I see you've never tasted American beer, only Budweiser (Belgium), Coors (Canadian), or Miller (British). Those brands used to be American but all were bought by foreigners. Try a Sam Adams some time, or one of the fine microbrews. Every bit as good as a Bass or Guiness.
Indeed, a slip of the tongue is like making a typoo, but saying airplane windows should be able to be opened isn't, it's like spelling "lose" with two Os or saying "their isn't any air out they're on those airplane's".
One is the kind of mistake anyone can make, the other shows incredible ignorance.
BTW, the above typo was deliberate, for illustration purposes.
And if you ask for a glass of draft beer in a bar, it will be a pint, though the exact meaning of the word varies.
Not here in Springfield, if you go to D'Arcy's for a Guiness, you get a pint of draft, but anywhere else you get nine ounces of whatever. Usually on Wednesdays I'll drink bottled at Felbers, because they only charge $1.50 for a 12 oz bottle on that day, which is the same price as a $1.25 9 oz draft.
I don't drink my beer to get drunk, I drink it because I enjoy the many many different flavor profiles possible with different types of beers and ingredients used.
Indeed; if you're drinking vodka or whiskey you're doing it only to get drunk. If you're drinking beer, it's most likely because you like beer (yep, that's me).
We 'bought' them at the subsidized price, and are paying them off with a slightly inflated monthly service fee.
Slightly inflated? I paid $100 for my feature phone, a $50 one-time connection fee, and pay $45 per month for unlimited talk, text, email, 411, intenet, roaming, and probably one or two more I forgot about. How much is your monthly bill? I don't know anyone with an iPhone or an Android that's paying less than twice what I pay every month. I can't call >100% "slightly" inflated. In a year you've paid enough more than I do to outright buy any smartphone.
Good luck having the artificial taste better than the real thing. The best you'll do is have kids grow up eating the shit and preferring it to real meat; I know a lot of folks who prefer margarine to butter, simply because that's what they grew up with (explains why they think McDonald's tastes good, too).
Since when is giving 10% of your income to your church worthy of a tax deduction?
Tithes are tax-deductable, and I applaud Romney for not takuing that deduction. I don't take it, either. My church doesn't require 10% like the Mormons do, but I usually do it anyway. I don't know about the Mormons, but my church gives a LOT of money to the poor, here in Springfield, across the US, and around the world (lots of folks from there working in Africa now).
I would expect that most churches help the poor and homeless; the poor are one of the ones Christ blessed, and he himself was homeless.
I applaud Romney, but no way would I vote for him. He's the candidate of the 1% and his Presidency, like Bush's, would harm the poor (and middle class) greatly.
By holding onto one set of beliefs, you implicitly disrespect all other sets of beliefs whether you want it or not.
Untrue. I'm a Christian, but the year I was in Thailand I gained a LOT of respect for the Bhuddists. It depends on what beliefs you're talking about. I don't have to believe in reincarnation or karma to respect those who do.
However, when a belief is obviously brain-dead stupid, like electing someone who is exactly like Bush will have a different result than the clusterfuck that was his administration, I can't respect that. Stupid doesn't deserve respect.
I keep seeing that, but the people don't pay more. The carriers pay more to Apple and subsidize more heavily
You're still paying it. That >$100 phone bill every damned month is where the "subsidy" comes from. You've been had (but so have most of those with Androids). I paid cash for my phone, have unlimited everything for $45 per month. You're paying more for that iDroid than you thought you were.
I've never understood this statement. It's invariably made by people who wouldn't vote for Romney if his tax returns showed that he gave 50% of his income to charity and the other 50% to the IRS
Well, of course... you're going to say something nice about someone you don't like who is running to be your leader?
However, Romney did do one thing I approve of -- in the one he released, it was revealed that he didn't take a deduction for charity. I have to respect that. However, since he's NOT for the middle class and decidedly against the poor, and is actually the candidate for the 1%, I would be a damned fool to vote for him. Of course, if you are teh 1% you'd be a damned fool to vote against hime (unless you love your country, but I doubt there's a single patriot in the 1%).
But let's pretend he was talking about opening the windows mid flight
He was talking about opening the windows in mid flight -- the fire that he wanted to open the windows for happened in mid flight.
Sorry, dude, but your candidate is a fucking moron and I wonder why you apologize for his stupidity. This isn't the first entirely retarded thing he's said.
When was the last time that Obama worked for a business?
How does working for a business enhanse one's capability to work in government? You think Bain Capital lawyers are any different than government lawyers? Or that Bain is any less bureaucratic than government? Or that "working" on Wall Street is actually working?
But to answer your question, "He worked for a year at the Business International Corporation,[29] then at the New York Public Interest Research Group" in 1981. "Two years after graduating, Obama was hired in Chicago as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale on Chicago's South Side. He worked there as a community organizer from June 1985 to May 1988.[31][32] He helped set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens.[33] Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.[34]"
When was the last time Romney had a job actually helping people?
Neither was Obama's multiple references to intercontinental railroads
I hadn't heard of that, do you have a link? Anyway, what would be wrong with an intercontinental railroad? We do a lot of business with Central and South America, why would a rail line extending from Alaska to the southernmost part of Chile not be a good idea, as long as the countries it runs through pay their share of it? We already have our parts run and it wouldn't cost us much at all.
Aren't we all supposed to have learned about solid, liquid, gas and plasma back in grade school?
Considering how many comments ON A NERD SITE say "loose" instead of "lose", aliterate things like "there cars are over their" and "The tomato's are in season", I think the fact that they don't know what a plasma is is pretty understandable.
The republicans are on the right side of this one.
You might want to explain why. I've been using CFLs for over a decade. Incandescants have no advantage whatever and lots of downsides, both for the environment and your wallet. I'm happy to see incandescants go the way of the steam locomotive.
Then again I blame Herbert Hoover for the mess that the federal government became
I think my Grandma pegged it (she was born in 1903). Everyone talked of the "Hoover depression" but it was Coolige who did all the damage.
As to the 19th century government, there were only 72 million people then, 300 million now. That suggests a fourfold increase in the federal government over then is necessary.
Then you have all the things you didn't have back then -- massive interstate pollution (pretty much solved with the EPA, young people can't imagine how bad it was before 1970). There was no radio then so no need for the FCC, little electricity, no phones, no TVs. People were dying from snake oil, necassitating the FDA. You could not have the interstate highway system (which was completely unneeded back in 1900 when everyone rode horses). No airplanes, so no need for the FAA. Not enough industry for pollution to be a problem so no EPA.
The only way to go back to the 1900s sized Federal government would be to kill or deport three out of every four Americans and get rid of all modern technology and industry. Like being hungry? because you can't grow nearly as much food with 19th century tech as you can with modern farms.
Candle makers, ferriers, buggy whip makers would love your idea.
I get mine at Walmart and they start ini under half a second. I haven't ever seen a CFL that took ten seconds; they're not like the big flourescent tubes in your office.
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I see you've never tasted American beer, only Budweiser (Belgium), Coors (Canadian), or Miller (British). Those brands used to be American but all were bought by foreigners. Try a Sam Adams some time, or one of the fine microbrews. Every bit as good as a Bass or Guiness.
Indeed, a slip of the tongue is like making a typoo, but saying airplane windows should be able to be opened isn't, it's like spelling "lose" with two Os or saying "their isn't any air out they're on those airplane's".
One is the kind of mistake anyone can make, the other shows incredible ignorance.
BTW, the above typo was deliberate, for illustration purposes.
And if you ask for a glass of draft beer in a bar, it will be a pint, though the exact meaning of the word varies.
Not here in Springfield, if you go to D'Arcy's for a Guiness, you get a pint of draft, but anywhere else you get nine ounces of whatever. Usually on Wednesdays I'll drink bottled at Felbers, because they only charge $1.50 for a 12 oz bottle on that day, which is the same price as a $1.25 9 oz draft.
I don't drink my beer to get drunk, I drink it because I enjoy the many many different flavor profiles possible with different types of beers and ingredients used.
Indeed; if you're drinking vodka or whiskey you're doing it only to get drunk. If you're drinking beer, it's most likely because you like beer (yep, that's me).
Informative? The mods who modded "funny" get it. Hint: he's not talking about computer makes and models, he's talking about network addressing.
As Mr. Leghorn says, "It's a joke, son."
We 'bought' them at the subsidized price, and are paying them off with a slightly inflated monthly service fee.
Slightly inflated? I paid $100 for my feature phone, a $50 one-time connection fee, and pay $45 per month for unlimited talk, text, email, 411, intenet, roaming, and probably one or two more I forgot about. How much is your monthly bill? I don't know anyone with an iPhone or an Android that's paying less than twice what I pay every month. I can't call >100% "slightly" inflated. In a year you've paid enough more than I do to outright buy any smartphone.
Let's spend that lab money on meat so exotic and tasty it could have only come from a lab.
Tang -- Orange juice
Margarine -- butter
Miracle Whip -- mayonaise
Good luck having the artificial taste better than the real thing. The best you'll do is have kids grow up eating the shit and preferring it to real meat; I know a lot of folks who prefer margarine to butter, simply because that's what they grew up with (explains why they think McDonald's tastes good, too).
Since when is giving 10% of your income to your church worthy of a tax deduction?
Tithes are tax-deductable, and I applaud Romney for not takuing that deduction. I don't take it, either. My church doesn't require 10% like the Mormons do, but I usually do it anyway. I don't know about the Mormons, but my church gives a LOT of money to the poor, here in Springfield, across the US, and around the world (lots of folks from there working in Africa now).
I would expect that most churches help the poor and homeless; the poor are one of the ones Christ blessed, and he himself was homeless.
I applaud Romney, but no way would I vote for him. He's the candidate of the 1% and his Presidency, like Bush's, would harm the poor (and middle class) greatly.
By holding onto one set of beliefs, you implicitly disrespect all other sets of beliefs whether you want it or not.
Untrue. I'm a Christian, but the year I was in Thailand I gained a LOT of respect for the Bhuddists. It depends on what beliefs you're talking about. I don't have to believe in reincarnation or karma to respect those who do.
However, when a belief is obviously brain-dead stupid, like electing someone who is exactly like Bush will have a different result than the clusterfuck that was his administration, I can't respect that. Stupid doesn't deserve respect.
I keep seeing that, but the people don't pay more. The carriers pay more to Apple and subsidize more heavily
You're still paying it. That >$100 phone bill every damned month is where the "subsidy" comes from. You've been had (but so have most of those with Androids). I paid cash for my phone, have unlimited everything for $45 per month. You're paying more for that iDroid than you thought you were.
I've never understood this statement. It's invariably made by people who wouldn't vote for Romney if his tax returns showed that he gave 50% of his income to charity and the other 50% to the IRS
Well, of course... you're going to say something nice about someone you don't like who is running to be your leader?
However, Romney did do one thing I approve of -- in the one he released, it was revealed that he didn't take a deduction for charity. I have to respect that. However, since he's NOT for the middle class and decidedly against the poor, and is actually the candidate for the 1%, I would be a damned fool to vote for him. Of course, if you are teh 1% you'd be a damned fool to vote against hime (unless you love your country, but I doubt there's a single patriot in the 1%).
Even a 200 year half life is way beyond what any commercial company has had to deal with in the past
Well, in the 1800s railroad locomotives had hundred year warantees, so a thousand year plan isn't that crazy.
But let's pretend he was talking about opening the windows mid flight
He was talking about opening the windows in mid flight -- the fire that he wanted to open the windows for happened in mid flight.
Sorry, dude, but your candidate is a fucking moron and I wonder why you apologize for his stupidity. This isn't the first entirely retarded thing he's said.
When was the last time that Obama worked for a business?
How does working for a business enhanse one's capability to work in government? You think Bain Capital lawyers are any different than government lawyers? Or that Bain is any less bureaucratic than government? Or that "working" on Wall Street is actually working?
But to answer your question, "He worked for a year at the Business International Corporation,[29] then at the New York Public Interest Research Group" in 1981. "Two years after graduating, Obama was hired in Chicago as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale on Chicago's South Side. He worked there as a community organizer from June 1985 to May 1988.[31][32] He helped set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens.[33] Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.[34]"
When was the last time Romney had a job actually helping people?
Neither was Obama's multiple references to intercontinental railroads
I hadn't heard of that, do you have a link? Anyway, what would be wrong with an intercontinental railroad? We do a lot of business with Central and South America, why would a rail line extending from Alaska to the southernmost part of Chile not be a good idea, as long as the countries it runs through pay their share of it? We already have our parts run and it wouldn't cost us much at all.
Aren't we all supposed to have learned about solid, liquid, gas and plasma back in grade school?
Considering how many comments ON A NERD SITE say "loose" instead of "lose", aliterate things like "there cars are over their" and "The tomato's are in season", I think the fact that they don't know what a plasma is is pretty understandable.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but don't shorter half lives mean the material is much more dangerous?
No, it means the material becomes inert faster.
The republicans are on the right side of this one.
You might want to explain why. I've been using CFLs for over a decade. Incandescants have no advantage whatever and lots of downsides, both for the environment and your wallet. I'm happy to see incandescants go the way of the steam locomotive.
Then again I blame Herbert Hoover for the mess that the federal government became
I think my Grandma pegged it (she was born in 1903). Everyone talked of the "Hoover depression" but it was Coolige who did all the damage.
As to the 19th century government, there were only 72 million people then, 300 million now. That suggests a fourfold increase in the federal government over then is necessary.
Then you have all the things you didn't have back then -- massive interstate pollution (pretty much solved with the EPA, young people can't imagine how bad it was before 1970). There was no radio then so no need for the FCC, little electricity, no phones, no TVs. People were dying from snake oil, necassitating the FDA. You could not have the interstate highway system (which was completely unneeded back in 1900 when everyone rode horses). No airplanes, so no need for the FAA. Not enough industry for pollution to be a problem so no EPA.
The only way to go back to the 1900s sized Federal government would be to kill or deport three out of every four Americans and get rid of all modern technology and industry. Like being hungry? because you can't grow nearly as much food with 19th century tech as you can with modern farms.
Candle makers, ferriers, buggy whip makers would love your idea.
I get mine at Walmart and they start ini under half a second. I haven't ever seen a CFL that took ten seconds; they're not like the big flourescent tubes in your office.
By making them depend on a robot?
Better than being dependant on humans.
I agree, religion and government shouldn't mix.
I keep expecting Mitt and Paul to get elected, then slip out of their disguises as Kang and Kodos.
More like Quark and Zak if you ask me. They don't seem to be warriers (not good ones anyway) but they sure follow the Rules of Acquisition.
"As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball" is something I would be utterly unsurprised to hear coming out of Romney's mouth.
Mitt strikes again: Romney wonders out loud why airplane windows don't open
God doesn't hate fags, he hates what they do. If he didn't love homosexuals he wouldn't have sent Christ down to pay for their (and my and your) sins.