Yes, Braeburn are awful. I mostly eat Fuji, because of the great shelf life. They don't go bad for ages.
I'm sure that there are tastier apples available much of the year, but lots of them aren't going to stand up to shipping and so forth, so I don't hold it against my supermarket that they "only" have 8 varieties of apples year round. A lot of the varieties that get grown around here are not superior hand apples (but some are great for pies, or apple sauce, and so on) to the Red Delicious, Golden Delicious and Fuji.
Any national chain worth its game in the US will now have a dozen plus varieties of bagged lettuce, and 3 or 4 for the picking. My supermarket usually has 8-10 varieties of bagged apples too. Go Fuji, down with Braeburn. Sure, they all have the same 8-10 varieties of Apples, but honestly, the big 5 varieties of Apples are so much more worth eating out of the hand that it actually makes sense.
And the lesson of the Cavendish, as far as the growers are concerned, is that a single variety can last up to 50 years, not that a single variety is extra susceptible to disease.
It is much worse than that analogy would imply. The bananas purchased in most western supermarkets today are all descendants of cuttings that were taken from a single tree (they are cuttings of cuttings of cuttings of cuttings). They are essentially the same individual. The potatoes were just the same variety, they were reproducing normally.
I honestly thought you were joking...not because I think it is bad to share your passions with your children, but because you were so earnest and one dimensional about the way you said it.
If you live in a democracy, start thinking of yourself as part of the government. Then, society mandates things and they seem even stupider.
Sure, something can call itself a democracy and not be a democracy, but if you don't at least think of it as a democracy, it sure as hell isn't ever going to be one.
It has at least as much to do with standards compliance as the "Does it look good" in the post I replied to (and accessibility is probably more important than shiny to most standards folks)
Yeah, but who wants to be in a union with people who want to be in a union?
(Unions certainly did a great deal of good for workers rights in the United States, but many of the important gains they made became laws and many of them now serve to make it very difficult to get rid of dead weight, to the detriment of everybody, including other union members)
Chanting is clearly the network noise that p2p peers make simply letting other nodes know that they are alive and well (rather than traffic from transferring data or handling real business).
The problem is that reading five really good books (on political science) is a lot worse than a good political science degree, but a lot better than a bad political science degree. That isn't quite so true when you get outside of the humanities (or really, in psychology and history and economics), so really, outside the sociological humanities.
The northern midwest actually. Michigan. I'm pretty sure I gave the straight line distance, driving would be further. Looking here, for Australia (I didn't think of searching for 'consulate' earlier):
Please don't blame all of us for what some of us are doing.
Sure, all of us are responsible for who eventually gets elected, and for whatever process leads up to that (because the process is designed to work on the people who vote), but for most people, apathy is a much better explanation than partisanship.
It is more than 500 miles from here to Washington DC. I might be able to ask embassies questions over the phone or email for less than it would cost to deal with a lawyer, but I certainly can't go to them and ask questions for cheap.
You quoted the word responsibility from the post you were replying to. That implies that your post is about responsibility just as much as it is about behavior, and a discussion about responsibility is a discussion about shoulds.
Obviously you've solved the problem (pay as you go -- no contract), but people clearly want cheap phones more than they want reasonable termination fees, they are entering into the contracts for the phones without carefully reading them and then having a fit when they find out that there is no free lunch.
There are contract free bubble pack phones in most supermarkets in the US. The per minute fees (~$0.12-0.20) aren't viable for people that use more than about 200 minutes a month though (and both outgoing and incoming count as minutes, etc., etc., etc.)
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When you heard them say "coffee", you missed them saying "less".
For the lazy:
http://futureboy.homeip.net/frinkdocs/#JavaWebStart
(it's pretty cool even if you aren't lazy...)
Yes, Braeburn are awful. I mostly eat Fuji, because of the great shelf life. They don't go bad for ages.
I'm sure that there are tastier apples available much of the year, but lots of them aren't going to stand up to shipping and so forth, so I don't hold it against my supermarket that they "only" have 8 varieties of apples year round. A lot of the varieties that get grown around here are not superior hand apples (but some are great for pies, or apple sauce, and so on) to the Red Delicious, Golden Delicious and Fuji.
Any national chain worth its game in the US will now have a dozen plus varieties of bagged lettuce, and 3 or 4 for the picking. My supermarket usually has 8-10 varieties of bagged apples too. Go Fuji, down with Braeburn. Sure, they all have the same 8-10 varieties of Apples, but honestly, the big 5 varieties of Apples are so much more worth eating out of the hand that it actually makes sense.
At least someone is working to find a new commercial king:
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2005-06/can-fruit-be-saved
And the lesson of the Cavendish, as far as the growers are concerned, is that a single variety can last up to 50 years, not that a single variety is extra susceptible to disease.
It is much worse than that analogy would imply. The bananas purchased in most western supermarkets today are all descendants of cuttings that were taken from a single tree (they are cuttings of cuttings of cuttings of cuttings). They are essentially the same individual. The potatoes were just the same variety, they were reproducing normally.
I honestly thought you were joking...not because I think it is bad to share your passions with your children, but because you were so earnest and one dimensional about the way you said it.
Range of motion->complexity->cost->doh!.
If you live in a democracy, start thinking of yourself as part of the government. Then, society mandates things and they seem even stupider.
Sure, something can call itself a democracy and not be a democracy, but if you don't at least think of it as a democracy, it sure as hell isn't ever going to be one.
It has at least as much to do with standards compliance as the "Does it look good" in the post I replied to (and accessibility is probably more important than shiny to most standards folks)
Yeah, but who wants to be in a union with people who want to be in a union?
(Unions certainly did a great deal of good for workers rights in the United States, but many of the important gains they made became laws and many of them now serve to make it very difficult to get rid of dead weight, to the detriment of everybody, including other union members)
Chanting is clearly the network noise that p2p peers make simply letting other nodes know that they are alive and well (rather than traffic from transferring data or handling real business).
Ruby?
I kid, I kid...
Yeah, it's probably kind of harsh.
The problem is that reading five really good books (on political science) is a lot worse than a good political science degree, but a lot better than a bad political science degree. That isn't quite so true when you get outside of the humanities (or really, in psychology and history and economics), so really, outside the sociological humanities.
As a user, I often care whether a site is easy to navigate and has a decent structure.
The northern midwest actually. Michigan. I'm pretty sure I gave the straight line distance, driving would be further. Looking here, for Australia (I didn't think of searching for 'consulate' earlier):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_diplomatic_missions
I could go to Chicago instead of DC, so it would only be a 260 mile trip, one way.
Please don't blame all of us for what some of us are doing.
Sure, all of us are responsible for who eventually gets elected, and for whatever process leads up to that (because the process is designed to work on the people who vote), but for most people, apathy is a much better explanation than partisanship.
No historical evidence? But what about the Bible?
I kid, I kid...
It is more than 500 miles from here to Washington DC. I might be able to ask embassies questions over the phone or email for less than it would cost to deal with a lawyer, but I certainly can't go to them and ask questions for cheap.
The good news is that Pringles have only killed people who eat Pringles.
Thank you for agreeing with me?
Depends on the inflation measure. "Core" inflation excludes food and energy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_inflation
Consumer price index does not:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_price_index
Those are the ones that appear most often in the American press. There are others:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation#Measures_of_inflation
You quoted the word responsibility from the post you were replying to. That implies that your post is about responsibility just as much as it is about behavior, and a discussion about responsibility is a discussion about shoulds.
Obviously you've solved the problem (pay as you go -- no contract), but people clearly want cheap phones more than they want reasonable termination fees, they are entering into the contracts for the phones without carefully reading them and then having a fit when they find out that there is no free lunch.
There are contract free bubble pack phones in most supermarkets in the US. The per minute fees (~$0.12-0.20) aren't viable for people that use more than about 200 minutes a month though (and both outgoing and incoming count as minutes, etc., etc., etc.)