Not because of "big pharma" or whatever. But all the asthma medicines have gone to different non-CFC propellants. My understanding is that it's because of the Montreal Protocol. It may be the same drug, but for whatever reason, I can't take the new "HFA" ones or whatever the hell they're called. YMMV.
Makes me wonder. What if somebody rigged something to only go of if and only if the suitcase/car/whatever was fucked around with? It could even have a notice on it like. "If you leave this alone, it will not blow up." Legally, if the thing blows up, whose fault would it be? I know the person setting the thing up would be the one that got sent to Gitmo. But isn't this a bit like "beware of dog" signs on a fence?
I certainly don't, and I had been paying attention back then. In 8 years we probably won't remember Snowden's name either. The US populace is even less well informed (or willfully ignorant), so you can bet that around 2020 there will be another leaker telling us shocking things about how the NSA has a running log of everybody's Google Glass feed.
I think that government should have nothing to do with marriage at all.
Marriage by a church should in no way be recognized by the state. If the state wants to confer certain things to those who apply to be legally bound together by the state they can of course. Though it should have nothing to do with what ceremony they want to perform in their church.
There would be no problem at that point.
You want to bet? Most people who are anti-gay marriage are really just anti-gay but don't have the balls to say so. While I completely agree that the state should get completely out of the business of which consenting adults can and cannot fuck, the conclusion you draw that everything would be hunky dory at that point is just misguided.
When Texas passed their anti-gay amendment, they even spelled out "or equivalent to marriage." So it's not about separate but equal. It's about "protecting" us from teh evil gayz! The irony is that the only place marriage even comes up in Texas state law is regarding divorce. Way to protect the sanctity of marriage!
Please, demonstrate for me how polygamy is the norm through even a majority of cultures - forget most. It's simply not true: the gross majority of cultures are predominantly monogamist or serial monogamist. Homosexuality, pedophilia, and the like aren't entirely unheard of, but they're not exactly common except for in Muslim culture.
WTF!? Surely this is flamebait, right? You can't possibly be lumping gays, kiddy fuckers, and Muslims for any legitimate purpose. Saying homosexuality is common in Muslim culture is a great example of "mak[ing] shit up out of whole cloth" if you ask me. (Unless you meant they're unheard of in Muslim culture, which is still pretty far-fetched unless you used to be the president of Iran)
Brings back memories of trips to my Grandma's house in Florida when I was a little kid. She had a list of all the winning numbers from the last X months of drawings. Then she would let me pick the numbers for the next go. I never did better than two. I'm pretty sure that set me up for a lifetime of nerdy math and stats obsession.
Another thing about Houston you can't sit in a coffee shop 5 minutes without a religious nut wanting to tell you about Jesus and how he hates everyone.
I've never had that experience. But I wish I would. It would be fun to feign complete ignorance about Christianity and have somebody try to explain it to me from square one. I don't know how long I could keep a straight face, though.
Fun idea: Get home addresses of important political figures. Write "evil" things about the government on a post card. Include fun words like "bomb" and "infidel." Use figure A's address for return address. Send to figure B from figure A's neighborhood outbox. Bonus points if you write it all in Arabic!
So is this kid from Houston or Austin? I've read it both ways. One of my wife's co-workers had a problem with the pizza delivery guy. Her husband made some choice comments to the little jack-ass. Later that night the cops came a-knockin'. Threw the guy in jail. The little bastard pressed charges of making a terrorist threat. This was in Houston. So no big surprise with this story. The only shocking thing is that we didn't hear about it three months ago.
HPD and friends have a history of shitty things like this. Just last Christmas an off-duty sheriff shot and killed a shoplifter in a Walmart parking lot. He claimed they were trying to run him over. I got pulled over for going 35 in a 35, because it was "almost time" for it to be a school zone. They arrested hundreds at a parking lot for trespassing even though some of them were actually eating at Sonic or shopping at Kmart.
There are several reasons why this guy is different from a camera in a store. 1) People assume that store security feeds are not actually being watched by anybody. 2) People think of it as "the store" taking pictures. Not the employees. Same reason why people take "I'm sorry, it's company policy" as an OK answer most of the time. 3) Individuals are held to the golden rule, but companies generally are not. If a person throws a coke can out the window of a moving car you think, "what an asshole!" But if employees of a company do some illegal dumping, you don't assume the individuals doing the dumping are assholes. No raindrop is responsible for the flood. 4) If you don't like having your video taken in a store, you can choose not to be in that store. 5) A store will normally clearly state that it is taking video for security purposes.
I could go on but it doesn't really matter. To people who think this guy is right, none of these differences are valid. To people who think he's wrong, they seem obvious.
I happen to think this guy is wrong for a completely different reason. What does it hurt to have everybody with Google Glass? Who cares if pathetic people want to take videos of me. If I pull some Dunkin Donuts crazy-bitch rant, I deserve to be posted to YouTube. If I do something good, that should get posted too. It's like we can all be each other's Elf on a Shelf. But instead of reporting to Santa, we just post to YouTube or FB or whatever.
Take perverts on a beach, taking zoomed in photos of hotties in bikinis. Why not take pictures of them taking pictures? The cure for a bad guy with a camera is a good guy with a camera, right?!
Jesus... I'm really rambling here. I should just shut the hell up now.
I was at a trombone choir concert. After intermission the did a mini-warm up. Buzzing into their mouthpieces. Afterwards, I began applauding wildly. As a brass player, I was well aware that this was not the intended result. Nevertheless, two or three others instinctively started clapping, too. And that was about all it took to get the entire audience applauding. Fun times.
It's not that surprising. CIA is in the business of intelligence. They're not necessarily going to be experts at making the tools they use. Do you expect a carpenter to know how to manufacture a spirit level or a saw blade? People tend to forget that sometimes it's really best to farm things out.
A buddy of mine has top secret clearance working for a company that built computer systems to... well I don't really know because he couldn't tell me. But even with clearance, there was always an officer escorting him everywhere. Even the bathroom.
I don't know what I find more disturbing the fact that he was able to smuggle out these PowerPoint presentations, or that the slides are just so god-awful.
My mistake. Typical American getting dates and places mixed up. Honestly, we've fucked up so many countries so many different times, I got confused which was which.
Why are you being so milletant? Had a teff week? I'm amaized you took the time to reply. I quinoa-t for you to score my puns. Emmer really funny, in my opinion.
ha ha ha. If you think that Iranians aren't already fully aware of the way the "civilized world" lives, you're smoking crack. They know just fine. Coca-cola, Mickey Mouse, all that shit is (or at least was) commonplace. Had we left them the hell alone back in the 70's, things would have been a lot more America friendly over there. Hell, there might even be a Disney World - Prince of Persia theme park by now. The only reason they see us as the enemy is because we thought it was in our best interest to fuck with Russia by destabilizing that whole area. Mission fucking accomplished.
This makes me think of my son. Second day of kindergarten, an older kid picked on him on the bus ride home. Pretty mean stuff, enough so that my kid was in tears. (and he's not frail by any stretch) Instead of making a big deal about it, I told him the other kid was probably just sad or lonely and didn't know how to make friends. That seemed to calm him down, although it pissed my wife off to no end.
Anyway, that very night he wanted to go out riding his bike. We spotted a couple of kids playing, and he says to one of them, "are you my bully?" I almost fell over laughing. Anyway the other kids pointed mine to the "bully" in question. The funny thing was, he really was just a normal kid who didn't know how to make friends. Now whenever my son sees him around at school events, they are cordial to each other. But he still refers to him as "my bully." So I guess labels stick, but they're not necessarily as harmful as you might assume.
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Not because of "big pharma" or whatever. But all the asthma medicines have gone to different non-CFC propellants. My understanding is that it's because of the Montreal Protocol. It may be the same drug, but for whatever reason, I can't take the new "HFA" ones or whatever the hell they're called. YMMV.
Makes me wonder. What if somebody rigged something to only go of if and only if the suitcase/car/whatever was fucked around with? It could even have a notice on it like. "If you leave this alone, it will not blow up." Legally, if the thing blows up, whose fault would it be? I know the person setting the thing up would be the one that got sent to Gitmo. But isn't this a bit like "beware of dog" signs on a fence?
Here's one example. There was a leaker in 2005, too, who was also charged with espionage. Remember Thomas Drake?.
I certainly don't, and I had been paying attention back then. In 8 years we probably won't remember Snowden's name either. The US populace is even less well informed (or willfully ignorant), so you can bet that around 2020 there will be another leaker telling us shocking things about how the NSA has a running log of everybody's Google Glass feed.
I think that government should have nothing to do with marriage at all. Marriage by a church should in no way be recognized by the state. If the state wants to confer certain things to those who apply to be legally bound together by the state they can of course. Though it should have nothing to do with what ceremony they want to perform in their church.
There would be no problem at that point.
You want to bet? Most people who are anti-gay marriage are really just anti-gay but don't have the balls to say so. While I completely agree that the state should get completely out of the business of which consenting adults can and cannot fuck, the conclusion you draw that everything would be hunky dory at that point is just misguided.
When Texas passed their anti-gay amendment, they even spelled out "or equivalent to marriage." So it's not about separate but equal. It's about "protecting" us from teh evil gayz! The irony is that the only place marriage even comes up in Texas state law is regarding divorce. Way to protect the sanctity of marriage!
Please, demonstrate for me how polygamy is the norm through even a majority of cultures - forget most. It's simply not true: the gross majority of cultures are predominantly monogamist or serial monogamist. Homosexuality, pedophilia, and the like aren't entirely unheard of, but they're not exactly common except for in Muslim culture.
WTF!? Surely this is flamebait, right? You can't possibly be lumping gays, kiddy fuckers, and Muslims for any legitimate purpose. Saying homosexuality is common in Muslim culture is a great example of "mak[ing] shit up out of whole cloth" if you ask me. (Unless you meant they're unheard of in Muslim culture, which is still pretty far-fetched unless you used to be the president of Iran)
Brings back memories of trips to my Grandma's house in Florida when I was a little kid. She had a list of all the winning numbers from the last X months of drawings. Then she would let me pick the numbers for the next go. I never did better than two. I'm pretty sure that set me up for a lifetime of nerdy math and stats obsession.
Another thing about Houston you can't sit in a coffee shop 5 minutes without a religious nut wanting to tell you about Jesus and how he hates everyone.
I've never had that experience. But I wish I would. It would be fun to feign complete ignorance about Christianity and have somebody try to explain it to me from square one. I don't know how long I could keep a straight face, though.
Fun idea: Get home addresses of important political figures. Write "evil" things about the government on a post card. Include fun words like "bomb" and "infidel." Use figure A's address for return address. Send to figure B from figure A's neighborhood outbox. Bonus points if you write it all in Arabic!
Best. New. Political. System. EVAR!!!!!
Seems to be how most companies are run, too.
Oh, c'mon mods! I know you guys don't like operagost, but this one was pretty funny.
My Latitude has this one, too.
So is this kid from Houston or Austin? I've read it both ways. One of my wife's co-workers had a problem with the pizza delivery guy. Her husband made some choice comments to the little jack-ass. Later that night the cops came a-knockin'. Threw the guy in jail. The little bastard pressed charges of making a terrorist threat. This was in Houston. So no big surprise with this story. The only shocking thing is that we didn't hear about it three months ago.
HPD and friends have a history of shitty things like this. Just last Christmas an off-duty sheriff shot and killed a shoplifter in a Walmart parking lot. He claimed they were trying to run him over. I got pulled over for going 35 in a 35, because it was "almost time" for it to be a school zone. They arrested hundreds at a parking lot for trespassing even though some of them were actually eating at Sonic or shopping at Kmart.
There are several reasons why this guy is different from a camera in a store. 1) People assume that store security feeds are not actually being watched by anybody. 2) People think of it as "the store" taking pictures. Not the employees. Same reason why people take "I'm sorry, it's company policy" as an OK answer most of the time. 3) Individuals are held to the golden rule, but companies generally are not. If a person throws a coke can out the window of a moving car you think, "what an asshole!" But if employees of a company do some illegal dumping, you don't assume the individuals doing the dumping are assholes. No raindrop is responsible for the flood. 4) If you don't like having your video taken in a store, you can choose not to be in that store. 5) A store will normally clearly state that it is taking video for security purposes.
I could go on but it doesn't really matter. To people who think this guy is right, none of these differences are valid. To people who think he's wrong, they seem obvious.
I happen to think this guy is wrong for a completely different reason. What does it hurt to have everybody with Google Glass? Who cares if pathetic people want to take videos of me. If I pull some Dunkin Donuts crazy-bitch rant, I deserve to be posted to YouTube. If I do something good, that should get posted too. It's like we can all be each other's Elf on a Shelf. But instead of reporting to Santa, we just post to YouTube or FB or whatever.
Take perverts on a beach, taking zoomed in photos of hotties in bikinis. Why not take pictures of them taking pictures? The cure for a bad guy with a camera is a good guy with a camera, right?!
Jesus... I'm really rambling here. I should just shut the hell up now.
How do you know that's not what the balloons were there for?
I was at a trombone choir concert. After intermission the did a mini-warm up. Buzzing into their mouthpieces. Afterwards, I began applauding wildly. As a brass player, I was well aware that this was not the intended result. Nevertheless, two or three others instinctively started clapping, too. And that was about all it took to get the entire audience applauding. Fun times.
It's because there isn't a "-1, Reading Comprehension FAIL" mod.
It's not that surprising. CIA is in the business of intelligence. They're not necessarily going to be experts at making the tools they use. Do you expect a carpenter to know how to manufacture a spirit level or a saw blade? People tend to forget that sometimes it's really best to farm things out.
A buddy of mine has top secret clearance working for a company that built computer systems to ... well I don't really know because he couldn't tell me. But even with clearance, there was always an officer escorting him everywhere. Even the bathroom.
I don't know what I find more disturbing the fact that he was able to smuggle out these PowerPoint presentations, or that the slides are just so god-awful.
Very good point. I should not assume causality. It sure feels that way sometimes, though.
My mistake. Typical American getting dates and places mixed up. Honestly, we've fucked up so many countries so many different times, I got confused which was which.
Why are you being so milletant? Had a teff week? I'm amaized you took the time to reply. I quinoa-t for you to score my puns. Emmer really funny, in my opinion.
Hominy more puns can we come up with?
I bet a lawsuit is not farro way.
I'm pretty sure GP meant it as a joke. I know I LOLed. Michelle Bachmann 2016!!!!
ha ha ha. If you think that Iranians aren't already fully aware of the way the "civilized world" lives, you're smoking crack. They know just fine. Coca-cola, Mickey Mouse, all that shit is (or at least was) commonplace. Had we left them the hell alone back in the 70's, things would have been a lot more America friendly over there. Hell, there might even be a Disney World - Prince of Persia theme park by now. The only reason they see us as the enemy is because we thought it was in our best interest to fuck with Russia by destabilizing that whole area. Mission fucking accomplished.
This makes me think of my son. Second day of kindergarten, an older kid picked on him on the bus ride home. Pretty mean stuff, enough so that my kid was in tears. (and he's not frail by any stretch) Instead of making a big deal about it, I told him the other kid was probably just sad or lonely and didn't know how to make friends. That seemed to calm him down, although it pissed my wife off to no end.
Anyway, that very night he wanted to go out riding his bike. We spotted a couple of kids playing, and he says to one of them, "are you my bully?" I almost fell over laughing. Anyway the other kids pointed mine to the "bully" in question. The funny thing was, he really was just a normal kid who didn't know how to make friends. Now whenever my son sees him around at school events, they are cordial to each other. But he still refers to him as "my bully." So I guess labels stick, but they're not necessarily as harmful as you might assume.