For the most part, I only eat breads when making sandwiches out of them. I don't often eat bread for the sake of eating bread.
I never did much even as a kid...but even more so as an adult as that it is just empty carbs.
On occasion, yes I like some good bread. But it is just an occasional thing. I love to much good french bread that is prevalent down here in New Orleans, but for the most part, most of the time, that is reserved for when I want to treat myself to a nice oyster poboy.
I've never run into situations that bad in the places I've lived before.
I agree with the flavorless produce. I try to grow what I can in a backyard garden during the summer, and my CSA subscription provides for some good tasting stuff. I do try to buy local and in season as best I can so as to get good tasting healthy produce.
I do find one thing, that when I shop the regular grocery store/supermarket. I shop pretty much only on the outside...where the fresh produce, meats, dairy and liquor/beer/wine is kept.
Most of the stuff in those aisles where all the obese people you speak of clogging the aisles, is the very same processed crap that put them in that shape. So, best to avoid that as much as possible anyway.
Well, the govt wants to finally close the tax hole on cash transactions.
No more will you be able to do casual transactions for cash and NOT be collecting taxes for it.
The electronic stuff is much more traceable, I imagine govt types have to reach for a tissue every time they think about getting rid of cash once and for all, and having every transaction fully traceable.
God damn. As someone who has not actually stepped foot inside of a grocery store (hurrah, delivery!) since 2000, I can not think of many modern urban/suburban environment activities that would be more aggravating than visiting the market once every day or two. The noise, the snot-nosed screaming toddlers, the shopping cards, the piles of people blocking the aisles, the long lines. . . Not to mention, the amount of time spent (at 40 minutes travel time according to the grandparent-post, plus maybe 10-15 minutes in the store) . . . that's like four hours a week shopping just for groceries. I'm sure the quality of produce I get from the delivery service is a little lacking, but I'll save myself the almost daily grief and the 200+ annual hours. (Also, let's be frank: if you're buying produce from your local Kroger/Albertsons/Fred Meyer/whatever, you're not exactly getting the best tastiest freshest produce even if you pick it out yourself).
Wow, where do you live where it is such a horrible experience?
I like to go grocery shopping actually. I have some veggies delivered to my house by the local CSA, but for regular needs, I hit Whole Foods for some nice things, and then 2-3 of the local super markets. I don't find them to be overly crowded, I can get in/out quickly if I want, but I often take my time shopping. I see what's on sale in the weekly circulars, and base my meals on those items and hit the store to get the best deals.
I find (in the New Orleans area) if you get out before 11am on Sat or Sun, you mostly have the stores to yourself, and it doesn't take that long.
About the only time with bad lines, is if you are at Sam's club about 1-4pm on a weekend, and then yes, the lines are long, but still not as bad as it sounds in your neck of the woods.
Then again, I'm living in a food city, maybe people here do it well and no one is just standing around (except for the free wine/booze tastings they have set up in the stores often on the weekends)....everyone is moving to get the shopping done.
Please read my grandparent post. Good bread can't survive a week, heavily processed bread-like foodstuff can. Folks in the US are not used to regular bread because of their supermarket fixation. Logistical problems affected food you eat, and after those years, you don't even know what what we call bread looks like, thus not understanding why we're so riled up about nasty American bread-substitutes.
I dunno.
I can go buy nice, still warm in the wrapper bread from somewhere like Whole Foods.
It easily lasts just fine about 4-5 days.
Hell, that's plenty, I still usually have some leftover that I either throw away, or make into croutons or bread pudding.
Just how much and how often do you actually eat bread? Sounds like you go through a loaf a day or something...?
Yeah, but I"d seriously NOT be comfortable about someone else picking out my food!!!
I'd not trust them to pick the best they could find of the veggies, or the most well marbled pieces of beef...I'd expect the store would pick according to its own best interest, which would be rotating all oldest food out first.
When I go shopping, I like to touch the veggies, I want to feel if an avocado is nearly ripe or past its prime or hard as a rock.
You know, I'm just not THAT worried about being a little greener, when it comes at the cost of my getting the best food I can for my money.Besides, I usually do all my shopping on ONE day. I find the sale ads in my city, and hit about 2-3 stores to get the best deals on what's on sale that week....and come home to cook for the week.
What store is going to do THAT for me? With my one weekly trip, how much carbon could I possibly be using?
Is it no less fraudulent for a white male to name a minority, or a female (or both) as 51% owner of his business that she has limited experience and no financial investment in, so that he is more able to secure priority status in government contracts? And yet this is not just a standard practice, it is almost a necessity for a white male who is win bids for those contracts.
Someone with mod points, please give this post a boost!!
This person knows of what they speak.
It isn't with just large contracts either...you see it on the ones earmarked for "small business" too. The ones that are lucrative, you still see populated with Lockheed Martin and those types.
The key to this is "partnering" with a female, minority owned company...small enough to fit the small category, and they are backed by 1 or more of the usual large contractors.
I'd really be very interested to see how many contracts the feds put out, are won by any primary company that is NOT minority female owned. I'd put serious money down you'd be hard pressed to find a winner that is owned by a white guy.
I'm surprised that most people don't know this 'dirty' little secret.
By way of example, the government is about to exempt itself from Obamacare
You know, one of the first things we need to insist upon, is congress passing laws specifically saying they MUST be subject to the same laws as the rest of the populace they represent. This shit has to STOP.
If they had to deal with the Social Security system, and the medical system, etc...that they force down our throats, they might be a little more thoughtful before pushing crap legislature through.
Why don't they all throw themselves in with PostgreSQL, which is more of a real robust relational database, and continue that as the true open source alternative to Oracle?
Pressure cookers have gotten a bad rap from terrorists, but I'll be damned if you can't get delicious food out of them.
Not to worry, I'm sure our esteemed congressional leaders are fervently working to construct legislation to create laws for background checks and national registries for pressure cookers.
And rest assured, we'll soon make sure there are "reasonable" limitations placed on capacity of pressure cookers too!!
I mean, who realistically needs *MORE* than 4 quarts for a pressure cooker? These high capacity 6-8 quart pots are just unnecessary for common citizens and we just need to ban those.
Well, until the disease resolves in China, let's just ban them from landing outside their country. In this day in age, telecommuting and teleconferences negate much of any need to visit in person anyway.
Had Feldman admitted that he had the key or if there was prima facie evidence that he possessed the key, the government could still compel him to provide it.
So, the best thing to do, if any police or govt agency starts to ask you questions, you should immediately NOT talk to them, and lawyer up. Don't give them any information (such as this).
From what I've been reading and watching, this is especially true if you are indeed, innocent.
...and don't get sick or injured to the point where you'd have to use your nonexistent health insurance.
Seriously, not a problem.
YOu calculate that into the bill rate too, and like everything, you plan.
When I've done the self contracting gig...I set up a high deductible insurance policy, for catastrophic needs only. That covers heart attacks, serious injury, etc.
I also set up (since above makes me eligible for it) a HSA, Health Savings Account that I sock away the max (like $3200 a year I think these days) pre-tax. I use that for routine medical needs (dr visits, meds).
The HSA, unlike a FSA is not use it or lose it, it continues to grow annually, and you can have it in interest growing accounts and even can invest some in the mkt if you want.
Its called being responsible for yourself.
And no, it isn't difficult to get that insurance, before Obamacare laws I still got it...even with conditions like extremely high tryglycerides, smoking...etc.
Remember....it wasn't always on employers to provide insurance for employees.
The difference is, in countries like China (and I think #2 is actually Israel, or at least they used to be WAY up there in espionage in the US)...it is state sponsored.
In the US, it is largely left up to the private industry. Any US spying, stays mostly in govt hands, things learned by the US govt isn't given freely to US industries.
Come in, do work, have incredibly HIGH bill rate, don't have to fsck with office politics, get paid for EVERY hour you work, rarely get asked to work OT, and write off many more things on taxes than the W2 employees.
Also..dictate your own vacation hours (included in your bill rate).
No, it's just that as younger programmer it bothers the hell out of me that people take age as an automatic sign of superiority or inferiority.
Well, age *is* about the ONLY way you'll gain superiority in experience, which often is a trait that is highly desired, and hard to come by when still wet behind the ears so to speak.
Ok, so how does some little independently-owned mom-n-pop coffee shop in Washington handle it when someone visits from out-of-state, or from any other taxing jurisdiction for that matter?
Because all levels of govt, especially the Feds, don't give a fuck all about small businesses, even though they have historically been the backbone of employment and business in the US.
More regulations and all, are just another brick in the wall, so to speak, squashing out the small business.
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Actually, you are a citizen of your state first, and THEN a citizen of the United States.
For the most part, I only eat breads when making sandwiches out of them. I don't often eat bread for the sake of eating bread.
I never did much even as a kid...but even more so as an adult as that it is just empty carbs.
On occasion, yes I like some good bread. But it is just an occasional thing. I love to much good french bread that is prevalent down here in New Orleans, but for the most part, most of the time, that is reserved for when I want to treat myself to a nice oyster poboy.
I've never run into situations that bad in the places I've lived before.
I agree with the flavorless produce. I try to grow what I can in a backyard garden during the summer, and my CSA subscription provides for some good tasting stuff. I do try to buy local and in season as best I can so as to get good tasting healthy produce.
I do find one thing, that when I shop the regular grocery store/supermarket. I shop pretty much only on the outside...where the fresh produce, meats, dairy and liquor/beer/wine is kept.
Most of the stuff in those aisles where all the obese people you speak of clogging the aisles, is the very same processed crap that put them in that shape. So, best to avoid that as much as possible anyway.
Well, the govt wants to finally close the tax hole on cash transactions.
No more will you be able to do casual transactions for cash and NOT be collecting taxes for it.
The electronic stuff is much more traceable, I imagine govt types have to reach for a tissue every time they think about getting rid of cash once and for all, and having every transaction fully traceable.
Got mine for about $700....sure, if you want the latest and greatest, they can run you $4K, but for older ones, they aren't that expensive.
A couple of classic pins and a MAME machine, and you've got quite a gameroom going.
Personally next house I move to, I wanna find a large enough room to put in a real, full sized, heavy as a tank air hockey table.
Wow, where do you live where it is such a horrible experience?
I like to go grocery shopping actually. I have some veggies delivered to my house by the local CSA, but for regular needs, I hit Whole Foods for some nice things, and then 2-3 of the local super markets. I don't find them to be overly crowded, I can get in/out quickly if I want, but I often take my time shopping. I see what's on sale in the weekly circulars, and base my meals on those items and hit the store to get the best deals.
I find (in the New Orleans area) if you get out before 11am on Sat or Sun, you mostly have the stores to yourself, and it doesn't take that long.
About the only time with bad lines, is if you are at Sam's club about 1-4pm on a weekend, and then yes, the lines are long, but still not as bad as it sounds in your neck of the woods.
Then again, I'm living in a food city, maybe people here do it well and no one is just standing around (except for the free wine/booze tastings they have set up in the stores often on the weekends)....everyone is moving to get the shopping done.
I dunno.
I can go buy nice, still warm in the wrapper bread from somewhere like Whole Foods.
It easily lasts just fine about 4-5 days.
Hell, that's plenty, I still usually have some leftover that I either throw away, or make into croutons or bread pudding.
Just how much and how often do you actually eat bread? Sounds like you go through a loaf a day or something...?
Besides, how often do you eat bread?
I'd not trust them to pick the best they could find of the veggies, or the most well marbled pieces of beef...I'd expect the store would pick according to its own best interest, which would be rotating all oldest food out first.
When I go shopping, I like to touch the veggies, I want to feel if an avocado is nearly ripe or past its prime or hard as a rock.
You know, I'm just not THAT worried about being a little greener, when it comes at the cost of my getting the best food I can for my money.Besides, I usually do all my shopping on ONE day. I find the sale ads in my city, and hit about 2-3 stores to get the best deals on what's on sale that week....and come home to cook for the week.
What store is going to do THAT for me? With my one weekly trip, how much carbon could I possibly be using?
Well, you're half right....it isn't 2001.
Someone with mod points, please give this post a boost!!
This person knows of what they speak.
It isn't with just large contracts either...you see it on the ones earmarked for "small business" too. The ones that are lucrative, you still see populated with Lockheed Martin and those types.
The key to this is "partnering" with a female, minority owned company...small enough to fit the small category, and they are backed by 1 or more of the usual large contractors.
I'd really be very interested to see how many contracts the feds put out, are won by any primary company that is NOT minority female owned. I'd put serious money down you'd be hard pressed to find a winner that is owned by a white guy.
I'm surprised that most people don't know this 'dirty' little secret.
Hey...couldn't be any worse than the last few clowns in that position.
You know, one of the first things we need to insist upon, is congress passing laws specifically saying they MUST be subject to the same laws as the rest of the populace they represent. This shit has to STOP.
If they had to deal with the Social Security system, and the medical system, etc...that they force down our throats, they might be a little more thoughtful before pushing crap legislature through.
Why don't they all throw themselves in with PostgreSQL, which is more of a real robust relational database, and continue that as the true open source alternative to Oracle?
Not to worry, I'm sure our esteemed congressional leaders are fervently working to construct legislation to create laws for background checks and national registries for pressure cookers.
And rest assured, we'll soon make sure there are "reasonable" limitations placed on capacity of pressure cookers too!!
I mean, who realistically needs *MORE* than 4 quarts for a pressure cooker? These high capacity 6-8 quart pots are just unnecessary for common citizens and we just need to ban those.
Well, until the disease resolves in China, let's just ban them from landing outside their country. In this day in age, telecommuting and teleconferences negate much of any need to visit in person anyway.
So, the best thing to do, if any police or govt agency starts to ask you questions, you should immediately NOT talk to them, and lawyer up. Don't give them any information (such as this).
From what I've been reading and watching, this is especially true if you are indeed, innocent.
Shut up. Lawyer up.
Seriously, not a problem.
YOu calculate that into the bill rate too, and like everything, you plan.
When I've done the self contracting gig...I set up a high deductible insurance policy, for catastrophic needs only. That covers heart attacks, serious injury, etc.
I also set up (since above makes me eligible for it) a HSA, Health Savings Account that I sock away the max (like $3200 a year I think these days) pre-tax. I use that for routine medical needs (dr visits, meds).
The HSA, unlike a FSA is not use it or lose it, it continues to grow annually, and you can have it in interest growing accounts and even can invest some in the mkt if you want.
Its called being responsible for yourself.
And no, it isn't difficult to get that insurance, before Obamacare laws I still got it...even with conditions like extremely high tryglycerides, smoking...etc.
Remember....it wasn't always on employers to provide insurance for employees.
I thought I'd heard they did actually have a plan B for this to get the body made for a *new* roadster?
In the US, it is largely left up to the private industry. Any US spying, stays mostly in govt hands, things learned by the US govt isn't given freely to US industries.
The opposite is true in these other countries.
We will buy it....in droves.
I'll take BE a contractor...
Come in, do work, have incredibly HIGH bill rate, don't have to fsck with office politics, get paid for EVERY hour you work, rarely get asked to work OT, and write off many more things on taxes than the W2 employees.
Also..dictate your own vacation hours (included in your bill rate).
Well, age *is* about the ONLY way you'll gain superiority in experience, which often is a trait that is highly desired, and hard to come by when still wet behind the ears so to speak.
Manipulation is a skill that is often underrated, and not always a bad thing.
Because all levels of govt, especially the Feds, don't give a fuck all about small businesses, even though they have historically been the backbone of employment and business in the US.
More regulations and all, are just another brick in the wall, so to speak, squashing out the small business.