Ask yourself this: do you suppose the average Hanz Six-pack circa 1940 thought his country was anything like the country we now can't discuss without invoking Goodwin's law?
Personally, I think they've earned an exemption...
It isn't that country and that party I keep hearing compared to the present situation, but the Empire of Rome as it began to crumble. Spin a globe about 180 degrees and look at a rising economic giant. The US is mired in debt and a stagnating economy while it looks for more ways to exacerbate both situations.
It has been said that one of the straws that broke the back of the Soviet Union was the cost of the arms race (while Reagan blew huge $ on space-based weapons), bankrupting them. The russians ended up with an $80 billion national debt. Meanwhile, here's the US with, what $7 trillion in the red and borrowing heavily already from China while their momentum builds. In probably 5 years they'll be the big dog and have squat for debt. Where's that leave the US?
People don't care because Dubya is known as "a good Christian man." I'm quoting a lady who actually told me not to badmouth him for that reason. I was completely floored by such blind faith in a fallable human. I guess most people aren't. Sad.
I'm sure Isabella Borja felt the same way about her son Rodrigo or Sra. de Torquemada about her son Tomás.
This information is all public- you could get info on how much your neighbors had given before the election. Everything's supposedly public, but the grouping of it all is a little hard to track. There's a website out there somewhere that has all this data mapped out.
I was stunned when I heard, some years back, that W. had $70 million in his campaign war chest before most of the public even heard he was going to run for president. Up to that point most of us would have been thinking John McCain would be running against Al Gore.
and are creating the circumstances from which the instrument of their downfall will arise -- corruption beyond imagination.
Acutally it'll be the attempt on Social Security Reform -- it really is the third rail of politics and anyone in his party in the House or Senate who endorses his dangerous and crazy proposals will politically die.
I think it'll never get anywhere anyway, it'll all peter out as he's getting something like 10% support wherever he goes. If it does show up in the House or Senate it'll be shoved under the carpet for the next president.
I'm not up on US politics, is this a usual thing done by most parties when in government or is this something strange?
I'm still puzzled by Condi Rice's trip to Russia and former Soviet republics, critcizing the way their governments work, while the US seems to be slouching more that way every day. I wonder if I didn't miss a wink in her eye when she said those things.
I'd rather call them transparently corrupt. How about a rubberstamp government, like those we lately seem to be
suggesting oughta respect democratic principles, etc. (so long as they represent the right democratic principles, unlike
all those heathen socialists in South America.)
I'm one of those old enough to remember quite a few of Richard M. Nixon's shenanigans and I'm absolutely amazed how much
dirtier this administration is and profoundly disappointed that people just don't seem to care. Heck, if Nixon were still around
he'd probably get a Presidential Medal of Freedom for spying on americans and his groundbreaking work on coverups. Small wonder
Cheney's threatening to get tough with dems in the Senate, they see what's going on and the priorities of the administration.
On the way in this morning I heard a blurb about an upcoming film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
and it got me thinking about what a hatchet job was done on California Governor Gray Davis (while I'm not a particularly huge fan of his) apparently
to lay the foundation for a republican challenger to replace a disgraced democrat, while the Dept of Energy and the president
sat on their hands.
Where is the sense of outrage? I dunno, pass me another beer.
Also, popcorn is far less solid than styro. A good friend of mine got a rare terminal packed in popcorn - the terminal had quickly crushed the popcorn to a fine pulp and proceeded to fall apart itself.
Cripes. Read what you wrote! A terminal! Even styrofoam peanuts wouldn't be up to that kind of load. You'd need reinforced packaging.
I've had people ship me things, amature packing jobs to be sure, just tossed into a box of peanuts and found half the volume of packing material reduced by the time it got to me. Mass of the item being packed should be taken into consideration. I'd probably have at least done a box in a box to spread the impact out a bit.
I have read this a few times, never seen any substantiated confirmation that popcorn is a good packing material. OK, if your father told you so, maybe they did try it at least once. But, from some controlled experiments I have read about, popcorn is actually a shitty packing material, compared to styrofoam.
Your experiences are far to grounded in the past few decades. Popcorn was frequently used for delicate electronics and other instruments ad there were few alternatives. There were some materials which resembled dried hanging-moss, but regarding mice and cockroaches, that's a pretty esoteric concern. A package wasn't likely to sit around long enough for pests to find it.
My father mentioned his colleagues trying some of the popcorn packing material, but indicated they weren't very enthusiastic about eating it, even in WW II days when everything was scarce and rationed.
and I just wasted all my mod points on that great email database story! I would much rather have them back for this earth shattering news.
Gosh! It is important news! Aside from the live-shot thing, but I'm not much into hunting and very much into munching a huge bag of quality kernels (not Linux kernels!) while watching lightsabres clash and Han Solo shooting first.
Makes great packing material, as long is it's air popped!
This was one of the original uses for popcorn, before styrofoam peanuts. My father, who worked at Oakridge on the Manhattan Project told me how they'd receive delicate instruments, packed in boxes of the stuff.
If you're really serious about yield throw out your microwave and go back to the basics. It's cheaper, tastes better, you have more control over the additives, it never burns like a microwave, and the yield is superior to microwaves.
Indeed. Microwave popcorn is purely convenience, as long as a microwave is nearby. Not very useful when camping. Some of those microwave corns smell pretty awful and taste like so many melted Crayolas. If forced to buy it, I always opt for the lowest oil, non-flavored sort. i.e. Paul Newman's light.
'In the varieties popped, the percentage of unpopped kernels ranged from 4 percent in premium brands to 47 percent in the cheaper ones.' So buying the good stuff for home use is probably worth it."
Not necessarily true. The quality of kernels is of minor concern, major concern is time to market and freshness.
Keep your unpopped corn in a sealed container to maintain humidity level and keep it fron drying out.
Microwave popcorns aren't all going to be equal, either, as the oil/salt compositions will vary which affect
the hulls of kernels. I've found microwave popcorn has a very short shelflife compared to plain kernel corn.
Freshly opened popcorn has fewer 'widows and orphans' than older corn, especially corn which has been
left exposed to air.
Like all things, popcorn engineered to look better or pop better in a microwave isn't necessarily
your best tasting corn, either. I only buy microwave corn when I feel I need some for within the next few days and usually
not just for myself. If eating popcorn at home I'm more likely to air pop some good stuff and put on real butter and use
actual popcorn salt (not that table salt which is appearing in cheaper theaters everywhere.)
I don't have a paper on this anywhere, but I have had considerable experience popping corn, particularly in
college where it helped absorb lots of beer. Naturally popcorn which comes in jars is going to fare better
than that in plastic bags, but how old the kernels are is the most decisive factor and a higher end popcorn distributor
is more likely to have better packaging. A more porous hull is likely to dry out faster or be weakened by contact with
hydrogenated oils in any case.
Your 4% to 47% is most likely attributable to quality of packaging, how long the product took to get to market and how long
it stayed on the shelf (including shelf time at home.) Granted, better advertised brands are more likely to
move through distribution and stores than generic brands, which may give it some edge.
What's
more near and dear to my heart, when I shell several zorkmids at the bijou for my greasy paper bag is what the fsck
they're putting on the corn. Most of those butter replacements are horrible and concession stands should be required to post
a warning that their 'Butter' isn't butter at all but a blended gookum of vegetable oils. There's only one theater left in my area which still uses genuine
butter.
Where Blogs come in HUGE is... you don't really know if the person doing the speaking is rich or poor. The status can be a complete mystery. That's true democracy.
Stock tip: Buy Blog stocks. There'll be a boom any day now. Remember to dump the stock just as the market hits saturation.
There are those born with no shame. The rest of us suffer with our consciences.
Reminds me of former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, who had quite the large collection of
priceless gems, for someone who got by on a mayor's salary. There was a reason Detroit
kept getting worse and worse and it couldn't all be blamed on Ford, GM and Chrysler.
Isn't Paul Allen away from Microsoft? I thought he left the company and took his billions of $ to pursue his own dreams.
I live in Santa Cruz, where SCO was formerly known as Santa Cruz Operation, and knew a few good people who used to work there about 7 years ago. SCO had a decent attitude and had good connections with people at my employer, so whatever we were using we received excellent support. It's all gone now, I don't know if anyone is still over there in the buildings near Harvey West.
Um, gee, if everyone already doesn't get their weather information from the National Weather Service, then what the fuck are they so worried about?
Clearly you're being rhetorical, but I'll fire off a response anyway:
Accuweather: For $20 I'll tell you whether you're in danger or not.
Me: I don't want to pay $20, that's crazy.
Accuweather: Oh, your safety isn't worth $20? How about you watch a bunch of commercials before we show you if you're in danger or not?
Me: I shouldn't have to sit through a bunch of ads to see that I'm in danger! Next it'll be the emergency sirens, won't it? "Emergency bulletin regarding public safety, but first, theses messages from our sponsors..."
Accuweather: We have a right to make a buck.
Me: Sure, but not at the expense of my safety!
Ok, here's how it'll work. I'll contract the US Dept. of Defense to do some guard detail for me,
somewhere, where I contract out their services. once the DoD enters into these sorts of contracts, the next time
the US invades some country I'll
write Senator Rick Santorum, complaining bitterly how they've giving away their services for free and unfairly
competing with my private business interests, (especially if I've contracted the DoD to guard the country they
are invading.)
Once the bill motors through the Senate and House, and has the signature of the prez (Hey, the GOP loves private
businesses, right?) I'll be able to direct when and where war actually takes place.
This should undoubtably improve my popularity gasp and maybe get me a gulp date with that cutie gosh I've had
my eye on for a while!
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It isn't that country and that party I keep hearing compared to the present situation, but the Empire of Rome as it began to crumble. Spin a globe about 180 degrees and look at a rising economic giant. The US is mired in debt and a stagnating economy while it looks for more ways to exacerbate both situations.
It has been said that one of the straws that broke the back of the Soviet Union was the cost of the arms race (while Reagan blew huge $ on space-based weapons), bankrupting them. The russians ended up with an $80 billion national debt. Meanwhile, here's the US with, what $7 trillion in the red and borrowing heavily already from China while their momentum builds. In probably 5 years they'll be the big dog and have squat for debt. Where's that leave the US?
Complacency is expensive. Ask any roman.
I'm sure Isabella Borja felt the same way about her son Rodrigo or Sra. de Torquemada about her son Tomás.
I was stunned when I heard, some years back, that W. had $70 million in his campaign war chest before most of the public even heard he was going to run for president. Up to that point most of us would have been thinking John McCain would be running against Al Gore.
Acutally it'll be the attempt on Social Security Reform -- it really is the third rail of politics and anyone in his party in the House or Senate who endorses his dangerous and crazy proposals will politically die.
I think it'll never get anywhere anyway, it'll all peter out as he's getting something like 10% support wherever he goes. If it does show up in the House or Senate it'll be shoved under the carpet for the next president.
I'm still puzzled by Condi Rice's trip to Russia and former Soviet republics, critcizing the way their governments work, while the US seems to be slouching more that way every day. I wonder if I didn't miss a wink in her eye when she said those things.
You mean like this?
I'd rather call them transparently corrupt. How about a rubberstamp government, like those we lately seem to be suggesting oughta respect democratic principles, etc. (so long as they represent the right democratic principles, unlike all those heathen socialists in South America.)
I'm one of those old enough to remember quite a few of Richard M. Nixon's shenanigans and I'm absolutely amazed how much dirtier this administration is and profoundly disappointed that people just don't seem to care. Heck, if Nixon were still around he'd probably get a Presidential Medal of Freedom for spying on americans and his groundbreaking work on coverups. Small wonder Cheney's threatening to get tough with dems in the Senate, they see what's going on and the priorities of the administration.
On the way in this morning I heard a blurb about an upcoming film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and it got me thinking about what a hatchet job was done on California Governor Gray Davis (while I'm not a particularly huge fan of his) apparently to lay the foundation for a republican challenger to replace a disgraced democrat, while the Dept of Energy and the president sat on their hands.
Where is the sense of outrage? I dunno, pass me another beer.
Cripes. Read what you wrote! A terminal! Even styrofoam peanuts wouldn't be up to that kind of load. You'd need reinforced packaging.
I've had people ship me things, amature packing jobs to be sure, just tossed into a box of peanuts and found half the volume of packing material reduced by the time it got to me. Mass of the item being packed should be taken into consideration. I'd probably have at least done a box in a box to spread the impact out a bit.
Your experiences are far to grounded in the past few decades. Popcorn was frequently used for delicate electronics and other instruments ad there were few alternatives. There were some materials which resembled dried hanging-moss, but regarding mice and cockroaches, that's a pretty esoteric concern. A package wasn't likely to sit around long enough for pests to find it.
My father mentioned his colleagues trying some of the popcorn packing material, but indicated they weren't very enthusiastic about eating it, even in WW II days when everything was scarce and rationed.
Gosh! It is important news! Aside from the live-shot thing, but I'm not much into hunting and very much into munching a huge bag of quality kernels (not Linux kernels!) while watching lightsabres clash and Han Solo shooting first.
When in the dorm, you go for volume. We'd fill grocery bags with the stuff.
greasy brown paper bags, those were the days...
Makes great packing material, as long is it's air popped!
This was one of the original uses for popcorn, before styrofoam peanuts. My father, who worked at Oakridge on the Manhattan Project told me how they'd receive delicate instruments, packed in boxes of the stuff.
You can find it in many grocery stores, yet. Though in a pinch those fine iodized salt packets at fast food places will do as well.
I know Morton and Reese's (no relation to the pb cups) are purveyors.
You know these things when you are king of popcorn
Indeed. Microwave popcorn is purely convenience, as long as a microwave is nearby. Not very useful when camping. Some of those microwave corns smell pretty awful and taste like so many melted Crayolas. If forced to buy it, I always opt for the lowest oil, non-flavored sort. i.e. Paul Newman's light.
Not necessarily true. The quality of kernels is of minor concern, major concern is time to market and freshness. Keep your unpopped corn in a sealed container to maintain humidity level and keep it fron drying out. Microwave popcorns aren't all going to be equal, either, as the oil/salt compositions will vary which affect the hulls of kernels. I've found microwave popcorn has a very short shelflife compared to plain kernel corn. Freshly opened popcorn has fewer 'widows and orphans' than older corn, especially corn which has been left exposed to air.
Like all things, popcorn engineered to look better or pop better in a microwave isn't necessarily your best tasting corn, either. I only buy microwave corn when I feel I need some for within the next few days and usually not just for myself. If eating popcorn at home I'm more likely to air pop some good stuff and put on real butter and use actual popcorn salt (not that table salt which is appearing in cheaper theaters everywhere.)
I don't have a paper on this anywhere, but I have had considerable experience popping corn, particularly in college where it helped absorb lots of beer. Naturally popcorn which comes in jars is going to fare better than that in plastic bags, but how old the kernels are is the most decisive factor and a higher end popcorn distributor is more likely to have better packaging. A more porous hull is likely to dry out faster or be weakened by contact with hydrogenated oils in any case. Your 4% to 47% is most likely attributable to quality of packaging, how long the product took to get to market and how long it stayed on the shelf (including shelf time at home.) Granted, better advertised brands are more likely to move through distribution and stores than generic brands, which may give it some edge.
What's more near and dear to my heart, when I shell several zorkmids at the bijou for my greasy paper bag is what the fsck they're putting on the corn. Most of those butter replacements are horrible and concession stands should be required to post a warning that their 'Butter' isn't butter at all but a blended gookum of vegetable oils. There's only one theater left in my area which still uses genuine butter.
Stock tip: Buy Blog stocks. There'll be a boom any day now. Remember to dump the stock just as the market hits saturation.
it's like shooting fish in a barrel
oh, gods, it's suits reading our blogs! they'll know what we're thinking! well, at least they still won't know what the hell we're talking about..
Because, as we know "It Just Works" was invented by Apple.
You have to admit, it's better than the old one:
One day its going to pay off big!
Got Fire Insurance?
Reminds me of former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, who had quite the large collection of priceless gems, for someone who got by on a mayor's salary. There was a reason Detroit kept getting worse and worse and it couldn't all be blamed on Ford, GM and Chrysler.
Isn't Paul Allen away from Microsoft? I thought he left the company and took his billions of $ to pursue his own dreams.
I live in Santa Cruz, where SCO was formerly known as Santa Cruz Operation, and knew a few good people who used to work there about 7 years ago. SCO had a decent attitude and had good connections with people at my employer, so whatever we were using we received excellent support. It's all gone now, I don't know if anyone is still over there in the buildings near Harvey West.
No kidding.. or even later in the the news, after the car wrecks, house fires, shootings in the bad neighborhoods and baseball scores.
That didn't seem to work, but I've been relying on this for years.
Clearly you're being rhetorical, but I'll fire off a response anyway:
Once the bill motors through the Senate and House, and has the signature of the prez (Hey, the GOP loves private businesses, right?) I'll be able to direct when and where war actually takes place.
This should undoubtably improve my popularity gasp and maybe get me a gulp date with that cutie gosh I've had my eye on for a while!
Ok, Kim's check bounced, you can invade now.