It's funny, no one had an issue when a white guy replaced a white guy. When Bucky became Cap, no one was screaming. But when Sam Wilson does (the guy who actually makes the most sense) suddenly it is because of diversity. When white guy after white guy became Batman, no one complained. When white guy after white guy became the Flash, no one cared. When another white guy became Ant Man, no one cared. When Venom went from white guy to white guy, no one cared. But the minute it is someone other than another white guy, then suddenly it is only about diversity and it is a tragedy of epic proportions.
Seriously dude - You are as racist as the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan He hates black people and you hate white people.
Oh I forgot, you are a card carrying sexist bigot as well. You are the one who is fixated on race and color. That is the prime indicator of bigotry. Can't we mod this bigot to minus 1 already?
it's a small group of women running out of community colleges. It's blown out of proportion by right wing media out to make a boogie man (boogie woman?) to distract you from economic issues like wages declining as productivity raises.
My career was at one of the biggest Universities in the US, and while blown out of proportion to some extent, it isn't as much as you might think.
The females who stayed could look forward to what we called the yearly promotion plan, and the rule was that anything that any woman considered sexual harassment was officially sexual harassment.
Universities are run by their football departments and Gender studies departments. The Football because it brings in money, and the Gender studies department because they never stop complaining. We're already heading toward 70 percent female 30 percent male, and it still isn't enough.
You expand a market by bringing in new people. NOT by kicking your existing market out and trying to replace it with a market that doesn't yet exist. Comics tried the latter. It's failing miserably.
And how! This is what happens when entertainment industries take their marching orders from people who have ideology that can't handle anything but their own narrow views. It never works. And in this case, is tantmount to suicide.
I have an idea. Maybe if we worked from a expansion outlook. There are a lot of popular female characters from a long time ago. I don't know of any gay characters, although there were rumors about Robin and Batman. We don't have to have a gay Green Lantern, or a Female Superman.
Bring out some new characters, maybe?
Let's have a seat and Old Uncle Ol will tell everyone soem stuff that I think traditional fans know already.
Those teenagers that read these comics? Hey - they be doin a liddle projection there. Maybe fancyin' themselves as Batman or The Hulk, or Green Lantern. Or even da Joker, or Catwoman.
Now here we got some Kid who thinks Green Lantern is cool, then suddenly Green Lantern comes out of the closet and says he prefers weiners. Oh man, would we have a field day with that poor bastard when me and the gang were kids.
Gay Characters? No problem. Female? Oh fer crissakes, we've had dem fereva. People freakin' love Wonder Woman, and even Catwoman.
But here's da thing. You don't grow yer audience by telling most of them Fuck you! Oh shit - don't tell mom I swore okay? You keep your core audience, and you introduce New Characters! Then maybe that kid that isn't sure of his or her sexuality can become a fan of a character that he or she can project to. And you don't make their gender preferences blatant. These are comics, and If people want to see stuff gender specific, rule 34 does a much better job than mainstream comics can.
After an extremely successful IndieGogo campaign, leftist comic book stores colluded to refuse carrying Jawbreakers, and to intimidate the publisher into pulling out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Something that readers clearly want is being denied to them by the SJW cancer in the industry.
Comic book publishers are facing a growing crisis: Flagging interest from readers and competition from digital entertainment are dragging down sales.
What a surprise that you'd deliberately ignore the elephant in the room.
Well, They are sayingStar Wars Solo Flopped because it had a while male lead. Far left political activists are just as racist, sexist, and can dredge up their own self validating excuses as well as the far right wingnuts can do.
We should demand that a new Wonder Woman movie be made with John Goodman as Wonder Woman.
Okay, let's have some good old fashioned Internet fun. Who's the better Wonder Woman - Gal Gadot or Linda Carter?
My vote is for Linda Carter, who fit the Amazon Woman look better. My wife does too, and she's way too harsh on Gal Gadot. Says that Gadot isn't big enough, and even says Gadot isn't very attractive. I mean she certainly isn't as beautiful as Linda, but she's not that bad.
So I think it is fair to say you don't like Riri. I didn't read the series, so I can't say whether she was a good character or not.But I know there are a lot of diverse characters that are incredible that you are ignoring. The fact she was female and black is all you see (and may or may not be the reason she was as the replacement) but that in no way means she has to be a bad character because of that.
Can you point our exactly where she said she was a bad character because of her skin pigmentation or her sex?
There is racism here, there is sexism here - And it just so happens to be you.
There is no reason the replacement has to always be a white, straight male.
Ah, racism and sexism again. Here's the thing - many characters have been changed. Long before you decided that it was important to get rid of those straight white males you rail on about.
What happens when who the character wants to have sex with gets gratuitously thrown into the story, or 21st century American social politics gets thrown into a story about a faraway galaxy a long long time ago.
There can be tremendous movies about social politics. There can be tremendous television shows and movies where gender identity can be explored. Maybe even comic books. Thelma and Louise was a great movie. Steel Magnolias was decent. I don't want to see an all male cast of Thelma and Louise, Steel Magnolias - and I have no idea how to take a femal Frankenfurter in a remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show! And not many of us want to see an all female Ghostbusters. The sex of the characters had zilch to do with the actual story.
But your argument rationalizes a male Wonder Woman and Cat Woman, and a Female Superman and Male Supergirl.
And whatever the social outlook of the people that you are chasing away from comics and sci-fi, you need to be buying the new socially acceptable comic books, and going to the movies and buying all the toys, because if you don't, the next outfit might not be so inclined to bow to your wishes, after they see that your complaints and their response only put another outfit into bankruptcy court.
Wow - that was a strange post to have marked as a troll. Le't see if I can explain this situation in a manner that won't trigger anyone.
Let us say that a group of people want 21st century politics brought into say, Star Wars movies or comic books.
Let's say that want character's sexual identity to be a focus, perhaps more female and less male characters, Okay, so after discussions, the creators of the movies put people in place that will promote your agenda. This will be a radical shift, and will dismiss what the traditional audience wishes to see, which in these cases is obviously escapist entertainment with a good story line.
So here is the most important part - if people with a political agenda succeed in turning away the traditional customers, then the people with that political agenda must become the new customers. Which is what I believe ITRambo is saying.
We saw a huge fan revolt with Star Wars - Solo. And the weird Disney response was it was the fault of White males. https://www.tigerdroppings.com... Original article was on Forbes - they provide link but Forbes won't let me in.
Aside from the blatant racism (white) and Sexism (males) it was failure to see the forest for the agenda.
Point is - if you want your comic books and sci-fi movies to be politically correct, sensitive to who the characters like to have sex with - and display it - and socially inclusive, making these films about otherworld characters reflect 21st century shortcomings........
You have to go to the movies and You have to buy the comic books, and You have to buy the action figures that the people You kicked off the train used to do. You own it now - so spend that money or you won't own it long.
And seriously, if you feel you have to mark this little bit of good advice as troll, it only indicates that you can't take telling. Support your causes, not just complain.
By using the term "SJW", you have OUTED yourself as someone who has had to deal with annoying, dishonest, power hungry, attention-seeking, hypocritical SJWs.
I think the folks who modded you as a troll did not catch the meaning of your post.
If you let your appliances communicate with anybody but you, you deserve what you get.
If for some incredibly stupid reason you need the company toilets and cameras and other crap connected toa network, build a separate network for them that never connects to teh intertoobz.
It is unlikely that Smartphone RF causes cancer. It's just not ionizing radiation.
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I find the argument that non-ionizing radiation can't cause cancer a bit tired.
Do you find it as tireing as I find people saying I said things that I most very clearly did not say? Just in case you didn't read it in either my post or your reply, I'll post it again. I most clearly stated "It is unlikely that Smartphone RF causes cancer. It's just not ionizing radiation."
Do you know the difference between "unlikely" and "can't"?
I'll cue you in - a person saying something is unlikkely is expressing an opinion. A person saying something can't happen is expressing what they thing is a fact.
Protip - don't turn people who somewhat agree with you into people who dismiss you as a zaelot that anti-vaxxers would be proud of.
In the grownup world between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Everybody in the very Near East (read: Europe) uses SWIFT.
That you have to haul around a scrap of paper with a sum written on it, only to sit on pins and needles nervous as to when they'll finally withsraw the money is, frankly, so Victorian.
Grow up, North American banking system!
You have absolutely no idea at all of what I said.. I live electronically, I carry no cash. I do have a checking account that I almost never use - it's just there if for some reason I do need it. It generates interest and makes me money. I also have a line of credit that I simply write out a check to access. Not my rule - the banks. Never did it though - it's just one more option. Might need a fair sum of money, and with the LOC, the money is in place immediately. My whole point, which some of you folks missed, was that a lot of places don't take checks any more. You saw the word "check" or "checking account", and it triggered you and you respond without paying attention. I was most happy to use my Credit card when the lady said they don't take checks. . We pay it off every month and get 2 percent cash back every year. That's thousands in the bank.
I have every single option that you do, plus one, maybe two more, And if for some reason I needed cash - why I can get that as well. Funny when some folks look at more options as being less options.
Really though - spare me the superiority bullshit - it only shows your insecurity.
How quaint ! What a charming style of yesteryear you have.
What's the name of your country ? Did the UN dig you a well for your village ?
Yeah, we still have a checking account. My better half still uses it, and we have a line of credit that we use that is accessed via check.
And yes Sparky, in the grownup world with large dollar amount transactions, checks are still used. You need to try charging a half million dollars or more on your credit card some time.
This story is basically about a bank closing up a bunch of branches. They easily removed millions of dollars in payroll in the process. Most branches absolutely are not profitable individually. It is only collectively that the institution makes money off branches. As more people go digital, the value to the institution that is added by most branches likely drops.
The world has changed, and the fearful among us find yet another thing to lament. We bought a car yesterday, and when the wife started to write a check, they told us the transaction needed to be either cash or credit card. So just another example of times changing.
For myself, I'm fine with branch closings, as I never use them. I've used an ATM exactly once. The most stupid thievery attracting idea ever. Only time I go into a bank is for meetings with investment counselors
Time moves on, fearful folks.
The fees from things like "insufficient funds" that people pay... those people are idiots. You cant save them. They are bad with money. Full stop.
Our school systems here in America need to start implementing an updated version of home-ec. At least exposing the kids to the idea of responsible financial acumen. There are some folks who are worthless as you note. But altogether too many people are graduating high school with no idea of what money is, and think that a credit card is a gift card. Then in college, they manage to demonstrate that they have no concept of money.
No exposure-response associations were observed for sending text messages and duration of gaming, which produces tiny RF-EMF emissions.
The difference between Near field and far field RF. Far field RF exposure is very minimal, and non-concentrated to boot. Near Field can give you a fair dose of RF. And you're holding the phone right against your ear. Texting is going to be about 2 feet away for most people.
It is unlikely that Smartphone RF causes cancer. It's just not ionizing radiation.
But the idea that sticking your head in the near field for long periods of time will have no effect at all is completely ignoring the physical fact that we treat certain conditions with RF. It's called radiothermy or diathermy or radiotherapy.
Some times for deep heating tissue, radioablation therapy,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiofrequency_ablation some times even as a cosmetic device, as it can cause swelling enough to remove wrinkles. Not the same frequencies, but some countries 4g service is quite close to the frequencies used in microwave ovens.
So while it is not foolish to say Cell Phone radiation doesn't cause cancer, it is really un.likely that all of the frequencies used for cellular service have zero effect when the user's head is held in the near field of the device. That would take a miracle of physics and a miracle that the phone companies choes those frequencies.
For years I have said, no metastic effects, but it appears to make perople stupid. The second part of that was a joke, but perhaps I was correct.
Exactly. There wasn't any mention of testing to see if long-term memory retention is affected. After all, I thought that students took adderall to study for tests.
One could surmise that if working memory is affected, long term memory will be affected as well.
It is interesting that this recent test found different results regarding working memory than a 2015 test did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Granted, the Wikipedia entry reads more like a drug company propaganda piece, taking an amphetamine and elevating it to miracle drug status. Probably to make parents feel good about drugging their young boys to keep them in line.
Which would be contradictory to the rest of the world's not so good experiences with amphetamine drugs.
Back in the day, in college, we had access to various amphetamines. It always followed a predictable course. Take them, cram all night, take the test. Crash. The trick was to not crash before taking the test.
Homie didn't play that. I tried cramming a few times, because it was what you were supposed to do. It really doesn't work. And since I don't sleep much anyway, there was no need for speed.
... it will be different for each group. Ask a vegan.
Yeah, somehow I never get the chance to ask before they start telling me all about it anyway.;)
Oh hell! Please everyone!! That is some bad advice I gave there. Dont ask a vegan! Good catch there theUrk, The stories I could tell about my dealings with vegans on campus, like the one that managed to destroy the group's socializing because of constant interrogation of the managers and the cooks of every restaurant we went to - for an hour lunch, we had to put up with her grilling of the managers for half an hour, then the glares and stardowns of us corpse eating troglodytes. The guys said they weren't going to go out to eat with a person that treated them like the enemy, and the ladies didn't want to upset the woman, so that killed it.
She eventually left. I organized a going away party for her. The day after she left town. The menu was bacon Cheezburgers, and cheezfries. Everyone attended. Everyone had a good time.
Then there was the obnoxious vegan who wasn't quite as bad as the first one, but still demanded to sit in judgement. She was going on one day about how much she loved Jell-O. I took great pleasure in informing her that Jell-O was made from Gelatin, obtained by boiling down bones of animals. She got a little sick. She thought it was made from seaweed.
The one exception was a woman who was a fruitarian. Man talk about a restrictive diet. But she was a sweetheart, and didn't even bother with being superior. Never mentioned it until we noted she was always eating fruit.
You missed the part where NASA calls it flawed. I'll boow out of your pedantry exercise now, you need to call NASA righht away and let them know they are also wrong. Here's the link again - you must have missed it the first time bacause it appears to be the only part of my post you didn't reply on.
No need to ban GMO. Just clearly label it. No one will buy it, and the frankenfarmers will go out of business.
What is the definition of genetically modified?
I can't think of any thing that any one eats that is in it's pure original gene structure.
I suppose the closest we can get would be to subsist on algae. But that isn't very close.
Wheat, corn, soy have all been heavily modified. Some to the point where they cannot survive without human intervention.
You'll go off about gene spicing and microscopic manipulation. Problem is it's just the next step, moving a stage beyond the trial and error seed selection that selects for desirable traits. Both are genetic modification techniques.
Monsanto pulled a dick move with their Roundup Ready products, which only insure the combined problems of low level dosing of humans with herbicide and breeding superweeds.
But the mistake that anti-GM people make is trotting out a negative like Roundup Ready, and applying it to genetic modification performed for positive reasons, like nutrition, palatibility, harvest improvements and other aspects.
Finally, I present to you the Lenape potato. https://boingboing.net/2013/03... a beautiful potato created by genetic modification that people who are against genetic modification permit. A cross between Delta Gold Potatoes and a Peruvian potato, it was a thing of beauty. It was toxic.
What we need the government to start doing is evaluating goods based on their heath impact and how addictive they are and then place a tax on the food that will later be used to pay for the healthcare you'll need from consuming them.
Two problems with that. First is that we are pretty abysmal at determining what is healthy or what is not. The "healthy" eating habits of a few years back of heavy carbohydrate consumption with very low fat turned out to be not so healthy for people. I'm one of those people who have to limit my carb intake. That so called healthy diet is anything but to me. Tried a vegetarian routine, and screwed up my metabolism for over a year.
The second is that as long as there are people there will be people staking claim to what is healthy. And it will be different for each group. Ask a vegan.
Some might be restrictive in one thing or another, some might have a religious restriction, and some might be gastronomical Amish, making some sort of only food sources that were around when I was a child are acceptable eating concept.
Your idea of taxing according to health benefits or detriments just won't insure health.
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Wow, women want you, men want to be like you. Please, tell us more!
It's funny, no one had an issue when a white guy replaced a white guy. When Bucky became Cap, no one was screaming. But when Sam Wilson does (the guy who actually makes the most sense) suddenly it is because of diversity. When white guy after white guy became Batman, no one complained. When white guy after white guy became the Flash, no one cared. When another white guy became Ant Man, no one cared. When Venom went from white guy to white guy, no one cared. But the minute it is someone other than another white guy, then suddenly it is only about diversity and it is a tragedy of epic proportions.
Seriously dude - You are as racist as the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan He hates black people and you hate white people.
Oh I forgot, you are a card carrying sexist bigot as well. You are the one who is fixated on race and color. That is the prime indicator of bigotry. Can't we mod this bigot to minus 1 already?
it's a small group of women running out of community colleges. It's blown out of proportion by right wing media out to make a boogie man (boogie woman?) to distract you from economic issues like wages declining as productivity raises.
My career was at one of the biggest Universities in the US, and while blown out of proportion to some extent, it isn't as much as you might think.
The females who stayed could look forward to what we called the yearly promotion plan, and the rule was that anything that any woman considered sexual harassment was officially sexual harassment.
Universities are run by their football departments and Gender studies departments. The Football because it brings in money, and the Gender studies department because they never stop complaining. We're already heading toward 70 percent female 30 percent male, and it still isn't enough.
You expand a market by bringing in new people. NOT by kicking your existing market out and trying to replace it with a market that doesn't yet exist. Comics tried the latter. It's failing miserably.
And how! This is what happens when entertainment industries take their marching orders from people who have ideology that can't handle anything but their own narrow views. It never works. And in this case, is tantmount to suicide.
I have an idea. Maybe if we worked from a expansion outlook. There are a lot of popular female characters from a long time ago. I don't know of any gay characters, although there were rumors about Robin and Batman. We don't have to have a gay Green Lantern, or a Female Superman.
Bring out some new characters, maybe?
Let's have a seat and Old Uncle Ol will tell everyone soem stuff that I think traditional fans know already.
Those teenagers that read these comics? Hey - they be doin a liddle projection there. Maybe fancyin' themselves as Batman or The Hulk, or Green Lantern. Or even da Joker, or Catwoman.
Now here we got some Kid who thinks Green Lantern is cool, then suddenly Green Lantern comes out of the closet and says he prefers weiners. Oh man, would we have a field day with that poor bastard when me and the gang were kids.
Gay Characters? No problem. Female? Oh fer crissakes, we've had dem fereva. People freakin' love Wonder Woman, and even Catwoman. But here's da thing. You don't grow yer audience by telling most of them Fuck you! Oh shit - don't tell mom I swore okay? You keep your core audience, and you introduce New Characters! Then maybe that kid that isn't sure of his or her sexuality can become a fan of a character that he or she can project to. And you don't make their gender preferences blatant. These are comics, and If people want to see stuff gender specific, rule 34 does a much better job than mainstream comics can.
Who knew?
After an extremely successful IndieGogo campaign, leftist comic book stores colluded to refuse carrying Jawbreakers, and to intimidate the publisher into pulling out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Something that readers clearly want is being denied to them by the SJW cancer in the industry.
Comic book publishers are facing a growing crisis: Flagging interest from readers and competition from digital entertainment are dragging down sales.
What a surprise that you'd deliberately ignore the elephant in the room.
Well, They are sayingStar Wars Solo Flopped because it had a while male lead. Far left political activists are just as racist, sexist, and can dredge up their own self validating excuses as well as the far right wingnuts can do.
You should probably connect the toilet to the tubes unless you want to deal with a very unpleasant mess
So your saying your instinks are telling you they could become outstinks?
Okay, let's have some good old fashioned Internet fun. Who's the better Wonder Woman - Gal Gadot or Linda Carter?
My vote is for Linda Carter, who fit the Amazon Woman look better. My wife does too, and she's way too harsh on Gal Gadot. Says that Gadot isn't big enough, and even says Gadot isn't very attractive. I mean she certainly isn't as beautiful as Linda, but she's not that bad.
Anyhow, Linda or Gal? 2 for Linda so far.
So I think it is fair to say you don't like Riri. I didn't read the series, so I can't say whether she was a good character or not.But I know there are a lot of diverse characters that are incredible that you are ignoring. The fact she was female and black is all you see (and may or may not be the reason she was as the replacement) but that in no way means she has to be a bad character because of that.
Can you point our exactly where she said she was a bad character because of her skin pigmentation or her sex?
There is racism here, there is sexism here - And it just so happens to be you.
There is no reason the replacement has to always be a white, straight male.
Ah, racism and sexism again. Here's the thing - many characters have been changed. Long before you decided that it was important to get rid of those straight white males you rail on about.
What happens when who the character wants to have sex with gets gratuitously thrown into the story, or 21st century American social politics gets thrown into a story about a faraway galaxy a long long time ago.
There can be tremendous movies about social politics. There can be tremendous television shows and movies where gender identity can be explored. Maybe even comic books. Thelma and Louise was a great movie. Steel Magnolias was decent. I don't want to see an all male cast of Thelma and Louise, Steel Magnolias - and I have no idea how to take a femal Frankenfurter in a remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show! And not many of us want to see an all female Ghostbusters. The sex of the characters had zilch to do with the actual story.
But your argument rationalizes a male Wonder Woman and Cat Woman, and a Female Superman and Male Supergirl. And whatever the social outlook of the people that you are chasing away from comics and sci-fi, you need to be buying the new socially acceptable comic books, and going to the movies and buying all the toys, because if you don't, the next outfit might not be so inclined to bow to your wishes, after they see that your complaints and their response only put another outfit into bankruptcy court.
You've already caused the first Star Wars flop.
Let us say that a group of people want 21st century politics brought into say, Star Wars movies or comic books.
Let's say that want character's sexual identity to be a focus, perhaps more female and less male characters, Okay, so after discussions, the creators of the movies put people in place that will promote your agenda. This will be a radical shift, and will dismiss what the traditional audience wishes to see, which in these cases is obviously escapist entertainment with a good story line.
So here is the most important part - if people with a political agenda succeed in turning away the traditional customers, then the people with that political agenda must become the new customers. Which is what I believe ITRambo is saying.
We saw a huge fan revolt with Star Wars - Solo. And the weird Disney response was it was the fault of White males. https://www.tigerdroppings.com... Original article was on Forbes - they provide link but Forbes won't let me in.
Aside from the blatant racism (white) and Sexism (males) it was failure to see the forest for the agenda.
Point is - if you want your comic books and sci-fi movies to be politically correct, sensitive to who the characters like to have sex with - and display it - and socially inclusive, making these films about otherworld characters reflect 21st century shortcomings........
You have to go to the movies and You have to buy the comic books, and You have to buy the action figures that the people You kicked off the train used to do. You own it now - so spend that money or you won't own it long.
And seriously, if you feel you have to mark this little bit of good advice as troll, it only indicates that you can't take telling. Support your causes, not just complain.
By using the term "SJW", you have OUTED yourself as someone who has had to deal with annoying, dishonest, power hungry, attention-seeking, hypocritical SJWs.
I think the folks who modded you as a troll did not catch the meaning of your post.
If you let your appliances communicate with anybody but you, you deserve what you get.
If for some incredibly stupid reason you need the company toilets and cameras and other crap connected toa network, build a separate network for them that never connects to teh intertoobz.
Rule 1. IOT devices are insecure
Rule 2. In the event someone has a secure IOT device read Rule 1.
It is unlikely that Smartphone RF causes cancer. It's just not ionizing radiation.
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I find the argument that non-ionizing radiation can't cause cancer a bit tired.
Do you find it as tireing as I find people saying I said things that I most very clearly did not say? Just in case you didn't read it in either my post or your reply, I'll post it again. I most clearly stated "It is unlikely that Smartphone RF causes cancer. It's just not ionizing radiation." Do you know the difference between "unlikely" and "can't"?
I'll cue you in - a person saying something is unlikkely is expressing an opinion. A person saying something can't happen is expressing what they thing is a fact.
Protip - don't turn people who somewhat agree with you into people who dismiss you as a zaelot that anti-vaxxers would be proud of.
But seriously who knew?
I wonder if old friends that you haven't seen in years and come up and give you a big hug might make you feel good too?
In the grownup world between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Everybody in the very Near East (read: Europe) uses SWIFT. That you have to haul around a scrap of paper with a sum written on it, only to sit on pins and needles nervous as to when they'll finally withsraw the money is, frankly, so Victorian. Grow up, North American banking system!
You have absolutely no idea at all of what I said.. I live electronically, I carry no cash. I do have a checking account that I almost never use - it's just there if for some reason I do need it. It generates interest and makes me money. I also have a line of credit that I simply write out a check to access. Not my rule - the banks. Never did it though - it's just one more option. Might need a fair sum of money, and with the LOC, the money is in place immediately. My whole point, which some of you folks missed, was that a lot of places don't take checks any more. You saw the word "check" or "checking account", and it triggered you and you respond without paying attention. I was most happy to use my Credit card when the lady said they don't take checks. . We pay it off every month and get 2 percent cash back every year. That's thousands in the bank.
I have every single option that you do, plus one, maybe two more, And if for some reason I needed cash - why I can get that as well. Funny when some folks look at more options as being less options.
Really though - spare me the superiority bullshit - it only shows your insecurity.
You still have cheques ???
How quaint ! What a charming style of yesteryear you have.
What's the name of your country ? Did the UN dig you a well for your village ?
Yeah, we still have a checking account. My better half still uses it, and we have a line of credit that we use that is accessed via check.
And yes Sparky, in the grownup world with large dollar amount transactions, checks are still used. You need to try charging a half million dollars or more on your credit card some time.
Funny snark though.
This story is basically about a bank closing up a bunch of branches. They easily removed millions of dollars in payroll in the process. Most branches absolutely are not profitable individually. It is only collectively that the institution makes money off branches. As more people go digital, the value to the institution that is added by most branches likely drops.
The world has changed, and the fearful among us find yet another thing to lament. We bought a car yesterday, and when the wife started to write a check, they told us the transaction needed to be either cash or credit card. So just another example of times changing.
For myself, I'm fine with branch closings, as I never use them. I've used an ATM exactly once. The most stupid thievery attracting idea ever. Only time I go into a bank is for meetings with investment counselors
Time moves on, fearful folks.
The fees from things like "insufficient funds" that people pay... those people are idiots. You cant save them. They are bad with money. Full stop.
Our school systems here in America need to start implementing an updated version of home-ec. At least exposing the kids to the idea of responsible financial acumen. There are some folks who are worthless as you note. But altogether too many people are graduating high school with no idea of what money is, and think that a credit card is a gift card. Then in college, they manage to demonstrate that they have no concept of money.
No exposure-response associations were observed for sending text messages and duration of gaming, which produces tiny RF-EMF emissions.
The difference between Near field and far field RF. Far field RF exposure is very minimal, and non-concentrated to boot. Near Field can give you a fair dose of RF. And you're holding the phone right against your ear. Texting is going to be about 2 feet away for most people.
It is unlikely that Smartphone RF causes cancer. It's just not ionizing radiation.
But the idea that sticking your head in the near field for long periods of time will have no effect at all is completely ignoring the physical fact that we treat certain conditions with RF. It's called radiothermy or diathermy or radiotherapy.
Some times for deep heating tissue, radioablation therapy,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiofrequency_ablation some times even as a cosmetic device, as it can cause swelling enough to remove wrinkles. Not the same frequencies, but some countries 4g service is quite close to the frequencies used in microwave ovens.
So while it is not foolish to say Cell Phone radiation doesn't cause cancer, it is really un.likely that all of the frequencies used for cellular service have zero effect when the user's head is held in the near field of the device. That would take a miracle of physics and a miracle that the phone companies choes those frequencies.
For years I have said, no metastic effects, but it appears to make perople stupid. The second part of that was a joke, but perhaps I was correct.
I'm not sure which is more shocking. That you wrote that FUCKing post or that I read all of that FUCKing post!
Dooood! Cut that adderall dose in half man!
Exactly. There wasn't any mention of testing to see if long-term memory retention is affected. After all, I thought that students took adderall to study for tests.
One could surmise that if working memory is affected, long term memory will be affected as well.
It is interesting that this recent test found different results regarding working memory than a 2015 test did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Granted, the Wikipedia entry reads more like a drug company propaganda piece, taking an amphetamine and elevating it to miracle drug status. Probably to make parents feel good about drugging their young boys to keep them in line.
Which would be contradictory to the rest of the world's not so good experiences with amphetamine drugs.
Back in the day, in college, we had access to various amphetamines. It always followed a predictable course. Take them, cram all night, take the test. Crash. The trick was to not crash before taking the test.
Homie didn't play that. I tried cramming a few times, because it was what you were supposed to do. It really doesn't work. And since I don't sleep much anyway, there was no need for speed.
... it will be different for each group. Ask a vegan.
Yeah, somehow I never get the chance to ask before they start telling me all about it anyway. ;)
Oh hell! Please everyone!! That is some bad advice I gave there. Dont ask a vegan! Good catch there theUrk, The stories I could tell about my dealings with vegans on campus, like the one that managed to destroy the group's socializing because of constant interrogation of the managers and the cooks of every restaurant we went to - for an hour lunch, we had to put up with her grilling of the managers for half an hour, then the glares and stardowns of us corpse eating troglodytes. The guys said they weren't going to go out to eat with a person that treated them like the enemy, and the ladies didn't want to upset the woman, so that killed it.
She eventually left. I organized a going away party for her. The day after she left town. The menu was bacon Cheezburgers, and cheezfries. Everyone attended. Everyone had a good time.
Then there was the obnoxious vegan who wasn't quite as bad as the first one, but still demanded to sit in judgement. She was going on one day about how much she loved Jell-O. I took great pleasure in informing her that Jell-O was made from Gelatin, obtained by boiling down bones of animals. She got a little sick. She thought it was made from seaweed.
The one exception was a woman who was a fruitarian. Man talk about a restrictive diet. But she was a sweetheart, and didn't even bother with being superior. Never mentioned it until we noted she was always eating fruit.
Listen, just shut up and support my bid to end heroin addiction by taxing heroin addicts.
Yikes!
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No need to ban GMO. Just clearly label it. No one will buy it, and the frankenfarmers will go out of business.
What is the definition of genetically modified?
I can't think of any thing that any one eats that is in it's pure original gene structure.
I suppose the closest we can get would be to subsist on algae. But that isn't very close.
Wheat, corn, soy have all been heavily modified. Some to the point where they cannot survive without human intervention.
You'll go off about gene spicing and microscopic manipulation. Problem is it's just the next step, moving a stage beyond the trial and error seed selection that selects for desirable traits. Both are genetic modification techniques.
Monsanto pulled a dick move with their Roundup Ready products, which only insure the combined problems of low level dosing of humans with herbicide and breeding superweeds.
But the mistake that anti-GM people make is trotting out a negative like Roundup Ready, and applying it to genetic modification performed for positive reasons, like nutrition, palatibility, harvest improvements and other aspects.
Finally, I present to you the Lenape potato. https://boingboing.net/2013/03... a beautiful potato created by genetic modification that people who are against genetic modification permit. A cross between Delta Gold Potatoes and a Peruvian potato, it was a thing of beauty. It was toxic.
What we need the government to start doing is evaluating goods based on their heath impact and how addictive they are and then place a tax on the food that will later be used to pay for the healthcare you'll need from consuming them.
Two problems with that. First is that we are pretty abysmal at determining what is healthy or what is not. The "healthy" eating habits of a few years back of heavy carbohydrate consumption with very low fat turned out to be not so healthy for people. I'm one of those people who have to limit my carb intake. That so called healthy diet is anything but to me. Tried a vegetarian routine, and screwed up my metabolism for over a year.
The second is that as long as there are people there will be people staking claim to what is healthy. And it will be different for each group. Ask a vegan.
Some might be restrictive in one thing or another, some might have a religious restriction, and some might be gastronomical Amish, making some sort of only food sources that were around when I was a child are acceptable eating concept.
Your idea of taxing according to health benefits or detriments just won't insure health.