This from the guy who wrote "What with basically every government agency spending their entire budget surplus on ammo (including agencies like the SSA and IRS that don't even have guns to put it in)...."
Really? You need to either start or stop smoking something.
Enterprise Risk Management...i.e., a computerized way to cover one's management nakedness so the stockholders and lenders don't find out how clueless management really is.
Wait for the Republicans? Have you listened to Rand Paul or the Svengali of the Republicans, Grover Norquist? These guys are essentially isolationists and figure the U.S. doesn't need much of military because the rest of the world will leave us alone if we leave it for the Chinese to rule.
"Nobody is afraid of China"? Oh? Have you quizzed the Japanese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Laotians (ask about the new dams China plans on rivers flowing into Laos), Burma (similar water hegemony fears), India (they have found a way to revive their border conflict now that China is moving into contested territory), Filipinos (check out the S. China Sea claims of China), etc.
Just a general observation, pesticides generally work on a range of insects. Killing off the insects is probably not a wise idea given they are near the base of the food chain for many mammals.
Yep, what self-respecting suicide nut wouldn't want to go for a football stadium rather than blowing a plane out of the sky just as it approaches or takes off from a busy airport.
Indiana University is not simply a university; it is a state school system with several regional campuses. Oddly enough, Purdue is Indiana's second state school system with its own regional campuses. They both share a campus at IUPUI (Indianapolis). I'd be very surprised if there is any free time left for this. And if there is, IU would likely just lease it to Purdue.
All in all, it is probably cost effective for them to do this. They are unlikely to have made this decision in a vacuum; they are well aware of the alternatives. (I'm an IU alum).
Depends upon what you mean by public. Most of their money these days come not from the state but from tuition, grants, etc. Many "public" unis are in the same position because lawmakers have increasingly found education to be not worth their while.
They are also used by kids younger than 10 years old to accidentally kill their playmates or parents or siblings. Yes, you can lock them up and keep them unloaded which means you are already dead from an intruder by the time you discover them.
One time in Indiana in about 1974-6 in a little town called Otterbein just outside of West Lafayette (home to Purdue University), a man asked his 4-5 year old daughter to get daddy's shotgun from the bed room so he could clean it. She did, but she tripped just before she could hand it to him and blew his head off. Clean off. I didn't feel bad for the moron with no head, but that little girl was probably scarred for life.
Your whole reply was pure speculation, unless the government has been giving you the memos, stop reading Mother Jones. You whole argument is that (1) you don't know what the government is doing, (2) therefore it is lying to you. Brilliant, Einstein.
Everyone? Wow, are you from another planet? The only ones I know who thought that were a bunch of geeks who watched too much TV in their formative years.
That's what you think. It is actually an acolyte of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Expect to bow down under their fearful, wrathful gaze 8 and 1/2 times a day.
And it is a 7 Billion well spent. The alternative is coal or gas fired power plants which then must have their emissions scrubbed but will still pollute. Pick your poison. Last I checked, the oil companies bellied up to the taxpayer bar for 5 Billion every year.
Yes, but it wasn't anything the U.S. planned. It occurred for two main reasons: (1) the Great Recession, (2) discovery and use of massive natural gas. The first was a result of many factors, government was one is several ways, but the government didn't plan to tank the economy. The natural gas was mostly private companies that got really good at finding and exploiting new reserves...regardless of what it did to the environment or what the environmental impact of putting all those chemicals underground to frack the shale formations will be.
That might explain why the Universe is trying to kill us. Those asteroids periodically buzzing the Earth were sent there, the Universe's aim is just a bit off. Sooner or later, it will get the target sighted in. Sometimes it is in the form of Gaea who periodically tosses an earthquake, or when she's really pissy, a super volcano...just for a little recreational resurfacing.
BS. Take your basic household feline. It's tricked its owners into feeding, watering, and petting it. Hell, it has even tricked them into taking out the dooty. No living life form comes close to that kind of intelligence.
Speak for yourself. When I barbecue a marshmallow, I rather enjoy the immediate entropy gain.
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No dick. The start button removal was a collective decision to use the only strategy MS knows: use the desktop monopoly to force their way into a mobile monopoly. If they could get punters to actually like Metro, then they'd like to see it on their mobiles as well...errr....or something....
Not really. There is no right to have Miranda spoken to you. If the police feel there is a good chance of other threats by the fellow clamming up, its their judgement to pursue a questioning. And people like you will happily sue the ass off the police if there was a threat, it explodes, and they didn't track it down first.
The law abiding is the tricky part. Here was a loon who had showed he was perfectly fine with mass casualties. The police had tracked him to a neighborhood. He could be any house, he might have fled there because he had accomplices.
So, Mr. Police Captain, do you (a) tell everyone and their children to go on with their lives because shit just happens, or (b) tell everyone to stay put while you track him down the rest of the way or at least prove the area was safe for the inhabitants. Do not forget you took an oath to protect the people. So choose, which one, Einstein?
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This from the guy who wrote "What with basically every government agency spending their entire budget surplus on ammo (including agencies like the SSA and IRS that don't even have guns to put it in)...."
Really? You need to either start or stop smoking something.
Enterprise Risk Management...i.e., a computerized way to cover one's management nakedness so the stockholders and lenders don't find out how clueless management really is.
Or who don't like us.
Wait for the Republicans? Have you listened to Rand Paul or the Svengali of the Republicans, Grover Norquist? These guys are essentially isolationists and figure the U.S. doesn't need much of military because the rest of the world will leave us alone if we leave it for the Chinese to rule.
Yep, after what Stalin did to the USSR, my guess is you folks aren't that scared of death at all.
"Nobody is afraid of China"? Oh? Have you quizzed the Japanese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Laotians (ask about the new dams China plans on rivers flowing into Laos), Burma (similar water hegemony fears), India (they have found a way to revive their border conflict now that China is moving into contested territory), Filipinos (check out the S. China Sea claims of China), etc.
Just a general observation, pesticides generally work on a range of insects. Killing off the insects is probably not a wise idea given they are near the base of the food chain for many mammals.
Yep, what self-respecting suicide nut wouldn't want to go for a football stadium rather than blowing a plane out of the sky just as it approaches or takes off from a busy airport.
Indiana University is not simply a university; it is a state school system with several regional campuses. Oddly enough, Purdue is Indiana's second state school system with its own regional campuses. They both share a campus at IUPUI (Indianapolis). I'd be very surprised if there is any free time left for this. And if there is, IU would likely just lease it to Purdue.
All in all, it is probably cost effective for them to do this. They are unlikely to have made this decision in a vacuum; they are well aware of the alternatives. (I'm an IU alum).
Depends upon what you mean by public. Most of their money these days come not from the state but from tuition, grants, etc. Many "public" unis are in the same position because lawmakers have increasingly found education to be not worth their while.
They are also used by kids younger than 10 years old to accidentally kill their playmates or parents or siblings. Yes, you can lock them up and keep them unloaded which means you are already dead from an intruder by the time you discover them.
One time in Indiana in about 1974-6 in a little town called Otterbein just outside of West Lafayette (home to Purdue University), a man asked his 4-5 year old daughter to get daddy's shotgun from the bed room so he could clean it. She did, but she tripped just before she could hand it to him and blew his head off. Clean off. I didn't feel bad for the moron with no head, but that little girl was probably scarred for life.
Your whole reply was pure speculation, unless the government has been giving you the memos, stop reading Mother Jones. You whole argument is that (1) you don't know what the government is doing, (2) therefore it is lying to you. Brilliant, Einstein.
Everyone? Wow, are you from another planet? The only ones I know who thought that were a bunch of geeks who watched too much TV in their formative years.
That's what you think. It is actually an acolyte of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Expect to bow down under their fearful, wrathful gaze 8 and 1/2 times a day.
And it is a 7 Billion well spent. The alternative is coal or gas fired power plants which then must have their emissions scrubbed but will still pollute. Pick your poison. Last I checked, the oil companies bellied up to the taxpayer bar for 5 Billion every year.
Yes, but it wasn't anything the U.S. planned. It occurred for two main reasons: (1) the Great Recession, (2) discovery and use of massive natural gas. The first was a result of many factors, government was one is several ways, but the government didn't plan to tank the economy. The natural gas was mostly private companies that got really good at finding and exploiting new reserves...regardless of what it did to the environment or what the environmental impact of putting all those chemicals underground to frack the shale formations will be.
That might explain why the Universe is trying to kill us. Those asteroids periodically buzzing the Earth were sent there, the Universe's aim is just a bit off. Sooner or later, it will get the target sighted in. Sometimes it is in the form of Gaea who periodically tosses an earthquake, or when she's really pissy, a super volcano...just for a little recreational resurfacing.
The Universe hates intelligence, we're all dead.
BS. Take your basic household feline. It's tricked its owners into feeding, watering, and petting it. Hell, it has even tricked them into taking out the dooty. No living life form comes close to that kind of intelligence.
Speak for yourself. When I barbecue a marshmallow, I rather enjoy the immediate entropy gain.
No dick. The start button removal was a collective decision to use the only strategy MS knows: use the desktop monopoly to force their way into a mobile monopoly. If they could get punters to actually like Metro, then they'd like to see it on their mobiles as well...errr....or something....
Nah, Ballmer's doing to MS exactly like some of us would like to do to MS. MS deserves Ballmer.
With a kinetic weapon, yes. Just wait until the Islamic nutjobs get their hands on Syria's chemical weapons.
Not really. There is no right to have Miranda spoken to you. If the police feel there is a good chance of other threats by the fellow clamming up, its their judgement to pursue a questioning. And people like you will happily sue the ass off the police if there was a threat, it explodes, and they didn't track it down first.
The law abiding is the tricky part. Here was a loon who had showed he was perfectly fine with mass casualties. The police had tracked him to a neighborhood. He could be any house, he might have fled there because he had accomplices.
So, Mr. Police Captain, do you (a) tell everyone and their children to go on with their lives because shit just happens, or (b) tell everyone to stay put while you track him down the rest of the way or at least prove the area was safe for the inhabitants. Do not forget you took an oath to protect the people. So choose, which one, Einstein?
reneging....jesus, learn to spell.