Its more like marketing. BTW the only MP3 player I ever bought was from Creative Labs and at least their bundled headphones weren't a complete POS. I plugged it in and i looked just like any other USB pen and I can drag and drop MP3 files into it easily. Much better than having to use iTunes.
Two words: smart playlists. I can and do have iTunes populate my iPod based on metadata--play count, last played date, genre, personal rating, whatever. I haven't had to drag and drop anything in over a decade.
I would love a true solar watch that looks good and will last forever. Screw all that smart stuff.
Check out the 'Eco-Drive' models from Citizen. There are some beautiful solar models, and even a few that will synchronize with the atomic clock broadcasts, so you never have to touch anything (like for Daylight Savings Time, 30-day months, leap days).
I don't know what kind of 'canine professional' you are, but it's clearly not in the area of veterinary science. Yes, it's true that mutts don't 'lose' bad genes, but they have DIFFERENT bad genes than pure-breds do. The probability of expression of recessive traits is reduced drastically through hybridization. It's basic Mendelian inheritance. If both 'pure bred' parents carry an autosomal recessive disorder, the probability of expression in the offspring is 1/4, and the probability of the offspring also being carriers to the next generation is 1/2. If one of the parents is without the allele (different line or a 'mutt'), then the chance of expression is zero, with a 1/4 chance of the offspring being a carrier. Just look at human equivalents like cystic fibrosis or sickle-cell disease.
The problem with the canine industry is that people continue to breed dogs that are carriers of recessive disorders endemic to their breeds. It appears that the worst abuses--breeding of dogs actually afflicted with the diseases--has gone down, but your observation of a 90% 'problem dog,' medically, does just not line up with what veterinarians have told me and what I have observed in my 40 years of owning and loving dogs. I have NEVER seen a mutt with tear staining or cherry eye, and yet both are extremely common in the pedigreed animals I've encountered.
2.) My dog isn't from a puppy mill; she's from a reputable breeder
There's your problem. Get a shelter mutt. They are healthier, more easygoing, and you can feel like you're contributing to the solution, not the problem. Says the former owner of a cocker spaniel from a "reputable breeder" that developed cataracts at three years old.
I just don't see your system working. If I have a stand-alone solar array, and I charge my car with it using none of your resources -- on what basis do you think you can tax me? Because you feel entitled to it?
Road usage--wear and tear on the surfaces, lights and signage. That's rolled into a gasoline tax now. You expect to get it for free if you don't use gas?
Most people I know who have a Mac Book or a Mac Book Pro have it nearly since a decade and did not buy a new one (well, they don't play games on them, so that might be one reason).
Well, not quite. The first MacBooks came out in February 2006, so they're only going on eight years old. However, my main iron is a Powerbook G4 that *is* 10 years old, and it runs just fine for everything I want. I'm just very lucky that the very last version of the OS that I can run is the very FIRST version compatible with iOS6, and for which Adobe released their DNG translation software for my camera's RAW files. The Powerbook I had before this one lasted 12 years, and the part that failed was the ribbon cable to the display. I kept using it with lines through the screen until I could no longer sync my iPod Touch or iPhone.
When a government is corrupt, dishonest, and incompetent, then a whistleblower and a spy are essentially the same thing, as they threaten the positions and livelihoods of the corrupt, dishonest, and incompetent politicians and bureaucrats who comprise it.
No--people are using the word incorrectly. Technically, a whistleblower goes to the Inspector General of the Agency in question (or possibly a Congressional oversight committee) to report the issue. Manning & Snowden are "leakers," which, yes, is the same as a spy in the eyes of the Government
>What's special about Norco that they get their very own law in the vehicle code? Are their horses especially fragile?
It's HorseTown, USA! I would guess that the state legislator representing the region was looking out for the livelihood of his or her constituents. Like a good legislator should.
In which case, why isn't she denying that the device was in use? Seems like that would be a good element to her defense...
that was precisely her defense.
if you're young and listen to recent music, then owning is not that expensive
if you're older than dirt like myself and want to listen to lots of music from the last 40 years or longer than renting is a lot cheaper. add to this the fact that there is so much music to listen to that there is no sense in buying even single songs you might listen to a few times and then go on to something else
I don't get this logic. I'm older, but I *was* young once. When I was young, I bought my music because that was the only way to gear what I wanted to listen to. The only "streaming" service was FM radio. Now that I'm older, I already own it all, and I certainly don't need streaming (I listen to Pandora and TuneIn at Christmastime). the only way this statement makes sense is if you're older, and you were too cheap to buy LPs and CDs when you were under 30.
WTF do you need to ask questions that are really none of your business?
Because if the OP can afford a 4,000 sq ft house, he can certainly afford a professional consultant to help with this "problem," and not try to sponge free advice here.
If you have a Gmail account, you have a Google+ account. I don't know about old YouTube accounts.
I was able to keep mine separate until I decided to watch a pay-per-view movie on YouTube, then I needed a Google Play account (which, of course, is tied to gmail and G+).
Perfection is acheived only on the point of collapse. - C. N. Parkinson
