"Moral relativism is not an excuse for bad behavior in any case"
So every American law is moral AND universal? Thank you for filling me in! I'll remember that next time I'm driving on the Autobahn WHERE THERE USUALLY ARE NO SPEED LIMITS AND THE ROAD IS ACTUALLY SAFER. I will remember to follow the American laws and drive 55mph while everyone else is driving 155kph. Yeah, that'll be REAL safe AND moral! Hooray! Speed is not what kills, alcohol and idiots behind the wheel do.
"Your thinking is flawed. Please re-evaluate your position to be more in line with reason."
Your words give me a headache. Look, I'm not the 'neck with the sawed off muffler who passed you on the road today, so don't take your insecurities out by advocating ridiculous traffic enforcement methods.
Speaking of "moral relativism", If you believe that going 1 mph over the limit is immoral, than you sir, are a hypocrite. If you're saying you don't drive 1 mph over the limit ever than you are either over 60 (no offense) or a liar.
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Agreed. I'm sure some young fanboy mods may mod us down for saying this but the fact is the show just isnt funny anymore, but that's the truth: it isnt.
The good writers are gone. What's worse, it's been like this for enough years now, and with many local fox stations not even showing classic episodes anymore, I could see many young viewers as seeing the show as overrated. A shame, really, because it used to be so brilliantly funny.
I would rather see my favorite show die than see it in go on like this.
Actually most people know it doesn't really extend the daylight... people are pretty stupid but not THAT stupid. I just like it because Im a lazy bastard and wake up late in the day anyway- so it virtually makes no difference to me.
Here we go. After reading a few posts, the know it all cynics are out in full karma whoring force.
Only one of the statements hasnt yet been posted, but by now im sure it has:
-"Air isn't free!" -"Air is really loud to fill a tank!" -"Air is really dangerous!" -"Air is ineffecient!" -"Air is bad for the environment. Michael Chricton said so in his latest book."
But I guess in 20 years from now it wont matter who's right, left or wrong: we'll all be fucked. And some will still be in denial.
You would not be doing that for laughs if you had an Adwords account. Jackasses clicking on your legiitimate links are the threat to the entire model. Does it matter if your bilking a rich lawyer out of $40 or a poor retailer out of 35 cents? No, it's still unethical and wrong.
I've made many small websites and in my experience as of lately, I have found Google to be a difficult engine to predict ranking well in. I do not use black hat tactics but instead follow the rules: getting good links, titling pages correctly, clean html, and superior content.
But something is going on in google's engine that makes it extremely difficult to predict the ease of placement. And this is bad for everyone, not just webmasters. If you think Google is ahead and shoulders the superior search engine then you are probably not doing enough searches. More and more categories are getting spammed up with "made for Adsense" sites that serve no purpose other than to serve ads and make revenue for the site owner and Google. Then of course their is the 301 pagejacking issue which is very real. And then there is the good old fashioned spam sites that have no business being in the results anywhere, but consistently make first page for popular searches. But google has no motivation to change, not when Adsense revenues bring them billions and they are now a public company. As long as their brand name and the verb "google it" spreads, Google will no longer care about improving their algorithms and bringing the most relevent results to the searcher! There has not been a decent update in months now and the listings continue to stagnate slowly. I still use G for half my searches now, but for the other half I use Yahoo, and get a completely different set of results. Sometimes Y is better, sometimes G. I just can't believe any self respecting geek would limit him/herself to one engine.
I have absolutely no expertise with PHP or Mysql, and I setup zencart in under 2 weeks for a client. Yeah, you have to edit some PHP files with some overrides sometimes for maximum customizability, but it's all HTML and all the help you need are at the extremely helpful ZenCart forums.
Zencart has way more features than most ecommerce stores need, OSS, and you can use it with any host that supports Mysql and PHP. Yahoo costs at least $30 a month... a ripoff.
As an ecommerce merchant, it is true here as well that chargebacks take place before the merchant can defend itself. Only after the chargeback takes place and the money is taken out of the merchant's account can the merchant make a rebuttal. This has happenned a couple times to me in the last month as the item and service was delivered but the client didn't recognize our doing business as name. The real problem is companies like choicepoint cant take care of their business and the entire ecommerce world is blamed. This is the media's fault for not explaining that Choicepoint and Amazon have nothing to do with eachother.
I have a feeling the answer is yes, but here is what the article says:
TGFs have been correlated with lightning strikes and may be related to visible phenomena that occur in the upper atmosphere over thunderstorms, such as red sprites and blue jets. Just how these various phenomena are related is a question the RHESSI investigators plan to pursue in collaboration with other researchers around the world, Smith said.
Serirously- this isn't paperclips these people are selling ITS YOUR PERSONAL DATA. They need to be closed, and whoever responsible needs to go to jail- and everyone involved in covering up the crime deserves to live in poverty for the rest of their fucking lives.
No, although there *IS* a PhotoJpeg codec for QuickTime, this company would have to apply this software with "PhotoJpeg" codec and make an entirely new proprietary QT codec of their own.
You are failing to take in account the +100k Iraqis dead as an indirect result of what happened years ago.
And by the way, don't compare water with jet fuel, it makes no sense to.
Go back to the books. FOTR is the slowest of the three, things actually get fast paced later.
NORAD santa tracker
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Ho, Ho, Ho
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The NORAD santa tracker is a complete waste of taxpayer money- I saw this retarded thing on a science channel the other day and was not amused. Although I know the cold war is over and they're probably going a bit stir crazy in that mountain... I have a feeling some asshole four star general with too much power is behind this. Just makes me wonder once again why the hell I'm paying taxes in the first place.
In the pay per click world of google adwords (those text ads you see when you search) I advertise a free service. But since this free service is bundled with other nonfree services I put the prices on the ad itself.
So although they may be looking for something free, I don't pay for the click unless they know they're going to pay *something*, the visitor is better informed, and I get a higher conversion rate from the qualified traffic. So although this may not be on the exact topic of yours, I submit that honesty in advertising works, especially when you pay for performance.
Right, and just because 3/4 of all scientific papers on the issue say otherwise, you MUST be right because you know everything and all those scientists with PHDs are all just liberal hippies, right?
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"Moral relativism is not an excuse for bad behavior in any case"
So every American law is moral AND universal? Thank you for filling me in! I'll remember that next time I'm driving on the Autobahn WHERE THERE USUALLY ARE NO SPEED LIMITS AND THE ROAD IS ACTUALLY SAFER.
I will remember to follow the American laws and drive 55mph while everyone else is driving 155kph. Yeah, that'll be REAL safe AND moral! Hooray! Speed is not what kills, alcohol and idiots behind the wheel do.
"Your thinking is flawed. Please re-evaluate your position to be more in line with reason."
Your words give me a headache. Look, I'm not the 'neck with the sawed off muffler who passed you on the road today, so don't take your insecurities out by advocating ridiculous traffic enforcement methods.
Speaking of "moral relativism", If you believe that going 1 mph over the limit is immoral, than you sir, are a hypocrite.
If you're saying you don't drive 1 mph over the limit ever than you are either over 60 (no offense) or a liar.
Agreed. I'm sure some young fanboy mods may mod us down for saying this but the fact is the show just isnt funny anymore, but that's the truth: it isnt. The good writers are gone. What's worse, it's been like this for enough years now, and with many local fox stations not even showing classic episodes anymore, I could see many young viewers as seeing the show as overrated. A shame, really, because it used to be so brilliantly funny. I would rather see my favorite show die than see it in go on like this.
Actually most people know it doesn't really extend the daylight... people are pretty stupid but not THAT stupid.
I just like it because Im a lazy bastard and wake up late in the day anyway- so it virtually makes no difference to me.
Dumbass: AA came back and now has 53 stations across the country.
Here we go. After reading a few posts, the know it all cynics are out in full karma whoring force.
Only one of the statements hasnt yet been posted, but by now im sure it has:
-"Air isn't free!"
-"Air is really loud to fill a tank!"
-"Air is really dangerous!"
-"Air is ineffecient!"
-"Air is bad for the environment. Michael Chricton said so in his latest book."
But I guess in 20 years from now it wont matter who's right, left or wrong: we'll all be fucked. And some will still be in denial.
You would not be doing that for laughs if you had an Adwords account. Jackasses clicking on your legiitimate links are the threat to the entire model. Does it matter if your bilking a rich lawyer out of $40 or a poor retailer out of 35 cents? No, it's still unethical and wrong.
I've made many small websites and in my experience as of lately, I have found Google to be a difficult engine to predict ranking well in. I do not use black hat tactics but instead follow the rules: getting good links, titling pages correctly, clean html, and superior content.
But something is going on in google's engine that makes it extremely difficult to predict the ease of placement. And this is bad for everyone, not just webmasters. If you think Google is ahead and shoulders the superior search engine then you are probably not doing enough searches.
More and more categories are getting spammed up with "made for Adsense" sites that serve no purpose other than to serve ads and make revenue for the site owner and Google. Then of course their is the 301 pagejacking issue which is very real. And then there is the good old fashioned spam sites that have no business being in the results anywhere, but consistently make first page for popular searches.
But google has no motivation to change, not when Adsense revenues bring them billions and they are now a public company. As long as their brand name and the verb "google it" spreads, Google will no longer care about improving their algorithms and bringing the most relevent results to the searcher! There has not been a decent update in months now and the listings continue to stagnate slowly.
I still use G for half my searches now, but for the other half I use Yahoo, and get a completely different set of results. Sometimes Y is better, sometimes G. I just can't believe any self respecting geek would limit him/herself to one engine.
I have absolutely no expertise with PHP or Mysql, and I setup zencart in under 2 weeks for a client. Yeah, you have to edit some PHP files with some overrides sometimes for maximum customizability, but it's all HTML and all the help you need are at the extremely helpful ZenCart forums. Zencart has way more features than most ecommerce stores need, OSS, and you can use it with any host that supports Mysql and PHP. Yahoo costs at least $30 a month... a ripoff.
As an ecommerce merchant, it is true here as well that chargebacks take place before the merchant can defend itself. Only after the chargeback takes place and the money is taken out of the merchant's account can the merchant make a rebuttal.
This has happenned a couple times to me in the last month as the item and service was delivered but the client didn't recognize our doing business as name.
The real problem is companies like choicepoint cant take care of their business and the entire ecommerce world is blamed. This is the media's fault for not explaining that Choicepoint and Amazon have nothing to do with eachother.
Mainly good for flight sims. You will need someone likely to help you configure it: http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/
These gamma ray bursts are also known as red sprites, blue jets, and super lightning.
http://images.google.com/images?q=red%20sprites
Serirously- this isn't paperclips these people are selling ITS YOUR PERSONAL DATA. They need to be closed, and whoever responsible needs to go to jail- and everyone involved in covering up the crime deserves to live in poverty for the rest of their fucking lives.
Frankly I'm actuall glad there's so much "PPC is teh sucK" ignorance going on here. Less competitors for me.
No, although there *IS* a PhotoJpeg codec for QuickTime, this company would have to apply this software with "PhotoJpeg" codec and make an entirely new proprietary QT codec of their own.
It's the opposite of everything on Fox, funnier than anything else on TV. Your welcome.
By 2006, 40,000,000 downloaded.
If 1 in 100 (400,000) people donate an average of $10, that means he'll have about 4,000,000 easy...
I still like holding a real magazine in my hands. That's really the main reason people still subscribe to PC Gamer.
"It was like a series of commercials interrupted by lame banter."
Wrong. The reviews are good and it's the only show on G4 that's bearable.
http://eobglossary.gsfc.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImage s/images.php3?img_id=16774Verye s/images.php3Devastating
http://eobglossary.gsfc.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImag
If you donated to lokitorrent but not this, I don't know what to say to you...
You are failing to take in account the +100k Iraqis dead as an indirect result of what happened years ago. And by the way, don't compare water with jet fuel, it makes no sense to.
Go back to the books. FOTR is the slowest of the three, things actually get fast paced later.
The NORAD santa tracker is a complete waste of taxpayer money- I saw this retarded thing on a science channel the other day and was not amused. Although I know the cold war is over and they're probably going a bit stir crazy in that mountain... I have a feeling some asshole four star general with too much power is behind this.
Just makes me wonder once again why the hell I'm paying taxes in the first place.
In the pay per click world of google adwords (those text ads you see when you search) I advertise a free service. But since this free service is bundled with other nonfree services I put the prices on the ad itself.
So although they may be looking for something free, I don't pay for the click unless they know they're going to pay *something*, the visitor is better informed, and I get a higher conversion rate from the qualified traffic.
So although this may not be on the exact topic of yours, I submit that honesty in advertising works, especially when you pay for performance.
Right, and just because 3/4 of all scientific papers on the issue say otherwise, you MUST be right because you know everything and all those scientists with PHDs are all just liberal hippies, right?