Phoenix area, Cox Cable. Advertised "Up to 9Mbps Down". Speakeasy speed test: 9139 kbps down. I regularly get nearly a full MB/s on http downloads. Seriously I more often run into the limited bandwidth of a server I'm downloading from than anything else.
All this for $54.95/month.
10 years is just not enough time to analyze a global weather pattern, let alone local.
So many things can affect local weather, from city size, agriculture, etc. that it's just foolish to assume that globally weather is undergoing vast change because there's a drought/flood/etc in another region.
And while it's possible that a warming trend across the globe is changing the weather in the manner that people are speculating, it's quite another thing to quickly jump to the conclusion that we as humans are the cause.
Haha. I was refering to the global warming fear-mongering.
Anyone who thinks that Florida will *ever* be out of hurricane danger hasn't been paying attention for the last two hundred years of recorded weather history.
That said I'm sure there are plenty of suckers out there, and with FEMA giving money to people when the hurricanes wipe out their homesteads every year it's becoming less and less of a risk!
NASA doesn't seem like a failed venture so much (see recent mars probes) so much as the shuttle program at this point. Plenty of stuff is part of NASA besides the shuttle, and most of it is darn good stuff.
Have you been here long, or is this your first run-in with the slashdot hippie crowd?
Don't let it faze you, they're all like this. Best to just ignore them and go on with life. When you confront them they just congregate into a big herd and get even stupider.
With you on UTC, Metric, and maybe 240V. PAL sucks no less than NTSC so far as I can figure. Let's just mandate that all broadcasts everywhere have to be 1080p.
I find the concept of a "swing" vote pretty much anathema to the whole point of the court. Personal opinion not withstanding, here's why she's a "swing vote":
Over the past few years especially, when you look at decisions that were made 5-4 she is *very* often in the group of 5, regardless of who the other 4 were. In some ways she's kinda like the court's version of/dev/rand that's used to break ties.
As a conservative, I think you've missed the movtivation behind why states rights are a big deal to us. We think states rights is a big deal because the constitution frames the states as having the right to decide how they run themselves because all rights not excplicity defined in the constitution are reserved by the people and the states.
As for the eminent domain question, it goes right back to the constitution (Amendment 5). The idea that taxes are a public use is just asinine and any reasonable person can see that it's not just a slippery slope, it's jumping off the cliff. One can say with considerable confidence that it was never intended that a person's estate could be taken by the government because it wasn't raising enough tax revenue. The fact that the original draft of the declaration included the phrase "the pursuit of Life, Liberty, and Property" being a good example of how those who wrote the constitution though about private property
I'm all for states rights, but not for giving up my rights to the state, especially when those rights are explicity deliniated in the constitution.
Keeping the power as decentralized as possible was the way we were setup and is the only way to slow down the inevitable progression to authoritarianism.
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It's been a great ride! Thanks for taking such good care of the site for all these years!
Requires less time in prison. http://www.insidetraderapp.com/
Paypal has been offering tokens for a while now (for $5). And they work with Verisign's Personal Identity Provider service.
So for $5 you can get a little "football" of a token that will work as an OpenID login for any site that supports open ID.
Kudos I totally agree! Split gov't doing nothing is definitely the best for everyone in the end.
Phoenix area, Cox Cable. Advertised "Up to 9Mbps Down". Speakeasy speed test: 9139 kbps down. I regularly get nearly a full MB/s on http downloads. Seriously I more often run into the limited bandwidth of a server I'm downloading from than anything else. All this for $54.95/month.
Not even a little funny?
As evidenced by my original post moving from +5 Funny down to at least +4 because of the lovely "Flaimbait" modders.
/. today.
Oh wait, back to +5. Must be something seriously wrong with
"Yes they deserve to die, and I hope they burn in hell!"
10 years is just not enough time to analyze a global weather pattern, let alone local. So many things can affect local weather, from city size, agriculture, etc. that it's just foolish to assume that globally weather is undergoing vast change because there's a drought/flood/etc in another region. And while it's possible that a warming trend across the globe is changing the weather in the manner that people are speculating, it's quite another thing to quickly jump to the conclusion that we as humans are the cause.
Sorry about that. I forgot to re-read the Slashdot Rules before I posted.
Haha. I was refering to the global warming fear-mongering.
Anyone who thinks that Florida will *ever* be out of hurricane danger hasn't been paying attention for the last two hundred years of recorded weather history.
That said I'm sure there are plenty of suckers out there, and with FEMA giving money to people when the hurricanes wipe out their homesteads every year it's becoming less and less of a risk!
Good luck to you!
Oh Lordy it's rainin, must be global warming!
Oh Lordy it's snowin, must be global warming!
Oh Lordy a TORNADO! We never had those before global warming!
A WHOLE CITY FLOODED BY A HURRICANE! ACK! That surely couldn't happen without global warming!
For the love, what a bunch of fear-mongering horse shit.
NASA doesn't seem like a failed venture so much (see recent mars probes) so much as the shuttle program at this point. Plenty of stuff is part of NASA besides the shuttle, and most of it is darn good stuff.
Have you been here long, or is this your first run-in with the slashdot hippie crowd?
Don't let it faze you, they're all like this. Best to just ignore them and go on with life. When you confront them they just congregate into a big herd and get even stupider.
Does make trolling pretty fun though.
Blessed AZ. Giving the finger to you time switchers the world over.
I agree no DST is awesome.
With you on UTC, Metric, and maybe 240V. PAL sucks no less than NTSC so far as I can figure. Let's just mandate that all broadcasts everywhere have to be 1080p.
So, so true.
I think you're missing the main point... if it isn't broken, why fix it?
Yes but only if you can pay the appropriate lobbying fees.
Actually I heard rumors the new name would be Happy Fun Land.
Where's the modification for "-5 Craptastically formatted."
Here here. I thought this is what the politics section was all about.
the iJustice, from Apple.
It's clear plastic judicial goodness in a shiny metal box.
Um, ever read about that FDR guy?
Over the past few years especially, when you look at decisions that were made 5-4 she is *very* often in the group of 5, regardless of who the other 4 were. In some ways she's kinda like the court's version of /dev/rand that's used to break ties.
As for the eminent domain question, it goes right back to the constitution (Amendment 5). The idea that taxes are a public use is just asinine and any reasonable person can see that it's not just a slippery slope, it's jumping off the cliff. One can say with considerable confidence that it was never intended that a person's estate could be taken by the government because it wasn't raising enough tax revenue. The fact that the original draft of the declaration included the phrase "the pursuit of Life, Liberty, and Property" being a good example of how those who wrote the constitution though about private property
I'm all for states rights, but not for giving up my rights to the state, especially when those rights are explicity deliniated in the constitution.
Keeping the power as decentralized as possible was the way we were setup and is the only way to slow down the inevitable progression to authoritarianism.