If you really are a fan of the Hobbit (the book) I strongly urge you *not* to see the 2nd movie, and if you did, you're most certainly not going to see the third - but that time it'll not be on my advice, you'll get to that conclusion all by yourself.
What a nightmare this movie was...
'Cause, uh, it's a sports car designed for racing?
But it's being sold through normal retail channels as a street-legal road car. As such, drivers have a right to expect that it will meet the basic safety standards that you'd see in other cars.
What happened to using your brains in order to think about what you're buying?
So you ask me to name one, and yet you've already come up with 3. So you're asking me for a forth. To what point when you've already come up with 3. You've already accespted that the category of things that are best done by government exists. You're just wanting to quibble about which items belong in the set.
Indeed, there are things that I think are best done by the government. They probably represent less than 10% of the actual government spending hence the ire at the 90% of the budget which could be drastically reduced.
And "just fine" isn't good enough. "As good or better than the government" is the bar.
Roads is an obvious one. Sure, there is the odd private road in most countries, but that's cherry picking the profitable routes. Private enterprise never provides a comprehensive road system like a government.
2/3rd of the roads in sweden are private. That's not what I call the "odd private road" by any measure. That's mostly small rural roads, not the most profitable kind where you can put a toll. And it works fine. I really don't see the need for the government here.
Welfare is another.
In many countries, public healthcare is only providing the absolute minimum, and things work fine. Sure, you can carpet-bomb the field and make everything public, but that leads to a waste of resource, and most countries cannot afford it - they get indebted more and more and while every country is in this situation everybody agrees that it is not sustainable.
Schools is another. Again, a few private schools doesn't cut it - that's cherry picking the offspring of the richest few. Private enterprise doesn't ever provide a comprehensive education system.
There are many more.
in the Netherlands, 2/3rd of schools are run independently. Granted, they are mostly government funded, but the money comes from somewhere anyways. Most revenue from the government coming from VAT, everyone pays for it, including the poor. The point is that the government doesn't need to handle the education, subsiding it (partially) is more than enough.
The global point is that in general, a field taken over by the government removes incentive by removing competition, and ends up costing much more for everyone. In general, except for the fields I cited, public money well spent is public money that A) the government has and B) that will significantly improve the field it is spent into. More often than not, none of these conditions are met, so the government shouldn't do them.
And if horses were cows, they'd not be very good milkers.
It's a government's job to provide many things that citizens need, but that wouldn't be done well by private enterprise. Including those things that are not profitable.
Name one and I'll find a country in which it works just fine by private enterprises, save police, military and maybe fire fighting but I can't see why it wouldn't work.
On one hand, we should be concentrating our resources on people who has not broken the law to the extent that we need to imprison them in order to protect society.
On the other hand, most of the people we put in prison are not a danger to society at all and have simply run afoul of our Jerusalem Jesuit Judicial system.
They are a danger to the Jerusalem Jesuit society my good man.
Does it have a crossfade plugin like Winamp does out of the box?
I use Winamp exclusively when I throw parties at home for the unique reason it has a nice crossfade plugin that allows music transition without any awkward silence in the middle.
I'm sure there are plenty of other players that do just that out there, but Winamp has worked great for me so far so I haven't looked for an alternative.
If the system is automated, how does the FB API knows there's a valid subpoena behind the request?
Flamebait? You US dudes live in a pretty fucked up country, that's for sure.
Teaching creationism in school is perfectly fine in my view, but not in a science class, in a fantasy class, along with Harry Potter, Star Trek, Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica.
I've upgraded all my iOS devices, everyone I know that own one has also upgraded. No issue so far. Your pick.
May the force be with us all...
Now it checks that it's either the owner of the number or an NSA employee.
What difference does it make? If nobody can sense it, is reality some kind of absolute we should give the first damn about? If we can see it, does it exist in any kind of meaningful sense? How could you tell?
Not an option on Win8.x tablets, unfortunately - IE is, surpringly enough, the only usable touch browser right now. Firefox and Chrome kinda suck balls in Metro mode...
Just like every other app not built for a touch interface, so pretty much all apps on a windows tablet except IE of course.
The so-called "review" on that hotfuckware site is worse than useless, especially their graphic performance page
On one graph they showed Apple's iPhone 5s and iPhone 5 dominating all others, by a very long shot - by almost 3 times the speed of LG's G2 - but they NEVER explain in what way they obtained that number
The whole review is a piece of shit, as far as I am concern
Can't reconcile yourself with the fact that Apple produces better products?
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