Cleaner stores have value. Aisles that aren't blocked with the shit of the day promotional displays have value. Stores with more adults than screaming crotch fruit have value. Location has value. Better delivery than Peapod has value.
Since I'm buying for one and I already have Prime, Whole Foods delivery rocks. Peapod $60 minimum order, $9.95 delivery fee, plus tip vs. Whole Foods $35 minimum order with a $5 tip and no charge for delivery if I pick a 2 hour window.
I still shop at the competitors for things Whole Foods doesn't carry so I do have an idea of what prices I'd be paying elsewhere but I have to go out of my way to get there. Buying for one, there is not a big enough difference to stop shopping at a cleaner, more convenient location that has a better delivery service if I need it. If I were trying to feed a family of four I'd be doing most of my shopping at Big Y, Stop & Shop, etc. and driving a minivan.
In my area we had a lovely little store called Cheese & Stuff, organic groceries, homeopathic remedies, trendy food to go. I liked the groceries if not the to go items. They got bought out by Wild Oats and we were promised that the location would stay open. Gone in no time flat. Didn't cry when Wild Oats got bought out.
A good quality print costs - heavy acid free paper, non-fugitive ink, high resolution image which was most likely created by a professional photographer or scanned by someone that really knows what they are doing. It may cost more if it is still under copyright but even a public domain image is going to cost if you want a good quality print. If Walmart and the Museum of Modern Art ever sell the same public domain image, pretty sure I can tell you which one will still look good ten years. Sometimes, you do get what you pay for.
The five-paragraph essay is the English language equivalent of "Hello World" and other elementary programs in a programming language.
Yes! Many years ago all the freshman at my college had to write an essay (probably the 5 paragraph essay) that determined whether or not you need to take writing classes. If you showed basic competence, you were excused from taking writing 101. The theory was that you would still improve your writing as the entire college was writing heavy and all classes used the same style book. Those that failed were doomed to keep taking writing classes until the English professors freed them.
This may be out of date but as of 2014, Android and Google Mobile Store did not have license fees. Manufacturers needed testing, from third parties NOT Google, to get the license to install Google Mobile Store. The third parties did charge for their services. https://www.theguardian.com/te...
If this is a problem, I would think the EU is a big enough market with enough bright minds that they can roll out their own version of Android and create their own store. I'm sure somebody's brother would be delighted to get the contract. Who knows, it might make a great export and proceed to stomp all over Android (and Google).
So, how can you be sure that the intruder is A) unarmed and B) a juvenile? Anyone breaking into my house in the middle of the night is automatically going to be considered dangerous. I'm sure as hell not going to ask his/her age before defending myself. If its obvious that the intruder is a YOUNG juvenile that does NOT pose an immediate physical threat, yes shooting is highly unlikely. A six-foot tall, 200 pounder is likely to be shot and I don't care if he/she is fourteen or forty.
It really depends on location. If there is a state run college in your city/county and you live in one of the cheaper parts of the country, it is doable. If you can live at home, you save big time on housing and food service fees and you get the in-state tuition discount. I have a family member taking that route now.
Also 20 years ago, your local TV news stations hadn't yet embraced fear-based programming.
Maybe not your local TV news station but a great many jumped on that a long time ago. 'If it bleeds, it leads' has been the standard for ages. 1982 gave us 'Dirty Laundry.' Pre-TV, see 'yellow journalism.' The only difference I see is that there is now a 24/7 news cycle on cable and even local stations have become 24/7 thanks to the internet.
I'm curious about "the breaking of contracts" you speak of. If someone asks the baker to create a cake and the baker says no (for whatever reason), there is no contract. If someone asks the baker to create a cake and the baker says yes, then there is a contract. The state and/or city where your business is located may dictate that you either serve everyone or no one but I wouldn't consider that a contract.
That said, I sure as hell wouldn't want to consume any substance that someone was forced to make for my own peace of mind. Also, the baker that shows any reluctance in creating a cake or attends a holy roller church (or other place of worship) that frowns on or goes postal on certain issues is now going looking at a very real possibility that the purchaser will complain that the cake wasn't right because the baker is discriminating against them. The fact that it *may* have been a perfectly good cake won't matter.
Luckily, I am not a baker and I really don't care what two consulting adults do anyways.
How many moms? You might be surprised. I don't know many divorced couples well but the one I do know he pays child support and she has the kids on paper. 90% of the time they live with him.
We have become so damned politically correct (and self-righteously proud of it), that we waste resources on hassling people that are not just unlikely but highly unlikely to be the criminal or the terrorist. (Ooh, look, see we groped a 90 year old granny and a two year as well as the twenty year old from the Middle East. We are really sorry we groped the guy.) Did the TSA really need to pull me out of line just before boarding to have me remove my cat from his carrier so that the agent could feel him up? The agent also patted down the inside of the carrier (which had already been sent through the x-ray machine) and ignored the zippered pouches on the outside of it. Security theater at its finest.
When bombings and other terrorist activities are being carried out on a regular basis by gingers (former ginger here), it only makes sense to look at them FIRST when another bomb goes off if the bomber was so inconsiderate as to not leave an obvious calling card. It also makes sense to look at other characteristics that previous KNOWN bombers may have in common and use those as well to do a quick narrowing of the suspect pool. If a number of middle-aged Irish women who worked in sewing sweatshops and whose husbands ran off with English hussies started bombing English tea shops, that's the logical place to start looking when the next tea shop is bombed UNLESS there is a reasonable cause not to (say a witness reporting Milo leaving a backpack at the scene then mincing off).
The same goes for regular criminal stuff. A beat cop should be aware of what goes on his watch and what looks out of the ordinary. I spent part of my childhood in the south. There were certain neighborhoods that were (and sadly remain) very segregated. Seeing someone that didn't fit in was, sometimes, the sign that something wasn't on the up and up. If you saw a white guy in a midlife crisis car in certain areas, it probably wasn't to hand out copies of the Watchtower. It's reasonable profiling to keep an eye on him and to stop him if he has a broken headlight. If the drug runners use a certain route, at certain times, in certain types of vehicles, with certain types of drivers I would expect the police to stop a car with a broken headlight if it matched most of the criteria. Yes, the broken headlight then gets them up close and personal with vehicle and driver and MAY lead to something more than a simple ticket (hey, that white dude had some crack, who'd of thunk) but it doesn't involve stopping anyone just because they are black/white/latino/whatever.
And your seriously think that you can substitute offering rewards for information? Not saying that rewards don't work sometimes but I wonder how many deliberately false leads the police end up chasing because
1) making your ex's life a living hell is so totally worth it
2) this guy's family is from Afghanistan so he must have done it
3) nothing like ruining a competitor by having the cops raid him on the evening news
Sadly, that's very similar to how it was handled on my undergrad campus. The drinking age at the time was 19. The official campus pub served beer only (well soda too) but if you brought your professor, you could get a free pitcher of beer. Professors would also host dinner parties for students and one memorable evening included a different wine with each course. You learned to drink in moderation and with respect for the people around you. Yes, there was additional drinking on campus from monitored TGI parties that provide beer and non-alcoholic beverages to what went on in the dorms. The campus was laid out in a way that made it difficult to drive on or off campus if you were drunk. For the most part, the system as a whole worked. Did some folk get wasted and do stupid crap? Yes, they also got high on drugs and did stupid crap. Some of them did stupid crap for no known reason. For what its worth, I still believe that it is a much more rational way to handle things then what Stanford and the morality police on both sides of the aisle are trying to do.
And yet in most people's daily lives, the janitor is more useful and come with a much lower cost. GIMP isn't Photoshop but most people, repeat after me, don't need Photoshop and don't use it to its full potential even if they have it.
And it has been, at least in this country, for a VERY long time, like before my grandparents were born. Teach the immigrants to be good Americans (speak American, cook American, celebrate American, screw that Catholic country you came from). Fast forward, "if your mommy is a commie, you got to turn her in." Fast forward to today, well I don't have kids or grandkids so I'm not sure what they are pushing in my neighborhood but my brother's kids (if FL) were taught songs praising Obama. Seriously.
But if the accused is caught and goes to trial (or is even headed to trial), guess what? You get to put YOUR life on hold in case either side wants you to testify. Funny thing is that you can be served notice again and again to testify while one or both sides dick around. That happened to my mother who reported seeing a burglary in progress from the window in her computer room. My mother tried to be a good citizen and would have been fine testifying if they hadn't kept summoning her for a trial that was postponed again and again and again. After a year or so of being jerked around (mostly, if not entirely by the defendant's legal team), she relocated her computer away from the window so she wouldn't see anything that she would (or should) have to report in the future.
The degree to which any of this was interpreted as metaphor varied from gnostic sect to gnostic sect. The Quakers were pretty literal about it, to the point of refusing to breed because doing so was an indulgence in the corruption of matter. That's why they aren't around any more.
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The Shakers, not Quakers, practiced abstinence. Not a good long-term plan if you want to keep your sect going.
It seems to me that keeping a larger dog in the city is somewhat cruel, as they don't have any place to run around and end up confined in a tiny apartment or cage all the time..
The larger dog may not have nearly the energy to burn that some of the ankle biters do. Some breeds are rambunctious (Jack Russell Terrier), some are practically carpets (Newfoundlands). Retired greyhounds apparently do very well in apartments as long as they are properly exercised.
Don't forget to ban hands (punch/strangle), feed (kick/stomp), and dogs. Maybe we should just ban the human race. We tend to be pretty good at finding ways to kill each other.
But what if most women do NOT want to be in auto repair, roofing, or any other given profession? Same for men, maybe they do NOT want to be elementary school teachers or nurses? So what. I'd like to think that my likes and dislikes can be taken into consideration when training for a job. Yes, by all means give students the opportunity (thirty plus years ago I was the only girl in my "Power and Transportation" class) but beyond that, let the individual not the collective decide. Activists thinking that shoving people into fields that they have no interest in or demanding quotas be filled so that companies end up hiring less than motivated folk are a societal good can kiss my tush. By the same token, companies that bypass qualified, motivated people because of gender are only helping their competition. Hopefully, those companies fail.
Now these soft drinks were speciality drinks, were candy not meant for constant consumption, so they were not targeted towards to being part of your daily diet. Then we get to those silly Baby Boomers who never wanted to grow up..
The mothers of those Baby Boomers were served up delightful ads in the 1950s making sure that they knew that drinking Coke would make their little darling happy and popular. While they may not have been serving it at at the dinner table, they were encouraged to provide it for after school or, given one illustration that I recall, as soon as the kids stopped sitting in a high chair. It was GOOD for them.
Now I'm at the tail end of the Boomers and my own mother made sure that soda was a treat. We could guzzle all the Kool-Aid (with real sugar) we could handle but soda was special. She also bought some seriously nasty sodas (Verner's, Royal Crown) that we hated so we preferred the Kool-Aid or iced tea (sweetened or unsweetened). I suspect that she was not alone. Her favorite trick though was filling the gallon sized bottle water with tap water. We all knew she did it but the kids in the neighborhood never figured it out and swore the bottled water tasted better.
Well looking at the site, I would not be heading to her for a diagnosis. I had already pegged her as a fruitcake at "Environmental Medicine." The Agent Orange was just the icing on the cake for me. It's nice when the nuttiness is easy to spot.
But, but Dr. Jeanne Hubbach is Board Certified in Family Practice and Environmental Medicine. Other tidbits (according to the Massachusetts Network of Information Providers for People with Disabilities), she apparently doesn't accept any type of insurance treats everything from asthma to Agent Orange.
Seriously though, the poster that elsewhere suggested the family in question move to homestead in Alaska has the right idea. It's a beautiful place. They can replace the nonsensical danger of WiFi with moose and bear.
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Cleaner stores have value. Aisles that aren't blocked with the shit of the day promotional displays have value. Stores with more adults than screaming crotch fruit have value. Location has value. Better delivery than Peapod has value.
Since I'm buying for one and I already have Prime, Whole Foods delivery rocks. Peapod $60 minimum order, $9.95 delivery fee, plus tip vs. Whole Foods $35 minimum order with a $5 tip and no charge for delivery if I pick a 2 hour window.
I still shop at the competitors for things Whole Foods doesn't carry so I do have an idea of what prices I'd be paying elsewhere but I have to go out of my way to get there. Buying for one, there is not a big enough difference to stop shopping at a cleaner, more convenient location that has a better delivery service if I need it. If I were trying to feed a family of four I'd be doing most of my shopping at Big Y, Stop & Shop, etc. and driving a minivan.
In my area we had a lovely little store called Cheese & Stuff, organic groceries, homeopathic remedies, trendy food to go. I liked the groceries if not the to go items. They got bought out by Wild Oats and we were promised that the location would stay open. Gone in no time flat. Didn't cry when Wild Oats got bought out.
A good quality print costs - heavy acid free paper, non-fugitive ink, high resolution image which was most likely created by a professional photographer or scanned by someone that really knows what they are doing. It may cost more if it is still under copyright but even a public domain image is going to cost if you want a good quality print. If Walmart and the Museum of Modern Art ever sell the same public domain image, pretty sure I can tell you which one will still look good ten years. Sometimes, you do get what you pay for.
The five-paragraph essay is the English language equivalent of "Hello World" and other elementary programs in a programming language. Yes! Many years ago all the freshman at my college had to write an essay (probably the 5 paragraph essay) that determined whether or not you need to take writing classes. If you showed basic competence, you were excused from taking writing 101. The theory was that you would still improve your writing as the entire college was writing heavy and all classes used the same style book. Those that failed were doomed to keep taking writing classes until the English professors freed them.
This may be out of date but as of 2014, Android and Google Mobile Store did not have license fees. Manufacturers needed testing, from third parties NOT Google, to get the license to install Google Mobile Store. The third parties did charge for their services. https://www.theguardian.com/te... If this is a problem, I would think the EU is a big enough market with enough bright minds that they can roll out their own version of Android and create their own store. I'm sure somebody's brother would be delighted to get the contract. Who knows, it might make a great export and proceed to stomp all over Android (and Google).
I don't have points today otherwise I could have downvoted our troll.
Roads,bah. Real Americans don't drive on the roads...
So, how can you be sure that the intruder is A) unarmed and B) a juvenile? Anyone breaking into my house in the middle of the night is automatically going to be considered dangerous. I'm sure as hell not going to ask his/her age before defending myself. If its obvious that the intruder is a YOUNG juvenile that does NOT pose an immediate physical threat, yes shooting is highly unlikely. A six-foot tall, 200 pounder is likely to be shot and I don't care if he/she is fourteen or forty.
It really depends on location. If there is a state run college in your city/county and you live in one of the cheaper parts of the country, it is doable. If you can live at home, you save big time on housing and food service fees and you get the in-state tuition discount. I have a family member taking that route now.
Please, I'm so old we had soda and snack machines that contained sugar contaminated items at school.
Also 20 years ago, your local TV news stations hadn't yet embraced fear-based programming.
Maybe not your local TV news station but a great many jumped on that a long time ago. 'If it bleeds, it leads' has been the standard for ages. 1982 gave us 'Dirty Laundry.' Pre-TV, see 'yellow journalism.' The only difference I see is that there is now a 24/7 news cycle on cable and even local stations have become 24/7 thanks to the internet.
I'm curious about "the breaking of contracts" you speak of. If someone asks the baker to create a cake and the baker says no (for whatever reason), there is no contract. If someone asks the baker to create a cake and the baker says yes, then there is a contract. The state and/or city where your business is located may dictate that you either serve everyone or no one but I wouldn't consider that a contract. That said, I sure as hell wouldn't want to consume any substance that someone was forced to make for my own peace of mind. Also, the baker that shows any reluctance in creating a cake or attends a holy roller church (or other place of worship) that frowns on or goes postal on certain issues is now going looking at a very real possibility that the purchaser will complain that the cake wasn't right because the baker is discriminating against them. The fact that it *may* have been a perfectly good cake won't matter. Luckily, I am not a baker and I really don't care what two consulting adults do anyways.
How many moms? You might be surprised. I don't know many divorced couples well but the one I do know he pays child support and she has the kids on paper. 90% of the time they live with him.
We have become so damned politically correct (and self-righteously proud of it), that we waste resources on hassling people that are not just unlikely but highly unlikely to be the criminal or the terrorist. (Ooh, look, see we groped a 90 year old granny and a two year as well as the twenty year old from the Middle East. We are really sorry we groped the guy.) Did the TSA really need to pull me out of line just before boarding to have me remove my cat from his carrier so that the agent could feel him up? The agent also patted down the inside of the carrier (which had already been sent through the x-ray machine) and ignored the zippered pouches on the outside of it. Security theater at its finest.
When bombings and other terrorist activities are being carried out on a regular basis by gingers (former ginger here), it only makes sense to look at them FIRST when another bomb goes off if the bomber was so inconsiderate as to not leave an obvious calling card. It also makes sense to look at other characteristics that previous KNOWN bombers may have in common and use those as well to do a quick narrowing of the suspect pool. If a number of middle-aged Irish women who worked in sewing sweatshops and whose husbands ran off with English hussies started bombing English tea shops, that's the logical place to start looking when the next tea shop is bombed UNLESS there is a reasonable cause not to (say a witness reporting Milo leaving a backpack at the scene then mincing off).
The same goes for regular criminal stuff. A beat cop should be aware of what goes on his watch and what looks out of the ordinary. I spent part of my childhood in the south. There were certain neighborhoods that were (and sadly remain) very segregated. Seeing someone that didn't fit in was, sometimes, the sign that something wasn't on the up and up. If you saw a white guy in a midlife crisis car in certain areas, it probably wasn't to hand out copies of the Watchtower. It's reasonable profiling to keep an eye on him and to stop him if he has a broken headlight. If the drug runners use a certain route, at certain times, in certain types of vehicles, with certain types of drivers I would expect the police to stop a car with a broken headlight if it matched most of the criteria. Yes, the broken headlight then gets them up close and personal with vehicle and driver and MAY lead to something more than a simple ticket (hey, that white dude had some crack, who'd of thunk) but it doesn't involve stopping anyone just because they are black/white/latino/whatever.
And your seriously think that you can substitute offering rewards for information? Not saying that rewards don't work sometimes but I wonder how many deliberately false leads the police end up chasing because
1) making your ex's life a living hell is so totally worth it
2) this guy's family is from Afghanistan so he must have done it
3) nothing like ruining a competitor by having the cops raid him on the evening news
Sadly, that's very similar to how it was handled on my undergrad campus. The drinking age at the time was 19. The official campus pub served beer only (well soda too) but if you brought your professor, you could get a free pitcher of beer. Professors would also host dinner parties for students and one memorable evening included a different wine with each course. You learned to drink in moderation and with respect for the people around you. Yes, there was additional drinking on campus from monitored TGI parties that provide beer and non-alcoholic beverages to what went on in the dorms. The campus was laid out in a way that made it difficult to drive on or off campus if you were drunk. For the most part, the system as a whole worked. Did some folk get wasted and do stupid crap? Yes, they also got high on drugs and did stupid crap. Some of them did stupid crap for no known reason. For what its worth, I still believe that it is a much more rational way to handle things then what Stanford and the morality police on both sides of the aisle are trying to do.
And yet in most people's daily lives, the janitor is more useful and come with a much lower cost. GIMP isn't Photoshop but most people, repeat after me, don't need Photoshop and don't use it to its full potential even if they have it.
it's ALL about indoctrination and intimidation
And it has been, at least in this country, for a VERY long time, like before my grandparents were born. Teach the immigrants to be good Americans (speak American, cook American, celebrate American, screw that Catholic country you came from). Fast forward, "if your mommy is a commie, you got to turn her in." Fast forward to today, well I don't have kids or grandkids so I'm not sure what they are pushing in my neighborhood but my brother's kids (if FL) were taught songs praising Obama. Seriously.
You can't be detained for reporting a crime.
But if the accused is caught and goes to trial (or is even headed to trial), guess what? You get to put YOUR life on hold in case either side wants you to testify. Funny thing is that you can be served notice again and again to testify while one or both sides dick around. That happened to my mother who reported seeing a burglary in progress from the window in her computer room. My mother tried to be a good citizen and would have been fine testifying if they hadn't kept summoning her for a trial that was postponed again and again and again. After a year or so of being jerked around (mostly, if not entirely by the defendant's legal team), she relocated her computer away from the window so she wouldn't see anything that she would (or should) have to report in the future.
The degree to which any of this was interpreted as metaphor varied from gnostic sect to gnostic sect. The Quakers were pretty literal about it, to the point of refusing to breed because doing so was an indulgence in the corruption of matter. That's why they aren't around any more.
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The Shakers, not Quakers, practiced abstinence. Not a good long-term plan if you want to keep your sect going.
It seems to me that keeping a larger dog in the city is somewhat cruel, as they don't have any place to run around and end up confined in a tiny apartment or cage all the time..
The larger dog may not have nearly the energy to burn that some of the ankle biters do. Some breeds are rambunctious (Jack Russell Terrier), some are practically carpets (Newfoundlands). Retired greyhounds apparently do very well in apartments as long as they are properly exercised.
Don't forget to ban hands (punch/strangle), feed (kick/stomp), and dogs. Maybe we should just ban the human race. We tend to be pretty good at finding ways to kill each other.
But what if most women do NOT want to be in auto repair, roofing, or any other given profession? Same for men, maybe they do NOT want to be elementary school teachers or nurses? So what. I'd like to think that my likes and dislikes can be taken into consideration when training for a job. Yes, by all means give students the opportunity (thirty plus years ago I was the only girl in my "Power and Transportation" class) but beyond that, let the individual not the collective decide. Activists thinking that shoving people into fields that they have no interest in or demanding quotas be filled so that companies end up hiring less than motivated folk are a societal good can kiss my tush. By the same token, companies that bypass qualified, motivated people because of gender are only helping their competition. Hopefully, those companies fail.
Now these soft drinks were speciality drinks, were candy not meant for constant consumption, so they were not targeted towards to being part of your daily diet. Then we get to those silly Baby Boomers who never wanted to grow up..
The mothers of those Baby Boomers were served up delightful ads in the 1950s making sure that they knew that drinking Coke would make their little darling happy and popular. While they may not have been serving it at at the dinner table, they were encouraged to provide it for after school or, given one illustration that I recall, as soon as the kids stopped sitting in a high chair. It was GOOD for them. Now I'm at the tail end of the Boomers and my own mother made sure that soda was a treat. We could guzzle all the Kool-Aid (with real sugar) we could handle but soda was special. She also bought some seriously nasty sodas (Verner's, Royal Crown) that we hated so we preferred the Kool-Aid or iced tea (sweetened or unsweetened). I suspect that she was not alone. Her favorite trick though was filling the gallon sized bottle water with tap water. We all knew she did it but the kids in the neighborhood never figured it out and swore the bottled water tasted better.
Well looking at the site, I would not be heading to her for a diagnosis. I had already pegged her as a fruitcake at "Environmental Medicine." The Agent Orange was just the icing on the cake for me. It's nice when the nuttiness is easy to spot.
But, but Dr. Jeanne Hubbach is Board Certified in Family Practice and Environmental Medicine. Other tidbits (according to the Massachusetts Network of Information Providers for People with Disabilities), she apparently doesn't accept any type of insurance treats everything from asthma to Agent Orange. Seriously though, the poster that elsewhere suggested the family in question move to homestead in Alaska has the right idea. It's a beautiful place. They can replace the nonsensical danger of WiFi with moose and bear.