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I think I vaguely remember an incident where someone discovered a GPS on their car, and they had very serious charges levelled against them for tampering with government property...which they never wanted on their car in the first place, no one told them it was government property, no one told them it was there. [quote]There are no practical alternatives to the current individual transit "problem" in the US, and no policy change will push any known alternatives ov

$1 a Gig? I thought SSD prices would be plumetting quickly (like cell phones), but strangely that is not looking to be the case.

You are aware there was a Reformation right?

I don't know that science becomes a BAD tool, so much as it becomes no tool at all. When dealing with death, for example. Try applying the scientific method to what happens after death. You can form all the hypotheses you want, but good luck collecting experimental data to prove/disprove it.

[quote]If it's managed specifically by a factor of Engine capacity-mileage, or more SIMPLY by a straight tax on petrol use/consumption then there will be an 'interesting' tradeoff.....[/quote] I like the fuel tax. It's petroleum-based. And guess who gets to breathe your car fumes. Taxing it just like we tax tobacco and using it to maintain roads seems to me just fine. There is no need to power-grab yet more with GPS BS&nbsp

I see nothing deviating about this thread. There's the question of how to pay for road maintenance, and the idea a couple states are floating is this GPS thing. And as far as I'm concerned, taxing us by putting GPS' on our cars is just an angle government officials are taking to power grab some more. It's similar to a related controversial police brutality incident that happened in our area. Everybody's demanding that the police release

[quote]BTW....loved Canada when I was there... [except for the Bus driver who claimed to be ignorant of English - silly twit...I could still swear at him in enough languages he'd get a vague hint]...[e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] Canadian politics. The waitresses in Quebec are required by law to greet you with "Bonjour Hello". If they say "Hello Bonjour" they can be fined. [e digicons]:|[/e] Absolute silliness. I

I don't know the exact situation in Oklahoma, but the politicians are probably not the ones doing the nitty-gritty (literally) determining the asphalt mixtures, and the tradeoff you have to make is the elasticity. In general you want high elasticity, because that will last the longest under varying loads (i.e. sedans vs. 18-wheelers). When the road bends under pressure to the point that it never snaps back, we call that plastic. Elastic vs. plastic. You will want g

[quote] Part weather, part stupidity. Well, no, mostly stupidity. The idiots around here in southern Oklahoma are doing the same damned thing, it's pathetic really. They put an inch and a half of pavent on top of dirt and expect it to last more than six months. Naturally, they replace large sections of the roadwork multiple times a year. Anchorage used to have much better roads than they do now, they used a harder gravel in the asphalt, but they never

[quote] In which case it's just a matter of a quick resurfacing every five to ten years[/quote] I'm not thinking Anchorage. I'm thinking Seward and Talkeetna. There they have to resurface the roads every YEAR.

I won't go into stock tips (wrong forum). However, my point is that Carnival (the *PARENT* company of Costa Cruise Lines) offers a flat $100 ship onboard credit to cruisers who are also stockholders. You have to own at least 100 shares. So if the stock was $1, it's like you'd own it for free. The stock is nowhere near $1 a share, but still it tanked. It's a good time to buy the stock to get the credit. And since it's the

Potholes are most definitely caused by weather, although cars might possibly exacerbate or speed up the breakdown process. I was up in Alaska where no one ever drove the roads, but the weather was crazy. The potholes were nuts. No wonder they have to fly everywhere in Alaska.

I've had it on my mind to buy Carnival stock to get free on-board credit for quite some time now. I just happened to act when the disaster struck. It's not a day-trade for me, though--I intend to hold it and cruise a few times. You know, if you think about it: $3000 up-front investment, cruise 3 times, $100 ship onboard credit 3 times, on cruises you were going to cruise anyway...that's a 10% return on your money right there.

If the company gave the captain orders to sail too close, then they got what was coming to them. That's a $6 billion liner sitting on its side. I hate to say it, but I'm profiting from the disaster. Carnival Cruise Lines stock plummeted to $30 on the news, and I bought 100 shares just because Carnival gives free on-board money to any stockholder who also sails on a cruise. The stock has already bounced up $1.50 since then. </

One thing that makes me not feel so bad about the guy getting off on illegally-introduced evidence is, our more libertarian types in the USA don't even think drugs should be illegal in the first place. Granted, I'm not one of those people (this is probably the one area where I diverge from the libertarian camp), and drug legalization tends to apply more toward marijuana--not cocaine. This case was cocaine. But still...a criminal going free on charges that

This looked like totally the kind of thread DrJBHL would post, so I thought I would post this one. http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/23/justice/scotus-gps-tracking/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 Although the guy in this court case was guilty, the precedent the Supreme Court would have set in convicting him would have been very disturbing. In the end, the Supreme court ruled unanimously that the p

What is equal? Is a man equal to a woman? IS a man a woman?? I mean that's what equal means, right? Is Michael Jordan equal to Carrie Underwood? Michael Jordan can't sing, and Carrie Underwood can't play basketball. Every living thing is unique. Different color skin, different talents, different sizes. And dare I say some have more talent than others. Some have more social standing than

That's deism. Some of America's founding fathers were deist. It's the belief that God created the universe then just stepped away. I'm not deist; in fact, I think most Christians regard deists as non-Christians to an extent (similar to Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses...or how Protestants/Catholics view each other). However, that does not mean that God absolutely micromanages every aspect of everything that occurs. He st

Big Bang and Creationist belief are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Maybe you've seen people wearing the T-shirts: "I believe in the Big Bang. God spoke and BANG, there it was." If the universe truly came to be that way and the timeline was off--even way off--we wouldn't discount the theory altogether. Let's take the extreme: say the universe exploded and came to be in 7 days' time--not billions and billions of yea

Yeah, by cheating I mean all the bonuses. More often than not I played on suicidal, and the game was all about how to string the AI along and play his own bonuses against him. The AI did not really get smarter; it just got a lot of bonuses to keep it challenging. I believe they did dumb down the AI way down at the Beginner and Fool difficulty levels, but at that point the AI's so effete you're really playing against the clock and not the AI.

I'm Christian and I lean toward pro-choice myself. Exact reasons as Chasbo just cited. And believe me, on the Christian boards I take flak for it. I've been banned before from the Christians-only section of a board because I support pro-choice (evidently that makes me non-Christian...). The government needs to stay out of family business. And you can't just pick-and-choose when the government steps in and when they don't. Un

[quote]Fair enough, I just thought it would be more like Galciv where for the most part the AI just got smarter. I guess I'll give it another shot on normal.[/quote] Uh, the AI did not get smarter in Galciv. The AI cheated, big-time.

[quote]The Gaming community are a loyal bunch, but if you do the wrong thing by them ... hell has no fury like a gamer scorned[/quote] There is probably truth to that. When I read the story about Infogrames suing the kid who modded Civilization and then showed them what he did, I was pretty angry. I boycotted Infogrames after that. Civ IV seems to be a different publisher, so I got back in after that. I have no problem with Electronic Art

[quote] Genesis 6:6 The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. <div id="stwrapper" class="stwrapper" style="left: -999px; top:

Yeah. And I readily admit the government doesn't exactly honor the right to assemble, either. The number of incidents of police ordering protesters to disperse is disturbing. Yet it only illustrates the point further.