In all, 150 scientists reported a combined 435 instances of real or perceived "interference" related to global-warming research within the past five years.
The Union of Concerned Scientists, a group with an agenda to promote, sends 1600 government scientists a "survey" and only can get 279 to respond. I wonder if the non responses were because they perceived that it was bogus?
In the USA, News media can do what they want, no campain finance regulations apply to them. They can slant their coverage how they want and they can push one candidate in editorials all they want. They mostly claim no bias in reporting for credibility reasons. Many genuanly try to be unbiased but we are all human. (well many here might think foxnews is not using humans)
But does an uneducated girl whose father abandoned her at birth have that much choice when she gets pregnant? Sure, she can say no, but is she really equipped to do that?
Unless she was raped, I think she had a choice.
Does the guy in Michigan growing up in what's left of an industrial town have what it takes to say no to the booze that drowns out the misery of his situation?
I don't think it's anyones fault but his own if he does drink rather than find work elsewhere.
Did George Bush choose to be rich? What about Dick Cheney (who got nearly all of his wealth from gov't contracts, buyouts and subsidies he obtained with his connections).
I don't know much about Cheney but I have read that Bush had drinking problems in the past and he managed to get past them and eventually become President of the USA and get re-elected. A lot of good people have ruined their lives with alocohol.
People don't choose to be rich and poor, it's mostly blind luck (or lack thereof) and nepotism.
You are totally wrong. Sure some people win lifes lottery but there are plenty of people that have come from nowhere through sheer determination, hard work and good choices. What you call blind luck could simply be providing for a need that wasn't being filled by anyone else.
Bill Clinton proved you didn't have to be born rich to go far. What about Sam Walton? Sheldon Adelson was born poor and is number 3 on the Forbes 400. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates were born well off but they didn't become super rich by being totally lucky.
$9.5 Billion in bonuses were distributed to employes of the company. That is an average of $370,000 each. The CEO is getting a lot, but the "peons" you talk about are still getting a huge bonus.
This is wrong. The article really says "His bonus reflected the performance of Goldman Sachs, which reported record net earnings of $9.5 billion, or $370,000 per employee at the world's largest investment bank."
I didn't see the article say anywhere that Goldman Sachs decided to pay out it's whole years earnings in bonuses. If they did their stock wouldn't have gone up 58%.
After they spend all that money the UK will claim jurisdiction over them anyway. Up 'till now there hasn't been anything on that platform worth a dang so the UK let some crank claim it was a seperate contry.
You seem to be suffering from a rectal-cranial inversion, let me fix that. In 1998 the US Senate(the branch of the US govt. that ratifies treaties) voted 95-0 against the treaty. Now in case you don't know there are only 100 senators in the US senate. So before you go think one party or another voted against the Kyoto treaty, actually it was both. How you managed to achieve rectal-cranial inversion has yet to be determined, but hopefully this little factoid will help reduce its occurance in the future.
This is essentially correct. I think what really happend was the Senate defeated a resolution of support for the treaty as Clinton signed it but wouldn't ever submit it to the Senate where a 2/3 majority would be required for ratification.
All in all, you are 100% correct about the inversion deal though.
Why not impeach them both of them? President Pelosi has a nice ring to it.
Do you really think that the Democrats could possibly find the 15+ MINIMUM (Some dems would vote no) to pull this off? Remember, while you can impeach with a bare majority of the house, you can't remove without 2/3 of the Senate.
Who comes up with this stuff? Someone's been reading a bit too much Asimov. A better question is, under what possible set of circumstances would ANYONE market a product that would want to behave indepently from it's owners wishes? I'm betting that no robot is ever put together in such a way that this will be an issue.
I think the threat of lawsuits when a robot runs out and sticks up a liquor store or something.
up to four drinks per day in men and two drinks per day in women -- reduces the risk of death from any cause by roughly 18 percent, the team reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine. However, "things radically change" when consumption goes beyond these levels, study leader Dr. Augusto Di Castelnuovo, from Catholic University of Campobasso, said in a statement. Men who have more than four drinks per day and women who have more than two drinks per day not only lose the protection that alcohol affords, but they increase their risk of death, the data indicates.
I know I am coming into this story late but when did the chance of death ever get below 100%?? Can it really be lower or even higher for that matter?
"The military is reluctant to talk about the use of Silly String, saying that discussing specific tactics will tip off insurgents."
That quote isn't right. It should read:
"The military is reluctant to talk about the use of fatuous simi-coagulated adhearing strand, saying that discussing specific tactics will tip off insurgents."
A 2000 Economic Policy Institute study showed that almost 60 percent of Americans in the lowest income quintile in 1969 were in a higher quintile in 1996, and over 61 percent in the highest income quintile had moved down into a lower income quintile during the same period.
I am sure that somone will say that this is bogus because of the source but I thought I would toss it out anyway.
I also like turning on my lights when it's just starting to get dark. If they're only 2 feet behind someone going 80mph, taking the time to distinguish between tail lights and break lights can be expensive. (I actually did it when I was being tailgated by a cop, he slowed down pretty quick;)
You can do a variation of this if you have a vehicle rigged up with a trailer brake controller and you are not towing at the time. If you engage the manual button to engage trailer brakes it will also turn on the brake lights weather your foot is on the brake or not.
It makes sense though, as I've seen people get trapped in the middle of an intersection by pulling forward while waiting for a break. What happens is that when the light in their direction turns yellow, which should be their chance to get out of the intersection - instead you get a stream of cars zooming through the yellow. Then the light turns red, and several cars run the red light. By this time, the cross traffic has gotten the green light and they start pulling into the intersection, and get in the way of the vehicle who is still trying to execute their turn. And it turns into a giant mess. I've learned that for some intersections at certain times of the day, you'd best to stay put until you can make your turn.
In most US states, the person turning left at a non-arrow green light that has moved into the intersection has the right away after the oncoming traffic has gotten a red light and the crossing traffic gets a green light. They pretty much own the intersection. Now in the case of people running the red light oncoming, eventually they will stop and you can usually encurage them to stop by easing into their path.
The problem I see is not somone getting trapped in the middle but more somone that has simi-eased into the intersection and when the light turns yellow for them they just sit there rather than moveing all the way to the middle and even start easing to the left which kind of lets all other drivers know who is next. Depending on the size of the intersection, more than one can do this. If you don't get out there and make your intentions clear, the crossing traffic will start coming.
Those callers are bill collectors. Mark was (and likely is) a deadbeat (not that there is anything wrong with that:]). By law, or convention (I'm not really sure) they don't talk about Mark's financial problem with anyone else but Mark. The next round of creditors will start automated messages "I have an important message for Mark (his last name), call...", and this will repeat 4 or more times a day. Get rid of that number now, it won't stop.
You can probibly tell the bill collectors that you are not that person and ask them to stop calling you and they will. Another route is to tell them that you are not that person and that the phone they are calling is a business phone, that might work better.
Another route is to tell them that you are a government worker and that the phone they are calling is your government issued cell phone. I did this with the intention of telling them that if they called again I would refer the matter to the State Attorney General's office but it never came to that as they quite ready to take my number off the list at once.
And what occur the garge owners use their remote-control? Does this jam the Airforce frequency??
8:30 am: "- Chief, we have fired the missile! "- Hum, which missile? "- Well, The Missile, ya know! "- Ah..... Ah? Who has given that order? "- Well, you know, Washington signals nowadays are rather mixed but I confirm the emission was on the usual frequency and has been repeated frantically in the last minutes. According to the Terrestrial Message Bluring Scheme we have had for some years now, the Message came from many locations but with the same words in it". "- Hum... It certainly comes from the White House then. Big affair."
What really happens is this: "-chief, the missile bay doors just opened. "-chief, the missle bay doors just closed. "-chief, the missle bay doors just opened again. etc.
Is there any legal or other obstacle to, say, buy a house in center of suburban settlement and turn it into a general store? Or tear the house down and make a medium-sized several-story building with telecommute-ready (remote, broadband connected to whichever company by VPN) offices for rent, small post office and small general store? IMHO there is a lot of potential for profitable business (as well as savings for inhabitants, it is a win-win!) in adding just a little bit of city features to suburbia.
First off, you probibly won't get past the local zoneing board. Secondly, some newer neigborhoods have covenants that you wouldn't be able to get around.
Usually an isolated neighboorhood will have a convienance store fairly close by (within 5 minutes drive). If more demand than that pops up (other neighborhoods out in the boonies) then perhaps a "strip mall" will pop up usually at a simi-main crossroad (maybe 10 min drive) which will have a Grocery store, gas station and such. If the area grows more then they get another strip mall or even the granddaddy of them all, WAL-MART!!!
Nope. Minivans, possibly, but not SUVs. You need to look into this a little more: SUVs were a completely insane fad, a candidate for a new edition of the "Madness of Crowds". They're good for almost exactly nothing.--
(Myself, I wouldn't even want to use one as a skiing vehicle -- if I slide off into a ditch, I'd rather stay up-right.)
What would you use if you and your family loved to tow a 5000lb. camper on a few trips a year? An fact about larger SUVs that seems to be forgoten here is that towing is just very possible with smaller vehicles and forget about trying to rent a tow vehicle because of all the setup required to safely tow.
The fact is, anyone who owns a house and puts a decent amount of work into it or has a family with at least 2 kids will make use of the space in their vehicle. How big are your kids!?!?
Your probibly just trying to be funny but it's not the size of the kids as much as the other junk that you have to have associated with them. This is especially true with younger kids when you go on a trip and have to take suitcases for all the clothing and a few toys and possibly a stroller and a collapsible bed(pack -n- play). Young ones also have to rid in car seats which take up a lot of room too.
Even if minivans get marginally better mileage than SUVs, they still both have very poor (passenger*miles)/gallon, because they are both usually driven with few passengers. An acura, on the other hand, gets better mileage than either of them, and is also lighter and more meuverable - therefore much safer to everyone on the road. I really don't see a difference between SUVs and minivans when you consider safety and mpg together.
First off, the bunk about it a minivan may be driven a lot with no passengers but they are driven a some with others in the car too. I am not going to get a tiny car that will fullfill 90% of my by myself driving but leave me screwed when I have to haul kids/carpools and their stuff.
Things to keep in mind about children is they can't sit in the front seat(illegal in most states), have to be in a booster seat 'till they are eight(used to be 5 but now its 8 in NC and try packing three of those in the back seat of a smaller car) and at younger ages they have to ride in larger carseats.
Back in the 70s people didn't worry about safety as much so you could toss 3-4 kids in the backseat or even the cargo area of the station wagon allong with having a child or two in the front seat.
Well, to be honest, I tried to build an R/C with a full-auto bb gun in it. It did not work at all. So my friends and I went to doing ship-to-ship battles. Too bad: it would've been great to do real dogfighting. (Or, as I dreamed in my nefarious moments, be a sky pirate and fly the plane into an R/C park, shooting down other planes, and then make my escape.)
I always thought a good R/C prank would be to go to one of those RC sailboat get togethers with an RC Sub and and RC Sailboat. Rig the sailboat to blow up with some kind of minor explosive then plant it in the middle of the other RC sailboats. Next you cruise through with your RC sub (don't let anyone know whos it is) to get attention then dive. A short time later blow your sailboat and yell "OMG, the sub is fireing torpetoes!!" and watch the RC Sailboats scatter.
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Read the real survey here http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/scientific
Take away the science wording and it reflects what it's like to work in any government job.
In the USA, News media can do what they want, no campain finance regulations apply to them. They can slant their coverage how they want and they can push one candidate in editorials all they want. They mostly claim no bias in reporting for credibility reasons. Many genuanly try to be unbiased but we are all human. (well many here might think foxnews is not using humans)
Unless she was raped, I think she had a choice.
I don't think it's anyones fault but his own if he does drink rather than find work elsewhere.
I don't know much about Cheney but I have read that Bush had drinking problems in the past and he managed to get past them and eventually become President of the USA and get re-elected. A lot of good people have ruined their lives with alocohol.
You are totally wrong. Sure some people win lifes lottery but there are plenty of people that have come from nowhere through sheer determination, hard work and good choices. What you call blind luck could simply be providing for a need that wasn't being filled by anyone else.
Bill Clinton proved you didn't have to be born rich to go far.
What about Sam Walton? Sheldon Adelson was born poor and is number 3 on the Forbes 400. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates were born well off but they didn't become super rich by being totally lucky.
They still do in the USA. You don't have to be "rich" to own a boat.
This is wrong. The article really says "His bonus reflected the performance of Goldman Sachs, which reported record net earnings of $9.5 billion, or $370,000 per employee at the world's largest investment bank."
I didn't see the article say anywhere that Goldman Sachs decided to pay out it's whole years earnings in bonuses. If they did their stock wouldn't have gone up 58%.
After they spend all that money the UK will claim jurisdiction over them anyway. Up 'till now there hasn't been anything on that platform worth a dang so the UK let some crank claim it was a seperate contry.
Waste of money.
This is essentially correct. I think what really happend was the Senate defeated a resolution of support for the treaty as Clinton signed it but wouldn't ever submit it to the Senate where a 2/3 majority would be required for ratification.
All in all, you are 100% correct about the inversion deal though.
Do you really think that the Democrats could possibly find the 15+ MINIMUM (Some dems would vote no) to pull this off? Remember, while you can impeach with a bare majority of the house, you can't remove without 2/3 of the Senate.
I think the threat of lawsuits when a robot runs out and sticks up a liquor store or something.
I'm not a robosexual either...not that there anything wrong with that.
I know I am coming into this story late but when did the chance of death ever get below 100%?? Can it really be lower or even higher for that matter?
"Please state the nature of the medical emergancy"
"My problem with getting rid of the $1 bill... How do I pay the stripers?"
Same way you pay a vending machine
That quote isn't right. It should read:
"The military is reluctant to talk about the use of fatuous simi-coagulated adhearing strand, saying that discussing specific tactics will tip off insurgents."
If they have found water on Mars this could send the price of water down.
From an evil right wing website http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/BG1418.cfm
I am sure that somone will say that this is bogus because of the source but I thought I would toss it out anyway.
You can do a variation of this if you have a vehicle rigged up with a trailer brake controller and you are not towing at the time. If you engage the manual button to engage trailer brakes it will also turn on the brake lights weather your foot is on the brake or not.
In most US states, the person turning left at a non-arrow green light that has moved into the intersection has the right away after the oncoming traffic has gotten a red light and the crossing traffic gets a green light. They pretty much own the intersection. Now in the case of people running the red light oncoming, eventually they will stop and you can usually encurage them to stop by easing into their path.
The problem I see is not somone getting trapped in the middle but more somone that has simi-eased into the intersection and when the light turns yellow for them they just sit there rather than moveing all the way to the middle and even start easing to the left which kind of lets all other drivers know who is next. Depending on the size of the intersection, more than one can do this. If you don't get out there and make your intentions clear, the crossing traffic will start coming.
You can probibly tell the bill collectors that you are not that person and ask them to stop calling you and they will. Another route is to tell them that you are not that person and that the phone they are calling is a business phone, that might work better.
Another route is to tell them that you are a government worker and that the phone they are calling is your government issued cell phone. I did this with the intention of telling them that if they called again I would refer the matter to the State Attorney General's office but it never came to that as they quite ready to take my number off the list at once.
What really happens is this:
"-chief, the missile bay doors just opened.
"-chief, the missle bay doors just closed.
"-chief, the missle bay doors just opened again.
etc.
First off, you probibly won't get past the local zoneing board. Secondly, some newer neigborhoods have covenants that you wouldn't be able to get around.
Usually an isolated neighboorhood will have a convienance store fairly close by (within 5 minutes drive). If more demand than that pops up (other neighborhoods out in the boonies) then perhaps a "strip mall" will pop up usually at a simi-main crossroad (maybe 10 min drive) which will have a Grocery store, gas station and such. If the area grows more then they get another strip mall or even the granddaddy of them all, WAL-MART!!!
What would you use if you and your family loved to tow a 5000lb. camper on a few trips a year? An fact about larger SUVs that seems to be forgoten here is that towing is just very possible with smaller vehicles and forget about trying to rent a tow vehicle because of all the setup required to safely tow.
Your probibly just trying to be funny but it's not the size of the kids as much as the other junk that you have to have associated with them. This is especially true with younger kids when you go on a trip and have to take suitcases for all the clothing and a few toys and possibly a stroller and a collapsible bed(pack -n- play). Young ones also have to rid in car seats which take up a lot of room too.
First off, the bunk about it a minivan may be driven a lot with no passengers but they are driven a some with others in the car too. I am not going to get a tiny car that will fullfill 90% of my by myself driving but leave me screwed when I have to haul kids/carpools and their stuff.
Things to keep in mind about children is they can't sit in the front seat(illegal in most states), have to be in a booster seat 'till they are eight(used to be 5 but now its 8 in NC and try packing three of those in the back seat of a smaller car) and at younger ages they have to ride in larger carseats.
Back in the 70s people didn't worry about safety as much so you could toss 3-4 kids in the backseat or even the cargo area of the station wagon allong with having a child or two in the front seat.
I always thought a good R/C prank would be to go to one of those RC sailboat get togethers with an RC Sub and and RC Sailboat. Rig the sailboat to blow up with some kind of minor explosive then plant it in the middle of the other RC sailboats. Next you cruise through with your RC sub (don't let anyone know whos it is) to get attention then dive. A short time later blow your sailboat and yell "OMG, the sub is fireing torpetoes!!" and watch the RC Sailboats scatter.