I'm sick of hearing about Microsoft sucks ass. Frankly, it doesn't. Is it perfect? Fuck no. But Microsoft's products are by and large the best at what they do, or, at a minimum, pretty good.. Visual Studio is hands-down the best IDE out there, period. Windows 10 is an excellent desktop OS. There is no better desktop OS. OSX is crap in comparison, and no distro of Linux holds a candle. Windows just works; it works well and everything you need runs on it without problems. Microsoft Office has absolutely the best word processor and spreadsheet money can buy. Microsoft's server products aren't the best, but they aren't, at all, bad either. Same thing with most of Microsoft's other software. So all this bitching about Microsoft is just retarded.
Even people's biggest bitch about Windows 10 is retarded. Who gives a shit if Microsoft knows that your machine crashed while running whatever the fuck? It's not like the telemetry sends them copies of your data or even lists of the websites you visit or the programs you run. It's pretty much just crash data and little bits of kernel data that tells Microsoft how well the OS is working. Personally, I'd like for them to have that data, although, I would also like to be able to shut it off, I can see why that don't want to let you. It doesn't harm you to give it to them, it can't be used to implicate you in any crimes you may commit, and it helps Microsoft improve Windows. So, yeah, they don't want you disabling it. Big deal. I'll take that over not be able to play my games or use MS Office or Visual Studio, any day of the week. Not being able to use the software I want to use is what I'd get if I switched to Linux, or, to a lesser extent, OSX, so fuck that shit. Windows 10 it is. It probably is for you too. So stop your bitching. AND, if you don't like Microsoft products, you don't have to use them. So why whine about them? What good does that do anyone? It annoys us Windows users who like Windows, and makes you look like a whiner to everyone else. Just stop using it if it sucks so much and shut up about it already.
You just sense whether or not its been tilted recently. That's what my iron does. It only takes a few seconds to heat up if it does go off. It's a pretty good iron. Glad I payed $20 for it at Walgreen's ten years ago.
I'm glad Grand Rapids, MI is a very large city then. What? You've never heard of it? That's because it's not a very large city; it's mid-size at best (2/3 million in the metro). Grand Rapids does have good public transportation, though. I know many Grand Rapidians who have no vehicle, no plans to buy one, and no need for one. The bus, Uber, taxis and the occasional rental cover all their needs just fine. If you can do it in GR, you can certainly do it elsewhere. It's just that cars are terribly expensive and people don't want to deal with public transport simply out of annoyance. A car's certainly not a necessity, though. I will admit that GR may be an exception, however. If it is, it shouldn't be.
Did we look at the same series of images? Those certainly aren't "INCREDIBLY NSFW & DISTURBING" images. Some are just creative pictures and some are slightly odd artwork. There's nothing wrong with either. There's only one image that's even remotely NSFW, and it's pretty damn non-explicit You guys are crazy by blowing this out of proportion.In fact, the phrase "out of proportion" doesn't even do it justice, since it implies that some wrong was done and that it's less bad than you're saying it is, BUT no wrong was done. So, in reality, where I live, you've seen some art you don't like and decided that it should be criminal. Then you guys made shit up to justify it.
So, on behalf of sane people everywhere, shut the fuck up about stupid shit that's not your business and get a life.
I wouldn't want to be in the same building as hydrogen fluoride. Aluminum fluoride is available on eBay for $100/500g. While not exactly cheap, it's not exactly expensive or, apparently, hard to get. It's looks like something to try out more and more.
I'll grant you that the stuff you need isn't exactly household standard, It's all pretty easily available You don't actually need a platinum foil electrode or a calomel reference electrode; those are just what they used so they could figure out what was going on in the anodization process. You could just about anything, I believe, as the electrode just supplies the electricity, but doesn't interact chemically. I could be wrong, however, but that was my understanding based on my knowledge of these things and reading the paper. In fact, I'm thinking about trying it out. If I can make it work with a custom made battery charging circuit that I've been working on, maybe I'll sell a kit.
Qualified immunity doesn't apply if the agent of the state is violating a Constitutional right. Only judges are completely immune when acting in their official capacity.
There's nothing hard about 3 digits. It's just a convenient marker for the danger zone. You see a third digit, you know it's too hot to stay outside without taking precautions.
Bizzarely (and I know you were making a joke, but sometimes facts are funny too), a surprising large number of people die every year while taking shits. Apparently, pushing out a log puts quite a strain on your heart.
Fahrenheit relates to things you're likely to experience in life. 0F is the temperature at which saltwater freezes. In other words, above 0, you probably won't die or get frostbite; below 0, you will get frostbite and could die. 0F is tits cold. 100F is approximately body temperature (it's actually roughly 98.6F, but 100 is close enough). It was actually the body temperature of Fahrenheit, I believe. Below 100F, you're totally fine as long as you're reasonably healthy. Above 100F, with normal levels of humidity for non-desert areas, you could die from hyperthermia. 100F is ass hot.
To summarize (to the nearest 10 degrees): 0F dangerously cold 30F freezing cold 70F room temp 100F dangerously hot
That's why Fahrenheit is good. All of the normally experienced temperatures are 2 digits. If you go to 3 digits or 1 digit (or negative), you're in the danger zone. If I, as an engineer, had to design a temperature scale for daily use, I'd design Fahrenheit.
You should come over to West Michigan. We're just like Wisconsin except we rarely go above 100F and rarely go below 0F (although, we did get to -10 or so last winter. That was weird.). The only problem with Grand Rapids is that we get the most snow for a sizable city in the US (according to Wikipedia). A couple of years ago we got more that 80 inches, although 30-40 is more normal. Northern Michgan and the UP are much snowier. East Michigan may as well be Wisconsin as far as snow is concerned. Also, our politicians are less crazy.
You are never obliged to report crimes to the police unless you're a mandatory reporter (basically, doctors, social workers and teachers) and the crime is on the mandatory reporting list (child abuse, and that's about it). If you're not a mandatory reporter, then you don't have to report anything for any reason ever. It's actually constitutional, by the way. It's part of the fifth amendment. Basically, the fifth amendment means you can always keep your mouth shut in case you accidentally say something incriminating. In fact, the mandatory reporting requirement has never been tested, and I think is likely unconstitutional.
Additionally, your understanding of accessory is a bit off. To be an accessory, you must know about the crime and provide material aid toward the commission of that crime and there has to be an accessory statute for that crime. For example, if you give a ride to a dude who then commits a murder but you didn't know about the murder, you're fine. If you pick him up afterwards, find out about the murder, and hide him, you're now an accessory after the fact. Another example, you stand in front of a camera so your friend can shoplift, you're not an accessory. Why? Because there's not a statute making being an accessory to shoplifting a crime (in most states; some states have a more general accessory to a crime law which would cover it). You may, however, be guilty of something else like conspiracy to commit fraud, or may even be considered a shoplifter under some statutes, but not an accessory. Final example, you find out about a friend committing a robbery and don't report it to the cops. You're not an accessory, since there's no material aid.
You are never obliged to report crimes to the police unless you're a mandatory reporter (basically, doctors, social workers and teachers) and the crime is on the mandatory reporting list (child abuse, and that's about it). If you're not a mandatory reporter, then you don't have to report anything for any reason ever. It's actually constitutional, by the way. It's part of the fifth amendment. Basically, the fifth amendment means you can always keep your mouth shut in case you accidentally say something incriminating. In fact, the mandatory reporting requirement has never been tested, and I think is likely unconstitutional.
Nope, those are stupid as fuck. We have one here in GR, and the bus is still slow as ever, and now traffic on Division is worse than before the damn Silver Line.
That's not true. Well, at least not everywhere. In Michigan, having personal insurance when you need commercial insurance invalidates the portion of the insurance that covers the car. The portion that covers medical bills is always valid. Even if it weren't then the other driver's insurance insurance would cover the injuries. If that didn't happen then one of the passengers' insurance would cover the injuries. If the didn't happen, the insurance policy of a person who lives in the same house as one the drivers or the passengers would kick in. Of course, these backup protections are only for medical bills, but there's going to be medical coverage from somewhere. I've heard of bystanding pedestrians claiming to be hit so their insurance would kick for everyone when people in an accident have said that no one has insurance. I little scratch from flying plastic is all it takes to make you part of the accident and make your insurance part of the loop for medical coverage for everyone in the accident.
The neatest part of Michigan's insurance law is that medical bills related to a car accident are covered 100% for life, including lost wages from injuries. It's the best insurance in the country. The only thing that would be better is actual universal health care, which I'd vote for in a heartbeat. If we could referendum universal health care for this country or even just this state, I'd vote for it. I voted for Sanders for this reason, and I voted for Obama for the same reason, and I'll continue to vote for people who claim to want that until we get it. I'll concede that Obamacare is the Republican version of universal health care, but it's not universal enough for me. I have health insurance, but I had it before Obamacare. I know many people who have health care only because of Obamacare, so it works, but I know many people who don't have it yet, so it only sort of works. It's not good enough.
Every five years or so, Republicans try to get rid of Michigan's no-fault auto insurance law, but the people get pissed off and we get to keep our insurance. And since our insurance law was passed as a referendum, it would take 2/3 votes of both houses to get rid of it, which isn't happening anytime soon. The only thing some people don't like about the insurance law is that you can only sue the person at fault in an accident for $500. Everything else has to be covered by your own insurance policy. That's the no-fault part. It doesn't matter who's at fault, your insurance covers your car. Unless the other person was drunk, in which case your insurance must cover it first, but then can sue the drunkard. Note that I said nothing of fault. You are always at fault if you are drunk. And your insurance is invalid if you're drunk. Except for medical, of course. That's always valid.
It's applied basically everywhere in the northern US and all of Canada for 3-6 months every year as it stands. Snow covers all road lines. It doesn't lower the speed much when the weather's not too bad, but it does lower it a bit. And a lot a bit when it's shit out.
No, it's not. I drive a manual without a hill hold feature. I've never even considered that such a feature would be nice to have. It's just unnecessary. To start on a hill, you let out the clutch enough to hold the car, while very quickly letting off the brake and touching the gas. Once gassed, let the clutch out the rest of the way and you're off. Doesn't matter if it's an icestorm on a hill or any other conditions; that's what you do. With a little practice, you can use that procedure without any roll-back at all, in any conditions, on any hill. Trust me; I do it all the time.
Practically every current car has more horsepower than a DeLorean. My 2009 Scion xB has 158 hp, and that car only cost me $16k brand new. You'd be hard-pressed to find anything less. Hell, the Nissan Versa (cheapest current car in US market) has 109 hp, which is pretty darn close to 130. At the time, however, 130 hp was sort-of OK but still kind of shitty but it wasn't that shitty. There were new cars with less than half that power in the mid-80s.
Having said all that, I'd still like to get one of those new DeLoreans. I've always loved the look, ever since I was a little kid, and with the new engine and electrical (they certainly have to put a modern electrical system in to use the new engine), it'd be a great car. The price puts it well out of my league, but if $100k was in my league, I'd seriously consider it.
Having worked in a restaurant, I can tell you those places must have been doing some nightmarish shit. The company I work for has only been shut down once (years ago) because mouse turds were found on a slicer, not in use, which is pretty damn egregious if you ask me, but not as serious as people would expect. That manager and employee were both fired. Anything less just gets you yelled at and, maybe, if it's really bad, you'll have to throw away some product. We were once forced to throw out an entire cooler of meat (more than 500 lbs) because the cooler was holding at 42 degrees F. 41 is the limit. That's the exception though. The rule is a good talking to. Having said that, restaurants are usually scared shitless of the health department, and generally keep things safe. An outbreak of norovirus or e coli is a death sentence (Jack-in-the-Box, Blimpie (in GR, MI, anyway)), so restaurants have a pretty big incentive to keep things clean and at temp.
If poopreport was still around, I'd beg you to write that story up. Hell, I'm begging you now. Add some fluffy descriptors, a few juicy details, describe the meal that caused it, and little of the aftermath. It'd be great. Reply with a link to a blogpost or something, please.
Even washing each leaf with bleach won't actually work. E. coli can easily get INTO the leaf in spinach, and that has happened. I remember a massive spinach recall a few years ago with e. coli being INSIDE the spinach leaves themselves. I don't see why lettuce would be any different. I absolutely refuse to eat organic salad for this reason.
It's like Dave Ramsey says: if you're broke, then eat "beans and rice, rice and beans." It's easy and cheap, even in a dorm.
1. Rice cookers are like $10-20. Get one with a steamer tray. It doesn't have a burner and can't start a fire, so tell your RA to fuck off. 2. Buy rice at the Asian store. It'll cost $1/lb for good Jasmine rice (brown rice only, you'll need the nutrients). (You don't have an Asian store? My ass. Or try the Mexican store. You don't have a Mexican store, either? Shut the fuck up and stop lying. Open your eyebulbs; they're everywhere.) 3. Buy bullion cubes and/or soup base (it comes in a jar) for flavor. You can get that stuff cheap at the Asian store. 4. Buy beans in a can from Save-a-Lot/Aldi/cheapo-store. I like navy beans and fava beans. There're a few dozen other kinds. Get what's cheap. One can a day, minimum. 5. Put the rice, soup base/bullion/soup mix and water in the rice cooker and press the button. Add the beans when it's done. Enjoy. 6. If you're feeling rich, chicken or sausage or burger patties go in the steamer tray. 7. The Asian store will also have cheap noodles that the rice cooker will cook just fine. Cheaper than ramen. (You still need the beans, or you'll eventually get something nasty like beri-beri.) 8. Oatmeal and raisins make a good, fast breakfast. (Add sugar packets and creamers from wherever other people get coffee.) 9. You'll also need to add some vitamin C every once in while to prevent scurvy. Any fruit or fruit juice will do. Tea made from fresh pine needles (actual pine trees only) will do in a pinch. I like raisins, apples, bananas, and oranges, which are all usually cheap enough.
You can actually live on that stuff for months at a time without dying. The soup base/bullion and occasional noodles and meat will keep you from committing suicide.
There is some thought that those people are so depressed that they aren't even capable of marshaling the energy to commit suicide. When you give them an antidepressant, they start to become less depressed and but are still depressed enough to be suicidal, only now they have the energy to kill themselves, and so do it.
It was Michiganian originally (occasionally, Michiganite, but only by Wisconsinites). Then, in the 1850's Senator Abraham Lincoln got mad at one of Michigan's senators, who happened to be quite fat. Lincoln insulted him on the Senate floor by calling him the "Michigander" (which was, in part, a pun on the phrase, "what's good for the goose is good for the gander," in addition to calling him fat.) For whatever reason, the name expanded to mean, "person from Michigan," and it stuck.
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I'm sick of hearing about Microsoft sucks ass. Frankly, it doesn't. Is it perfect? Fuck no. But Microsoft's products are by and large the best at what they do, or, at a minimum, pretty good.. Visual Studio is hands-down the best IDE out there, period. Windows 10 is an excellent desktop OS. There is no better desktop OS. OSX is crap in comparison, and no distro of Linux holds a candle. Windows just works; it works well and everything you need runs on it without problems. Microsoft Office has absolutely the best word processor and spreadsheet money can buy. Microsoft's server products aren't the best, but they aren't, at all, bad either. Same thing with most of Microsoft's other software. So all this bitching about Microsoft is just retarded.
Even people's biggest bitch about Windows 10 is retarded. Who gives a shit if Microsoft knows that your machine crashed while running whatever the fuck? It's not like the telemetry sends them copies of your data or even lists of the websites you visit or the programs you run. It's pretty much just crash data and little bits of kernel data that tells Microsoft how well the OS is working. Personally, I'd like for them to have that data, although, I would also like to be able to shut it off, I can see why that don't want to let you. It doesn't harm you to give it to them, it can't be used to implicate you in any crimes you may commit, and it helps Microsoft improve Windows. So, yeah, they don't want you disabling it. Big deal. I'll take that over not be able to play my games or use MS Office or Visual Studio, any day of the week. Not being able to use the software I want to use is what I'd get if I switched to Linux, or, to a lesser extent, OSX, so fuck that shit. Windows 10 it is. It probably is for you too. So stop your bitching. AND, if you don't like Microsoft products, you don't have to use them. So why whine about them? What good does that do anyone? It annoys us Windows users who like Windows, and makes you look like a whiner to everyone else. Just stop using it if it sucks so much and shut up about it already.
You just sense whether or not its been tilted recently. That's what my iron does. It only takes a few seconds to heat up if it does go off. It's a pretty good iron. Glad I payed $20 for it at Walgreen's ten years ago.
I'm glad Grand Rapids, MI is a very large city then. What? You've never heard of it? That's because it's not a very large city; it's mid-size at best (2/3 million in the metro). Grand Rapids does have good public transportation, though. I know many Grand Rapidians who have no vehicle, no plans to buy one, and no need for one. The bus, Uber, taxis and the occasional rental cover all their needs just fine. If you can do it in GR, you can certainly do it elsewhere. It's just that cars are terribly expensive and people don't want to deal with public transport simply out of annoyance. A car's certainly not a necessity, though. I will admit that GR may be an exception, however. If it is, it shouldn't be.
As for the rest of your rebuttals, I agree.
Did we look at the same series of images? Those certainly aren't "INCREDIBLY NSFW & DISTURBING" images. Some are just creative pictures and some are slightly odd artwork. There's nothing wrong with either. There's only one image that's even remotely NSFW, and it's pretty damn non-explicit You guys are crazy by blowing this out of proportion.In fact, the phrase "out of proportion" doesn't even do it justice, since it implies that some wrong was done and that it's less bad than you're saying it is, BUT no wrong was done. So, in reality, where I live, you've seen some art you don't like and decided that it should be criminal. Then you guys made shit up to justify it.
So, on behalf of sane people everywhere, shut the fuck up about stupid shit that's not your business and get a life.
I wouldn't want to be in the same building as hydrogen fluoride. Aluminum fluoride is available on eBay for $100/500g. While not exactly cheap, it's not exactly expensive or, apparently, hard to get. It's looks like something to try out more and more.
I'll grant you that the stuff you need isn't exactly household standard, It's all pretty easily available You don't actually need a platinum foil electrode or a calomel reference electrode; those are just what they used so they could figure out what was going on in the anodization process. You could just about anything, I believe, as the electrode just supplies the electricity, but doesn't interact chemically. I could be wrong, however, but that was my understanding based on my knowledge of these things and reading the paper. In fact, I'm thinking about trying it out. If I can make it work with a custom made battery charging circuit that I've been working on, maybe I'll sell a kit.
Qualified immunity doesn't apply if the agent of the state is violating a Constitutional right. Only judges are completely immune when acting in their official capacity.
There's nothing hard about 3 digits. It's just a convenient marker for the danger zone. You see a third digit, you know it's too hot to stay outside without taking precautions.
I never thought about the diarrhea thing. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, I guess.
Bizzarely (and I know you were making a joke, but sometimes facts are funny too), a surprising large number of people die every year while taking shits. Apparently, pushing out a log puts quite a strain on your heart.
Fahrenheit relates to things you're likely to experience in life. 0F is the temperature at which saltwater freezes. In other words, above 0, you probably won't die or get frostbite; below 0, you will get frostbite and could die. 0F is tits cold. 100F is approximately body temperature (it's actually roughly 98.6F, but 100 is close enough). It was actually the body temperature of Fahrenheit, I believe. Below 100F, you're totally fine as long as you're reasonably healthy. Above 100F, with normal levels of humidity for non-desert areas, you could die from hyperthermia. 100F is ass hot.
To summarize (to the nearest 10 degrees):
0F dangerously cold
30F freezing cold
70F room temp
100F dangerously hot
That's why Fahrenheit is good. All of the normally experienced temperatures are 2 digits. If you go to 3 digits or 1 digit (or negative), you're in the danger zone. If I, as an engineer, had to design a temperature scale for daily use, I'd design Fahrenheit.
You should come over to West Michigan. We're just like Wisconsin except we rarely go above 100F and rarely go below 0F (although, we did get to -10 or so last winter. That was weird.). The only problem with Grand Rapids is that we get the most snow for a sizable city in the US (according to Wikipedia). A couple of years ago we got more that 80 inches, although 30-40 is more normal. Northern Michgan and the UP are much snowier. East Michigan may as well be Wisconsin as far as snow is concerned. Also, our politicians are less crazy.
You are never obliged to report crimes to the police unless you're a mandatory reporter (basically, doctors, social workers and teachers) and the crime is on the mandatory reporting list (child abuse, and that's about it). If you're not a mandatory reporter, then you don't have to report anything for any reason ever. It's actually constitutional, by the way. It's part of the fifth amendment. Basically, the fifth amendment means you can always keep your mouth shut in case you accidentally say something incriminating. In fact, the mandatory reporting requirement has never been tested, and I think is likely unconstitutional.
Additionally, your understanding of accessory is a bit off. To be an accessory, you must know about the crime and provide material aid toward the commission of that crime and there has to be an accessory statute for that crime. For example, if you give a ride to a dude who then commits a murder but you didn't know about the murder, you're fine. If you pick him up afterwards, find out about the murder, and hide him, you're now an accessory after the fact. Another example, you stand in front of a camera so your friend can shoplift, you're not an accessory. Why? Because there's not a statute making being an accessory to shoplifting a crime (in most states; some states have a more general accessory to a crime law which would cover it). You may, however, be guilty of something else like conspiracy to commit fraud, or may even be considered a shoplifter under some statutes, but not an accessory. Final example, you find out about a friend committing a robbery and don't report it to the cops. You're not an accessory, since there's no material aid.
You are never obliged to report crimes to the police unless you're a mandatory reporter (basically, doctors, social workers and teachers) and the crime is on the mandatory reporting list (child abuse, and that's about it). If you're not a mandatory reporter, then you don't have to report anything for any reason ever. It's actually constitutional, by the way. It's part of the fifth amendment. Basically, the fifth amendment means you can always keep your mouth shut in case you accidentally say something incriminating. In fact, the mandatory reporting requirement has never been tested, and I think is likely unconstitutional.
Nope, those are stupid as fuck. We have one here in GR, and the bus is still slow as ever, and now traffic on Division is worse than before the damn Silver Line.
That's not true. Well, at least not everywhere. In Michigan, having personal insurance when you need commercial insurance invalidates the portion of the insurance that covers the car. The portion that covers medical bills is always valid. Even if it weren't then the other driver's insurance insurance would cover the injuries. If that didn't happen then one of the passengers' insurance would cover the injuries. If the didn't happen, the insurance policy of a person who lives in the same house as one the drivers or the passengers would kick in. Of course, these backup protections are only for medical bills, but there's going to be medical coverage from somewhere. I've heard of bystanding pedestrians claiming to be hit so their insurance would kick for everyone when people in an accident have said that no one has insurance. I little scratch from flying plastic is all it takes to make you part of the accident and make your insurance part of the loop for medical coverage for everyone in the accident.
The neatest part of Michigan's insurance law is that medical bills related to a car accident are covered 100% for life, including lost wages from injuries. It's the best insurance in the country. The only thing that would be better is actual universal health care, which I'd vote for in a heartbeat. If we could referendum universal health care for this country or even just this state, I'd vote for it. I voted for Sanders for this reason, and I voted for Obama for the same reason, and I'll continue to vote for people who claim to want that until we get it. I'll concede that Obamacare is the Republican version of universal health care, but it's not universal enough for me. I have health insurance, but I had it before Obamacare. I know many people who have health care only because of Obamacare, so it works, but I know many people who don't have it yet, so it only sort of works. It's not good enough.
Every five years or so, Republicans try to get rid of Michigan's no-fault auto insurance law, but the people get pissed off and we get to keep our insurance. And since our insurance law was passed as a referendum, it would take 2/3 votes of both houses to get rid of it, which isn't happening anytime soon. The only thing some people don't like about the insurance law is that you can only sue the person at fault in an accident for $500. Everything else has to be covered by your own insurance policy. That's the no-fault part. It doesn't matter who's at fault, your insurance covers your car. Unless the other person was drunk, in which case your insurance must cover it first, but then can sue the drunkard. Note that I said nothing of fault. You are always at fault if you are drunk. And your insurance is invalid if you're drunk. Except for medical, of course. That's always valid.
It's applied basically everywhere in the northern US and all of Canada for 3-6 months every year as it stands. Snow covers all road lines. It doesn't lower the speed much when the weather's not too bad, but it does lower it a bit. And a lot a bit when it's shit out.
No, it's not. I drive a manual without a hill hold feature. I've never even considered that such a feature would be nice to have. It's just unnecessary. To start on a hill, you let out the clutch enough to hold the car, while very quickly letting off the brake and touching the gas. Once gassed, let the clutch out the rest of the way and you're off. Doesn't matter if it's an icestorm on a hill or any other conditions; that's what you do. With a little practice, you can use that procedure without any roll-back at all, in any conditions, on any hill. Trust me; I do it all the time.
Practically every current car has more horsepower than a DeLorean. My 2009 Scion xB has 158 hp, and that car only cost me $16k brand new. You'd be hard-pressed to find anything less. Hell, the Nissan Versa (cheapest current car in US market) has 109 hp, which is pretty darn close to 130. At the time, however, 130 hp was sort-of OK but still kind of shitty but it wasn't that shitty. There were new cars with less than half that power in the mid-80s.
Having said all that, I'd still like to get one of those new DeLoreans. I've always loved the look, ever since I was a little kid, and with the new engine and electrical (they certainly have to put a modern electrical system in to use the new engine), it'd be a great car. The price puts it well out of my league, but if $100k was in my league, I'd seriously consider it.
Having worked in a restaurant, I can tell you those places must have been doing some nightmarish shit. The company I work for has only been shut down once (years ago) because mouse turds were found on a slicer, not in use, which is pretty damn egregious if you ask me, but not as serious as people would expect. That manager and employee were both fired. Anything less just gets you yelled at and, maybe, if it's really bad, you'll have to throw away some product. We were once forced to throw out an entire cooler of meat (more than 500 lbs) because the cooler was holding at 42 degrees F. 41 is the limit. That's the exception though. The rule is a good talking to. Having said that, restaurants are usually scared shitless of the health department, and generally keep things safe. An outbreak of norovirus or e coli is a death sentence (Jack-in-the-Box, Blimpie (in GR, MI, anyway)), so restaurants have a pretty big incentive to keep things clean and at temp.
If poopreport was still around, I'd beg you to write that story up. Hell, I'm begging you now. Add some fluffy descriptors, a few juicy details, describe the meal that caused it, and little of the aftermath. It'd be great. Reply with a link to a blogpost or something, please.
Even washing each leaf with bleach won't actually work. E. coli can easily get INTO the leaf in spinach, and that has happened. I remember a massive spinach recall a few years ago with e. coli being INSIDE the spinach leaves themselves. I don't see why lettuce would be any different. I absolutely refuse to eat organic salad for this reason.
It's like Dave Ramsey says: if you're broke, then eat "beans and rice, rice and beans." It's easy and cheap, even in a dorm.
1. Rice cookers are like $10-20. Get one with a steamer tray. It doesn't have a burner and can't start a fire, so tell your RA to fuck off.
2. Buy rice at the Asian store. It'll cost $1/lb for good Jasmine rice (brown rice only, you'll need the nutrients). (You don't have an Asian store? My ass. Or try the Mexican store. You don't have a Mexican store, either? Shut the fuck up and stop lying. Open your eyebulbs; they're everywhere.)
3. Buy bullion cubes and/or soup base (it comes in a jar) for flavor. You can get that stuff cheap at the Asian store.
4. Buy beans in a can from Save-a-Lot/Aldi/cheapo-store. I like navy beans and fava beans. There're a few dozen other kinds. Get what's cheap. One can a day, minimum.
5. Put the rice, soup base/bullion/soup mix and water in the rice cooker and press the button. Add the beans when it's done. Enjoy.
6. If you're feeling rich, chicken or sausage or burger patties go in the steamer tray.
7. The Asian store will also have cheap noodles that the rice cooker will cook just fine. Cheaper than ramen. (You still need the beans, or you'll eventually get something nasty like beri-beri.)
8. Oatmeal and raisins make a good, fast breakfast. (Add sugar packets and creamers from wherever other people get coffee.)
9. You'll also need to add some vitamin C every once in while to prevent scurvy. Any fruit or fruit juice will do. Tea made from fresh pine needles (actual pine trees only) will do in a pinch. I like raisins, apples, bananas, and oranges, which are all usually cheap enough.
You can actually live on that stuff for months at a time without dying. The soup base/bullion and occasional noodles and meat will keep you from committing suicide.
There is some thought that those people are so depressed that they aren't even capable of marshaling the energy to commit suicide. When you give them an antidepressant, they start to become less depressed and but are still depressed enough to be suicidal, only now they have the energy to kill themselves, and so do it.
It was Michiganian originally (occasionally, Michiganite, but only by Wisconsinites). Then, in the 1850's Senator Abraham Lincoln got mad at one of Michigan's senators, who happened to be quite fat. Lincoln insulted him on the Senate floor by calling him the "Michigander" (which was, in part, a pun on the phrase, "what's good for the goose is good for the gander," in addition to calling him fat.) For whatever reason, the name expanded to mean, "person from Michigan," and it stuck.