One funny thing is...I'd not even thought of a fast food place when the word 'restaurant' was mentioned.
I was thinking of a real restaurant where they have chefs in the back that cook your meal, and the menu often changes based on what is fresh that day or what is in season.
I thought, "how they hell would a chef be able to calculate all the ingredients, etc on the special of the night..and the time wasted on it".
I guess part of that comes from me living in New Orleans, where there actually aren't that many chain restaurants around the city...so, I don't think in terms of McD's or Wendy's when someone says restaurant.
"So, you don't have a computer at home? Go to a library or something. Or, you know, take the other suggestions and get out of the house and go watch artists in their natural habitat."
LOL...well, after a full day at work on a computer...then going from there to the gym..then home to cook dinner, etc, honestly, aside from maybe a little email, I like to veg. a couple of hours, then crash. I suppose I could try to hook up some speakers to my laptop at home.
As for live music, I live in New Orleans...and we have it here. I love live music.
The trouble is, at most places, the earliest they even START playing is after 11pm. I guess I'm getting older, but I need my damned sleep on 'school nights' when I have to work the next day. It makes it tough to go out and catch much live music starting that late in the evening.
"I have a few old Pink Floyd albums ("Dark Side of the Moon" of course, although I prefer "The Wall"), and I realize with them the albums really were designed as complete works rather than a compilation of separate tracks - but in my opinion they are the exception rather than the rule."
Go pick up Wish You Were Hear...and Animals....those too are whole album albums. I'll wager you'll like them too with a couple of listens.
"Wow, you really think that playing their cds on the radio in their ENTIRETY was even an option? Come on now, don't kid yourself..."
Hell, they used to do it quite often when I was growing up. The radio stations called themselves "Album Rock" stations, and quite often they'd throw on a whole album. One night, it was funny...side one I think of ELP's Brain Salad Surgery album was done...and then, you just heard the needled in the endgroove popping over and over and over..with dead air basically for 10-20 min.
Apparently the DJ had gone outside with someone to smoke a fatty....and forgot about it. He finally did come in and flip the album.
"A huge number of people are getting high blood pressure and strokes, and people on high-salt diets seem to get more strokes. I know people who got strokes. I'd rather be dead than have to live for the last 3 or 4 years of my life ranting at my caretakers without my cognitive facilities, or with the left half my body paralyzed.
Unfortunately for the free-market personal choice crowd, you can't simply reduce salt in your diet by avoiding the salt shaker."
From papers I've read in recent years, it seems to be the case that salt intake does not cause high blood pressure, etc. However, if you have dangerously high blood pressure, excess salt can exaccerbate the situation, and it should be avoided.
In the second statement...I think you found your answer right where you were complaining. One should not be cosuming processed foods or eating in restaurants as their primary sources of food and nutrition!! Highly processed foods are the problem we didn't have 50 years ago...and it is a problem that can be avoided these days. People need to learn how to cook a home cooked meal again from scratch using more primary, raw ingredients. Potato chips should be a rare treat, not a weekly staple. And dining at a restaurant should be a treat from time to time, where you go to enjoy some more fattening and rich foods. Don't waste your dining dollars weekly on crap at the fast food places. Cook at home, have family time, eat healthier....and maybe once or twice a month with the money you've saved....go treat yourself out to a real restaurant (preferrably NOT a chain) get a little service, some good food...maybe a bottle of wine.
"Every restaurant has to post their ingredients somewhere (often online). Now, I know they often under estimate on portion size, but are you saying that they are flat out not listing the true salt content? If I was going to lie about it, I would put it much lower than most list now."
Where do you live where they have to do this??
Honestly, I've never heard of such a thing before for a restaurant to have to do...none of the ones I like to eat at down here in New Orleans have to do such a thing. Is this a city/state/country rule of some sort where you live?
"There is a serious point there. The main use of guns against humans is not to kill or maim them, but to threaten them. I say this not as a pro-gun or anti-gun point, but just as something many people seem to entirely miss...that the gun has a powerful function without it ever being fired at all."
I dunno...IMHO, you should NEVER pull a gun on another person, unless you fully intend to use it on them. Doing otherwise is a good way to get yourself killed quickly.
I mean, if an intruder came into my home, I would even for a second think about trying to hold a gun on them and say "STOP" or whatever. No, I assume the worst, that my life is in danger, and I'll only stop shooting the intruder while changing clips in the gun until they do not seem to be moving any more.
Never pull a weapon unless you are willing to, and going to use it...
"Still, I don't think further punishment is necessary because it won't have any preventative effect. The guy isn't likely to make that mistake again, and the chance that prosecuting him will scare others into being more careful is also just not there. But yes, investigate, find out what went wrong and how to avoid a repeat."
That and the kid was really young, I mean how attached to it could they be already?
They can make another one just like it soon enough...
I think I heard that once Keith Richards was asked something like: "You've been famous and wealthy for so long, you've had all the women, money, fame, etc a person could every have in a life time...so, what makes you happy these days?"
Keith: "Waking up..."
I gotta say...I kinda go along with that myself...
"You'll have to excuse me if you think school time is only another excuse to party, then I have relatively little sympathy if you wind up 20 years hence driving a taxi, or even cleaning the local dairies milking barn. School time is learning time, party time is when you are paid well enough to afford to party on your own nickle. Its called personal responsibility, but I expect that may be a new concept to some."
Err..I think you missed part of my post. The part I was alluding to was that regurgitating what the profs throw at you, to pass the tests and get out with good grades so you CAN get a good paying job..is the main purpose of college. The partying things was what I said was mostly the #2 important thing during those years (getting laid too, but I count that mostly in as partying too).
I've been out of college for many years..did some stints in grad school, just missed out on med school, but have had successful careers over the years, including my own consulting company, contracting in the computer industry...etc.
I do think that for most people, college time IS mostly just a way station along life, where you get attain some goals...learn how to get along and work with others, learn how to prioritize....and basically yes, get some partying out of your system while still a kid. The next step usually is the real world with a real job. Learn in college from the coursework? I think that is actually a rare thing. I hardly know anyone that actually works in a field corresponding to their college degree. Hell, my degree was in Biochemistry, and I've not split DNA in decades...
"...as opposed to mindless absorption of memes and various related drivel."
Yeah, but unfortunately, THAT is exactly what it takes for the most part, to pass the tests, get the grades and graduate so you can get out in the real world and make some money.
Which, after all....is the whole purpose of this exercise in the first place, eh? (Besides being you last 4x years to act like a kid, party and have fun)
"BTW - jsut in thought. By law we are all required to have social security numbers from birth."
Nope, they do pressure parents to do that, but no you do not have to have one. Once you get in the program, you really can't get out of it, but you can claim things like religious reasons..etc. In these cases, you cat a TIN (Tax Identification Number)...you don't have to pay SS if you never join it. It is difficult, but can be avoided.
Also, I learned a LONG time ago working on some very HUGE databases...you can not depend on SS as a primary key...
"I can't legally own a hand-gun in Chicago, yet 400 people a year get murdered with one."
Really? Why not? I thought the recent SCOTUS ruling against hand gun ban laws in D.C. would pretty much have cleared the way for handgun ownership in all 50 states by now...?
"Yeah right, lets see how many white American born citizens you can find to work in the fields in agriculture, at any price. Not very many, I can tell you, and the ones who do are usually lazy and bad workers. If you got rid of all the illegals, you would see the price of agriculture sky-rocket (or be completely outsourced). Illegal immigrants really do jobs no one else will do."
Not sure why you decided to bring race or color into the argument....no one said what color or race illegal immigrants were in this argument.
However, I'd dare say that with this economy, more people would be willing to do more labor intensive jobs. Heck, if we were more dependent on US citizens for more work we could mandate that people receiving money on the public dole, have to do some of this labor to help pay for their entitlement payments.
If we had fully legitimate workers (US citizens and legal migrant workers), we might take some of the downward pressure off of construction and other skilled labor jobs which would certainly help the economy.
It isn't a matter of race or color here...it is only the LEGALITY of the people working in the US, and how those here illegally are forcing down wages, and placing extra burdens on our entitlement programs, our healthcare system and educations system.
For those last two issues...I'll defer to other citizens that currently live on the border states in the south and southwest.
While I applaud the idea of FINALLY starting to do something about illegal migrant workers in this country, I do not favor a national ID card. It is bad enough that they try to use SS as one, but, I do not want a sanctioned national id.
Sure, they'll start off requiring it ONLY for workers, but I'm sure they'll soon find creative ways to use it. I'm sure you can use it then to check for flight access. How about with cashing checks or even credit cards, nifty way to track purchases....maybe even stores will start to want to use it too as a replacement for courtesy cards, nice way to track what you're buying. Hey, that might even work with nationalized health care, I mean we can now see that you buy WAY too much alcohol and cigarettes, I think we'll withold some of that care from you due to life choices.
Yep, I'm sure the govt types will be able to come up with new, nifty ways to use a national id....in so many ways to help our poor law enforcement community. At the very least, you might even could use them to safeguard who logs onto the internet..?
"If the food supply were to be cut off to Manhattan, how long would the food supplies last? My best guess would be a week or two. Looters and hoarders will swing that to be a very wide range."
Hmm, many of your examples like this tend to make for good arguments that living in crowded, urban cities really isn't a good thing, if you are worried about survival in case of emergencies. I mean, just the other day, there was an article here about solar flares, which it seems we're overdue for.
So, if the internet is a necessity, especially for food and materials in a crowded suburban setting...a solar flare incident could put your life in jeopardy...well, I think I'd rather be more at least in a suburb where access to farmland/food isn't quite so bad?
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One funny thing is...I'd not even thought of a fast food place when the word 'restaurant' was mentioned.
I was thinking of a real restaurant where they have chefs in the back that cook your meal, and the menu often changes based on what is fresh that day or what is in season.
I thought, "how they hell would a chef be able to calculate all the ingredients, etc on the special of the night..and the time wasted on it".
I guess part of that comes from me living in New Orleans, where there actually aren't that many chain restaurants around the city...so, I don't think in terms of McD's or Wendy's when someone says restaurant.
LOL...well, after a full day at work on a computer...then going from there to the gym..then home to cook dinner, etc, honestly, aside from maybe a little email, I like to veg. a couple of hours, then crash. I suppose I could try to hook up some speakers to my laptop at home.
As for live music, I live in New Orleans...and we have it here. I love live music.
The trouble is, at most places, the earliest they even START playing is after 11pm. I guess I'm getting older, but I need my damned sleep on 'school nights' when I have to work the next day. It makes it tough to go out and catch much live music starting that late in the evening.
Go pick up Wish You Were Hear...and Animals....those too are whole album albums. I'll wager you'll like them too with a couple of listens.
Hell, they used to do it quite often when I was growing up. The radio stations called themselves "Album Rock" stations, and quite often they'd throw on a whole album. One night, it was funny...side one I think of ELP's Brain Salad Surgery album was done...and then, you just heard the needled in the endgroove popping over and over and over..with dead air basically for 10-20 min.
Apparently the DJ had gone outside with someone to smoke a fatty....and forgot about it. He finally did come in and flip the album.
Err...most any place I've ever worked blocked off streaming content either for security or bandwidth concerns...or both.
I'd just rather reach for my gun (kept loaded with a round chambered close bedside) and just grab it in the 2-3 sec after I woke up.
Unfortunately for the free-market personal choice crowd, you can't simply reduce salt in your diet by avoiding the salt shaker."
From papers I've read in recent years, it seems to be the case that salt intake does not cause high blood pressure, etc. However, if you have dangerously high blood pressure, excess salt can exaccerbate the situation, and it should be avoided.
In the second statement...I think you found your answer right where you were complaining. One should not be cosuming processed foods or eating in restaurants as their primary sources of food and nutrition!! Highly processed foods are the problem we didn't have 50 years ago...and it is a problem that can be avoided these days. People need to learn how to cook a home cooked meal again from scratch using more primary, raw ingredients. Potato chips should be a rare treat, not a weekly staple. And dining at a restaurant should be a treat from time to time, where you go to enjoy some more fattening and rich foods. Don't waste your dining dollars weekly on crap at the fast food places. Cook at home, have family time, eat healthier....and maybe once or twice a month with the money you've saved....go treat yourself out to a real restaurant (preferrably NOT a chain) get a little service, some good food...maybe a bottle of wine.
Where do you live where they have to do this??
Honestly, I've never heard of such a thing before for a restaurant to have to do...none of the ones I like to eat at down here in New Orleans have to do such a thing. Is this a city/state/country rule of some sort where you live?
Yeah, but from what I understand the with the cost of living in NYC...$100K/yr will barely keep you on the poverty level.
Too bad we don't have newer bands around today, that can make a whole albums worth of music worth listening to...
I dunno...IMHO, you should NEVER pull a gun on another person, unless you fully intend to use it on them. Doing otherwise is a good way to get yourself killed quickly.
I mean, if an intruder came into my home, I would even for a second think about trying to hold a gun on them and say "STOP" or whatever. No, I assume the worst, that my life is in danger, and I'll only stop shooting the intruder while changing clips in the gun until they do not seem to be moving any more.
Never pull a weapon unless you are willing to, and going to use it...
Just curious...if someone broke into your house at night, how would you get your gun out of the safe in time to defend yourself?
That and the kid was really young, I mean how attached to it could they be already?
They can make another one just like it soon enough...
So far, an interesting ride for me too....
I think I heard that once Keith Richards was asked something like: "You've been famous and wealthy for so long, you've had all the women, money, fame, etc a person could every have in a life time...so, what makes you happy these days?"
Keith: "Waking up..."
I gotta say...I kinda go along with that myself...
No thanks, I'd rather spend my off hours eating pussy.
Less calories, and actually usually involves some active exercise!!
I actually welcome a little 'brain dead' time in front of a TV (ok, it is run from a computer with MythTV on it) for some mindless relaxation.
Heck, on weekends, I like to actually actively KILL some brain cells with some alcohol....
Err..I think you missed part of my post. The part I was alluding to was that regurgitating what the profs throw at you, to pass the tests and get out with good grades so you CAN get a good paying job..is the main purpose of college. The partying things was what I said was mostly the #2 important thing during those years (getting laid too, but I count that mostly in as partying too).
I've been out of college for many years..did some stints in grad school, just missed out on med school, but have had successful careers over the years, including my own consulting company, contracting in the computer industry...etc.
I do think that for most people, college time IS mostly just a way station along life, where you get attain some goals...learn how to get along and work with others, learn how to prioritize....and basically yes, get some partying out of your system while still a kid. The next step usually is the real world with a real job. Learn in college from the coursework? I think that is actually a rare thing. I hardly know anyone that actually works in a field corresponding to their college degree. Hell, my degree was in Biochemistry, and I've not split DNA in decades...
Yeah, but unfortunately, THAT is exactly what it takes for the most part, to pass the tests, get the grades and graduate so you can get out in the real world and make some money.
Which, after all....is the whole purpose of this exercise in the first place, eh? (Besides being you last 4x years to act like a kid, party and have fun)
But its so much harder to get laid when all you have is a 'bus'.
Nope, they do pressure parents to do that, but no you do not have to have one. Once you get in the program, you really can't get out of it, but you can claim things like religious reasons..etc. In these cases, you cat a TIN (Tax Identification Number)...you don't have to pay SS if you never join it. It is difficult, but can be avoided.
Also, I learned a LONG time ago working on some very HUGE databases...you can not depend on SS as a primary key...
Really? Why not? I thought the recent SCOTUS ruling against hand gun ban laws in D.C. would pretty much have cleared the way for handgun ownership in all 50 states by now...?
Not sure why you decided to bring race or color into the argument....no one said what color or race illegal immigrants were in this argument.
However, I'd dare say that with this economy, more people would be willing to do more labor intensive jobs. Heck, if we were more dependent on US citizens for more work we could mandate that people receiving money on the public dole, have to do some of this labor to help pay for their entitlement payments.
If we had fully legitimate workers (US citizens and legal migrant workers), we might take some of the downward pressure off of construction and other skilled labor jobs which would certainly help the economy.
It isn't a matter of race or color here...it is only the LEGALITY of the people working in the US, and how those here illegally are forcing down wages, and placing extra burdens on our entitlement programs, our healthcare system and educations system.
For those last two issues...I'll defer to other citizens that currently live on the border states in the south and southwest.
Sure, they'll start off requiring it ONLY for workers, but I'm sure they'll soon find creative ways to use it. I'm sure you can use it then to check for flight access. How about with cashing checks or even credit cards, nifty way to track purchases....maybe even stores will start to want to use it too as a replacement for courtesy cards, nice way to track what you're buying. Hey, that might even work with nationalized health care, I mean we can now see that you buy WAY too much alcohol and cigarettes, I think we'll withold some of that care from you due to life choices.
Yep, I'm sure the govt types will be able to come up with new, nifty ways to use a national id....in so many ways to help our poor law enforcement community. At the very least, you might even could use them to safeguard who logs onto the internet..?
Hmm, many of your examples like this tend to make for good arguments that living in crowded, urban cities really isn't a good thing, if you are worried about survival in case of emergencies. I mean, just the other day, there was an article here about solar flares, which it seems we're overdue for.
So, if the internet is a necessity, especially for food and materials in a crowded suburban setting...a solar flare incident could put your life in jeopardy...well, I think I'd rather be more at least in a suburb where access to farmland/food isn't quite so bad?
Hell, these things would come in quite handy during Mardi Gras when you're on parts of the parade route with no porta-johns.....