Sometime around 1976, a set of targets were in place to meet mileage standards, which have been circumvented by "light utility trucks" called SUVs.
I heard that the Taconic Highway in Westchester, NY bans "trucks", but SUV's don't count as trucks when it is not convenient. Personally, I believe that SUV's should pay an extra gas fees (and increased tolls) to offset the addition stress on the roads, roads, and infrastructure that they impart. Even extra fees for environmental impact resulting in health deterioration. Shit, my allergic reactions spike during high ozone days.
You might say less taxes, but then tell that to my home owners association, which has fines from everything ranging from acceptable gutter colors to hanging your clothes in the back yard. BP and Exxon pay a smaller percentage of their revenue for their egregious violations which makes a bigger impact on people than my purple and pink downspouts. People say live elsewhere, but I say how the hell did this shit get on the books in the first place.
Live Free or Dry!
America's golden age was from 1945 to 1972. The manhattan project was successful mostly due to former German scientists fleeing WW2. The space race and subsequent Cold War was won using German rocket (Von Braun) & computer (Von Neumann) technology and subsequent spinoff & followons. Americans are masters of marketing who convince bright foreigners to come to the US to try to make it here. After about 20 years, most end up in the scrapeheap with their American classmates working as a Walmart greeter! Meanwhile, the ad men, marketeers, and lawyers live off the revenue stream for years to come.
Don't forget to add the help of our elected officials who get lobbied to pass toothless regulations to curtail the industry. I think the current regulations are that as long as someone posts an "opt out" of future mailings, they are safe. This doesn't mean that they really have to not send you mailings, just a button which pretends to implement such a feature. And there is nothing to prevent them from selling your "valid live address" to the next mass marketeer!
>>University of Haifa (which, BTW, in which the majority of students are Palestinians)
Next, I guess you will be telling me that the majority of the NYC's lawyers are not Jewish!
Instead of arguing about evolution, the teachers should teach about religion.
When I was going to school, teachers wouldn't not miss the chance to tow the party line, and voice their opinions. Many would talke about their support for the US against communism. My 4-th grade teacher would denouce the Civil Righs movement and say that to join the "Black Panters", you had to kill a white person.
Don't miss this opportunity to remind students that the Catholic church protects pediophilacs and sacrifices children. Tell them that Jesus was a political criminal. Remind them that the Bible says that during the trial of Jesus, Piotious Piolot gave Jesus a chance to demonstrate that he was the "Son of God". Why did Jesus perform miriacles on other stated occasions, when he had a full entarage just waiting for Him to prove himself? Instead of being silent, use the occasion to read these quotes: http://dailyatheistquote.com/list.aspx
I am sure some will sink in!
already being sold. Just check out the back of porn magazines for the gadgets already available. Personally, I don't trust those things. What if the off button pops off and there is no way of stopping it? Will the insurance "umbrella policy" cover a mangled body organ inserted into a washing machine? I bet the person who does that is the same idiot who was talked into sticking his tongue to a metal pole in the winter. Ugly fat chicks still have a future!
Rather than designing robots to do very simple tasks that don't pay much, we really should design robots which do very specialized task much better than a human can.
I would be very interested in designing a robot that could cut diamonds. 4/5 of the cost of a diamond is reflected in the cut. If we can design robots which maneuver around obstacles, I would think it would be much easier to just program the physics of a cleave and use that to chop up rocks.
Call me old fashioned, but this is not a problem. Usually, I just pour whatever I have !
Scotch and water caught on that way!!
Green Creme de Mint and OJ, we tried it at my frat! We could not give it away except the serious alcis
I take offense to this measure.
I have always done better on harder questions than easier ones.
I believe this is because I enjoy the more difficult material and get easily bored by the rote and mundane stuff. This sort of thing is true for jocks in sports. Most HS student athletes hated gym, but loved their sport and excelled. Whenever we played basketball, the basketball athletes goofed-off during gym, but you knew they weren't even trying, largely because their competition was below them.
Kids that choose science as a future are doomed. Why would you want to be scientist anyway? Besides, the portrayal in movies is absolute nonsense. Another lesson these brats need to learn is Hollywood is fake! Its like deciding to become a lawyer based on watching Perry Mason episodes!
The work is not always as great as you first imagine, the reception is unappreciated no matter what you do and the pay is poor.
Let kids become doctors, lawyers, and business people. They will be smart and have lots of money! America gives a rat's ass about science. If you discover something, it will be stolen and misused. Look at the Wright brothers. Wright had to sell out to Curtis because the gov't broke their patents. Someone else will make a fortune based on your discovery. Howard Hughes made a fortune based on the oil drill bit, and had very little to do with its actual design and funding. He bought it from someone else.
The gov't has no problem violating laws when it is to its own benefit.
One thing pointed out during Hurricane Katrina is that allowing foreign mercenaries to be stationed as guards was in direct violation of Posse-Kommo-Tattas.
Just another example of selective prosecution.
I have some old files on discs I wrote on a MacIntosh using MacWrite 1.0
I was able to read them with Word, but lost the font info. I also had some stuff in MacDraw and MacPaint, but that was hard to read.
MacWrite stored the font info based on the installed fonts on the Mac. E.g. it would reference the 3rd installed font.
Obviously, this was a problem if you added fonts. I hear that this was fixed in MacWrite 2.0, but never confirmed!
ASCII forever!!
I usually write code, which I go back and modify. More often than no, I reduce the size of the code. Not through using shorter variables or less programming.
Rather, I find that there are commonalities which can be factored out. Also, I sometimes replace code with built in functions and libraries I did not know existed when I wrote things.
Even when writting English papers, I found that sometimes, I could clean things up after I get my initial concept down.
I have seen a lot of code written by other which was in terrible need of a rewrite, but it seemed as if people were more concerning in getting something done fast rather than elegant. I find that elegant code is easier to read, easier to maintain, and sometimes easier to debug.
I have attended both private universities and state universities. I have to say that the in class competition is more fierce at good private universities. I never went to a third rate private university. Students joked about CW Post and Skidmore as being a place where rich parents sent their kids for four years.
I also took classes at Boston University. I remarked to someone that the cost of an education at BU was on par with MIT. They replied that if you can get into MIT, you are not going to go to BU. MIT also attracts far more research money than BU. Although, I have met someone who got a full scholarship at BU, while less money at MIT, so went to BU. About 1/3 of the cost of a university is covered by the tuition. Research and donations provide the rest. However, I don't know if most undergraduate students can benefit from research grants, even if that attracts more talented professors. I usually found that few great research professors make great teachers. Another professor pointed out that professors get tenure based on research, and teaching is not heavily weighted at most top ranked universities.
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Sometime around 1976, a set of targets were in place to meet mileage standards, which have been circumvented by "light utility trucks" called SUVs.
I heard that the Taconic Highway in Westchester, NY bans "trucks", but SUV's don't count as trucks when it is not convenient. Personally, I believe that SUV's should pay an extra gas fees (and increased tolls) to offset the addition stress on the roads, roads, and infrastructure that they impart. Even extra fees for environmental impact resulting in health deterioration. Shit, my allergic reactions spike during high ozone days.
You might say less taxes, but then tell that to my home owners association, which has fines from everything ranging from acceptable gutter colors to hanging your clothes in the back yard.
BP and Exxon pay a smaller percentage of their revenue for their egregious violations which makes a bigger impact on people than my purple and pink downspouts. People say live elsewhere, but I say how the hell did this shit get on the books in the first place.
Live Free or Dry!
America's golden age was from 1945 to 1972. The manhattan project was successful mostly due to former German scientists fleeing WW2. The space race and subsequent Cold War was won using German rocket (Von Braun) & computer (Von Neumann) technology and subsequent spinoff & followons. Americans are masters of marketing who convince bright foreigners to come to the US to try to make it here. After about 20 years, most end up in the scrapeheap with their American classmates working as a Walmart greeter! Meanwhile, the ad men, marketeers, and lawyers live off the revenue stream for years to come.
Oh, come on. Many of us have probably have had the same soft of connections he does and never managed to accomplish this.
Don't forget to add the help of our elected officials who get lobbied to pass toothless regulations to curtail the industry. I think the current regulations are that as long as someone posts an "opt out" of future mailings, they are safe. This doesn't mean that they really have to not send you mailings, just a button which pretends to implement such a feature. And there is nothing to prevent them from selling your "valid live address" to the next mass marketeer!
>>University of Haifa (which, BTW, in which the majority of students are Palestinians)
Next, I guess you will be telling me that the majority of the NYC's lawyers are not Jewish!
I saw it on Star Trek, TMP!
I don't know about this. Not that I am shy or anything, but I think having me work in the nude might turn off lots of females.
Instead of arguing about evolution, the teachers should teach about religion.
When I was going to school, teachers wouldn't not miss the chance to tow the party line, and voice their opinions. Many would talke about their support for the US against communism. My 4-th grade teacher would denouce the Civil Righs movement and say that to join the "Black Panters", you had to kill a white person.
Don't miss this opportunity to remind students that the Catholic church protects pediophilacs and sacrifices children. Tell them that Jesus was a political criminal. Remind them that the Bible says that during the trial of Jesus, Piotious Piolot gave Jesus a chance to demonstrate that he was the "Son of God". Why did Jesus perform miriacles on other stated occasions, when he had a full entarage just waiting for Him to prove himself?
Instead of being silent, use the occasion to read these quotes:
http://dailyatheistquote.com/list.aspx
I am sure some will sink in!
I guess his next experiment which will be greatly anticipated is how long can he go on without taking a shower or changing his underwear.
already being sold. Just check out the back of porn magazines for the gadgets already available.
Personally, I don't trust those things. What if the off button pops off and there is no way of stopping it? Will the insurance "umbrella policy" cover a mangled body organ inserted into a washing machine? I bet the person who does that is the same idiot who was talked into sticking his tongue to a metal pole in the winter.
Ugly fat chicks still have a future!
Rather than designing robots to do very simple tasks that don't pay much, we really should design robots which do very specialized task much better than a human can.
I would be very interested in designing a robot that could cut diamonds. 4/5 of the cost of a diamond is reflected in the cut. If we can design robots which maneuver around obstacles, I would think it would be much easier to just program the physics of a cleave and use that to chop up rocks.
Otherwise we would have had him in a cell much sooner!
I really liked it!
Call me old fashioned, but this is not a problem. Usually, I just pour whatever I have !
Scotch and water caught on that way!!
Green Creme de Mint and OJ, we tried it at my frat! We could not give it away except the serious alcis
I take offense to this measure.
I have always done better on harder questions than easier ones.
I believe this is because I enjoy the more difficult material and get easily bored by the rote and mundane stuff. This sort of thing is true for jocks in sports. Most HS student athletes hated gym, but loved their sport and excelled. Whenever we played basketball, the basketball athletes goofed-off during gym, but you knew they weren't even trying, largely because their competition was below them.
"I told you once Injune,"
"I'm not going to tell you again,
"Get off my land!"
If that doesn't represent historical and cultural significance, what does?
Even thought they were not movies,
I think we should add
I Love Lucy
Star Trek
Kids that choose science as a future are doomed. Why would you want to be scientist anyway? Besides, the portrayal in movies is absolute nonsense. Another lesson these brats need to learn is Hollywood is fake! Its like deciding to become a lawyer based on watching Perry Mason episodes!
The work is not always as great as you first imagine, the reception is unappreciated no matter what you do and the pay is poor.
Let kids become doctors, lawyers, and business people. They will be smart and have lots of money! America gives a rat's ass about science. If you discover something, it will be stolen and misused. Look at the Wright brothers. Wright had to sell out to Curtis because the gov't broke their patents.
Someone else will make a fortune based on your discovery. Howard Hughes made a fortune based on the oil drill bit, and had very little to do with its actual design and funding. He bought it from someone else.
The gov't has no problem violating laws when it is to its own benefit.
One thing pointed out during Hurricane Katrina is that allowing foreign mercenaries to be stationed as guards was in direct violation of Posse-Kommo-Tattas.
Just another example of selective prosecution.
Well, just post the code to decipher that. I am sure that you will be a hero to many!
I have some of my father's programs from 1972 made on paper tape. Does anyone want to know what's on them!!
I have some tape cassettes made by a Commadore Pet 2000 made in 1979. Even if I were to restore them, I don't know how to transfer them.
I have some old files on discs I wrote on a MacIntosh using MacWrite 1.0
I was able to read them with Word, but lost the font info. I also had some stuff in MacDraw and MacPaint, but that was hard to read. MacWrite stored the font info based on the installed fonts on the Mac. E.g. it would reference the 3rd installed font. Obviously, this was a problem if you added fonts. I hear that this was fixed in MacWrite 2.0, but never confirmed!
ASCII forever!!
I usually write code, which I go back and modify.
More often than no, I reduce the size of the code. Not through using shorter variables or less programming. Rather, I find that there are commonalities which can be factored out. Also, I sometimes replace code with built in functions and libraries I did not know existed when I wrote things.
Even when writting English papers, I found that sometimes, I could clean things up after I get my initial concept down.
I have seen a lot of code written by other which was in terrible need of a rewrite, but it seemed as if people were more concerning in getting something done fast rather than elegant. I find that elegant code is easier to read, easier to maintain, and sometimes easier to debug.
I have attended both private universities and state universities. I have to say that the in class competition is more fierce at good private universities. I never went to a third rate private university. Students joked about CW Post and Skidmore as being a place where rich parents sent their kids for four years.
I also took classes at Boston University. I remarked to someone that the cost of an education at BU was on par with MIT. They replied that if you can get into MIT, you are not going to go to BU. MIT also attracts far more research money than BU. Although, I have met someone who got a full scholarship at BU, while less money at MIT, so went to BU. About 1/3 of the cost of a university is covered by the tuition. Research and donations provide the rest. However, I don't know if most undergraduate students can benefit from research grants, even if that attracts more talented professors. I usually found that few great research professors make great teachers. Another professor pointed out that professors get tenure based on research, and teaching is not heavily weighted at most top ranked universities.