It's faster for me to write my wife a check and have her deposit it via her mobile phone than it is for me to do a direct transfer from my account to hers. Sad, isn't it? The first takes about a day for the money to clear, the second takes upwards of five days.
I agree with you. I'm just sick of so many people pretending that's not how it really is just so they can clear their conscience and support their team... ur... party!
Oh noes! The government is tracking what the license plate number is on my car! Forget the fact that it's a license number they issued to me in the first place, when I told them exactly what kind of car I drive....
Even when a party runs against it as part of their platform, once they get power then make it worse but different.
I don't see how people miss this. Back in ~2004 the republicans were pro-gov't and the dems were anti-gov't. Trade a republican gov't for a democrat gov't and suddenly the whole thing is flipped on its head, even if that gov't is, in reality, acting almost exactly the same way. The parties are more like sports teams with rabid fans, who think if their team loses it's gotta be the ref's fault, or someone cheated.
Everyone who drives should have basic knowledge of how cars work, how to check and add fluids and that there are things called drain plugs for various oils and fluids
FYI the men's foot record is 2:03:02 and the men's wheelchair record is 1:18:25 (just supporting parent's statement). I believe the conclusion may be that marathoners who have perfectly working legs would be better off using a wheelchair if their only goal is completion speed.
I don't know how you're missing this, but what I'm saying for the third time now is that there aren't enough people voting for the "lesser evil" that even in your hypothetical scenario your candidates would get elected. The reason they don't get votes isn't because people are afraid to vote for them, it's because they don't want to vote for those candidates. I didn't vote for Ron Paul. Not because I was afraid of how the rest of the election would turn out if I did vote for him, but because I don't support him as a candidate. I suspect the vast majority of the voting public falls into this same category, and there is no real reason to believe otherwise, except for wishful thinking.
You, and others like you, have taken the reason that a small number of people don't vote for your candidate and somehow turned it into the excuse for why your candidates consistently lose elections by a landslide.
If people voted for their own preferences instead of concerning themselves with how other people will vote (which is all you're doing when you bring up whether or not someone has any realistic hope of winning), the world would be a better place.
If all people voted for free chocolate cookies for the masses the world would be a better place, too, but sad to say we don't live in this perfect strawman world that you're setting up for the sake of argument. We live in the real world where it's you against over a hundred million other voters and somehow you think that just because you know how it should work that they should all listen to you.
Maybe, here in the real world, people really don't identify with the libertarian or green parties and that's why they don't get more support. I gave your hero Ron Paul a good listen during the last election and there were some significantly genius ideas coming from him. Unfortunately there were at least as many criminally insane ideas coming from the same person -- so much so that I couldn't possibly vote for him in good conscience.
Just because you want the world to work a certain way doesn't mean it does work that way.
Last night whilst sleeping, my mind created an alternative life for me, where I lived on another planet called "June" which was apparently a cross between Mars's coloring and Venus's overcast skies. I lived out several days worth of experiences in that world in the moments before my body awoke in this world. Yet, I don't have any reason to believe that what I saw was heaven, so much as it was my mind getting its "exercise" while I was asleep.
You ask: why "simulate" an afterlife. I ask: why not?
Did you know who Anthony Weiner was before that went down? Doubtful. Next question: Do you know who is opposing him in his current race? Also doubtful. Seems to me that through all his transgressions, he's actually set himself up quite well. I still think he's an idiot, but luckily for him he's not running somewhere that I can vote for/against him.
ok....you seem to be the exception. everyone I know seems to say it is quite poor.
Everyone I know who has a surface pro seems to agree with the GP that the machine is excellent and does everything they ask it to. Everyone I know who has a bad opinion about the surface pro, however, doesn't have one. I suspect you and most people you know fall into the latter category, as well.
Similar story here, though I won't put it as eloquently. I bought a box of Twinkies just because I hadn't had them in a while and I wanted to 'remember' what the big deal was. Got them home, had one... ya, they taste more like plastic than they do like a confectionary treat. My wife had one yesterday around lunch time, and all afternoon she was complaining about the aftertaste and if she burped it was awful for both of us. Moral of the story: I don't know if Twinkies were always this bad, or if there's a new recipe that's this bad, but this is the last time they'll be getting my money, union or no union. That is, until next time I forget what they are like....
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It's faster for me to write my wife a check and have her deposit it via her mobile phone than it is for me to do a direct transfer from my account to hers. Sad, isn't it? The first takes about a day for the money to clear, the second takes upwards of five days.
I'm not sure why this got modded down, it was an honest question.
Are you saying that instead of trying to curb emissions, we should focus on raising our coastal cities up about 3 ft to cope with what's coming?
I believe Mr. Boehner prefers that you refer to this as "job killing."
I agree with you. I'm just sick of so many people pretending that's not how it really is just so they can clear their conscience and support their team... ur... party!
Good point!
Oh noes! The government is tracking what the license plate number is on my car! Forget the fact that it's a license number they issued to me in the first place, when I told them exactly what kind of car I drive....
Could we submit a patch for Avenged Sevenfold's new album? They got confused and think they are Metallica. What's the equivalent of "FTFY" in music?
This all true, but I still can't resist the ability to take crappy country songs and fork them into acid rock...
How is a libertarian's campaign promise any more trustworthy than a republican's or democrat's campaign promise?
I don't see how people miss this. Back in ~2004 the republicans were pro-gov't and the dems were anti-gov't. Trade a republican gov't for a democrat gov't and suddenly the whole thing is flipped on its head, even if that gov't is, in reality, acting almost exactly the same way. The parties are more like sports teams with rabid fans, who think if their team loses it's gotta be the ref's fault, or someone cheated.
Why?
FYI the men's foot record is 2:03:02 and the men's wheelchair record is 1:18:25 (just supporting parent's statement). I believe the conclusion may be that marathoners who have perfectly working legs would be better off using a wheelchair if their only goal is completion speed.
Please cite where your quotes are from.
I don't know how you're missing this, but what I'm saying for the third time now is that there aren't enough people voting for the "lesser evil" that even in your hypothetical scenario your candidates would get elected. The reason they don't get votes isn't because people are afraid to vote for them, it's because they don't want to vote for those candidates. I didn't vote for Ron Paul. Not because I was afraid of how the rest of the election would turn out if I did vote for him, but because I don't support him as a candidate. I suspect the vast majority of the voting public falls into this same category, and there is no real reason to believe otherwise, except for wishful thinking.
You, and others like you, have taken the reason that a small number of people don't vote for your candidate and somehow turned it into the excuse for why your candidates consistently lose elections by a landslide.
If all people voted for free chocolate cookies for the masses the world would be a better place, too, but sad to say we don't live in this perfect strawman world that you're setting up for the sake of argument. We live in the real world where it's you against over a hundred million other voters and somehow you think that just because you know how it should work that they should all listen to you.
Maybe, here in the real world, people really don't identify with the libertarian or green parties and that's why they don't get more support. I gave your hero Ron Paul a good listen during the last election and there were some significantly genius ideas coming from him. Unfortunately there were at least as many criminally insane ideas coming from the same person -- so much so that I couldn't possibly vote for him in good conscience.
Just because you want the world to work a certain way doesn't mean it does work that way.
Last night whilst sleeping, my mind created an alternative life for me, where I lived on another planet called "June" which was apparently a cross between Mars's coloring and Venus's overcast skies. I lived out several days worth of experiences in that world in the moments before my body awoke in this world. Yet, I don't have any reason to believe that what I saw was heaven, so much as it was my mind getting its "exercise" while I was asleep.
You ask: why "simulate" an afterlife. I ask: why not?
We could solve this whole argument through experimentation. Just use a guillotine on the GP and then ask him if he sees God or not.
Bullshit. If that were true, the third party candidates would have significant numbers in the polls and only reduced numbers in actual votes.
Did you know who Anthony Weiner was before that went down? Doubtful. Next question: Do you know who is opposing him in his current race? Also doubtful. Seems to me that through all his transgressions, he's actually set himself up quite well. I still think he's an idiot, but luckily for him he's not running somewhere that I can vote for/against him.
Everyone I know who has a surface pro seems to agree with the GP that the machine is excellent and does everything they ask it to. Everyone I know who has a bad opinion about the surface pro, however, doesn't have one. I suspect you and most people you know fall into the latter category, as well.
I think you're right. I can't remember the last time I had a twinkie prior to this recent purchase.
Similar story here, though I won't put it as eloquently. I bought a box of Twinkies just because I hadn't had them in a while and I wanted to 'remember' what the big deal was. Got them home, had one... ya, they taste more like plastic than they do like a confectionary treat. My wife had one yesterday around lunch time, and all afternoon she was complaining about the aftertaste and if she burped it was awful for both of us. Moral of the story: I don't know if Twinkies were always this bad, or if there's a new recipe that's this bad, but this is the last time they'll be getting my money, union or no union. That is, until next time I forget what they are like....
All I usually see are Monsters or Rockstars, coupled with boxes of candy. Come to think of it, that is lunch & dinner, too.
And somehow you think this protects your freedoms?