Then you do not have a fuel budget. That is to say, if you have a fixed amount you have budgeted (can spend) on fuel costs, at some point a rise in fuel costs will force you to cut back.
Nope, I am about 5 miles from anywhere, so walking is not an option. If the price of gas went up, I would just have to pay it.
I'll grant you that gas is dirty cheap in the U.S. - most things you drink cost more per gallon then gas (unless you buy the store brand in some cases) and so a big rise in gas prices won't cause much increase percentage wise to most people. But it will make a difference for some, and gasoline consumption will decrease.
It is currently about $1.40 to $1.50 per gallon where I live, and it could really be cheaper. Hopefully, with Libya being un-banned from trade and Iraq eventually going back online for production, it will fall below a dollar per gallon.
Or they may not make more profit per gallon. If the increase is due solely to taxation, then B.P. might actually make less profit.
If it went to $5.00 per gallon, they would go under. E-85 could be sold unsubsidized at around $2.50 to $3.00, and there is a whole lot of corn here in Illinois.
This doesn't mean I think Americans should drive SUVs. If the price of petrol was fair (about $4 - $5 / gallon) we could atleast eliminate the human factor to a great extent.
How exactly would $4/gallon be fair to anybody but B.P. stockholders?
No, you deprived the artist of his rightful revenue stream for his labor, which you obviously consider of some value, or otherwise you wouldn't waste hard drive space on the music.
f I went to the local HMV, took a DVD, and took it from the shop without paying, it would be stealing.
Thank God for modern technology. Back in the day, we had to shoplift our music if we wanted to steal it.
Surely you can see a difference between the two crimes I described above?
The difference beween shoplifting and "copyright infringement"? With shoplifting, you are stealing from some retailer. With "copyright infringement", you are stealing from the artists. The only other differences between the two are legal semantics.
Who mentioned anything about stealing? Or are you one of the uninformed group who still consider copyright infringment to be theft?
Are you:
Getting something...
Which wasn't your's to begin with...
Which you did not pay for...
And did not make yourself...
That was made by someone else...
And was not a gift to you...
That most people pay money for?
Explain to me again how this is not stealing?
Wait till people can travel in time... into years prior to 1970...with a time machine using a unix...which sets its system clock to the current date...
OH MY GOD! RUN!
Unix uses a signed 32-bit integer.
Earliest possible date: Fri Dec 13 14:45:52 CST 1901.
Latest possible date: Mon Jan 18 21:14:07 CST 2038.
And anybody with a time machine would be able to afford a 64-bit computer.
Most games designed for Win95 & 98 were just horribly horribly written, which is why they don't work. My favorite crappy games regulate animations/timing by using a software loop instead of some system clock/timer. I have this one game that was meant to run on a P90... tried it on my K7/500 -- 0.001 seconds after starting to play I'm dead.
Remember "Turbo" buttons on 386's? Who says bad programmers can't make good money!
I've always wondered why Republican political figures such as Bush don't just tell the bible-pounders to go pound sand.
Because Bush is a bible-thumper.
Not really.
He is a Christian, he is a Republican, and he does occasionally make scriptural references in his speeches, but that is common of anybody who actually reads it regularly. But he is by no means one of the people the poster was talking about.
I generally vote Republican (but am not a registered Republican), and I am a Christian.
I generally like Bush.
The "Religious Right" are a completely different situation though, and they comprise a small but well-united element of the Republican party, a few million people (I don't remember actual numbers).
These people would end up being a Christian equivalent of the Taliban if they were given half a chance.
They push for prayer in schools, support of Israel, anti-pornography laws, anti-alchohol laws, etc., and generally an elimination of the seperation between church and state.
A recent example would be that judge who tried to put a giant marble ten commandments in the state courthouse.
I don't think prayer in public schools is appropriate, I don't think the Ten Commandments in a state courthouse is appropriate, I like to drink, I don't think we should be as involved in the Israel thing as we even are now, and generally I think that they are a bunch of self-rightous little shits in general, who need to mind their own business.
The problem is, if they quit voting Republican, the party would probably only ever get about 40% of the presidental vote, because of the pervasiveness of the Dems, so they are put up with.
Bush is actually rather popular with them though, because he "quit drinking and found God."
This is the sort of shit that they love to hear.
In reality, he had a bunch of DUI's, and his wife threatened to leave him.
I thought all we needed to do that with was a computer virus?
Yeah, the last book really wasn't on par with the others. A virus? Are you kidding me? And did I really need to know that Poole was circumcised?
Buzz Aldrin liked it, though:
"From the moment I picked it up, I couldn't put it down.
3001: The Final Odyssey is a tour de force that finally answers the questions that sparked the imaginations of an entire generation."
Bullshit.
That's the last time I buy something just because an astronaut said it was cool.
And then you go to the next polling place, and they say "have you voted before?" and you say "no" and they mark your name off and watch you vote....
Actually, it usually went down like this: You "borrow" a whole book of the slips on your way to the booth, emulate the initials on the back (easier than you might think) and drop in as many slips as you can hold in your hand without it obviously looking as if you are holding more than one slip, about two dozen I would guess. Congratulations, you just voted two dozen times.
This is how we do it in Australia, too. It is by far thye best system, and very difficult (though probably not impossible) to rig. I guess this is why the US politicians don't like it, preferring voting machines which are more error-prone and make it easier to "fix" the outcome.
Ballot-box stuffing. People used to manage to grab more than one slip, and vote extra times. That's why we don't do it that way anymore.
1) Leading Edge Model D This PC was the first important "low cost" PC that was nearly 100% IBM compatible. I remember it having quite a following and marketshare back in the day.
My first computer of my own was a Leading Edge Model D. It was given to me by my uncle when he bought a new computer. It still works, too.
CPM did not have support for hierarchal directory structure!
Nor did its cheap knock-off, DOS 1.0.
It wasn't until DOS 2.0 that they stole that idea.
What operating system used "\" for the path seperator, anyway, that they thought it was such a good idea?
The moon mas plenty of resources, such as it's LACK of atmosphere. Do you think in any way the air on earth, or it's magnetic field, or it's clounds or airplanes or radio waves bouncing around inside it make it easy to use radio telescopes and such?
While there are several good uses to such a sterile environment, radio telescopes are a bad example. Radio telescopes don't make money.
24-hour free solar energy beamed to earth?
Beamed to the earth by what, a microwave beam I assume? And I am supposed to trust government workers that it won't get mis-aligned, accidentally pumping all of those free gigawatts of energy into, say, L.A.? And how exactly is it free if we have to send all of those solar panels as such to the moon? Do you have any idea what FedEx charges to ship stuff to the moon?
The closest thing to what what he's looking for is the DOS version of Derive running on the Hewlett-Packard HP200LX, a 80186 (not a typo) based DOS handheld. (A bit of searching should turn up a demo.)
The CAS used on the TI-89, TI-92, etc., is Derive.
If the HP 49G+ is insufficient for your handheld computation needs, you're in a really unusual position. What exactly are you wanting your calculator to do?
He said 49G, no +.
The 49G+ is pretty good though.
75-MHz 32-bit ARM9 CPU, 2.5-MB of RAM, and an SD card port, which can hold more than 512-MB.
Anything handheld with more power would be called a PDA.
And, after you get it, download my library of 116 additional functions for it.
What really doesn't make any sense to me is why, in a picture like that, is the vagina blurred out? Did the person who took the photo think it would be inappropriate to show it?
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Then you do not have a fuel budget. That is to say, if you have a fixed amount you have budgeted (can spend) on fuel costs, at some point a rise in fuel costs will force you to cut back.
Nope, I am about 5 miles from anywhere, so walking is not an option. If the price of gas went up, I would just have to pay it.
I'll grant you that gas is dirty cheap in the U.S. - most things you drink cost more per gallon then gas (unless you buy the store brand in some cases) and so a big rise in gas prices won't cause much increase percentage wise to most people. But it will make a difference for some, and gasoline consumption will decrease.
It is currently about $1.40 to $1.50 per gallon where I live, and it could really be cheaper. Hopefully, with Libya being un-banned from trade and Iraq eventually going back online for production, it will fall below a dollar per gallon.
Or they may not make more profit per gallon. If the increase is due solely to taxation, then B.P. might actually make less profit.
If it went to $5.00 per gallon, they would go under. E-85 could be sold unsubsidized at around $2.50 to $3.00, and there is a whole lot of corn here in Illinois.
How exactly would $4/gallon be fair to anybody but B.P. stockholders?
How would your driving habits change in the long term if gasoline prices tripled or quadrupled and your fuel budget did not?
Not at all, to be quite honest, and how does that answer my question?
How exactly would $4/gallon be fair to anybody but B.P. stockholders?
No, you deprived the artist of his rightful revenue stream for his labor, which you obviously consider of some value, or otherwise you wouldn't waste hard drive space on the music.
f I went to the local HMV, took a DVD, and took it from the shop without paying, it would be stealing.
Thank God for modern technology. Back in the day, we had to shoplift our music if we wanted to steal it.
Surely you can see a difference between the two crimes I described above?
The difference beween shoplifting and "copyright infringement"? With shoplifting, you are stealing from some retailer. With "copyright infringement", you are stealing from the artists. The only other differences between the two are legal semantics.
Are you: ...
...
...
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Getting something
Which wasn't your's to begin with
Which you did not pay for
And did not make yourself
That was made by someone else
And was not a gift to you
That most people pay money for?
Explain to me again how this is not stealing?
Wait till people can travel in time... into years prior to 1970 ...with a time machine using a unix ...which sets its system clock to the current date...
OH MY GOD! RUN!
Unix uses a signed 32-bit integer.
Earliest possible date: Fri Dec 13 14:45:52 CST 1901.
Latest possible date: Mon Jan 18 21:14:07 CST 2038.
And anybody with a time machine would be able to afford a 64-bit computer.
Remember "Turbo" buttons on 386's? Who says bad programmers can't make good money!
Because Bush is a bible-thumper.
Not really. He is a Christian, he is a Republican, and he does occasionally make scriptural references in his speeches, but that is common of anybody who actually reads it regularly. But he is by no means one of the people the poster was talking about. I generally vote Republican (but am not a registered Republican), and I am a Christian. I generally like Bush.
The "Religious Right" are a completely different situation though, and they comprise a small but well-united element of the Republican party, a few million people (I don't remember actual numbers). These people would end up being a Christian equivalent of the Taliban if they were given half a chance. They push for prayer in schools, support of Israel, anti-pornography laws, anti-alchohol laws, etc., and generally an elimination of the seperation between church and state. A recent example would be that judge who tried to put a giant marble ten commandments in the state courthouse.
I don't think prayer in public schools is appropriate, I don't think the Ten Commandments in a state courthouse is appropriate, I like to drink, I don't think we should be as involved in the Israel thing as we even are now, and generally I think that they are a bunch of self-rightous little shits in general, who need to mind their own business.
The problem is, if they quit voting Republican, the party would probably only ever get about 40% of the presidental vote, because of the pervasiveness of the Dems, so they are put up with. Bush is actually rather popular with them though, because he "quit drinking and found God." This is the sort of shit that they love to hear. In reality, he had a bunch of DUI's, and his wife threatened to leave him.
It's too bad American Express won't give out cards that don't have an annual fee. The only non Visa/MasterCard card I have is Discover.
What, Kermit and Xmodem aren't good enough for you?
That's the fourth spatial dimension.
Yeah, the last book really wasn't on par with the others. A virus? Are you kidding me? And did I really need to know that Poole was circumcised?
Buzz Aldrin liked it, though:
Bullshit. That's the last time I buy something just because an astronaut said it was cool.It measures 16 in the fourth dimension.
Actually, it usually went down like this: You "borrow" a whole book of the slips on your way to the booth, emulate the initials on the back (easier than you might think) and drop in as many slips as you can hold in your hand without it obviously looking as if you are holding more than one slip, about two dozen I would guess. Congratulations, you just voted two dozen times.
Ballot-box stuffing. People used to manage to grab more than one slip, and vote extra times. That's why we don't do it that way anymore.
Mass transit: because most people don't get to smell urine often enough in a day.
My first computer of my own was a Leading Edge Model D. It was given to me by my uncle when he bought a new computer. It still works, too.
Yup, he forgot the guns. You need to stock up on lots of guns, and ammo too, or else you're screwed.
Nor did its cheap knock-off, DOS 1.0. It wasn't until DOS 2.0 that they stole that idea. What operating system used "\" for the path seperator, anyway, that they thought it was such a good idea?
While there are several good uses to such a sterile environment, radio telescopes are a bad example. Radio telescopes don't make money.
24-hour free solar energy beamed to earth?
Beamed to the earth by what, a microwave beam I assume? And I am supposed to trust government workers that it won't get mis-aligned, accidentally pumping all of those free gigawatts of energy into, say, L.A.? And how exactly is it free if we have to send all of those solar panels as such to the moon? Do you have any idea what FedEx charges to ship stuff to the moon?
The CAS used on the TI-89, TI-92, etc., is Derive.
He said 49G, no +. The 49G+ is pretty good though. 75-MHz 32-bit ARM9 CPU, 2.5-MB of RAM, and an SD card port, which can hold more than 512-MB. Anything handheld with more power would be called a PDA. And, after you get it, download my library of 116 additional functions for it.
This is the first I've heard of them. If they are getting sued, I figure they must be good, so I will end up checking them out.
Am I the only one that looks at the number '666' and thinks a+rw?
Yes, you are. 10% of us are thinking "don't you mean a=rw?" and the other 90% just think you're a dork.
What really doesn't make any sense to me is why, in a picture like that, is the vagina blurred out? Did the person who took the photo think it would be inappropriate to show it?