I'm not sure why people keep bringing up how much farm production is "wasted" on raising beef and other meats. The food shortages of the world are caused by politics and poor national economies, not a lack of food or food production capabilities in the world at large.
That's funny, I thought food shortages of the world were mostly caused by large populations of humans living in places where it doesn't rain terribly often. When we do provide food aid it has the effect of wiping out the local farmers (providing essentially the opposite of a subsidy) and in the end it makes things even worse than they were before, if that's possible.
In it's current incarnation the sportiest of the luxury lines would be Cadillac by a mile. (have you seen the new CTS-V?). The last truly sporty Olds I can recall is the 442 from the late 60's and Buick has had a number of quick rides since then, most notably the LT1 powered Roadmaster, 3800 S/C based models and the GNX/Grand National (3.8 Turbo).
In truth, of the three, the Oldsmobile was always the sport version of the luxury brands. (Bigger engine, tighter steering and suspension, etc.) Yes, GM often produced a luxury version of their mainline vehicles, and gave it the Oldsmobile plate along with a bigger engine, but that is no different from Honda (Accura), Toyota (Lexus), or any of the other OEMs.
I believe you're thinking of Pontiac, and they decided to kill that one. I'll grant that if you go back to the 50's what you say is correct, but that was some time ago. From what I hear Buick is rather popular in many Asian markets, (Korea for one), so that's likely one of the reasons it got the nod.
I've considered it myself, but I haven't come up with any terribly attractive options. Practically speaking there's still plenty of freedom in rural America, in the big cities not so much. Not that the laws are any different, just their enforcement. I'm just not sure how my SQL, java and.net framework skills will help me with my new career running moonshine (or is it meth now?) in Hazzard county.
Incidentally, Americans had a choice to dismantle homeland security in the last election, right up until the republican primary... But who knows what sort of Ayn Randian fallout that might have caused.
I would agree with you however, the last eight years did a heck of a job destroying a lot of the freedom the US has been known for in the past. The scary thing is that Bush's policies are not likely to be reversed nor be an isolated incident. It's to the point where I've seriously considered leaving the US. The only thing really to consider is where to go...
And by that very same logic Sony should be banned from releasing anything on a CD, because they've already proved they just can't handle the temptation...
Last time I checked we can still own guns in this country. Well, by Sony's logic, they can take away my guns since it could possibly be used for something bad. That logic does not work, and thankfully, has not worked yet to deprive me of my right to bear arms.
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Heaven forbid we should make use of such a thing as a net for the purpose of warding off such insects as may carry tropical diseases.
Heaven forbid people in infested regions should ever go outside without their beekeeper suits on....
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I would imagine rather a lot of people actually. Smoke helps keep mosquitoes and other insects away. It may not be a particularly relevant argument in industrialized areas, but in some places that bite can carry malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, and a host of other potentially fatal ailments.
That's not really a fair argument. After all, who ever died from not smoking?
And why would we need to breed them? With Predator drones and cruise missiles blowing up whomever we decide is in league with "terrorists" is just a push of a button away. I'm not saying we target innocents intentionally, but we've certainly killed plenty of them in the crossfire with whichever groups we decided were naughty.
That said, Israel has every right to be a little xenophobic considering their neighbors have this endearing habit of trying to exterminate them. This crap has been going on long before Israel was a nation, it goes back to (at least) the 1930's when Britain was in control of the region.
When America starts breeding and sanctioning suicide bombers that walk into crowded markets to blow up 30 of their own innocent people just to wound or kill 2 innocent civilians from whatever country they have a hard on for at the time, we can take their opinion a little more seriously,
If you are serious about this *ahem* hypothetical trunk mounted device, I believe there are cars one can purchase without any EMP vulnerabilities. I'm quite certain that recently crushinated 59' Bel Air would be considered 'mil spec' in this regard.
The military industrial complex is sustained by the government. The support of the populace is not required. Just ask any third world dictator. I personally have mixed feelings about it. We subsidize it, which is bad, but it's one of the few high margin products we have left, and it's responsible for a lot of the research in this country...if we could just stop having these expensive product demonstration roadshows in the middle east I think it would be a net benefit, if a rather immoral one.
Um. These idiots already pay more in taxes? For the record, I have a large truck. I haul things with it. That's all I use it for.
When I need to go to the grocery store or visit a friend it stays parked at my house and I drive my economy car. But by all means bring on the punitive taxes.
Better a gas tax AND a hefty graduated annual excise tax on oversize trucks and SUVs with poor mileage. Make it simple, say, $200/year for every MPG under the mandated 35MPG average. Want to drive that 12MPG Excursion or F-350? Fine. That's $4,600 a year, please.
Actually, if you call from Canada then you and whomever you are calling can be legally recorded in any state, since that falls under federal jurisdiction. Thanks? to the homeland security brigade, it doesn't require a warrant or notification of any kind.
As for whether you can legally record said conversation, IANAL, but I would imagine it also falls under federal and not state law.
Does anybody know what jurisdiction a telephone conversation is deemed to take place in? If I call from Canada to California, and record the conversation without notification or approval, am I in risk of arrest if I step foot in California? What if I record a cell phone conversation where my cell phone is "homed" in Canada?
"Closing the barn door after the cows have gone" you mean?
Name me a truly big company that isn't multi-national these days. ex. GM of America went bankrupt and got a nice bailout but that really isn't GM. There's GM Holden (AU), GM Mexico, GM Europe, GM Korea (Daewoo), etc.
Not that I wouldn't support tariffs, but considering who our politicians are in bed with it just aint' going to happen.
So let's just shut the door behind them. Raise tariffs on so-called "multinationals" that produce elsewhere and sell here. And rid ourselves of the delusion that Americans owning stock in these companies is worth the loss of jobs and revenue that goes with them when they decide to flee the country.
That's the maximum range. It can only do that at around 60mph. At 120mph it's only good for around 70 miles of range. As the batteries age, expect those range numbers to drop...just like the battery in your laptop, because...well that's more or less what is in it.
So a tesla can go 240 miles on only 1.5 gallons of gas. This is because the battery and motor are so much more efficient than an internal combustion engine which wastes most of the gasoline energy as heat.
Well, herring are primarily shallow water fish, and plankton ecosystems are as well, so I'm not sure that fish mixing is to blame so much as chronic over-fishing and pollution, or maybe that rather large hypoxic dead zone covering a significant percentage of the Oregon and Washington coastlines.
The densities of sea life in the past is apparent in the history of its harvest. Were the oceans more prolific because of the amount of fish mixing? Mixing creates more interface, so wouldn't that affect tiny organisms because they get more exposure on the food chain?
I recently read history of herring runs spawning in the Salish Sea so abundantly that the water was white, and that eggs were laid on everything in the water, such that they could be collected simply by submerging cedar branches. Not to mention historical quantities of fish all over the world..
There are a number of existing solutions to this problem.
1) bigger spark (ex. MSD, HEI, and more recently coil packs)
2) multiple plugs per cylinder (ex. most prop driven aircraft)
3) cylinder head design (ex. hemi heads, no not the new ones, those are a penta design)
Nevertheless, my pool full of sharks anxiously await a time when I can buy high output lasers at my local autozone.
You want uniform burn. This is the problem with ALL ICEs (Diesel and gasoline). Gasoline starts burning around the spark plug and propagates out, diesels start around the injector and go out. Ever seen a diesel spew black smoke? Or how about sit near an old muscle car and have it smell a bit like gasoline?
In a few months we'll have Large Hadron Collider back online. The black holes are sure to clean up this mess once they've collected enough planetary mass.
In my experience, ageism in any professional career is very real. Management is no more immune in its quest for "fresh blood" at times.
I don't know about that one, while I'm sure ageism exists on the management path it doesn't appear to kick in till later, particularly at upper levels (since your bosses are likely graybeards themselves)
You can always go play architect, but there aren't exactly a lot of those positions to go around.
"Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn [executives] so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people? "
In honor of Job's return, the geniuses at your local Apple store will be handing out complimentary jello shots to everyone (with purchase of a Macbook Air or other qualifying Apple product, see store for details)
So, I suppose mining billions of gallons of oil and coal isn't raping the earth? Not to mention the mining equipment, traveling/shipping equipment, pipelines, refinement factories, giant coal furnaces, etc....
No, she was clearly asking for it. I mean, she had part of her oil and coal deposits glistening out of her top. Were we supposed to just ignore that kind of signal?
Wind turbines are nice and all, but on a local scale you cannot depend on the wind, just like you cannot depend on solar, at least until you have some sort of national wind infrastructure ($$$).
Im really looking forward to Natal, I think its one step closer to total immersion, however its not without problems. A wand or some sort of controller is still going to be needed to effectively "walk" in a game the only other way to do it would be to use some sort of gesture to glide the player along or to walk in place, neither of which is very practical. Using a gesture to walk forward in an FPS or RPG for instance would not only be awkward but would also completely destroy the "immersion" they are going for and anyone who has played Final Fantasy would balk at the idea of having to "moonwalk" your way across the map.
I don't think this is a huge issue. 1 Natal controller + 1 generic DDR pad = problem solved?
WPF is just a big mess really, and far too complex. I'm all for a new GUI toolkit (even though it's.NET-based), but WPF just isn't it.
I don't know. It has it's warts, but you can't argue that it makes developing custom controls a heck of a lot easier.
...Now if MS could just make AJAX integration a little nicer. Their auto-generated jscript code is nice if that's really what you wanted but tweaking it when it isn't definitely takes some getting used to.
For the record, I've worked in Eclipse, Netbeans, JEdit, VS03/05/08, Turbo Pascal, emacs and vi. I quite like studio, even if they did totally rip it off from Borland.
PC versions of games pretty much always look better than their console counterparts if you have good hardware, even if the only reason is a better resolution and/or framerate.
In the past that was true, because console games were getting ported from the PC. Who can forget the legion of console DOOM ports, all of which were completely awful?
Now the tables have turned and it's the PC getting bad ports from the consoles. Not because they lack the hardware to do it but because the development teams aren't taking the time to optimize it for the platform.
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That's funny, I thought food shortages of the world were mostly caused by large populations of humans living in places where it doesn't rain terribly often. When we do provide food aid it has the effect of wiping out the local farmers (providing essentially the opposite of a subsidy) and in the end it makes things even worse than they were before, if that's possible.
In it's current incarnation the sportiest of the luxury lines would be Cadillac by a mile. (have you seen the new CTS-V?). The last truly sporty Olds I can recall is the 442 from the late 60's and Buick has had a number of quick rides since then, most notably the LT1 powered Roadmaster, 3800 S/C based models and the GNX/Grand National (3.8 Turbo).
I believe you're thinking of Pontiac, and they decided to kill that one. I'll grant that if you go back to the 50's what you say is correct, but that was some time ago. From what I hear Buick is rather popular in many Asian markets, (Korea for one), so that's likely one of the reasons it got the nod.
Incidentally, Americans had a choice to dismantle homeland security in the last election, right up until the republican primary... But who knows what sort of Ayn Randian fallout that might have caused.
Heaven forbid people in infested regions should ever go outside without their beekeeper suits on....
That said, Israel has every right to be a little xenophobic considering their neighbors have this endearing habit of trying to exterminate them. This crap has been going on long before Israel was a nation, it goes back to (at least) the 1930's when Britain was in control of the region.
If you are serious about this *ahem* hypothetical trunk mounted device, I believe there are cars one can purchase without any EMP vulnerabilities. I'm quite certain that recently crushinated 59' Bel Air would be considered 'mil spec' in this regard.
Don't know, I don't know such stuff. I just do eyes, ju-, ju-, just eyes... just genetic design, just eyes. You Nexus, huh? I design your eyes.
The military industrial complex is sustained by the government. The support of the populace is not required. Just ask any third world dictator. I personally have mixed feelings about it. We subsidize it, which is bad, but it's one of the few high margin products we have left, and it's responsible for a lot of the research in this country...if we could just stop having these expensive product demonstration roadshows in the middle east I think it would be a net benefit, if a rather immoral one.
When I need to go to the grocery store or visit a friend it stays parked at my house and I drive my economy car. But by all means bring on the punitive taxes.
As for whether you can legally record said conversation, IANAL, but I would imagine it also falls under federal and not state law.
Name me a truly big company that isn't multi-national these days. ex. GM of America went bankrupt and got a nice bailout but that really isn't GM. There's GM Holden (AU), GM Mexico, GM Europe, GM Korea (Daewoo), etc.
Not that I wouldn't support tariffs, but considering who our politicians are in bed with it just aint' going to happen.
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He's good, all right, but he's no Clem Johnson. And Johnson played back in the days before steroid injections were mandatory!
1) bigger spark (ex. MSD, HEI, and more recently coil packs)
2) multiple plugs per cylinder (ex. most prop driven aircraft)
3) cylinder head design (ex. hemi heads, no not the new ones, those are a penta design)
Nevertheless, my pool full of sharks anxiously await a time when I can buy high output lasers at my local autozone.
In a few months we'll have Large Hadron Collider back online. The black holes are sure to clean up this mess once they've collected enough planetary mass.
I don't know about that one, while I'm sure ageism exists on the management path it doesn't appear to kick in till later, particularly at upper levels (since your bosses are likely graybeards themselves)
You can always go play architect, but there aren't exactly a lot of those positions to go around.
"Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn [executives] so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people? "
In honor of Job's return, the geniuses at your local Apple store will be handing out complimentary jello shots to everyone (with purchase of a Macbook Air or other qualifying Apple product, see store for details)
No, she was clearly asking for it. I mean, she had part of her oil and coal deposits glistening out of her top. Were we supposed to just ignore that kind of signal?
Wind turbines are nice and all, but on a local scale you cannot depend on the wind, just like you cannot depend on solar, at least until you have some sort of national wind infrastructure ($$$).
I don't think this is a huge issue. 1 Natal controller + 1 generic DDR pad = problem solved?
I don't know. It has it's warts, but you can't argue that it makes developing custom controls a heck of a lot easier.
...Now if MS could just make AJAX integration a little nicer. Their auto-generated jscript code is nice if that's really what you wanted but tweaking it when it isn't definitely takes some getting used to.
For the record, I've worked in Eclipse, Netbeans, JEdit, VS03/05/08, Turbo Pascal, emacs and vi. I quite like studio, even if they did totally rip it off from Borland.
In the past that was true, because console games were getting ported from the PC. Who can forget the legion of console DOOM ports, all of which were completely awful?
Now the tables have turned and it's the PC getting bad ports from the consoles. Not because they lack the hardware to do it but because the development teams aren't taking the time to optimize it for the platform.