I don't remember monthly fees on my old bank accounts, and the minimum balance was $100. My accounts now are at the credit union for my university, which has no fees and a minimum balance on my savings account of only $25.
I'd hardly call the NYT fair, or even true. When they give out state secrets and repeatedly endanger agents in the field, they should at least be investigated.
Yeah, the New York Times can't do that. That's Robert Novak's job.
It's plain fuck stupid to think that someone dumb would get this far, and it's plain fuck stupid to believe that someone that came from Yale can't spell nuclear.
You don't seem to be familiar with how far one can get in American society on nothing but daddy's money. As supporting evidence, I give you Paris Hilton. Keep her, please.
You want to see college-aged kids get more involved in politics? Simple: allow election-day voter registration.
You may be on to something there. Maine allows you to register to vote at the poll, and it usually has one of the highest voter turnouts in the country (not sure offhand how it breaks down by age group).
I simply have very little interest in wasting literally billions of dollars (in part, my own tax money) to send somebody somewhere that ultimately will have very little, if any, noticeable impact on my life and our society.
I hate to break it to you, but your life does not equal our society. Just because you don't consciously notice the impact of space exploration and all of the associated research, that doesn't mean there won't be enormous benefit to the human species in 10, 100, or 1000 years. That is the exact kind of shortsightedness that already causes all kinds of problems for our society.
The only problem is that they loaned out so much freaking money that now society is saturated in more debt than it can pay back. By any standard, the US is bankrupt.
Granted, it's worse now than it has been in quite a while, but when was the last time that the US wasn't in massive debt? I think we've been technically (insert "and morally" joke here) bankrupt for a very long time. I'll be quite impressed if we even have an economy of our own by the time I die.
A huge percentage of what you pay at the pump goes to taxes.
For relatively small values of huge, depending on your state. In Massachusetts (which I would suspect is maybe second only to California in stuff like this), total tax is only about 40 cents per gallon, or approximately 15% of the price.
The previous President Bush understood this which is why he went to the trouble of forming a coalition before invading.
Bush Sr. also had a much easier time forming a coalition, since Iraq was actively engaged in an invasion of Kuwait. This time, though, Iraq wasn't "doing anything wrong" (yes, I do use that phrase very loosely).
The other way elements are produced in stars is the addition of neutrons to already existing atoms, hence increasing their atomic mass and producing a different element.
Just to clarify that point, adding neutrons to an atom does not directly produce a different element, it produces a different isotope of the same element. Neutrons can, however, be converted into protons, usually by emitting an electron and an antineutrino (I believe neutrons can also be converted to protons by absorbing a positron and a neutrino, but it doesn't happen nearly as frequently).
Oh you mean your own kid?
Hmm sorry to upset you but that takes at least a GF, if not a wife...
Because people never get drunk, go home with some stranger they met in the bar, and end up with a kid nine months later? Granted this is Slashdot and nobody would have experience with bars, never mind meeting women, but I thought people would have at least heard about it before.
This is one of those cases where I wish a government could pass a law that basically says "Hey, listen to those smart people over there." Obviously there are issues with a government deciding standards, especially when it comes time to update them. I think a good compromise (whether or not the government should be involved at all is another topic) would be to let an organization that knows what it's doing, such as IEEE, ISO, etc., and can update standards much quicker than the government, decide what the standards should be.
Ideally it would be great for the city/county/state to run all the wires to your home and have open access for all providers, but I somehow doubt it would work out too well in most areas. The rich side of town won't want to pay for the hardware on the poor side of town, and getting together enough tax money to do major upgrades could take a decade. As someone else mentioned, one way to do it would be how many other utility companies work now (I know electricity in Maine does, not sure about other states), where one company owns the lines and several other companies do the generation. You then either have a separate item on your bill for the delivery, or the production company pays for access to the lines (either way works out about the same, it's just whether you see the exact amount on your bill or not).
At the risk of wandering off topic (eh, too late I guess), the Tab Mix Plus extension (and probably at least a couple other extensions) has a "Single Window Mode" option, where anything that would otherwise open in a new window opens in a new tab instead.
You're correct, I didn't read the article. Living in the Boston area, though, I'm fairly familiar with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, commonly abbreviated MBTA. I was just wondering if the BMTA was something new and different. Or at worst making a stupid joke about a typo.
Except the MBTA needs to bring in enough money from fares to stay operational. Last I heard, fares are going up quite a bit in 2007 because they don't have enough income. The MBTA isn't a free system that's funded entirely by taxes.
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I don't remember monthly fees on my old bank accounts, and the minimum balance was $100. My accounts now are at the credit union for my university, which has no fees and a minimum balance on my savings account of only $25.
Stop spouting all that nonsense. Everyone knows that the Flying Spaghetti Monster created all of that "evidence" exactly how we find it.
Let me be the first to make the obligatory comment about how that sound you just heard was a joke flying over your head.
Not that we life-long Red Sox fans are cynical or anything.
But what about Gazoo?
Because people never get drunk, go home with some stranger they met in the bar, and end up with a kid nine months later? Granted this is Slashdot and nobody would have experience with bars, never mind meeting women, but I thought people would have at least heard about it before.
This is one of those cases where I wish a government could pass a law that basically says "Hey, listen to those smart people over there." Obviously there are issues with a government deciding standards, especially when it comes time to update them. I think a good compromise (whether or not the government should be involved at all is another topic) would be to let an organization that knows what it's doing, such as IEEE, ISO, etc., and can update standards much quicker than the government, decide what the standards should be.
Sadly, I think that's true in the cases of many users.
Here's a Boston Globe article. Basically they just wanted the dishes moved to the backs of buildings and out of site from the streets.
Ideally it would be great for the city/county/state to run all the wires to your home and have open access for all providers, but I somehow doubt it would work out too well in most areas. The rich side of town won't want to pay for the hardware on the poor side of town, and getting together enough tax money to do major upgrades could take a decade. As someone else mentioned, one way to do it would be how many other utility companies work now (I know electricity in Maine does, not sure about other states), where one company owns the lines and several other companies do the generation. You then either have a separate item on your bill for the delivery, or the production company pays for access to the lines (either way works out about the same, it's just whether you see the exact amount on your bill or not).
At the risk of wandering off topic (eh, too late I guess), the Tab Mix Plus extension (and probably at least a couple other extensions) has a "Single Window Mode" option, where anything that would otherwise open in a new window opens in a new tab instead.
You're correct, I didn't read the article. Living in the Boston area, though, I'm fairly familiar with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, commonly abbreviated MBTA. I was just wondering if the BMTA was something new and different. Or at worst making a stupid joke about a typo.
Just out of curiosity, who's the BMTA?
Except the MBTA needs to bring in enough money from fares to stay operational. Last I heard, fares are going up quite a bit in 2007 because they don't have enough income. The MBTA isn't a free system that's funded entirely by taxes.