If I lived by myself, I'd follow your example.
I haven't actually timed it, but my gut tells me your 25% statistic is very conservative, I'd swear advertising time is closer to 40%. Maybe not but it sure feels like it, particularly on some channels. One thing I'm sure of, commercial breaks keep growing longer year after year.
What the hell am I paying for anyway- to watch freakin' commercials?? I'm probably wrong, but wasn't the original idea of cable to watch TV without having to watch advertisements, by paying for it? Or at least, partly? But you get just as many commercials on cable as you do broadcast. And the ostensible "benefit" of having "200 channels" or so, which are mostly garbage filler and not worth paying, for doesn't begin to justify it.
I can't say this move surprises me in the least though; if DVRs are going to allow people to bypass those precious advertisements that sponsor the shows, then the sponsors will want to wage a war against DVRs, or least find a way to make more money off them to "recoup" their "lost" income.
I'm not anti-capitalist, but the whole advertising model has gone awry and been perverted, from sports stadiums and events named after banks and Insurance companies to you-name-it. How much longer before city names themselves are changed and we see Los Angeles become "Bank of America City", or a, "Chase New York" or a "Prudential Philadelphia"..?
That's a great idea, but if only the pub sheds most of the gratuitous LotR's imagery they're using as well. They're really unabashedly using it.
OTOH, I always felt that creates good public relations for the IP's owners, keeping their IP in the public eye and letting others participate in it - it's like free advertising.. that works both ways.
Saul Zaentz isn't an heir, per se, he bought the film rights to the movie. Unless you're referring to the Tolkien estate for selling those rights in the first place..?
My money's on a near future story hailing cheap ultra super-efficient thin solar cells that enable cold fusion to power a perpetual motion machine that can guarantee peace in the middle east;-)
This is what I had read/heard as well. As the long as the honey is reasonably fresh, it should be unnecessary to boil it due to the low water content. I can't say it'd ruin it though either; I've seen a Youtube video from Valenzano winery, they make their Jersey Devil honey wine by cooking the must, not just boiling the water, and it's not too shabby.
To date, I've only made batches of mead one gallon at a time, but this weekend I'm going for my first 5 gallon batch. I'll probably stick with boiling just the water, let it settle down a bit, pour it into the sterilized carboy/bucket and then just add the honey. It's worked for me with all the other batches, never had a bad one. *shrug* Though, now I'm tempted to boil at least some of the honey and see how it affects the flavor.
BTW, no here has claimed this, but any source that claims that honey can't go bad (which I've also read) is just wrong. I had once salvaged a couple of pounds of very old clover honey (about 5 or 6 years old) from my parents pantry, it had never been opened but it was absolutely nasty. It had also gotten very dark. I had to throw it out.
Both windows, and most linux distros, have one. (no idea about Mac though..)
Have æt it.. I couldn't get "thorn" to work for some reason though. Under "preview post", it just vanished..
My physical machines are named after the goddesses in A Megami Sama. Slower workstation: Skuld. Faster workstation: Urd. Netbook: Peorth.
Now that's weird.. an anime using bits from the Nordic pantheon? Skuld, Urd, and Verðandi are basically the Northern mythology analogs of the 3 Fates. Peorth is Old English (Anglo-saxon) for the P rune, AKA Perthro.
I don't have the luxury to name our servers (and I hate the convention prefix we use) but I name my linux workstations based on Tux's environment.
The most powerful workstation's name is "Glacier", others are, "iceberg" and "igloo".. laptops are "icecube" and "icicle". I still feel like I'm missing a good name though. I don't think "ice sheet" or "ice block" have enough of a ring to them, and "snowball" is way too cutesy.
.. and yes, I'm aware there are no eskimos to build igloos at the ANTartic, but the name was too cool to pass up.
I think what set them off was the Erlenmeyer flasks. They seem to scream mad scientist to non chemistry people.
Erlenmeyer flasks (and much of the other glassware you mention) are illegal to possess in Texas without a permit--and in order to get a permit, you must allow the police to search your house (or place of business) unannounced: The Precursor Chemical Statute
That's insane!! Didn't expect that from Texas. CA maybe...
Well in a way they did. Remember that when the HST first went up, it's mirror was defective, it might as well have been blind. It wasn't until a shuttle mission went up to it that they could repair it and make it operational. If not for the shuttles, it would have been a multimillion dollar piece of space junk.
If your goal is "weight loss" then eating less is far easier and more effective than trying to burn it off at the gym. Going to the gym often makes you eat more when you get home - making it a waste of time.
(Yeah, I know it's heresy in the USA to say gym isn't the answer to everything...)
Not to be nasty or anything, but that is just total bullocks, and is typically used by the willingly uninformed as an excuse to be lazy. How can anyone seriously claim exercise is not beneficial? People can and do go to the gym and watch their diet and maintain great physiques. They're not genetic mutants, they just have a little freakin' willpower.
There's also the point that -given High Intensity training, or good ol' fashioned weight lifting, as opposed to the treadmill- most of your calories aren't burnt in the gym during the workout, but are burnt for many hours afterward because the metabolism is ratcheted up. Actually, it gives me trouble sleeping some nights after a workout. And the HIIT thing can actually suppress appetite. http://www.burnthefat.com/high_intensity_interval_training.html http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0801/is_2_69/ai_n24220136/
In my country, we don't even have a name for gingers, because it's just nothing noteworthy.
In the white Protestant Anglo-Saxon tradition, red hair is associated with lasciviousness, anger and therefore sin. Celts were the enemy, unChristian, savage and so on. The fact that vestiges of this attitude still prevail just goes to show how prejudice lingers in the collective unconscious.
Which is ironic considering that when the originally pagan Anglo-Saxons first set foot on British soil, a great number of the Britons (Celts) were already Christianized through their Roman citizenship.
Some chiropractors have also broken people's necks. Do you really want them messing with your children's not-fully-formed spines?
I'm glad I'm reading this now, and not back when I was in 2nd grade when I slipped a disc in my neck. I was in horrible pain for the latter half of the day and couldn't sleep, so my mom took me to a chiropractor who reopened his office to see me. He did an adjustment to my neck and the relief was instant, though not complete until some days later when my muscles stopped spazzing out. Admittedly, that was scary.
In this case, it was a win, but I can imagine someone not really knowing what they're doing having paralyzed me.
I think chiropractic has it's place, it's like massage for the bones, but it's certainly no substitute for vaccinations and other medical treatments. If, in the strange event your bones are actually out of alignment, as mine were, fine; beyond that though, it starts sounding quackish.
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This is exactly what I wondering. I have a ton of PDFs, some home made. Two summers ago, I had a Sony eBook reader that simply couldn't display many of them correctly, or at all, for that matter (I returned it). That's why I'm leaning towards a tablet. Unless the latest generation of readers have improved in this aspect?
I still love paper books, but I'd like to give the ebook approach a try again. I'm pretty sure I'll love the search feature.
I think the morale is, "be wary of people claiming that democracy doesn't work or is no longer necessary".
Ain't that the truth. Especially if they're talking about a representative democracy. Sounds like the kind of article Chavez, Assad, Putin, Castro, or Kim Jung Un would heartily endorse.
I'm surprised under the heading of attack or infrastructure, they didn't' list "EMP" or Electromagnetic Pulse, and variants.
But even funnier are the drug names, as they're all proper. Really, what druggie or smuggler refers to their wares by their proper name? Shouldn't they be looking for, "pot", "weed", "blow", "horse", "smack", and stuff like that? (with a decent algorithm to sort out gardening and equine related discussions, natch)
I don't know if you can even really classify those SyFy made for TV movies as SciFi. Most of them are just the most retarded monster movies imaginable, trying to ride the coat-tails of current theatre releases, like "Monster Fish" and "Megashark vs Gigaman" type schlock. Is there such a thing as a "C" movie? If not, there is now.
And lots of the stuff is fantasy.. mostly, really awful fantasy with the worst CGI and acting ever.
I think the only thing I watch on it now is "Merlin", which despite it's inherent campiness, for some reason I'm into; but that's really a BBC production.. and definitely not SciFi.
How about putting this in context?
I'm a little tired of everyone trotting out the old, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety" to describe the **immediate** political aftermath of 9-11. The word "essential" is in the original quote, and is significant. By "Essential" liberty, I believe Franklin meant the most basic of liberties, and in an overall permanent manner. He didn't say, "Those who can temporarily give up some liberty"; he said, "to obtain a little temporary safety".. referring to the loss of liberty as total and permanent, even if the safety isn't.
Historically, it wouldn't be the first time the US has scaled back liberties to protect itself in a time of crisis. During the Civil War, Lincoln suspended the writ of Habeas Corpus.
The point being, it was reinstated after the war.
During Bush's era, many of the precautions taken made sense. If walking down a dark alleyway in your neighbor at night is likely to get you mugged or raped, are you going to avoid that alleyway, or are you stubbornly continue to walk down that alley at night because otherwise the muggers are infringing on your right to walk there? Until the police get a chance to catch the muggers and prosecute, it makes sense to curtail a degree of your freedom for a while, so long as we realize it's not a resolution but a workaround.
But now, the threat of AQ is reduced, there have been no attacks in over a decade, Bin Laden is dead, most of AQ's top leaders are dead (except Zawahiri). It's about time for Obama to start reinstating some of the lost liberties and scaling back the patriot act, but he's expanded them instead. In this, I agree with those that are alarmed at the continuing erosion of rights.
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If I lived by myself, I'd follow your example.
I haven't actually timed it, but my gut tells me your 25% statistic is very conservative, I'd swear advertising time is closer to 40%. Maybe not but it sure feels like it, particularly on some channels. One thing I'm sure of, commercial breaks keep growing longer year after year.
What the hell am I paying for anyway- to watch freakin' commercials?? I'm probably wrong, but wasn't the original idea of cable to watch TV without having to watch advertisements, by paying for it? Or at least, partly? But you get just as many commercials on cable as you do broadcast. And the ostensible "benefit" of having "200 channels" or so, which are mostly garbage filler and not worth paying, for doesn't begin to justify it.
I can't say this move surprises me in the least though; if DVRs are going to allow people to bypass those precious advertisements that sponsor the shows, then the sponsors will want to wage a war against DVRs, or least find a way to make more money off them to "recoup" their "lost" income.
I'm not anti-capitalist, but the whole advertising model has gone awry and been perverted, from sports stadiums and events named after banks and Insurance companies to you-name-it. How much longer before city names themselves are changed and we see Los Angeles become "Bank of America City", or a, "Chase New York" or a "Prudential Philadelphia"..?
That's a great idea, but if only the pub sheds most of the gratuitous LotR's imagery they're using as well. They're really unabashedly using it.
OTOH, I always felt that creates good public relations for the IP's owners, keeping their IP in the public eye and letting others participate in it - it's like free advertising.. that works both ways.
Saul Zaentz isn't an heir, per se, he bought the film rights to the movie. Unless you're referring to the Tolkien estate for selling those rights in the first place..?
My money's on a near future story hailing cheap ultra super-efficient thin solar cells that enable cold fusion to power a perpetual motion machine that can guarantee peace in the middle east ;-)
This is what I had read/heard as well. As the long as the honey is reasonably fresh, it should be unnecessary to boil it due to the low water content. I can't say it'd ruin it though either; I've seen a Youtube video from Valenzano winery, they make their Jersey Devil honey wine by cooking the must, not just boiling the water, and it's not too shabby.
To date, I've only made batches of mead one gallon at a time, but this weekend I'm going for my first 5 gallon batch. I'll probably stick with boiling just the water, let it settle down a bit, pour it into the sterilized carboy/bucket and then just add the honey. It's worked for me with all the other batches, never had a bad one. *shrug* Though, now I'm tempted to boil at least some of the honey and see how it affects the flavor.
BTW, no here has claimed this, but any source that claims that honey can't go bad (which I've also read) is just wrong. I had once salvaged a couple of pounds of very old clover honey (about 5 or 6 years old) from my parents pantry, it had never been opened but it was absolutely nasty. It had also gotten very dark. I had to throw it out.
Nah.. so what's this discussion about again?
Neither, Heimdall just had to do a # 2 over the edge of the bridge
You forgot "unladen" .. or maybe that meteorite was carrying a coconut..
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.. I couldn't get "thorn" to work for some reason though. Under "preview post", it just vanished..
Both windows, and most linux distros, have one. (no idea about Mac though..)
Have æt it
"But.. our servers have "HP" logos on the front.. doesn't that mean "Harry Potter?" ..
My physical machines are named after the goddesses in A Megami Sama . Slower workstation: Skuld. Faster workstation: Urd. Netbook: Peorth.
Now that's weird.. an anime using bits from the Nordic pantheon? Skuld, Urd, and Verðandi are basically the Northern mythology analogs of the 3 Fates. Peorth is Old English (Anglo-saxon) for the P rune, AKA Perthro.
I don't have the luxury to name our servers (and I hate the convention prefix we use) but I name my linux workstations based on Tux's environment. .. laptops are "icecube" and "icicle". I still feel like I'm missing a good name though. I don't think "ice sheet" or "ice block" have enough of a ring to them, and "snowball" is way too cutesy.
.. and yes, I'm aware there are no eskimos to build igloos at the ANTartic, but the name was too cool to pass up.
The most powerful workstation's name is "Glacier", others are, "iceberg" and "igloo"
I think what set them off was the Erlenmeyer flasks. They seem to scream mad scientist to non chemistry people.
Erlenmeyer flasks (and much of the other glassware you mention) are illegal to possess in Texas without a permit--and in order to get a permit, you must allow the police to search your house (or place of business) unannounced: The Precursor Chemical Statute
That's insane!! Didn't expect that from Texas. CA maybe...
Well in a way they did. Remember that when the HST first went up, it's mirror was defective, it might as well have been blind. It wasn't until a shuttle mission went up to it that they could repair it and make it operational. If not for the shuttles, it would have been a multimillion dollar piece of space junk.
If your goal is "weight loss" then eating less is far easier and more effective than trying to burn it off at the gym. Going to the gym often makes you eat more when you get home - making it a waste of time.
(Yeah, I know it's heresy in the USA to say gym isn't the answer to everything...)
Not to be nasty or anything, but that is just total bullocks, and is typically used by the willingly uninformed as an excuse to be lazy. How can anyone seriously claim exercise is not beneficial? People can and do go to the gym and watch their diet and maintain great physiques. They're not genetic mutants, they just have a little freakin' willpower.
There's also the point that -given High Intensity training, or good ol' fashioned weight lifting, as opposed to the treadmill- most of your calories aren't burnt in the gym during the workout, but are burnt for many hours afterward because the metabolism is ratcheted up. Actually, it gives me trouble sleeping some nights after a workout. And the HIIT thing can actually suppress appetite.
http://www.burnthefat.com/high_intensity_interval_training.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0801/is_2_69/ai_n24220136/
In my country, we don't even have a name for gingers, because it's just nothing noteworthy.
In the white Protestant Anglo-Saxon tradition, red hair is associated with lasciviousness, anger and therefore sin. Celts were the enemy, unChristian, savage and so on. The fact that vestiges of this attitude still prevail just goes to show how prejudice lingers in the collective unconscious.
Which is ironic considering that when the originally pagan Anglo-Saxons first set foot on British soil, a great number of the Britons (Celts) were already Christianized through their Roman citizenship.
Some chiropractors have also broken people's necks. Do you really want them messing with your children's not-fully-formed spines?
I'm glad I'm reading this now, and not back when I was in 2nd grade when I slipped a disc in my neck. I was in horrible pain for the latter half of the day and couldn't sleep, so my mom took me to a chiropractor who reopened his office to see me. He did an adjustment to my neck and the relief was instant, though not complete until some days later when my muscles stopped spazzing out. Admittedly, that was scary.
In this case, it was a win, but I can imagine someone not really knowing what they're doing having paralyzed me.
I think chiropractic has it's place, it's like massage for the bones, but it's certainly no substitute for vaccinations and other medical treatments. If, in the strange event your bones are actually out of alignment, as mine were, fine; beyond that though, it starts sounding quackish.
This is exactly what I wondering. I have a ton of PDFs, some home made. Two summers ago, I had a Sony eBook reader that simply couldn't display many of them correctly, or at all, for that matter (I returned it). That's why I'm leaning towards a tablet. Unless the latest generation of readers have improved in this aspect?
I still love paper books, but I'd like to give the ebook approach a try again. I'm pretty sure I'll love the search feature.
I think the morale is, "be wary of people claiming that democracy doesn't work or is no longer necessary".
Ain't that the truth. Especially if they're talking about a representative democracy. Sounds like the kind of article Chavez, Assad, Putin, Castro, or Kim Jung Un would heartily endorse.
Look in the mirror. ... Also, he has a big nose.
Wow! How did you know?
I'm surprised under the heading of attack or infrastructure, they didn't' list "EMP" or Electromagnetic Pulse, and variants.
But even funnier are the drug names, as they're all proper. Really, what druggie or smuggler refers to their wares by their proper name? Shouldn't they be looking for, "pot", "weed", "blow", "horse", "smack", and stuff like that? (with a decent algorithm to sort out gardening and equine related discussions, natch)
I don't know if you can even really classify those SyFy made for TV movies as SciFi. Most of them are just the most retarded monster movies imaginable, trying to ride the coat-tails of current theatre releases, like "Monster Fish" and "Megashark vs Gigaman" type schlock. Is there such a thing as a "C" movie? If not, there is now.
And lots of the stuff is fantasy.. mostly, really awful fantasy with the worst CGI and acting ever.
I think the only thing I watch on it now is "Merlin", which despite it's inherent campiness, for some reason I'm into; but that's really a BBC production.. and definitely not SciFi.
How about putting this in context?
I'm a little tired of everyone trotting out the old, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety" to describe the **immediate** political aftermath of 9-11. The word "essential" is in the original quote, and is significant. By "Essential" liberty, I believe Franklin meant the most basic of liberties, and in an overall permanent manner. He didn't say, "Those who can temporarily give up some liberty"; he said, "to obtain a little temporary safety".. referring to the loss of liberty as total and permanent, even if the safety isn't.
Historically, it wouldn't be the first time the US has scaled back liberties to protect itself in a time of crisis. During the Civil War, Lincoln suspended the writ of Habeas Corpus.
The point being, it was reinstated after the war.
During Bush's era, many of the precautions taken made sense. If walking down a dark alleyway in your neighbor at night is likely to get you mugged or raped, are you going to avoid that alleyway, or are you stubbornly continue to walk down that alley at night because otherwise the muggers are infringing on your right to walk there? Until the police get a chance to catch the muggers and prosecute, it makes sense to curtail a degree of your freedom for a while, so long as we realize it's not a resolution but a workaround.
But now, the threat of AQ is reduced, there have been no attacks in over a decade, Bin Laden is dead, most of AQ's top leaders are dead (except Zawahiri). It's about time for Obama to start reinstating some of the lost liberties and scaling back the patriot act, but he's expanded them instead. In this, I agree with those that are alarmed at the continuing erosion of rights.
Well that's what Scotty's Heisenberg compensators are for!
It's always Layer 1