Only the Blue Stuff seems truely sweet to me. The Pink Stuff and the Yellow Stuff are sweet up to a point, beyond which they just start tasting ickyer rather than sweeter.
I've noticed that some diet soft drinks have switched over to the Yellow Stuff; they don't taste as good as when they were sweetened with the Blue Stuff. Thankfully, Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi aren't among them...
Wal-Mart is replacing the local hardware store? You gotta be kidding.
I would only go to Wal-Mart for hardware if there was no other place open and it was urgent (like my toilet spewing water all over the floor). Wal-Mart just doesn't have a very extensive harware department.
Lowe's and Home Depot, on the other hand, THEY are killing the local hardware store.
Interesting observation (sorry, no mod points for me today). We're so addicted to bread and circuses that we'll take whatever stale crumb is offered. There is no competition for audiences.
Now a days, we get a 9-digit number concatenated onto our identity at birth. More than 5 digits, but I have no problem remembering it. Not that I wan't YOU to know what that number is, though...
Yeah, it looks like from reading stuff that you don't actually have to provide your SSN to banks or employers under federal law, even though that's what they want you to believe. Apparently the federal government requires your bank and employer to request your SSN, but that's not the same as requiring that it be given.
The federal gummint requires you to attach your SSN to all financial accounts. That way they can tax you more efficiently....
Actually, they're calling it your "Taxpayer ID Number" nowadays, right? And you get one assigned before the umbilical cord is even cut as you come out of your mother's womb.
Remember when your Social Security Card stated right on it something to the effect that the number was NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION? That was ignored by everybody that wanted to uniquely identify you but was too lazy to make up their own unique identifier in their own ID space for you. Now even the government ignores it.
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I live in northern New Mexico, you insensitive clod!
You only want a buck?
Make them give you at least $5 to take the ticket off their hands.
You plagiarised that!
RDMS is pronounced, "riddums", right?
Ay-yuck.
Only the Blue Stuff seems truely sweet to me. The Pink Stuff and the Yellow Stuff are sweet up to a point, beyond which they just start tasting ickyer rather than sweeter.
I've noticed that some diet soft drinks have switched over to the Yellow Stuff; they don't taste as good as when they were sweetened with the Blue Stuff. Thankfully, Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi aren't among them...
In Passive voice: In Soviet Russia, you are ridden by the bike.
No, you meant, Ridiculous.
But that's OK, my Slashdot brother.
I feel your pain.
this Slashdot article in a few days.
Why bother?
I just rely on Echelon for my data backups...
Wal-Mart is replacing the local hardware store? You gotta be kidding.
I would only go to Wal-Mart for hardware if there was no other place open and it was urgent (like my toilet spewing water all over the floor). Wal-Mart just doesn't have a very extensive harware department.
Lowe's and Home Depot, on the other hand, THEY are killing the local hardware store.
Interesting observation (sorry, no mod points for me today). We're so addicted to bread and circuses that we'll take whatever stale crumb is offered. There is no competition for audiences.
...or maybe I meant Bon Voyage.
I'm not French, dammit!
I've already said Bonjour to Windows...
So, she's a big fan of, and wants to push DRM, eh?
I guess iBIQUITY is not gonna be too pleased...
Now a days, we get a 9-digit number concatenated onto our identity at birth. More than 5 digits, but I have no problem remembering it. Not that I wan't YOU to know what that number is, though...
Shouldn't that be www.JeffHemosBates-mo.tel ???
Norman!
Anybody who believes the universe is only 6000 years old really oughtta read this commentary.
You don't have to believe in the young earth nonsense to be a Christian.
How tragic.
Yeah, it looks like from reading stuff that you don't actually have to provide your SSN to banks or employers under federal law, even though that's what they want you to believe. Apparently the federal government requires your bank and employer to request your SSN, but that's not the same as requiring that it be given.
Good luck not giving it, though.
The federal gummint requires you to attach your SSN to all financial accounts. That way they can tax you more efficiently....
Actually, they're calling it your "Taxpayer ID Number" nowadays, right? And you get one assigned before the umbilical cord is even cut as you come out of your mother's womb.
Remember when your Social Security Card stated right on it something to the effect that the number was NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION? That was ignored by everybody that wanted to uniquely identify you but was too lazy to make up their own unique identifier in their own ID space for you. Now even the government ignores it.
No, it's restriction, not rights.
Rights are inherent; they don't need to be "managed".
Devil 'lopers! Devil 'lopers! Devil 'lopers! Devil 'lopers.....!
Corn, Beans and Squash have always been on the produce aisle.....
Oh, yeah.
I guess I didn't RTFA.
Eh?
I think RPF gets prior art on this one.