If you look at the history of any Communist country, there are always rich people: namely the party leaders. They have the means to grab an unfair share of the wealth, so of course they do. And they flaunt it over the "plebes" every chance they get. Only thing, if you are a plebe, you will live and die that way, because there is no way the bosses have any intention of sharing their power (and thus wealth) with you, no matter how clever or ambitious you are. If you aren't a party boss, or his son or daughter, you're fucked.
I've had a CRV for ten years and love it. I find there is plenty of room inside and it handles well. Excellent traction in all weather, and bulletproof Honda quality.
Mind you, if the Element had been around back then, I would have certainly considered it. Freakin ugly though.
I find it very unlikely that anything the theory of everything would extend relativity with would make relativity void for the practical purposes of trying to throw mass around at or above the speed of light
But, currently unforseeable developments in physics may enable us to "colonize the galaxy" (in some sense that we can't currently imagine) without throwing mass around at or above the speed of light. After all, horses can't run much faster, people can't shout much further, and mathematicians can't do long division much faster now than they did 200 years ago. But these facts don't limit how fast we can travel, communicate or calculate today, even though someone from the past would probably assume they would.
And I do also believe that there *is* a final theory of everything (that is, everything can be explained naturally), and that we are getting relatively close
Ah yes, "relatively close": one of the futurist's favourite phrases, along with "on the verge", "fairly soon" and "just around the corner". If that were so, then everything would already be explained but for a smattering of rounding errors. When 96% of the universe is entirely mysterious (either "dark matter" or "dark energy"), we are not "relatively close" to anything.
In fact, politicians definitely do pay attention to letters and phonecalls. Even if they don't read them personally, they will have a staffer to read and summarize them. If you can get a few dozen people to: 1. write a letter and 2. promise to convince a few of their friends to do the same, etc then eventually there could be enough people to make a difference.
Where do you think these asshat laws come from? Its because somebody who will benefit from its passage has done exactly that. I know, I once worked with a PR agency, and organizing letter-writing and phone-in campaigns was their major activity.
It was explained to me this way: It's all about getting up to pee in the dark late at night.
If a man pees standing up, and the seat is in the wrong position (down) he might get pee all over
the seat. Which, since the seat is not absorbent, is no big deal.
On the other hand, if a womans pees (sitting down, of course) and the seat is in the wrong position (up) she could go to sit on nothing, and end up in the bowl with her ass in the water. She could even end up being stuck there.
I suppose the second situation really is worse. But funnier.
Also, I had the impression that Adama and Tigh were supposed to be anal-obsessive about being "old-school" in every possible way. This had made them very unpopular in the Colonial Fleet, who regarded them as dinosaurs, but ironically also saved them from Baltar's treachery.
What kind of DVR is yours? The remotes that come with most satellite receivers
don't explicitly have a Jump button, but can be programmed to do that anyway.
You seem to have spend days of work and completely realtered your life, just to avoid seeing adds, you are spending your relaxation time to avoid watching adds. You are on a major quest to save the world from something that is not a real threat.
I don't think it means going outside fully dressed in 10C air. I think it means that your skin is 10C, as it would be if you were submerged in 10C water. Or beer.
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There is no such thing as "post scarcity".
If you look at the history of any Communist country, there are always rich people: namely the party leaders. They have the means to grab an unfair share of the wealth, so of course they do. And they flaunt it over the "plebes" every chance they get. Only thing, if you are a plebe, you will live and die that way, because there is no way the bosses have any intention of sharing their power (and thus wealth) with you, no matter how clever or ambitious you are. If you aren't a party boss, or his son or daughter, you're fucked.
Aren't clay pots porous? I would think something non-porous like glass would work better.
I've had a CRV for ten years and love it. I find there is plenty of room inside and it handles well. Excellent traction in all weather, and bulletproof Honda quality.
Mind you, if the Element had been around back then, I would have certainly considered it. Freakin ugly though.
Cool link!
In fact, politicians definitely do pay attention to letters and phonecalls. Even if they don't read them personally, they will have a staffer to read and summarize them. If you can get a few dozen people to:
1. write a letter and
2. promise to convince a few of their friends to do the same, etc
then eventually there could be enough people to make a difference.
Where do you think these asshat laws come from? Its because somebody who will benefit from its passage has done exactly that. I know, I once worked with a PR agency, and organizing letter-writing and phone-in campaigns was their major activity.
No, its called humor.
Or in other words, "WOOOSH!"
It was explained to me this way: It's all about getting up to pee in the dark late at night.
If a man pees standing up, and the seat is in the wrong position (down) he might get pee all over the seat. Which, since the seat is not absorbent, is no big deal.
On the other hand, if a womans pees (sitting down, of course) and the seat is in the wrong position (up) she could go to sit on nothing, and end up in the bowl with her ass in the water. She could even end up being stuck there.
I suppose the second situation really is worse. But funnier.
Reminds me of http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/ 31/1928251/.
Also, I had the impression that Adama and Tigh were supposed to be anal-obsessive about being "old-school" in every possible way.
This had made them very unpopular in the Colonial Fleet, who regarded them as dinosaurs, but ironically also saved them from Baltar's treachery.
--- kale
I see your Vonage and raise you two HeadOn's.
Too late. I just filed a patent on "Up-Down Thumb Rating for DVR Commercial Rating".
I gather that's to prevent the laid-off workers from implementing some kind of revenge-sabotage on the way out.
Still rather mean-spirited.
Except you have no control over whether or not the caption is accurate.
I loved those books!
Fire.