And the bird likely wasn't free either. But it's cost was pigeon feed compared to the cost of getting a Telekom line installed. Also, pigeon breeders don't have to bribe the government communications workers to ensure continued service. (I'm told you have to do this in India, I'm not sure about SA.) At any rate, one should not be surprised when a government licensed monopoly provides poor service.
No argument from me there. The point I was trying to make is that the Russians wouldn't have any problem whatsoever screwing over their German neighbors -- in fact, they would probably laugh while they were shutting off the valves. On the other hand, it is a two-edged sword, and Russia needs the foreign currency these natural gas exports provide, so I don't see them turning it off long term, just long enough to jack up the price.
There are some hefty subsidies for energy put back into the grid If the price that the electric utility buys power at exceeds the price they sell it at, don't they risk customers just installing two meters, buying power with one and selling it back at a profit with the other? Seriously, I find it difficult to believe that they can generate power with a home natural gas generator for less cost than they can buy it from the electric company.
Now they want to put 100.000 people in a mercy of their old friends. What, are the Russians still sore about those 6 million Russians that the Germans killed? That was over 60 years ago... they need to just get over it! What's a few million casualties between friends?
If you had a hydrogen economy, excess power wouldn't be a problem. As someone else suggested, you could divert all the excess power into cracking H20 into hydrogen and oxygen, store it, and use it instead of fossil fuel to power automobiles and/or to run hydrogen power plants in times of peak demand. That would certainly be a lot better for the environment (at least in terms of C02 production) then these frickin' natural gas generators.
As far as using more natural gas driving up the cost of nitrate in fertilizer, doesn't a huge amount of natural gas just get wasted in the production and refining of oil anyway? The El Segundo refinery always had a huge flame coming out the end of a tower, which I assumed was burning off natural gas and other by-products of oil refining, because wasn't economically profitable to capture it.
Since Mercury is at least 46 million miles from our Sun, I'm pretty sure if your were parked "a few million miles away" from most of these stars, your eyes would be registering extreme pain from the heat, and you would really care about the color. Of course, most of the pictures are composed of millions of stars that are themselves at least thousands of light years apart, so I'm not sure how you would get within "a few million miles" of the subject of the picture.
Linksys is owned by Cisco. Linksys makes devices that do most of what the Cisco boxes do at a fraction of the cost. If they were to switch the Cisco routers to Linux, they would effectively be telling their customers "there is no benefit to buying our high-end boxes over a Linksys router". Actually, the reason they are sticking with IOS is that people have payed and continue to pay thousands of dollars to get Cisco CCNA certification. Switching to Linux would render all that training obsolete, and mean that anybody could now administer a Cisco router, instead of just highly trained professionals like Terry Childs. So, while there would be no downside for their customers if Cisco switched all their products to Linux, there would be a huge downside for Cisco's bottom line. After all, what's more important: the short term profits of your company, or the long term best interests of your customers?
officers advised Bungie officials to transport the gun more discretely in the future.
Carrying a gun in plain sight is perfectly legal, but if you hide it, it becomes "carrying a concealed weapon". Without a permit, that IS a crime. So the police are advising Bungie officials to break that law?
Well, you can tear pages out of a book when you run out of paper, but a kindle just doesn't seem to work nearly as well (as kindling for building a fire... now get your mind out of the gutter!)
The whole point of a school library is to go there, find a book you need to reference, make copies of the relevant pages, and go. I thought the whole point of a school library was to go there, check out the back issues of Playboy on microfilm, and make prints of the best pic... er, articles. Sorry, my bad! (Yes, the UofA library did have back issues of Playboy on microfilm when I was in highschool. For reasons I could never fathom, they appeared to have concentrated on preserving the text and skipped over most of the pictures. Of course, microfilm is all black & white anyway, so it works much better on text.)
many GW?!? One GW is more than enough!!! Wait... you mean you're not talking about Bush? You mean GW is really the correct abbreviation for gigawatt? Uh... never mind!
The business owner was looking for a new receptionist, and couldn't decide which of they applicants to hire, so he decided to do a test. He accidentally "dropped" a $100 bill in front of each of them. The first just handed the money back to him. The second took the money, then came back later saying "I invested that $100 you dropped in oil futures. Here's your $100, plus $50 profit." The last slyly pocketed the money and didn't say anything about it.
Which one did he hire?
The one with the biggest tits, of course!
Post his phone number on the M4M section of craigslist, and see how he feels getting calls from people looking for gay sex at all hours of the day and night! Just don't be so stupid as to use your real email address! I bet that cop would be screaming for blood if somebody did something similar to him.
When they can get the price tag on these down below $500 instead of $5000, then they'll catch on. Till then, it's an awful lot of money to pay for something of so little utility and so easily stolen. Why should I pay $5000 for one of these when I can get a decent bicycle or electric scooter for about $300?
Michael Richards was never arrested for his bad judgement because it is not unlawful to call someone a "nigger". That still doesn't make it a good idea to do so. In a way I agree with you, "hate crimes" should be evaluated as crimes regardless of whether or not prejudice was involved. Killing someone isn't really made worse because you hate members of their ethnic group. However, racial intimidation IS made worse by a history of violence against that group. So, a gesture like hanging a noose in a tree, which in and of itself should not be a crime, does become a crime when it is done in a context of racial tension, because it carries with it the implicit threat of violence. As long as your statements would not be interpreted by a reasonable person and carrying a threat of violence, you are in fact legally entitled to use words with bad connotations in the US. A black calling another black "nigger" is different than a white calling a black "nigger" because blacks don't have a history of lynching other blacks for their skin color. (Ethnic heritage and religion, yes, but not skin color.) As long as your remarks are not interpreted as threatening or coercive by those hearing them, you are free to say whatever you want. Do members of what you refer to as "protected classes" frequently misinterpret words or actions a threatening? Yes, they do, and that is the only legitimate basis for your resentment. Both sides need to be reasonable and cut the other side some slack. Try not to say or do things that could be interpreted as threatening, and try to discern someone's real intent before reacting.
Or, they just wait until both participants clearly break some other laws and arrest both of them. Isn't that what they do or should do in all cases, regardless of the affiliation of the participants?
Expressing an opinion that Obama (or Bush) should be shot is likely to earn you a visit from the Secret Service, although it doesn't usually result in charges filed.
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And the bird likely wasn't free either. But it's cost was pigeon feed compared to the cost of getting a Telekom line installed. Also, pigeon breeders don't have to bribe the government communications workers to ensure continued service. (I'm told you have to do this in India, I'm not sure about SA.) At any rate, one should not be surprised when a government licensed monopoly provides poor service.
They could build them, but who would they get to clean them? (Ewww!) At least RealGirls (TM) are somewhat self-cleaning.
No argument from me there. The point I was trying to make is that the Russians wouldn't have any problem whatsoever screwing over their German neighbors -- in fact, they would probably laugh while they were shutting off the valves. On the other hand, it is a two-edged sword, and Russia needs the foreign currency these natural gas exports provide, so I don't see them turning it off long term, just long enough to jack up the price.
They can build a robotic ISS supply ship, but they STILL can't build a decent sexbot? What the heck is wrong with those people!
There are some hefty subsidies for energy put back into the grid If the price that the electric utility buys power at exceeds the price they sell it at, don't they risk customers just installing two meters, buying power with one and selling it back at a profit with the other? Seriously, I find it difficult to believe that they can generate power with a home natural gas generator for less cost than they can buy it from the electric company.
Now they want to put 100.000 people in a mercy of their old friends. What, are the Russians still sore about those 6 million Russians that the Germans killed? That was over 60 years ago... they need to just get over it! What's a few million casualties between friends?
Ok, smartass... then what are we going to do in 10 billion years when our sun collapses? Damn your short-term thinking!
If you had a hydrogen economy, excess power wouldn't be a problem. As someone else suggested, you could divert all the excess power into cracking H20 into hydrogen and oxygen, store it, and use it instead of fossil fuel to power automobiles and/or to run hydrogen power plants in times of peak demand. That would certainly be a lot better for the environment (at least in terms of C02 production) then these frickin' natural gas generators.
As far as using more natural gas driving up the cost of nitrate in fertilizer, doesn't a huge amount of natural gas just get wasted in the production and refining of oil anyway? The El Segundo refinery always had a huge flame coming out the end of a tower, which I assumed was burning off natural gas and other by-products of oil refining, because wasn't economically profitable to capture it.
the pigeon won.
Since Mercury is at least 46 million miles from our Sun, I'm pretty sure if your were parked "a few million miles away" from most of these stars, your eyes would be registering extreme pain from the heat, and you would really care about the color. Of course, most of the pictures are composed of millions of stars that are themselves at least thousands of light years apart, so I'm not sure how you would get within "a few million miles" of the subject of the picture.
When will they announce the iPod touch with built-in camera?
Linksys is owned by Cisco. Linksys makes devices that do most of what the Cisco boxes do at a fraction of the cost. If they were to switch the Cisco routers to Linux, they would effectively be telling their customers "there is no benefit to buying our high-end boxes over a Linksys router". Actually, the reason they are sticking with IOS is that people have payed and continue to pay thousands of dollars to get Cisco CCNA certification. Switching to Linux would render all that training obsolete, and mean that anybody could now administer a Cisco router, instead of just highly trained professionals like Terry Childs. So, while there would be no downside for their customers if Cisco switched all their products to Linux, there would be a huge downside for Cisco's bottom line. After all, what's more important: the short term profits of your company, or the long term best interests of your customers?
officers advised Bungie officials to transport the gun more discretely in the future.
Carrying a gun in plain sight is perfectly legal, but if you hide it, it becomes "carrying a concealed weapon". Without a permit, that IS a crime. So the police are advising Bungie officials to break that law?
'Cause this can be prevented pretty easily by blocking the SMB ports, and if you're a business you'd be insane not to have a firewall anyway.
Are they keeping track of the fact that the woman using the companion ticket discount and accompanying me isn't really my wife?
Well, you can tear pages out of a book when you run out of paper, but a kindle just doesn't seem to work nearly as well (as kindling for building a fire... now get your mind out of the gutter!)
The whole point of a school library is to go there, find a book you need to reference, make copies of the relevant pages, and go. I thought the whole point of a school library was to go there, check out the back issues of Playboy on microfilm, and make prints of the best pic... er, articles. Sorry, my bad! (Yes, the UofA library did have back issues of Playboy on microfilm when I was in highschool. For reasons I could never fathom, they appeared to have concentrated on preserving the text and skipped over most of the pictures. Of course, microfilm is all black & white anyway, so it works much better on text.)
many GW?!? One GW is more than enough!!! Wait... you mean you're not talking about Bush? You mean GW is really the correct abbreviation for gigawatt? Uh... never mind!
Let the Ministry of Truth references fly.
Your attitude is double-plus ungood. Please report to the Minstry of Love for retraining.
It hasn't affected our local demolition derby at all!
The business owner was looking for a new receptionist, and couldn't decide which of they applicants to hire, so he decided to do a test. He accidentally "dropped" a $100 bill in front of each of them. The first just handed the money back to him. The second took the money, then came back later saying "I invested that $100 you dropped in oil futures. Here's your $100, plus $50 profit." The last slyly pocketed the money and didn't say anything about it.
Which one did he hire?
The one with the biggest tits, of course!
Post his phone number on the M4M section of craigslist, and see how he feels getting calls from people looking for gay sex at all hours of the day and night! Just don't be so stupid as to use your real email address! I bet that cop would be screaming for blood if somebody did something similar to him.
When they can get the price tag on these down below $500 instead of $5000, then they'll catch on. Till then, it's an awful lot of money to pay for something of so little utility and so easily stolen. Why should I pay $5000 for one of these when I can get a decent bicycle or electric scooter for about $300?
Michael Richards was never arrested for his bad judgement because it is not unlawful to call someone a "nigger". That still doesn't make it a good idea to do so. In a way I agree with you, "hate crimes" should be evaluated as crimes regardless of whether or not prejudice was involved. Killing someone isn't really made worse because you hate members of their ethnic group. However, racial intimidation IS made worse by a history of violence against that group. So, a gesture like hanging a noose in a tree, which in and of itself should not be a crime, does become a crime when it is done in a context of racial tension, because it carries with it the implicit threat of violence. As long as your statements would not be interpreted by a reasonable person and carrying a threat of violence, you are in fact legally entitled to use words with bad connotations in the US. A black calling another black "nigger" is different than a white calling a black "nigger" because blacks don't have a history of lynching other blacks for their skin color. (Ethnic heritage and religion, yes, but not skin color.) As long as your remarks are not interpreted as threatening or coercive by those hearing them, you are free to say whatever you want. Do members of what you refer to as "protected classes" frequently misinterpret words or actions a threatening? Yes, they do, and that is the only legitimate basis for your resentment. Both sides need to be reasonable and cut the other side some slack. Try not to say or do things that could be interpreted as threatening, and try to discern someone's real intent before reacting.
Or, they just wait until both participants clearly break some other laws and arrest both of them. Isn't that what they do or should do in all cases, regardless of the affiliation of the participants?
Expressing an opinion that Obama (or Bush) should be shot is likely to earn you a visit from the Secret Service, although it doesn't usually result in charges filed.