec/ gallon of gas and you get 3.64 kWh of energy placed into your car per second at the filling station, now try that with electricity. Here I'll even drop the number to 30% to make up for the petrol engines inefficiency. That's still 1.09 kWh/s you would need to deliver(assuming 100% effieceny of motor). So that 93% charger efficiency (your wiki link) means you have to dissipate 0.0763 kWh/s while filling your electric car.
Personally, I think we should all refrain from offering any arguments in favor of plastic. So are you voluteering to test out the new ceramic IV tubing?
As a side note, I do think the tendency for westerners to buy bananas out of habit is a disease. People have written essays and even books on why fruits and vetegables should be bought local, and then, only when in season. Strange that, I do think the tendency for westerners to tell people how to live is a far more virulent disease.
Looking from Europe, your laws on public appearance of boobs already has something ridiculous, and DOES prevent the spread of some cultural items. Your practice of death penalty also looks like an anachronism.
But with Sarkozy as a president, I am taunting you while I can Oh, feel free to go on making fun of the US death penalty practices, most in the US don't care(esp when attacked by Napoleonic Code countries). As for the boobs thing have you seen the average american women recently? What started out as a relic of the puritanical founders has turned into a really good idea w/ obesity rates where they are.
Except of course the slight problem that a berserker would keep fighting for a minute or two even with six '45 slugs in his chest You do realize the army switched from the 0.38 rounds to the 0.45 slugs due to their superior knock someone down so they don't get up right?
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I don't know of any popular arab female singers warbling "I'm a towelhead woman!"
Not to venture too far off the topic, but if you think the use of a pejorative by those whom the pejorative has been typically used against makes it less of a pejorative, I highly recommend you try saying the N-word to a group of urban youths espically after you hear them call each other that repeatedly.
I think you need XP Pro - you can't downgrade to XP Home... but I could be wrong (Vista Home->XP Home? I know Vista Buziness+ -> XP Pro).
According to Microsoft the only copies that let you downgrade are Vista Business and Vista Ultimate, there is no downgrade rights w/ Vista Home.
All earnings from property are taxed. What is the difference here?
You don't have to earn any money from real property for it to be taxed. Last time I checked the contents of the Disney vault wasn't taxed even though it enjoys the protection of US copyright law.
Are they *all* wrong about their business?
Have been in the past see Sony v. Universal Pictures for an example.
There really should be a law that all vendors must state clearly in any advertisement what the main country of manufacture of their goods actually is.
By Jingo, you're right there ought to be a law!
9T in private citizens savings is HUGE no matter how you look at it.
Now is that in real yen(or other currency)? Or is that in the value of Japanese real-estate held by the private citizens(b/c the Japanese have had some crazy ideas about how much money their little islands are worth)?
. My blue-collar neighbors still have 2 - 3 vehicles in their driveways...Lots of SUVs are still carting fat asses to work at various non-union machine shops and department stores on the other side of town.
Well I don't know where you live but in my neck of the woods one of those SUVs in the driveway has a for sale sign on it. And is it your supposition that only non-union workers drive SUVs?
But, if you're going to subsidize low-energy travel don't forget us poor bastards on bicycles.
Only if you promise to remember that stop signs apply to you as well.
But again, no one bothers questioning his opponent on this issue, because already they know how corrupt and unaccountable he's become.
Umm, no his opponent hasn't built a cult of personality around himself based on a belief that only He can change the system. I expect Obama will vote present, should he be there when the Senate votes.
If they sell Yahoo it has to be in whole or they will waste the total value of the company for a very small one-time gain.
That's the modus operandi of Carl Icahn see TWA circa 1985. Btw calling him an activist investor is like calling Genghis Khan an activist equestrian.
Whoa, are we lining up to pledge allegiance to the new king? I thought we were voting to choose a president. The president is supposed to run one branch of the government, not the entire country. Remember, unless you work for some federal agency the president is not your boss -- as a civilian you outrank him and he is your employee.
Cool, so as his boss I can order him to give me a ride on his really cool jet? I can get in touch with him anytime I want during regular working hours? If the answers to these questions is no, then I am not his boss.
As for laughing at activists, the only people I've met who consider that worthwhile are people who haven't done anything good and decent with their lives, and resent people who have. But whatever, go denigrate people who've dedicated their lives to making the world a better place if that helps you sleep at night.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Sometimes today's activist was yesterday's puritan, so it is totally acceptable to laugh at, just like it is totally acceptable to lecture someone on the internet for a tiny little bit of schedenfreude.
He explains, "Part of this inattention blindness shuts down their own processing and their own assessment of how well they're driving. So they themselves are not as aware of their driving performance while they're using a cell phone."'
I believe this is true of all drivers with or without cellphone, after all have you met anyone who considered themselves to be a below average driver?
Did you even consider the possibility that maybe the other guy might have been a crazy moron? Especially considering the fact that the other guy was tailgating the OP before the high-speed road-rage chase ...
Once, maybe. Twice, seems less likely, The simplier explanation would be that perhaps the whole "I shall not move out of the way of people looking to go faster in the left lane when I can," is the problem. Remember it takes two cars to have a high speed chase through a metropolitan area.
What, so being threatened with physical violence immediately implies that you were in the wrong?
Since the incident(as described by the parent poster) involved several levels of escalation neither party was in the right.
What sort of twisted logic is that?
The same logic that disallows dueling b/c your honor has been offended. But hey when the parent poster is eating catfood after a wrongful death suit perhaps he'll reflect on this advice, "Slower traffic, keep right."
Efforts to regulate carbon dioxide are an attempt by the global Left to gain control of the U.S. economy.
lolwut?
What do you think happens when you structure global CO2 agreements in a way to send all manufacturing to the 3rd world? Some greens are watermelons, and really don't care about the polar bears.
But in reality we all know it's for power, or money or land, or oil, or It is a sad state of events, and "We the People" are powerless to change it, because if we did rise up and revolt, who would we place in power? Wouldn't they just become the same thing that is power now?
Congrats, you discovered the will to power, and now you get the joy of trying to reconcile the many different wills to power to create a least bad scenario.
Yet after the first incident you didn't think wow, maybe if I had moved over then there wouldn't have been a high speed chase through downtown Seattle?
I am a polite and courteous driver, but I don't feel the need to yield to assholes.
Newsflash you aren't, if you were you probably wouldn't have been chased down twice. I'm 60+ years old with grey hair,
Too bad age!= wisdom. HTH.
No, i meant the Spitzer who had balls and who kicked the asses of Large Banks for you and me and made them realize there is a larger power than themselves. I didn't mean the dad who chickened out on fighting in Vietnam and who made sure his under-age daughters dranl alcohol to their hearts content and made sure daddy was there to bail them out.
Well, after he did that he did the drivers license thing which pissed everybody off. Though that was a nice non sequitur about Bush, to prove I'm not a partisan hack, I'll add my own the 43rd president's grandfather worked w/ the Nazis. However, that doesn't change the fact that Elliot was no saint and pride goes before a fall.
The conservative justices are supposed to have a strict constructionist reading of the constitution...I don't know how you can read the Constitution and come to the decision the four dissenting justices came to.
Just to play devil's advocate, something along the lines of these suspects don't fall under the "We the people of the United States..." ergo have no protection under said Constitution. Just a thought
And don't expect Pelosi or Dems to support Obama. They will let him dry out just like the way they refused to help Spitzer.
You mean Emperor Spitzer who pissed in the face of his own legislature when he couldn't get his way over the drivers' licenses? Or is there another Democratic Spitzer left high and dry I am unaware of?
The ideological purity tests are killing the party just like they killed the Republicans in the late 80s.
Last time they (the Democrates) put up a candidate with lots of experience but virtually no charisma they lost. So that's why they put up a cult of personality figure like Obama, experience be damned, and following any other Republican incumbent this election wouldn't even be close. However, with approval and right track vs wrong track ratings this low anybody who isn't outright crazy(sorry Gravel and Kucinich) has a pretty good shot.
If you could snap your fingers and convert every automotive vehicle to fully electric in one day, you would then have a really hard time getting all the gigawatts to supply all those "electro-stations". But that's another issue...
Oh it's worse than that petrol has an energy density of 131 MJ/gal or 36.4 kWh per US gallon. So take a filling speed of approx 10 sec/ gallon of gas and you get 3.64 kWh of energy placed into your car per second at the filling station, now try that with electricity. Here I'll even drop the number to 30% to make up for the petrol engines inefficiency. That's still 1.09 kWh/s you would need to deliver(assuming 100% effieceny of motor). So that 93% charger efficiency (your wiki link) means you have to dissipate 0.0763 kWh/s while filling your electric car.
Personally, I think we should all refrain from offering any arguments in favor of plastic.
So are you voluteering to test out the new ceramic IV tubing?
As a side note, I do think the tendency for westerners to buy bananas out of habit is a disease. People have written essays and even books on why fruits and vetegables should be bought local, and then, only when in season.
Strange that, I do think the tendency for westerners to tell people how to live is a far more virulent disease.
Looking from Europe, your laws on public appearance of boobs already has something ridiculous, and DOES prevent the spread of some cultural items. Your practice of death penalty also looks like an anachronism. But with Sarkozy as a president, I am taunting you while I can
Oh, feel free to go on making fun of the US death penalty practices, most in the US don't care(esp when attacked by Napoleonic Code countries). As for the boobs thing have you seen the average american women recently? What started out as a relic of the puritanical founders has turned into a really good idea w/ obesity rates where they are.
Except of course the slight problem that a berserker would keep fighting for a minute or two even with six '45 slugs in his chest
You do realize the army switched from the 0.38 rounds to the 0.45 slugs due to their superior knock someone down so they don't get up right?