"Heck, if you can convince adult males to do so, I'd donate half my wealth to your cause. I'm still astounded by the number of men in who, after using a public restroom, just splash a little water on their hands and walk out, touching everything on their way."
You know, with enough care and a couple years practice, you can, as a male, learn to easily take a leak and not piss on yourself. If you don't piss on your hands, why do you need to scrub your hands?
I mean, I *do* tend to wash my dick along with the rest of my body in the morning shower....so, it is just as clean as any other part of my body, and I don't need to wash my hands every time I touch my chin or my forehead...?
"i come home with my son i don't care if we wash our hands. if he gets sick, who cares. good for him. my wife like my mom and other women is a clean freak especially with personal hygiene. i tried to explain to her that the anti-bacterial soaps are bad, but it's not registering. to a lot of women anything that kills germs is good"
Along with that horribly annoying habit women have of trying to throw everything out that has been in the fridge longer than 2-3 days.
We all know that as long as it isn't blue/fuzzy and smells like it should smell, it should be just fine.
While I'm not advocating keeping home made mayonnaise that has been sitting out in the hot car for a couple hours at 90F temperatures, I find that most foods easily keep a week in a very cold fridge, and some things much longer.
"The same thing applies here. Even though the city of New Orleans isn't within Jefferson parish, enough of the New Orleans metropolitan area is within Jefferson Parish for this hardware failure to disrupt the New Orleans housing market."
Not here...NOLA is entirely different from any city in the surrounding parishes. Culturally, taxes, housing market, rentals vs owners, more houses built as doubles in NOLA, not so many outside of the city, etc.
You cross the city 'borders' here (and many are clearly defined by crossing the lake, or canals, etc.....and the cities are like two different worlds.
It really is a different world down here...different than any other part of the US I've ever lived.
I rarely go outside of NOLA...everything else pretty much sucks outside of New Orleans, IMHO...nothing to do out there, no culture, they might as well be any other city in the US with chain stores, and strip malls. To me, and most anyone you would ask down here, crossing the borders from NOLA to outside citys instantly differentiates itself like night and day.
"Then there is the ever-present problem of increasing the reproductive lifespan of humans, while simultaneously increasing the total lifespan of humans, coupled with the natural sexdrive of humans.
Without SERIOUSLY reducing the fertility of humans to compensate, we would end up with an unsustainable population of unaging people in just a few centuries. Personally, I consider this a "very bad thing", unless we somehow manage to make a star-trek replicator, and master fusion energy and leave the planet sci-fi style in very short order. Given the difficulties of these problems, the lack of interest in the corporate world for free, and unlimited resources for everyone, and the insane costs to try to develop such things, occam's razor suggests that it wouldnt happen until AFTER the problem I mention rears its ugly head, Much like measures to curtail AGW have only recently started to get serious, now that there is an obvious problem."
Hey, I'm not saying I want everyone to have immortality and live forever..just mainly ME, and some select friends.
I kinda wish the vampire model really worked, that way, you can choose who you want to ride eternity out with...
"Ahh but here's the kicker - I give you a choice - have your body begin to wither at age 40, and die at around age 70, or have your body be perfect until age 150, and you die of cancer at age 160?"
I'll take the latter example.
And hell, by the time I'm about 160...maybe they'll find a cure for cancer about then???
"Doube minimum wage. Are you implying that's good pay for a job that's bound to destroy your health?"
Actually, I would guess that working like that (lifting, constantly moving) would provide you greater exercise that the usual US citizen and therefore would increase your health.
Hey...anyone that wants to immigrate to the US, if the know (or are willing to try very hard to learn) English, and they want to come here legally, you know...sign the guest book on the way in, and maybe even become a citizen, they are welcome.
We don't care what color you are, but do follow the laws, and try to learn the language, and when you protest, for God's sake, quit sporting the flag of the fscking country you came from. If it is so great there..STAY or GO BACK there. If you're in the US and want to be..wave our flag, and protest all you like.
"Maybe its because Jefferson parish holds a significant amount of the New Orleans metropolitan area, even if it doesn't hold the actual city of New Orleans."
But, if it isn't in Orleans parish...it is NOT New Orleans, and should not be referred to as such.
Call it Metairie, or Kenner or Harahan, etc....but don't call it New Orleans.
I'm still trying to figure out from the article...exactly why a computer problem in Jefferson Parish, is affecting the Orleans (New Orleans) Parish housing market so much? They're two separate entities...
"Wouldn't it be simpler if they just banned wearing clothes? Of course then you'd have to put up with the consequence, but there you go."
Then again...maybe THAT would be what finally encourages people to take better care of themselves, eh? If you're running around nekkid, then maybe eating better, exercising, and (for women) wearing well done makeup might become vogue?
"No offense, but this is completely speculative, and seems to ignore the fact that these body scanners can cost up to and exceeding $100,000 [epic.org], and that's not even including the costs of hiring and maintaining staff to manage the machines. I personally find it hysterical that anybody would think we'd see these in the _many_ train stations out there in even the distant future. Toss in buses as well, and you're quickly approaching $1M just to "secure" one bus/train route."
Not to worry, the Federal Govt. will just call it "Stimulus Spending", and it will then be just fine to deficit spend in a large manner again. This, so far, seems to work with just about any amount of tax payer money they want to waste these days, rather than let you keep it yourself and decide where to spend it.
"I think it's a novelty for people with disposable income. Even having a browser or a cookbook on there... Do you want to stand in front of the fridge and read? No. Bust out Joy of Cooking and leave it open on the counter. Maybe the most useful thing would be web radio.... my fridge would need integrated speakers, though."
Don't most people by this day in age, just have a spare laptop in their kitchens for looking up recipes, etc?
And tunes? Well, I have a small HD tv in there that I can watch cable, or hook my iPod up to for videos...or just tunes with the computer speakers I have hooked to it.
When I get my own house..I'll have a more custom kitchen, with large LCD tv hung up higher, and maybe some Klipsch shelf speakers for tunes. Cooking is fun for me...so, I like to have a few drinks and crank up the entertainment while chopping and cooking.
Actually, this is a case where it is GREAT to be in the USA!!
I mean, since we really don't have much at all in the way of trains or other mass transportation over the majority of the country, this won't be a budget breaker.
Then again...didn't I hear the current administration is trying to fund to build out new long distance high speed rail systems?
Hell, that is just spending money, to make a new target that we have to spend money on to protect from terrorists?!?
"'cause if there's one thing I need, it's the ability to check my facebook account in addition to checking email on my blackberry, fiddling with my radio, arguing with my wife and entering coordinates into my GPS.
While driving. Down the freeway at 80mi/hr."
Hey, and don't forget you can NOT spill your beer while doing this ALL st the same time!!
"Actually, after visiting the US, I'd say the food there is abysmal. For something edible, you need to look into something italian/chinese/etc."
You obviously have never been to or stayed in New Orleans.
Definitely GOOD food down here...
Heck, where I live, there really hardly is any commercial fast food places near where I live....Only like one Burger King within miles of me, but plenty of good local restaurants of all kinds, ethnic and NOLA style stuff.
I very rarely eat fast food, or even at ANY chain restaurant of any kind. I cook most of my food at home, and for outside entertainment money, I rather go once or twice a month or so, and go to a nice restaurant, with full service...wine and foods that I likely *could* cook on my own, but would take me a lot of time and effort (ie veal reduction sauces and the like). You can keep your McBurger. When I want junk food, I'll get a fried oyster poboy or the like.
" Now, what pie will arouse women? THAT'S the pie I need.
Cherry."
Whatever you do...do NOT give them wedding cake.
I hear that is the one food that kills the sex drive in women. At the very least, it somehow cuts way down on the blowjobs you will receive from her. At least...my married friends tell me that.
Would it be against the law to wear a heavy metal codpiece type thing? Let them grope.....they'll just get bruised knuckles...and if you do get scanned, well, no radiation on your junk that way.
Yeah, I was wondering about this. If you normally go "commando"...well, can you use this stuff to coat the inside of your trousers, and still have the protection the radiation shielded underwear would have?
Frankly, next time I go through TSA, I figure I'll just offer them an extra $20 for the cutest (relatively speaking) girl there to pat me down and give a happy ending.
"It is also good if you are deaf, mute, if there is so much noise that phone call wouldn't work, if radio signal is too poor for a call, if the telephone network is congested etc."
I'd hardly every used SMS text messaging prior to Katrina. No one else I knew at the time hardly used it, and I didn't see much need in paying all that extra money for it.
Well, after Katrina...myself and all my friends scattered about the country, we found that if you had a cell phone with a 504 area code, you were pretty much SOL if you wanted to try to make a voice call to anyone in that area code.
We did, however, find out that txt messages easily got through, and for months, that was about the only way to get ahold of anyone with a 504 area code.
I've become much more of a txt junkie now...as have many of my friends. I email and txt 98% of the time for communications....only use voice here and there like to say "I'm here at the HOB, which side of the stage are you on?"
"The government has rules and restrictions about the data it is allowed to collect and connect. "
Are you kidding?
In the US, there are VERY few laws about personal data collection and distribution. If you read the article, it says Acxiom and these other companies are very wary about selling this information to the insurance companies for this usage, in fear that it might trip up some regulations that do exist (with the FTC I think?).
But really, with the exception for HIPAA type information, in the USA, it is pretty much the wild west out there...anyone can gather what information they want on you, and use it in almost any fashion without any repercussions from the very few laws that do exist out there concerning this.
And these companies don't want this kind of attention, nor this kind of regulation in the future. They make a LOT of money with this stuff.
One interesting project Acxiom had going on back in the day, was to come up with the perfect personal identifier, so as to make it easier to identify you as you moved, married, changed names, changed SSN, etc. They want to track you from birth to death, and by now, I'm sure they do a pretty darned good job of it.
I do not condone violence like you alluded to...there are innocent people there working that are just trying to earn a living. And it is a free country, and this is perfectly legal what they do. If you don't like it..legal action is the path to take.
I used to work for Acxiom a long time back....and it was scary THEN what information they have on people. Back then, we were looking to expand into Europe, etc for information gathering.
They did all kinds of neat things....you fill out a change of address for the post office? Yep, they buy and use those to clean their databases on you. Many states sold and still sell drivers license info, they use that. Do you ever fill out warranty cards for products you buy? Fill in the surveys anywhere? Yep, they know who you are. They can pull up pretty accurate info for likely 95% or so of the people in the US, who knows about foreign countries by now. They can tell how much you make, if you wear glasses.....any number of personal or financial traits you might have.
They are VERY good at it. Heck, after 9/11...the Feds used Acxiom to start data mining for terrorists.
I know they have info on me, but I try not to make it easy. At the one grocery store I shop at that still uses customer cards...I am registered at a 98 yr old hispanic lady named Goldenberg...and a native of Sweden. I just make sure and only pay cash at that store. I fill out every possible survey and form out incorrectly trying to skew their data profile on me. Post Katrina, as I moved around...they lost me for a bit. But I think they have me decently again, due to magazine publications I like to read.
Oh well...hard to stay invisible these days...but you don't have to try to actively try to help them. That facebook thing looks like it could be fun, but man, I just cannot bear to let even more info out about me voluntarily.
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You know, with enough care and a couple years practice, you can, as a male, learn to easily take a leak and not piss on yourself. If you don't piss on your hands, why do you need to scrub your hands?
I mean, I *do* tend to wash my dick along with the rest of my body in the morning shower....so, it is just as clean as any other part of my body, and I don't need to wash my hands every time I touch my chin or my forehead...?
And I've learned, just because one or more people are already making money off of some idea, it doesn't mean you can't do it too!
Hm...time to prognosticate and self publish, and then figure a way to drive traffic to my rants and validate them.
2)?????
3) Profit!!
(ok, so I cut a step or two...new business model)
Along with that horribly annoying habit women have of trying to throw everything out that has been in the fridge longer than 2-3 days.
We all know that as long as it isn't blue/fuzzy and smells like it should smell, it should be just fine.
While I'm not advocating keeping home made mayonnaise that has been sitting out in the hot car for a couple hours at 90F temperatures, I find that most foods easily keep a week in a very cold fridge, and some things much longer.
Not here...NOLA is entirely different from any city in the surrounding parishes. Culturally, taxes, housing market, rentals vs owners, more houses built as doubles in NOLA, not so many outside of the city, etc.
You cross the city 'borders' here (and many are clearly defined by crossing the lake, or canals, etc.....and the cities are like two different worlds.
It really is a different world down here...different than any other part of the US I've ever lived.
I rarely go outside of NOLA...everything else pretty much sucks outside of New Orleans, IMHO...nothing to do out there, no culture, they might as well be any other city in the US with chain stores, and strip malls. To me, and most anyone you would ask down here, crossing the borders from NOLA to outside citys instantly differentiates itself like night and day.
Without SERIOUSLY reducing the fertility of humans to compensate, we would end up with an unsustainable population of unaging people in just a few centuries. Personally, I consider this a "very bad thing", unless we somehow manage to make a star-trek replicator, and master fusion energy and leave the planet sci-fi style in very short order. Given the difficulties of these problems, the lack of interest in the corporate world for free, and unlimited resources for everyone, and the insane costs to try to develop such things, occam's razor suggests that it wouldnt happen until AFTER the problem I mention rears its ugly head, Much like measures to curtail AGW have only recently started to get serious, now that there is an obvious problem."
Hey, I'm not saying I want everyone to have immortality and live forever..just mainly ME, and some select friends.
I kinda wish the vampire model really worked, that way, you can choose who you want to ride eternity out with...
I'll take the latter example.
And hell, by the time I'm about 160...maybe they'll find a cure for cancer about then???
Actually, I would guess that working like that (lifting, constantly moving) would provide you greater exercise that the usual US citizen and therefore would increase your health.
We don't care what color you are, but do follow the laws, and try to learn the language, and when you protest, for God's sake, quit sporting the flag of the fscking country you came from. If it is so great there..STAY or GO BACK there. If you're in the US and want to be..wave our flag, and protest all you like.
But, if it isn't in Orleans parish...it is NOT New Orleans, and should not be referred to as such.
Call it Metairie, or Kenner or Harahan, etc....but don't call it New Orleans.
I'm still trying to figure out from the article...exactly why a computer problem in Jefferson Parish, is affecting the Orleans (New Orleans) Parish housing market so much? They're two separate entities...
Then again...maybe THAT would be what finally encourages people to take better care of themselves, eh? If you're running around nekkid, then maybe eating better, exercising, and (for women) wearing well done makeup might become vogue?
Not to worry, the Federal Govt. will just call it "Stimulus Spending", and it will then be just fine to deficit spend in a large manner again. This, so far, seems to work with just about any amount of tax payer money they want to waste these days, rather than let you keep it yourself and decide where to spend it.
Don't most people by this day in age, just have a spare laptop in their kitchens for looking up recipes, etc?
And tunes? Well, I have a small HD tv in there that I can watch cable, or hook my iPod up to for videos...or just tunes with the computer speakers I have hooked to it.
When I get my own house..I'll have a more custom kitchen, with large LCD tv hung up higher, and maybe some Klipsch shelf speakers for tunes. Cooking is fun for me...so, I like to have a few drinks and crank up the entertainment while chopping and cooking.
I mean, since we really don't have much at all in the way of trains or other mass transportation over the majority of the country, this won't be a budget breaker.
Then again...didn't I hear the current administration is trying to fund to build out new long distance high speed rail systems?
Hell, that is just spending money, to make a new target that we have to spend money on to protect from terrorists?!?
OMG...have I happened upon a vicious cycle?
While driving. Down the freeway at 80mi/hr."
Hey, and don't forget you can NOT spill your beer while doing this ALL st the same time!!
You obviously have never been to or stayed in New Orleans.
Definitely GOOD food down here...
Heck, where I live, there really hardly is any commercial fast food places near where I live....Only like one Burger King within miles of me, but plenty of good local restaurants of all kinds, ethnic and NOLA style stuff.
I very rarely eat fast food, or even at ANY chain restaurant of any kind. I cook most of my food at home, and for outside entertainment money, I rather go once or twice a month or so, and go to a nice restaurant, with full service...wine and foods that I likely *could* cook on my own, but would take me a lot of time and effort (ie veal reduction sauces and the like). You can keep your McBurger. When I want junk food, I'll get a fried oyster poboy or the like.
Cherry."
Whatever you do...do NOT give them wedding cake.
I hear that is the one food that kills the sex drive in women. At the very least, it somehow cuts way down on the blowjobs you will receive from her. At least...my married friends tell me that.
I hear that all the time, it's a side effect of the chloroform."
I just figured it was from all the dents in the headboard.
I love the sound of a woman's skull as it lightly but firmly bounces off the headboard...with her mouth muffled, face down into the pillow.
Good times....good times...
Would it be against the law to wear a heavy metal codpiece type thing? Let them grope.....they'll just get bruised knuckles...and if you do get scanned, well, no radiation on your junk that way.
Frankly, next time I go through TSA, I figure I'll just offer them an extra $20 for the cutest (relatively speaking) girl there to pat me down and give a happy ending.
I'd hardly every used SMS text messaging prior to Katrina. No one else I knew at the time hardly used it, and I didn't see much need in paying all that extra money for it.
Well, after Katrina...myself and all my friends scattered about the country, we found that if you had a cell phone with a 504 area code, you were pretty much SOL if you wanted to try to make a voice call to anyone in that area code.
We did, however, find out that txt messages easily got through, and for months, that was about the only way to get ahold of anyone with a 504 area code.
I've become much more of a txt junkie now...as have many of my friends. I email and txt 98% of the time for communications....only use voice here and there like to say "I'm here at the HOB, which side of the stage are you on?"
Are you kidding?
In the US, there are VERY few laws about personal data collection and distribution. If you read the article, it says Acxiom and these other companies are very wary about selling this information to the insurance companies for this usage, in fear that it might trip up some regulations that do exist (with the FTC I think?).
But really, with the exception for HIPAA type information, in the USA, it is pretty much the wild west out there...anyone can gather what information they want on you, and use it in almost any fashion without any repercussions from the very few laws that do exist out there concerning this.
And these companies don't want this kind of attention, nor this kind of regulation in the future. They make a LOT of money with this stuff.
One interesting project Acxiom had going on back in the day, was to come up with the perfect personal identifier, so as to make it easier to identify you as you moved, married, changed names, changed SSN, etc. They want to track you from birth to death, and by now, I'm sure they do a pretty darned good job of it.
I do not condone violence like you alluded to...there are innocent people there working that are just trying to earn a living. And it is a free country, and this is perfectly legal what they do. If you don't like it..legal action is the path to take.
They did all kinds of neat things....you fill out a change of address for the post office? Yep, they buy and use those to clean their databases on you. Many states sold and still sell drivers license info, they use that. Do you ever fill out warranty cards for products you buy? Fill in the surveys anywhere? Yep, they know who you are. They can pull up pretty accurate info for likely 95% or so of the people in the US, who knows about foreign countries by now. They can tell how much you make, if you wear glasses.....any number of personal or financial traits you might have.
They are VERY good at it. Heck, after 9/11...the Feds used Acxiom to start data mining for terrorists.
I know they have info on me, but I try not to make it easy. At the one grocery store I shop at that still uses customer cards...I am registered at a 98 yr old hispanic lady named Goldenberg...and a native of Sweden. I just make sure and only pay cash at that store. I fill out every possible survey and form out incorrectly trying to skew their data profile on me. Post Katrina, as I moved around...they lost me for a bit. But I think they have me decently again, due to magazine publications I like to read.
Oh well...hard to stay invisible these days...but you don't have to try to actively try to help them. That facebook thing looks like it could be fun, but man, I just cannot bear to let even more info out about me voluntarily.
Please note, once more, the importance of Not Being Seen.
It would appear the Mr. Poo, is in some really deep shit now....