So you'd have no problem if you hired me to remodel your house and I used lead paint and asbestos insulation?
See reply above....
Seriously....where have incandescent light bulbs been shown to be directly harmful to humans?
Do incandescent light bulbs contain some chemicals toxic to humans like mercury...etc?
Oh wait...that was the replacement bulbs for incadescents...the CFLs.....hmm...but those aren't banned....yet they contain potentially toxic chemicals for humans and pets...right?
Which bulbs are more like asbestos and lead paint...CFLs or Classic Incandescents?
When large corporations are mass-producing products for consumer purchase that are bad for those consumers--individually or as a group--regulations are key to help ensure that those corporations are not sucking long-term value out of society in exchange for short-term profits.
Wait...did I miss something? How are incadescent bulbs bad for consumers? Do they cause cancer? Do they contain dangerous chemicals like mercury in them? Might they cause birth defects in children?!?
And....the govt is now the nanny? If that's the case, why haven't they banned tobacco entirely? Why have they not banned all bad foods? You know..things that have been shown to directly be bad for the consumer.....
I'm sorry...comparing incandescent bulbs to asbestos is not a valid analogy. Regular light bulbs haven't been shown to be harmful to humans at all.
Bring back the roadster, in more of the price range of a corvette....and then I'll show an interest.
I'm not interested in a 'family' car for that kind of money....I want a performance sports car that isn't 'fugly' like pretty much every other hybrid or electric car they've put forth so far...
While not putting you down for this....I understand the lactose problem thing....but it did make me think of something the other day, what was bothering me as I study vegeterianism, and especially when looking into vegan-ism....how they are starting to almost come back around the 'curve' so to speak, and eating heavily processed foods?!?! I've seen them eating meat substitute things, that looked like they'd been in the lab and processed as much as HFCS imbibed Twinkies, or some other artifical foodstuff.
One thing I was looking to do, in addition to eating more of my normal meals as plant based, was to get myself even further from highly processed foods, than I already was.....
That being said, I can see soy products (milk, tofu and cheese) as not being too highly refined as products go....I'm not giving up cheeses, I just want to cut out crap daily ones, and reserve my cheese times to special ones...good cheese like you find at the Whole Foods cheese mart...or even a local place like The St. James Cheese Co......
In stock form maybe, modified not so much. With the smaller 403 I only eked out 10-11mpg.
When I was in HS, a friend of mine had a '76 455 4-speed TA...he was lucky to get 10-11mpg back then, largely un-modified, I think, except it had the rock crusher transmission put into it...and I think was converted back to full dual exhaust.
I was going to get one, bore it out a bit, better pistons and for sure a more aggressive cam.....
yeah, you're right...8mph with that done to it might be a bit optimistic!!
I suggest: huge Dodge Ram 4x4 extended cab with dualies. Nice big Cat diesel with the turbo enhancement kit. That could help maximize your per-mile pollutants nicely. Yummm.
Nah..not interested in a truck.
I like a sports car, or the old muscle car...something that stands out in the crowd.
I'd looked at getting the top end new Camero or something, but geez, those things are dime a dozen on the road.....getting something like I mentioned, a '75-'76 trans am ( last year with the rounded headlights)....would be a lot cooler and different.
I've owned nothing but sports cars till now...not ever interested in a SUV or truck...or 'family' car....hell, if I get the T/A, that will pretty much be the first car I've owned with > 2 seats.
I had an old '86 Porsche 911 Turbo, that 'technically' had 2 rear seats, but you could not hardly squeeze one adult back there, so that really doesn't count.
Thanks for the suggestion...but not my style, just would be another pickup truck on the road.
And I'm not really that concerned about pollution, and I can afford my gasoline bill pretty easily. I never even look at the pump when I fill up.
Depends on where you buy your meat at over here in the US.
I have some good sources, and try to generally only buy Prime grade beef for my steaks, preferrably dry aged for awhile.
Sure, it costs about $23-$25/lb, but the flavor is worth it. I'll do this sometimes as often as once or twice a month.
But when I do that...why go only for small portion? If I'm gonna splurge on calories, and $$....well, I'd like something of a dry aged bone-in porterhouse, or bone in ribeye...or maybe a NY Strip, nearly 2-inches thick.
Each of those steaks is going to be over 16oz (I can't relate to things in kilos really...not sure what size meat portions ya'll eat over there)...
Do I do this all the time?
No.
But life is too short not to enjoy some of the finer things of life. I love good single malt scotch too...but I don't drink a 5th of it every Fri-Sat anymore......I savor it for a week or two once a month or so....
Not everyone over here only does fast food.....and has poor tastes. The lower classes and poor are all over it....and while we do have a problem, once you start getting out of the poor and lower middle class, you do see dining habits and tastes rise a bit more.
"If you EVERY see two people argue over which fastfood restaurant is the best, the Genevieve convention commands you to kill them both."
What the hell is the Genevieve convention??
You mean Geneva conventions? Have spelling skills gone down in EU...even for a European country?
You might want to spell check a bit better, before you start throwing stones at how awful other people are in the world, eh?
I largely agree with you, but in recent months...am altering my life a bit, especially with regards to eating.
I've done a coupe of 30 day juice fasts this year (inspired by Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead documentary)....and I must say, what it did for me...was it got me to enjoying vegetables and fruits more...the basic flavors.
I'm now exploring ways (I love to cook) to make my diet more plant based, but satisfying and fun to cook and eat. So far, it is working out.
I'd not be able to stay on a strict diet, if I didn't enjoy it...the 'pleasure' as you mentioned. While it is hard to beat a good chunk of med-rare, prime grade NY Strip....I'm reserving it more and more, as a 'treat' type dish. I'm going more quality over quantity as I get a bit older.
I'm finding good prime grade steaks...and those go for about $23/lb easily...so, I'm not chowing on those daily...but every couple weeks as a fun weekend treat? Sure!!
I mean, I just bought a brand new 'bandera' style offset smoker....I recently bought a pro-level Hobart meat slicer, I'm not going vegetarian.
But I am looking at moving more towards that way if I can be successful in making the food fun to eat. I'm getting to the age in my life where I need to find balance...because in the next year or two, I'll be setting the course for the quantity and quality of the 2nd half of my life...I want it to be as long as possible, and I want to be in condition to enjoy every day of it I can, as much as I do now.
And, I think that means looking at nutritional habits. So, figuring to start now to explore ways to make healthy eating something I WANT to do.
Don't get me wrong, I like to eat a 16" pizza in one sitting, and then go knock out half a bottle of good single malt scotch...and you know, on occasion, I still may do that from time to time.
But it has to be the outlier and not the general rule for long, healthy life.
Parking is a real problem in New York City. For that reason alone, I don't know anyone who'd buy a car there.
Seriously?
Wow..what's the parking problem there? Why is it so hard to find a spot to park? If no one owns a car there...how do they get around? Buy groceries, run errands...etc?
I mean..just thinking of last weekend, I was having people for a college football watching party. I fire up my smoker....and for that smoker and food for the party, I did two 11-12lb beef briskets, cabbage, carrots, other veggies....I got about 40lbs of pecan wood logs, big bag of charcoal....and all of this, in addition to my normal weekly groceries.
Now...how the hell would I get all that stuff back in one trip if I didn't have a car?!?!
Well, just wear one of those high powered infrared LED hats that block out your face from cctv...and voila...they can't see who it is when the search through all that video footage...
Hey, whatever it takes to get by in life, survive and succeed, you know?
I think most peoples' moral compass....points in the direction that will be most beneficial to them at the given moment they are called upon to utilize it.
While I highly admire that...I do marvel at the lack of liberty they have on things...banning things like smoking just about anywhere in public (and maybe soon into their own houses?)?
They are apparently so uptight about even looking at a beer before having to drive somewhere it borders on obsessive.....
I love the ID stuff, but when I've been up there, I've been amazed at how uptight they are on just normal, every day life things that are much more relaxed in other parts around the nation.
I love how on slashdot everyone parrots "infringement of free speech" without even considering that there might be an alternative explanation to The Government Trying To Destroy Liberty. Such as, the clown here was serious.
The overzealousness of the authorities on all levels these past few years to over-arrest and over-prosecute, and stretch laws way past their intended meanings....to put people behind bars for things that only a few years ago, common sense would have not even let to a police visit much less an arrest.....do make it easy to make the assumption these days, that most any police action is now an overreaction.
Uhhhh, you realise those air bases they have in the UK are provided free to the US by the UK government? This was given free after the second world war. Honestly, if you thought that 6 military bases in the UK somehow magically came even close to the tax/NI revenue the UK generates you've actually got to be mad.
I wasn't talking about the rent on the property...but, rather the expense the US has keeping our servicemen there...and all the hardware there, and maintenance on all of it.....
You also have socialized health care by taxing the shit out of everything to pay for it...if we pulled out, you'd have to spend more of that money on your own defense...I'd think this would be a pretty hefty nickle or two for all countries housing US forces if we took out the defense, not to mention all the money that those bases generate in those areas (tax monies, etc...that the forces spend locally, etc).
I wonder...is there no way to object to submitting to 'facial recognition' on privacy grounds....maybe associating it with being an un-warranted intrusion on a citizen's privacy without probably cause??
For given values of "it worked just fine" â" it cost about 4 times more than the socialised health care that works just fine in the civilised world;)
One thing that allows this in much of the other world...is the amount of $$$ the US spends on our military strung out at bases throughout the world, usually there to protect other countries. The EU comes largely to mind.
I wish we'd pull out over there..save our own money, and see how much you have left for your 'everyone gets it' healthcare system when YOU have to start paying for your own military defense.
The US is pretty much enabling you to do all this currently.....
It doesn't matter whether he was sarcastic. He made a threat. The words he spoke or posted are what counts. Whether he had the intent to kill, whether he had some intent but would have never gone through with it, whether he just wanted to frighten or annoy people, whether he was just stupid, or sarcastic, it doesn't matter.
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And this has exactly WHAT to do with light bulbs...?
See reply above....
Seriously....where have incandescent light bulbs been shown to be directly harmful to humans?
Do incandescent light bulbs contain some chemicals toxic to humans like mercury...etc?
Oh wait...that was the replacement bulbs for incadescents...the CFLs.....hmm...but those aren't banned....yet they contain potentially toxic chemicals for humans and pets...right?
Which bulbs are more like asbestos and lead paint...CFLs or Classic Incandescents?
"One of these things is not like the others....."
Wait...did I miss something? How are incadescent bulbs bad for consumers? Do they cause cancer? Do they contain dangerous chemicals like mercury in them? Might they cause birth defects in children?!?
And....the govt is now the nanny? If that's the case, why haven't they banned tobacco entirely? Why have they not banned all bad foods? You know..things that have been shown to directly be bad for the consumer.....
I'm sorry...comparing incandescent bulbs to asbestos is not a valid analogy. Regular light bulbs haven't been shown to be harmful to humans at all.
The Model S has 4 seats (way too many), and looks like a family truckster type sedan....sorry, not interested.
I'd rather have something that looks like the Elise...
Also, does the Model S have the same performance suspension and brakes of a sports car like the Vette or Roadster?
The trouble with your analogy is that I'm a grown adult...and the government is NOT my fucking parent....
Who the fuck are they to tell ME what light bulb I can or cannot use???
What happened to the free market in the US?
This is not something I voted for in any of my politicians....
I'm not interested in a 'family' car for that kind of money....I want a performance sports car that isn't 'fugly' like pretty much every other hybrid or electric car they've put forth so far...
I did re-read it....still don't see any "hate" in it....?
While not putting you down for this....I understand the lactose problem thing....but it did make me think of something the other day, what was bothering me as I study vegeterianism, and especially when looking into vegan-ism....how they are starting to almost come back around the 'curve' so to speak, and eating heavily processed foods?!?! I've seen them eating meat substitute things, that looked like they'd been in the lab and processed as much as HFCS imbibed Twinkies, or some other artifical foodstuff.
One thing I was looking to do, in addition to eating more of my normal meals as plant based, was to get myself even further from highly processed foods, than I already was.....
That being said, I can see soy products (milk, tofu and cheese) as not being too highly refined as products go....I'm not giving up cheeses, I just want to cut out crap daily ones, and reserve my cheese times to special ones...good cheese like you find at the Whole Foods cheese mart...or even a local place like The St. James Cheese Co......
Like all good things...quality over quantity, eh?
When I was in HS, a friend of mine had a '76 455 4-speed TA...he was lucky to get 10-11mpg back then, largely un-modified, I think, except it had the rock crusher transmission put into it...and I think was converted back to full dual exhaust.
I was going to get one, bore it out a bit, better pistons and for sure a more aggressive cam.....
yeah, you're right...8mph with that done to it might be a bit optimistic!!
Nah..not interested in a truck.
I like a sports car, or the old muscle car...something that stands out in the crowd.
I'd looked at getting the top end new Camero or something, but geez, those things are dime a dozen on the road.....getting something like I mentioned, a '75-'76 trans am ( last year with the rounded headlights)....would be a lot cooler and different.
I've owned nothing but sports cars till now...not ever interested in a SUV or truck...or 'family' car....hell, if I get the T/A, that will pretty much be the first car I've owned with > 2 seats.
I had an old '86 Porsche 911 Turbo, that 'technically' had 2 rear seats, but you could not hardly squeeze one adult back there, so that really doesn't count.
Thanks for the suggestion...but not my style, just would be another pickup truck on the road.
And I'm not really that concerned about pollution, and I can afford my gasoline bill pretty easily. I never even look at the pump when I fill up.
I have some good sources, and try to generally only buy Prime grade beef for my steaks, preferrably dry aged for awhile.
Sure, it costs about $23-$25/lb, but the flavor is worth it. I'll do this sometimes as often as once or twice a month.
But when I do that...why go only for small portion? If I'm gonna splurge on calories, and $$....well, I'd like something of a dry aged bone-in porterhouse, or bone in ribeye...or maybe a NY Strip, nearly 2-inches thick.
Each of those steaks is going to be over 16oz (I can't relate to things in kilos really...not sure what size meat portions ya'll eat over there)...
Do I do this all the time?
No.
But life is too short not to enjoy some of the finer things of life. I love good single malt scotch too...but I don't drink a 5th of it every Fri-Sat anymore......I savor it for a week or two once a month or so....
Not everyone over here only does fast food.....and has poor tastes. The lower classes and poor are all over it....and while we do have a problem, once you start getting out of the poor and lower middle class, you do see dining habits and tastes rise a bit more.
What the hell is the Genevieve convention??
You mean Geneva conventions? Have spelling skills gone down in EU...even for a European country?
You might want to spell check a bit better, before you start throwing stones at how awful other people are in the world, eh?
I've done a coupe of 30 day juice fasts this year (inspired by Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead documentary)....and I must say, what it did for me...was it got me to enjoying vegetables and fruits more...the basic flavors.
I'm now exploring ways (I love to cook) to make my diet more plant based, but satisfying and fun to cook and eat. So far, it is working out.
I'd not be able to stay on a strict diet, if I didn't enjoy it...the 'pleasure' as you mentioned. While it is hard to beat a good chunk of med-rare, prime grade NY Strip....I'm reserving it more and more, as a 'treat' type dish. I'm going more quality over quantity as I get a bit older.
I'm finding good prime grade steaks...and those go for about $23/lb easily...so, I'm not chowing on those daily...but every couple weeks as a fun weekend treat? Sure!!
I mean, I just bought a brand new 'bandera' style offset smoker....I recently bought a pro-level Hobart meat slicer, I'm not going vegetarian.
But I am looking at moving more towards that way if I can be successful in making the food fun to eat. I'm getting to the age in my life where I need to find balance...because in the next year or two, I'll be setting the course for the quantity and quality of the 2nd half of my life...I want it to be as long as possible, and I want to be in condition to enjoy every day of it I can, as much as I do now.
And, I think that means looking at nutritional habits. So, figuring to start now to explore ways to make healthy eating something I WANT to do.
Don't get me wrong, I like to eat a 16" pizza in one sitting, and then go knock out half a bottle of good single malt scotch...and you know, on occasion, I still may do that from time to time.
But it has to be the outlier and not the general rule for long, healthy life.
Yeah....good luck with that.....
Seriously?
Wow..what's the parking problem there? Why is it so hard to find a spot to park? If no one owns a car there...how do they get around? Buy groceries, run errands...etc?
I mean..just thinking of last weekend, I was having people for a college football watching party. I fire up my smoker....and for that smoker and food for the party, I did two 11-12lb beef briskets, cabbage, carrots, other veggies....I got about 40lbs of pecan wood logs, big bag of charcoal....and all of this, in addition to my normal weekly groceries.
Now...how the hell would I get all that stuff back in one trip if I didn't have a car?!?!
Not me...I want a torque monster.
I'm looking to buy a '75-'76 Trans Am, last years of the 455 4-speed engines.
With a little coaxing, I should be able to boost it up to nearly 500 HP....9 MPG or so would be about right.
I live pretty close to work...so, could be my daily driver...and won't break the bank.
Where did you read hateinto that previous post at all...??
Sarcastic, yes..but where's the hate?
Just because someone disagrees with something...it is now HATE??
Sheesh.....
Well, just wear one of those high powered infrared LED hats that block out your face from cctv...and voila...they can't see who it is when the search through all that video footage...
I think most peoples' moral compass....points in the direction that will be most beneficial to them at the given moment they are called upon to utilize it.
They are apparently so uptight about even looking at a beer before having to drive somewhere it borders on obsessive.....
I love the ID stuff, but when I've been up there, I've been amazed at how uptight they are on just normal, every day life things that are much more relaxed in other parts around the nation.
The overzealousness of the authorities on all levels these past few years to over-arrest and over-prosecute, and stretch laws way past their intended meanings....to put people behind bars for things that only a few years ago, common sense would have not even let to a police visit much less an arrest.....do make it easy to make the assumption these days, that most any police action is now an overreaction.
I wasn't talking about the rent on the property...but, rather the expense the US has keeping our servicemen there...and all the hardware there, and maintenance on all of it.....
You also have socialized health care by taxing the shit out of everything to pay for it...if we pulled out, you'd have to spend more of that money on your own defense...I'd think this would be a pretty hefty nickle or two for all countries housing US forces if we took out the defense, not to mention all the money that those bases generate in those areas (tax monies, etc...that the forces spend locally, etc).
I wonder...is there no way to object to submitting to 'facial recognition' on privacy grounds....maybe associating it with being an un-warranted intrusion on a citizen's privacy without probably cause??
One thing that allows this in much of the other world...is the amount of $$$ the US spends on our military strung out at bases throughout the world, usually there to protect other countries. The EU comes largely to mind.
I wish we'd pull out over there..save our own money, and see how much you have left for your 'everyone gets it' healthcare system when YOU have to start paying for your own military defense.
The US is pretty much enabling you to do all this currently.....
Is this some type of lesbian virus??
I agree!!
I think we should kill all extremists!!
Hold on...there's a knock at the door.....er.....