What you really want to know is the status of the bill. This one has just been introduced and passed to the Judiciary Committee, from the looks of it. But here's a helpful link to the list of cosponsors of the bill.
John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) (sponsor)
Howard Berman (D-CA)
Steve Chabot (R-OH)
Steve Cohen (D-TN)
Tom Feeney (R-FL)
Bob Goodlatte (R-VA)
Darrell Issa (R-CA)
Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX)
Ric Keller (R-FL)
Adam Schiff (D-CA)
Lamar Smith (R-TX)
Robert Wexler (D-FL)
If you are represented by any of these people in Congress, you have a special duty to write and explain how poorly-represented you are.
"East Coast" is a proper noun that, in the South, including most of Virginia, denominates a culture that is distinct from that of the South. I have been personally yelled at for making this error in terminology, so I know that at least some Virginians are very passionate about the distinction.
As a similarly tall, blue-eyed, blonde, robust Norwegian, I have to say that your DNA is indeed not worth a grand, Swede. Go back to your surstromming and grow some hair on your chest.
</sarcasm> (Yes, Norway and Sweden really are in a running competition for horrid-sounding ways to prepare fish.)
But seriously, all Scandinavian DNA is worth well over $999; it's just that this service is kind of like getting an appraisal on the Mona Lisa.
As a North Dakotan, I read about this find earlier today and was looking for a comment like yours to see if I had to write my own. I wish that our foreign enemies whose primary complaint is that Americans are ignorant of the rest of the world could understand that it's just a vocal minority (majority?... I'm not ready to be that cynical, just yet) of Americans who are ignorant of the entire world, including the most basic facts about their own nation.
For what it's worth, North Dakotans are as unaware that Virginia and the Carolinas are not the "East Coast," for instance, as the rest of the country is that North Dakota is a paleontologist's playground.
For those who aren't reading the article, you should, as it's a great story that everyone reading Slashdot dreamed about happening for himself all through his childhood. For those unwilling to read it, here's a capsule summary: A high school student in North Dakota found dinosaur bits in the Badlands and not much happened right away, but he was re-inspired to become a paleontologist. Now, as a Yale graduate student, he has come back to take another look, and a few years of digging later he has dug up the best specimen of a mummified dinosaur ever unearthed anywhere in the world.
I was looking for a comment explaining this so as to avoid being redundant. Thanks for saving me from RTFAing at all, though. Now I know that Zonk is just a bad writer, and not necessarily (though not necessarily not) terrible at arithmetic.
It has long been my belief that the next new feature on cell phones should be a breath alcohol measurement device. The phone should allow you to set a maximum BAC per contact, so that you can't call your mother if you're over.08, can't call your girlfriend if you're over.15, and can't call anyone but your lawyer if you hit.30.
There's a big difference between a cosmodrome and a cosmodome. I got my hopes up really high from the story title, just to have them dashed by the blurb.
I really hope they don't make your idea into a movie, and for this reason alone: Trek has become so bad that doing a crossover with Firefly would ruin anything that's left of Firefly, which is pretty much the perfect sci-fi series. Don't pollute its memory by taking everyone's long-since-raped childhood and stuffing it into that memory.
Define "conclusive evidence." What type of evidence has to prove the conclusivity of the evidence of the victim's actual death? Etc. It ends up meaning the same thing as requiring the jury to be able to personally touch the victim's body in open court.
LIke me, eh? You're mistaken. I just wouldn't use Comcast because they lie. It has nothing to do with the services they provide or the restrictions they put on them.
I forgot about season tickets. I'm just not in the income tax bracket to worry about those, except potentially for my alma mater's hockey program but that's more about loyalty than fair-weather profitability to me.
Forget price controls. I just want to know why the original vendors sell the tickets at far below the price the market will bear. It's a common occurrence.
Here's what pisses me off, as a capitalist pig. If there is such a market for vastly overpriced, scalped tickets, then the solution is to increase the original sale price. Demand far exceeds supply at the original sale price point, and that's why scalpers are able to make huge profits. If the original price were higher, then the scalpers would fall out of the picture and, while some fans would pay more for a ticket, many would pay much less.
Exactly, and it's mostly about land area. My home county in North Dakota, with a population of around 6,000, has nearly 1/5 the land area of the Netherlands as a whole. Incidentally, it also has no television broadcast towers, with all broadcast television signals coming from two larger cities, 45 and 120 miles from the center of the county. It simply isn't yet cost-effective to cover rural areas with digital television broadcasts. And trust me, I wish it was.
I'm just concerned that the dichotomy is now civil vs. federal. Here, I thought that (a) federal courts also heard civil cases and (b) it was civil vs. criminal. Did something change today?
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I took my cesium clock to the park once. It wouldn't fetch crap.
Yes, anyone with a cesium clock at home lives just a little more life than his neighbors.
What you really want to know is the status of the bill. This one has just been introduced and passed to the Judiciary Committee, from the looks of it. But here's a helpful link to the list of cosponsors of the bill.
If you are represented by any of these people in Congress, you have a special duty to write and explain how poorly-represented you are.
NoVa sure is, but it shouldn't take long in Richmond or Norfolk or even Roanoke or Harrisonburg to see that the line hasn't moved far.
"East Coast" is a proper noun that, in the South, including most of Virginia, denominates a culture that is distinct from that of the South. I have been personally yelled at for making this error in terminology, so I know that at least some Virginians are very passionate about the distinction.
As a similarly tall, blue-eyed, blonde, robust Norwegian, I have to say that your DNA is indeed not worth a grand, Swede. Go back to your surstromming and grow some hair on your chest. </sarcasm> (Yes, Norway and Sweden really are in a running competition for horrid-sounding ways to prepare fish.)
But seriously, all Scandinavian DNA is worth well over $999; it's just that this service is kind of like getting an appraisal on the Mona Lisa.
As a North Dakotan, I read about this find earlier today and was looking for a comment like yours to see if I had to write my own. I wish that our foreign enemies whose primary complaint is that Americans are ignorant of the rest of the world could understand that it's just a vocal minority (majority? ... I'm not ready to be that cynical, just yet) of Americans who are ignorant of the entire world, including the most basic facts about their own nation.
For what it's worth, North Dakotans are as unaware that Virginia and the Carolinas are not the "East Coast," for instance, as the rest of the country is that North Dakota is a paleontologist's playground.
For those who aren't reading the article, you should, as it's a great story that everyone reading Slashdot dreamed about happening for himself all through his childhood. For those unwilling to read it, here's a capsule summary: A high school student in North Dakota found dinosaur bits in the Badlands and not much happened right away, but he was re-inspired to become a paleontologist. Now, as a Yale graduate student, he has come back to take another look, and a few years of digging later he has dug up the best specimen of a mummified dinosaur ever unearthed anywhere in the world.
This is just about exactly what nerds live for.
Geeks have something better to do that geek out about something geeky? Whaaaaat?
Yeah, we have to finish our grammar- and spelling-naziing before we are allowed to do that. :P
I was looking for a comment explaining this so as to avoid being redundant. Thanks for saving me from RTFAing at all, though. Now I know that Zonk is just a bad writer, and not necessarily (though not necessarily not) terrible at arithmetic.
It has long been my belief that the next new feature on cell phones should be a breath alcohol measurement device. The phone should allow you to set a maximum BAC per contact, so that you can't call your mother if you're over .08, can't call your girlfriend if you're over .15, and can't call anyone but your lawyer if you hit .30.
There's a big difference between a cosmodrome and a cosmodome. I got my hopes up really high from the story title, just to have them dashed by the blurb.
I'm so confused. I could have sworn that the length of the day was determined by the bounce of the Earth along its orbital swirls.
I really hope they don't make your idea into a movie, and for this reason alone: Trek has become so bad that doing a crossover with Firefly would ruin anything that's left of Firefly, which is pretty much the perfect sci-fi series. Don't pollute its memory by taking everyone's long-since-raped childhood and stuffing it into that memory.
Whoever did the "nodisassemble" tag, y'all're geniuses. I'm going to bed with a smile tonight, thanks.
Define "conclusive evidence." What type of evidence has to prove the conclusivity of the evidence of the victim's actual death? Etc. It ends up meaning the same thing as requiring the jury to be able to personally touch the victim's body in open court.
I'd like you to take a moment to think about that, and then try again.
LIke me, eh? You're mistaken. I just wouldn't use Comcast because they lie. It has nothing to do with the services they provide or the restrictions they put on them.
That sounds like a lot of work. I think I'll just use another ISP. :P
Work?
I forgot about season tickets. I'm just not in the income tax bracket to worry about those, except potentially for my alma mater's hockey program but that's more about loyalty than fair-weather profitability to me.
Forget price controls. I just want to know why the original vendors sell the tickets at far below the price the market will bear. It's a common occurrence.
Here's what pisses me off, as a capitalist pig. If there is such a market for vastly overpriced, scalped tickets, then the solution is to increase the original sale price. Demand far exceeds supply at the original sale price point, and that's why scalpers are able to make huge profits. If the original price were higher, then the scalpers would fall out of the picture and, while some fans would pay more for a ticket, many would pay much less.
Hello, miss! I'm on an STD scavenger hunt, and I just can't seem to find the clap. Do you have the clap?
Exactly, and it's mostly about land area. My home county in North Dakota, with a population of around 6,000, has nearly 1/5 the land area of the Netherlands as a whole. Incidentally, it also has no television broadcast towers, with all broadcast television signals coming from two larger cities, 45 and 120 miles from the center of the county. It simply isn't yet cost-effective to cover rural areas with digital television broadcasts. And trust me, I wish it was.
I'm just concerned that the dichotomy is now civil vs. federal. Here, I thought that (a) federal courts also heard civil cases and (b) it was civil vs. criminal. Did something change today?