"Besides a good roll of pennies and a sock are good for those times you have to dish out some street therapy." Ah, quarters are much better. Yeah, I know they're more expensive, but ya get what ya pay for.
"Start with the largest coin and then work your way down until it all adds up." I must beg to differ, if I understood you correctly. Call me old-fashioned (I am), but when I got my paper route a long time ago, my father taught me how to make change. You owe me 35 cents for the week's paper and you give me a dollar. I say, "35 (then give you a nickel) 40 (give you a dime) 50 (two quarters, one at a time) 75 and one dollar. Thank you very much, M'am!" (or Sir, as was sometimes the case). Back then without these fancy cash registers that do your thinking for you, that is the way it was done, and you didn't need a calculator or fancy register. I had a little coin holder on my belt, and all I had to do was count UP from the amount owed to the amount paid. Simple and fast. Now, go into a fast food place and if the bill comes up to $3.98, let them ring it up, give them $4.00, and then say, oh here, I've got the 3 cents. Most of the time they'll look at you as if you had hit them with a cattle prod, and it'll take them a couple of minutes to figure what the hell to do with those three cents.
Seriously, try this... it almost always works.
Well, I don't know about you guys, but I have a pocket knife and tend to keep it pretty damn sharp. If they implanted such a device in my body, I'll take it the hell out. Technology can do some remarkable things, but never forget, they aren't necessarily in your best interest.
"... they're not stupid enough that they won't draw conclusions." Hmmm... if they haven't figured this out by now, they're more stupid than you think. They are going through a self-destruct mode now, and haven't figured that out yet. But yes, I agree, by all means listen to something else. There is much better (and much less expensive) music to be had than the crap on the "Top 40".
It COULD have been a victory if the University had sued the drawers and socks off the RIAA, but they didn't do that. I'd imagine they (rightly) assumed that the RIAA would just buy the judge, like they've bought the politicians who've passed their bullshit laws. The U. would be minus a bundle of money, and the RIAA would still win... because they can afford to win.
It would be nice to see France roll over and die. Fuck 'em in the ass and feed 'em fish heads... they'll LEARN to like it. Cowardly slimeball bastards. Flaimbait? Okay, go for it, and argue with me about it. Come on...
"I will continue to complain so long as the Constitution of these United States is violated."
Damn right, Max, so shall I. And violating the Constitution seems to be the last non-partisan effort that we can count on.
"At U of I, we use liquid nitrogen to make ice cream in seconds."
Well I, for one, am glad that University education is paying off for you. I'll bet you could get a hot beer ice-cold just by pointing the nitrogen at it! Please keep us posted on experiments of that sort... my beer is hot.
All the best, -Alph
Hehehhh... the first thing I thougt was that somebody has entirely too much time on his hands. And then I saw the smiles on those kids' faces, and remembered some of the things my Dad did for us when we were kids and it all made sense. I tell folks that I was a kid before they had technology, and televisions all had tubes and most were B&W, and you had to peddle real fast to get 'em to run. That last part is, of course, bullshit, but not too far off the mark. All the best, - Alph
I just hope that Bruce Simpson and Homer Simpson aren't related... Homer could provide Bruce with nuclear fuel rods or something, and I'm sure he would do so for a price. This could get really messy.
I used to date a girl with whose jeans I could tinker, but she reproduced fast, too. This turned out not to be a particularly good thing. Oh, you said GENES? Sorry.
The METRIC SYSTEM? Damn commie measurements! (Actually, I'm kidding here... it really is a better system, but it sure screwed up how they measure our whiskey).
To gerardrj: If you've got a problem with that, get your sorry commie ass back to Russia. And you are cordially invited to ingest excrement and expire. Asshole.
"I've always wondered if they can get a password fromyou involentarily by just hooking you up to a lie detector and asking questions like, 'is the first letter a vowel? Is it A'?..."
Man, they pull that ploy, they better bring along ten or twelve cases of beer (and none of that damn "light" crap) and a box of good cigars. We're gonna be there for awhile. }:~)
Screw all that stuff... just give me a '73 Saab with a 2-Bbl Weber carb and a point-fired ignition. Oh, and a tricked-out, bored, stroked, etc. engine. Manual choke, 4 speed on the tree. And get that computer-driven crap outta my way, cause I'm comin' thru!
}:~)
Interesting post, Max. I remember, many years ago, a menthol cigarette ad with several doctors singing the praises of these smokes. This was back when cagarette ads were in every magazine, newspaper, etc. in the country. Sadly, the public has no choice but to rely on the best information available when making purchases, and the best available is often garbage. Still, we do what we can, and I'm still smoking (but not menthol).
- Alph
Re. post by G3ek: Sorry, but the RIAA has outlived its usefulness. I'm not advocating "stealing" music, but I will advocate avoiding spending a penny on anything they, or the MPAA, provide. Hit 'em where they eat. Starve the bastards out. They're not worth the powder it would take to blow 'em to hell, to the artists, consumers, or to anybody but themselves... and even that usefulness is coming to an end.
To FallLine: The music industry isn't irrevelant; the distribution system is. The $18.00 price of a CD is. I was "sharing" music off the radio thirty years ago. There was a great station in Atlanta that, every year, played the year's top 40 or 50 albums, in their entirety, no commercials during the album, just so we could record them. What the hell's the difference? Oh, and if you want to know exactly what the RIAA is doing to promote music, go to Janis Ian's website. She's written a lot of songs and a lot of articles. One of her articles deals with record companies, and their terrible treatment of artists. And she offers a lot of her songs as free MP3 downloads. Check it out.
Re: anonicon, sounds like you folks are on the right track to me. I presume you are affiliated with Fat Chuck's, and I have gotten some valuable information from that site. As an old guitar picker/songwriter, I want to wish Fat Chuck's every success. It's time for the RIAA to die. There is just so much great indie music out that most folks will never have a chance to hear, thanks to those money-grubbing RIAA bastards. Long live Fat Chuck's, and may a pox befall the chickens of the RIAA & MPAA. They have outlived their usefulness.
No, it's really not too strange. About 40 years ago, an elderly lady on my newspaper route collected matchbooks, and her collection was so interesting that I decided to do it too. She had done quite a bit of traveling in her younger days, though had slacked off a bit on that, but she had darn matchbooks from all over the world. I thought that was pretty cool. I have no idea what became of my collection, but I've wondered if those old matchbooks would be worth anything today.
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Damn, Adam Smith must be getting about ready to retire anyway... he's gettin' pretty old!
"Besides a good roll of pennies and a sock are good for those times you have to dish out some street therapy." Ah, quarters are much better. Yeah, I know they're more expensive, but ya get what ya pay for.
"Start with the largest coin and then work your way down until it all adds up." I must beg to differ, if I understood you correctly. Call me old-fashioned (I am), but when I got my paper route a long time ago, my father taught me how to make change. You owe me 35 cents for the week's paper and you give me a dollar. I say, "35 (then give you a nickel) 40 (give you a dime) 50 (two quarters, one at a time) 75 and one dollar. Thank you very much, M'am!" (or Sir, as was sometimes the case). Back then without these fancy cash registers that do your thinking for you, that is the way it was done, and you didn't need a calculator or fancy register. I had a little coin holder on my belt, and all I had to do was count UP from the amount owed to the amount paid. Simple and fast. Now, go into a fast food place and if the bill comes up to $3.98, let them ring it up, give them $4.00, and then say, oh here, I've got the 3 cents. Most of the time they'll look at you as if you had hit them with a cattle prod, and it'll take them a couple of minutes to figure what the hell to do with those three cents. Seriously, try this... it almost always works.
Well, I don't know about you guys, but I have a pocket knife and tend to keep it pretty damn sharp. If they implanted such a device in my body, I'll take it the hell out. Technology can do some remarkable things, but never forget, they aren't necessarily in your best interest.
"... they're not stupid enough that they won't draw conclusions." Hmmm... if they haven't figured this out by now, they're more stupid than you think. They are going through a self-destruct mode now, and haven't figured that out yet. But yes, I agree, by all means listen to something else. There is much better (and much less expensive) music to be had than the crap on the "Top 40".
Damn, I'd better print out a bunch before the new ones come out!
It COULD have been a victory if the University had sued the drawers and socks off the RIAA, but they didn't do that. I'd imagine they (rightly) assumed that the RIAA would just buy the judge, like they've bought the politicians who've passed their bullshit laws. The U. would be minus a bundle of money, and the RIAA would still win... because they can afford to win.
It would be nice to see France roll over and die. Fuck 'em in the ass and feed 'em fish heads... they'll LEARN to like it. Cowardly slimeball bastards. Flaimbait? Okay, go for it, and argue with me about it. Come on...
Okay, assholes... you wanna screw the U.S., COME ON DOWN! We've got something for your sorry asses.
"I will continue to complain so long as the Constitution of these United States is violated." Damn right, Max, so shall I. And violating the Constitution seems to be the last non-partisan effort that we can count on.
"At U of I, we use liquid nitrogen to make ice cream in seconds." Well I, for one, am glad that University education is paying off for you. I'll bet you could get a hot beer ice-cold just by pointing the nitrogen at it! Please keep us posted on experiments of that sort... my beer is hot. All the best, -Alph
Hehehhh... the first thing I thougt was that somebody has entirely too much time on his hands. And then I saw the smiles on those kids' faces, and remembered some of the things my Dad did for us when we were kids and it all made sense. I tell folks that I was a kid before they had technology, and televisions all had tubes and most were B&W, and you had to peddle real fast to get 'em to run. That last part is, of course, bullshit, but not too far off the mark. All the best, - Alph
I just hope that Bruce Simpson and Homer Simpson aren't related... Homer could provide Bruce with nuclear fuel rods or something, and I'm sure he would do so for a price. This could get really messy.
I used to date a girl with whose jeans I could tinker, but she reproduced fast, too. This turned out not to be a particularly good thing. Oh, you said GENES? Sorry.
The METRIC SYSTEM? Damn commie measurements! (Actually, I'm kidding here... it really is a better system, but it sure screwed up how they measure our whiskey).
To Crawling_Chaos: Hilarious! Just wanted to thank you for that one! - Alph
To gerardrj: If you've got a problem with that, get your sorry commie ass back to Russia. And you are cordially invited to ingest excrement and expire. Asshole.
"I've always wondered if they can get a password fromyou involentarily by just hooking you up to a lie detector and asking questions like, 'is the first letter a vowel? Is it A'?..." Man, they pull that ploy, they better bring along ten or twelve cases of beer (and none of that damn "light" crap) and a box of good cigars. We're gonna be there for awhile. }:~)
"Imagine if GM did the following:..." My God, man, don't give those bastards any more ideas! Have you seen the crap they're already building? - Alph
Screw all that stuff... just give me a '73 Saab with a 2-Bbl Weber carb and a point-fired ignition. Oh, and a tricked-out, bored, stroked, etc. engine. Manual choke, 4 speed on the tree. And get that computer-driven crap outta my way, cause I'm comin' thru! }:~)
Interesting post, Max. I remember, many years ago, a menthol cigarette ad with several doctors singing the praises of these smokes. This was back when cagarette ads were in every magazine, newspaper, etc. in the country. Sadly, the public has no choice but to rely on the best information available when making purchases, and the best available is often garbage. Still, we do what we can, and I'm still smoking (but not menthol). - Alph
Re. post by G3ek: Sorry, but the RIAA has outlived its usefulness. I'm not advocating "stealing" music, but I will advocate avoiding spending a penny on anything they, or the MPAA, provide. Hit 'em where they eat. Starve the bastards out. They're not worth the powder it would take to blow 'em to hell, to the artists, consumers, or to anybody but themselves... and even that usefulness is coming to an end.
To FallLine: The music industry isn't irrevelant; the distribution system is. The $18.00 price of a CD is. I was "sharing" music off the radio thirty years ago. There was a great station in Atlanta that, every year, played the year's top 40 or 50 albums, in their entirety, no commercials during the album, just so we could record them. What the hell's the difference? Oh, and if you want to know exactly what the RIAA is doing to promote music, go to Janis Ian's website. She's written a lot of songs and a lot of articles. One of her articles deals with record companies, and their terrible treatment of artists. And she offers a lot of her songs as free MP3 downloads. Check it out.
Re: anonicon, sounds like you folks are on the right track to me. I presume you are affiliated with Fat Chuck's, and I have gotten some valuable information from that site. As an old guitar picker/songwriter, I want to wish Fat Chuck's every success. It's time for the RIAA to die. There is just so much great indie music out that most folks will never have a chance to hear, thanks to those money-grubbing RIAA bastards. Long live Fat Chuck's, and may a pox befall the chickens of the RIAA & MPAA. They have outlived their usefulness.
No, it's really not too strange. About 40 years ago, an elderly lady on my newspaper route collected matchbooks, and her collection was so interesting that I decided to do it too. She had done quite a bit of traveling in her younger days, though had slacked off a bit on that, but she had darn matchbooks from all over the world. I thought that was pretty cool. I have no idea what became of my collection, but I've wondered if those old matchbooks would be worth anything today.