It's not an either/or situation, but the third alternative is worse. That's because self-funding makes politics a game strictly for rich people - we'd be creating another aristocracy.
Contributions from third parties that are based on positions taken by candidates are distinguishable from bribery only by figuring out what came first - the contribution or the position? With public financing, everyone is on an equal footing and there's no point in changing positions for money. The goal is to remove the incentive to make contributions into bribes - and that only happens if everyone gets the same contribution, regardless of what they're saying.
Not only HP - clearly the analysts and investors have no clue either. A large acquisition hasn't had a positive ROI in the first 6 months of the deal? Shocking! Burn everything, and start from scratch!
Sometimes I think that Ellison and Jobs were successful BECAUSE they are/were assholes. They have a vision and relentlessly execute it; screw everyone else. Anybody who spends time listening to everybody around them and taking their opinions into account will be driven insane and into bankruptcy.
You know what the press does? It creates content that sells. If the public at large will only read which senator slept with which secretary, then those are the stories we will get.
The press fails us because we fail ourselves. For the same reason that in a democracy, we get the government we deserve, in a capitalist economy, we get the press we deserve.
Yes, the pine borer. It used to be restricted to the southern and eastern parts of the US, because the larvae can't survive a good frost. Now they're migrating west and north, even over the rockies. Since they're so temperature sensitive, and since tree populations haven't changed significantly in the last 20-30 years, the conclusion that everyone is coming to is that the warmer weather allows them to survive in areas that they previous weren't able to.
So yes, the pine borer migration is a direct result of global warming, and a very nice indicator of how it's progressing.
Brilliant. This would fix about 95% of all problems with Intellectual Property. Suddenly, it becomes an asset that needs to be put to work, rather than one that can be hoarded indefinitely.
You're forgetting the Nissan Leaf. Furthermore, a lot of the manufacturers you mentioned have electric prototypes, hybrid technology in flagship models (Porsche, for example), and alternative energy storage methods. We're in a transitional period.
My suspicion is that there'll be two types of cars in the next 10 years: fully electric for the commuter models, and various hybrid technologies powered by an ICE or a turbine. Electric cars are here to stay, for the reasons you mentioned. People are just working out the kinks.
I pay the extra charge for E+ every time. Those few extra inches are the difference between folding my knees up to my chest and being able to sit comfortably. It's the only reason I fly United.
The problem is that you basically can't use the 3G with the latest version, and the original iPhone became unusable when upgraded to iOS 4 (or was that iOS3?). Or at least so I'm being told by friends who have the various iPhones, and then switched to Androids because of said performance problems. There's little use in being able to upgrade to a newer version of the OS when that version basically renders your phone unusable.
There are however, economic laws which can't be overcome by violence or wishful thinking,
Wait, what?
There are two types of laws: physical laws, which are better described as models of the physical world based on the assumptions that a) we have the means to discover relationships between physical events, and b) nature doesn't cheat. Then there's everything else. There are no economic laws. At best, there are models of how humans behave and how they exchange goods and services. We might have the ability to discover relationships between events in human relationships and interactions, but there is one thing that completely invalidates any attempt to present an "Economic law": humans cheat. And a single human can have an impact that goes far beyond how many people he or she interacts with.
Anybody who says that their economic model is an immutable law is selling snake oil.
I've been accused of shilling for very many companies just because I commented something positive about them
Since you pretty much only post positive stories about MS - nice, big, semi-articulate stories, as opposed to two sentence rants - yeah, you're a shill, and lying about it. Must be a sucky job, be paid to lie repeatedly.
Yeah, that's what I thought: all sound and fury, no actual action. Ready to blame everyone but themselves for a budget deficit that was 100% the making of the national countries.
Depends, of course, on how you define sex offender. Guy who pees in a corner in view of a child? Won't ever do that again. Guy who sent his 16 year old girlfriend a picture of his junk? Won't ever do that again, either. Guy who was abused as a child and who gets off by molesting 3 year old girls? I can guarantee he won't stop until he is dead.
As to that Merkel cunt and bastard Sarkozy, they never complained when our corrupt rulers were destroying our industry and agriculture to buy from France and Germany, allowing them to expand their economies because we can't devalue our currency to keep competitive.
Couple of points: you voted those corrupt rulers into place. Not only that, but you clearly didn't haul them into court for corruption. So the people are in power because you put them there, and because you kept them there. Start blaming yourself for that situation. Furthermore, the reason you can't devalue your currency is also the reason your country has access to cheap credit. I didn't hear anyone complain about that, either.
So to all the PIIGS countries: start looking in the mirror before blaming others for the sorry state of your economies. 90% of your problems can only be fixed by yourself.
Sure. But the point to stop increasing the debt ceiling is before you allocate the money, not after. If you vote for a budget, and then block the people in charge of paying for the money from doing so, you're nothing but a third-grade political hack who is selling his country down the shitter so that he can get a few more votes from equally moronic voters.
This is the reason why we can't have nice things. A global communication network with very little to no barrier of entry? Why, that would mean people could actually communicate without us knowing! Welcome to darknets, sneakernets and other things that will keep the Internet alive for those who know. It was fun while it lasted.
Yes, but you missed the "on a screen" part. Didn't you know that transposing physical activities to a computer screen require great leaps of individual insight? Clearly, YOU didn't think of it, or you would have already patented it.
Two more swipes to get to the screen I want, and the pattern is gone. Or I can just drag my thumb across the screen as a matter of habit. It's not always necessary to remove evidence; sometimes you can just hide it among cruft.
Mod up for great justice. Most of the important laws are now mud fights between major corporations, with citizens having an input only by voting for who gets to receive the corporate money. The only times our congress critters seem to worry about laws that impact citizens are when it comes to "Think of the Children", "Thar be Terrorists" and "Here's some money for bread and circus".
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It's not an either/or situation, but the third alternative is worse. That's because self-funding makes politics a game strictly for rich people - we'd be creating another aristocracy.
Contributions from third parties that are based on positions taken by candidates are distinguishable from bribery only by figuring out what came first - the contribution or the position? With public financing, everyone is on an equal footing and there's no point in changing positions for money. The goal is to remove the incentive to make contributions into bribes - and that only happens if everyone gets the same contribution, regardless of what they're saying.
Not only HP - clearly the analysts and investors have no clue either. A large acquisition hasn't had a positive ROI in the first 6 months of the deal? Shocking! Burn everything, and start from scratch!
Sometimes I think that Ellison and Jobs were successful BECAUSE they are/were assholes. They have a vision and relentlessly execute it; screw everyone else. Anybody who spends time listening to everybody around them and taking their opinions into account will be driven insane and into bankruptcy.
You know what the press does? It creates content that sells. If the public at large will only read which senator slept with which secretary, then those are the stories we will get.
The press fails us because we fail ourselves. For the same reason that in a democracy, we get the government we deserve, in a capitalist economy, we get the press we deserve.
It's called factcheck.org, and it has a liberal bias.
You mean, like reality? Works for me.
Let me put it this way: would you rather that candidates are bribed by corporations through donations, or by yourself through taxes?
Toxicity of nickel refers to the toxicity of extracting it. Google nickle mines for a few nifty explanations of how bad nickle mining can be.
Yes, the pine borer. It used to be restricted to the southern and eastern parts of the US, because the larvae can't survive a good frost. Now they're migrating west and north, even over the rockies. Since they're so temperature sensitive, and since tree populations haven't changed significantly in the last 20-30 years, the conclusion that everyone is coming to is that the warmer weather allows them to survive in areas that they previous weren't able to.
So yes, the pine borer migration is a direct result of global warming, and a very nice indicator of how it's progressing.
For anyone not familiar with this particular organization, shorten it to Stasi and think back to before the fall of the Berlin Wall. I like it.
Brilliant. This would fix about 95% of all problems with Intellectual Property. Suddenly, it becomes an asset that needs to be put to work, rather than one that can be hoarded indefinitely.
You're forgetting the Nissan Leaf. Furthermore, a lot of the manufacturers you mentioned have electric prototypes, hybrid technology in flagship models (Porsche, for example), and alternative energy storage methods. We're in a transitional period.
My suspicion is that there'll be two types of cars in the next 10 years: fully electric for the commuter models, and various hybrid technologies powered by an ICE or a turbine. Electric cars are here to stay, for the reasons you mentioned. People are just working out the kinks.
I pay the extra charge for E+ every time. Those few extra inches are the difference between folding my knees up to my chest and being able to sit comfortably. It's the only reason I fly United.
The problem is that you basically can't use the 3G with the latest version, and the original iPhone became unusable when upgraded to iOS 4 (or was that iOS3?). Or at least so I'm being told by friends who have the various iPhones, and then switched to Androids because of said performance problems. There's little use in being able to upgrade to a newer version of the OS when that version basically renders your phone unusable.
As they say, past performance is not an indicator for future performance.
Which it makes it completely useless to make decisions. See also a broken clock.
Ok.
There are however, economic laws which can't be overcome by violence or wishful thinking,
Wait, what?
There are two types of laws: physical laws, which are better described as models of the physical world based on the assumptions that a) we have the means to discover relationships between physical events, and b) nature doesn't cheat. Then there's everything else. There are no economic laws. At best, there are models of how humans behave and how they exchange goods and services. We might have the ability to discover relationships between events in human relationships and interactions, but there is one thing that completely invalidates any attempt to present an "Economic law": humans cheat. And a single human can have an impact that goes far beyond how many people he or she interacts with.
Anybody who says that their economic model is an immutable law is selling snake oil.
I've been accused of shilling for very many companies just because I commented something positive about them
Since you pretty much only post positive stories about MS - nice, big, semi-articulate stories, as opposed to two sentence rants - yeah, you're a shill, and lying about it. Must be a sucky job, be paid to lie repeatedly.
Yeah, you just made that up. Or did your PR department tell you to write that?
Yeah, that's what I thought: all sound and fury, no actual action. Ready to blame everyone but themselves for a budget deficit that was 100% the making of the national countries.
Depends, of course, on how you define sex offender. Guy who pees in a corner in view of a child? Won't ever do that again. Guy who sent his 16 year old girlfriend a picture of his junk? Won't ever do that again, either. Guy who was abused as a child and who gets off by molesting 3 year old girls? I can guarantee he won't stop until he is dead.
As to that Merkel cunt and bastard Sarkozy, they never complained when our corrupt rulers were destroying our industry and agriculture to buy from France and Germany, allowing them to expand their economies because we can't devalue our currency to keep competitive.
Couple of points: you voted those corrupt rulers into place. Not only that, but you clearly didn't haul them into court for corruption. So the people are in power because you put them there, and because you kept them there. Start blaming yourself for that situation. Furthermore, the reason you can't devalue your currency is also the reason your country has access to cheap credit. I didn't hear anyone complain about that, either.
So to all the PIIGS countries: start looking in the mirror before blaming others for the sorry state of your economies. 90% of your problems can only be fixed by yourself.
Sure. But the point to stop increasing the debt ceiling is before you allocate the money, not after. If you vote for a budget, and then block the people in charge of paying for the money from doing so, you're nothing but a third-grade political hack who is selling his country down the shitter so that he can get a few more votes from equally moronic voters.
This is the reason why we can't have nice things. A global communication network with very little to no barrier of entry? Why, that would mean people could actually communicate without us knowing!
Welcome to darknets, sneakernets and other things that will keep the Internet alive for those who know. It was fun while it lasted.
Yes, but you missed the "on a screen" part. Didn't you know that transposing physical activities to a computer screen require great leaps of individual insight? Clearly, YOU didn't think of it, or you would have already patented it.
Now bend over. Apple does not like to lube up.
Two more swipes to get to the screen I want, and the pattern is gone. Or I can just drag my thumb across the screen as a matter of habit. It's not always necessary to remove evidence; sometimes you can just hide it among cruft.
Mod up for great justice. Most of the important laws are now mud fights between major corporations, with citizens having an input only by voting for who gets to receive the corporate money. The only times our congress critters seem to worry about laws that impact citizens are when it comes to "Think of the Children", "Thar be Terrorists" and "Here's some money for bread and circus".
Meh. I fully expect this abomination to pass.