Port Muskogee, OK is on the Arkansas River, far, far from hurricanes, tsunamis, etc. You might get the occasional tornado around, but as was pointed out, these are quite limited in scope in comparison.
Not to mention the cost of living, which is much MUCH lower than say, LA or NYC.
And I must take issue with the implication that there are no experts in the Midwest. I'm in the midwest (not Muskogee, BTW), and I'm an expert. Now, do I make 6 figures, like I would if I were in LA? No. But I still have a 3,000 square foot house that is 10 minutes from where I work. You can't get that in LA for under a million. I've got all the same shopping, restaurants, and other conveniences that they have on the left coast. And I'm not afraid to go out at night. Yeah, I gotta say; the coasts are overrated.
Land a radio transmitter on the moon and that solves the problem. Communications from NASA are sent directly to the astronauts on earth in "real time." The astronauts send their replies to the moon which echoes them back, thus giving the appropriate time delays.
Actually, it would give double the delay; the replies from the astronauts would have to go to the moon and back.
Tell you which one I miss; Infoseek. The ability to easily search within results worked very well for me. I could usually find just about anything after two or three iterations by starting broad and narrowing.
But they were bought out and destroyed by ABC with their ridiculous go.com nonsense. If you "go" there now, they do have a search engine--powered by Yahoo. Geniuses.
the US (unilaterally) declared that its waters extend for 200 miles
Unilaterally? You say that like it's inherently a bad thing. How else are we gonna do it; ask everyone else's permission? "Say there, Mr. Castro; we're thinking of extending our economic influence and mineral rights out to 200 miles; whaddya think? Yea or nay?" All nations "unilaterally" decided how far seaward their influence extends.
"Unilateral" is one of those words someone used near the start of the Iraq war, 500 or so parrot-brained journalists, commentators, and pundits picked it up, and now everyone else has over-used it and misapplied it to the point of meaninglessness.
And what VISA are they going to use to gain enterance to the US? The article contradicts itself on this point:
My guess would be either a standard tourist visa (B-2) or, more likely, a D-1 or D-2 visa (both for sailors). The H series visas are to authorize work in the US; specifically, the H-1B is for workers in a specialty occupation (like software engineer). So it's not a contradiction to avoid H-1B visa hassles but still get into the US with a D-1 (for crewmen who land temporarily and depart on the same ship or plane).
Not guilty of a crime is, precisely and exactly, "innocent."Nope. It's precisely and exactly "not guilty." Innocence is a moral state, not a legal one. No court will ever find anyone "innocent."
Wouldn't that mean it's illegal for other vehicles to pass me IN THE SAME LANE?
Yes, it would. And as a cyclist you have to have properly placed reflectors and/or lights as well (in most states). Some states also require a licence plate or sticker. What I don't understand is the cyclists who think they are pedestrians, riding in the gutter towards oncoming traffic.
Listen here, you moron; GAY PEOPLE ARE NOT BORN THAT WAY, YOU PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC ASS-CRACKER. No evidence - repeat, NO EVIDENCE - exists to support this bit of wishful thinking. The few studies that claimed to find a physical link (run by gay researchers, I might add) have been thoroughly raked over the coals for being unscientific.
And you're wrong about something else too; I DO have the right to tell people how to live, just as they have the right to not listen. Furthermore, if I run a print shop, I have the right to not print anything I don't want to print. It's my freakin' print shop. What if I were a Jew, and the American Nazi party came in and wanted me to print giant swastikas on big poster-sized cardstock? Are you saying I'd have to do it because I can't tell them how to live? What a fucking joke.
Refusing to print letterhead for a gay organization because I happen to believe that the gay lifestyle is a perversion is my right. If it was a print shop run by faggots that refused to print a man and a woman walking hand-in-hand along the shore, there would have been absolutely nothing-NOTHING-done about it.
And I can't even make sense out of this mish-mash:
The best they could do to satisfy your sickening desire to force them into your idea of what a person should be is to not live their lives like people do.
So a gay man can't live if he can't suck dick? That what it sounds like you are saying.
I can choose to hate you because you are an idiot. You can choose to not be an idiot, though.
Once, a friend of mine had this hamster, and he woke up one morning to find it dead in its cage. So he made a little coffin out of a shoebox and buried it in the flower garden. Later on he found a wheathead penny.
I think the funny thing about this whole thing is that they all assumed someone would go to the trouble of counterfeiting a $2 bill! Any true counterfeiter would be much more likely wash the ink off of $1 or $2 bills and use the resulting clean paper to print old-style (pre-monopoly) $20s or $100s (both of which are still legal tender, btw, even though they lack the new security features).
Sorry you're the one I have chosen to vent on, but I really get tired of the command to "mod parent up/down." Get your own damn mod points; don't tell me how to use mine.
Yes, I gave up modding this thread just so I could say that. Cheers.
Ah, yes; the old "it's arrogant to think we're the only ones" argument. I personally feel the opposite is true; the fact that people continue to claim that there must be life on other planets in the complete absence of any evidence of any kind is the height of arrogance. "We're so smart, we have deduced this truth from pure reason."
We've taken a few paltry surface scrapings off of two similar planets and one moon and suddenly we're experts on the whole freakin' universe.
Now from a biblical standpoint, humans are the pinnacle of creation and the universe was created to give us some inkling of God's glory and eternal nature. It's not arrogant if it's true.
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I think the metaphor you are looking for is "shot itself in the foot." Then jumped in the ocean. Metaphor cocktail, anyone?
Not to mention the cost of living, which is much MUCH lower than say, LA or NYC.
And I must take issue with the implication that there are no experts in the Midwest. I'm in the midwest (not Muskogee, BTW), and I'm an expert. Now, do I make 6 figures, like I would if I were in LA? No. But I still have a 3,000 square foot house that is 10 minutes from where I work. You can't get that in LA for under a million. I've got all the same shopping, restaurants, and other conveniences that they have on the left coast. And I'm not afraid to go out at night. Yeah, I gotta say; the coasts are overrated.
Yeah, that's the problem; average detectives doing work that a trained computer forensics technician should be doing.
Actually, it would give double the delay; the replies from the astronauts would have to go to the moon and back.
But they were bought out and destroyed by ABC with their ridiculous go.com nonsense. If you "go" there now, they do have a search engine--powered by Yahoo. Geniuses.
And don't forget that, later in life, Musashi won most of his duels with a walking stick, not a sword anyway.
Yeah; remember that dude's arm in the cantina that Ben "cut" off; there was blood on the floor around it. So it must be true. Or something like that.
Yes. My God was nailed to that tree unjustly. Yours is supposed to be the god of justice and law. What gives?
And my God came back to life after that; yours was never alive to begin with.
Unilaterally? You say that like it's inherently a bad thing. How else are we gonna do it; ask everyone else's permission? "Say there, Mr. Castro; we're thinking of extending our economic influence and mineral rights out to 200 miles; whaddya think? Yea or nay?" All nations "unilaterally" decided how far seaward their influence extends.
"Unilateral" is one of those words someone used near the start of the Iraq war, 500 or so parrot-brained journalists, commentators, and pundits picked it up, and now everyone else has over-used it and misapplied it to the point of meaninglessness.
No; there is a small stretch of beachfront in the far southeast corner.
http://www.mideastweb.org/miraqd.htm
My guess would be either a standard tourist visa (B-2) or, more likely, a D-1 or D-2 visa (both for sailors). The H series visas are to authorize work in the US; specifically, the H-1B is for workers in a specialty occupation (like software engineer). So it's not a contradiction to avoid H-1B visa hassles but still get into the US with a D-1 (for crewmen who land temporarily and depart on the same ship or plane).
Not guilty of a crime is, precisely and exactly, "innocent."Nope. It's precisely and exactly "not guilty." Innocence is a moral state, not a legal one. No court will ever find anyone "innocent."
Come on; who's going to forge a 2???
Yes, it would. And as a cyclist you have to have properly placed reflectors and/or lights as well (in most states). Some states also require a licence plate or sticker. What I don't understand is the cyclists who think they are pedestrians, riding in the gutter towards oncoming traffic.
Yeah, baby, bomb em with RC planes! In a post-9/11 world, you can't be too looney.
And you're wrong about something else too; I DO have the right to tell people how to live, just as they have the right to not listen. Furthermore, if I run a print shop, I have the right to not print anything I don't want to print. It's my freakin' print shop. What if I were a Jew, and the American Nazi party came in and wanted me to print giant swastikas on big poster-sized cardstock? Are you saying I'd have to do it because I can't tell them how to live? What a fucking joke.
Refusing to print letterhead for a gay organization because I happen to believe that the gay lifestyle is a perversion is my right. If it was a print shop run by faggots that refused to print a man and a woman walking hand-in-hand along the shore, there would have been absolutely nothing-NOTHING-done about it.
And I can't even make sense out of this mish-mash:
The best they could do to satisfy your sickening desire to force them into your idea of what a person should be is to not live their lives like people do.
So a gay man can't live if he can't suck dick? That what it sounds like you are saying.
I can choose to hate you because you are an idiot. You can choose to not be an idiot, though.
Once, a friend of mine had this hamster, and he woke up one morning to find it dead in its cage. So he made a little coffin out of a shoebox and buried it in the flower garden. Later on he found a wheathead penny.
Good point: Gold is not inherently valuable; nothing is. The only reason anything is valuable is because we all agree that it has value.
I think the funny thing about this whole thing is that they all assumed someone would go to the trouble of counterfeiting a $2 bill! Any true counterfeiter would be much more likely wash the ink off of $1 or $2 bills and use the resulting clean paper to print old-style (pre-monopoly) $20s or $100s (both of which are still legal tender, btw, even though they lack the new security features).
That's why it was in quotes, genius.
Yes, I gave up modding this thread just so I could say that. Cheers.
I need a beer or 20.
We've taken a few paltry surface scrapings off of two similar planets and one moon and suddenly we're experts on the whole freakin' universe.
Now from a biblical standpoint, humans are the pinnacle of creation and the universe was created to give us some inkling of God's glory and eternal nature. It's not arrogant if it's true.