I think they mean the opposite end of the spectrum as well. Those who think they are fat, even though they wear a size 0 dress. The ones that have to burn off the calories from a banana.
Speaking of UI design, I just with that Google Maps did the one thing I do request of it: Show the English names.
I understand that hundreds of villages in China may not have English-translatable names, but the Chinese characters certainly do have English-character translations. But when I am looking at Europe and every village is in the local language, I wonder why there is the option to choose English if it doesn't show the names in English.
Good deduction. I was in the Marine Corps, stationed at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kaneohe, Hawaii. Nice place to be stationed.
I usually use the generic term "the military" because too many people, veterans and non-veterans alike, have pre-conceived notions of each branch. I simply didn't want it to detract from the story. It's also shorter to type.:^)
Sorry to burst your bubble, but when someone has to pick up cigarette butts from a barracks full of smokers who are such pigs that they throw the butts on the ground, the social convention of not ratting out your fellow men eventually disappears. Especially since only about one fourth to one third were smokers, so most of the ones picking up the butts were non-smokers.
We aren't talking about having each others' backs in combat. We are talking about having to pick up others' biological waste. Those who put is there should pick it up.
I was in the military back in the 1990s. Each day, two guys would be assigned as the "barracks NCOs". (NCO: Non-Commisioned Officer, enlisted person of corporal or above) They were there to ensure nothing bad happened without it being written down in a log book. Ok, ok, sometimes they prevented bad stuff from happening to begin with.
One day, I had the barracks NCO duty. It was on a Thursday, which was cleaning day for Friday's inspections. One duty was having a work detail clean the yard around the building, and the common areas in the 4-story building. Usually this was having 15-20 guys walk around the building picking up trash, which was mostly cigarette butts, and 8-10 guys cleaning the TV lounges, walk ways, and laundry rooms. So that would be 2 or 3 guys per floor.
Anyway, on my day I asked the work detail a simple question: Who here smokes?
No one raised their hand. I asked again, and again. Finally I said "OK. Nonsmokers, point to the smokers." Hands went up pointing out the 7 or 8 smokers. So only the smokers walked around the barracks that day, picking up all those cigarette butts, and the other guys were ecstatic because they didn't have to touch those nasty things, and they had a lot more help cleaning the common areas.
Those negative things weren't there before the shop unionized, were there after the shop unionized, and certainly disappeared after the shop kicked out the union. Seems to be something inherently having to do with a union.
Next up: "Tesla paves new parking lot with asphalt rather than concrete: what's wrong with the stability of the ground at the Gigafactory? Will the foundation collapse and the factory explode in a column of flame that destroys a passing jetliner carrying World's Cutest Child contestants and boxes of extra-snuggly puppies? Stay tuned!"
My god! I hadn't even thought about that possibility! How horrible of Mr Tesla to do that to puppies! That's it, I'm not buying anymore Tesla cars this year!
I'm not sure why you think Kim Jong Un cares about Puerto Rico, and I didn't know Hillary called him a moron, but Trump sure did kick him in the nuts, eh?
I did vote Green Party, twice, and I voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Just because I vote for a party doesn't mean I agree with everything they want. Please notice that I didn't make a judgment call on those "communist leanings"*. And, yes, the Green Party has a lot of communism in their planks. That doesn't mean they would be able to implement them. Congress would still be controlled by the Dems and Reps, after all.
My sig used to say that we should have a coalition of Green and Libertarian parties. With Green choosing the President and Libertarian choosing the Vice President, and then each choosing half of the Department heads. Each party has valid concerns, and valid arguments for what they would want to accomplish. I don't necessarily agree with most of them, but would be happy with either taking power away from the two main parties who seem to be two sides of the same corrupt coin.
*As for myself, I was raised on a farm that was nearly the communist dream. The motto we lived by was "If you don't work, you don't eat." We grew well over half the food we ate, mainly chickens, eggs, vegetables, and some fruits . We picked most of the fruits we ate from local orchards, like apples and peaches. We canned between one and two thousand jars of those vegetables and fruits, made a couple dozen pails of pickles, and filled our freezer with homemade jam and our own chickens. The main food we bought at the store was meat, flour, milk, bread, and peanut butter.
Trust me, I have no problem with 'real' communism. I just don't think many others have a clue what it means, or how hard it is.
Sorry to have to inform you of your stupidity in public like this, but you are stupid and are showing it in public.
Read my sig. I am no more a Trumpite than you are. I never supported him or voted for him. I didn't vote for any Republican in the last two election cycles, and voted for Dr. Jill Stein in the last two presidential elections, and Barack Obama before that. I have voted for the candidate I wanted to win, not the party they belonged to.
I am simply not in thrall of President Obama or his hoped for successor Hillary. He was inept in everything beyond community organizing, and she was corrupt in everything beyond breathing. It isn't only people on the right who recognize this.
The problem with the Democrat party is that every time their Communist leanings reach the light of day, the majority of Americans reject them. The other communists learn to temper their leftism with something their voters can stand.
Considering the submission/article states that "In 2016, after more than 10 years of examining the highly concentrated Business Data Services market, the FCC was poised to rein in anti-competitive pricing", this sounds like another Obama administration failure being blamed on the Trump administration. Maybe President Obama should have waved his pen over this too.
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I think they mean the opposite end of the spectrum as well. Those who think they are fat, even though they wear a size 0 dress. The ones that have to burn off the calories from a banana.
Speaking of UI design, I just with that Google Maps did the one thing I do request of it: Show the English names.
I understand that hundreds of villages in China may not have English-translatable names, but the Chinese characters certainly do have English-character translations. But when I am looking at Europe and every village is in the local language, I wonder why there is the option to choose English if it doesn't show the names in English.
Why are they calling satellite and cable TV "traditional"? Seems like free, over-the-air broadcast is traditional TV.
You thought cable was too expensive??
It is cheaper to keep her, in the basement.
C'mon, we all know that's what you meant.
Good deduction. I was in the Marine Corps, stationed at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kaneohe, Hawaii. Nice place to be stationed.
I usually use the generic term "the military" because too many people, veterans and non-veterans alike, have pre-conceived notions of each branch. I simply didn't want it to detract from the story. It's also shorter to type. :^)
Sorry to burst your bubble, but when someone has to pick up cigarette butts from a barracks full of smokers who are such pigs that they throw the butts on the ground, the social convention of not ratting out your fellow men eventually disappears. Especially since only about one fourth to one third were smokers, so most of the ones picking up the butts were non-smokers.
We aren't talking about having each others' backs in combat. We are talking about having to pick up others' biological waste. Those who put is there should pick it up.
I was in the military back in the 1990s. Each day, two guys would be assigned as the "barracks NCOs". (NCO: Non-Commisioned Officer, enlisted person of corporal or above) They were there to ensure nothing bad happened without it being written down in a log book. Ok, ok, sometimes they prevented bad stuff from happening to begin with.
One day, I had the barracks NCO duty. It was on a Thursday, which was cleaning day for Friday's inspections. One duty was having a work detail clean the yard around the building, and the common areas in the 4-story building. Usually this was having 15-20 guys walk around the building picking up trash, which was mostly cigarette butts, and 8-10 guys cleaning the TV lounges, walk ways, and laundry rooms. So that would be 2 or 3 guys per floor.
Anyway, on my day I asked the work detail a simple question: Who here smokes?
No one raised their hand. I asked again, and again. Finally I said "OK. Nonsmokers, point to the smokers." Hands went up pointing out the 7 or 8 smokers. So only the smokers walked around the barracks that day, picking up all those cigarette butts, and the other guys were ecstatic because they didn't have to touch those nasty things, and they had a lot more help cleaning the common areas.
My wife stubbed her toe on her chair this week. Or so she claimed.
I knew it! You're sleeping with her.
They get seed when they deposit overhead cleavage shots in the wifi bin.
You mean, "Prepare to die"? That escalated fast.
I lolled.
Part of me thinks this is gimmicky and stupid.
The rest of me wants to work in one, or look into converting my home office into a tree house, complete with a rope ladder and a secret password.
And a big "No Homers" sign on the front.
I was thinking ARA Services, but couldn't think of the tech company to match.
Those negative things weren't there before the shop unionized, were there after the shop unionized, and certainly disappeared after the shop kicked out the union. Seems to be something inherently having to do with a union.
Do you know what the term "tone deaf" means?
Next up: "Tesla paves new parking lot with asphalt rather than concrete: what's wrong with the stability of the ground at the Gigafactory? Will the foundation collapse and the factory explode in a column of flame that destroys a passing jetliner carrying World's Cutest Child contestants and boxes of extra-snuggly puppies? Stay tuned!"
My god! I hadn't even thought about that possibility! How horrible of Mr Tesla to do that to puppies! That's it, I'm not buying anymore Tesla cars this year!
How soon before someone gets fired for mentioning "getting wood"? Or just plain ol' hijinks in the back of the "wood shed"?
Did I mention the rest of the world?
America pretty much started spread out. Small villages surrounded by farms. Surrounded by forests. Surrounded by water.
I'm not sure why you think Kim Jong Un cares about Puerto Rico, and I didn't know Hillary called him a moron, but Trump sure did kick him in the nuts, eh?
Another AC who can't read sigs. You are so sad, so sad. Maybe when you finish school, you'll learn what working for a living means.
I did vote Green Party, twice, and I voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Just because I vote for a party doesn't mean I agree with everything they want. Please notice that I didn't make a judgment call on those "communist leanings"*. And, yes, the Green Party has a lot of communism in their planks. That doesn't mean they would be able to implement them. Congress would still be controlled by the Dems and Reps, after all.
My sig used to say that we should have a coalition of Green and Libertarian parties. With Green choosing the President and Libertarian choosing the Vice President, and then each choosing half of the Department heads. Each party has valid concerns, and valid arguments for what they would want to accomplish. I don't necessarily agree with most of them, but would be happy with either taking power away from the two main parties who seem to be two sides of the same corrupt coin.
*As for myself, I was raised on a farm that was nearly the communist dream. The motto we lived by was "If you don't work, you don't eat." We grew well over half the food we ate, mainly chickens, eggs, vegetables, and some fruits . We picked most of the fruits we ate from local orchards, like apples and peaches. We canned between one and two thousand jars of those vegetables and fruits, made a couple dozen pails of pickles, and filled our freezer with homemade jam and our own chickens. The main food we bought at the store was meat, flour, milk, bread, and peanut butter.
Trust me, I have no problem with 'real' communism. I just don't think many others have a clue what it means, or how hard it is.
Sorry to have to inform you of your stupidity in public like this, but you are stupid and are showing it in public.
Read my sig. I am no more a Trumpite than you are. I never supported him or voted for him. I didn't vote for any Republican in the last two election cycles, and voted for Dr. Jill Stein in the last two presidential elections, and Barack Obama before that. I have voted for the candidate I wanted to win, not the party they belonged to.
I am simply not in thrall of President Obama or his hoped for successor Hillary. He was inept in everything beyond community organizing, and she was corrupt in everything beyond breathing. It isn't only people on the right who recognize this.
The problem with the Democrat party is that every time their Communist leanings reach the light of day, the majority of Americans reject them. The other communists learn to temper their leftism with something their voters can stand.
Considering the submission/article states that "In 2016, after more than 10 years of examining the highly concentrated Business Data Services market, the FCC was poised to rein in anti-competitive pricing", this sounds like another Obama administration failure being blamed on the Trump administration. Maybe President Obama should have waved his pen over this too.
Thanks for the reply. It just seemed strange that that particular set of possessions was what someone had.