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It *is* unrealistic to expect the automakers to have a whole line of what we want when we want it when we're talking about a completely different power source. Where we can point fingers is that they waited too long to invest in retooling. They were greedy and wanted to squeeze the last bit of profit from the old system, the same way big oil doesn't want to have to start building a bunch of domestic refineries. This is a time of high profit for those who have don't feel they have to invest in the future. This is what bugs me most about bailing them out. They get to have their cake and eat it too.

Are there any brothels on Earth or in London?

Your average fruit flavored yogurt has just over 20 grams of sugar per 112 gram serving. You're either exaggerating a bit or you're eating 9000 grams of yogurt and over 1500 grams of sugar every day. Sugar isn't a dietary requirement so there's no real min/max numbers, but I believe you're like a whole order of magnitude overboard on your sugar intake. Now you're making *me* feel panicky.

If you're really eating that much yogurt you should try more variety. Too much of anything can have deleterious effects on all your systems.

RAJESHKUMAR110, for a 35 year old with a BSc, you are asking a lot of questions that sound like high school homework. Many of these questions are easily answered with a simple Google search. These forums are for *discussion* of scientific topics. We have a Homework Help section for students. Please use that if other sources like Wikipedia can't help you. And when you wish to discuss science, please feel free to open threads for that purpose.

*shudder* Bet he'd rather spend a month at Guantanamo. It doesn't get much friendlier than the Teletubbies!

I don't like abridging any freedom of speech. How about wearing a Teletubbies avatar for a month?

Actually, I think it's "proctologicalizing" *. From the most secretive presidential administration the US has ever had, these are the things we know about. If we want the executive branch to mean something, it can't stand above the law. * treating a rectal disorder.

*Appallingly* low. *Appealing* is a good thing. You shouldn't judge all Czech psychologists by the quality of one. If you can visit someone else, you should. YT2095 won't tell you what he did, but I took a picture: :D :D Sorry, but the only people I've known who had panic attacks were non-violent, unless something got in their way. I've never known them to exhibit aggression except in those instances where someone was trying to stop them from leaving. One guy I knew just needed to get in his car and drive to the nearest fire station, where he knew people with emergency medical training were available. More often than not, he would calm down after 15 minutes or so once he'd gotten to one of his "havens". There were only a few times when he actually had to go inside and ask for help. He had a map of the city in his car with every fire station marked in red.

Report to the animal testing lab first thing in the morning.

I don't care about persecuting Bush, but I don't like the precedent it sets if you let anyone in any administration get away with corrupt activity. It just makes it easier for the next administration to say, "Can *we* get away with it since Cheney did? Yes we can!"

Slipperier than letting politicians get away with criminal behavior?

Sorry albertchong1999, but your logic is faulty. There are more possibilities than the two you list, and this is not the forum to discuss "God created us". There are tons of those but this is not one of them. Please use the Search function if you want to join a discussion about aliens creating human life. Thread closed.

http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=4245 Didn't read the thread, just used our handy-dandy Search function.

Oh, I get it! You + maths = NOT! Welcome.

I was unaware of any "permanent federal jobs" besides a Supreme Court appointment. I've never had a civil service job. You mean they can't be fired for any reason? Are these jobs being created for them? If not, how are they suddenly available for these new appointees? I can understand wanting job security, and I realize that some programs need an even hand at the tiller guiding them through long-range purposes. You don't want good people being replaced every four years because of politics, but if you have positions within the federal government that can't be replaced for any reason, you sure as hell should have more accountability and transparency for the appointment process, especially at high levels. At this point, he's only considering it. I think it would indeed be laudable, and I will laud him for it if he does it. It's interesting that it's close to Hawaii, and that the claim will give us jurisdiction all the way down to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. I believe that's where Haliburton is going to be building that supersecret underwater sub base with the trillion dollars the Pentagon misplaced.

You're just looking at it from your own perspective, and you admit that your perception of what the auto execs did was insulting. I'm just taking that to the national level as a *public* perception that I'll bet the majority share. I don't really care that you're upset. The fact that it bugs me to the core isn't particularly relevant either. But, again, when you're a CEO of a major auto manufacturer, an industry that is driven by how people perceive your products (oooooh, isn't this year's model enough to make you want to trade in last year's model?), you have to be more concerned about what the public thinks. And if you've driven your company to bankruptcy (which may not be true but is, again, what the public is thinking), then you shouldn't flaunt your wealth when you ask the taxpayers to give you money. I never suggested that appearances were the *primary* concern in all of this. I can understand your desire to have them not matter, but you'll have to settle for appearances taking a back seat position in this instance. I doubt you can eradicate public perception as a factor in any dealings with the public. Bottom line, spending $20K instead of $3k to get to your loan appointment is just plain bad business, and how that is perceived by the loan officer *is* valid, no matter how much you wish it wasn't. It may not be responsible for your loan being denied but it certainly makes the bank wonder if you're good for it.

Imagine: November 2000, either a few thousand more votes or a recount and now Gore is president. Gore reacts to 9/11 instead of Bush. The world reacts to Gore's reaction. The 2004 election then becomes Gore vs maybe McCain. If Hussein is still in Iraq then Al Qaeda isn't. Sorry, sleep-typing while I dream....

Remember where they were going? Washington DC, to speak to Congress about a bailout using taxpayer money. When you engage in politics with politicians in Politicianville, appearances become more important. Appearances affect perceptions. Think about that. I'm not sure why that would be relevant to this situation. Maybe if the CEO was trying to lobby Congress to ban gay marriages as he held hands with his gay lover while seated before the committee, I would. I would probably think that was a boneheaded move that would affect public perception adversely. That's exactly what it did for Focus on Family's Ted Haggard when it came out that he was doing drugs with a male prostitute while championing the far Christian right. Ignoring public perceptions when you're trying to get the public to give you money is also anti-survival. Actually, I think you would have given a grudging nod that they made the effort. Especially when they can argue that their contracts call for this type of transportation for security reasons. They would have been overriding security concerns and at least trying to save some money, and I think the public would have grinned a bit at the thought of Ford giving GM and Chrysler a lift. See, if they were *thinking*, they could have had an advantage, however small. I'm not in the mood to be *that* judgmental just yet. As you imply, there may be times it's necessary, just not in this instance and someone at that level should have realized it. Out of touch, brain-dead, sloppy thinking from captains of industry.

You're assuming they'd be taking other calls and openly working on other business on a flight that gives them time together to strategize before their meeting with Congress? You think less of their business acumen than I do. My objection is not over execs flying in private jets. My objection is to the insane public relations gaff of the big three auto execs flying their separate jets to DC to ask the taxpayers to bail them out of their financial dilemma. As Rep. Ackerman put it, it's like getting in line at the soup kitchen in your tuxedo.

Oh, so that's the impression they should be giving the American people? That this bailout is just business as usual in the high end? They should have at least jet-pooled together. I wouldn't have expected them to take a commercial flight, like the UAW guy.

Wow, auto-cranio-rectal-insertion. Could the auto execs BE any more clueless?

Chicken and fruit. Mmmmmm.

This is completely false. Please don't interject religious angles into physics threads.

Realtor: And out back is the garden. As you can see, getting a healthy crop of weed is no problem in this climate. Husband: What do you think, honey? Wife: (shakes head) Is that the shed? We'll need to remodel most of this. I mean, who uses tiles on their potting tables anymore? Maybe granite, or Corian. If you want some decent bud, we need to put some effort into fixing this place up.