As for your Grandma anecdote - this will sound anti-female (its not) but women in general are far more likely to espouse a view of "just follow the rules, dont make waves" - especially women with children.
That statement would have earned you some moderation pain had you not posted AC, but it's basically correct, and it doesn't go far enough. Women, particularly mothers, are far more prone to except statist rule. As far as women are concerned you can do basically anything as long as they are safe, fed, warm and their kids are cared for. The hell with everything else.
Well, to be fair, out of the two sexes, women are the ones by far, that are most used to being bent over in a submissive fashion, and fucked hard from behind.
I think, honestly, a lot of this take what is told to you really does have a lot to do with the submissive thing with women in general.
That results in the poor paying proportionately more taxes than anyone else since they use almost all of their money to purchase necessities.
Most flat/fair/VAT type taxes I've seen promoted for use in the US in place of income taxes, do put in provisions to either not tax or give rebates back for taxes paid on necessities of life: Food, Shelter...etc.
Taxes on high end Nike athletic shoes, or jewelry, cars, etc.....no big deal with those taxes, those are luxuries and if you have disposible income for those items, you can afford the taxes.
Ok, maybe I'll have to turn in my associates geek card on this one...but...I didn't know websites could access and download my browsing history off my browser???
I know about cookies, and them trying to track your web travels, but can they really suck down my entire browsing history from my browser without my knowing or authorizing?
I'd regard not being able to achieve unless I deceive those who put their trust in me to be a grand admission of failure. Maybe some people just have low standards for themselves? Even the dullest person can get things done with a bottomless pit of money and lies.
I think it is much simpler than that....more of a case of "Whatever pays the bills".
I mean, I'm 100% against this, but if they paid me enough money, I'd do it in a heartbeat without a backwards glance.
Most people would for the right price I do believe....
How about we quit giving so much fucking money to other countries, like Egypt, etc....and save that money to give to our OWN Post Office system, and keep our mail service up to previous standards?
Or because they want him to get away. Of course they have to put on a show of trying to get him, but do they really want to? The "Snowden Affair" is quietly fading away, with all the NSA spying intact. Bringing him back to the USA for a trial would put the issue back on the front page. The government prefers that we all focus on Will and Kate's new baby instead.
They also seem to needlessly be trying to keep the Travyon/George thing going, another thing to help distract from Federal govt spying and persecution on the US public...something I think is more important that some state level case that a jury has already decided.
We're talking about a floodlight shining into someone's house at night. We aren't talking about a light used in the evening to light up a grilling area or patio and is turned off when done.
I dunno what the difference is you're talking about...?
To me the terms floodlight is synonymous with patio light...? You turn either on, and it lights up the back yard...
You are doing it wrong. Most Americans buy the kind that has the flavored coatings. You can find it on nearly every aisle of what is commonly called a grocery store. Just be sure to stay out of the area labeled produce.
On a more serious note....many of us who enjoy cooking, avoid iodized salt due to the taste encroachment.
I cook almost exclusively with kosher salt, both for the grain size and for lack of iodine.
I cook from scratch...so, hoping that I get my iodine from natural sources. I live near the gulf, so I eat a good bit of sea food, which helps.
When I'm hanging out on the back deck drinking a beer or BBQing, the last thing I want is a gigantor floodlight attracting even more bugs, blocking the night sky, and generally being super bright and annoying. An outdoor lamp, maybe some candles as others have suggested, that's about it.
How do you see the condition of what you're grilling by candlelight??
I guess I don't have that good of natural night vision....
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I guess I don't see differentiation between your use of the terms flood light and outdoor lamp (or, are you talking about a camping lantern or something not hooked to a wall switch permanently outside)?
Ask Trayvon Martin about how that strategy might work.
I don't happen to fit the description of suspects recently found to be burglarizing homes in the area....if I were in my part of the country, you'd have most of the neighbors drawing down on your till the cops came. Everyone has a gun in this part of the country.
I'm trying to figure out exactly *when* people started getting upset about a little dog poo in the yards.
Certainly didn't seem to be much of a big deal when I was growing up, and I was kinda shocked a couple years ago when someone tried calling me on it.
I mean c'mon, it is nature's fertilizer. I don't let her go in yards where they have kids out playing, I understand that, but most people never set foot in their front yards...what's the big deal?
So, generally I walk my dog early morning, or late evenings..when no one's out watching. And I just stuff an old shopping back in my back pocket.....if someone happens to see us or seems to be about to get mad, then I pick it up..but otherwise, just having a bag with you seems to put people more at ease that you're gonna pick everything up....
You need light in your back yard to see when you're grilling something at night....
Do people on here NOT hang out in their back yards in the evenings when the weather is nice?
I'm kinda dumbfounded at the number of people that can't seem to understand why you'd want to "light up" your backyard...does no one spend time outside anymore with a grill and some cold beer and friends/family sitting around the patio table?
personally, it's hard to walk my dog at night (so it poops/ pee before bedtime). I have one hand on the leash, another on the flashlight, and then somehow manage to scoop the poop....especially in the rain while trying to balance an umbrella.
Err...if it is dark, and especially rainy..why are you bothering to pick up the dog crap? It's late and dark and no one is out there to see if your dog is using their yard....
Heck, if it is raining..even better, no one to see you and gripe at you.
Perhaps you should consider getting a job so you don't have to get evicted and move so often that your worry about the local paper disappearing is that you won't have packing materials.
There has been a LOT of moving post Katrina, chasing the contract jobs around...just now settling down really the past 2-3 years.
why should i pay $$$ to read about stuff that happened a day or two ago? seriously, one time i saw one of the NYC tabloids have a sunday baseball game on the cover of their TUESDAY paper
Well, one thing they used to do, is in-depth, investigative reporting. You used to have guys like Woodward and Bernstein (sp?) that would go out, and dig and probe for stories, especially about our governmental leaders.
Sadly, for many reasons, that seems to be a thing of the past and the one thing that print and even TV media have lost.
It seems now, they are happy to parrot the press releases that our "Fearless Leaders" see fit to publish to the masses.....
...and no one seems to question the leaders anymore, and the few that do, are braned loons and troublemakers often, and kicked to the curb as far as access goes...
Well, I was watching an interesting class yesterday on creativelive.com...about food photography.
The instructor did talk about his job and about others that had been fired from staff at places like the NYT (I think he's the main shooter for food for NYT)....
He said while it was sad to see people lose those jobs, it *did* open new opportunities for the former employees AND for new and younger folks to come in a prove themselves as freelance writers and shooters.
Frankly, I like the idea of freelancing it...yes, you have to do a bit more hustle for jobs, but what's wrong with that?
I've done plenty of 1099 consulting in the past for IT, and I like the freedom and $$ can can be earned that way. You have to stay on top of your game, sure....and have to be more of a people person and network, sure, but what's wrong with developing those traits?
It sure is nice to NOT have to fscking "earn" your vacation hours, or sick leave (when contracting, you figure those into your bill rate, and take off when YOU want to)....and since you wisely incorporate yourself, you get to write off so many things on your taxes, and setting up a nice HSA (not use it or lose it like a FSA) you can sock back a ton of money pre-tax for your routine medical needs....
Sure, it takes a bit more work, but if you're willing to hustle a bit more, it can be extremely rewarding.
The trouble is...when there are no more newspapers, what will we use to light the charcoal in our chimney starters for our grills?
What will we use as a cheap source of paper to wrap things in for a move while packing?
What will people line their bird cages with?
What about the free coupons that come pre-printed in the Sunday paper?
Oh well, I use it for all those (except no birds)....and I like to get up Sunday mornings, make some coffee, Irish it up a bit, and read through the Sunday paper, and clip food coupons....and often, use it to light the grill in the afternoons.
Depends what you mean by equality. If you mean that all people are fundementally equivalent, then no shit, of course they are not. And I say that as a very liberal person.
If your idea of equality is not needlessly suppressing people based on their background/gender/race/other random characteristic then being against that is pure sociopathy.
I have nothing wrong with equal opportunity, but that does not equate to equal results, therefore, there will always be have's and have-nots. And, there's nothing wrong with people having more than others.
And also, there's no real way (because of the former arguments) that everyone has the same starting position in life. Some do and will have to work harder for the same things, but as long at the playfield is open to all, then it works.
How hard is it to get Unicode support in this code?
Well, what's the real impetus?
I mean, this is a US centric site, with US centric post and is in English...not much of a need to go to the apparent trouble to change the existing system to Unicode.
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Well, to be fair, out of the two sexes, women are the ones by far, that are most used to being bent over in a submissive fashion, and fucked hard from behind.
I think, honestly, a lot of this take what is told to you really does have a lot to do with the submissive thing with women in general.
Most flat/fair/VAT type taxes I've seen promoted for use in the US in place of income taxes, do put in provisions to either not tax or give rebates back for taxes paid on necessities of life: Food, Shelter...etc.
Taxes on high end Nike athletic shoes, or jewelry, cars, etc.....no big deal with those taxes, those are luxuries and if you have disposible income for those items, you can afford the taxes.
I know about cookies, and them trying to track your web travels, but can they really suck down my entire browsing history from my browser without my knowing or authorizing?
Yep
I think it is much simpler than that....more of a case of "Whatever pays the bills".
I mean, I'm 100% against this, but if they paid me enough money, I'd do it in a heartbeat without a backwards glance.
Most people would for the right price I do believe....
Egypt was just one example. I'm for cutting it off to ALL countries.
I really think we should quit giving pretty much ALL foreign aid to any one else...let them pay their own bills.
Cut them all off....I'd think that would go a long way to help keep our US post office solvent.
How about we quit giving so much fucking money to other countries, like Egypt, etc....and save that money to give to our OWN Post Office system, and keep our mail service up to previous standards?
They also seem to needlessly be trying to keep the Travyon/George thing going, another thing to help distract from Federal govt spying and persecution on the US public...something I think is more important that some state level case that a jury has already decided.
I dunno what the difference is you're talking about...?
To me the terms floodlight is synonymous with patio light...? You turn either on, and it lights up the back yard...
I dunno about kitchen scraps, but lets compare apples == apples.
I don't have a problem if their dog poops in my yard as they walk by...
On a more serious note....many of us who enjoy cooking, avoid iodized salt due to the taste encroachment.
I cook almost exclusively with kosher salt, both for the grain size and for lack of iodine.
I cook from scratch...so, hoping that I get my iodine from natural sources. I live near the gulf, so I eat a good bit of sea food, which helps.
How do you see the condition of what you're grilling by candlelight??
I guess I don't have that good of natural night vision....
I guess I don't see differentiation between your use of the terms flood light and outdoor lamp (or, are you talking about a camping lantern or something not hooked to a wall switch permanently outside)?
Links?
I don't happen to fit the description of suspects recently found to be burglarizing homes in the area....if I were in my part of the country, you'd have most of the neighbors drawing down on your till the cops came. Everyone has a gun in this part of the country.
Certainly didn't seem to be much of a big deal when I was growing up, and I was kinda shocked a couple years ago when someone tried calling me on it.
I mean c'mon, it is nature's fertilizer. I don't let her go in yards where they have kids out playing, I understand that, but most people never set foot in their front yards...what's the big deal?
So, generally I walk my dog early morning, or late evenings..when no one's out watching. And I just stuff an old shopping back in my back pocket.....if someone happens to see us or seems to be about to get mad, then I pick it up..but otherwise, just having a bag with you seems to put people more at ease that you're gonna pick everything up....
Geez, relax people...just nature at work.
You need light in your back yard to see when you're grilling something at night....
Do people on here NOT hang out in their back yards in the evenings when the weather is nice?
I'm kinda dumbfounded at the number of people that can't seem to understand why you'd want to "light up" your backyard...does no one spend time outside anymore with a grill and some cold beer and friends/family sitting around the patio table?
Err...if it is dark, and especially rainy..why are you bothering to pick up the dog crap? It's late and dark and no one is out there to see if your dog is using their yard....
Heck, if it is raining..even better, no one to see you and gripe at you.
There has been a LOT of moving post Katrina, chasing the contract jobs around...just now settling down really the past 2-3 years.
I've got quite a good paying job actually.
Well, one thing they used to do, is in-depth, investigative reporting. You used to have guys like Woodward and Bernstein (sp?) that would go out, and dig and probe for stories, especially about our governmental leaders.
Sadly, for many reasons, that seems to be a thing of the past and the one thing that print and even TV media have lost.
It seems now, they are happy to parrot the press releases that our "Fearless Leaders" see fit to publish to the masses.....
The instructor did talk about his job and about others that had been fired from staff at places like the NYT (I think he's the main shooter for food for NYT)....
He said while it was sad to see people lose those jobs, it *did* open new opportunities for the former employees AND for new and younger folks to come in a prove themselves as freelance writers and shooters.
Frankly, I like the idea of freelancing it...yes, you have to do a bit more hustle for jobs, but what's wrong with that?
I've done plenty of 1099 consulting in the past for IT, and I like the freedom and $$ can can be earned that way. You have to stay on top of your game, sure....and have to be more of a people person and network, sure, but what's wrong with developing those traits?
It sure is nice to NOT have to fscking "earn" your vacation hours, or sick leave (when contracting, you figure those into your bill rate, and take off when YOU want to)....and since you wisely incorporate yourself, you get to write off so many things on your taxes, and setting up a nice HSA (not use it or lose it like a FSA) you can sock back a ton of money pre-tax for your routine medical needs....
Sure, it takes a bit more work, but if you're willing to hustle a bit more, it can be extremely rewarding.
What will we use as a cheap source of paper to wrap things in for a move while packing?
What will people line their bird cages with?
What about the free coupons that come pre-printed in the Sunday paper?
Oh well, I use it for all those (except no birds)....and I like to get up Sunday mornings, make some coffee, Irish it up a bit, and read through the Sunday paper, and clip food coupons....and often, use it to light the grill in the afternoons.
You can't do that with an iPad....
I have nothing wrong with equal opportunity, but that does not equate to equal results, therefore, there will always be have's and have-nots. And, there's nothing wrong with people having more than others.
And also, there's no real way (because of the former arguments) that everyone has the same starting position in life. Some do and will have to work harder for the same things, but as long at the playfield is open to all, then it works.
Well, what's the real impetus?
I mean, this is a US centric site, with US centric post and is in English...not much of a need to go to the apparent trouble to change the existing system to Unicode.