"The reality is, in the vast, vast majority of cases in the USA, good[sic] deserts exist ONLY because they created them and refuse to put an end to them." Who's "they"? It's important to understanding your rant.
"You can go into a store and request items."
And then "it validates you have no fucking clue what you are talking about. Seriously, figure it out." I can't really top that, so I'll let your own words stand.
Now that LulzSec is calling for a PayPal boycott I feel even better about throwing some money at the "humble" indie bundle last night (for as much press as they get they should drop the humble) through PayPal.
"That's not to say "food deserts" don't exist, but we're not talking about the world."
"I knew what it was before you ever fucking mentioned it"
Look it up again (benefit of doubt on the again). Food deserts are an American problem. Take a look at Detroit as a somewhat extreme example. They are/were planning on turning some parts of the city into "farmland" to get fresh produce there. You think they'd do that if grocery stores were there?
"local grocery story" Look up food desert. Poor urban centers don't have grocery stores. Canned food at the corner bodega is all they've got.
"And do note, I didn't even mention living off the land which was considered common even 100 years ago." Pastoralism was a craze with the French aristocracy. They'd dress up like peasants and play live the "ideal" pastoral life.
Subsistence farming sucks. Wishing subsistence farming on anyone is a cruel thing to do. There's no "up" in subsistence farming. That's what you do and only what you do, no benefit to civilization at all and you don't benefit much from civilization either, which is why civilization may start there but it moves away from it as soon as it can.
A man and an ox with a single blade plow can't compete against modern mechanized farming, so if you're doing things the old way you'll be staying poor. Alive yes, but perpetually poor.
"Its actually surprisingly easy to affordably feed a family a nutritionally dense meal."
You can live off of 300lbs of wheat berries (plus some nutritional additions) for a year, which would be around $90. So yes, nutritionally dense can be cheap, but it is also culinarily sparse. There's a lot of ways to prepare wheat, but you're still eating wheat.
And good luck getting wheat berries in the food deserts of our urban blight. Oh, you'll either need to get a grain mill ($200 for a cheap impact or $700+ for a sturdy "millstone" type) or spend a lot of time, and physical effort, grinding the grain by hand.
"The simple fact is, the majority of the second and third world does so every day." By choice or by circumstance? I was going to use the "oh those poor natives, so happy in their simplicity and ignorance" route but that strawman doesn't need to be set up.
A nutritionally dense AND culinarily deep diet can be expensive or just plain unobtainable thanks to our food deserts.
"The Republican plan would allow Obama to increase the debt ceiling by $2.4T"
It's not the President's job to increase the debt ceiling. The cowards are just looking for a way to get around their blood oath AND be able to score points in the next election, pretty much the definition of dirty pool.
Even without kids he does get benefits from the local schools, children locked in the schools during the day won't be busy vandalizing property while he's away at work.
Mind pointing out a netbook that has the same battery life, size, and weight as an iPad 2?
My memory must be wrong then since I thought all the big name competitors to the iPad had to release their half baked tablets at or above the price of the iPad.
Don't know about the comics but the Nazis were pretty much on the level of comic book super villains when it came to coming up with "super weapons", including massive (not as massive as the movie one) siege tanks.
The Valkyrie, while probably scaled up, looked a lot like some experimental flying wing designs that they had and I do recall Hitler was going for a bomber that could hit NY from Germany.
/. is home to a large and/or very vocal tinfoil hat ebil gubmint gonna enslave us all crowd and they need their daily "this has gotta be a false flag" fix or they really go crazy.
May $DEITY have mercy on your karma./. dances with the best sort of correct, technically correct. There will always be some flaw, no matter how minor, that someone will find in any analogy that will "justify" their view.
It probably doesn't help that cooking is "woman's work" and thus anathema to the "modern liberated woman", or at least the ones who didn't teach their daughters how to cook, and "everyone knows" that if dad even enters the kitchen it will be a disaster, possibly involving fire & rescue, and it will end up with pizza being ordered.
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"The reality is, in the vast, vast majority of cases in the USA, good[sic] deserts exist ONLY because they created them and refuse to put an end to them." Who's "they"? It's important to understanding your rant.
"You can go into a store and request items."
And then "it validates you have no fucking clue what you are talking about. Seriously, figure it out." I can't really top that, so I'll let your own words stand.
Now that LulzSec is calling for a PayPal boycott I feel even better about throwing some money at the "humble" indie bundle last night (for as much press as they get they should drop the humble) through PayPal.
"That's not to say "food deserts" don't exist, but we're not talking about the world."
"I knew what it was before you ever fucking mentioned it"
Look it up again (benefit of doubt on the again). Food deserts are an American problem. Take a look at Detroit as a somewhat extreme example. They are/were planning on turning some parts of the city into "farmland" to get fresh produce there. You think they'd do that if grocery stores were there?
"local grocery story" Look up food desert. Poor urban centers don't have grocery stores. Canned food at the corner bodega is all they've got.
"And do note, I didn't even mention living off the land which was considered common even 100 years ago." Pastoralism was a craze with the French aristocracy. They'd dress up like peasants and play live the "ideal" pastoral life.
Subsistence farming sucks. Wishing subsistence farming on anyone is a cruel thing to do. There's no "up" in subsistence farming. That's what you do and only what you do, no benefit to civilization at all and you don't benefit much from civilization either, which is why civilization may start there but it moves away from it as soon as it can.
A man and an ox with a single blade plow can't compete against modern mechanized farming, so if you're doing things the old way you'll be staying poor. Alive yes, but perpetually poor.
"Its actually surprisingly easy to affordably feed a family a nutritionally dense meal."
You can live off of 300lbs of wheat berries (plus some nutritional additions) for a year, which would be around $90. So yes, nutritionally dense can be cheap, but it is also culinarily sparse. There's a lot of ways to prepare wheat, but you're still eating wheat.
And good luck getting wheat berries in the food deserts of our urban blight. Oh, you'll either need to get a grain mill ($200 for a cheap impact or $700+ for a sturdy "millstone" type) or spend a lot of time, and physical effort, grinding the grain by hand.
"The simple fact is, the majority of the second and third world does so every day." By choice or by circumstance? I was going to use the "oh those poor natives, so happy in their simplicity and ignorance" route but that strawman doesn't need to be set up.
A nutritionally dense AND culinarily deep diet can be expensive or just plain unobtainable thanks to our food deserts.
"The Republican plan would allow Obama to increase the debt ceiling by $2.4T"
It's not the President's job to increase the debt ceiling. The cowards are just looking for a way to get around their blood oath AND be able to score points in the next election, pretty much the definition of dirty pool.
And one unelected man controls both the Tea Party and the Republicans.
Even without kids he does get benefits from the local schools, children locked in the schools during the day won't be busy vandalizing property while he's away at work.
Using your netbooks for doorstops and bookends then?
Mind pointing out a netbook that has the same battery life, size, and weight as an iPad 2?
My memory must be wrong then since I thought all the big name competitors to the iPad had to release their half baked tablets at or above the price of the iPad.
"if you can't figure out that the iPhones are pretty high-quality pieces of engineering"
But the bullet points! Android has better bullet points! Bigger numbers! Won't someone please think of the bullet points!
Would there be anything left on /. with that filter?
Hmm, you go from legal prostitution to child prostitution, mind if I ask what level you're registered as?
Don't know about the comics but the Nazis were pretty much on the level of comic book super villains when it came to coming up with "super weapons", including massive (not as massive as the movie one) siege tanks.
The Valkyrie, while probably scaled up, looked a lot like some experimental flying wing designs that they had and I do recall Hitler was going for a bomber that could hit NY from Germany.
So you're saying all those public domain works *aren't* free for the taking at Barnes and Noble?
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That statement is why the Lutheran Vatican keeps his prophecies locked away.
/. is home to a large and/or very vocal tinfoil hat ebil gubmint gonna enslave us all crowd and they need their daily "this has gotta be a false flag" fix or they really go crazy.
May $DEITY have mercy on your karma. /. dances with the best sort of correct, technically correct. There will always be some flaw, no matter how minor, that someone will find in any analogy that will "justify" their view.
"Not even really certain what a latte is."
Ahh ignorance, possibly (and probably) willful ignorance, /.'s favorite thing in the world.
The kind that tasteless cheapskates drink. Beer's beer, right?
So they should have said a 24 pack of your favorite beer.
Considering the audience here, they already get all of that for free, so yes.
It probably doesn't help that cooking is "woman's work" and thus anathema to the "modern liberated woman", or at least the ones who didn't teach their daughters how to cook, and "everyone knows" that if dad even enters the kitchen it will be a disaster, possibly involving fire & rescue, and it will end up with pizza being ordered.
Deterrence. You should look that up.
A tank or fighter sitting idle in peace has succeeded in its primary purpose, one engaged in a conflict on its home ground has already failed.