It's hard to keep a well stocked refrigerator of food in your cubicle or vehicle, but keeping some pills or packets of powder ready in your desk drawer or glove box is pretty simple. I do the same with "breakfast bars" or whatever you want to call them.
Sounds like a good addition for the bug-out bag, assuming a sufficient calorie-per-gram ratio.
When I was in college, I hung out with a group who would sit around a tiny, single room apartment on weeknights, watching "music videos" that mainly consisted of a half-dozen German guys in various leather outfits, using power tools to hack away at random objects in a scrapyard.
People say drugs are bad, but I say if not for the fact someone left a bottle of ether uncapped in the room, I probably wouldn't have been able to sit through the overture.
Technically, yes. Except they do everything they can to avoid putting executives and managers into those situations.
Of course, since they all pull in at least 6 figures, I get the feeling paying for their own rooms is a lot more viable than it is for us lowly producers.
In a military trial the term jury doesn't mean what it does in the real world. The jury is hardly the defendant's peers. Manning knew this and went for a trial by the judge only.
Does the military code make exceptions to the Bill of Rights? I ask out of genuine ignorance.
As a practical matter, the way court procedures work, a juror is extremely unlikely to know if any evidence has been withheld. It's a classic catch-22.
Under normal circumstances, I'd agree.
However, in cases such as Manning's, I think it's fair to assume that there was a fair amount of, "we can't tell you that, it's classified" going on.
To which the only proper response is, "then you can't use it as evidence."
yeah, for the vast majority of people the nearest slaughter house is 100's of miles away.
Well, thanks for being the voice of the entire human population. How'd you end up with that position, anyway? Kill the guy that had it before, or just made it up on the spot?
I know where the stuff I buy a the grocery store comes from.
Do you? Or are you trusting that the same people who put "natural flavor" on the ingredients label, as if that actually tells you what that flavor is, are being completely honest with you when they say it was grown by organic ass farmers in Indopersia?
I'm not sure why you can't figure it out. Maybe you're just stupid? It's not for me to say, maybe you are just pretending to be stupid.
When I go to the slaughterhouse, I get to meet my meat. And the dude that "makes" it. You might not find that to be important, but I do.
Also, I can express my opinion without feeling a compulsion to try and marginalize the opinions of people I've decided to disagree with, because I'm not a fucking 8-year-old.
Does your mommy know what you do on the computer when she's not around?
My argument against Soylent is that it is developed by somebody who is not a nutritionist by either experience or training. If a Nutrition PhD student developed this stuff, I'd consider it. If it wasn't nasty glop, I'd consider it (although I'd certainly hesitate to try and live off of it.)
When it comes to things that could poison me, I'm totally on board with that ideology.
However, I can't help but keep in mind that the aeroplane was invented in a shed by a couple of bicycle repairmen.
Wish this were true but unfortunately the prices will likely go up for beef and meat.
Uh, citation?
You can save yourself a handful of bucks by skipping the grocery store (or as I like to call it, the middleman) and get your meats straight from the nearest slaughterhouse.
Not only is it normally cheaper - last week I bought about a pound of some of the most awesome bacon I've ever tasted for $3-4 less than what a half-pound of that mass-farmed fatty bullshit they sell at the store costs - but you also get the pleasure of knowing exactly where your food comes from, if you're anything like me and care about such things.
I've known people who consider eating little more than a chore of cramming calories into their gut, and would probably go for something like this at least two meals of the day.
but in a place where the land in earshot or line-of-sight on your house is private property, any protest that you can hear/see from your living room window is automatically trespassing..
We have a Constitution, it is the Inalienable, Supreme Law of the Land,
I assume that you are referring to those "certain unalienable Rights" with your statement above. They were outlined in the Declaration of Independence, not the constitution.
No, I meant what I said - per the Constitution, which authorizes the government's existence, no law can supersede it, other than a Constitutional Amendment.
and it can only be superseded by a Constitutional Amendment. "Policy" does not trump Constitutional law, per the Constitution.
You mean things like unreasonable search and seizure? Been to an airport lately?
Not that I'm disagreeing with you. Just a few minor things I wanted to point out.
The only reason they get away with that kind of shit is because the People let them. I haven't been inside an airport since 1999 for damn good reason - I do not support authoritarian regimes, nor do I support private groups (ex., corporations) that support authoritarian regimes.
In the Bradley Manning case, the jury wasn't allowed to see what information was leaked.
When you're on a jury, you have a duty to both the accused and your nation to consider evidence fairly, within Constitutional constraints. Being prevented from seeing evidence would, to me, be all the reason necessary to give a verdict of 'not guilty.'
All accused American citizens have a right to confront their accusers and the evidence presented against them, in a fair and speedy trial conducted within due process. Period, end of story; don't like it? Amend the Constitution or GTFO.
Well, to do that, you're going to need to draft up a Constitutional Amendment that voids the First Amendment, then get 2/3 of state legislatures to ratify it.
Shit, son, I knew about COINTELPRO when you were still suckling yo mama's titty!
OK, probably not for that long (especially considering I have no idea how old you are), but I have known about it since the first time I listened to a Dead Kennedy's album back in the early 1990's.
Guess that initial response was just a reflex to the unwarranted injection of playground name calling in your post.
Slight aside: That's funny. Not what you said, but rather that you would half-assed accuse someone of being a Fox News 'drone,' then provide a link to the fucking Huffington CrapFest, er, I mean Post. Aside from the fact that HuffPo is, essentially, the 'liberal' answer to Fox (in that it's mainly filled with bullshit, partisan editorials thinly disguised as 'news pieces'), do you really think someone that takes FN as gospel would actually give a shit about a HuffPo link? My guess is no, you know they wouldn't, and are trolling to try and see if you can get me to accidentally name some allegiance that you can subsequently attack me for.
Not gonna happen. At least, not when discussing any form of American Corporate Media. But hey, I do tend to vote Libertarian, so I'm certain you can come up with some nonsense about that.
I mean, here you are spouting off about activism and you don't know the first thing about your government policy about it. What the actual fuck?
It's not that I 'don't know the first thing about [my] government policy.'
It's that I couldn't give a fuck less what the oligarchs who currently reign think. We have a Constitution, it is the Inalienable, Supreme Law of the Land, and it can only be superseded by a Constitutional Amendment. "Policy" does not trump Constitutional law, per the Constitution.
For fuck's sake, you morons would make me sick if your politics hadn't heaved me dry.
Jesus tap-dancing Christ, calm the fuck down you little twit. Shit, my 3 year old nephew has better argumentation skills than you, and he can make his point without degrading into brainless, foaming-at-the-mouth, hateful nonsense.
If you want to continue this conversation like a grown up, please do; I enjoy intelligent debates with people whose opinions differ from mine.
If you're going to continue this mindless, asinine troll, you can promptly go fuck yourself.
So the 55-year old candlestick makers were supposed to upgrade their skills or do what? Starve?
I think that tech advances are generally good, but this "Creative Destruction" comes at a cost to certain individuals in society who were unlucky/unconnected enough to choose the wrong profession.
You can't simply let all those people fend for themselves without any support.
The protesting slime seem to think they have a god given right to be where they are.
Wow. I think you would fit into Putin's (or Stalin's) Russia just fine.
I presume OP is the type who will dump their parents in the cheapest, shittiest nursing home they can, just as soon as mom and pop outlive their usefulness.
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That sounds like a great recipe for a lawsuit here.
On what grounds, though?
The nearest slaughterhouse to me is roughly four thousand miles away. Next platitude?
Sucks to be you?
Where do you live, that the nearest animal processing facility is farther away than the distance from New York to Los Angeles? The ISS?
Do you eat anything but meat?
Did I ever say I didn't?
"Next platitude," as you might snark?
I note your crock pot recipe has no starch, fiber, or plant nutrients of any kind.
OK, dude, that doesn't even make sense.
It's hard to keep a well stocked refrigerator of food in your cubicle or vehicle, but keeping some pills or packets of powder ready in your desk drawer or glove box is pretty simple. I do the same with "breakfast bars" or whatever you want to call them.
Sounds like a good addition for the bug-out bag, assuming a sufficient calorie-per-gram ratio.
When I was in college, I hung out with a group who would sit around a tiny, single room apartment on weeknights, watching "music videos" that mainly consisted of a half-dozen German guys in various leather outfits, using power tools to hack away at random objects in a scrapyard.
People say drugs are bad, but I say if not for the fact someone left a bottle of ether uncapped in the room, I probably wouldn't have been able to sit through the overture.
Even for executives/management?
Technically, yes. Except they do everything they can to avoid putting executives and managers into those situations.
Of course, since they all pull in at least 6 figures, I get the feeling paying for their own rooms is a lot more viable than it is for us lowly producers.
Did the mass adoption of electric heaters make wood-burning fireplaces obsolete?
There's your answer.
Nice try, but if you'd ever listened to them you'd know the term "singing" is definitely not in their vernacular.
Which part of "People are weird. Really, really weird." did you miss?
Perhaps I should rephrase:
Are they weird because they've never met bacon, or are they weird because they don't like bacon?
Music? No problem... most of us here in our offices like music.
But do you like all music?
Because, see, I've got this Anal Cunt* CD I've been wanting to bring in....
*Yes, it's a real band, and yes, they are absolutely terrible.
Forcing someone to work in the same space as someone else is psychologically stressful no matter how fine you are with it.
You think that's bad? When the company I work for sends 2 same-sex employees off for any sort of training or event, they only spring for 1 hotel room.
I haven't found much in my career that's more unsettling than having to split a bedroom/shitter with someone who is, essentially, a complete stranger.
In a military trial the term jury doesn't mean what it does in the real world. The jury is hardly the defendant's peers. Manning knew this and went for a trial by the judge only.
Does the military code make exceptions to the Bill of Rights? I ask out of genuine ignorance.
As a practical matter, the way court procedures work, a juror is extremely unlikely to know if any evidence has been withheld. It's a classic catch-22.
Under normal circumstances, I'd agree.
However, in cases such as Manning's, I think it's fair to assume that there was a fair amount of, "we can't tell you that, it's classified" going on.
To which the only proper response is, "then you can't use it as evidence."
yeah, for the vast majority of people the nearest slaughter house is 100's of miles away.
Well, thanks for being the voice of the entire human population. How'd you end up with that position, anyway? Kill the guy that had it before, or just made it up on the spot?
I know where the stuff I buy a the grocery store comes from.
Do you? Or are you trusting that the same people who put "natural flavor" on the ingredients label, as if that actually tells you what that flavor is, are being completely honest with you when they say it was grown by organic ass farmers in Indopersia?
I'm not sure why you can't figure it out. Maybe you're just stupid? It's not for me to say, maybe you are just pretending to be stupid.
When I go to the slaughterhouse, I get to meet my meat. And the dude that "makes" it. You might not find that to be important, but I do.
Also, I can express my opinion without feeling a compulsion to try and marginalize the opinions of people I've decided to disagree with, because I'm not a fucking 8-year-old.
Does your mommy know what you do on the computer when she's not around?
It's easier if you just need to take one or two a day, at set times.
Like eating lunch at noon and dinner around 7:30? That's pretty much my day, foodwise.
My argument against Soylent is that it is developed by somebody who is not a nutritionist by either experience or training. If a Nutrition PhD student developed this stuff, I'd consider it. If it wasn't nasty glop, I'd consider it (although I'd certainly hesitate to try and live off of it.)
When it comes to things that could poison me, I'm totally on board with that ideology.
However, I can't help but keep in mind that the aeroplane was invented in a shed by a couple of bicycle repairmen.
You might ask why Soylent and not an existing meal replacement drink?
... Because your family has a strong tradition of volunteering as guinea pigs?
Wish this were true but unfortunately the prices will likely go up for beef and meat.
Uh, citation?
You can save yourself a handful of bucks by skipping the grocery store (or as I like to call it, the middleman) and get your meats straight from the nearest slaughterhouse.
Not only is it normally cheaper - last week I bought about a pound of some of the most awesome bacon I've ever tasted for $3-4 less than what a half-pound of that mass-farmed fatty bullshit they sell at the store costs - but you also get the pleasure of knowing exactly where your food comes from, if you're anything like me and care about such things.
I've known people who consider eating little more than a chore of cramming calories into their gut, and would probably go for something like this at least two meals of the day.
Have they never met bacon?
If you forget to eat now, what's to stop you from forgetting to take your "food pill?"
but in a place where the land in earshot or line-of-sight on your house is private property, any protest that you can hear/see from your living room window is automatically trespassing..
Uh, citation? I've never heard that one before.
We have a Constitution, it is the Inalienable, Supreme Law of the Land,
I assume that you are referring to those "certain unalienable Rights" with your statement above. They were outlined in the Declaration of Independence, not the constitution.
No, I meant what I said - per the Constitution, which authorizes the government's existence, no law can supersede it, other than a Constitutional Amendment.
and it can only be superseded by a Constitutional Amendment. "Policy" does not trump Constitutional law, per the Constitution.
You mean things like unreasonable search and seizure? Been to an airport lately?
Not that I'm disagreeing with you. Just a few minor things I wanted to point out.
The only reason they get away with that kind of shit is because the People let them. I haven't been inside an airport since 1999 for damn good reason - I do not support authoritarian regimes, nor do I support private groups (ex., corporations) that support authoritarian regimes.
'Vote with your dollar' and all that jazz.
Unfortunately.
In the Bradley Manning case, the jury wasn't allowed to see what information was leaked.
When you're on a jury, you have a duty to both the accused and your nation to consider evidence fairly, within Constitutional constraints. Being prevented from seeing evidence would, to me, be all the reason necessary to give a verdict of 'not guilty.'
All accused American citizens have a right to confront their accusers and the evidence presented against them, in a fair and speedy trial conducted within due process. Period, end of story; don't like it? Amend the Constitution or GTFO.
This fanatical "activism" needs to be stopped.
Well, to do that, you're going to need to draft up a Constitutional Amendment that voids the First Amendment, then get 2/3 of state legislatures to ratify it.
Good luck with that, chief.
Perhaps you failed to realize that is exactly what the FBI and NSA are for, doofus.
Shit, son, I knew about COINTELPRO when you were still suckling yo mama's titty!
OK, probably not for that long (especially considering I have no idea how old you are), but I have known about it since the first time I listened to a Dead Kennedy's album back in the early 1990's.
Guess that initial response was just a reflex to the unwarranted injection of playground name calling in your post.
Even if your cultural narrative came from Fox News you should have found the FBI's Occupy Wall-street involvement odd.
Slight aside: That's funny. Not what you said, but rather that you would half-assed accuse someone of being a Fox News 'drone,' then provide a link to the fucking Huffington CrapFest, er, I mean Post. Aside from the fact that HuffPo is, essentially, the 'liberal' answer to Fox (in that it's mainly filled with bullshit, partisan editorials thinly disguised as 'news pieces'), do you really think someone that takes FN as gospel would actually give a shit about a HuffPo link? My guess is no, you know they wouldn't, and are trolling to try and see if you can get me to accidentally name some allegiance that you can subsequently attack me for.
Not gonna happen. At least, not when discussing any form of American Corporate Media. But hey, I do tend to vote Libertarian, so I'm certain you can come up with some nonsense about that.
I mean, here you are spouting off about activism and you don't know the first thing about your government policy about it. What the actual fuck?
It's not that I 'don't know the first thing about [my] government policy.'
It's that I couldn't give a fuck less what the oligarchs who currently reign think. We have a Constitution, it is the Inalienable, Supreme Law of the Land, and it can only be superseded by a Constitutional Amendment. "Policy" does not trump Constitutional law, per the Constitution.
For fuck's sake, you morons would make me sick if your politics hadn't heaved me dry.
Jesus tap-dancing Christ, calm the fuck down you little twit. Shit, my 3 year old nephew has better argumentation skills than you, and he can make his point without degrading into brainless, foaming-at-the-mouth, hateful nonsense.
If you want to continue this conversation like a grown up, please do; I enjoy intelligent debates with people whose opinions differ from mine.
If you're going to continue this mindless, asinine troll, you can promptly go fuck yourself.
So the 55-year old candlestick makers were supposed to upgrade their skills or do what? Starve?
I think that tech advances are generally good, but this "Creative Destruction" comes at a cost to certain individuals in society who were unlucky/unconnected enough to choose the wrong profession.
You can't simply let all those people fend for themselves without any support.
Wow. I think you would fit into Putin's (or Stalin's) Russia just fine.
I presume OP is the type who will dump their parents in the cheapest, shittiest nursing home they can, just as soon as mom and pop outlive their usefulness.