I've seen a perforated pull-strip on a few of these horrid plastic clamshells. Sometimes it works well, sometimes not at all. But it's better than guessing where is safe to cut without damaging the contents, then slicing your hand on the cut clamshell's sharp plastic edges.
I've sliced myself a few times on the sharp edges of the PLASTIC CLAMSHELL itself, whilst trying to disengage its deathgrip on whatever contents. Sometimes there isn't a good way to cut around the contents, either -- they're too close to the "weld" areas.
I've already decided that next time I cut myself seriously enough to need a bandaid, it's time to sue 'em for negligence. Because to someone else it might not be just a bandaid-cut, it could be a severed artery in a child's finger or wrist, and that could be fatal.
And besides, they've pissed me off once too often already.
That sounds more like Robert Nathan's DIGGING THE WEANS (ca. 1956).
To paraquote (being too lazy to excavate my own copy from the ruins of my library): "They called themselves US, but we prefer to refer to them as the Weans."
One chapter went on about the morning ablutions (shaving etc.) to the Weans' presumed god.
The book is a brilliant jab at archeologists' desire to pigeonhole every ancient activity or artifact into some known category, preferably religious.
Sour cherries still exist aplenty, because most varieties of sweet cherry require a sour cherry as a pollinator, why I don't know.
Attack of the killer rosebush!! next time you trim it, maybe you could send me a few chunks? it sounds like just what we need here in the desert. Maybe it'll eat a few of the Starving Attack Rabbits.:)
Good points. I haven't read the bill in question, but it's quite possible that an overly-broad law in this area could have all sorts of unintended consequences. Better NO law than a questionable law.
And as I say in another message, the right to call yourself however you please (so long as there is no intent to defraud) can be an important personal freedom, especially in the face of repression or persecution.
My understanding is that it's already legal to pretend to be whoever the hell you like, *so long as there is no intent to defraud*. (Indeed, this is an important personal freedom.)
Pretending to be someone whose credentials you lack is therefore a form of fraud.
It makes sense to me to expand that slightly: "... so long as there is no intent to phish" (where "phish" covers all manner of social engineering and fishing expeditions).
IE5.00 would look for older versions of IE, and had an option to preserve them in a runnable state. Doubtless useful for web developers, tho it escapes me why anyone would run IE3/IE4 when the far-better IE5.00 was available, and even ran better on the same setups. Unlike earlier/later versions, IE5.00 wasn't crashy, nor a resource or memory hog.
By preference, I still use old NS3, partly because of flexibility such as you describe. Install and run as many versions and copies of versions as you like, and even make them all share the same cache and mail files, no problem! Or don't even properly install them, but drag installed copies around on a CD and dump 'em onto any machine, and everything still works.
I've had some pretty good green apples too, of unknown variety and provenance.
Funny thing, the best apples also kept better in the short term, whereas the newer commercial types get mealy [ick!] real fast. But they're largely selected for how well they hold up in long-term storage. I have a few in my fridge that have been there for over a year and a half, and they still look like fresh apples.
My fave non-sweet apple is the "beer apple" (it's not exactly sour, but it's not the same tartness as an eating apple either). I *think* it's actually one of the common rootstocks, not a cultivated variety. Very rarely seen as a mature tree, presumably because it's only seen when the graft dies off and the rootstock takes over. The apples are barrel-shaped, about 1.3" long, and a distinctive dark blood red. You can't eat very many at a time (they'll make you sick) but they make the BEST pink jelly ever.
I'll bet your old rose has a SMELL, too. It's not a proper rose if it doesn't have a smell!!:) Have you tried growing offspring from cuttings?
BTW one of the prominent rose researchers says DON'T prune any more than you absolutely have to (only to remove dead and overly-straggly or crowded limbs), because pruning actually destroys the rose over time. I can certainly attest that mine bloom best when left to their own devices, and certainly exhibit less heat stress.
I haven't had much luck growing roses from cuttings (probably cuz it gets too hot here during the growing season -- we peak at 118F) but have been collecting hips from likely specimens. I know that's a crapshoot, but better than not saving those old genes at all.
I'm not a brewer, but this is my understanding from those who are:
Bacteria are the enemies of brewing. Bacterial contamination can ruin beer, cider, or wine (not sure what they do to hard liquor), and if you get a clostridium or other nasty anaerobe in your equipment, the results can be toxic. Remember, the ingredients don't *start off* alcoholic, so nasties DO have a chance to grow during the early stages, before the yeast get their act in gear.
So if you're a brewer (home or commercial), it behooves you to keep your equipment scrupulously clean, and invite no more bacteria than those found naturally in food. (Inside, not surface bacteria. And very little lives *inside* solid tissue, like an apple's flesh.)
I read somewhere that the wide array of new colours in petunias (which when I was a kid, only came in white, red, pink, and red/white striped) derive from the addition of genes from corn.
A few years ago I planted a couple random flats of these new-colour'd petunias, and let them crossbreed and reseed however they pleased. The next generation's blooms were strange, to say the least. Some had irregular white blotches; others were delicately shaded, like watercolours that had gotten wet. Many had a crepe or wrinkled texture. Some displayed unlikely shades of blue and purple that I'd never seen before. A few had a "beard" (extra petals, but not a double flower). And most were moderately hardy perennials, surviving winter temps down to the mid teens. (Tho a perennial in the tropics, petunias normally die off at the first frost.) And they all bloomed like there was no tomorrow, and the 3rd generation came up like weeds.
I had the weirdest looking flower garden you ever saw.:)
I remember when the best-tasting apple you could get was a Delicious from Yakima, Washington. Precisely the right balance of sweet, tart, firmness, juice, etc. The best ones were a very dark red, almost a purplish-black shade, rather than bright red, and they tended to be irregularly shaped.
I read an article a while back, about how breeding for marketable appearance and storage tolerance has, by ill chance, bred out the true apple taste and texture, and that the genes for the tasty old-style apple have been lost in the main commercial gene pool.
That's a sad loss. I'd rather have an ugly apple that tastes wonderful, than a pretty apple that's dull eating.
I don't disagree with giving the gov't enough money to function, especially when the people who have to pay for it actually decide how much to give it (frex, mill levies or voted assessments of limited duration).
But it's gotten out of hand, and as I speculate in this discussion, there may be a correlation between the percentage of our money that the gov't has decided it is entitled to, and the concurrent tendency toward restricting our rights.
Mayhaps this is just the upside of the poverty typically associated with corrupt governments.
Exactly so:( We've no practical way to force the gov't to live within its means, and stop robbing us blind. And so long as they effectively hold our purse strings, they have control. And as I've said over and over, the only TRUE freedom is economic. Without money, other freedoms are just so much verbiage, since you're effectively prevented from using them. Control the money, control the freedoms, if only from fear of losing the good life you've got.
A shooting revolution isn't realistic in These Modern Times, as there aren't enough truly starving people to generate that level of rebellion (I'd guestimate around half the population has to be in chronic distress before a revolution can happen anywhere), nor is there anywhere for the disgruntled to retreat to and strike from (as there was with frontier America). When we do get space colonies, that may change.
Same principle looked at from the other end, given that excess spending drives tax increases. Whichever economic factor you want to use, I still suspect there is a correlation. After all, the larger the gov't, the more collective motivation it has to preserve itself first and foremost.
Hmm. How about we start over, with the sum of our laws in the constitution and the original Bill of Rights??;)
Slashdot Mirror
Which guy is that?
I do think it's a-coming for these clamshells, tho, considering the hand surgeon's remarks reported here.
I've seen a perforated pull-strip on a few of these horrid plastic clamshells. Sometimes it works well, sometimes not at all. But it's better than guessing where is safe to cut without damaging the contents, then slicing your hand on the cut clamshell's sharp plastic edges.
I've long regarded the basic smiley as a combined closing tag for both punctuation and parentheses (like this :)
I've sliced myself a few times on the sharp edges of the PLASTIC CLAMSHELL itself, whilst trying to disengage its deathgrip on whatever contents. Sometimes there isn't a good way to cut around the contents, either -- they're too close to the "weld" areas.
I've already decided that next time I cut myself seriously enough to need a bandaid, it's time to sue 'em for negligence. Because to someone else it might not be just a bandaid-cut, it could be a severed artery in a child's finger or wrist, and that could be fatal.
And besides, they've pissed me off once too often already.
But you don't *have* to add aggregate. You can make perfectly adequate concrete from cement alone.
I see that you're a student of Robert Nathan. How is the old bounder, anyway?
That sounds more like Robert Nathan's DIGGING THE WEANS (ca. 1956).
To paraquote (being too lazy to excavate my own copy from the ruins of my library): "They called themselves US, but we prefer to refer to them as the Weans."
One chapter went on about the morning ablutions (shaving etc.) to the Weans' presumed god.
The book is a brilliant jab at archeologists' desire to pigeonhole every ancient activity or artifact into some known category, preferably religious.
Ba'al's planning went back a lot further than we thought! :)
I've never seen those before! but man, they ARE ugly. Sounds like they're tasty, tho, if you can get 'em past your eyeballs :)
Sour cherries still exist aplenty, because most varieties of sweet cherry require a sour cherry as a pollinator, why I don't know.
:)
Attack of the killer rosebush!! next time you trim it, maybe you could send me a few chunks? it sounds like just what we need here in the desert. Maybe it'll eat a few of the Starving Attack Rabbits.
"2. I think that anyone who is in a lesser situation than I am deserves my help and support if they ask me for it"
;)
[eyeing job description]
Excellent! You probably make 2-3 times what I do. Please hand over the difference.
.
.
.
That's a very interesting point. And as someone else pointed out, it may give the *defense* some ammunition to use against extortionate **AA lawsuits:
Judge: "You lied to get this evidence? Why should I believe you're now telling the truth??"
Good points. I haven't read the bill in question, but it's quite possible that an overly-broad law in this area could have all sorts of unintended consequences. Better NO law than a questionable law.
And as I say in another message, the right to call yourself however you please (so long as there is no intent to defraud) can be an important personal freedom, especially in the face of repression or persecution.
My understanding is that it's already legal to pretend to be whoever the hell you like, *so long as there is no intent to defraud*. (Indeed, this is an important personal freedom.)
Pretending to be someone whose credentials you lack is therefore a form of fraud.
It makes sense to me to expand that slightly: "... so long as there is no intent to phish" (where "phish" covers all manner of social engineering and fishing expeditions).
IE5.00 would look for older versions of IE, and had an option to preserve them in a runnable state. Doubtless useful for web developers, tho it escapes me why anyone would run IE3/IE4 when the far-better IE5.00 was available, and even ran better on the same setups. Unlike earlier/later versions, IE5.00 wasn't crashy, nor a resource or memory hog.
By preference, I still use old NS3, partly because of flexibility such as you describe. Install and run as many versions and copies of versions as you like, and even make them all share the same cache and mail files, no problem! Or don't even properly install them, but drag installed copies around on a CD and dump 'em onto any machine, and everything still works.
Unfortunately I lost all of them this past spring, to an unusual plague of voracious ground squirrels and starving attack rabbits :(
But I had saved some seeds from last year, tho gods know what genes those will express!!
I've had some pretty good green apples too, of unknown variety and provenance.
:) Have you tried growing offspring from cuttings?
Funny thing, the best apples also kept better in the short term, whereas the newer commercial types get mealy [ick!] real fast. But they're largely selected for how well they hold up in long-term storage. I have a few in my fridge that have been there for over a year and a half, and they still look like fresh apples.
My fave non-sweet apple is the "beer apple" (it's not exactly sour, but it's not the same tartness as an eating apple either). I *think* it's actually one of the common rootstocks, not a cultivated variety. Very rarely seen as a mature tree, presumably because it's only seen when the graft dies off and the rootstock takes over. The apples are barrel-shaped, about 1.3" long, and a distinctive dark blood red. You can't eat very many at a time (they'll make you sick) but they make the BEST pink jelly ever.
I'll bet your old rose has a SMELL, too. It's not a proper rose if it doesn't have a smell!!
BTW one of the prominent rose researchers says DON'T prune any more than you absolutely have to (only to remove dead and overly-straggly or crowded limbs), because pruning actually destroys the rose over time. I can certainly attest that mine bloom best when left to their own devices, and certainly exhibit less heat stress.
I haven't had much luck growing roses from cuttings (probably cuz it gets too hot here during the growing season -- we peak at 118F) but have been collecting hips from likely specimens. I know that's a crapshoot, but better than not saving those old genes at all.
I'm not a brewer, but this is my understanding from those who are:
Bacteria are the enemies of brewing. Bacterial contamination can ruin beer, cider, or wine (not sure what they do to hard liquor), and if you get a clostridium or other nasty anaerobe in your equipment, the results can be toxic. Remember, the ingredients don't *start off* alcoholic, so nasties DO have a chance to grow during the early stages, before the yeast get their act in gear.
So if you're a brewer (home or commercial), it behooves you to keep your equipment scrupulously clean, and invite no more bacteria than those found naturally in food. (Inside, not surface bacteria. And very little lives *inside* solid tissue, like an apple's flesh.)
I read somewhere that the wide array of new colours in petunias (which when I was a kid, only came in white, red, pink, and red/white striped) derive from the addition of genes from corn.
:)
A few years ago I planted a couple random flats of these new-colour'd petunias, and let them crossbreed and reseed however they pleased. The next generation's blooms were strange, to say the least. Some had irregular white blotches; others were delicately shaded, like watercolours that had gotten wet. Many had a crepe or wrinkled texture. Some displayed unlikely shades of blue and purple that I'd never seen before. A few had a "beard" (extra petals, but not a double flower). And most were moderately hardy perennials, surviving winter temps down to the mid teens. (Tho a perennial in the tropics, petunias normally die off at the first frost.) And they all bloomed like there was no tomorrow, and the 3rd generation came up like weeds.
I had the weirdest looking flower garden you ever saw.
That's true of grapefruit too. The best tasting are the thin-skinned, flattened-shaped, blotchy-coloured ones.
I remember when the best-tasting apple you could get was a Delicious from Yakima, Washington. Precisely the right balance of sweet, tart, firmness, juice, etc. The best ones were a very dark red, almost a purplish-black shade, rather than bright red, and they tended to be irregularly shaped.
I read an article a while back, about how breeding for marketable appearance and storage tolerance has, by ill chance, bred out the true apple taste and texture, and that the genes for the tasty old-style apple have been lost in the main commercial gene pool.
That's a sad loss. I'd rather have an ugly apple that tastes wonderful, than a pretty apple that's dull eating.
I don't disagree with giving the gov't enough money to function, especially when the people who have to pay for it actually decide how much to give it (frex, mill levies or voted assessments of limited duration).
But it's gotten out of hand, and as I speculate in this discussion, there may be a correlation between the percentage of our money that the gov't has decided it is entitled to, and the concurrent tendency toward restricting our rights.
Mayhaps this is just the upside of the poverty typically associated with corrupt governments.
Exactly so :( We've no practical way to force the gov't to live within its means, and stop robbing us blind. And so long as they effectively hold our purse strings, they have control. And as I've said over and over, the only TRUE freedom is economic. Without money, other freedoms are just so much verbiage, since you're effectively prevented from using them. Control the money, control the freedoms, if only from fear of losing the good life you've got.
A shooting revolution isn't realistic in These Modern Times, as there aren't enough truly starving people to generate that level of rebellion (I'd guestimate around half the population has to be in chronic distress before a revolution can happen anywhere), nor is there anywhere for the disgruntled to retreat to and strike from (as there was with frontier America). When we do get space colonies, that may change.
Same principle looked at from the other end, given that excess spending drives tax increases. Whichever economic factor you want to use, I still suspect there is a correlation. After all, the larger the gov't, the more collective motivation it has to preserve itself first and foremost.
;)
Hmm. How about we start over, with the sum of our laws in the constitution and the original Bill of Rights??
Kinda makes a person wonder about the real value of goods, vs manager salaries and marketing, for every sort of product, eh??