Horse meat is very good (or so I hear) but because of the culture of horses as pets/companions rather than livestock, most Americans would shy away from eating it.
Kinda, but not really. Most people I know couldn't give a rat's ass less about horses, outside getting stoned and watching My Little Pony, or putting their offspring up on one of the miniatures at the county fair.
My wife comes from a family that raises horses, and their rationale seems a bit more reasonable: Very few horses in this country are bred for consumption. That being so, the vast majority of horses spend their lives being fed wormer to keep parasites out of their systems. Wormer is poison, and it builds up in the muscle tissue over time. Therefore, eating an American horse can kill you, or at least make you very, very sick, and thus it's not the best idea anyone ever had.
Wormer is the dirty little secret that companies trying to build commercial horse slaughter plants don't want the public to know about.
Caveat: My current phone is still my first smartphone - a Droid X I paid full retail for when it first came out, something I swore I would never do again (at least, not until the price of phones with decent hardware becomes reasonable).
lemme ask you this. if you dont help fund the edge, are you ACTUALLY going to spend the 700$ on something else? or is just going to sit in your bank?
Maybe; it's about time for a new desktop, and I wouldn't mind getting a few accessories for my new truck (7 Bones could get me a nice header-back Flowmaster system, new bumper/winch combo, some slick rims and jacked tires...). New gutters would be nice, too. Maybe a nice stone patio...
Lemme axe you (a couple) something(s): Why do you ask, and what would you have responded if I said I planned on banking the cash?
"FUCK your bullshit surveillance state, you avaricious Stasi dog-fuckers."
Seriously, I presume the installation will eventually become compulsory, since no person in their right fucking mind would ever, ever consent to having a goddamn tattler installed in their cranium.
Up next: Neural sensor that can tell when you've committed a thoughtcrime, and wirelessly reports it to the proper authorities.
This is 'Merica, remember? That someone is receiving profits that should have gone to a corporation is far, far more important than the fact that some proles bought counterfeit goods.
And he had the nerve to use those ill-gotten gains to ensure an education for his offspring? SCUM! TRAITOR! To the gas chambers with him!
Man, I've been consorting with enemies left and right, haven't I?
Whatever am I going to do?
Incorporate; apparently, while es ist verboten for regular American citizens to interact with China, for corporations it is the ultimate act of patriotic duty.
As for the "mark of the beast" - I don't know what the heck are you talking about,
Biblical prophecy, from the book of Revelations (AKA John's Terrible, Horrible No Good, Very Bad Trip), Chapter 13:
16 And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17 and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.
Some fascinating metaphor in that particular prophecy, for those not so closed-minded as to discount it just because it comes from the Christian Bible.
You know, laying off staff can improve efficiency if they're not doing anything useful or have become surplus to requirements. There's a reason it's called "being made redundant."
I've always felt that way about board members; all I ever see them do (on the rare occasion they even show up) is go into catered meetings and bullshit with each other.
And those dickheads are being paid millions for... well, to be honest I have no fucking idea. Wearing suits, I guess.
P.S. Fuck you Dice,/. was a news aggregator long before you ever came along and probably will be long after you've folded. If I wanted to read half-baked op-ed pieces I'd buy a fucking newspaper.
Interesting; the only issue I've hit so far is that I can't use one device (Nexus 7) for media and another (Droid X) for phone, but I think that's pretty much a universal limitation.
i know someone with a Lexus RX and galaxy s3. and getting it to play music over bluetooth was such a PITA, not worth the trouble
Funny, my wife's Jetta has no issue at all playing music from either of our Android phones, nor the Nexus 7 I got her for her birthday, via Bluetooth.
Maybe Lexus just sucks at Bluetooth... another possibility would be that whoever was trying to set up the Bluetooth connection on the RX had no idea what they were doing.
I would also like to take a moment to sincerely apologize to the tin foil hat crowd: I have made fun of you in the past, only now I am sorry I was too blind to really listen. You were right all along.
Now, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum, What might be right for you, may not be right for some. A man is born, he's a man of means. Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans.
But they got, Diff'rent Strokes. It takes, Diff'rent Strokes. It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.
Everybody's got a special kind of story Everybody finds a way to shine, It don't matter that you got not alot So what, They'll have theirs, and you'll have yours, and I'll have mine. And together we'll be fine....
Because it takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world. Yes it does. It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.
"We must sacrifice our freedoms to protect our freedoms" is a dumb statement, but not a crazy one. It makes a point, and it allows for rebuttal and debate.
I challenge you to try and debate that point with the people who make it. At the end of the conversation, at least one of you will be crazy.
"Obama can go suck on my machine gun" is a crazy statement. Rather than put forward any argument, it's a personal threat against the man he disagrees with.
So, if I said "Antipater can take a flying leap at a rolling doughnut," you'd consider that a crazy statement and threat? Because that's pretty much what Nugent did, albeit with slightly more violent rhetoric.
Take a counterpoint: Charlton Heston was a firm defender of the 2nd Amendment. He spoke loudly and openly for his Constitutional rights. But he did not (afaik, at least) spew vitriol, personal attacks, or threats.
Ironic to say the least, as Heston's famous "you can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands" statement could actually be construed as a direct threat of violence, whereas the Nugent statement you quote is essentially his way of saying, "Mr. President, go fuck yourself."
See, Heston was making a direct statement of violent intent based on the actions of another - i.e., if you try and take his gun away, he's going to defend his possession of it to the death. In Nugent's statement, all he said was that Obama "can suck on my machinegun," which is not a direct statement of violent intent, nor requiring any action on anyone else's part - hell, for all we know, the Nuge was referring to his own dick (this is my rifle, this is my gun...), which would make the statement more of a proposition than anything.
Both Heston and Nugent held opinions that I disagree with, but I consider Nugent and not Heston to be crazy.
Pardon me, then, if I find that an odd position to take, considering.
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Horse meat is very good (or so I hear) but because of the culture of horses as pets/companions rather than livestock, most Americans would shy away from eating it.
Kinda, but not really. Most people I know couldn't give a rat's ass less about horses, outside getting stoned and watching My Little Pony, or putting their offspring up on one of the miniatures at the county fair.
My wife comes from a family that raises horses, and their rationale seems a bit more reasonable: Very few horses in this country are bred for consumption. That being so, the vast majority of horses spend their lives being fed wormer to keep parasites out of their systems. Wormer is poison, and it builds up in the muscle tissue over time. Therefore, eating an American horse can kill you, or at least make you very, very sick, and thus it's not the best idea anyone ever had.
Wormer is the dirty little secret that companies trying to build commercial horse slaughter plants don't want the public to know about.
Go F**k Yourself. And, after that, Go s**k your own d**k
I think you might need to get some of the crap out of your keyboard. Your "U", "I" and "C" keys seem to be outputting asterisks for some reason.
[Insert Slashdot/UTF-8 support joke here]
Better with the UN than with the U$A...
That's like saying it's better to leave your kids in the care of Albert Fish than John Gacy.
Caveat: My current phone is still my first smartphone - a Droid X I paid full retail for when it first came out, something I swore I would never do again (at least, not until the price of phones with decent hardware becomes reasonable).
lemme ask you this. if you dont help fund the edge, are you ACTUALLY going to spend the 700$ on something else? or is just going to sit in your bank?
Maybe; it's about time for a new desktop, and I wouldn't mind getting a few accessories for my new truck (7 Bones could get me a nice header-back Flowmaster system, new bumper/winch combo, some slick rims and jacked tires...). New gutters would be nice, too. Maybe a nice stone patio...
Lemme axe you (a couple) something(s): Why do you ask, and what would you have responded if I said I planned on banking the cash?
What would you use a piffling sd card for when there is 128Gb onboard and docking to any lan?
Heh, reminds me of a question I heard back in the late 1990's, when a buddy bought 2 of the first Gig hard drives we'd ever seen:
"2 Gigs?? What're you going to do with 2 Gigs? There's not enough porn on the internet to fill that!"
theres no reason not to buy one...
There are a shit-ton of reasons to not buy, er, "pre-order" one.
My reason: I've got better things to spend $700+ on than a non-existent device I have no use for.
I'm more afraid of them developing one that would tell my wife.
Well, I mean, you wouldn't need to worry if you stopped putting your mouth around all those dicks...
Here's a jaw movement for it to recognize:
"FUCK your bullshit surveillance state, you avaricious Stasi dog-fuckers."
Seriously, I presume the installation will eventually become compulsory, since no person in their right fucking mind would ever, ever consent to having a goddamn tattler installed in their cranium.
Up next: Neural sensor that can tell when you've committed a thoughtcrime, and wirelessly reports it to the proper authorities.
I can buy an entire movie studio for a few million bucks, so I don't see why anyone would want something less than half the price.
Because that "something else" in this case is a million dollar Sony Handycam, fucktard.
And not even one of the good first gen ones that let you see through clothing.
This is 'Merica, remember? That someone is receiving profits that should have gone to a corporation is far, far more important than the fact that some proles bought counterfeit goods.
And he had the nerve to use those ill-gotten gains to ensure an education for his offspring? SCUM! TRAITOR! To the gas chambers with him!
If you think verbal diarrhea is a behavior exclusive to Republicans, you haven't been listening to any Democrats.
When a boot smashes your face, it doesn't really matter if it's the Right one or the Left one, does it?
Man, I've been consorting with enemies left and right, haven't I?
Whatever am I going to do?
Incorporate; apparently, while es ist verboten for regular American citizens to interact with China, for corporations it is the ultimate act of patriotic duty.
As for the "mark of the beast" - I don't know what the heck are you talking about,
Biblical prophecy, from the book of Revelations (AKA John's Terrible, Horrible No Good, Very Bad Trip), Chapter 13:
Some fascinating metaphor in that particular prophecy, for those not so closed-minded as to discount it just because it comes from the Christian Bible.
I don't buy it, personally, but I do find it interesting considering one popular conspiracy theory that the secret cabal that truly runs the world (Bilderbergs, Illuminati, whatever) are a bunch of inbred satan worshippers trying to bring about the Christian apocalypse.
Really interesting stuff, especially if you're into occult anthropology.
Added to foe list. Disgusting.
Yea, how fucked is it that other people are allowed to have beliefs and ideas that differ from yours?
Not being a egocentric dick is hard
You know, laying off staff can improve efficiency if they're not doing anything useful or have become surplus to requirements. There's a reason it's called "being made redundant."
I've always felt that way about board members; all I ever see them do (on the rare occasion they even show up) is go into catered meetings and bullshit with each other.
And those dickheads are being paid millions for... well, to be honest I have no fucking idea. Wearing suits, I guess.
P.S. Fuck you Dice, /. was a news aggregator long before you ever came along and probably will be long after you've folded. If I wanted to read half-baked op-ed pieces I'd buy a fucking newspaper.
^ making me wish I had mod points.
Robocopy doesn't keep the ACM dates across volumes. So it is certainly not a 1:1 copy.
The only thing that comes close, but still not there completely, is the legacy MS (Veritas) backup utility. And that one is far from automated.
What about SyncToy? Seems to work pretty well, at least it does for me.
Interesting; the only issue I've hit so far is that I can't use one device (Nexus 7) for media and another (Droid X) for phone, but I think that's pretty much a universal limitation.
bluetooth would have cost me $2000
i know someone with a Lexus RX and galaxy s3. and getting it to play music over bluetooth was such a PITA, not worth the trouble
Funny, my wife's Jetta has no issue at all playing music from either of our Android phones, nor the Nexus 7 I got her for her birthday, via Bluetooth.
Maybe Lexus just sucks at Bluetooth... another possibility would be that whoever was trying to set up the Bluetooth connection on the RX had no idea what they were doing.
I would also like to take a moment to sincerely apologize to the tin foil hat crowd: I have made fun of you in the past, only now I am sorry I was too blind to really listen. You were right all along.
Reminds me of my favorite Heinlein quote:
"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable."
I have no idea why people keep that stuff.
Now, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum,
What might be right for you, may not be right for some.
A man is born, he's a man of means.
Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans.
But they got, Diff'rent Strokes.
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes.
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.
Everybody's got a special kind of story
Everybody finds a way to shine,
It don't matter that you got not alot
So what,
They'll have theirs, and you'll have yours, and I'll have mine.
And together we'll be fine....
Because it takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.
Yes it does.
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.
"We must sacrifice our freedoms to protect our freedoms" is a dumb statement, but not a crazy one. It makes a point, and it allows for rebuttal and debate.
I challenge you to try and debate that point with the people who make it. At the end of the conversation, at least one of you will be crazy.
"Obama can go suck on my machine gun" is a crazy statement. Rather than put forward any argument, it's a personal threat against the man he disagrees with.
So, if I said "Antipater can take a flying leap at a rolling doughnut," you'd consider that a crazy statement and threat? Because that's pretty much what Nugent did, albeit with slightly more violent rhetoric.
Take a counterpoint: Charlton Heston was a firm defender of the 2nd Amendment. He spoke loudly and openly for his Constitutional rights. But he did not (afaik, at least) spew vitriol, personal attacks, or threats.
Ironic to say the least, as Heston's famous "you can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands" statement could actually be construed as a direct threat of violence, whereas the Nugent statement you quote is essentially his way of saying, "Mr. President, go fuck yourself."
See, Heston was making a direct statement of violent intent based on the actions of another - i.e., if you try and take his gun away, he's going to defend his possession of it to the death. In Nugent's statement, all he said was that Obama "can suck on my machinegun," which is not a direct statement of violent intent, nor requiring any action on anyone else's part - hell, for all we know, the Nuge was referring to his own dick (this is my rifle, this is my gun...), which would make the statement more of a proposition than anything.
Both Heston and Nugent held opinions that I disagree with, but I consider Nugent and not Heston to be crazy.
Pardon me, then, if I find that an odd position to take, considering.
Ah, yes, a classic.
That one ranks up with the internet-enabled toaster.
That's what parking tickets are for.
Hmm.. shuriken, perhaps?
Some neat ideas here
OK, that's all well and good, but what scenario do you propose that would make the 5 1/4" floppy disk a useful tool again?
Wobbly tables.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671723650
You should read it.
No, really.