Look, if you are not going to go out killing children then don't say you will (and if you are, what's the point of saying it?). What's the point? Having some fun on someone's expense?
People do care about their children and the possibility that something bad and unfixable might happen to then. Simple as that. Just don't be a stupid moron (or if you're, keep your stupid ideas to yourself).
Depends. What exactly did he say? I mean, I've often been annoyed at the noise some kids were making and muttered (as many people have done) "I'm gonna kill those fucking kids if they don't shut the fuck up..."
Or was it..."I am going to come over there and kill little Stevie, I'll skin him with a knife, etc..."
See the difference? Obviously in the first case, anyone should know I'm not going to be a threat....just blowing off steam, the latter one, could be considered a threat, and possibly actionable.
I haven't see what the guy posted on ESPN, but my first assumption it was more in the same vein as the first statement I made.
And if they're gonna start arresting people for just spouting off crap like that....well, so much for free speech. Unless you threaten someone specifically and it is obvious you are threatening them....then that is scary indeed.
The problem with glass is that it requires more energy to make than a can AND more energy and water to wash a bottle before reuse than to make a can.
I'd rather pay a few extra pennies to have a safe container that won't poison me....
Hell, I only buy beer in bottles....can't stand the stuff in cans, and it doesn't really hit my budget in any significant way.
The few times I drink coke...I hunt down the MX ones...in bottles made with real cane sugar. Again, worth the few extra cents here and there for me...and that is just for flavor, not even considering the BPA crap.....
I much prefer having pans that do not have any non-stick coatings on them simply because teflon and other non-stick coatings greatly reduce the lifespan of the cookware, as well as what you can use on it to clean it. For example, we're still using my grandmothers pans and my mom's pans; yet the non-stick pans my sister had in the late 1990s have to all be replaced due to the non-stick materials flaking off - especially prevalent in mashed potatoes.
I'm largely the same way. I have most of my collection as All-Clad Stainless Steel. However, I do have 2x of them...SS but with non-stick on the inside, a 14" and a 12" fry pan. I got these pretty much exclusively for eggs...omlettes, etc. It is just so easy for doing eggs, or even crepes.
But aside from that.....I don't use non-stick (doesn't create the malliard sp?) reaction....and I also have a few choice cast iron pans, grill grates, and a hibachi (Lodge stuff rules)......for everything else.
How about the old fashioned way...in GLASS? You can can stuff in glass that keeps a LOOOONG time.
I'd imagine some thing could be canned without coatings...
I prefer most things to be in glass if I can...I only buy beer in glass bottles, with the only exception being when at the pool or on a boat generally....but I prefer how things taste out of glass containers. It is worth the extra few cents that bottle beer costs over canned.
You forgot one thing - People do not heat up their can of soda, but many people do place their canned food over fire to heat it up
Many?..???
I can imagine a few people do it...when camping, but surely this is a rare thing in most home life...? I'd assume most people today, open a can, empty into a dish and throw in the microwave...or at least do it the old fashioned (and my preferred way) put it into a pan/pot and heat it up in that over the stove.
I start with raw fresh veggies. I often make my own stocks, sometimes I even make my own ground and stuffed sausages, home pickled and canned things...and hopefully soon, I can get all my stuff together and start home brewing again...all grain brewing.
You can't avoid some pre-processed foods in today's world, but for about 99% of my shopping, I shop on the perimeter of the grocery store, where it is fresh veggies...meats, dairy....
I don't buy much of anything in the center aisles of the store...save for a few condiments (ketchup, mustard), beer/wine/liquor (they sell all that in grocery stores here in New Orleans), and spices.
As I commented in a previous question, I'm a novice (very) film maker, and am learning about editing my content.
I'm wondering what tool(s) you were using? Final Cut Pro X, Avid, Adobe Tool Suite? Why did you use what you did? Can you give some details of your workflow processes with these tools?
What tools are you using in post production for color correction?
I'm starting to learn to do some 'home films', using a HDDSLR, and have recently discovered DaVinci Resolve 9 Lite (free version). I was wondering if you used this tool (Resolve) in particular, and could describe the process with it...details of the process greatly appreciated.
You should take a look at the documentary "Forks over Knives"...and look at some of the studies such as The china study....
While I don't lean towards going fully vegetarian (I just recently bought a new smoker, and a Hobart 2912 Meat Slicer...so I'm not quitting meat)....from what I'm reading more and more..it seems to show that we do need to make our meals more plant based. The one thing that was telling to me in the FOK documentary..was showing how in WWII, countries that were overtaken by the Germans, and had their meat supplies pretty much stripped from them...over those years, the incidence of cardio-vascular problems dipped significantly....and after they war, when meat and dairy came back up on their daily diets....disease increased too.
I've become very interested in food lately....give that show and 'Food, Inc' a good watch...both are free for streaming on Netflix and Amazon prime....
I'm not giving up on meat...I love good seafood and anything that moves basically, but I'm going to make most of my daily plates plant based.
I recently did a 30 day juice fast...and I gotta say, I felt significantly better during and after that, due to the huge increase of micronutrients in my diet from veggies and fruit....and another big factor, I've removed most all processed foods from my diet. I like to cook..so, I was getting rid of that years ago...but really....give those documentaries a thoughtful watch.
Have you priced roundup? We most certainly do not bathe the plants in roundup; we wick them at the right time to use as little roundup as possible. However, you're very proud of your ignorance, so replying is a waste of your time. If that second statement is indeed false, I strongly suggest you read about the pesticides organic farmers are using. They're a lot worse for you and the environment than what professional farmers are using.
So....just exactly how long have you been a Monsanto employee?
Grocery store tomatos always tasted like cardboard.
I'm not that far behind you in years...but I *do* remember getting tomatoes in the grocery stores when I grew up, when they were in season, and they did taste good. I remember mom buying what today are considered 'heirloom' tomatoes in the regular grocery store...knarly, not perfectly round and red....and flavorful in the dead middle of summer.
IINM they are. Farmers grow what grows best in their area, and what they can get the best price for.
Give those shows I mentioned above a watch...very interesting.
They are all growing corn....it is grown at a loss IF it weren't for the subsidy that the Feds give them. They don't get rich off that...but, the companies that process all that corn...love the deal because they are able to buy that corn for less than it costs to grow it....due to the subsidies.
I love my meat too....but, I'd prefer it be raised in a more natural way. Cows are herbivores....and aren't going to be eating corn naturally....and they especially aren't going to be eating dead cow parts or other dead animal by products....which they still do get (just not the brains to keep from getting mad cow disease).
I'd much rather pay a bit more for meat, to have it raised more naturally....I like my dead animal too...but I just wish it to be a bit more chemical free, less additives so to speak.
Yes. that's why you're bragging about it all right now.
You've just proven the original point.
Where is the bragging? It isn't like anyone here is gonna be impressed by things I've owned. No one is gonna see me carrying these things around in meatspace....wouldn't that be necessary to complete the bragging/showing off act as you seem to think it is? Who the fuck would I possibly be trying to impress here?
And, how could I give examples with my points...unless I listed some things I've had that others might consider 'nice'....but I don't really think about myself.
So, these days...merely listing a nice thing or two, is bragging?
Not directly related, but yesterday on youtube my account suggested to me in a popup to change my account name to my real name. I passed, but I was then prompted for a reason with a 6 tile multiple choice. If I wanted to change my account name to my real name I would have indicated that when I set it up, or altered the settings.
Google didn't really have much in the way of 'real' info for me....the youtube account email address, is not the one used for gmail. They did finally get my real info...from the youtube account when I had to set things up for revenue generation (I couldn't figure how to earn $$ from them and still stay anon).
Strangely enough, they have my real name now associated with that particular YT account...but they don't nag me to change it to show my real name on the account/channel.
I'm not knocking the hardware or those that purchase it, but status is absolutely a part of the decision to go with Apple devices. It's much the same as having a nice car versus an old yet reliable Ford Pinto. People want features, reliability, and the "look". Apple offers all 3, and I know it was a factor in *my* purchase. I can be honest with myself, too.
Interesting...thanks for the honesty.
I like nice things....but I buy them purely for my pleasure or needs...I never think about that other people would think about them. I have lots of computers, a small part of them are apples....but I have linux and even a windows machine or two in there somewhere.
I've had nice cars in the past...C5 Corvette, a nice older black on black 911 Porsche turbo....but I bought those cars because I liked their performance, and they way they looked. But I never gave it much thought about them being any sort of 'status' symbol. Hell, I was driving around and a friend in the car with me (I think it was the vette) was saying "Dude...did you see how those chicks were checking you out in the car"...and I honestly was 100% oblivious to this.
Hell, I was too busy keeping my eye on the road and traffic around me...since I was likely speeding as I do most everywhere I drive....
I like nice things...but I've never given any thought to other people seeing anything I have and having any sort of envy or whatever....?
Royal/Olevetti still make manual typewriters. They suck. They are also damn expensive compared to a tablet, $150
Ok..where are you finding a tablet for $150 and less??
Also...you don't really 'learn' to type on a tablet...it isn't like real typing at all. You need a full sized keyboard to learn that on....and a manual typewriter still sounds like the cheapest solution to use to approximate a real typing experience (touch typing, not hunt and peck).
You and I might be willing to pay more but many/most people are not. If everyone was willing to pay more and demanded better products, what we consider upscale grocery stores like Whole Foods would be the norm.
Well, if we had the federal govt quit giving subsidies to the feed corn industry...and gave it instead to farmers raising actual crops we could directly ingest without chemical voodoo in the lab prior to it being presented as food stuff....more stores would be like Whole Foods.
And even with todays food...depending on what you buy....Whole Foods isn't much more $$ than the normal grocery store. I can get produce there often about the same as what comes in my 'normal' grocery store.
Hell, I saw a special awhile back...where a lady did and experiment and only allowed herself to feed her family of 4 on foods you could afford to buy on welfare.
She did this 100% at Whole Foods....and it was interesting to see how she did it....mostly going with fresh veggies and fruit...
And when they were talking about the monitoring of the chemical makeup of milk..I wasn't thinking of the natural variations between milk from different cows....but more of them monitoring for chemicals that might be hazardous to humans (hormones, anti-biotics, poisons, etc)....
Folks buy Apple to be kewl and show off how much money they have, you can't say that about MS.
Do you honestly believe that the majority of people that buy Apple products...do so as a status symbol?? I know that is the often quoted opinion on/. , but do people really believe that deep down?
I mean, I own a few apple products. I have an old iphone 3gs, and am likely to going to get the new iPhone 5. but I dunno what a status symbol that is. I mean, it spends most of the time in my pocket, and honestly, when you whip one out...well, it is no big deal as that so many other people out there have them...it is kind of a commodity phone. I'd dare say any smart phone these days is pretty much a commodity object, and seems most people out there have one.
As for a mac computer....well, I do have a macbook pro I bought myself last xmas...but that stays largely at home..I bought it for some stills and video production I wanted to do with my gift I gave myself this year...a Canon 5D3.
Sure, these are both $$$ things...but, I got them because they were perceived to me as being the best I could get for my money I could afford...for some things I wanted to do. Best tool for the job and all.
But really...I don't think that many people even notice if you pull out an Apple product....to most people I think...it is just another "phone", or "laptop" or "tablet".....I don't perceive any social stigma related to them by anyone that pulls them out these days. Does anyone else really see it that way?
I mean, I don't give anyone a sideways glance really if they pull out a computer, smartphone or tablet....today those are all just commodity type gear IMHO....
It is industrial food supply....and taste and nutrition aren't the main goals any more. There's no room for diversity, which I think, could prove to be a national security issue concerning our food supply. Look how things are gonna hit price wise, when the effects of the drought on the corn crops in the midwest start sinking in. With no diversity and not growing many different crops (and raising different varieties of animals)...one natural disaster in one part of the nation puts the whole food supply at jeopardy.
That's not even going into how badly in the US we're starting to fucking outsource even our own food supply.
But yes...it is industrial. I think today...pretty much almost all of the beef and pork in the US, is supplied by only 3-4 companies. Something like 85% or more of our home grown produce..is corn, not the sweet stuff you and I can eat directly either.....
For some interesting, eye opening info on the US food supply...watch a couple of things, free to stream on Netflix and also I think on Amazon prime:
Food, Inc
Foodmatters
Its kinda scary when you actually start to find out how our food supply is now gamed by big industry...and makes me sadder to see the US still subsidizing the massive over production of corn which has little direct nutritional value to our citizens....if the feds are gonna subsidize anything..it should be those out there growing other vegetables which ARE directly beneficial to humans...and don't have to go through the lab first before they become food like substances.
How about we..I dunno....start trying to raise our livestock in a more NATURAL fashion....give them a bit more room, and quit feeding them fucking corn and other crap that they aren't designed to eat?
Quit raising them shoulder to shoulder in todays feed lot situation. We could avoid many of the ecoli problems, and sickness and disease they have to give them antibiotics for...etc.
I'd happily pay a bit more per lb, to have a more healthy meat products come out...less contaminated by growth hormones and anti-biotics (contributing to the rise of anti-biotic resistant strains)....
Sure, science for tracking them is nice...but seriously, how did we get to the stage where we need to electronically track the chemical makeup of their milk?!?!? Shouldn't the milk be more like...err....pure milk?!?!
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Depends. What exactly did he say? I mean, I've often been annoyed at the noise some kids were making and muttered (as many people have done) "I'm gonna kill those fucking kids if they don't shut the fuck up..."
Or was it..."I am going to come over there and kill little Stevie, I'll skin him with a knife, etc..."
See the difference? Obviously in the first case, anyone should know I'm not going to be a threat....just blowing off steam, the latter one, could be considered a threat, and possibly actionable.
I haven't see what the guy posted on ESPN, but my first assumption it was more in the same vein as the first statement I made.
And if they're gonna start arresting people for just spouting off crap like that....well, so much for free speech. Unless you threaten someone specifically and it is obvious you are threatening them....then that is scary indeed.
It worked just fine for me before Obamacare.
I'd rather pay a few extra pennies to have a safe container that won't poison me....
Hell, I only buy beer in bottles....can't stand the stuff in cans, and it doesn't really hit my budget in any significant way.
The few times I drink coke...I hunt down the MX ones...in bottles made with real cane sugar. Again, worth the few extra cents here and there for me...and that is just for flavor, not even considering the BPA crap.....
I'm largely the same way. I have most of my collection as All-Clad Stainless Steel. However, I do have 2x of them...SS but with non-stick on the inside, a 14" and a 12" fry pan. I got these pretty much exclusively for eggs...omlettes, etc. It is just so easy for doing eggs, or even crepes.
But aside from that.....I don't use non-stick (doesn't create the malliard sp?) reaction....and I also have a few choice cast iron pans, grill grates, and a hibachi (Lodge stuff rules)......for everything else.
How about the old fashioned way...in GLASS? You can can stuff in glass that keeps a LOOOONG time.
I'd imagine some thing could be canned without coatings...
I prefer most things to be in glass if I can...I only buy beer in glass bottles, with the only exception being when at the pool or on a boat generally....but I prefer how things taste out of glass containers. It is worth the extra few cents that bottle beer costs over canned.
Many?..???
I can imagine a few people do it...when camping, but surely this is a rare thing in most home life...? I'd assume most people today, open a can, empty into a dish and throw in the microwave...or at least do it the old fashioned (and my preferred way) put it into a pan/pot and heat it up in that over the stove.
No....I cook most everything I do from scratch.
I start with raw fresh veggies. I often make my own stocks, sometimes I even make my own ground and stuffed sausages, home pickled and canned things...and hopefully soon, I can get all my stuff together and start home brewing again...all grain brewing.
You can't avoid some pre-processed foods in today's world, but for about 99% of my shopping, I shop on the perimeter of the grocery store, where it is fresh veggies...meats, dairy....
I don't buy much of anything in the center aisles of the store...save for a few condiments (ketchup, mustard), beer/wine/liquor (they sell all that in grocery stores here in New Orleans), and spices.
I'm wondering what tool(s) you were using? Final Cut Pro X, Avid, Adobe Tool Suite? Why did you use what you did? Can you give some details of your workflow processes with these tools?
What cameras were you using? Red? Any DSLR's like the Canon 5D3? What were the pro's / con's of the different cameras you were using?
I'm starting to learn to do some 'home films', using a HDDSLR, and have recently discovered DaVinci Resolve 9 Lite (free version). I was wondering if you used this tool (Resolve) in particular, and could describe the process with it...details of the process greatly appreciated.
While I don't lean towards going fully vegetarian (I just recently bought a new smoker, and a Hobart 2912 Meat Slicer...so I'm not quitting meat)....from what I'm reading more and more..it seems to show that we do need to make our meals more plant based. The one thing that was telling to me in the FOK documentary..was showing how in WWII, countries that were overtaken by the Germans, and had their meat supplies pretty much stripped from them...over those years, the incidence of cardio-vascular problems dipped significantly....and after they war, when meat and dairy came back up on their daily diets....disease increased too.
I've become very interested in food lately....give that show and 'Food, Inc' a good watch...both are free for streaming on Netflix and Amazon prime....
I'm not giving up on meat...I love good seafood and anything that moves basically, but I'm going to make most of my daily plates plant based.
I recently did a 30 day juice fast...and I gotta say, I felt significantly better during and after that, due to the huge increase of micronutrients in my diet from veggies and fruit....and another big factor, I've removed most all processed foods from my diet. I like to cook..so, I was getting rid of that years ago...but really....give those documentaries a thoughtful watch.
So....just exactly how long have you been a Monsanto employee?
I'm not that far behind you in years...but I *do* remember getting tomatoes in the grocery stores when I grew up, when they were in season, and they did taste good. I remember mom buying what today are considered 'heirloom' tomatoes in the regular grocery store...knarly, not perfectly round and red....and flavorful in the dead middle of summer.
Give those shows I mentioned above a watch...very interesting.
They are all growing corn....it is grown at a loss IF it weren't for the subsidy that the Feds give them. They don't get rich off that...but, the companies that process all that corn...love the deal because they are able to buy that corn for less than it costs to grow it....due to the subsidies.
I love my meat too....but, I'd prefer it be raised in a more natural way. Cows are herbivores....and aren't going to be eating corn naturally....and they especially aren't going to be eating dead cow parts or other dead animal by products....which they still do get (just not the brains to keep from getting mad cow disease).
I'd much rather pay a bit more for meat, to have it raised more naturally....I like my dead animal too...but I just wish it to be a bit more chemical free, less additives so to speak.
Is that you Eddie?
Where is the bragging? It isn't like anyone here is gonna be impressed by things I've owned. No one is gonna see me carrying these things around in meatspace....wouldn't that be necessary to complete the bragging/showing off act as you seem to think it is? Who the fuck would I possibly be trying to impress here?
And, how could I give examples with my points...unless I listed some things I've had that others might consider 'nice'....but I don't really think about myself.
So, these days...merely listing a nice thing or two, is bragging?
Sheesh.....
Google didn't really have much in the way of 'real' info for me....the youtube account email address, is not the one used for gmail. They did finally get my real info...from the youtube account when I had to set things up for revenue generation (I couldn't figure how to earn $$ from them and still stay anon).
Strangely enough, they have my real name now associated with that particular YT account...but they don't nag me to change it to show my real name on the account/channel.
Interesting...thanks for the honesty.
I like nice things....but I buy them purely for my pleasure or needs...I never think about that other people would think about them. I have lots of computers, a small part of them are apples....but I have linux and even a windows machine or two in there somewhere.
I've had nice cars in the past...C5 Corvette, a nice older black on black 911 Porsche turbo....but I bought those cars because I liked their performance, and they way they looked. But I never gave it much thought about them being any sort of 'status' symbol. Hell, I was driving around and a friend in the car with me (I think it was the vette) was saying "Dude...did you see how those chicks were checking you out in the car"...and I honestly was 100% oblivious to this.
Hell, I was too busy keeping my eye on the road and traffic around me...since I was likely speeding as I do most everywhere I drive....
I like nice things...but I've never given any thought to other people seeing anything I have and having any sort of envy or whatever....?
Ok..where are you finding a tablet for $150 and less??
Also...you don't really 'learn' to type on a tablet...it isn't like real typing at all. You need a full sized keyboard to learn that on....and a manual typewriter still sounds like the cheapest solution to use to approximate a real typing experience (touch typing, not hunt and peck).
Well, if we had the federal govt quit giving subsidies to the feed corn industry...and gave it instead to farmers raising actual crops we could directly ingest without chemical voodoo in the lab prior to it being presented as food stuff....more stores would be like Whole Foods.
And even with todays food...depending on what you buy....Whole Foods isn't much more $$ than the normal grocery store. I can get produce there often about the same as what comes in my 'normal' grocery store.
Hell, I saw a special awhile back...where a lady did and experiment and only allowed herself to feed her family of 4 on foods you could afford to buy on welfare.
She did this 100% at Whole Foods....and it was interesting to see how she did it....mostly going with fresh veggies and fruit...
And when they were talking about the monitoring of the chemical makeup of milk..I wasn't thinking of the natural variations between milk from different cows....but more of them monitoring for chemicals that might be hazardous to humans (hormones, anti-biotics, poisons, etc)....
Do you honestly believe that the majority of people that buy Apple products...do so as a status symbol?? I know that is the often quoted opinion on /. , but do people really believe that deep down?
I mean, I own a few apple products. I have an old iphone 3gs, and am likely to going to get the new iPhone 5. but I dunno what a status symbol that is. I mean, it spends most of the time in my pocket, and honestly, when you whip one out...well, it is no big deal as that so many other people out there have them...it is kind of a commodity phone. I'd dare say any smart phone these days is pretty much a commodity object, and seems most people out there have one.
As for a mac computer....well, I do have a macbook pro I bought myself last xmas...but that stays largely at home..I bought it for some stills and video production I wanted to do with my gift I gave myself this year...a Canon 5D3.
Sure, these are both $$$ things...but, I got them because they were perceived to me as being the best I could get for my money I could afford...for some things I wanted to do. Best tool for the job and all.
But really...I don't think that many people even notice if you pull out an Apple product....to most people I think...it is just another "phone", or "laptop" or "tablet".....I don't perceive any social stigma related to them by anyone that pulls them out these days. Does anyone else really see it that way?
I mean, I don't give anyone a sideways glance really if they pull out a computer, smartphone or tablet....today those are all just commodity type gear IMHO....
Not in the US, I've never heard it used to mean more expensive before...
Seems like that would be the most straightforward answer to learning typing.
Hell, I learned mostly on the old IBM Selectric type writers...granted that was electric, but only really a couple of steps above full mechanical.
I assumed they still made mechanical typewriters....?
Sadly in some respects, it is not.
It is industrial food supply....and taste and nutrition aren't the main goals any more. There's no room for diversity, which I think, could prove to be a national security issue concerning our food supply. Look how things are gonna hit price wise, when the effects of the drought on the corn crops in the midwest start sinking in. With no diversity and not growing many different crops (and raising different varieties of animals)...one natural disaster in one part of the nation puts the whole food supply at jeopardy.
That's not even going into how badly in the US we're starting to fucking outsource even our own food supply.
But yes...it is industrial. I think today...pretty much almost all of the beef and pork in the US, is supplied by only 3-4 companies. Something like 85% or more of our home grown produce..is corn, not the sweet stuff you and I can eat directly either.....
For some interesting, eye opening info on the US food supply...watch a couple of things, free to stream on Netflix and also I think on Amazon prime:
Food, Inc
Foodmatters
Its kinda scary when you actually start to find out how our food supply is now gamed by big industry...and makes me sadder to see the US still subsidizing the massive over production of corn which has little direct nutritional value to our citizens....if the feds are gonna subsidize anything..it should be those out there growing other vegetables which ARE directly beneficial to humans...and don't have to go through the lab first before they become food like substances.
Quit raising them shoulder to shoulder in todays feed lot situation. We could avoid many of the ecoli problems, and sickness and disease they have to give them antibiotics for...etc.
I'd happily pay a bit more per lb, to have a more healthy meat products come out...less contaminated by growth hormones and anti-biotics (contributing to the rise of anti-biotic resistant strains)....
Sure, science for tracking them is nice...but seriously, how did we get to the stage where we need to electronically track the chemical makeup of their milk?!?!? Shouldn't the milk be more like...err....pure milk?!?!
Why? It is largely true.
Most everyone getting shot is less than innocent bystander in most circumstances.
You rarely see victims with a rap sheet less than the length of their arm.