You want to know something absolutely bone-chilling?
You know that China that sentences people to labor for thought crimes? That big bad China? Huge population?
The US imprisons more people than they do. That's more people, period. Also more per capita, a shit-ton more per capita, but the really scary number is plain old More. There are over a Billion Chinese! It doesn't seem possible, but it is true.
I disagree. Genesis 2 states that after 6 days of work God rested on the 7th day and sanctified it. That pretty clearly indicates that we're talking about actual days.
I think of the creation story as written from a naive perspective that was plausible at the time but is not very believable with current scientific knowledge. The flood is baldly impossible, probably based on verbal tales of a large regional flood that was exaggerated over time. People then didn't understand how large the world was, or even the shape. I've heard it discussed numerous times as one of the more problematic areas of scripture.
Genesis 1 explicitly states "...and the evening and the morning were the first day" and so on for each of the 6 days. It's pretty clear, although it makes it obvious that the author was unaware of how night and day work. I think some Christians become uncomfortable about glossing over things like this as poetic license because if the Bible is something that can't be taken literally the whole thing becomes suspect.
All of the people I've spoken with that are biblical literalists have to perform bizarre mental contortions in order to continue to believe that every word of the bible is absolutely true.
It's risky. I have family in Saudi Arabia, and they are afraid enough of Saudi courts and the monarchy that they would never criticize anything on the record. People are treated inhumanely, especially women, and few people say anything about it. If I were to ever visit a country like that I would keep my mouth firmly closed while on the record. Even if I left, vowing never to return, I would be scared to openly criticize much.
Those used car loan places sure rip people off. It's so sad to see someone finance several thousand on a $500 car at 25%. You're right that health care is taking over the #2 spot.
I figure nearly everyone in rural areas needs a car, probably Alaska even in the city. I like the idea of renting a car when needed for lots of situations. I probably need a car for 5 hours a month, it'd be nice if I could rent one at fair rates and little hassle. I've tried sharing a car with friends but that is a minefield.
I had major foot surgery and was very grateful for handicapped parking. I filled out a form for a temporary (90 day) permit and my surgeon signed it when I scheduled the surgery. I had a handicapped tag from the DMV with the expiration date written on it. It sure came in handy. Getting around on crutches is a bitch. Eventually I figured out a better way to get around (a rollabout, sort of a tall skateboard) but when I used crutches every single step was pure misery.
If it hurts for you to walk, ask your doctor to sign the form for a temporary or permanent permit, depending on your situation. If your doctor refuses, I suspect your doctor isn't compassionate. I found a lot of doctors that didn't care about me before I found a keeper.
I learned that I needed to take charge of my well being. Nobody else suggested the rollabout, or the parking permit, or the special suction sleeve that allowed me to swim while wearing a cast. Those 3 things helped me so much and made a big difference.
I certainly understand your bitterness, being in pain is very tough. I am just trying to help.
My understanding is that bad karma accounts have their posts throttled to one per day or hour or something. Hundreds of accounts give even the worst karma enough posts to be annoying.
Everyone has different priorities. I considered ease of commute when getting a room or a job or a relocation and never had a problem. I saw a lot of my friends put more priority on having a car, and it made them happy, but they didn't delude themselves about the total cost. The money adds up and is part of why I own a few houses now.
Insurance may be cheaper where you are, where I grew up that was how much insurance was. According to this the average cost of a teenager policy is $2267, this is for someone who like myself was unable to use their parents policy.
You seem strangely defensive about owning a car. It is fine, I own one myself now, but I realize how much it costs. When I talk to young people about cars I try to mention my experiences. So many people regard a car as a necessity when it isn't. Seeing it as a necessity makes all the costs seem unavoidable and prevents some people from bothering to add them up. It is amazing how quickly the repairs, maintenance, accessories, and fuel add up. The average household spends 15% on car ownership, the 2nd largest expenditure. You can get quite a head start if you think logically about it.
Prosthetics have come a long way from peg legs, but nobody would ever choose one over a partially working limb. Between phantom pain, skin problems at the prosthetic juncture, and the higher visibility it would be a tough decision to justify.
Cars for teenagers are an extravagance. Insurance alone is a couple thousand a year if you're lucky. I got a car when I was 15, I saved up for years for it. When I went to college I decided the several thousand a year in costs weren't worth it. All the college towns I've visited have had all the necessities within easy biking or walking distance.
It's sort of like the way I view computers. I never have the latest rig that can run the latest games at max framerate. I have a few-year-old machine that does everything I want. Same way with phones. I can use GPS navigation, most of the interwebs, and a pile of apps on my elderberry. I don't care that it isn't the latest OS and can't run everything. It does all it did when it was new, and a lot of stuff released since then, so I am happy.
My girlfriend has an Android touchscreen something-or-other from a year ago and it is great. If I lose the work phone due to job change or something I will probably get a cheap Android. I don't care what version of the OS it runs, there are way more apps than anyone could ever use.
All the phones I've owned, at least 10 of them have been obsolete before I had them. I don't have the expectation that my phone has the latest OS. I am currently using a work-issued blackberry curve 9300. People chuckle at it, but it is functional enough I don't spring for a second phone.
I was hoping Google would be good about backwards-compatible updates but I am not surprised. Hardware changes so much it seems hard to make the OS compatible across all platforms. I don't get why people are so worked up about it. Your phone does what it does when you were all excited about it a few months ago, what's the big deal?
The truly incredible thing is the density of outer space is only 3 orders of magnitude away from the average density of the universe. It's as if all the matter in the universe is barely more than a rounding error.
Most of the areas I'm familiar with have become cheaper to own than rent with current rates. You may want to run the numbers for your area. Many areas are so much cheaper to own than rent you could lose 10% a year in equity and still come out ahead.
I own a property in a city with competition for garbage collection. It is very dysfunctional. There are about a dozen companies at the moment, and they do not cooperate, so each company sends a truck once or twice a week up and down the street, passing most of the houses. What a waste of truck fuel and driver time. I have had numerous billing disputes where there are multiple companies that claim they are providing service at the same time. Neighbors complain that there are garbage trucks every single day because the companies have different schedules. The companies keep buying each other, often ending up being owned by Waste Management, who I refuse to do further business with. Then I try again with yet another company.
I am spending about $50 per month on garbage for this infuriating service, and the properties I own in a city-run garbage collection area cost me about $15/month in taxes for vastly superior service.
The retarded service has been that way for 15 years and has steadily become worse. Neighbors who remember the city-run program miss it fiercely. They remember the promises of competition making garbage collection better and cheaper and curse like sailors.
I used to use film SLRs and have a bunch of lenses. I have been growing weary of the limitations of phone/cheap p&s cameras and thinking of easing into higher end digital by buying a body compatible with my existing lenses. They won't be autofocus, which isn't a big deal to me, but I'm curious how well I can expect to see things like how the depth of field or motion blur or exposure levels worked out through the screen. My crap cameras don't give me very good feedback. Many times they look OK on the tiny screen but when I get home they look too noisy or blurry or over/underexposed.
Of course it is way better to have that than the old days when you had to visit the darkroom to see how you did.
I've been considering buying a digital body and using old glass at first. It seems much better than film since there is instant feedback of how the shot turned out. How easy is it to see if the exposure/focus are acceptable with the lcd display?
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You aren't scared of $100B/year? The cost is going up faster than health care! This is supposed to be America, land of liberty!
You want to know something absolutely bone-chilling?
You know that China that sentences people to labor for thought crimes? That big bad China? Huge population?
The US imprisons more people than they do. That's more people, period. Also more per capita, a shit-ton more per capita, but the really scary number is plain old More. There are over a Billion Chinese! It doesn't seem possible, but it is true.
I disagree. Genesis 2 states that after 6 days of work God rested on the 7th day and sanctified it. That pretty clearly indicates that we're talking about actual days.
I think of the creation story as written from a naive perspective that was plausible at the time but is not very believable with current scientific knowledge. The flood is baldly impossible, probably based on verbal tales of a large regional flood that was exaggerated over time. People then didn't understand how large the world was, or even the shape. I've heard it discussed numerous times as one of the more problematic areas of scripture.
Genesis 1 explicitly states "...and the evening and the morning were the first day" and so on for each of the 6 days. It's pretty clear, although it makes it obvious that the author was unaware of how night and day work. I think some Christians become uncomfortable about glossing over things like this as poetic license because if the Bible is something that can't be taken literally the whole thing becomes suspect.
All of the people I've spoken with that are biblical literalists have to perform bizarre mental contortions in order to continue to believe that every word of the bible is absolutely true.
It's risky. I have family in Saudi Arabia, and they are afraid enough of Saudi courts and the monarchy that they would never criticize anything on the record. People are treated inhumanely, especially women, and few people say anything about it. If I were to ever visit a country like that I would keep my mouth firmly closed while on the record. Even if I left, vowing never to return, I would be scared to openly criticize much.
Those used car loan places sure rip people off. It's so sad to see someone finance several thousand on a $500 car at 25%. You're right that health care is taking over the #2 spot.
I figure nearly everyone in rural areas needs a car, probably Alaska even in the city. I like the idea of renting a car when needed for lots of situations. I probably need a car for 5 hours a month, it'd be nice if I could rent one at fair rates and little hassle. I've tried sharing a car with friends but that is a minefield.
Wow, that guy is very...persistent. I'm surprised nobody made an inductive charger for it, seems like an obvious need.
I had major foot surgery and was very grateful for handicapped parking. I filled out a form for a temporary (90 day) permit and my surgeon signed it when I scheduled the surgery. I had a handicapped tag from the DMV with the expiration date written on it. It sure came in handy. Getting around on crutches is a bitch. Eventually I figured out a better way to get around (a rollabout, sort of a tall skateboard) but when I used crutches every single step was pure misery.
If it hurts for you to walk, ask your doctor to sign the form for a temporary or permanent permit, depending on your situation. If your doctor refuses, I suspect your doctor isn't compassionate. I found a lot of doctors that didn't care about me before I found a keeper.
I learned that I needed to take charge of my well being. Nobody else suggested the rollabout, or the parking permit, or the special suction sleeve that allowed me to swim while wearing a cast. Those 3 things helped me so much and made a big difference.
I certainly understand your bitterness, being in pain is very tough. I am just trying to help.
Depending on how you define amateur, rockets have been sent up over 50 miles. LEO is generally 100-1000 miles.
You should buy an inductive charger They're pretty cheap, mine was about $30.
My understanding is that bad karma accounts have their posts throttled to one per day or hour or something. Hundreds of accounts give even the worst karma enough posts to be annoying.
Everyone has different priorities. I considered ease of commute when getting a room or a job or a relocation and never had a problem. I saw a lot of my friends put more priority on having a car, and it made them happy, but they didn't delude themselves about the total cost. The money adds up and is part of why I own a few houses now.
Insurance may be cheaper where you are, where I grew up that was how much insurance was. According to this the average cost of a teenager policy is $2267, this is for someone who like myself was unable to use their parents policy.
You seem strangely defensive about owning a car. It is fine, I own one myself now, but I realize how much it costs. When I talk to young people about cars I try to mention my experiences. So many people regard a car as a necessity when it isn't. Seeing it as a necessity makes all the costs seem unavoidable and prevents some people from bothering to add them up. It is amazing how quickly the repairs, maintenance, accessories, and fuel add up. The average household spends 15% on car ownership, the 2nd largest expenditure. You can get quite a head start if you think logically about it.
Prosthetics have come a long way from peg legs, but nobody would ever choose one over a partially working limb. Between phantom pain, skin problems at the prosthetic juncture, and the higher visibility it would be a tough decision to justify.
Cars for teenagers are an extravagance. Insurance alone is a couple thousand a year if you're lucky. I got a car when I was 15, I saved up for years for it. When I went to college I decided the several thousand a year in costs weren't worth it. All the college towns I've visited have had all the necessities within easy biking or walking distance.
It's sort of like the way I view computers. I never have the latest rig that can run the latest games at max framerate. I have a few-year-old machine that does everything I want. Same way with phones. I can use GPS navigation, most of the interwebs, and a pile of apps on my elderberry. I don't care that it isn't the latest OS and can't run everything. It does all it did when it was new, and a lot of stuff released since then, so I am happy.
My girlfriend has an Android touchscreen something-or-other from a year ago and it is great. If I lose the work phone due to job change or something I will probably get a cheap Android. I don't care what version of the OS it runs, there are way more apps than anyone could ever use.
All the phones I've owned, at least 10 of them have been obsolete before I had them. I don't have the expectation that my phone has the latest OS. I am currently using a work-issued blackberry curve 9300. People chuckle at it, but it is functional enough I don't spring for a second phone.
I was hoping Google would be good about backwards-compatible updates but I am not surprised. Hardware changes so much it seems hard to make the OS compatible across all platforms. I don't get why people are so worked up about it. Your phone does what it does when you were all excited about it a few months ago, what's the big deal?
The truly incredible thing is the density of outer space is only 3 orders of magnitude away from the average density of the universe. It's as if all the matter in the universe is barely more than a rounding error.
Social insects have a type of sentience
Most of the areas I'm familiar with have become cheaper to own than rent with current rates. You may want to run the numbers for your area. Many areas are so much cheaper to own than rent you could lose 10% a year in equity and still come out ahead.
You should use Ortel. 500 minutes a month for 10 Euro, unlimited data for 8. Way cheaper than US, and I didn't shop around much.
Finding tea in bags is not unusual at all. 60% of US tea consumption is from bags.
I like cowboy tea, with loose leaves in my cup.
Clarinex is a large and increasing source of revenue for Merck. They made $659M in 2010
I own a property in a city with competition for garbage collection. It is very dysfunctional. There are about a dozen companies at the moment, and they do not cooperate, so each company sends a truck once or twice a week up and down the street, passing most of the houses. What a waste of truck fuel and driver time. I have had numerous billing disputes where there are multiple companies that claim they are providing service at the same time. Neighbors complain that there are garbage trucks every single day because the companies have different schedules. The companies keep buying each other, often ending up being owned by Waste Management, who I refuse to do further business with. Then I try again with yet another company.
I am spending about $50 per month on garbage for this infuriating service, and the properties I own in a city-run garbage collection area cost me about $15/month in taxes for vastly superior service.
The retarded service has been that way for 15 years and has steadily become worse. Neighbors who remember the city-run program miss it fiercely. They remember the promises of competition making garbage collection better and cheaper and curse like sailors.
I used to use film SLRs and have a bunch of lenses. I have been growing weary of the limitations of phone/cheap p&s cameras and thinking of easing into higher end digital by buying a body compatible with my existing lenses. They won't be autofocus, which isn't a big deal to me, but I'm curious how well I can expect to see things like how the depth of field or motion blur or exposure levels worked out through the screen. My crap cameras don't give me very good feedback. Many times they look OK on the tiny screen but when I get home they look too noisy or blurry or over/underexposed.
Of course it is way better to have that than the old days when you had to visit the darkroom to see how you did.
I've been considering buying a digital body and using old glass at first. It seems much better than film since there is instant feedback of how the shot turned out. How easy is it to see if the exposure/focus are acceptable with the lcd display?