I tried air popped - but I found that I had to add butter or oil or else the salt just fell to the bottom. Plus it doesn't make all that much. I eat a lot more than it makes.
I was 7 when I learnt this valuable lesson. I bugged my Mum to buy me the great toy that was being shown on TV all the time. When I got it, it wasn't nearly as much fun as it was on TV. That's when I lost my innocence - before then I always thought that adults always had the children's best interests at heart.
Yup. I remember when they serviced the 'long tail' and I could find series from a couple of decades ago that I could nostalgia watch. Now I wonder if they have more than 2000 titles at any one time.
Or they use the 'nice to have' skills as an absolute filter so that if an application doesn't have the exact set of TLAs, it gets filtered out and all you get are liars who have tailored their application to fit exactly.
Old manager moves on/gets promoted. New manager doesn't like black people and fires all the blacks and hires white people to replace them. Simple enough, but illegal.
Peak efficiency for creative types (artists, authors, researchers, developers etc) is actually around 30 hours. You can pad out the working week with meetings etc, but you're only going to get that much actual work done.
After around 45 hours is the point where their work goes negative.
The lady who comes back part time from maternity leave who only does 2 days work a week? You're probably getting almost a full weeks work out of them and only paying them for 2 days.
If it suddenly expanded from room temperature, then it'd be extremely cold, not hot. That's how your refrigerator works - it compresses the gas, cools it off outside, and then once inside, lowers the pressure, causing it to cool down.
I'm not going to force a woman to terminate - that would be just as wrong as forcing a woman not to terminate.
A special needs child with intellectual disabilities will cost from ~$1.5million to $3 million in care over his or her lifetime. Unless this cost is picked up by the parents, then it'll be absorbed by the State. This adds up to literally hundreds of billions of dollars that the taxpayer has to fork out for every year.
So yeah, not impressed when women _choose_ to bring these little burdens on society into the world.
Had one woman on the radio a few month ago worried about a new 99% reliable and non-invasive test for Downs Syndrome because it meant that in future Downs Children and parents would be looked down on as it meant that the child was _chosen_ to live that way. So yeah, there are people who would argue that we shouldn't prevent retardation.
Of course, a lot of this is due to people worried that we'll somehow create a neo-nazi pure white aryan standard for babies, rather than the opposite. I hope that gengineering will lead to _more_ diversity. People of every color of the rainbow. The world needs more green and blue people. Colonize the seas with merpeople. Cute little things like cat and dog ears. Tails! Centaurs! Functional hermaphrodites (use whatever damn toilet you want)! That's not to say that's the only way to go. I also want cyborgs and uploaded consciousness.
You're not even on the radar unless you're the brother of an employee who's hairdressers cousin once drove a taxi for Bin Laden. And even then only if your pattern of email destinations is suspicious.
And if it is, they'll just put a trojan on your computer. Remember, they only need a warrant if they need to use the evidence in court.
I put my house on the market in 2004 partially because I thought house prices were due for a crash as they'd hit 4x average wage and I thought "What idiot would lend more than 4x salary??" In hindsight I was very lucky that I couldn't go through with the sale.
Yes, roommates suck. I've had to do it quite a lot when travelling for work as a contractor. And I moved to the other side of the planet. I only see my mum every few _years_.
I'm quite happy with owning my home. It's pretty hard to start with though - I did without for several years to pay off more on the Principal, but it also meant I paid off my mortgage in 15 years, which is nice as I now have money to start updating some things.
Renters here (UK) tend to pay more than home owners as usually if you aren't paying your own mortgage, you're paying someone elses. Plus you're only guaranteed 6 months tenancy, so potentially having to move every 6 months is quite an expense. Maintenance is included into the rent, and you don't have the option of DIY which makes that more expensive.
Plastic bag full of Nitrogen over the head for me. It's far less messy for the poor sod who has to deal with my decomposing corpse.
Assuming of course, that by that time, the State hasn't decided that all these old people are too much of a burden and offer the Soylent Green way out.
Screw that. Everyone will spend 50% of their time making sure none of their bugs can be blamed on them. That would be hugely divisive when you want teams to work together. Sure there are some dead weights that need to be culled, but every team is going to have a range of experience and different aptitudes.
When I'm old, senile and can't even wipe my own ass, I want to have the option to check out a little early. Maybe watching a peaceful video as I drift off to everlasting sleep. Win for me, win for the rest of society that I won't be a burden on any more.
See? This is your employment contract with your signature at the bottom, and it says right here in clause 13a that we're allowed to ride you like a donkey every 2nd Tuesday.
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I tried air popped - but I found that I had to add butter or oil or else the salt just fell to the bottom.
Plus it doesn't make all that much. I eat a lot more than it makes.
I was 7 when I learnt this valuable lesson.
I bugged my Mum to buy me the great toy that was being shown on TV all the time.
When I got it, it wasn't nearly as much fun as it was on TV.
That's when I lost my innocence - before then I always thought that adults always had the children's best interests at heart.
Highlander. There was only one.
Yup. I remember when they serviced the 'long tail' and I could find series from a couple of decades ago that I could nostalgia watch.
Now I wonder if they have more than 2000 titles at any one time.
They've told you time and time again that there's NO DEMAND for such services and they wish people would STOP ASKING all the damn time!
Or they use the 'nice to have' skills as an absolute filter so that if an application doesn't have the exact set of TLAs, it gets filtered out and all you get are liars who have tailored their application to fit exactly.
Distressingly common for people to be told they aren't qualified to do the job that they've been doing for the past 2 years.
Old manager moves on/gets promoted.
New manager doesn't like black people and fires all the blacks and hires white people to replace them.
Simple enough, but illegal.
Unless it's because you're black or other protected class.
In which case any non-crazy person won't give a reason.
Peak efficiency for creative types (artists, authors, researchers, developers etc) is actually around 30 hours. You can pad out the working week with meetings etc, but you're only going to get that much actual work done.
After around 45 hours is the point where their work goes negative.
The lady who comes back part time from maternity leave who only does 2 days work a week? You're probably getting almost a full weeks work out of them and only paying them for 2 days.
If it suddenly expanded from room temperature, then it'd be extremely cold, not hot.
That's how your refrigerator works - it compresses the gas, cools it off outside, and then once inside, lowers the pressure, causing it to cool down.
Because it wasn't recorded and written in his file, _every_ time it happened was his first offence...because 'I have no record of any other offences'.
I'm not going to force a woman to terminate - that would be just as wrong as forcing a woman not to terminate.
A special needs child with intellectual disabilities will cost from ~$1.5million to $3 million in care over his or her lifetime. Unless this cost is picked up by the parents, then it'll be absorbed by the State. This adds up to literally hundreds of billions of dollars that the taxpayer has to fork out for every year.
So yeah, not impressed when women _choose_ to bring these little burdens on society into the world.
Had one woman on the radio a few month ago worried about a new 99% reliable and non-invasive test for Downs Syndrome because it meant that in future Downs Children and parents would be looked down on as it meant that the child was _chosen_ to live that way.
So yeah, there are people who would argue that we shouldn't prevent retardation.
Of course, a lot of this is due to people worried that we'll somehow create a neo-nazi pure white aryan standard for babies, rather than the opposite.
I hope that gengineering will lead to _more_ diversity. People of every color of the rainbow. The world needs more green and blue people. Colonize the seas with merpeople. Cute little things like cat and dog ears. Tails! Centaurs! Functional hermaphrodites (use whatever damn toilet you want)!
That's not to say that's the only way to go. I also want cyborgs and uploaded consciousness.
You're not even on the radar unless you're the brother of an employee who's hairdressers cousin once drove a taxi for Bin Laden.
And even then only if your pattern of email destinations is suspicious.
And if it is, they'll just put a trojan on your computer. Remember, they only need a warrant if they need to use the evidence in court.
I put my house on the market in 2004 partially because I thought house prices were due for a crash as they'd hit 4x average wage and I thought "What idiot would lend more than 4x salary??"
In hindsight I was very lucky that I couldn't go through with the sale.
Yes, roommates suck. I've had to do it quite a lot when travelling for work as a contractor.
And I moved to the other side of the planet. I only see my mum every few _years_.
I'm quite happy with owning my home.
It's pretty hard to start with though - I did without for several years to pay off more on the Principal, but it also meant I paid off my mortgage in 15 years, which is nice as I now have money to start updating some things.
Renters here (UK) tend to pay more than home owners as usually if you aren't paying your own mortgage, you're paying someone elses. Plus you're only guaranteed 6 months tenancy, so potentially having to move every 6 months is quite an expense. Maintenance is included into the rent, and you don't have the option of DIY which makes that more expensive.
Plastic bag full of Nitrogen over the head for me.
It's far less messy for the poor sod who has to deal with my decomposing corpse.
Assuming of course, that by that time, the State hasn't decided that all these old people are too much of a burden and offer the Soylent Green way out.
Screw that. Everyone will spend 50% of their time making sure none of their bugs can be blamed on them.
That would be hugely divisive when you want teams to work together.
Sure there are some dead weights that need to be culled, but every team is going to have a range of experience and different aptitudes.
Similar to "Everyone who drives slower than me is an idiot...and anyone who drives faster than me is a maniac."
No one has mentioned this solution yet?
When I'm old, senile and can't even wipe my own ass, I want to have the option to check out a little early.
Maybe watching a peaceful video as I drift off to everlasting sleep.
Win for me, win for the rest of society that I won't be a burden on any more.
See? This is your employment contract with your signature at the bottom, and it says right here in clause 13a that we're allowed to ride you like a donkey every 2nd Tuesday.
Especially when the black person isn't African descended OR American. eg. people from the Caribbean.
I think people have forgotten the marches they had where people shouted 'Black is Beautiful'.
that 'Alternative Facts' will be the phrase of the year.