I've never seen existance of rail system in Houston on my trips and stays there...if nothing, to me it is the epitome of the asphalt jungle with nothing but streets, highways and cars as far as the eye can see...and the accompanying repeating strip malls every mile or so.
But she just started learning to cook last month (she grew up in an Indian household with servants and never had to cook before, but now decided it was time). I think our food bills have gone up as we've switched from ordering most meals to home cooked. We order dry and packaged stuff from Amazon to save some money and get it delivered right to our door, but fresh things cost a fortune in our neighborhood...
Wow, that is so foreign to my life...I cook from scratch most of my meals, and in doing that, I dine much healthier and cheaper than if I were buying junk food and dining out at the usual middle of the road chain type restaurants.
Don't get me wrong, I like to eat out, but I'd rather cook (I enjoy it) mostly at home, and with the money saved from not eating crap food, I'll from time to time, drop some serious coinage on a fine dining experience with good service, high end food and nice wines.
I live in New Orleans, so, no shortage of places to eat out...but it seems most people that live here also know how to cook at home too.
No one. But it is the most efficient way to house people. A society where everyone owns a house and a yard is going to be wasting far more resources to provide the same level of services to those people than one where they live in large apartment buildings.
Who they hell works for and lives their life for efficiency for the betterment of society? Most people I know work to make their lives the best they can for themselves and their families, something that has gone on since the beginning of time.
I make enough to live my lifestyle, and that's all that is important to me. I don't go out of my way to hurt or inhibit others, but I'm not gonna sacrifice my pleasures and enjoyment of this short life for a 'cause' or the "greater good". Why should I?
Bullshit. The "green" thing would have been to put the office in a high-density area where the rail transit ALREADY FUCKING GOES!
So, you're wanting to limit putting the office ONLY in about 3-5 US cities?
I mean, how many US cities can you think of, that already have a viable rail transit system?? NYC? Chicago...SF if you count the cable cars I guess....where else?
Hell, I've rarely lived in a city that had a viable bus line that you'd consider using for any type of real transportation, and the main one I can think of is a tourist city like New Orleans, and even that is hit and miss at times.
Except that the assholes running companies like Google have fucked it up for everyone by building their offices out in the suburbs, forcing even the affluent core/inner-suburb dwellers to waste their lives commuting out (or across, or whatever).
Well, to have them build inside a city like that, you'd have to have the state and city make a LOT of concessions and help to make that type of move reasonable in terms of cost.
Building inner city, you'd have to buy likely multiple buildings, and figure how to work parking...also working with infrastructure needed for massive server farms they would likely need, etc.
I don't know a lot of cities that would give enough tax breaks and incentives to make it cost effective to build a campus like Google wants and needs and still be of reasonable costs....after all, Google and the like are businesses first and foremost.
I live in a somewhat urban area (Midtown Manhattan) and as for restaurant food, there are more and cheaper options than farther out. Sure, there are expensive ones, but in the heart of the city I can easily get much cheaper restaurant food than in suburbs. There's a plethora of $1 a slice pizza joints (most suck, better to spend double that and go for $2 a slice places) or tasty, plentiful street food where a huge meal costs all of $6.M
Yeah, but who actually eats out all that much?
I cook on the weekends which covers most of my early to mid week meals (lunches and dinners). I know other people eat out more than I do, but more than 1-2 times a week?
You are confusing the downtown (city core) with the blighted near-suburbs. Few cities have truly crime-ridden core areas, but many have suburbs that are so. They also have a core and near-suburbs that are much safer (and naturally higher cost) which is where the truly affluent (or perhaps single/childless) live, while the rest endure the commute in favor of the extra space they can afford in the far suburbs.
What cities are YOU talking about?
I've never lived where I see blighted suburbs and golden inner cities...quite the opposite in most US cities I've ever lived or visited.
It's only close to home, because marketers decided every American should have a single family home (detached home in the rest of the world)
Who the hell "likes" sharing walls with people?
I personally was so happy when I could afford to live in stand alone houses. I now, don't have to listen to other peoples noise (stereo, crying babies, fscking, etc)...and I don't have to be terribly cognizant of my own levels of noise production.
I like having a back yard, where I can plant and grow a nice sized vegetable garden, where I can set up my smoker and my grills....where I can set up my homebrewing apparatus, where I can set up and invite friends over for a large crawfish boil, etc.
Why would I possibly, want to live in a smaller box, share walls, and have to squeeze all my outdoor fun on some small balcony, that in some places has regulations against open flame outdoor cooking?
Living in a city can be fun for a young, single person on the move....they're usually out partying and not home that much, so who cares about the dwelling? But once you get a bit older, and maybe even have a family, you like to have a bit more privacy and room to stretch your arms and enjoy things more of a homebody style of living.
Wow....wish they'd port over the old game "Death Race"....that was fun, and quite controversial at the time because you'd drive your car over the walking people and a small tombstone would appear. The later changed it to running over zombies to placate the parents, but we all knew what it was about.
C'mon, Winston got one of the funniest lines in the movie...
There's no reason to pull out the racist card any time a black man isn't portrayed as the ultimate hero and intellect in a movie. All the characters in this COMEDY were slightly strange and comedic characters...
As was said in another movie Ramis did.."Lighten up Francis".
I also very much loved him as Russell Ziskey in Stripes.
"I've always been kind of a pacifist. When I was a kid, my father told me, "Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it."
I don't know what kind of soldier I'm gonna make, but I want you guys to know that if we ever get into real heavy combat... I'll be right behind you guys. Every step of the way."
Oh, and I make sexist jokes too. Here's one: What does it mean when the wife is in the living room? That the chain that's supposed to keep her in the kitchen is too long.
LOL...
Remember when loading the dishwasher, meant getting the wife drunk?
If it was simple it'd be done. Bomb/weapon detection isn't so simple. What if I had a vacuumed sealed container (plastic of course) stuffed into my luggage? What if I brought on a ceramic knife/sword? I
What you described would possibly work today....
Although, they do xray the luggage still in my scenario, but what they do today could be fooled with what you described pretty much just as much as it could with my less intrusive methods.
And, that vacuumed sealed explosive had better be 100% air tight, and the outside completely sanitized of all explosive materials residue. If you did a good enough job to have the dogs miss it, likely as much, it would be missed by the current tools used at TSA, yet we're still stuck with the intrusive procedures.
In some (not all mind you) cases it's because a person struggles to make ends meet working 80 hours a week and sees other people who work 40 hours a week taking home three times his/her pay and wonders why he or she isn't getting the same breaks.
Well, that's life, and life is tough, no?
I mean, many people are lucky. Many people work hard and lift themselves up, many people start from lower ends of the spectrum. But that's just life and nature.
Equal opportunity != Equal Results.
The US is still free enough, that if you don't like what you're doing, you can, through extra effort....better your lot in life. You may have to sacrifice time, you may have to move, etc....but it *can* be done.
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Ok, I have to ask, WTF is a "deodorant rock"???
We're getting close to the point of not needing a warrant or consent at all.
Anyone want to lay bets on when that will finally happen? I'm sadly not optimistic that it may not happen in my lifetime.
I've never seen existance of rail system in Houston on my trips and stays there...if nothing, to me it is the epitome of the asphalt jungle with nothing but streets, highways and cars as far as the eye can see...and the accompanying repeating strip malls every mile or so.
I find cooking with gas to be so much simpler and easier to manage..since you have such a good visual representation on heat levels (stovetop).
I found later when I worked in restaurants, they were ALL gas due to better control, etc....interesting.
Well, keep at it...do you have good cookware? That often makes the difference on burning things or not....
Wow, that is so foreign to my life...I cook from scratch most of my meals, and in doing that, I dine much healthier and cheaper than if I were buying junk food and dining out at the usual middle of the road chain type restaurants.
Don't get me wrong, I like to eat out, but I'd rather cook (I enjoy it) mostly at home, and with the money saved from not eating crap food, I'll from time to time, drop some serious coinage on a fine dining experience with good service, high end food and nice wines.
I live in New Orleans, so, no shortage of places to eat out...but it seems most people that live here also know how to cook at home too.
Who they hell works for and lives their life for efficiency for the betterment of society? Most people I know work to make their lives the best they can for themselves and their families, something that has gone on since the beginning of time.
I make enough to live my lifestyle, and that's all that is important to me. I don't go out of my way to hurt or inhibit others, but I'm not gonna sacrifice my pleasures and enjoyment of this short life for a 'cause' or the "greater good". Why should I?
So, you're wanting to limit putting the office ONLY in about 3-5 US cities?
I mean, how many US cities can you think of, that already have a viable rail transit system?? NYC? Chicago...SF if you count the cable cars I guess....where else?
Hell, I've rarely lived in a city that had a viable bus line that you'd consider using for any type of real transportation, and the main one I can think of is a tourist city like New Orleans, and even that is hit and miss at times.
Well, to have them build inside a city like that, you'd have to have the state and city make a LOT of concessions and help to make that type of move reasonable in terms of cost.
Building inner city, you'd have to buy likely multiple buildings, and figure how to work parking...also working with infrastructure needed for massive server farms they would likely need, etc.
I don't know a lot of cities that would give enough tax breaks and incentives to make it cost effective to build a campus like Google wants and needs and still be of reasonable costs....after all, Google and the like are businesses first and foremost.
Yeah, but who actually eats out all that much?
I cook on the weekends which covers most of my early to mid week meals (lunches and dinners). I know other people eat out more than I do, but more than 1-2 times a week?
Hmm..sounds more like the definition of a failed business.
What cities are YOU talking about?
I've never lived where I see blighted suburbs and golden inner cities...quite the opposite in most US cities I've ever lived or visited.
Why are you using social responsibility and a business in the same sentence?
A business is there ONLY to make money for itself and/or shareholders if it is public.
Its gift to society is generating jobs for people and helping to fund the community at large by taxes, etc.
But really...there is no social obligation by a business, that is something that is up to individual people in how they interact with each other.
Who the hell "likes" sharing walls with people?
I personally was so happy when I could afford to live in stand alone houses. I now, don't have to listen to other peoples noise (stereo, crying babies, fscking, etc)...and I don't have to be terribly cognizant of my own levels of noise production.
I like having a back yard, where I can plant and grow a nice sized vegetable garden, where I can set up my smoker and my grills....where I can set up my homebrewing apparatus, where I can set up and invite friends over for a large crawfish boil, etc.
Why would I possibly, want to live in a smaller box, share walls, and have to squeeze all my outdoor fun on some small balcony, that in some places has regulations against open flame outdoor cooking?
Living in a city can be fun for a young, single person on the move....they're usually out partying and not home that much, so who cares about the dwelling? But once you get a bit older, and maybe even have a family, you like to have a bit more privacy and room to stretch your arms and enjoy things more of a homebody style of living.
Not using birth control is assault in other countries?!?!
Seriously?
Its a rare game to find now.
Animal House....
C'mon, Winston got one of the funniest lines in the movie...
There's no reason to pull out the racist card any time a black man isn't portrayed as the ultimate hero and intellect in a movie. All the characters in this COMEDY were slightly strange and comedic characters...
As was said in another movie Ramis did.."Lighten up Francis".
"I've always been kind of a pacifist. When I was a kid, my father told me, "Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it."
I don't know what kind of soldier I'm gonna make, but I want you guys to know that if we ever get into real heavy combat... I'll be right behind you guys. Every step of the way."
I wanna live forever!!!
LOL...
Remember when loading the dishwasher, meant getting the wife drunk?
Bullshit.
It is only rape if you're fucking her, she says stop and you don't.
If she never said stop...till it was over, it wasn't rape.
You can't retroactively withdraw consent after the act is done and over with....
Consent is allowing penetration, wearing a rubber or not is not part of what constitutes consent.
What you described would possibly work today....
Although, they do xray the luggage still in my scenario, but what they do today could be fooled with what you described pretty much just as much as it could with my less intrusive methods.
And, that vacuumed sealed explosive had better be 100% air tight, and the outside completely sanitized of all explosive materials residue. If you did a good enough job to have the dogs miss it, likely as much, it would be missed by the current tools used at TSA, yet we're still stuck with the intrusive procedures.
At the gates, metal detector, and on other side guards with bomb sniffing dogs.
That's really all they need....I'd feel perfectly save doing that, I'd not get irradiated, groped or detained unnecessarily.
But I guess that would be too simple for govt. and wouldn't cost nearly enough for the feds to spend, eh?
I'm FAR from being rich....
Well, that's life, and life is tough, no?
I mean, many people are lucky. Many people work hard and lift themselves up, many people start from lower ends of the spectrum. But that's just life and nature.
Equal opportunity != Equal Results.
The US is still free enough, that if you don't like what you're doing, you can, through extra effort....better your lot in life. You may have to sacrifice time, you may have to move, etc....but it *can* be done.