My point was that CA is heavily Democrat. I want a return to fiscal sanity (which we have not had since Ike - the last time the US ran an actual surplus and paid down the debt was in 1957), but with California essentially under Democrat lock-down, there is little hope of that. Instead we get spend, spend, tax and spend. Oh and get rid of that pesky bill of rights, too...
Understood. Of course, the concept of the filibuster is essentially as old as the Senate itself (since 1789), and it was overturned just recently. Just saying "that's the way it's always been" is a cop-out, IMHO.
The Senate Majority Leader is chosen by the majority party. If you have a Democrat Senator, you can pressure them to replace Harry Reid as their leader.
It's the Simpsons. You know, where he puts cereal into a bowl, adds milk and it catches on fire. In a world where milk and cereal spontaneously combust, consumption of a donut most assuredly can cause an increase in weight.
Apparently, the filibuster has been around since 1789. Pretty much from the very beginning of the US Senate. Either case, it's pretty clear it was Harry Reid that pulled the bill, not a threat of a filibuster.
See, Starbucks is good because they give you free charging. And Starbucks is good because most people cannot use it, so it will keep the power consumption low and thus make them more energy efficient. It's a win/win all around!
So now that we know it's Harry Reid pulling the bill, what can we do to eliminate him from the Senate? He's been the biggest source of obstructionism over the last 8 years...
Wait, what? The "Right Wing" Republican House PASSED the bill; it is the Democrats who control the Senate that pulled it. How does that reconcile with your nice little political rant?
The current Senate leadership has already unilaterally rewritten the rules regarding filibusters and some nominations/appointments; it could very easily do it (and with political/voter impunity as we saw from the previous rewrite) again to push this through. The pulling of a bill in the Senate happens because one man doesn't want a vote on it: Harry Reid. I suspect somewhere he's getting millions - or the promise of tens of thousands of votes - to pull the bill. He's the block in the Senate.
Gasoline motorcycle drag racing, well into the 5 second range. Electric motorcycle drag racing, more than a second behind and 40+ MPH slower. Electrics have quite a ways to go to be competitive - performance-wise - with gasoline powered vehicles. For production bikes, the Suzuki Hayabusa has several 200+ MPH (and a top speed of 245 MPH) runs, but Suzuki officially doesn't acknowledge them - for insurability reasons (here's one guy doing a 278+ MPH run).
There are quite a few sub-3 second motorcycles on the market, and most can be had for less than $15,000. For the price of the Mission, one could purchase one of these faster motorcycles, and a nice Jetta TDI sedan as well - and still have enough left to buy a few years of gas and service.
Actually, most rockets would lose in acceleration to 60 MPH compared to a top fuel dragster. A top fuel dragster will do 0 to 100 MPH (160 kph) in 0.8 seconds, average somewhere between 4 and 5 Gs of acceleration for the entire run (the first quarter of the run at over 8 Gs of acceleration), and will cover the quarter mile in around 3.7 to 3.8 seconds. When you have upwards of 10,000 horsepower on-tap, and suck nitromethane (4 times the energy density of kerosene) at rates equivalent to a fuelly loaded 747, you can produce some stunning results...
So it's not quite as fast as an Audi S6 which sells for about the same price as the Tesla, and is just as luxuriously appointed. And weighs about the same as well.
Stiff sway bars also result in higher vibration/road noise in the vehicle. This system offers the ability to provide a plush, quiet ride and stiffness in the suspension when needed.
This is no different from trying to come up with ways of measuring scholars' intellectual impact using citation metrics, like the h-factor or the many recent successors to it, which try to repair the weaknesses in a fatally flawed idea. It makes no distinction between positive and negative citation, and it ignores the raw fact of historical precedence, while preserving every historical bias a culture may have.
The most influential people in world history, at least the very top-tier, isn't particularly debatable, but yet this list failed to capture it. In alphabetical order (and assuming they all existed):
Homer
I like the Simpsons and they're good for an occasional laugh, even after all these years, but I really think Bart is the more influential character.
Lots of municipalities (like those I've lived in - Seattle and area, and now down in Ventura County, CA) offer exclusive franchises to cable providers, creating this natural division not by collusion of Comcast and TWC but by dictate of the local Governing body. Now, it is true that does not lock you in for Internet as well, but it's a lot easier - and usually much lower cost, to bundle Internet with other cable services.
Last time I fought a ticket was in Lynnwood, WA. I won - it was a bogus ticket. The magistrate threw it right out within 10 seconds of the start of my case. Of course, the administrative fee for going to court was $125 - as much as the ticket itself. So what did I gain, except the loss of half a day?
My Verizon Note 2 is CDMA - but LTE uses SIM cards. And it works perfectly FINE overseas all the time. LTE on Verizon is NOT locked-to-hardware, it uses SIMs, and that means they work fine overseas. In fact, I don't think any Verizon phone right now is CDMA-only, meaning they will all work with SIMs and work overseas. Of course, in the US I'm locked to Verizon, but since where I live (near Ventura, CA) AT&T and T-Mobile have really terrible coverage, I don't care...
That's true for about 80% of the "iPhones" you see on the subways in Shanghai. Take a peek on the screen - and it's running some version of Android. The case definitely looks like an iPhone, the dimensions and materials sure are iPhone-clones, even the home button is there - but it's running Android.
The businessmen I know that have real iPhones (bought in the US or Hong Kong, usually - China Unicom was too expensive) use them simply for showing pictures. It's amazing that when their phone rings, they take out a DIFFERENT phone (nearly always Samsung at that) and answer the call - and send the text. Their iPhones seem to be restricted to picture-album use and status symbols - not actual, real-life-use smartphones.
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Not quite.
Is there a law, or Executive order, which required their retention?
See 36 CFR 1220.14. The Federal Records Act. NARA. Actual regulations and laws requiring archiving of all records, including e-mails.
You have presented an assymetric argument, and one that does not make any sense. Refine it, or retract it.
We'll wait for you to do so...
So this helps out like, 15 people?
My point was that CA is heavily Democrat. I want a return to fiscal sanity (which we have not had since Ike - the last time the US ran an actual surplus and paid down the debt was in 1957), but with California essentially under Democrat lock-down, there is little hope of that. Instead we get spend, spend, tax and spend. Oh and get rid of that pesky bill of rights, too...
Understood. Of course, the concept of the filibuster is essentially as old as the Senate itself (since 1789), and it was overturned just recently. Just saying "that's the way it's always been" is a cop-out, IMHO.
The Senate Majority Leader is chosen by the majority party. If you have a Democrat Senator, you can pressure them to replace Harry Reid as their leader.
It's the Simpsons. You know, where he puts cereal into a bowl, adds milk and it catches on fire. In a world where milk and cereal spontaneously combust, consumption of a donut most assuredly can cause an increase in weight.
Apparently, the filibuster has been around since 1789. Pretty much from the very beginning of the US Senate. Either case, it's pretty clear it was Harry Reid that pulled the bill, not a threat of a filibuster.
See, Starbucks is good because they give you free charging. And Starbucks is good because most people cannot use it, so it will keep the power consumption low and thus make them more energy efficient. It's a win/win all around!
So now that we know it's Harry Reid pulling the bill, what can we do to eliminate him from the Senate? He's been the biggest source of obstructionism over the last 8 years...
As I live in California, and would like to see responsible Government (fiscally at the very least), it's not going well at all...
Wait, what? The "Right Wing" Republican House PASSED the bill; it is the Democrats who control the Senate that pulled it. How does that reconcile with your nice little political rant?
The current Senate leadership has already unilaterally rewritten the rules regarding filibusters and some nominations/appointments; it could very easily do it (and with political/voter impunity as we saw from the previous rewrite) again to push this through. The pulling of a bill in the Senate happens because one man doesn't want a vote on it: Harry Reid. I suspect somewhere he's getting millions - or the promise of tens of thousands of votes - to pull the bill. He's the block in the Senate.
Gasoline motorcycle drag racing, well into the 5 second range. Electric motorcycle drag racing, more than a second behind and 40+ MPH slower. Electrics have quite a ways to go to be competitive - performance-wise - with gasoline powered vehicles. For production bikes, the Suzuki Hayabusa has several 200+ MPH (and a top speed of 245 MPH) runs, but Suzuki officially doesn't acknowledge them - for insurability reasons (here's one guy doing a 278+ MPH run).
There are quite a few sub-3 second motorcycles on the market, and most can be had for less than $15,000. For the price of the Mission, one could purchase one of these faster motorcycles, and a nice Jetta TDI sedan as well - and still have enough left to buy a few years of gas and service.
Actually, most rockets would lose in acceleration to 60 MPH compared to a top fuel dragster. A top fuel dragster will do 0 to 100 MPH (160 kph) in 0.8 seconds, average somewhere between 4 and 5 Gs of acceleration for the entire run (the first quarter of the run at over 8 Gs of acceleration), and will cover the quarter mile in around 3.7 to 3.8 seconds. When you have upwards of 10,000 horsepower on-tap, and suck nitromethane (4 times the energy density of kerosene) at rates equivalent to a fuelly loaded 747, you can produce some stunning results...
So it's not quite as fast as an Audi S6 which sells for about the same price as the Tesla, and is just as luxuriously appointed. And weighs about the same as well.
Stiff sway bars also result in higher vibration/road noise in the vehicle. This system offers the ability to provide a plush, quiet ride and stiffness in the suspension when needed.
This is no different from trying to come up with ways of measuring scholars' intellectual impact using citation metrics, like the h-factor or the many recent successors to it, which try to repair the weaknesses in a fatally flawed idea. It makes no distinction between positive and negative citation, and it ignores the raw fact of historical precedence, while preserving every historical bias a culture may have.
The most influential people in world history, at least the very top-tier, isn't particularly debatable, but yet this list failed to capture it. In alphabetical order (and assuming they all existed):
Homer
I like the Simpsons and they're good for an occasional laugh, even after all these years, but I really think Bart is the more influential character.
Cool! Stories to prove our point! Then I'm totally happy that you support anarchy and 100% self-determination based upon "Atlas Shrugged"...
Lots of municipalities (like those I've lived in - Seattle and area, and now down in Ventura County, CA) offer exclusive franchises to cable providers, creating this natural division not by collusion of Comcast and TWC but by dictate of the local Governing body. Now, it is true that does not lock you in for Internet as well, but it's a lot easier - and usually much lower cost, to bundle Internet with other cable services.
Welcome to the US Legal System - it exists primarily to support itself, justice for others is a distant secondary goal...
Last time I fought a ticket was in Lynnwood, WA. I won - it was a bogus ticket. The magistrate threw it right out within 10 seconds of the start of my case. Of course, the administrative fee for going to court was $125 - as much as the ticket itself. So what did I gain, except the loss of half a day?
My Verizon Note 2 is CDMA - but LTE uses SIM cards. And it works perfectly FINE overseas all the time. LTE on Verizon is NOT locked-to-hardware, it uses SIMs, and that means they work fine overseas. In fact, I don't think any Verizon phone right now is CDMA-only, meaning they will all work with SIMs and work overseas. Of course, in the US I'm locked to Verizon, but since where I live (near Ventura, CA) AT&T and T-Mobile have really terrible coverage, I don't care...
That's true for about 80% of the "iPhones" you see on the subways in Shanghai. Take a peek on the screen - and it's running some version of Android. The case definitely looks like an iPhone, the dimensions and materials sure are iPhone-clones, even the home button is there - but it's running Android.
The businessmen I know that have real iPhones (bought in the US or Hong Kong, usually - China Unicom was too expensive) use them simply for showing pictures. It's amazing that when their phone rings, they take out a DIFFERENT phone (nearly always Samsung at that) and answer the call - and send the text. Their iPhones seem to be restricted to picture-album use and status symbols - not actual, real-life-use smartphones.