Farmers know how to grow corn, and turning corn into ethanol is energy positive, so what is your problem with it? If you are arguing that farmers should grow something else fine, but say so. Also make sure you examine how well that something else grows - corn grows in most of the midwest, where sugar cane does not. Sugar beets do grow in some parts, but it is harder to grow.
I agree party is a bad reason to stay home. If you know that one party is more or less closer to your than the others (more than the 2 major ones) vote the party, I don't have a problem with that.
I do have a problem with people who vote on looks. Who won the debates of 1960? Nixon if you listened to the radio, Kennedy if you watched them on TV. I don't care who you vote for so long as it is an informed decision. I don't want you voting for the best looking person, because that person might not be best.
Nonsense, you are just driving like the typical idiot. There is no need to have your front bumper within 6 inches of the car in front of you at all time. Back off a little, relax, and find the average speed of traffic. I drive in stop and go traffic all the time, yet I rarely have to use the brakes! And as a bonus I'm introducing laminar flow to the situation and easing congestion.
There are many countries in the world. I cannot think of one without a downside. Some are worse than others, but exactly what makes on worse is open to debate.
Lots of things are different between the US and the UK. For instance the UK is banning fox hunting, while my state (MN) consideres hunting a legal right that is now part of the constitution. UK bans many more guns than the US. The UK has more cameras watching their streets than any other country. (Though the US is trying to catch up)
In short: there is plenty wrong with every country. I don't like the Induce act, but it isn't enough to make me exchange the rights violated in the US for the rights violated in the UK.
The really lucky people were in not just the industry, but the right company in the industry. I know many people who fell with the bubble. There are people who's options would be vesting now, but the company doesn't exist. My "options" didn't work out, and are now expired. (in quotes because the big company didn't have options, but a deal that they claimed was better though nobody took home a penny from it) Many people laid off from that high paying job who are not in the industry at all,(most should never have been in it) and making much less money.
There is nothing new about this. The bubble magnified some things, but the above happens even in the best of times, while in the worst of times a few "lucky" get rich. Though in bad times the lucky seem to create their own luck in part.
There is no such things as two thinking people who AGREE on everything. Many people find disagreement fun in less important issues. I'm not the only one who sometimes plays devils advocate when everyone is agreeing on something.
Sure if we disagree one everything, there is no chance to be friends, but that is unlikely, if not impossible. Perhaps all we agree on is we like football (even though I like the Vikings and you like the Packers), that is enough to argue stats for months on end. Odds are we are smart enough to recognize it doesn't matter, and respect the other for standing up for a dumb team...
The large majority of large companies in the US give you a chance to vote, if you want to. I'm sure there is a stockbroker in your town (and better ones online) who would be glad to help you. I own shares in a few companies, and I get a chance to vote.
Why should be allowed to vote for who runs McDonalds without owning shares? You could vote to screw up McDonalds, and it costs you nothing. Share holders are screwing themselves when they screw up the company. Just ask all those who voted for Enron's board a few years back.
Sure, ONE person. Never mind all the democrats working at Diebold. Do you really honestly belive the CEO of any company has the ability to put a backdoor in software? 20 years ago Bill Gates could have done it (maybe), but he hasn't been programming in years. If something is do be done it would be by the guys in the trenches, and I'm willing to bet that some of them are democrats, who are likely to look for a backdoor.
There are plenty of reasons not to like electronic voting machines, one comment by the CEO, intentionally misinterpreted, is not one. Sure the comment was badly worded, but it doesn't mean anything.
But it is a good standard? In particular, in order of importance, is the A) the standard everyone else on the project uses, and B) a common standard used by other successfull projects?
I have my own personal preferred coding standard. It is fairly close to B, but it fails in A at work. I get into a lot of trouble over this, and I'm wrong. Even though if I showed both (the company and my) standards to the world most programmers are likely to prefer mine (just a guess, but based on various style guides) to the company. However the company standard always rules because several better standards combined is worse than a okay one. (though I'm sure you could design a standard that was worse)
Maybe. The law is only requires that reasonable accommodations be made, it is up to the courts to decide what is reasonable. In general though it is obvious in most cases.
If a wheelchair bound person applies for a job in a computer room they are required to make reasonable accommodations. My guess is that would come out to mean now, because while moving racks farther apart is reasonable, making them short enough so that they can be reached from a wheel chair is not.
However that is only for the position of maintance tech in the racks. If there are separate teams, one just fixes machines and the other removes them from the rack they would be required to make the fix area accessable. If the wheelchair guy can do the work, he must be considered on his merits for fixing the machines. A sysadmin job where the hardware is never touched must be made accessable.
If it is a windows app, then Wine should work, and if not codeweavers would love to help. If it is a dos app, then there are dos emulators for linux, they work just fine.
As for bringing their network down: it is down already. Perfect time to do this. Fire the guy who should be thinking ahead, for not having a distribution ready to drop onto each machine.
More often it is easier to prove you are not paying all your taxes than it is to prove what illegal act you are doing. A few people have paid the tax on their illegal goods, and the government was unable to get them. In fact the IRS cannot tell the FBI/police details about this. You are compelled to proved this information, in effect it is a testimony against yourself and that is not allowed in court. So if you list all your income and say your job is drug dealer they can't get you based on that. (OTOH don't be surprized if the police do start watching your closely)
"ladies and gentelmen of the jury, I have demonstrated that the defendant has spend more money than he claimed to make, and it was not borrowed. Therefore he must have income that he did not report."
Ask someone who has ever been arrested for having burgerly tools. In most states crowbars and lock picks are legal, but when used to commit a crime it is illegal to have them.
Closer to 30%, 35% on some cars, and better than 50% is known on big ships (where factors like mass, size, and acceleration don't matter)
The IC is a wonderful engine for a car. Takes a high density energy source and converts it into power when to need it, and can respond quickly to changes in demand, all in a small space. Sure Stirling engines and multi-stage turbines are more efficient. They don't have good acceleration though. (most drivers are not good enough to deal with that)
Use your brain. This has been discussed many times. There are good reasons to belive that Bush fulfilled his requirements, his dischard for instance indicates he did so. (Bush has never claimed is record is better than Kerry's, just that he did what was required)
He didn't get a physical, but they can be obtained anytime quickly if needed so that isn't a big deal. It didn't matter because he only needed a physical to fly, and the only plane he knew how to fly was obsolete and with one year left they didn't want to teach him a different one.
Nobody knows how he filled his last year of service. Those are open questions. However his dischard indicates he did something. Records are lacking here. Memories of those who are there should always be questioned - he was a nobody back then, so why would anyone remember him?
Use your brain. There are questions. However the evidence is NOT strong enough to base a vote decision on, even before we note that this was 30 years ago and people have a tendancy to change in that time.
I'm willing to belive the people who claim never to have seen him are lieing. I don't remember everyone I saw in class when I was 24, and that was 6 years ago! It is possible that someone in 25 years will run for president that I never remember seeing in class. I question anyone who will say with authority that some nobody 30 years ago wasn't someplace, based only on memory. Attendance records are a different matter, (and these are open to question, but so far as I know nobody has brought them out) as they are reasonable proof of who was there. (even then there have been mistakes.
We do know the Bush was discharged normally, which suggests strongly that even if he did miss a few sessions it wasn't enough to do something back then when he was a nobody. Today of course he is president and we are trying to guess.
There are good reasons to vote for Bush or Kerry. I don't think you have heard any from the mainstream media. Instead we hear about war records - things that happened before I was even born! There are plenty of important issues, and both have a record of being in the federal government for the last 4 years that we can look at to see how they really act. Because they don't work on letting me know this I'm voting for a third party. (I have learned a few bad things about both of them, but perhaps if they brought forth something I didn't know about it might counter the bad they have done)
Unless you correct for the moisture content of your "dry" goods measuing by weight/mass has no particular advantage over volume. This is a factor, which is why when amount is critical (pie crusts) you add less than what is required, mix, and then slowly add more until the right amount is there.
Though all this is irrelevant to a great cook. Great cooks just dump things in until it is right. Good cooks do almost as good by using the exact amounts called for. There is a large difference in flavor.
No, the Dems will trample different civil liberties. Read the earlier story about the assault weapons bad expiring. Something the Dems are more likely to renew (though a number of Reps would too). Kerry is also the one trying to silence the swift boat vets, (true or false, they have a right to speak) while Bush hasn't tried to silence the equally annoying moveon.org guys.
Bush wanted the patriot act. Kerry was in the senate when it passed though, and AFAIK he didn't speak out against it.
Who is trampling civil rights? Looks like both, sometimes in slightly different ways, sometimes not.
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As a male between the age of 18 (16?) and 40 (45?) I am a member of the militia of the US. Go look it up.
While you are looking things up, look up the definition of regulated. It didn't mean (in 1780) what you think it does.
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Your post has NOTHING to do with the assault weapons ban. The guns banned as assault weapons are mostly LESS powerful than common hunting guns. In fact for many common hunting activities the guns banned are not powerful enough.
All this ban does is prohibit some cosmetic things. No bayonet mount on your gun for instance. How does a bayonet on a gun make it less acceptable in your eyes?
I'd agree with you if the democrats were actually fillabustering. That is standing in congress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, speaking [1] in order to prevent a vote. Instead they are saying "We fillabuster", and the republicans are moving on. There is no free speech being infringed because nobody is actually speaking.
Note that in theory they should be speaking against the issue the are blocking, but there is a long history of speaking anything. Reading from cookbooks is popular.
Nonsense. Last I checked the minority group "females" made up 51% of the US populations. Even if that is high by a couple percent, it doesn't take many males from some other group to get a majority.
Yeah both are cream of the crop. However the Chinese are picking from a much higher standard. That is the US lets the best into engineering schools. The Chinese send the best of the best to US engineering schools. No surprized they are better.
My experience is not yours. Engineers did party, but not nearly as much as other majors. Those who go to school to party hard fail the first year of engineering.
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Farmers know how to grow corn, and turning corn into ethanol is energy positive, so what is your problem with it? If you are arguing that farmers should grow something else fine, but say so. Also make sure you examine how well that something else grows - corn grows in most of the midwest, where sugar cane does not. Sugar beets do grow in some parts, but it is harder to grow.
I agree party is a bad reason to stay home. If you know that one party is more or less closer to your than the others (more than the 2 major ones) vote the party, I don't have a problem with that.
I do have a problem with people who vote on looks. Who won the debates of 1960? Nixon if you listened to the radio, Kennedy if you watched them on TV. I don't care who you vote for so long as it is an informed decision. I don't want you voting for the best looking person, because that person might not be best.
Nonsense, you are just driving like the typical idiot. There is no need to have your front bumper within 6 inches of the car in front of you at all time. Back off a little, relax, and find the average speed of traffic. I drive in stop and go traffic all the time, yet I rarely have to use the brakes! And as a bonus I'm introducing laminar flow to the situation and easing congestion.
There are many countries in the world. I cannot think of one without a downside. Some are worse than others, but exactly what makes on worse is open to debate.
Lots of things are different between the US and the UK. For instance the UK is banning fox hunting, while my state (MN) consideres hunting a legal right that is now part of the constitution. UK bans many more guns than the US. The UK has more cameras watching their streets than any other country. (Though the US is trying to catch up)
In short: there is plenty wrong with every country. I don't like the Induce act, but it isn't enough to make me exchange the rights violated in the US for the rights violated in the UK.
The really lucky people were in not just the industry, but the right company in the industry. I know many people who fell with the bubble. There are people who's options would be vesting now, but the company doesn't exist. My "options" didn't work out, and are now expired. (in quotes because the big company didn't have options, but a deal that they claimed was better though nobody took home a penny from it) Many people laid off from that high paying job who are not in the industry at all,(most should never have been in it) and making much less money.
There is nothing new about this. The bubble magnified some things, but the above happens even in the best of times, while in the worst of times a few "lucky" get rich. Though in bad times the lucky seem to create their own luck in part.
There is no such things as two thinking people who AGREE on everything. Many people find disagreement fun in less important issues. I'm not the only one who sometimes plays devils advocate when everyone is agreeing on something.
Sure if we disagree one everything, there is no chance to be friends, but that is unlikely, if not impossible. Perhaps all we agree on is we like football (even though I like the Vikings and you like the Packers), that is enough to argue stats for months on end. Odds are we are smart enough to recognize it doesn't matter, and respect the other for standing up for a dumb team...
The large majority of large companies in the US give you a chance to vote, if you want to. I'm sure there is a stockbroker in your town (and better ones online) who would be glad to help you. I own shares in a few companies, and I get a chance to vote.
Why should be allowed to vote for who runs McDonalds without owning shares? You could vote to screw up McDonalds, and it costs you nothing. Share holders are screwing themselves when they screw up the company. Just ask all those who voted for Enron's board a few years back.
Sure, ONE person. Never mind all the democrats working at Diebold. Do you really honestly belive the CEO of any company has the ability to put a backdoor in software? 20 years ago Bill Gates could have done it (maybe), but he hasn't been programming in years. If something is do be done it would be by the guys in the trenches, and I'm willing to bet that some of them are democrats, who are likely to look for a backdoor.
There are plenty of reasons not to like electronic voting machines, one comment by the CEO, intentionally misinterpreted, is not one. Sure the comment was badly worded, but it doesn't mean anything.
But it is a good standard? In particular, in order of importance, is the A) the standard everyone else on the project uses, and B) a common standard used by other successfull projects?
I have my own personal preferred coding standard. It is fairly close to B, but it fails in A at work. I get into a lot of trouble over this, and I'm wrong. Even though if I showed both (the company and my) standards to the world most programmers are likely to prefer mine (just a guess, but based on various style guides) to the company. However the company standard always rules because several better standards combined is worse than a okay one. (though I'm sure you could design a standard that was worse)
Maybe. The law is only requires that reasonable accommodations be made, it is up to the courts to decide what is reasonable. In general though it is obvious in most cases.
If a wheelchair bound person applies for a job in a computer room they are required to make reasonable accommodations. My guess is that would come out to mean now, because while moving racks farther apart is reasonable, making them short enough so that they can be reached from a wheel chair is not.
However that is only for the position of maintance tech in the racks. If there are separate teams, one just fixes machines and the other removes them from the rack they would be required to make the fix area accessable. If the wheelchair guy can do the work, he must be considered on his merits for fixing the machines. A sysadmin job where the hardware is never touched must be made accessable.
If it is a windows app, then Wine should work, and if not codeweavers would love to help. If it is a dos app, then there are dos emulators for linux, they work just fine.
As for bringing their network down: it is down already. Perfect time to do this. Fire the guy who should be thinking ahead, for not having a distribution ready to drop onto each machine.
More often it is easier to prove you are not paying all your taxes than it is to prove what illegal act you are doing. A few people have paid the tax on their illegal goods, and the government was unable to get them. In fact the IRS cannot tell the FBI/police details about this. You are compelled to proved this information, in effect it is a testimony against yourself and that is not allowed in court. So if you list all your income and say your job is drug dealer they can't get you based on that. (OTOH don't be surprized if the police do start watching your closely)
"ladies and gentelmen of the jury, I have demonstrated that the defendant has spend more money than he claimed to make, and it was not borrowed. Therefore he must have income that he did not report."
Ask someone who has ever been arrested for having burgerly tools. In most states crowbars and lock picks are legal, but when used to commit a crime it is illegal to have them.
Closer to 30%, 35% on some cars, and better than 50% is known on big ships (where factors like mass, size, and acceleration don't matter)
The IC is a wonderful engine for a car. Takes a high density energy source and converts it into power when to need it, and can respond quickly to changes in demand, all in a small space. Sure Stirling engines and multi-stage turbines are more efficient. They don't have good acceleration though. (most drivers are not good enough to deal with that)
Hmm... As I recall fireworks are legal again in MN, thanks to Jesse's efforts. Thats something major in itself, at least if you are into freedom.
Don't forget that he had a divided congress to work with. There wasn't much hope of getting anything past both houses. (which I consider a good thing)
He wasn't perfect. He did a pretty good job though.
Use your brain. This has been discussed many times. There are good reasons to belive that Bush fulfilled his requirements, his dischard for instance indicates he did so. (Bush has never claimed is record is better than Kerry's, just that he did what was required)
He didn't get a physical, but they can be obtained anytime quickly if needed so that isn't a big deal. It didn't matter because he only needed a physical to fly, and the only plane he knew how to fly was obsolete and with one year left they didn't want to teach him a different one.
Nobody knows how he filled his last year of service. Those are open questions. However his dischard indicates he did something. Records are lacking here. Memories of those who are there should always be questioned - he was a nobody back then, so why would anyone remember him?
Use your brain. There are questions. However the evidence is NOT strong enough to base a vote decision on, even before we note that this was 30 years ago and people have a tendancy to change in that time.
I'm willing to belive the people who claim never to have seen him are lieing. I don't remember everyone I saw in class when I was 24, and that was 6 years ago! It is possible that someone in 25 years will run for president that I never remember seeing in class. I question anyone who will say with authority that some nobody 30 years ago wasn't someplace, based only on memory. Attendance records are a different matter, (and these are open to question, but so far as I know nobody has brought them out) as they are reasonable proof of who was there. (even then there have been mistakes.
We do know the Bush was discharged normally, which suggests strongly that even if he did miss a few sessions it wasn't enough to do something back then when he was a nobody. Today of course he is president and we are trying to guess.
There are good reasons to vote for Bush or Kerry. I don't think you have heard any from the mainstream media. Instead we hear about war records - things that happened before I was even born! There are plenty of important issues, and both have a record of being in the federal government for the last 4 years that we can look at to see how they really act. Because they don't work on letting me know this I'm voting for a third party. (I have learned a few bad things about both of them, but perhaps if they brought forth something I didn't know about it might counter the bad they have done)
Unless you correct for the moisture content of your "dry" goods measuing by weight/mass has no particular advantage over volume. This is a factor, which is why when amount is critical (pie crusts) you add less than what is required, mix, and then slowly add more until the right amount is there.
Though all this is irrelevant to a great cook. Great cooks just dump things in until it is right. Good cooks do almost as good by using the exact amounts called for. There is a large difference in flavor.
No, the Dems will trample different civil liberties. Read the earlier story about the assault weapons bad expiring. Something the Dems are more likely to renew (though a number of Reps would too). Kerry is also the one trying to silence the swift boat vets, (true or false, they have a right to speak) while Bush hasn't tried to silence the equally annoying moveon.org guys.
Bush wanted the patriot act. Kerry was in the senate when it passed though, and AFAIK he didn't speak out against it.
Who is trampling civil rights? Looks like both, sometimes in slightly different ways, sometimes not.
As a male between the age of 18 (16?) and 40 (45?) I am a member of the militia of the US. Go look it up.
While you are looking things up, look up the definition of regulated. It didn't mean (in 1780) what you think it does.
Your post has NOTHING to do with the assault weapons ban. The guns banned as assault weapons are mostly LESS powerful than common hunting guns. In fact for many common hunting activities the guns banned are not powerful enough.
All this ban does is prohibit some cosmetic things. No bayonet mount on your gun for instance. How does a bayonet on a gun make it less acceptable in your eyes?
I'd agree with you if the democrats were actually fillabustering. That is standing in congress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, speaking [1] in order to prevent a vote. Instead they are saying "We fillabuster", and the republicans are moving on. There is no free speech being infringed because nobody is actually speaking.
Note that in theory they should be speaking against the issue the are blocking, but there is a long history of speaking anything. Reading from cookbooks is popular.
Nonsense. Last I checked the minority group "females" made up 51% of the US populations. Even if that is high by a couple percent, it doesn't take many males from some other group to get a majority.
Yeah both are cream of the crop. However the Chinese are picking from a much higher standard. That is the US lets the best into engineering schools. The Chinese send the best of the best to US engineering schools. No surprized they are better.
My experience is not yours. Engineers did party, but not nearly as much as other majors. Those who go to school to party hard fail the first year of engineering.