"You seem to have somehow forgotten who was in office deregulating the financial sector when the economy went down the shitter for 8 years. I'll give you a hint: it wasn't a democrat."
Hmm.
I'll give you that BHO didn't start the fire, and inherited a pretty bad situation.
However, usually when one is confronted with a fire, they try to throw water on it....they don't keep throwing gasoline on it and wondering why they aren't getting the desired results.
"At least my reaction didn't include something even more sophisticated like, "Y'all are fixin' to really gussy up AIDS stompin'!"
Man..I hope they can cure/prevent AIDS.
Man...if you can't get laid the day they cure AIDS, you're in serious trouble.
Hehee...I see a lot of men getting divorce that day too!! "Sorry babe, but, I don't have to worry about croaking if I'm screwing around..been fun, later..."
"No, for that you go here [coupons.com]. I figured you'd be a big enough boy to have found Coupons.com yourself."
Thanks for the links...but, I went through the food ones...and just off the first impression...I don't see the variety or deals on that site that I see from the coupons in the sunday papers. There are WAY more coupons on that site that require you to buy 2 of the item to get the deal. I don't see nearly that many in the sunday paper ads....
I must say...I like to get all the local news in the local paper too...I know lots of good New Orleans sites (there are a few, hahah)..but, none of them seem to cover the local events as well as the local paper.
"Poutine is (roughly) french fries covered in gravy- served in the French areas of Canada."
Interesting..that sounds very much like what the origins of the po-boy sandwich was down here in New Orleans. They were for the poor workers that didn't have enough money for a sandwich with meat on it, so, they put french fries on a po-boy loaf of breat (french bread), and covered with gravy.
You can actually still get the things at a few po-boy shops down here, but, I've never gotten around to trying them...the oyster and roast beef ones are just too tempting!!!
"And if you want grocery coupons, sign-up on your favorite store's website [giantfood.com], and they'll send you their entire Sunday insert via email. "
I've never seen a stores sale insert contain manufacturer's coupons before...??
"You don't understand. Buying an Apple is like buying a Lexus or Acura. It gives you the opportunity to brag about your awesome machine, even though there's no real difference between a Lexus v. Toyota, or Acura v. Honda, except the inflated +33% higher pricetag."
I love car analogies, but, I think you missed something here. You are talking ONLY from a pure functionality standpoint. If you go with the assumption that the Lexus has the exact same mechanical parts/performance of the analgous model of the Toyota (I don't know if this is 100% true or not), you still have to consider that one IS more luxurious than the other. The Lexus usually has more fancy body styling, and the interiors are done much better with better styling and nice materials. It likely has options for a better sound system than the Toyota, etc. Maybe even a quieter ride.
People are willing to pay more for that. Heck, they do that even within a model line. Aren't there different levels of the same Camry you can choose from?
Same goes with you mac to normal windows pc type box. The mac is often visually more appealing...if you use OSX, well, in some people's opinion, it gives a nice user experience, etc. People are willing to pay a bit more for those things even though they have the same Intel chips and other hardware on the inside.
Most computer users out there, aren't cracking their computers open to have a look at what is "under the hood".
"I agree with you. For instance on my previous generation Macbook Pro, there is no way to tap the touch pad for a mouse click under Windows. You are forced to use the touchpad button."
Interesting, I hit this from the complete opposite direction. I'd only really messed with my iBook as far as laptops go (mostly used desktops with linux and windows). I got on a friends windows laptop, first time we were in a car on a road trip, so slightly bumpy and for the life of me I could NOT figure out why things kept activating, or responding to 'clicks' when I had not clicked any of the mouse buttons on the laptop.
He finally showed me that it would click by 'tapping' the touch pad.
Even after I found out about it...to use his laptop, I had to turn the tap pad thing the fuck off. I'm used to keeping my finger on the mouse pad most all the time, and it constantly was registering clicks when I'd not wanted to click anything.
So, depends on what you're used to. I often prefer to hook a mouse up to my laptops when I can...especially when using linux, so I can have the center button for quick pasting after highlighting for a copy.
But yes...that tapping thing was a surprise to me. I'm much more comfy with clicking a real button.
"A brief trip to the microwave works better. Fewer indentations on the cover ("No officer, it doesn't look like someone's been beating this passport with a hammer, why do you ask?")."
The passport is still valid even if the RFID is disabled, right?
"You know, if newspapers disappeared tomorrow, then a few years from now, I really don't think America would miss them very much."
But what about the coupons for the grocery store? What are you gonna use to start the charcoal for the grill?
:)
Seriously, it is something I like. I only take a Sunday paper, mind you, but, I enjoy getting up on Sundays, brewing a little coffee, putting a little booze in it, and then sit and read the paper. I like going through all the ad inserts, to see what is on sale around town (especially blank CD's and DVD's on sale), and I do actually like to clip grocery store coupons. I make plenty of money, but, I never sneer at saving a buck.
"What mistake? The ribbon is fine, it takes 5 mins to pick up unless you have a learning disability or a brain dead MS hater."
I dunno. I've just recently been exposed and force to use the version of MS Office with the ribbon, and I fucking hate it.
What I used to be able to find easily by looking through set menus...I can't hardly find now. I mean, it just isn't intuitive. For example, the 'button' on the top right. I never thought to click it till someone showed me...I looked all over for 'save as'.
On the new version of MS word, I still can't find how to get into all the preferences, to tell it to STOP auto-capitalizing the first letter of a word it thinks is the start of a sentence.
I know some like it, and I'm geting more used to it as I use it...but, still, is a learning curve I'd rather not mess with when just wanting to type a document quickly.
I really hope OO doesn't go this route..or if they do, have a 'classic' mode you can switch to to go back
"If you can honestly contemplate living with (not just fucking) someone for years on end and NOT listening to them, you don't want a wife, you want a RealDoll.
Marriage is for people who get lonely by themselves. Relating to another human being is the whole goddamned point."
LOl...I hear ya. Just a difference in outlook on life I guess. I couldn't personally fathom having to live with one chick for years on end. In my early years...I had some decently long term relationships...5-7 years each. As I got older, (dodged marriage at least twice)...I figured what is the need for marriage? As I mentioned in another post, unless you're gonna have kids, why put yourself through it, and at the very least risk losing half your stuff?
I like having multiple girls in my life at all times. That way, I never get bored, no real arguments over anything, and the best part is, they go home at some point. Don't get me wrong, I love women to death, they are fun (and often strange thinking creatures), different insights to life, and of course sex, but, after about a good 2 weeks of close confinement with any one of them, and I'm getting claustrophobic almost.
I like my alone time too.
I find it odd how many men I've met, that are summed up by your last statement about being alone. I've never understood people that are just almost petrified of being alone at times. I've seen men get out of one bad marriage, and right back into another bad one, just because they for some reason couldn't handle living alone for a bit.
Me? I like to be able to choose when I'm around people, and when I'm not. I've got lots of friends...I easily meet people when I go out places. Like I said, I like to be in control of when I'm around people and when I can have my alone time...
I can't imagine getting into a legally binding situation just to have a friend around 'forever'. I've not often lost a friend. But I see people who marry, split and never want to speak to each other and spew nothing but vitriol. Why risk that when you can have true friends forever?
Good for you, sounds like you struck a balance. I so seldom actually SEE that in friends I know that are married.
I personally don't see a reason to ever get married. I mean, unless you're gonna have kids, why strap yourself down to just one girl for the rest of your life, with the "get out of jail" penalty of losing half of what you own.
Now, as I get a bit older...I'm not getting new girls as often as I used to. I actually have a few that I consider my steady relationships. Some out of state even...but, I'm never with just one for any long length of time...that way, it never gets boring. While I love them to death, I do find that my favorite thing with this set up is...they leave to go home eventually. I can't stand being cooped up with any one person for too long a period of time. As much as I love their company to run around, go out, fsck, etc...I enjoy my alone time too when they leave.
"Always, every single night, ask her how her day went, and ask questions as she goes through it. You know you're doing this right when you can name her boss and at least two co-workers she interacts with daily and describe their personalities to some degree."
Wait!!
You mean you actually really listen to her while she babbles on endlessly??
"5) Always put your wife first. Her interests always trump yours, just as they would when you're dating. That might sound like an unbalanced relationship, but when it's reciprocal the decision process is each person advocating for the other."
That might work in the 'ideal' world, but, in the real world, you do that, and she will walk ALL over you for the rest of your lives together, and a chick that can do that, won't respect you, and often, will grow tired of you and leave you.
I'm not saying be a tyrant, but, you gotta have some balls, and call the shot more often than not. Give in on the things you really don't care about, but, don't cave on things you really do care about.
"Someone asking marriage advice on Slashdot (of all places) -> who else can we ask something important? Mmm, probably asking George Bush about achieving world peace!"
"Think about this scenario: Say the ISP is legally allowed to block your P2P traffic. What if it chooses to only block selected portions of it? Your download has failed, but the ISP still gets paid for the bandwidth you used (and you may not even be able to tell exactly why the transmission failed). So you try again, fail again, and pay them again. So you pay your ISP for the bandwidth to download more software to get around the ISP's software, and they are still able to block your traffic (if not now, with the next iteration of their sniffers). The only person winning this scenario appears to be the ISP, as you are paying them over and over in your attempt to access the illegal content (much of which is probably quite large)."
Well, what you say would be true, if people paid per the byte or Kbyte downloaded, but that just isn't the case, at least, I've never heard of a plan like that.
Everyone I know pays a set monthly fee, so there is no 'gotcha' from trying to download/upload all you possibly can. It cost the same for a single web page access, as it does to download a dvd.
"70 degrees is pleasant with the windows down. 100 degrees is very manageable if you have some air movement, unless you're wearing a full business suit and tie or something."
Now, just add about 84% or more humidity to that scenario and see how manageable it is.
The other morning here in NOLA, at 6am it was about 80F with 84% humidity...sweltering. Today, the heat index is gonna be over 105F. AC is not an option, it is a necessity.
"i know what you mean. i stopped drinking Nestle Quick after it was portmanteaued to NesQuick."
I hear ya. I get the same feeling when I wonder what happened to Super Sugar Crips, Sugar Pops, and the like as a kid eating breakfast cereals.
I often morn for Kentucky Fried Chicken...I mean, ok, many people in the day called it KFC for short, but, why rename the place and take away all references to Fried Chicken? I mean...you don't go there to order pizza or fish...you go there for fried chicken (well, most people do, I prefer Popeye's Fried chicken since I live in NOLA, hard to beat those red beans, but, I digress).
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Well, it was a big hit for Blondie in the early 80's.
Hmm.
I'll give you that BHO didn't start the fire, and inherited a pretty bad situation.
However, usually when one is confronted with a fire, they try to throw water on it....they don't keep throwing gasoline on it and wondering why they aren't getting the desired results.
Man..I hope they can cure/prevent AIDS.
Man...if you can't get laid the day they cure AIDS, you're in serious trouble.
Hehee...I see a lot of men getting divorce that day too!! "Sorry babe, but, I don't have to worry about croaking if I'm screwing around..been fun, later..."
Thanks for the links...but, I went through the food ones...and just off the first impression...I don't see the variety or deals on that site that I see from the coupons in the sunday papers. There are WAY more coupons on that site that require you to buy 2 of the item to get the deal. I don't see nearly that many in the sunday paper ads....
I must say...I like to get all the local news in the local paper too...I know lots of good New Orleans sites (there are a few, hahah)..but, none of them seem to cover the local events as well as the local paper.
Interesting..that sounds very much like what the origins of the po-boy sandwich was down here in New Orleans. They were for the poor workers that didn't have enough money for a sandwich with meat on it, so, they put french fries on a po-boy loaf of breat (french bread), and covered with gravy.
You can actually still get the things at a few po-boy shops down here, but, I've never gotten around to trying them...the oyster and roast beef ones are just too tempting!!!
I've never seen a stores sale insert contain manufacturer's coupons before...??
Man, I'm getting a good vocabulary lesson today.
Is poutine Canadian/New Yorker for == poontang ?
If it means something else, please let me know...never heard that term before either. Must be a regional thing.
I love car analogies, but, I think you missed something here. You are talking ONLY from a pure functionality standpoint. If you go with the assumption that the Lexus has the exact same mechanical parts/performance of the analgous model of the Toyota (I don't know if this is 100% true or not), you still have to consider that one IS more luxurious than the other. The Lexus usually has more fancy body styling, and the interiors are done much better with better styling and nice materials. It likely has options for a better sound system than the Toyota, etc. Maybe even a quieter ride.
People are willing to pay more for that. Heck, they do that even within a model line. Aren't there different levels of the same Camry you can choose from?
Same goes with you mac to normal windows pc type box. The mac is often visually more appealing...if you use OSX, well, in some people's opinion, it gives a nice user experience, etc. People are willing to pay a bit more for those things even though they have the same Intel chips and other hardware on the inside.
Most computer users out there, aren't cracking their computers open to have a look at what is "under the hood".
Interesting, I hit this from the complete opposite direction. I'd only really messed with my iBook as far as laptops go (mostly used desktops with linux and windows). I got on a friends windows laptop, first time we were in a car on a road trip, so slightly bumpy and for the life of me I could NOT figure out why things kept activating, or responding to 'clicks' when I had not clicked any of the mouse buttons on the laptop.
He finally showed me that it would click by 'tapping' the touch pad.
Even after I found out about it...to use his laptop, I had to turn the tap pad thing the fuck off. I'm used to keeping my finger on the mouse pad most all the time, and it constantly was registering clicks when I'd not wanted to click anything.
So, depends on what you're used to. I often prefer to hook a mouse up to my laptops when I can...especially when using linux, so I can have the center button for quick pasting after highlighting for a copy.
But yes...that tapping thing was a surprise to me. I'm much more comfy with clicking a real button.
What are EDLs?
The passport is still valid even if the RFID is disabled, right?
But what about the coupons for the grocery store? What are you gonna use to start the charcoal for the grill?
Seriously, it is something I like. I only take a Sunday paper, mind you, but, I enjoy getting up on Sundays, brewing a little coffee, putting a little booze in it, and then sit and read the paper. I like going through all the ad inserts, to see what is on sale around town (especially blank CD's and DVD's on sale), and I do actually like to clip grocery store coupons. I make plenty of money, but, I never sneer at saving a buck.
I'll be sad to see the newspapers go away.
I dunno. I've just recently been exposed and force to use the version of MS Office with the ribbon, and I fucking hate it.
What I used to be able to find easily by looking through set menus...I can't hardly find now. I mean, it just isn't intuitive. For example, the 'button' on the top right. I never thought to click it till someone showed me...I looked all over for 'save as'.
On the new version of MS word, I still can't find how to get into all the preferences, to tell it to STOP auto-capitalizing the first letter of a word it thinks is the start of a sentence.
I know some like it, and I'm geting more used to it as I use it...but, still, is a learning curve I'd rather not mess with when just wanting to type a document quickly.
I really hope OO doesn't go this route..or if they do, have a 'classic' mode you can switch to to go back
Hmm...must be an epidemic then. I see this WAY too often in many married men. They lost their spine somewhere, and their wives call the shots.
Marriage is for people who get lonely by themselves. Relating to another human being is the whole goddamned point."
LOl...I hear ya. Just a difference in outlook on life I guess. I couldn't personally fathom having to live with one chick for years on end. In my early years...I had some decently long term relationships...5-7 years each. As I got older, (dodged marriage at least twice)...I figured what is the need for marriage? As I mentioned in another post, unless you're gonna have kids, why put yourself through it, and at the very least risk losing half your stuff?
I like having multiple girls in my life at all times. That way, I never get bored, no real arguments over anything, and the best part is, they go home at some point. Don't get me wrong, I love women to death, they are fun (and often strange thinking creatures), different insights to life, and of course sex, but, after about a good 2 weeks of close confinement with any one of them, and I'm getting claustrophobic almost.
I like my alone time too.
I find it odd how many men I've met, that are summed up by your last statement about being alone. I've never understood people that are just almost petrified of being alone at times. I've seen men get out of one bad marriage, and right back into another bad one, just because they for some reason couldn't handle living alone for a bit.
Me? I like to be able to choose when I'm around people, and when I'm not. I've got lots of friends...I easily meet people when I go out places. Like I said, I like to be in control of when I'm around people and when I can have my alone time...
I can't imagine getting into a legally binding situation just to have a friend around 'forever'. I've not often lost a friend. But I see people who marry, split and never want to speak to each other and spew nothing but vitriol. Why risk that when you can have true friends forever?
I personally don't see a reason to ever get married. I mean, unless you're gonna have kids, why strap yourself down to just one girl for the rest of your life, with the "get out of jail" penalty of losing half of what you own.
Now, as I get a bit older...I'm not getting new girls as often as I used to. I actually have a few that I consider my steady relationships. Some out of state even...but, I'm never with just one for any long length of time...that way, it never gets boring. While I love them to death, I do find that my favorite thing with this set up is...they leave to go home eventually. I can't stand being cooped up with any one person for too long a period of time. As much as I love their company to run around, go out, fsck, etc...I enjoy my alone time too when they leave.
Wait!!
You mean you actually really listen to her while she babbles on endlessly??
Interesting concept.
That might work in the 'ideal' world, but, in the real world, you do that, and she will walk ALL over you for the rest of your lives together, and a chick that can do that, won't respect you, and often, will grow tired of you and leave you.
I'm not saying be a tyrant, but, you gotta have some balls, and call the shot more often than not. Give in on the things you really don't care about, but, don't cave on things you really do care about.
Or Barrack Obama about the capitalist system.
Well, what you say would be true, if people paid per the byte or Kbyte downloaded, but that just isn't the case, at least, I've never heard of a plan like that.
Everyone I know pays a set monthly fee, so there is no 'gotcha' from trying to download/upload all you possibly can. It cost the same for a single web page access, as it does to download a dvd.
Now, just add about 84% or more humidity to that scenario and see how manageable it is.
The other morning here in NOLA, at 6am it was about 80F with 84% humidity...sweltering. Today, the heat index is gonna be over 105F. AC is not an option, it is a necessity.
Well, in most places in the US, this is the only option.
I think you missed his point, it was that there are NO emission standards for generators...none to be followed.
I keep hearing about this Fry's place.
I wonder why they don't go nation-wide...open up more stores in more cities in more states?
I hear ya. I get the same feeling when I wonder what happened to Super Sugar Crips, Sugar Pops, and the like as a kid eating breakfast cereals.
I often morn for Kentucky Fried Chicken...I mean, ok, many people in the day called it KFC for short, but, why rename the place and take away all references to Fried Chicken? I mean...you don't go there to order pizza or fish...you go there for fried chicken (well, most people do, I prefer Popeye's Fried chicken since I live in NOLA, hard to beat those red beans, but, I digress).