Moe: "Alright, tell me when I hit the sweet spot."
Homer: "Deeper, you pusillanimous pilsner pusher!"
Moe: "All right, all right."
Homer: "De-fense! Ooh! Ooh! De-fense! Ooh! Ooh!"
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> This left the shortest dial time area code for a statewide code as 201..
Have you ever actually seen a rotary phone? Dialing "0" is the slowest digit of all. It's placed after the "9".
Keep in mind that he said that statewide area codes (ie. area codes that every phone number in the state used) had to have 0 as the middle digit. So while 201 wouldn't be faster to dial than 212, it is the fastest statewide area code (since 1 wasn't available as the first digit).
I apologize, you're right, you didn't claim the workers were making $75/hour. However, others have claimed that and I erroneously replied to you instead of them.
The article also backs up the $60k number. Is unskilled labor really worth that much to you? Seems unreasonable that an uneducated unskilled laborer should earn more than the average undergrad out of school.
I wasn't making even half that as an undergrad out of school, and I'm not making that much now, but I don't really care what they make. Life is too short to constantly compare your earnings to that of others. I've got a good life, and my salary has little to do with that.
Anyways, I wouldn't want to do assembly line work for 10X what they make. I'm not interested in being bored for a living.
Well said, and to reiterate what someone said in a post above, your best bet for critic reviews, is to find a critic who shares a similar taste in movies as you. For me, that would be Ty Burr of the Boston Globe, and this is an interesting article he wrote a few years ago about the problems with star ratings.
The promise and peril of movie ratings
Writing movie reviews is simple. Translating their nuances and subtleties into a one-dimensional star rating is where things get tricky
By Ty Burr, Globe Staff | January 4, 2004
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves."-- "Julius Caesar" (Act 1, Scene 2)
Pace Cassius, sometimes the fault seems very much in the stars. I speak of the movie critics' bane: the star rating that sits atop each film review in this newspaper and that functions as a neon-green directional signal diverting the reader away from thought.
It's not an exact science, those stars. I gave "Mystic River" three, but maybe that was low; in my heart of hearts it felt like three and a quarter and perhaps I should have graded on the curve. That no-star rating for "Gigli" back in August? Too easy, I agree; I mistook the total absence of pleasure for the presence of the actively toxic.
Every reviewer I know hates the fiendish things, for the same reasons readers, editors, and publicists like them. Star ratings boil down critical analysis -- the careful weighing of pro and con, the appreciation for the nuances of camerawork and performance, the baited hook of scorn -- into a snap judgment that can be instantly grokked by a harried parent or slapped across a two-page ad spread. Gripe though critics may, unless we're one of the dainty pashas at The New York Times or The New Yorker, the stars -- or some system of dingbats like them -- are a fact of the workplace, like spam or carpal tunnel.
Here at the Globe we use a system of no stars through four, in increments of half-stars, depending on whether a movie is slow death with overpriced popcorn, average twaddle, or "The Godfather." Some newspapers use five stars. The San Francisco Chronicle has a cartoon of a little man -- called, inventively, "the little man" -- who reacts in five stages of enthusiasm, including comatose, bemused, and erupting out of his seat in hyperactive movie-geek rapture. I'd suggest something similar to represent the Boston moviegoing public in the pages of the Globe, but I'm afraid our little man would just sit there, dour as a parson, even if he were happy.
There are other ways to go. Ebert and Roeper (formerly Siskel and Ebert) have their famous thumbs, waggling in phases from down to "way, way, way up!" Clearly, they need to consider other digits. Before I arrived at the Globe, I spent many years working at a national entertainment magazine that you may have come across in the fancier airports and dentists' offices. We used grades -- nay, we pioneered the use of grades. (Oh, all right, the magazine's founding editor stole the idea from "People.") The nicest aspect of this approach is that it puts the whole exercise back in school, where it belongs.
Iconic ratings are a utility, in other words -- a pure service play. Just as a poor grade alerts parents that their child is dogging it in math class -- no matter the cause -- so one or two stars advertises a movie's failure. Whether that's a failure of nerve ("The Human Stain"), of skill ("Party Monster"), or of concept ("Beyond Borders") isn't important unless you read the review -- and who wants to read a lousy review? Who in this coddling media culture wants to willingly hear the bad news?
That's the genius of the star ratings: They spare readers the pain of negativity, be it subjective or deserved. They're like a doctor who says, "This is going to hurt," and then points out the available exits. They're there so you don't
Well, first I was really pissed off and then it got to the part about puss, antibiotics and growth hormones in milk from cows injected with RBGH.
I switched to organic milk a few years ago after watching a documentary called The Corporation, which discussed the bovine growth hormone/fox news/monsanto fiasco. Good doc, worth watching.
I'm not an S&R person or anything, but I live in New England and spend a lot of time climbing and hiking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the winter where temps are consistently below 0 Fahrenheit.
In the field the quickest way to warm a hypothermic person would be to get them out of any wet clothes and into dry clothes and then into a sleeping bag and a tent. These won't rewarm a person suffering from hypothermia, but it will protect them from the elements and hopefully keep their core temperature from dropping any lower.
Simultaneously start boiling some water inside the tent. This will raise the ambient temperature of the tent, and the heated water vapor will help (slightly) warm them from inside. If they're severely hypothermic they'll likely be unable to drink, but if they can, then get some warm liquid in them as soon as possible. Even better than simple water would be anything with small amounts of simple carbohydrates (glucose) to get some quick calories (even just mixing in some Jell-O would be helpful). Obviously, avoid anything with caffeine or alcohol.
Lacking those resources, build a fire. Lacking that try to rewarm the person with your own body heat.
To reiterate, I have no professional rescue experience, this is just from limited personal experience and what I've read.
But there are a substantial number of people who would rather live in the world that has meaning and purpose, hence religion.
This particular sentiment confounds me every time I hear it, for what meaning can this life possibly have in the face of eternity? Be it an eternity of bliss in Heaven or an eternity of horrors in Hell, 75 years is as a drop of water in the sea... utterly insignificant.
But if you consider brain death to be the end point of personal existence, then life really starts to mean something. It's a precious and scare resource that should be treasured each and every moment.
"Indy Rock" technically means ANY music from the 'Rock' super-genre that is signed to a label not directly owned by the handful of big record companies.
While I agree the term 'indie' started from there, it's evolved to something different, and is closer to the term 'underground' than anything else. In musical terms (as opposed to film, in which the term indie has also changed over time) 'Indie Rock' is really an umbrella term (comparable to 'Electronica') that encompasses a variety of sub-genres such as lo-fi, pop underground, college rock, dance-punk, twee, indie-electronic, etc. while simultaneously describing a certain 'sound' that came out of the rock underground in the 90s exemplified by bands like Pavement, Guided By Voices, Built to Spill, Archers of Loaf, Olivia Tremor Control, etc.
It's a very confusing and subjective term, and is really inadequate for proper differentiation of musical genres, but we're stuck with it, and regardless of how it's used within the emo community, emo is certainly not synonymous with indie rock, it's simply a child of the indie node.
There's an excellent documentary about this subject called King Corn".
Two friends with one year to spare and a deep curiosity about the American food distribution system set out to grow and acre of corn and see what becomes of their crop in director Aaron Woolf's agricultural-themed documentary. Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis are best friends from college who have decided to move from the east coast to the Midwest in hopes of getting a better idea where the food they consume on a daily basis actually comes from. Corn is America's most productive and subsidized grain. Upon relocating to Iowa, the pair and seeks out the assistance of friends and neighbors in procuring the land, seeds, fertilizers, and herbicides needed to grow a one-acre bumper crop of this highly-versatile commodity. As their maize is harvested and the sometimes-troubling realities of modern faming begin to emerge, the pair sets off on a mission to track the progress of their product and find out just how it is used to create a variety of different food products. What emerges is an informative and at times disturbing account of both the food Americans so readily consume without so much as a second though and the alarming state of the contemporary agricultural industry.
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Or when Russell Crowe won for Gladiator when they really wanted to give it to him for The Insider.
um, doesn't X clash with the symbol for multiplication? Wouldn't another letter, say 'F', be more appropriate?
Never mind the dot-com boom, this kind of publicity stunt has been around since at least the 1950s: Truth of Consequences, NM, named after a game show.
As an American, I HATE traveling from Canada into the U.S. And I live in New England. :/
I learned that word from The Simpsons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOMR
Canada has more than three times the land mass of India.
Additionally, the section of Manu Smriti that you cited is this:
That pertains to infidelity, not homosexuality.
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At least Timberline Lodge is still around.
Keep in mind that he said that statewide area codes (ie. area codes that every phone number in the state used) had to have 0 as the middle digit. So while 201 wouldn't be faster to dial than 212, it is the fastest statewide area code (since 1 wasn't available as the first digit).
I apologize, you're right, you didn't claim the workers were making $75/hour. However, others have claimed that and I erroneously replied to you instead of them.
I wasn't making even half that as an undergrad out of school, and I'm not making that much now, but I don't really care what they make. Life is too short to constantly compare your earnings to that of others. I've got a good life, and my salary has little to do with that.
Anyways, I wouldn't want to do assembly line work for 10X what they make. I'm not interested in being bored for a living.
For another thing,
That $75/hour number is incorrect, for a variety of reasons outlined in the linked article.
This was the best one I got:*
* copied verbatim
Well said, and to reiterate what someone said in a post above, your best bet for critic reviews, is to find a critic who shares a similar taste in movies as you. For me, that would be Ty Burr of the Boston Globe, and this is an interesting article he wrote a few years ago about the problems with star ratings.
I switched to organic milk a few years ago after watching a documentary called The Corporation, which discussed the bovine growth hormone/fox news/monsanto fiasco. Good doc, worth watching.
I'm not an S&R person or anything, but I live in New England and spend a lot of time climbing and hiking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the winter where temps are consistently below 0 Fahrenheit.
In the field the quickest way to warm a hypothermic person would be to get them out of any wet clothes and into dry clothes and then into a sleeping bag and a tent. These won't rewarm a person suffering from hypothermia, but it will protect them from the elements and hopefully keep their core temperature from dropping any lower.
Simultaneously start boiling some water inside the tent. This will raise the ambient temperature of the tent, and the heated water vapor will help (slightly) warm them from inside. If they're severely hypothermic they'll likely be unable to drink, but if they can, then get some warm liquid in them as soon as possible. Even better than simple water would be anything with small amounts of simple carbohydrates (glucose) to get some quick calories (even just mixing in some Jell-O would be helpful). Obviously, avoid anything with caffeine or alcohol.
Lacking those resources, build a fire. Lacking that try to rewarm the person with your own body heat.
To reiterate, I have no professional rescue experience, this is just from limited personal experience and what I've read.
If you're really interested, check out the book Medicine for Mountaineering (google books has a lengthy preview) and maybe take a Wilderness Medicine course.
Magnolia in 1999 (albeit in a supporting role).
All those links and the summary doesn't mention Dave Eggers, the author, and founder of 826 Valencia, as well as McSweeneys.
Also, that group once did a Pirate supply store.
They were subsequently sued by the RIAA.
Student Arrested for Making Videogame Map of School
The Union Oyster House is notable as it's the oldest restaurant in the U.S..
I like their chowder...
Are you thinking of Budd Dwyer?
But if you consider brain death to be the end point of personal existence, then life really starts to mean something. It's a precious and scare resource that should be treasured each and every moment.
While I agree the term 'indie' started from there, it's evolved to something different, and is closer to the term 'underground' than anything else. In musical terms (as opposed to film, in which the term indie has also changed over time) 'Indie Rock' is really an umbrella term (comparable to 'Electronica') that encompasses a variety of sub-genres such as lo-fi, pop underground, college rock, dance-punk, twee, indie-electronic, etc. while simultaneously describing a certain 'sound' that came out of the rock underground in the 90s exemplified by bands like Pavement, Guided By Voices, Built to Spill, Archers of Loaf, Olivia Tremor Control, etc.
It's a very confusing and subjective term, and is really inadequate for proper differentiation of musical genres, but we're stuck with it, and regardless of how it's used within the emo community, emo is certainly not synonymous with indie rock, it's simply a child of the indie node.
Perhaps you mean Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore?
Great Sand Dunes National Park is in Colorado.
Scala's cover of 'Heartbeats' by The Knife is incredible...
There's an excellent documentary about this subject called King Corn".