I'm a child of the 80s, but I have to agree. What is so exciting about DeLoreans? Is it the gall-wings? Other than that they look like oversized, over-priced Toyota hatchbacks. I know they are made of stainless steel, but that couldn't really seem like a feature, even back then. Stainless steel at sheet metal thickness is basically just nickel.
Were those cars actually popular before Back to the Future? I don't remember seeing any on the road.
So... will you be able to seduce and bang your co-op team by hitting the top dialog option over and over? Cause I don't really see the point otherwise.
Making a varient with a rotary engine would definitely be cool, but it's a big trade off in terms of reliability. The Miata NB 1.8 liter is probably one of the most reliable engines out there. It's the last piece of the car likely to break.
Still, the Miata really could use some engine upgrade options. Mazda needs to bring back the Mazdaspeed turbo charger option, and offering a rotary engine would be awesome too. Out of their line up, the Miata is that car where that engine fits best, if they are killing the RX line.
Mazda has a real problem designing good looking cars of late. The RX-7 looked sweet for pretty much its entire run, which is saying a lot given how ugly most cars got in the early 90s. The RX-8 looks like it was designed by a team of people that each couldn't see what the others were doing.
They also messed up the Miata with the NC body revision. The design probably peeked with the NB body (flip up headlights aside, those were cool no matter how much the weighed).
It's really too bad, because both those cars are a lot of fun to drive.
My policy was always to just ignore the guards, and avoid escalating the situation, while still getting my images.
In the US, shopping mall security guards can escort you from the premises, so long as you go willingly. In some cases they technically can use force, but the legal liability in doing so is immense. Generally they have to call the police. It's not a universal rule that they will not use force, but most employers specifically instruct them not to, as a shopping center just looks like a big fat check to lawyer.
I used to do fine art photography, and I was always taken aback at how crazy shopping malls (in particular) are about their no photography policies. This was way before 9/11 and the hysteria that anyone with a camera must be casing the joint to blow it up. I can't count the number of times I was approached by security guards wanting to confiscate my film. Luckily I did some research after the first time, and refused to comply thereafter.
The guards definitely cannot confiscate anything, that's again the police's job. Whether or not the guards will know or care is another issue. These guys didn't get their jobs by getting strait-A report cards in high school.
Without getting too off-topic, most people would be surprised at how easy this system makes it to shoplift. Employees at most stores are specifically told to never attempt to apprehend a shop lifter. Back in college I knew a guy who's moral compass didn't exactly point full north. His "hobby" was to see how much he could steal any given day. He didn't mug anyone, he wasn't violent, but he did quite a bit of shoplifting. His crowning achievement was to steal a desktop computer from CompUSA using a forged receipt. Of course, the door guy checking receipts can't stop you either, but he can take down you license plate number and call the cops.
Do black lights actually look black when on to most people? I thought they only looked black when they're off. To me they've always looked white with purple edges when on. I thought that was normal.
When a saw the header I stopped at "Youtube Disables Comments" and thought for an instance that the world was improving for once. I should have known better.
Seriously, the iPad is designed to consume media, not create it. I don't understand the confusion on the issue.
In 2001, when I was in school, my father bought me an iBook, the first white one. It was about a thousand bucks, had a 1024 display, could run a few programs side by side under OS9 but not very well, and at the time was really cool. I used it to start a business that has kept me in bread and beer ever since.
In 2011, I bought an iPad for a new company me and a couple of guys are starting. It cost a little less then thousand bucks, has a 1024 display, can run a few programs side by side under iOS but not very well, and is at the time really cool. I use it to make sure that people with iPads can view the new website we created using a real computer.
Had my Dad bought me an iPad back then, I'd be flipping burgers today.
Yeah maybe it was the rental rate not the tax. This was a while ago, and no one has ever asked me that question since. I still have the same MD license.
The only time I ever felt screwed by Hertz was the time I specifically asked for a Subaru (it was snowing and I wanted the four wheel drive) and they gave me a Pontiac G6. I called them, confirmed they had it over the phone, and they promised to hold it for me. I even got there 30 minutes early. But no Subaru, instead I had to drive to Ithaca in a tiny little G6 during that terrible blizzard of 2008. I doubt that car had much of a transmission left, as I had to keep it in first the whole time and often at the red line to keep up with the bat-shit insane SUV drivers.
I meant to NJ from "The City". To anyone not familiar with NYC, only Manhattan counts as "The City" to locals. I once rented a car from Hertz in Manhattan and handed the clerk a MD drivers license. She asked me, "Do you have an address in the city?" I figured she just wanted a local, not out-of-state address, so I gave her the address of the place I was staying in Brooklyn. She gives snorts and says, "No in 'The City'"! Evidently she was asking because Brooklyn and Manhattan have different tax rates for rental cars, but since I was new in town I didn't know the lingo.
Nope. All of the pictures are from Brooklyn, with one exception which is from Governors Island. There are no bridges to NJ except the GW, which isn't featured, so all the shots with bridges are from Brooklyn. There is one picture from Williamsburg (or possibly Greenpoint) without a bridge, you can tell you are viewing the city from the east as the Chrysler building is to the right of the Empire State and closer to the camera.
They could use these magical three layers to filter farther upstream where likely several inconsiderate companies are flushing nasties into the river and make those companies pay for it. THEN people could swim in the river like they should be able to. Letting people put nasties into the river is the problem. Duh.
Good luck with that. Most of the ecological damage to the east river (including one of the largest and longest in duration oil spills in history) was done a long time ago by companies that no longer exist. Putting something up river would be ineffective as the riverbed has been contaminated in all directions for over a century.
Still, it's New York. If you care about whether or not something is clean, it's not where you live. The whole fucking city smells like rotting garbage and urine in the summer.
It's also important to note in that article that the income disparity favoring young women decreased as they get older because they leave the work place to start families, not because they fail to be promoted.
My personal experience bears this out. Almost all of the women I know make more then the men I know, even though they come from mostly the same background (white, middle class, liberal arts degree). The women get a head start as they have equivalent skills, but are also physically attractive (the much older boss tends to be male). However unlike the men, many if not most of the women's primary ambition is to find a man wealthy enough that they can quit and raise children, so they tend to gravitate toward older men, particularly bankers.
I always found it a bit silly that we take better care of our criminals than we do of our homeless. Sure, some homeless refuse help and just want to get their next fix, but they are far from the majority. Those are just the ones that you will see most often due to their drug dependency.
A lot of the homeless people that you would assume are drug addicts are actually schizophrenic or have other debilitating mental issues. They also don't have access to health care. Some might also be drug addicts as well as crazy, as self medicating is common (for instance schizophrenics tend to smoke a lot as the nicotine helps them keep it together a little).
I think the difference is that while Top Gear does insane stunts and paints them as "reviews" in the case of the Tesla Roadster they pretty much just took it out and said it was junk. It's been a while since I've seen the episode, but I seem to remember that they claimed Tesla had given them multiple cars, none of which worked for more then a few minutes. It wasn't like they were out running a Corvette with a Fiesta in a shopping mall. It wasn't presented as comedy. It was if what Tesla says is true, just libel.
I own a Miata, and while you could probably alter it to do ok in dirt (proper tires, weights in the trunk, a reinforced clutch), with a factory set up I totally believe the dog would win. I'm surprised they even made it around the track without damaging the drive train. My brother destroyed the clutch on a CRV trying to drive it on the beach, and he wasn't even trying to go fast.
News is like porn. There are so many sources giving it out for free, unless there is something really specific you are looking for it's not worth paying. Oh and they are both usually about people getting fucked.
"Though there is still no hard scientific evidence to explain why, there is little doubt now that earthquakes do tend to occur in clusters"
"Fucking plate tectonics, how do they work?"
Hint: It's moving in more then one direction at any given time. Think of them as slowly spinning instead of moving linearly (though they do move gradually westward due to the rotation of the earth too).
Just try using Western Union. Then come back and whine about a 2% transaction fee.
It's especially hilarious because WU will actually ask you if you are sending money to make a purchase, because that is not allowed. You have to make up a story that you are sending money to your old roommate, for bills you never paid (even though you are actually buying some Japanese cell phone that turns into a small dog with laser eyes).
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I'm a child of the 80s, but I have to agree. What is so exciting about DeLoreans? Is it the gall-wings? Other than that they look like oversized, over-priced Toyota hatchbacks. I know they are made of stainless steel, but that couldn't really seem like a feature, even back then. Stainless steel at sheet metal thickness is basically just nickel.
Were those cars actually popular before Back to the Future? I don't remember seeing any on the road.
So ... will you be able to seduce and bang your co-op team by hitting the top dialog option over and over? Cause I don't really see the point otherwise.
Making a varient with a rotary engine would definitely be cool, but it's a big trade off in terms of reliability. The Miata NB 1.8 liter is probably one of the most reliable engines out there. It's the last piece of the car likely to break.
Still, the Miata really could use some engine upgrade options. Mazda needs to bring back the Mazdaspeed turbo charger option, and offering a rotary engine would be awesome too. Out of their line up, the Miata is that car where that engine fits best, if they are killing the RX line.
Mazda has a real problem designing good looking cars of late. The RX-7 looked sweet for pretty much its entire run, which is saying a lot given how ugly most cars got in the early 90s. The RX-8 looks like it was designed by a team of people that each couldn't see what the others were doing.
They also messed up the Miata with the NC body revision. The design probably peeked with the NB body (flip up headlights aside, those were cool no matter how much the weighed).
It's really too bad, because both those cars are a lot of fun to drive.
He owns a coffee shop and works part time for a charity. I guess he got all his hooliganism out of his system when he was young.
My policy was always to just ignore the guards, and avoid escalating the situation, while still getting my images.
In the US, shopping mall security guards can escort you from the premises, so long as you go willingly. In some cases they technically can use force, but the legal liability in doing so is immense. Generally they have to call the police. It's not a universal rule that they will not use force, but most employers specifically instruct them not to, as a shopping center just looks like a big fat check to lawyer.
I used to do fine art photography, and I was always taken aback at how crazy shopping malls (in particular) are about their no photography policies. This was way before 9/11 and the hysteria that anyone with a camera must be casing the joint to blow it up. I can't count the number of times I was approached by security guards wanting to confiscate my film. Luckily I did some research after the first time, and refused to comply thereafter.
The guards definitely cannot confiscate anything, that's again the police's job. Whether or not the guards will know or care is another issue. These guys didn't get their jobs by getting strait-A report cards in high school.
Without getting too off-topic, most people would be surprised at how easy this system makes it to shoplift. Employees at most stores are specifically told to never attempt to apprehend a shop lifter. Back in college I knew a guy who's moral compass didn't exactly point full north. His "hobby" was to see how much he could steal any given day. He didn't mug anyone, he wasn't violent, but he did quite a bit of shoplifting. His crowning achievement was to steal a desktop computer from CompUSA using a forged receipt. Of course, the door guy checking receipts can't stop you either, but he can take down you license plate number and call the cops.
I didn't think so. The summary links to an illustration that is very misleading.
Do black lights actually look black when on to most people? I thought they only looked black when they're off. To me they've always looked white with purple edges when on. I thought that was normal.
Well if TFA is to be believed, they both will be paid the same: nothing. Because both jobs will be done by robots.
When a saw the header I stopped at "Youtube Disables Comments" and thought for an instance that the world was improving for once. I should have known better.
Seriously, the iPad is designed to consume media, not create it. I don't understand the confusion on the issue.
In 2001, when I was in school, my father bought me an iBook, the first white one. It was about a thousand bucks, had a 1024 display, could run a few programs side by side under OS9 but not very well, and at the time was really cool. I used it to start a business that has kept me in bread and beer ever since.
In 2011, I bought an iPad for a new company me and a couple of guys are starting. It cost a little less then thousand bucks, has a 1024 display, can run a few programs side by side under iOS but not very well, and is at the time really cool. I use it to make sure that people with iPads can view the new website we created using a real computer.
Had my Dad bought me an iPad back then, I'd be flipping burgers today.
I can't tell whether you are an idiot, a self centered pig, or a really good troll. Kudos.
Yeah maybe it was the rental rate not the tax. This was a while ago, and no one has ever asked me that question since. I still have the same MD license.
The only time I ever felt screwed by Hertz was the time I specifically asked for a Subaru (it was snowing and I wanted the four wheel drive) and they gave me a Pontiac G6. I called them, confirmed they had it over the phone, and they promised to hold it for me. I even got there 30 minutes early. But no Subaru, instead I had to drive to Ithaca in a tiny little G6 during that terrible blizzard of 2008. I doubt that car had much of a transmission left, as I had to keep it in first the whole time and often at the red line to keep up with the bat-shit insane SUV drivers.
I meant to NJ from "The City". To anyone not familiar with NYC, only Manhattan counts as "The City" to locals. I once rented a car from Hertz in Manhattan and handed the clerk a MD drivers license. She asked me, "Do you have an address in the city?" I figured she just wanted a local, not out-of-state address, so I gave her the address of the place I was staying in Brooklyn. She gives snorts and says, "No in 'The City'"! Evidently she was asking because Brooklyn and Manhattan have different tax rates for rental cars, but since I was new in town I didn't know the lingo.
Nope. All of the pictures are from Brooklyn, with one exception which is from Governors Island. There are no bridges to NJ except the GW, which isn't featured, so all the shots with bridges are from Brooklyn. There is one picture from Williamsburg (or possibly Greenpoint) without a bridge, you can tell you are viewing the city from the east as the Chrysler building is to the right of the Empire State and closer to the camera.
They could use these magical three layers to filter farther upstream where likely several inconsiderate companies are flushing nasties into the river and make those companies pay for it. THEN people could swim in the river like they should be able to. Letting people put nasties into the river is the problem. Duh.
Good luck with that. Most of the ecological damage to the east river (including one of the largest and longest in duration oil spills in history) was done a long time ago by companies that no longer exist. Putting something up river would be ineffective as the riverbed has been contaminated in all directions for over a century.
Still, it's New York. If you care about whether or not something is clean, it's not where you live. The whole fucking city smells like rotting garbage and urine in the summer.
White men earn substantially more for the same work as either women or non-white men.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/nyregion/03women.html
Not anymore, not everywhere.
It's also important to note in that article that the income disparity favoring young women decreased as they get older because they leave the work place to start families, not because they fail to be promoted.
My personal experience bears this out. Almost all of the women I know make more then the men I know, even though they come from mostly the same background (white, middle class, liberal arts degree). The women get a head start as they have equivalent skills, but are also physically attractive (the much older boss tends to be male). However unlike the men, many if not most of the women's primary ambition is to find a man wealthy enough that they can quit and raise children, so they tend to gravitate toward older men, particularly bankers.
I always found it a bit silly that we take better care of our criminals than we do of our homeless. Sure, some homeless refuse help and just want to get their next fix, but they are far from the majority. Those are just the ones that you will see most often due to their drug dependency.
A lot of the homeless people that you would assume are drug addicts are actually schizophrenic or have other debilitating mental issues. They also don't have access to health care. Some might also be drug addicts as well as crazy, as self medicating is common (for instance schizophrenics tend to smoke a lot as the nicotine helps them keep it together a little).
Damn, my mod points just expired or I'd give you a +1 Insightful. Instead I'll just leave this right here:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
I think the difference is that while Top Gear does insane stunts and paints them as "reviews" in the case of the Tesla Roadster they pretty much just took it out and said it was junk. It's been a while since I've seen the episode, but I seem to remember that they claimed Tesla had given them multiple cars, none of which worked for more then a few minutes. It wasn't like they were out running a Corvette with a Fiesta in a shopping mall. It wasn't presented as comedy. It was if what Tesla says is true, just libel.
I own a Miata, and while you could probably alter it to do ok in dirt (proper tires, weights in the trunk, a reinforced clutch), with a factory set up I totally believe the dog would win. I'm surprised they even made it around the track without damaging the drive train. My brother destroyed the clutch on a CRV trying to drive it on the beach, and he wasn't even trying to go fast.
News is like porn. There are so many sources giving it out for free, unless there is something really specific you are looking for it's not worth paying. Oh and they are both usually about people getting fucked.
And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist
Y’all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed.
"Though there is still no hard scientific evidence to explain why, there is little doubt now that earthquakes do tend to occur in clusters"
"Fucking plate tectonics, how do they work?"
Hint: It's moving in more then one direction at any given time. Think of them as slowly spinning instead of moving linearly (though they do move gradually westward due to the rotation of the earth too).
Just try using Western Union. Then come back and whine about a 2% transaction fee.
It's especially hilarious because WU will actually ask you if you are sending money to make a purchase, because that is not allowed. You have to make up a story that you are sending money to your old roommate, for bills you never paid (even though you are actually buying some Japanese cell phone that turns into a small dog with laser eyes).