During that same time period a massive number of people got access to electricity for the first time and many third world nations saw drastic increases in drivers (two of many ways people typically pump extra CO2 into the atmosphere). Really it's truly amazing that number has stayed even during said time period and is a sign that our still emerging alternate sources of energy generation and pollution controls are in fact making a difference.
The only conclusion I can come to is Nintendo's unique titles are driving this. The console as a mobile gaming option is cumbersome and battery inefficient, meanwhile Nintendo continues to release amazing content that stands out far more than other consoles content, most of which is available on every other platform.
I've wanted Nintendo consoles to fail for over a decade now because I want them to become strictly a game developer. Sadly, I don't see that happening any time soon so I'll probably buy a switch in the near future.
Man, how big was the company? Our four store operation employs about a thousand people (a good grocery store employs a surprising number of people for those outside the industry). In the context of the company I work for we've been able to grow our pool of insured people drastically so that generally speaking only people a couple of years junior or purposely part time people like college students don't get insurance.
I suppose the nature of the company matters a lot here too though. Our founder is in the process of making us employee owned so it's safe to say he gives a rats ass about the least of his employees.
Based strictly on my own experience though, there's money to be saved for a company going self insured.
Cheers to Texas for showing the fiscal responsibility to create a rainy day fund but the state's relative wealth rests on oil wealth. If Texas didn't sit on a bunch of oil it would be just be another poor Red state paying in less to the Fed than it got out.
I was once an avid pot smoker (I still enjoy occasionally from time to time) and your description of stoned people cleaning completely baffles me. In my experience stoner's homes tend to be less that tidy to be polite
With that said, stoned people are certainly less abrasive to be around sober than people drinking. Stoned people don't start fights or drama and they don't yell and bother your neighbors. If delivery isn't ordered in a timely manner they will eat you out of house and home though.
I'm just going out of my way to point out that you were being annoying and were not at all contributing to the conversation the adults were having.
Furthermore, you can't give me flack for not letting something go when you're a very active participate in this conversation. I've already told you I like I feeding trolls, what's your excuse?
I don't know about that. Messing with a troll is just filling in the gaps of my day to day. I don't seek out others to judge but when they seek me out I'm happy to point out their worthless contribution.
Plus it's important you understand, your spell checking contributed nothing to the conversation or debate. No one read my post and didn't understand what I was saying and you were most certainly not on topic.
I don't think it can be realistically expected that drivers running autopilot will immediately react to poor choices being made by the car. Continuously monitoring an automated system that works well almost all the time is massively boring. There's just no way that anyone but the most OCD is going to continuesly maintain the level attention that they would deliver if they were actually driving.
And if I had been on a PC I would have noticed an old spelling habbit from childhood. I dont check every word i write in my phone with the below field spell check because I really just don't care. I'm posting on an internet forum, not writing a research paper.
Furthermore, there will always be people politically marginalized in a Republic no matter how far down you subdivide. I live in a medium sized town in a very Blue part of the country, meanwhile I have nearby neighbors who are conservative. All subdividing states would do is recreate the same problems on a smaller scale
A person's voting worth shouldnt be gaged by the amount of space between neighbors they have. Everyone gets a vote and meanwhile we have quite a few protections in our country to garuntee equal treatment under the law. That's about as good as it gets for goverance.
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Winston Churchill (November 11, 1947)
"Money is being pulled out of these people's pockets to pay for things they do not support in any way, shape or form."
The same thing happens in red states to Liberals. Also, just so you understand how reality works, all taxes are this to somebody. I garuntee that you support taxes for some things and I also garuntee there's somebody out there that finds government funding of those things as bad.
"Taxation without representation?"
Conservatives in blue states are allowed to participate in their Democratic governance. What are you even getting at?
You just seem to want to make conservative minorities out as victims while not acknowledging it's the exact same thing for liberal minorities in Red states.
We have plenty of safe guards in this nation to prevent actual oppression of political minorities and having to pay more in taxes is not oppression. If that were the case I could just as easily make the point that virtually every Red state's failure to generate enough wealth so that they pay into the Fed at the very least what they get back is oppressing everyone in the nation. Aside from Texas, Red state governance has shown itself to be a failure at generating prosperity and they are a net drain on the nation's wealth.
Personally, I enjoy my Blue state standard of living and recognize that the taxes I pay help create that.
In the expensive parts of the state you are certainly getting something for your extra money spent on housing. Living in these areas means almost never having to deal with excessively hot or humid weather or deal with snow at all.
It does make traveling in most of the rest of the world hard to adjust to during the Winter and Summer though
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During that same time period a massive number of people got access to electricity for the first time and many third world nations saw drastic increases in drivers (two of many ways people typically pump extra CO2 into the atmosphere). Really it's truly amazing that number has stayed even during said time period and is a sign that our still emerging alternate sources of energy generation and pollution controls are in fact making a difference.
The only conclusion I can come to is Nintendo's unique titles are driving this. The console as a mobile gaming option is cumbersome and battery inefficient, meanwhile Nintendo continues to release amazing content that stands out far more than other consoles content, most of which is available on every other platform.
I've wanted Nintendo consoles to fail for over a decade now because I want them to become strictly a game developer. Sadly, I don't see that happening any time soon so I'll probably buy a switch in the near future.
Man, how big was the company? Our four store operation employs about a thousand people (a good grocery store employs a surprising number of people for those outside the industry). In the context of the company I work for we've been able to grow our pool of insured people drastically so that generally speaking only people a couple of years junior or purposely part time people like college students don't get insurance.
I suppose the nature of the company matters a lot here too though. Our founder is in the process of making us employee owned so it's safe to say he gives a rats ass about the least of his employees.
Based strictly on my own experience though, there's money to be saved for a company going self insured.
An AC "scientist". I do IT for a small chain of grocery stores and I'm willing to put my name on that. You, however, are nothing to me.
Cheers to Texas for showing the fiscal responsibility to create a rainy day fund but the state's relative wealth rests on oil wealth. If Texas didn't sit on a bunch of oil it would be just be another poor Red state paying in less to the Fed than it got out.
Anyone who has actually done a hallucinogen will tell you that pot is absolutely not one.
It's great when paired but so is Birra Moretti Red with boar sausage.
I was once an avid pot smoker (I still enjoy occasionally from time to time) and your description of stoned people cleaning completely baffles me. In my experience stoner's homes tend to be less that tidy to be polite
With that said, stoned people are certainly less abrasive to be around sober than people drinking. Stoned people don't start fights or drama and they don't yell and bother your neighbors. If delivery isn't ordered in a timely manner they will eat you out of house and home though.
I do IT for a small grocery store chain and we went self insured a few years back now and we've saved a ton of money doing it.
Superior? No.
I'm just going out of my way to point out that you were being annoying and were not at all contributing to the conversation the adults were having.
Furthermore, you can't give me flack for not letting something go when you're a very active participate in this conversation. I've already told you I like I feeding trolls, what's your excuse?
Is that sarcasm?
I ask because driving thousands of miles via autopilot with no problem and then suddenly being confronted with one; no, you will not be ready.
I don't know about that. Messing with a troll is just filling in the gaps of my day to day. I don't seek out others to judge but when they seek me out I'm happy to point out their worthless contribution.
Plus it's important you understand, your spell checking contributed nothing to the conversation or debate. No one read my post and didn't understand what I was saying and you were most certainly not on topic.
I don't think it can be realistically expected that drivers running autopilot will immediately react to poor choices being made by the car. Continuously monitoring an automated system that works well almost all the time is massively boring. There's just no way that anyone but the most OCD is going to continuesly maintain the level attention that they would deliver if they were actually driving.
Gah, double negative. There goes my fun.
"After all, It's not so empty I act as slashdot's official spell check."
Doesn't disprove my point of course.
No, I'm fine with my life is happier.
After all, It's not so empty I don't act as slashdot's official spell check. What an empty, worthless existence...
Completely off topic but Rogue One!
The ending space battle where the rebel fleet warps in right on top of those two star destroyers is the best space battle Star Wars has ever seen
I'll admit, I have a love for feeding trolls.
I enjoy telling miserable people that they are miserable.
And if I had been on a PC I would have noticed an old spelling habbit from childhood. I dont check every word i write in my phone with the below field spell check because I really just don't care. I'm posting on an internet forum, not writing a research paper.
You really have too much time on your hands
Thank you for pointing out the typo I made while typing on my phone.
I'm sure you'll sleep well tonight now, knowing that you've accomplished something with your day.
Fair enough, my mistake then.
Carry on.
Furthermore, there will always be people politically marginalized in a Republic no matter how far down you subdivide. I live in a medium sized town in a very Blue part of the country, meanwhile I have nearby neighbors who are conservative. All subdividing states would do is recreate the same problems on a smaller scale
A person's voting worth shouldnt be gaged by the amount of space between neighbors they have. Everyone gets a vote and meanwhile we have quite a few protections in our country to garuntee equal treatment under the law. That's about as good as it gets for goverance.
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Winston Churchill (November 11, 1947)
I have but I dont think you have.
"Money is being pulled out of these people's pockets to pay for things they do not support in any way, shape or form."
The same thing happens in red states to Liberals. Also, just so you understand how reality works, all taxes are this to somebody. I garuntee that you support taxes for some things and I also garuntee there's somebody out there that finds government funding of those things as bad.
"Taxation without representation?"
Conservatives in blue states are allowed to participate in their Democratic governance. What are you even getting at?
You just seem to want to make conservative minorities out as victims while not acknowledging it's the exact same thing for liberal minorities in Red states.
We have plenty of safe guards in this nation to prevent actual oppression of political minorities and having to pay more in taxes is not oppression. If that were the case I could just as easily make the point that virtually every Red state's failure to generate enough wealth so that they pay into the Fed at the very least what they get back is oppressing everyone in the nation. Aside from Texas, Red state governance has shown itself to be a failure at generating prosperity and they are a net drain on the nation's wealth.
Personally, I enjoy my Blue state standard of living and recognize that the taxes I pay help create that.
You illustrate the posters point perfectly my friend!
In the expensive parts of the state you are certainly getting something for your extra money spent on housing. Living in these areas means almost never having to deal with excessively hot or humid weather or deal with snow at all.
It does make traveling in most of the rest of the world hard to adjust to during the Winter and Summer though