I managed to snag a Wii in Amazon's recent Wii purchase lottery. Rather than sell it on eBay, though, I let my brother and sister-in-law buy it off me for my nephew to get for Xmas. (My kids will probably get one in February when I get my year-end bonus; we got the HDTV -- which the GameCube looks great on -- for our big holiday gift.)
I personally have favored a massive research effort on making the stuff taste better. Make mine taste like (say) eggnog, and my wife and I will both be much happier...
"(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard. (b) The classes of the militia are-- (1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and (2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia."
The National Guard is a component of the U.S. Army, which is why Guard units are serving in Iraq. You're tying to claim the Bill of Rights has to specify the right of the army to have guns?
At the time the Constitution was written, the militia was every able-bodied male -- think of the "Minute Men." People were expected to own guns, as hunting was a more significant source of food.
You can argue about its obsolescence, that perhaps we don't need it, but not about what it means, as numerous court decisions have affirmed.
Not to be a doubting Thomas, but that's only true if your solar panels last 30 years maintaining at least 2/3rds of their efficiency. (Any repair costs would also skew the economics.) But as someone who may take advantage of this technology later, I thank you for being an early adopter so I can buy in as the prices drop...
The goal of the carbon tax is to reduce C02 creation, not to raise revenue. So don't make it do the latter. Collect the tax as specified (based on amount of C02 created), but then every year, every U.S. citizen gets a check -- 1/300,000,000 of the taxes collected. After all, we're the ones getting damaged by its creation!
Why is this good? First, it reduces the "it's just a tax increase in disguise" critics (who otherwise have a point.) This also lessens the argument about how much the tax should be, since most of it's "coming back" -- it's not the gov't trying to sneak in a tax increase. Second, think how fond many people are of their tax refund check, and here's a new (and guaranteed) one! (Sadly, casinos and the lottery office will do quite well on the day the checks arrive.) Third, if you do create carbon, you're paying for it, so it's no longer a class warfare/guilt trip issue, at least as far as CO2 is concerned.
All I can say is, you spent a heck of a lot more time on your response than my original comment. Granted, I was going for funny, but not for moderation's sake. Would a smiley have made it clearer?
Or how about this; when your lady love asks you to pick up some tampons at the grocery store. Invariably, she will give you enough detail that you feel like you should be able to pick out the ones she likes, but not enough for you to be sure (wings? size? scented or not? etc).
OK, perhaps that's not a problem to most slashdotters, but you know what an aphrodisiac a sub-1000 slashdot ID is.
Not necessarily, she could give it to her husband. He can do everything except the actual feeding (and even that, if she's saved some or they're using formula at least some of the time.)
While it's something one should perhaps go through once, I certainly wouldn't want to relive the first few months of my children's lives, it was pretty torturous. I would seriously considered using something like this.
I borrow them from the library. I rent them from Blockbuster et al. I trade them on Peerflix and Barterbee. I buy 'em off Amazon and then resell them when I'm done with them. OK, the kids have had me keep a few, and I have a few classics just in case, but I've seen far, far more DVDs than I own.
So HD-DVD? Seems like a better format for my next rented/borrowed/traded/soon-to-be-resold discs. I just need a cheap enough player.
This philosophy applies to lots of other things, BTW; I've sold remotes, tuners, KVMs, and more for nearly the same price I paid for them.
As for the artwork, I'd rather have framed movie posters or a coffee table book.
But it could be argued that youtube is a larger work, a collection of (among other things) politically interesting material. For example, at least some of the "call me!" commercial is there.
Envy? Somewhere between 30,000 and 600,000 dead -- by population percentage, somwhere between 100 and 2,000 9/11s -- and you think the Iranians and Syrians are *envying* them? How long did it take you to create this little world you live in?
"Ask an Iraqi what American troops are fighting for in Iraq, and the answer likely will be: not for me.
No matter the politics of the respondent, recent interviews with 19 Iraqis, both Shiite and Sunni Muslims, found almost no one who thought the Americans were fighting for them. Only ethnic Kurds, who have established a largely autonomous region in Iraq's north, were willing to say that American troops serve their interests.
Public opinion surveys over the years have shown growing Iraqi discontent with the American presence. The most recent, released in September by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a group affiliated with the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, found that seven of 10 Iraqis want U.S.-led forces to withdraw within a year. In the same survey, 78 percent said the U.S. presence provokes more conflict than it prevents; 84 percent said they had little or no confidence in the U.S military.
But the unwillingness of Iraqis to say that the Americans were fighting specifically for them underscores how confusing U.S. policy has become in Iraq's complicated political environment of competing sects, ethnic groups, tribes, militias, interest groups and leaders."
As for Clinton, he pitched a near perfect game in Serbia/Kosovo, and that area is in tolerable shape. I was a bit leery of his motives there myself, but I gotta give the man props for waging a war so effectively from start to finish.
Or do you mean, "hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't understand and respect...WWII"? Plenty of people back then were opposed to it.
Who, the Quakers?
There were isolationists in 1940, but both major candidates in the 1940 elections were in favor of the U.S. helping the UK. After Pearl Harbor, a single Congresswoman (Jeannette Rankin) voted against the war resolution.
As for a schedule: It could last six days, six weeks, I doubt it will last six months." "The Iraqi people will welcome us as liberators." Ok, I admit I'm quoting unreasonable people, as you said a reasonable schedule.
In the incident that supposedly links the two, Pelosi marched in a gay pride parade. So did Harry Hay, a (now dead) supporter of, but not member of, NAMBLA. Does that mean Pelosi supported NAMBLA? Rudi Giuliani also marched in a gay pride parade that had a NAMBLA float.
An anti-abortion, anti-gun control Democrat? That seems unlikely. And Pelosi really isn't that much of a lefty, it's just generally assumed she is because she represents San Francisco. (Yes, she's pro-choice and pro-gun control. That's not extreme left.)
One reason there's not much talk of fraud is that the exit polls and the votes closely match in most places, so you have a result that matches the estimate.
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I managed to snag a Wii in Amazon's recent Wii purchase lottery. Rather than sell it on eBay, though, I let my brother and sister-in-law buy it off me for my nephew to get for Xmas. (My kids will probably get one in February when I get my year-end bonus; we got the HDTV -- which the GameCube looks great on -- for our big holiday gift.)
If AutoCAD really shined in architectural work, they wouldn't have bought Revit, a better-designed competitor.
You can save a boatload of money versus either of them by going with a program like VectorWorks.
I personally have favored a massive research effort on making the stuff taste better. Make mine taste like (say) eggnog, and my wife and I will both be much happier...
You're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like you!
Correction: the Air National Guard is part of the Air Force, not the Army. The Army National Guard is a component of the Army.
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BTW, the militia being all able-bodied males is still embodied in U.S. Law.
From http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode10/u
"(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are--
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia."
Utter and absolute nonsense.
The National Guard is a component of the U.S. Army, which is why Guard units are serving in Iraq. You're tying to claim the Bill of Rights has to specify the right of the army to have guns?
At the time the Constitution was written, the militia was every able-bodied male -- think of the "Minute Men." People were expected to own guns, as hunting was a more significant source of food.
You can argue about its obsolescence, that perhaps we don't need it, but not about what it means, as numerous court decisions have affirmed.
That's a nice warranty, though I must admit I'd be concerned about the company actually lasting 25 years.
Not to be a doubting Thomas, but that's only true if your solar panels last 30 years maintaining at least 2/3rds of their efficiency. (Any repair costs would also skew the economics.) But as someone who may take advantage of this technology later, I thank you for being an early adopter so I can buy in as the prices drop...
The goal of the carbon tax is to reduce C02 creation, not to raise revenue. So don't make it do the latter. Collect the tax as specified (based on amount of C02 created), but then every year, every U.S. citizen gets a check -- 1/300,000,000 of the taxes collected. After all, we're the ones getting damaged by its creation!
Why is this good? First, it reduces the "it's just a tax increase in disguise" critics (who otherwise have a point.) This also lessens the argument about how much the tax should be, since most of it's "coming back" -- it's not the gov't trying to sneak in a tax increase. Second, think how fond many people are of their tax refund check, and here's a new (and guaranteed) one! (Sadly, casinos and the lottery office will do quite well on the day the checks arrive.) Third, if you do create carbon, you're paying for it, so it's no longer a class warfare/guilt trip issue, at least as far as CO2 is concerned.
All I can say is, you spent a heck of a lot more time on your response than my original comment. Granted, I was going for funny, but not for moderation's sake. Would a smiley have made it clearer?
Also, I don't know the law over there but I'm willing to bet that the constitution and thusly, free speech *would* in fact come first.
No, because free speech implies the freedom *not* to listen, and these kids didn't have that freedom, they were a captive audience.
Oop, I said wings because I was thinking of "feminine" pads, not tampons. The point remains.
Or how about this; when your lady love asks you to pick up some tampons at the grocery store. Invariably, she will give you enough detail that you feel like you should be able to pick out the ones she likes, but not enough for you to be sure (wings? size? scented or not? etc).
OK, perhaps that's not a problem to most slashdotters, but you know what an aphrodisiac a sub-1000 slashdot ID is.
My two kids did both human and bottle; they can generally figure it out if they're hungry enough.
Not necessarily, she could give it to her husband. He can do everything except the actual feeding (and even that, if she's saved some or they're using formula at least some of the time.)
While it's something one should perhaps go through once, I certainly wouldn't want to relive the first few months of my children's lives, it was pretty torturous. I would seriously considered using something like this.
I no longer consider DVDs as items to own.
I borrow them from the library. I rent them from Blockbuster et al. I trade them on Peerflix and Barterbee. I buy 'em off Amazon and then resell them when I'm done with them. OK, the kids have had me keep a few, and I have a few classics just in case, but I've seen far, far more DVDs than I own.
So HD-DVD? Seems like a better format for my next rented/borrowed/traded/soon-to-be-resold discs. I just need a cheap enough player.
This philosophy applies to lots of other things, BTW; I've sold remotes, tuners, KVMs, and more for nearly the same price I paid for them.
As for the artwork, I'd rather have framed movie posters or a coffee table book.
My DSL is 768k. I could get faster, but $15/month is just too nice a price and most of the time the speed is good enough.
But it could be argued that youtube is a larger work, a collection of (among other things) politically interesting material. For example, at least some of the "call me!" commercial is there.
P.S. Anyone know her number?
Envy? Somewhere between 30,000 and 600,000 dead -- by population percentage, somwhere between 100 and 2,000 9/11s -- and you think the Iranians and Syrians are *envying* them? How long did it take you to create this little world you live in?
p ecial_packages/iraq/15924376.htm
"Ask an Iraqi what American troops are fighting for in Iraq, and the answer likely will be: not for me.
No matter the politics of the respondent, recent interviews with 19 Iraqis, both Shiite and Sunni Muslims, found almost no one who thought the Americans were fighting for them. Only ethnic Kurds, who have established a largely autonomous region in Iraq's north, were willing to say that American troops serve their interests.
Public opinion surveys over the years have shown growing Iraqi discontent with the American presence. The most recent, released in September by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a group affiliated with the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, found that seven of 10 Iraqis want U.S.-led forces to withdraw within a year. In the same survey, 78 percent said the U.S. presence provokes more conflict than it prevents; 84 percent said they had little or no confidence in the U.S military.
But the unwillingness of Iraqis to say that the Americans were fighting specifically for them underscores how confusing U.S. policy has become in Iraq's complicated political environment of competing sects, ethnic groups, tribes, militias, interest groups and leaders."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/s
As for Clinton, he pitched a near perfect game in Serbia/Kosovo, and that area is in tolerable shape. I was a bit leery of his motives there myself, but I gotta give the man props for waging a war so effectively from start to finish.
Was that the year you got "Call of Duty", "Battlefield", or "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault"?
Or do you mean, "hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't understand and respect...WWII"? Plenty of people back then were opposed to it.
Who, the Quakers?
There were isolationists in 1940, but both major candidates in the 1940 elections were in favor of the U.S. helping the UK. After Pearl Harbor, a single Congresswoman (Jeannette Rankin) voted against the war resolution.
As for a schedule:
It could last six days, six weeks, I doubt it will last six months."
"The Iraqi people will welcome us as liberators."
Ok, I admit I'm quoting unreasonable people, as you said a reasonable schedule.
In the incident that supposedly links the two, Pelosi marched in a gay pride parade. So did Harry Hay, a (now dead) supporter of, but not member of, NAMBLA. Does that mean Pelosi supported NAMBLA? Rudi Giuliani also marched in a gay pride parade that had a NAMBLA float.
Sadly enough it will probably be Murtha.
An anti-abortion, anti-gun control Democrat? That seems unlikely. And Pelosi really isn't that much of a lefty, it's just generally assumed she is because she represents San Francisco. (Yes, she's pro-choice and pro-gun control. That's not extreme left.)
One reason there's not much talk of fraud is that the exit polls and the votes closely match in most places, so you have a result that matches the estimate.
House majority leader isn't third in line for the presidency.
No, it's second. (VP, Speaker, PPT, SecState, SecTreas...)
Bloody peasant.
BTW, it's "bint", not "bink." You can check wikipedia for a short explanation of the origin.