To be more to the point, I wanted Sarah Palin and her religious views as far away from DC as possible. I'm used to politicians being corrupt and backstabbing. I can deal with it so long as they don't believe in intelligent falling.
Yeah, the religious right pisses me off hard-core -- oh, and the right-to-workers, and a slew of other constituencies. I just hated Democrats more, until I worked in Washington and found out that practically everything they tell people you growing up as a straight, white male of the property-holding class in the South is pretty much bullshit.
I helped campaign for him on the weekends with my sister... got on stage when he came to Newport News and was on the tv, and got to shake his hand and stuff...
But in VA, you don't need a permit to own a gun (actually, sales records are destroyed 30 days after purchase), but I already had my concealed carry permit.
I spent most of the first 2 years out of college working in politics -- Palin was the only one of the candidates I haven't met. I voted for Obama anyway, while having an RNC card in my wallet, because I figured that he would list a little more to the right later one, average out, and would probably be quite alright. I wasn't about the hype, I just want someone sane and relatively moderate (slightly leftish is alright) after all the bullshit we've all had to deal with the last few years.
Yeah mean, other than Yahoo, and HotMail before MS took them over and they got super crappy, and a whole bunch of other people? I dunno... no one I guess.
despite the constant barrage of YRO scare stories here
Well, what do you expect in this post-Columbine, post-9/11 world we live in?/sarcasm
Seriously, if you think its bad now you should have been here when John "Conspiracy" Katz was slumming around... of course, I don't know if he still is or not. I've had set to ignore his articles since 2000.
Spoken like one who's livelyhood/retirement is not tied up in their stock. But I don't own any Apple stock... the only Apple product I have is an iPod shuffle -- hardly a high-dollar item.
There may not be any "natural" monopolies, but there are circumstances where allowing competition might create more problems than it actually solves. For instance, utilities.
If you don't have one, government sanctioned, provider alone for things like telephone, water, etc, you will end up with a situation where multiple companies are pursuing leans for right-of-way, criss-crossing private and public property and duplicating infrastructure. While certain services such as telephones and power may be able to get by with multiple companies providing the service over one set of lines, and non-original providers leasing the use of the equipment. However, for obvious reasons, this doesn't exactly work well for water -- you can't packet-switch h20.
Sugar-cane is a fast-growing weed where most of the mass of the plant can be used for creation of fuel. America's problem is that ethanol production out of corn is tied up in the farm bill, which not only pays farmers not to grow sufficient amounts of anything to keep the price high, but causes a diversion of product away from food, forcing the price high.
The increase in production of corn-based ethanol in the US caused the price of tortillas to jump in Mexico a couple of years ago, leading to increased numbers of illegals being captured at the border (and of course, the number that get through are far, far greater than the number that get caught).
I **WISH** we could use sugar instead of corn here... the corn industry has us on lockdown and is fucking everything up. They're in collusion with our domestic sugar growers to keep sugar tariffs as well. We're practically the only developed country that has a sugar tariff, and that's why we have "high fructose corn syrup" in everything, and why American Coca-Cola tastes like filthy, disgusting shit, compared even to the Coke in Canada.
I hear Apple already as a contract with Barak Obama to take over after the end of his Presidency. He'll deliver product change we can believe in, for sure.
You do realize that the United States is over 2.27x the land area of the EU, right? Australia is also over twice as large as the EU.
The point I'm trying to make is that people complain about the lack of "broadband saturation" in the US, but don't seem to realize that South Korea is 32,622 square miles while the US is over 3.7MILLION square miles.
There is a whole hell of a lot of space to cover, lots of people, etc. The major metro areas have things covered, but its terribly difficult to to get everything covered in a place like the US or Australia where everyone isn't cooped up on top of each other in a small space.
But seriously....Why is it that it took a constitutional amendment to start prohibition of alcohol, and bring it back...but, other drugs have been taken out of public use by the swipe of a pen?
Because white people drink, while reefer is for black Jazz musicians and opium is for Chinamen, duh! Seriously -- all of our drug laws were instituted to punish sections of the population they were associated with to try and make them want to leave, not because anyone cared about the dope. Why do you think crack carries a stiffer sentence than blow?
I don't speak Italian (I did take Latin and I have been to Italy for 2 weeks one time), and had no real reason to come across that phrase before. Michael just liked to talk about Italians, there was no real reason.
I think he was trying to draw parallels between county and town loyalty in Ireland, especially with regards to GAA sports, where they are not professional -- its done for pride and glory and all that jazz.
Italy is a strange country. Basically every city is a different country, with different traditions, people behavior, food, dialect (which is unintelligible from italian). You can travel 30 km and find a completely different kind of Italy.
One of my professors in Ireland was always fond of saying that an Italian's loyalty is to his bell tower -- meaning, local as possible. I've never heard an Italian admit to it before though.
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Linux isn't just a good choice, it's the ONLY choice.
Have you met NetBSD recently? I think you'll find that it runs on more stuff than Linux does, or at least just as much.
To be more to the point, I wanted Sarah Palin and her religious views as far away from DC as possible. I'm used to politicians being corrupt and backstabbing. I can deal with it so long as they don't believe in intelligent falling.
Yeah, the religious right pisses me off hard-core -- oh, and the right-to-workers, and a slew of other constituencies. I just hated Democrats more, until I worked in Washington and found out that practically everything they tell people you growing up as a straight, white male of the property-holding class in the South is pretty much bullshit.
I helped campaign for him on the weekends with my sister... got on stage when he came to Newport News and was on the tv, and got to shake his hand and stuff...
But in VA, you don't need a permit to own a gun (actually, sales records are destroyed 30 days after purchase), but I already had my concealed carry permit.
I spent most of the first 2 years out of college working in politics -- Palin was the only one of the candidates I haven't met. I voted for Obama anyway, while having an RNC card in my wallet, because I figured that he would list a little more to the right later one, average out, and would probably be quite alright. I wasn't about the hype, I just want someone sane and relatively moderate (slightly leftish is alright) after all the bullshit we've all had to deal with the last few years.
Hey, this is change I can believe in... I'd be shocked if he picked the head EFF attorney instead.
I ran host on that IP, and it belongs to zeldauniverse.net -- so, its probably more fun than you meant it to be.
Yeah mean, other than Yahoo, and HotMail before MS took them over and they got super crappy, and a whole bunch of other people? I dunno... no one I guess.
Spoken like the eternal groomsman of computer nerds.
Well, we all know Vets are smarter than people doctors -- after all, the dog can't tell the doctor where it hurts.
despite the constant barrage of YRO scare stories here
Well, what do you expect in this post-Columbine, post-9/11 world we live in? /sarcasm
Seriously, if you think its bad now you should have been here when John "Conspiracy" Katz was slumming around... of course, I don't know if he still is or not. I've had set to ignore his articles since 2000.
That Virginia Tech kid was Korean, last time I checked. But maybe I'm just not sure what you mean by "approved" people.
Spoken like one who's livelyhood/retirement is not tied up in their stock. But I don't own any Apple stock... the only Apple product I have is an iPod shuffle -- hardly a high-dollar item.
Your Neighbor is R. Kelly?
There may not be any "natural" monopolies, but there are circumstances where allowing competition might create more problems than it actually solves. For instance, utilities.
If you don't have one, government sanctioned, provider alone for things like telephone, water, etc, you will end up with a situation where multiple companies are pursuing leans for right-of-way, criss-crossing private and public property and duplicating infrastructure. While certain services such as telephones and power may be able to get by with multiple companies providing the service over one set of lines, and non-original providers leasing the use of the equipment. However, for obvious reasons, this doesn't exactly work well for water -- you can't packet-switch h20.
Sugar-cane is a fast-growing weed where most of the mass of the plant can be used for creation of fuel. America's problem is that ethanol production out of corn is tied up in the farm bill, which not only pays farmers not to grow sufficient amounts of anything to keep the price high, but causes a diversion of product away from food, forcing the price high.
The increase in production of corn-based ethanol in the US caused the price of tortillas to jump in Mexico a couple of years ago, leading to increased numbers of illegals being captured at the border (and of course, the number that get through are far, far greater than the number that get caught).
I **WISH** we could use sugar instead of corn here... the corn industry has us on lockdown and is fucking everything up. They're in collusion with our domestic sugar growers to keep sugar tariffs as well. We're practically the only developed country that has a sugar tariff, and that's why we have "high fructose corn syrup" in everything, and why American Coca-Cola tastes like filthy, disgusting shit, compared even to the Coke in Canada.
Its a bloody agricultural mafia.
I hear Apple already as a contract with Barak Obama to take over after the end of his Presidency. He'll deliver product change we can believe in, for sure.
They don't allow talking in the library, 'tis why.
If a meteorite hits the castle, Prince Humperdink suffers? I'm in!
Doesn't the one imply the other?
You do realize that the United States is over 2.27x the land area of the EU, right? Australia is also over twice as large as the EU.
The point I'm trying to make is that people complain about the lack of "broadband saturation" in the US, but don't seem to realize that South Korea is 32,622 square miles while the US is over 3.7MILLION square miles.
There is a whole hell of a lot of space to cover, lots of people, etc. The major metro areas have things covered, but its terribly difficult to to get everything covered in a place like the US or Australia where everyone isn't cooped up on top of each other in a small space.
Cut us some slack, dude.
Hurdles or Limbo?
But seriously....Why is it that it took a constitutional amendment to start prohibition of alcohol, and bring it back...but, other drugs have been taken out of public use by the swipe of a pen?
Because white people drink, while reefer is for black Jazz musicians and opium is for Chinamen, duh! Seriously -- all of our drug laws were instituted to punish sections of the population they were associated with to try and make them want to leave, not because anyone cared about the dope. Why do you think crack carries a stiffer sentence than blow?
I don't speak Italian (I did take Latin and I have been to Italy for 2 weeks one time), and had no real reason to come across that phrase before. Michael just liked to talk about Italians, there was no real reason.
I think he was trying to draw parallels between county and town loyalty in Ireland, especially with regards to GAA sports, where they are not professional -- its done for pride and glory and all that jazz.
Italy is a strange country. Basically every city is a different country, with different traditions, people behavior, food, dialect (which is unintelligible from italian). You can travel 30 km and find a completely different kind of Italy.
One of my professors in Ireland was always fond of saying that an Italian's loyalty is to his bell tower -- meaning, local as possible. I've never heard an Italian admit to it before though.
pedantophiles make me sick.