Sounds like yet another reason New Zealand is high on my list of places I'd consider moving to. It helps, though, that your weather (at least around Auckland, Napier Bay, etc. is relatively temperate, without the scorching hot, humid summers and frosty winters of many areas in the U.S., which means bike-riding is more tolerable more of the year.
I also think it does require a certain number of avid bikers. If I could get more places safely on a bike, I would, but I can't, so I drive, adding yet another car to the bikers' hazards.
I think we're also spread out more in the U.S., making biking less practical in terms of time.
'It was not until early 2001, after the election of George W. Bush in the US and with John Howard in power in Australia, that a US-Australia FTA finally began to take shape. In April 2001, President Bush signalled his interest in pursuing an FTA with Australia provided "everything is on the table".'
[...]
'the text was finally agreed to in February 2004, and signed off on by Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile and [Bush appointee] US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick in Washington in May 2004.'
(Source Wikipedia, but unless you can find something to contradict, I'm going with it.)
All Congress got to do was ratify the agreement as negotiated.
Sorry boys, but you most definitely can blame Bush.
My point was that it's the underlying hatred for the war that brought out the comment on spending.
No, I chose it because the war costs are what directly affect all of us, regardless of what we think of it. You said you didn't cared about your loss of privacy, and presumably you aren't among the wounded. I thought you might care about the impact in your wallet.
Whether or not I agree with you, you can say this because these programs have been around for a number of years
I think you could say that the moment the programs started they helped *someone.* Truly inefficient government programs pay someone to do something that nobody wants. Medi(caid/care) pay doctors to provide treatments.
Rebuilding Europe after WWII took a lot of money and helped people (directly) who weren't in this country...yet I don't think anyone today would look back on that as a waste.
That was spending money to make people's lives better, not to shoot bad people. Look at Israel/Lebanon; despite militarily superior forces and casualty counts, despite Hezbollah starting it by killing and capturing Israeli soldiers in Israel, is there anyone who thinks Israel won?
Unfortunately, the Neocon fantasy that if we just kill or depose the bad guys at the top, we can turn Iraq into a shining example of democracy, is proving to be just that -- a fantasy. It should be obvious to anyone in politics that dictatorships survive because there are actually quite a number of people benefiting from and helping sustain that dictatorship.
I certainly don't argue that point regarding cities, having visited relatives that live in the North End of Boston recently. (Heck, they only own one car, and one of the two has never driven it.) Unfortunately, most American suburbs seem designed to making walking or cycling beyond your near neighbors too dangerous to contemplate.
No, it's my mistake. I thought you were saying $40 for a 64MB bog-standard SD card, and complaining it was much more expensive than Compact Flash. (There was a time a couple of years ago where this was true.) But yes, 64 MB for an XBox 360 is $40 at most places.
Given that's it's killed nearly as many Americans as 9/11, and wounded many times more, while stirring up further unrest and U.S. hatred, yes. As I said publicly in '03, transferring attention from Afghanistan to Iraq was a very bad idea. (Unfortunately, I'm getting an idea of how Cassandra felt.)
Medicare, Medicaid, education, and welfare, while typically inefficient, at least have for the most part helped the poorer among us. (Granted, at times they discourage people from making changes that will help them escape the poverty trap, but that could be fixed by modifying the programs, rather than eliminating them.)
and will take bog standard SD cards for expansion. Add an extra $40 there just to get a 64MB card so you can save games (cursing under your breath that if it used standard flash you could get 1GB for the same price).
If it's bog-standard SD (and wikipedia agrees it is), I've seen 1 gig cards for $20, 4 GB for ~$60. You're a bit behind the times there.
If your town is a radius of one mile, there's probably a lot less traffic running at slower speeds, and it's more likely you know a decent percentage of your neighbors. Not having the kids walk is more a (probably overly paranoid) fear of something happening to them when out of sight of the parents, not laziness on the kids' part.
"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint" (Hesiod, 8th century BC).
Part of the "talking at top of lungs" is due to the lack of feedback within many phones (i.e. the microphone is not echoed in the speaker). If the meatheads who build the things would just make it provide this feedback, people would probably be quieter.
Not to mention the people who use someone else's address in the reply-to field. I periodically get mailer-daemon messages because some asshat has decided that an e-mail address using my personal domain is perfect for his/her reply-to address.
That being said, I would prefer large fines, internet restrictions, (maybe)house arrest, and a short prison spell (as a warning) as an alternative to spending the cost of a good college degree keeping him locked up for years.
I use Peerflix, and occasionally get a DVD that looks like someone used a beltsander on it. Strangely, I was able to extract a usable image from the worst offender, but not get the very end of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" off another one with only mild scratches.
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Unless I missed the news this morning, Australia is NOT the 51st state!
You're right! That's Canada.
I dunno, though, that's kind of like blaming a kid for giving a bully his lunch money.
Sounds like yet another reason New Zealand is high on my list of places I'd consider moving to. It helps, though, that your weather (at least around Auckland, Napier Bay, etc. is relatively temperate, without the scorching hot, humid summers and frosty winters of many areas in the U.S., which means bike-riding is more tolerable more of the year.
I also think it does require a certain number of avid bikers. If I could get more places safely on a bike, I would, but I can't, so I drive, adding yet another car to the bikers' hazards.
I think we're also spread out more in the U.S., making biking less practical in terms of time.
How is this GWB's fault?
'It was not until early 2001, after the election of George W. Bush in the US and with John Howard in power in Australia, that a US-Australia FTA finally began to take shape. In April 2001, President Bush signalled his interest in pursuing an FTA with Australia provided "everything is on the table".'
[...]
'the text was finally agreed to in February 2004, and signed off on by Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile and [Bush appointee] US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick in Washington in May 2004.'
(Source Wikipedia, but unless you can find something to contradict, I'm going with it.)
All Congress got to do was ratify the agreement as negotiated.
Sorry boys, but you most definitely can blame Bush.
Oh, give it a wrist already.
My point was that it's the underlying hatred for the war that brought out the comment on spending.
No, I chose it because the war costs are what directly affect all of us, regardless of what we think of it. You said you didn't cared about your loss of privacy, and presumably you aren't among the wounded. I thought you might care about the impact in your wallet.
Whether or not I agree with you, you can say this because these programs have been around for a number of years
I think you could say that the moment the programs started they helped *someone.* Truly inefficient government programs pay someone to do something that nobody wants. Medi(caid/care) pay doctors to provide treatments.
Rebuilding Europe after WWII took a lot of money and helped people (directly) who weren't in this country...yet I don't think anyone today would look back on that as a waste.
That was spending money to make people's lives better, not to shoot bad people. Look at Israel/Lebanon; despite militarily superior forces and casualty counts, despite Hezbollah starting it by killing and capturing Israeli soldiers in Israel, is there anyone who thinks Israel won?
Unfortunately, the Neocon fantasy that if we just kill or depose the bad guys at the top, we can turn Iraq into a shining example of democracy, is proving to be just that -- a fantasy. It should be obvious to anyone in politics that dictatorships survive because there are actually quite a number of people benefiting from and helping sustain that dictatorship.
I picked it out of thousands. I didn't like the others, they were all too flat.
I certainly don't argue that point regarding cities, having visited relatives that live in the North End of Boston recently. (Heck, they only own one car, and one of the two has never driven it.) Unfortunately, most American suburbs seem designed to making walking or cycling beyond your near neighbors too dangerous to contemplate.
No, it's my mistake. I thought you were saying $40 for a 64MB bog-standard SD card, and complaining it was much more expensive than Compact Flash. (There was a time a couple of years ago where this was true.) But yes, 64 MB for an XBox 360 is $40 at most places.
If the war cost us $0, would you still be mad?
Given that's it's killed nearly as many Americans as 9/11, and wounded many times more, while stirring up further unrest and U.S. hatred, yes. As I said publicly in '03, transferring attention from Afghanistan to Iraq was a very bad idea. (Unfortunately, I'm getting an idea of how Cassandra felt.)
Medicare, Medicaid, education, and welfare, while typically inefficient, at least have for the most part helped the poorer among us. (Granted, at times they discourage people from making changes that will help them escape the poverty trap, but that could be fixed by modifying the programs, rather than eliminating them.)
I think they should make a wiimote that weighs about 20 pounds, so people can get a decent workout while playing.
and will take bog standard SD cards for expansion. Add an extra $40 there just to get a 64MB card so you can save games (cursing under your breath that if it used standard flash you could get 1GB for the same price).
If it's bog-standard SD (and wikipedia agrees it is), I've seen 1 gig cards for $20, 4 GB for ~$60. You're a bit behind the times there.
Do you like the ~$1250 we've paid so far per-person for the war in Iraq? As a part of a family of four, I know I'd like my five grand back.
This isn't a planet license; this is a Kuiper Belt object license with the words "Kuiper Belt" crossed out and the word "planet" written in in crayon.
How the frell is walking the kid to school quicker, or easier? Cheaper and healthier I'll buy.
If your town is a radius of one mile, there's probably a lot less traffic running at slower speeds, and it's more likely you know a decent percentage of your neighbors. Not having the kids walk is more a (probably overly paranoid) fear of something happening to them when out of sight of the parents, not laziness on the kids' part.
"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on
frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond
words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and
respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise
[disrespectful] and impatient of restraint" (Hesiod, 8th century BC).
if you're going to play games against each other gathering on a couch is far more personal then playing against each other online
I know I'd certainly love to smack a few griefers in online games...
But that song comes from the Rankin-Bass version of "Return of the King," and not "The Hobbit."
It might expunge "The greatest adventure is what lies ahead", but that's not nearly so needing of expunging.
It's like goldy or bronzy, only it's made out of iron.
Part of the "talking at top of lungs" is due to the lack of feedback within many phones (i.e. the microphone is not echoed in the speaker). If the meatheads who build the things would just make it provide this feedback, people would probably be quieter.
Not to mention the people who use someone else's address in the reply-to field. I periodically get mailer-daemon messages because some asshat has decided that an e-mail address using my personal domain is perfect for his/her reply-to address.
That being said, I would prefer large fines, internet restrictions, (maybe)house arrest, and a short prison spell (as a warning) as an alternative to spending the cost of a good college degree keeping him locked up for years.
Lucky, my local library (Howard County, MD) won't hold DVDs.
I use Peerflix, and occasionally get a DVD that looks like someone used a beltsander on it. Strangely, I was able to extract a usable image from the worst offender, but not get the very end of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" off another one with only mild scratches.
1. Bonds, being borrowing, are always inherantly more expensive than paying cash on the barrelhead up front.
More expensive than cash legislatively stolen from others? Sure. Fleecing others is always good for oneself.
2. While they wait for a bond measure to pass, the cost of steel and concrete and especially asphalt is going up. Tick, Tick, Tick...
And so does the economy, almost always by more than the cost of materials, making it effectively cheaper.
Alaska pays a hell of a lot more than $3 million in fed taxes
Pure crap of a statement. They pay fed taxes for defense, etc., not for this bridge.
Stop trying to rationalize all this pork BS. Or pay for my driveway resurfacing.
Did you try NeoOffice? I haven't done anything large with it, but it's met my needs so far.