Is anyone forcing you to go to this doctor if you cannot stand him and his English ??
He got there by years or hard work and having a superb brain, both of which you lack.
Well, a lot of it is also due...to in past years, having medical schools actively seeking and bringing in foreign and female students, to fill quotas.
For a good while there, they would bring in a female or minority over a white male even if the white male was the clear winner with respect to qualifications. For a while, it got fairly difficult for a white male to get into med school, and hence...you have a lot of doctors today that are female, but also many foreign ones that you have difficulty understanding.
To counter this...med schools are now actively seeking white males to balance things out again.
This was happening a lot a bit over a decade ago...
Tell you what...let's prove that they are there for safety.
Take all funds generated from the cameras, and pool them. Give back at the end of the year (plus any interest generated) to all the citizens that didn't get caught, and take all the $$ out of the hands of the officials.
If you take the money out of it, I dare say...city officials and police will immediately drop their high interest in such tools.
The safety aspect of these things is secondary to the revenue they generate. Hell, when the light cameras first went up here in New Orleans...the people got a temporary injunction against them for being illegal and against the state constitutiion. The mayor and city council immediately, on TV were screaming "We'll lost $7 this first year if they come down....OH, and also for safety reasons."
They actually on tv, multiple times, decried the loss of revenue first...and then paid safety a tip of the hat second.
Roy Brown, 54, robbed the Capital One bank in Shreveport, Louisiana in December 2007. He approached the teller with one of his hands under his jacket and told her that it was a robbery.
The teller handed Brown three stacks of bill but he only took a single $100 bill and returned the remaining money back to her. He said that he was homeless and hungry and left the bank.
The next day he surrendered to the police voluntarily and told them that his mother didnâ(TM)t raise him that way.
Brown told the police he needed the money to stay at the detox center and had no other place to stay and was hungry.
In Caddo District Court, he pleaded guilty. The judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison for first degree robbery.
Err...and we could feel sorry that a guy committing armed robbery..no matter how polite he was....got punished for it???
I mean...yes, sad story about the guy, but there ARE homeless shelters, food banks and charities that would help him out. I have to figure he didn't exhaust all the avenues of help for him before resorting to scaring the shit out of a poor teller thinking she may get her head blown off by a bank robber.
Sadly...no not from the experience of most cities I've ever lived in...especially in today's world.
There are virtually NO privately owned mom & pop type food stores. You're pretty much left with the big box chain supermarket. You will likely find 2-3 different chain stores in the city, but that's about it.
Small, privately owned specialty stores for food just don't hardly exist anymore over here in most cities (except for extreme old urban ones like I guess NYC has). They've all been run out of business.
You might find some niche ones here and there....but they will be incredibly expensive.
I've only seen real specialty butcher stores a couple times in my life...when visiting friends in the NE of the US (New Hampshire, Boston)....but no where where I've lived have I found such a beast....
What about small butchers shops? I'm vegetarian, so I haven't actually tried, but I'm pretty sure that there are four butchers near me that will sell parts of animals from local farms.
I'm afraid such shops are few and far between, at least in any city I've lived in recently. I really wish I could find a quality butcher shop of this type...I'd pay a bit extra just for the good service, and ability to get quality meats, etc.
Nothing much turns up on google for my area for this....you're pretty much stuck with grocery stores (a couple of local ones have decent butcher depts) and whole foods is good, but VERY $$$.
Go find a farm and buy from them. you can even pick out the chicken that is running around for them to kill for you.
Trouble is, I wouldn't know exactly where to even start looking for a farm anywhere near me.
I live in New Orleans....I can quite easily find fresh seafood...but I don't think there is any farmland within reasonable driving distance to me.
That and it would make my weekly grocery shopping trip take 1 or two days longer....?
:)
During the summer, I do try to garden what I can for myself, but just isn't practical to hit the farms on grocery day. Heck, it is a PITA to hit 2-4 different stores that day...to get the different specials at each store.
This is business as usual in the "real world", my diesel mechanic cousin owns all his tools... That wrench is his, not his bosses. Same with my electrician buddy and his tools. Its just how grown-ups do things.
What you're describing here...sounds very much like 'contracting'.
And, if you're gonna be contracting, you'd better be doing it for contractor rates to balance out the risks.
Not that I mind it, I prefer that method, gives good tax breaks, more automy, etc.
But once you start having to provide your own tools, etc....you should not be still working W2...incorporate yourself and start managing that money and career, and have >1 more client lined up too.
I'd be a bit more excited about this technology, if it would track where ALL my food I'm purchasing comes from.
First thing I'd do...I'd avoid ALL food coming from China...and just buy US foods, preferably as locally raised as possible.
I do appreciate that the labeling on fish now allows me to do this, I'd be happy if I could do this with most all foods I buy in the store, that I don't now know its source of origin.
I'm trying to learn (again) what seasons things naturally grow...that should help somewhat trying to keep food purchases local.
Huh? Every normal kid would probably try to shoot someone they don't like very much, just to see what happens. There are a lot of ways a kid can get killed, but most of them aren't a fraction-of-a-second activity. Also, it's easier to outrun a kid with a bat than a nail fired with a BB gun.
So, are you saying that for some reason today....kids are more likely to do this, than when I grew up and these types of guns were normally owned by most kids my age?
Strange, we didn't do stuck shit like that back then....
What's wrong with the children of today that would make this type action more prevalent?
Wrong. Maybe you're thinking of the spring-loaded Red Ryder guns they had whenever people with 4-digit UIDs were growing up.
Are YOU kidding?
Back in the day (even with my dad especially) they had pump crossman, all wooden stock, metal 22 caliber pellet guns.
You could pump those things up and it would blow through just about anything!!!
Heavy duty weapon that thing was.
They do now make ONE gun I've seen close to that one of old...Benjamin rifle....those things are quite powerful.
Again..we had plenty of them as kids....we had fun with no real accidents except a couple of sliding glass doors blown out....they're ok for kids, just raise your kids and teach them some responsibility.
If it was ok for previous generations to have them, I don't see the problem today...unless all kids today are just stupider, meaner or untrainable.
Hell, remember during the months around the 4th of July....having bottle rocket wars with each other? Lighting them, and holding till the rocket just started so you could aim it at your opponent?
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Is this change only for the Nook tablet, or does it affect the Nook color too?
I think it is the armed part that draws the large year factor in sentencing.
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant...(exceptin' Alice)...
Well, a lot of it is also due...to in past years, having medical schools actively seeking and bringing in foreign and female students, to fill quotas.
For a good while there, they would bring in a female or minority over a white male even if the white male was the clear winner with respect to qualifications. For a while, it got fairly difficult for a white male to get into med school, and hence...you have a lot of doctors today that are female, but also many foreign ones that you have difficulty understanding.
To counter this...med schools are now actively seeking white males to balance things out again.
This was happening a lot a bit over a decade ago...
Well, most every stereotype comes about due to a good bit of truth pervasive to those involved with the stereotype.
It is hardly racist to be observant.
Take all funds generated from the cameras, and pool them. Give back at the end of the year (plus any interest generated) to all the citizens that didn't get caught, and take all the $$ out of the hands of the officials.
If you take the money out of it, I dare say...city officials and police will immediately drop their high interest in such tools.
The safety aspect of these things is secondary to the revenue they generate. Hell, when the light cameras first went up here in New Orleans...the people got a temporary injunction against them for being illegal and against the state constitutiion. The mayor and city council immediately, on TV were screaming "We'll lost $7 this first year if they come down....OH, and also for safety reasons."
They actually on tv, multiple times, decried the loss of revenue first...and then paid safety a tip of the hat second.
Err...and we could feel sorry that a guy committing armed robbery..no matter how polite he was....got punished for it???
I mean...yes, sad story about the guy, but there ARE homeless shelters, food banks and charities that would help him out. I have to figure he didn't exhaust all the avenues of help for him before resorting to scaring the shit out of a poor teller thinking she may get her head blown off by a bank robber.
IF you mean Madonna...you are talking squarely about the 80's.
The Zeppelin fans of the 70's wouldn't have put up with her.
Sadly...no not from the experience of most cities I've ever lived in...especially in today's world.
There are virtually NO privately owned mom & pop type food stores. You're pretty much left with the big box chain supermarket. You will likely find 2-3 different chain stores in the city, but that's about it.
Small, privately owned specialty stores for food just don't hardly exist anymore over here in most cities (except for extreme old urban ones like I guess NYC has). They've all been run out of business.
You might find some niche ones here and there....but they will be incredibly expensive.
I've only seen real specialty butcher stores a couple times in my life...when visiting friends in the NE of the US (New Hampshire, Boston)....but no where where I've lived have I found such a beast....
For my area...seems to mostly only show restaurants, and the farmers mkt, while fun..is suprisingly SMALL for such a food town as NOLA.
The Hollygrove thing looks promising tho...I'll check in on that!!
I'm afraid such shops are few and far between, at least in any city I've lived in recently. I really wish I could find a quality butcher shop of this type...I'd pay a bit extra just for the good service, and ability to get quality meats, etc.
Nothing much turns up on google for my area for this....you're pretty much stuck with grocery stores (a couple of local ones have decent butcher depts) and whole foods is good, but VERY $$$.
Trouble is, I wouldn't know exactly where to even start looking for a farm anywhere near me.
I live in New Orleans....I can quite easily find fresh seafood...but I don't think there is any farmland within reasonable driving distance to me.
That and it would make my weekly grocery shopping trip take 1 or two days longer....?
During the summer, I do try to garden what I can for myself, but just isn't practical to hit the farms on grocery day. Heck, it is a PITA to hit 2-4 different stores that day...to get the different specials at each store.
What you're describing here...sounds very much like 'contracting'.
And, if you're gonna be contracting, you'd better be doing it for contractor rates to balance out the risks.
Not that I mind it, I prefer that method, gives good tax breaks, more automy, etc.
But once you start having to provide your own tools, etc....you should not be still working W2...incorporate yourself and start managing that money and career, and have >1 more client lined up too.
First thing I'd do...I'd avoid ALL food coming from China...and just buy US foods, preferably as locally raised as possible.
I do appreciate that the labeling on fish now allows me to do this, I'd be happy if I could do this with most all foods I buy in the store, that I don't now know its source of origin.
I'm trying to learn (again) what seasons things naturally grow...that should help somewhat trying to keep food purchases local.
Who?
Hell, most of them I had to explain what FF was....
More men today are starting to use skin care products. Stuff that is invisible, but keeps wrinkles and all at bay...
Buy a pellet gun...
My how times change...back in the day, we'd just steal those flasks and all from the HS lab...and people would make bongs out of them.
So, are you saying that for some reason today....kids are more likely to do this, than when I grew up and these types of guns were normally owned by most kids my age?
Strange, we didn't do stuck shit like that back then....
What's wrong with the children of today that would make this type action more prevalent?
They do now make ONE gun I've seen close to that one of old...Benjamin rifle....those things are quite powerful.
Are YOU kidding?
Back in the day (even with my dad especially) they had pump crossman, all wooden stock, metal 22 caliber pellet guns.
You could pump those things up and it would blow through just about anything!!!
Heavy duty weapon that thing was.
They do now make ONE gun I've seen close to that one of old...Benjamin rifle....those things are quite powerful.
Again..we had plenty of them as kids....we had fun with no real accidents except a couple of sliding glass doors blown out....they're ok for kids, just raise your kids and teach them some responsibility.
If it was ok for previous generations to have them, I don't see the problem today...unless all kids today are just stupider, meaner or untrainable.
Hell, remember during the months around the 4th of July....having bottle rocket wars with each other? Lighting them, and holding till the rocket just started so you could aim it at your opponent?
Or..do kids even play outside anymore these days...without it being some schedule, regimented, planned parent monitored activity?
*sigh*
I think we're a bit too safety conscious....actually strike that, I blame it on the litigiousness of all the freakin' lawyers...