>What is needed is actual use of the 2nd amendment and trow all politicians out and start over.
So are you personally planning to "use the 2nd amendment" or are you just hoping someone else will do it? Do you have any particular politicians in mind who you'd like to "trow"?
>Another reason to stop eating meat? As if there were any reasons to stop eating meat?
YOU don't have a reason to stop eating meat and it's not clear that anyone is attempting to persuade you to do so.
I don't have any reason to stop eating black licorice, but that doesn't make me want to stir up controversy about it. I don't feel threatened by the anti black licorice people.
And he, presumably with a tradition of cooking that comes uninterrupted from at least several generations and probably more, enjoys things that you have no concept of yourself.
I'm sure it's not a contest between you and him as to who gets the most delicious food.
I try not to even have conversations like this until I am first certain that everyone involved is cooking something close to 100% of their meals themselves, with some skill and well-chosen ingredients. If you are comparing your restaurant diet to the OP's home-cooked diet, the vegetarian versus carnivore question doesn't even enter into it from my point of view. On the other hand if you are trying to compare your cooking to his, knowing next to nothing about what he cooks, you are simply being arrogant for the sake of your own arrogance.
I don't either, but I also know that so many corporations and organizations use the commercial side of Gmail, that the slightest outage or deletion problem will be met with a lot more noise than I could make. If this same incident happened to Gmail, the story wouldn't just be a tech news article, it would be headline mainstream news.
Are you actually putting forth the idea that President Obama didn't graduate from Harvard? And your basis for this belief rests on the fact that you haven't seen his transcripts?
Here's an exercise for you. Name one individual who matriculated with President Obama, and then produce from that person, document for document, whatever you think should be available from Obama.
You mention Bush, McCain and Clinton. For any record you claim you should have from Obama but that is improperly concealed, produce that same record for each of the three others you named.
I wouldn't trade Photoshop (or even Gimp) ((and Hipstamatic!!!)) for all the Kodachrome film that was ever made, to be perfectly honest about the whole thing.
Part of me is glad it's gone -- I lived in that era, and I'm happy it's something we don't have to share with another generation. It's ours, and you can't have it.
I used to do Ektachrome 16mm processing. It was an extremely finicky 8-bath process that required seriously controlled temperatures and an *exposure* step that was always a nail-biter. Knowing that Kodachrome process was *far* more difficult that Ektachrome is kind of mind-boggling.
Well, the special thing about Kodachrome processing isn't so much the equipment, but the dyes. What "the Smithsonian" or Posterity really needs is a reproducible formula for making the dyes. I'd settle for a digital artifact that renders a convincing K-25 or K-64 slide.
The real reason Kodachrome is going away is so that nobody can forge a Zapruder film:-)
I'm with you on that, trust me. Not even because of "alternatives", but because I am, in spirit, a Coyote. All that interests me is the chaos.
Our local elections always have a confirmation vote for judges. Obviously I vote against every one of them, every time.
I personally think it would be awesome (in the sense of maximal chaos) if enough Democrats went to enough Republican primaries to cost President Obama his incumbency:-)
>I really don't want to have to move to Canada or Costa Rica...
I do. It turns out to be very difficult to get into Canada as a permanent resident. I haven't looked into Costa Rica seriously. The few people I know who have gone there (permanently) have basically chosen poverty/subsistence, and I'm not willing to do that.
>You'll also see a good number of people who use the word "socialist" in conversation frequently who would gladly vote for Anyone But A Democrat. They'd probably line up to >vote for Satan himself, as long as there was an (R) at the end of the name on the voting card.
They'd vote for someone who is actually ideologically and behaviorally described as a Socialist without even recognizing it, because they do not even know what the term means.
What's the difference between one individual registering with the Republican Party and voting in the Republican Primary and another individual doing the same thing? Somehow, one is a criminal and the other not?
Good luck getting that person's ballot into a jury's hands for a criminal trial.
>There are also a lot of people who swear by the phrase "never vote for the incumbent"
People say this, but by and large on election day, they end up voting for their incumbent. Incumbents are bad and should be voted out, with the exception of yours, apparently.
It would be a hilarious unintended consequence if so many Democrats register as Repbublicans that Obama doesn't get enough primary votes to become the DNC candidate.
I'm withholding judgment until I get confirmation that the guy was doing it for the fun of RL Frogger, and not just extreme jaywalking.
I see people fairly often crossing roads that you'd have to be absolutely insane to cross, or at least completely desperate. In some cases I see why they do it: going to a safe place to cross can mean miles of extra walking.
You're all making it far more complicated. Pricing of hospital services is not complicated. It's based on a demand curve, and it's consumer pricing at the level that the market will bear. There are some complications, including some regulations on pricing, institutional rules, etc., but the fact that so many people are on group insurance plans that will actually pay these inflated prices contributes a lot to the demand curve.
The people who attribute it all to "malpractice insurance" are rarely actually running the books of a practice themselves.
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>What is needed is actual use of the 2nd amendment and trow all politicians out and start over.
So are you personally planning to "use the 2nd amendment" or are you just hoping someone else will do it? Do you have any particular politicians in mind who you'd like to "trow"?
>What if my device is password protected? Can I be compelled to hand over the password? Because I won't.
Either you have the right to remain silent or you don't.
They must mean Jane Hitchcock.
>Another reason to stop eating meat? As if there were any reasons to stop eating meat?
YOU don't have a reason to stop eating meat and it's not clear that anyone is attempting to persuade you to do so.
I don't have any reason to stop eating black licorice, but that doesn't make me want to stir up controversy about it. I don't feel threatened by the anti black licorice people.
And he, presumably with a tradition of cooking that comes uninterrupted from at least several generations and probably more, enjoys things that you have no concept of yourself.
I'm sure it's not a contest between you and him as to who gets the most delicious food.
I try not to even have conversations like this until I am first certain that everyone involved is cooking something close to 100% of their meals themselves, with some skill and well-chosen ingredients. If you are comparing your restaurant diet to the OP's home-cooked diet, the vegetarian versus carnivore question doesn't even enter into it from my point of view. On the other hand if you are trying to compare your cooking to his, knowing next to nothing about what he cooks, you are simply being arrogant for the sake of your own arrogance.
+1 Jira
Assertiveness can be risky but it can also deliver huge rewards. Advice: don't frame anything in terms of problems.
>I don't trust Gmail not to lose my email
I don't either, but I also know that so many corporations and organizations use the commercial side of Gmail, that the slightest outage or deletion problem will be met with a lot more noise than I could make. If this same incident happened to Gmail, the story wouldn't just be a tech news article, it would be headline mainstream news.
That also demonstrated the strength of the anti-incumbent movement.
Are you actually putting forth the idea that President Obama didn't graduate from Harvard? And your basis for this belief rests on the fact that you haven't seen his transcripts?
Here's an exercise for you. Name one individual who matriculated with President Obama, and then produce from that person, document for document, whatever you think should be available from Obama.
You mention Bush, McCain and Clinton. For any record you claim you should have from Obama but that is improperly concealed, produce that same record for each of the three others you named.
Nice, thank you!
I wouldn't trade Photoshop (or even Gimp) ((and Hipstamatic!!!)) for all the Kodachrome film that was ever made, to be perfectly honest about the whole thing.
Part of me is glad it's gone -- I lived in that era, and I'm happy it's something we don't have to share with another generation. It's ours, and you can't have it.
I used to do Ektachrome 16mm processing. It was an extremely finicky 8-bath process that required seriously controlled temperatures and an *exposure* step that was always a nail-biter. Knowing that Kodachrome process was *far* more difficult that Ektachrome is kind of mind-boggling.
Well, the special thing about Kodachrome processing isn't so much the equipment, but the dyes. What "the Smithsonian" or Posterity really needs is a reproducible formula for making the dyes. I'd settle for a digital artifact that renders a convincing K-25 or K-64 slide.
The real reason Kodachrome is going away is so that nobody can forge a Zapruder film :-)
I'm with you on that, trust me. Not even because of "alternatives", but because I am, in spirit, a Coyote. All that interests me is the chaos.
Our local elections always have a confirmation vote for judges. Obviously I vote against every one of them, every time.
I personally think it would be awesome (in the sense of maximal chaos) if enough Democrats went to enough Republican primaries to cost President Obama his incumbency :-)
>I really don't want to have to move to Canada or Costa Rica...
I do. It turns out to be very difficult to get into Canada as a permanent resident. I haven't looked into Costa Rica seriously. The few people I know who have gone there (permanently) have basically chosen poverty/subsistence, and I'm not willing to do that.
>who the hell would vote for that hick dim bulb of a crackpot over him?
60 million other hick dim bulbs.
>You'll also see a good number of people who use the word "socialist" in conversation frequently who would gladly vote for Anyone But A Democrat. They'd probably line up to
>vote for Satan himself, as long as there was an (R) at the end of the name on the voting card.
They'd vote for someone who is actually ideologically and behaviorally described as a Socialist without even recognizing it, because they do not even know what the term means.
What's the difference between one individual registering with the Republican Party and voting in the Republican Primary and another individual doing the same thing?
Somehow, one is a criminal and the other not?
Good luck getting that person's ballot into a jury's hands for a criminal trial.
>There are also a lot of people who swear by the phrase "never vote for the incumbent"
People say this, but by and large on election day, they end up voting for their incumbent. Incumbents are bad and should be voted out, with the exception of yours, apparently.
It would be a hilarious unintended consequence if so many Democrats register as Repbublicans that Obama doesn't get enough primary votes to become the DNC candidate.
I'm withholding judgment until I get confirmation that the guy was doing it for the fun of RL Frogger, and not just extreme jaywalking.
I see people fairly often crossing roads that you'd have to be absolutely insane to cross, or at least completely desperate. In some cases I see why they do it: going to a safe place to cross can mean miles of extra walking.
>It will be Obama's signature act for his entire first term.
First term as President of the United States.
What all did you get done from 2009-2010?
You're all making it far more complicated. Pricing of hospital services is not complicated. It's based on a demand curve, and it's consumer pricing at the level that the market will bear. There are some complications, including some regulations on pricing, institutional rules, etc., but the fact that so many people are on group insurance plans that will actually pay these inflated prices contributes a lot to the demand curve.
The people who attribute it all to "malpractice insurance" are rarely actually running the books of a practice themselves.