When I first became active in my faith again I was one of the only single men my age (mid twenties) in the congregation for several years. I went on a number of blind and semi blind dates as a result of every little old lady trying to set me up. Having a steady job, living on my own and always being cordial and polite will do wonders for a reputation. I dated a women I met this way for about eight months before we split. When I did finally meet my wife I did so through church activities and we introduced ourselves before the cabal of little old ladies could arrange our meeting.
I would add that it's very important to find someone that does not hold any of your interests in contempt. And in the same vein if you have deep seated contempt for something they like to do it'll all end in tears.
Last I heard Cleveland was one of the hardest hit cities in Ohio by forclosures. It wouldn't suprise me if a very large chunk of it was largely abandoned now.
I seem to remember reading a bit from an interview with Billy Bob Thorton shortly after his divorce from Anelina Jollie. He was quoted as saying something about how the best looking women in his life hadn't been the best in the sack.
I had always thought the point of the subsidies on corn actually kept the price higher than it would otherwise be. Seeing as how they pay farmers not to harvest their crops to prevent their product from reaching the market hence keeping supply seemingly lower and prices higher. Am I mistaken in this somehow?
I'm not sure if it actually matters for my insurance rates, but USAA does ask for the estimated mileage I'll put on my cars each year. For the last seven years I've done around 7k or less a year and my insurance rates have been pretty low.
My Parents managed to find a "cheaper" way to get chicken for our family of eight to ten.
Every spring we would buy 200 chicks. Then over the next eight weeks we'd watch them ballon up. I kid you not, those pigs with feathers would put on eight pounds of edible meat in eight weeks. They are the same breed that Tyson uses and produce collosal breasts and drumsticks. They only needed medicated feed for the first week or two then we'd feed them spoiled, weevil infested, feed and grain we'd get cheap from the local mill.
Anyways we'd then slaughter, skin, gut, clean, pack them in ziplock bags and stick them in the chest freezer. Being the second oldest child, I almost always got stuck doing a bunch of that work since it involved using sharp knives. Not that this is really a practical method for most people to try. It takes a bit of resources that most people don't have the space or time for.
To this day I can't see a live chicken without feeling disgusted by it. I do love me some baked, fried or grilled chicken though.
Actually I was being serious. Because when I make a 1 pound box of regular spaghetti noodles it fills most of a five quart pot. And that's before I add sauce, meat or any vegetables on the side. I consider myself an eater of large or oversized portions and even half of that would be well beyond my normal capacity.
Believe s/he was talking 1 pound of uncooked pasta is eight servings. 1 pound of uncooked pasta makes considerably more food than 1 pound of cooked pasta.
The wife and I manage to only cook two or maybe three times a week. We cook in volume though. That way I can take leftovers for my lunches, and we can eat other leftovers on the meals we have together. My Favorites are Chili, Beef Stroganoff on egg noodles, and Chicken Vegetables and Rice. I think each of those is under $11 for a batch that provides at least 6 to 8 large servings.
We supplement that with some things like frozen pizzas or over fried fish occassionally to get something different. We actually plan our cooking about three months in advance and plan for steak and Tillapia at least once per planning period.
I would argue that their are a few likeable and still alive characters. But by and large the characters aren't very likeable. And while Martin's writing is better quality in general than Jordan's it doesn't make up entirely for the glacial pace at which he's published the story.
Uhh I can't really remember much in the way of sex scenes in this series of books. So either I've been reading a lot of exceptionally graphic books or it's not really remarkable by comparison.
My impression was that the more cooked a food is the easier it is to digest. Meaning the energy and such that has survived the cooking process is more easily derived by the digestive tract. But cooking food still destroys some of those nutrients, nutrients being things like vitamins and minerals. I thought it was a particularly strong effect in vegetables.
I remember being told that originally McDonalds went with that horrendous orange color as the main interior color for thier establishments for just that reason. Studies had shown that the bright orange made people uncomfortable such that they wouldn't spend anymore time than necessary to eat their food and get out.
I think he was supporting your post not argueing against any of it's points.
Personally I wouldn't mind a number of things being funded socially here in the USA. And as another poster commented the biggest concern for most of us is how do you accomplish it without enabling people to abuse the system and never pay anything back.
Some ofthis process seems blatantly wasteful to me.
Steps 1, 4 and 5 should all be easily done by the author in little to no time. Computers can easily format text into a readable format. And if the author isn't using a spellchecker of some sort they should be kneecapped. The editor in step 3 should also be looking for typos and such. Hell I find an alarmingly large number of typos, misspellings and botched sentences in my casual reading all the time. If someone is being paid to check for those things they should be fired.
What's the point of cover art exactly? I don't need or want it, with hard cover books I actually remove the stupid jackets because they just get in the way of reading the book.
Marketing? Are you serious? Who reads books based on some advertisement? I can hardly remember seeing a print, tv or radio advert for a book. Every book I have read was a result of positive reviews or opinions from someone I knew, the summary on the back sounded interesting or I was forced to because of a class or course.
The only valid steps I can think of that should cost the publisher anything for an eBook is the services of an editor who coaches the author and points out errors. The legal team that provides the same exact contract template for every book purchase so cost should be essentially a one time up front thing for the publisher as a cost of starting the business. And maybe the administrative assistant that emails amazon the eBook or lets them know when it'll be ready.
That's pretty much the only reason I haven't started pricing eBook readers. I'm usually very careful with my books to keep them in good condition. But accidents happen and I don't live alone, soon I'll have rugrats utilizing my belongings. Heck even my wife, who is always careful, drops things like cell phones all the time. Technology just isn't sturdy enough yet to really replace books.
I guess you could say that this is like the issue with people wanting electric cars that completely replace modern gas engined cars. Except with the car problem most people can rent a car with longer range or use some other form of transport. I can't predict when my eBook reader will be dropped or rained on and swap it with a book for that period of time.
I rode my bike to work and back for about a month last summer. My commute went from about 10 minutes to a little over 20, I'm about 3.5 miles from my office. It's all residential neighborhood streeds so inconsiderate drivers weren't an issue at all. But arriving sweaty every day was very annoying.
I had to bring my work clothes in a backpack and change at the begining and end of every day. Even taking the ride very easy I'd sweat up a storm, I'm in Alabama:( I considered doing it on a more permanent basis but the discomfort and inconvience was just too much.
The problem is that we don't subsidize our farmers like that. We pay them to not sell their food on the market. Because they can easily produce enough of it to drive the price of food down. In theory they could lower it to the point that most farms would no longer be profitable and collapse. That wouldn't necessarily cause a national crisis and famine. But it would put a lot of normal families that have been farming as a way of life into financial crisis fast.
While I don't want to destroy anyones life, I don't think we are really doing them any favors by subsidizing their way of life.
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When I first became active in my faith again I was one of the only single men my age (mid twenties) in the congregation for several years. I went on a number of blind and semi blind dates as a result of every little old lady trying to set me up. Having a steady job, living on my own and always being cordial and polite will do wonders for a reputation. I dated a women I met this way for about eight months before we split. When I did finally meet my wife I did so through church activities and we introduced ourselves before the cabal of little old ladies could arrange our meeting.
I would add that it's very important to find someone that does not hold any of your interests in contempt. And in the same vein if you have deep seated contempt for something they like to do it'll all end in tears.
To make it even better she could make the RIAA the target of those petty or not so petty crimes.
I have the frightening impulse to get a chicken liver and preserve it in a bottle labeled "Heart of a Child" and keep it on my desk at work.
Last I heard Cleveland was one of the hardest hit cities in Ohio by forclosures. It wouldn't suprise me if a very large chunk of it was largely abandoned now.
I seem to remember reading a bit from an interview with Billy Bob Thorton shortly after his divorce from Anelina Jollie. He was quoted as saying something about how the best looking women in his life hadn't been the best in the sack.
I had always thought the point of the subsidies on corn actually kept the price higher than it would otherwise be. Seeing as how they pay farmers not to harvest their crops to prevent their product from reaching the market hence keeping supply seemingly lower and prices higher. Am I mistaken in this somehow?
I'm not sure if it actually matters for my insurance rates, but USAA does ask for the estimated mileage I'll put on my cars each year. For the last seven years I've done around 7k or less a year and my insurance rates have been pretty low.
My Parents managed to find a "cheaper" way to get chicken for our family of eight to ten.
Every spring we would buy 200 chicks. Then over the next eight weeks we'd watch them ballon up. I kid you not, those pigs with feathers would put on eight pounds of edible meat in eight weeks. They are the same breed that Tyson uses and produce collosal breasts and drumsticks. They only needed medicated feed for the first week or two then we'd feed them spoiled, weevil infested, feed and grain we'd get cheap from the local mill.
Anyways we'd then slaughter, skin, gut, clean, pack them in ziplock bags and stick them in the chest freezer. Being the second oldest child, I almost always got stuck doing a bunch of that work since it involved using sharp knives. Not that this is really a practical method for most people to try. It takes a bit of resources that most people don't have the space or time for.
To this day I can't see a live chicken without feeling disgusted by it. I do love me some baked, fried or grilled chicken though.
Actually I was being serious. Because when I make a 1 pound box of regular spaghetti noodles it fills most of a five quart pot. And that's before I add sauce, meat or any vegetables on the side. I consider myself an eater of large or oversized portions and even half of that would be well beyond my normal capacity.
Believe s/he was talking 1 pound of uncooked pasta is eight servings. 1 pound of uncooked pasta makes considerably more food than 1 pound of cooked pasta.
The wife and I manage to only cook two or maybe three times a week. We cook in volume though. That way I can take leftovers for my lunches, and we can eat other leftovers on the meals we have together. My Favorites are Chili, Beef Stroganoff on egg noodles, and Chicken Vegetables and Rice. I think each of those is under $11 for a batch that provides at least 6 to 8 large servings. We supplement that with some things like frozen pizzas or over fried fish occassionally to get something different. We actually plan our cooking about three months in advance and plan for steak and Tillapia at least once per planning period.
I would argue that their are a few likeable and still alive characters. But by and large the characters aren't very likeable. And while Martin's writing is better quality in general than Jordan's it doesn't make up entirely for the glacial pace at which he's published the story.
People keep refering to their being lots of gratuitous sex in these books and I honsetly just can't remember much of that at all.
Uhh I can't really remember much in the way of sex scenes in this series of books. So either I've been reading a lot of exceptionally graphic books or it's not really remarkable by comparison.
My impression was that the more cooked a food is the easier it is to digest. Meaning the energy and such that has survived the cooking process is more easily derived by the digestive tract. But cooking food still destroys some of those nutrients, nutrients being things like vitamins and minerals. I thought it was a particularly strong effect in vegetables.
I remember being told that originally McDonalds went with that horrendous orange color as the main interior color for thier establishments for just that reason. Studies had shown that the bright orange made people uncomfortable such that they wouldn't spend anymore time than necessary to eat their food and get out.
I think he was supporting your post not argueing against any of it's points.
Personally I wouldn't mind a number of things being funded socially here in the USA. And as another poster commented the biggest concern for most of us is how do you accomplish it without enabling people to abuse the system and never pay anything back.
Some ofthis process seems blatantly wasteful to me.
Steps 1, 4 and 5 should all be easily done by the author in little to no time. Computers can easily format text into a readable format. And if the author isn't using a spellchecker of some sort they should be kneecapped. The editor in step 3 should also be looking for typos and such. Hell I find an alarmingly large number of typos, misspellings and botched sentences in my casual reading all the time. If someone is being paid to check for those things they should be fired.
What's the point of cover art exactly? I don't need or want it, with hard cover books I actually remove the stupid jackets because they just get in the way of reading the book.
Marketing? Are you serious? Who reads books based on some advertisement? I can hardly remember seeing a print, tv or radio advert for a book. Every book I have read was a result of positive reviews or opinions from someone I knew, the summary on the back sounded interesting or I was forced to because of a class or course.
The only valid steps I can think of that should cost the publisher anything for an eBook is the services of an editor who coaches the author and points out errors. The legal team that provides the same exact contract template for every book purchase so cost should be essentially a one time up front thing for the publisher as a cost of starting the business. And maybe the administrative assistant that emails amazon the eBook or lets them know when it'll be ready.
That's pretty much the only reason I haven't started pricing eBook readers. I'm usually very careful with my books to keep them in good condition. But accidents happen and I don't live alone, soon I'll have rugrats utilizing my belongings. Heck even my wife, who is always careful, drops things like cell phones all the time. Technology just isn't sturdy enough yet to really replace books.
I guess you could say that this is like the issue with people wanting electric cars that completely replace modern gas engined cars. Except with the car problem most people can rent a car with longer range or use some other form of transport. I can't predict when my eBook reader will be dropped or rained on and swap it with a book for that period of time.
Cayman S, want one badly! Maybe I can sell a kidney to come up with a downpayment.
I rode my bike to work and back for about a month last summer. My commute went from about 10 minutes to a little over 20, I'm about 3.5 miles from my office. It's all residential neighborhood streeds so inconsiderate drivers weren't an issue at all. But arriving sweaty every day was very annoying.
I had to bring my work clothes in a backpack and change at the begining and end of every day. Even taking the ride very easy I'd sweat up a storm, I'm in Alabama :( I considered doing it on a more permanent basis but the discomfort and inconvience was just too much.
The problem is that we don't subsidize our farmers like that. We pay them to not sell their food on the market. Because they can easily produce enough of it to drive the price of food down. In theory they could lower it to the point that most farms would no longer be profitable and collapse. That wouldn't necessarily cause a national crisis and famine. But it would put a lot of normal families that have been farming as a way of life into financial crisis fast.
While I don't want to destroy anyones life, I don't think we are really doing them any favors by subsidizing their way of life.
Screw their earnings, how about spending some of that sweet sweet infrastructure subsidy money.
The first I saw or read about it was last thurseday http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/23/1521218