"yes, but we'll always need their pr0n. There's something about an American accent when groaning appropriately..."
Not to mention our pr0n chicks usually are much better looking...and aren't hairy as a bigfoot.
Geez, I've seen some foreign pr0n that looks as bad as some of the stuff we had in the US in the 70's. Hell, with some of those chicks, you'd need a machete to get through the 'jungle'.
I won't even get into them needing to braid the hair under their arms....[shudder]
"I leave my wallet in my front pocket, even at home. See, guests might have that urge to go snooping through other's stuff - My wallet stays on my person unless I'm in bed or in water."
Wow....that's kind of sad.
I"d hope you could get better friends/guests. Hell, pretty much most of my friends I have in town actually have keys to my house. Right now I think I have about 5-7 keys to my place with friends around the country. There are at least 5+ more people I'd give them too if they wanted them. Especially friends that live outside the city and come to visit, that way if they fly in to the airport while I"m at work..they can take a cab and let themselves in, and leave they same way if need be.
I have a decent number of people I trust pretty much implicitly.
"He was making very broad assumptions about the benefactors of that tax. That's what the problem is. Hidden under the guise of the phrase "those people", as if "those people" were a homogeneous group of leaches. He probably has never met any of "those people" but feels comfortable bashing millions of working class and unemployed."
I live in New Orleans, I have for over a decade.
Just from my life here alone, I am intimately familiar with 'those people' that I speak of, of all races. The largest example of seeing generations of people living on the dole as I previously described is/was easily seen here by driving by any of the large number of housing projects and seeing what life is like there.
No, not everyone here speaks sitting from a throne on high. I've seen it...I have known extremely poor working class people. While some of those friends and people have made it out of that cycle and lifestyle...most have not, and ARE leeches on society and the system.
"Honestly, I'd rather pay 7% for my TV knowing that people who can't afford TVs didn't have to shell out more to feed their kids so that my TV could be cheaper."
Trouble is...most of those people will still buy TV's first, and then complain they can't feel their kids.
"Responsible energy use is only a tax on the current generation. Future generations will have the benefit of this tax, including more oil, less pollution, less natural catastrophes, better environmental technology, and a more responsible culture. Indeed, the "free" oil we're burning today is a tax on future generations, who will pay the price for our selfish, short-sighted behaviour. I call the existing scheme of state-environment relations as the "fuck the kids" model."
Err...I'm here on earth living now...why do I give a fuck about 'future' generations? By the time they're here to bitch about it, I'll be cold and dead in the ground not caring.
"Mass transit for passengers and cargo makes the most sense, but the powerful car lobby has lobbied against that for years. Where is all the high speed rail that would actually get people out of their cars? Instead of wasting money bailing out car companies why not use that same money to figure out ways to get us out of the need for owing a call all together?"
Well, it would be nice to have highspeed rail, and other mass transit, trouble is...we've developed already without it.
Casting aside the idea (a major concern) for how much this would cost in the bad economy, are you ready to tear up cities all over the us, take private property from a great number of people, uproot lives and communities to put up all this infrastructure to have highspeed and local rail systems?
But it does seem to be good advice, to always keep your woman/wife/girlfriend/girl you want to lay...always to your left side, so that she only hears you on the right side, you only get her talk into your left. At least..if you're walking side by side, that is.
"Steve Jobs is another example of how wealth buys health and an easy life....
Due to the aforementioned cost and logistical issues, patients are effectively restricted to only 1 center. However, Steve Jobs -- with his billions of dollars -- can enter his name into all the waiting lists of all the centers. He can hire a private jet service to take him to any center immediately.
Life just is not fair."
Wow..bulletin, this just in:
Apparently being rich is better, you can afford things non-rich people cannot.
Wow, what is the big deal here? If you have the means, you have the advantages..nothing is new here, and nothing is wrong with taking advantage of your advantage. A person that works at a department store gets a discount on what they buy there...the avg person does not.
Many people, for wealth or other reasons...have an advantage over other people in some aspects of life. This is a natural way of things...some people are born smarter than others.
You last statement summed it up....NO life is NOT fair. It never has been, it never will be. Life owes you nothing, the world owes you nothing. Through luck of the draw and hard work, you can get wealth or whatever it is that gives you pleasure and advantages, money or a place at the head of the line for something. Get used to it. That's the way life is, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Unless you can change the basic nature of life on earth.
"Out of the 68 open positions on Dice for New Orleans, a significant percentage of them aren't even IT at all (engineering). Add in the crime problem, government corruption, terrible streets, and high'ish cost of living, and I'd think it would come in at #1 on the list.">
I'll agree in NOLA that IT jobs are very LIMITED, but, I very much love living here. Sure you have to put up with the bad streets, but, aside from that, the culture, the food and all that goes on here makes life a BLAST...especially if you are a single adult. If I had family and kids, I'd probably have to move to the northshore for the schools (no way I'd send a kid to public school down here).
As for crime, well, like always, in general if you're not out trying to buy crack near the projects, you likely aren't gonna get robbed, killed or mugged.
High cost of living?? I mean, unless you have having to pay for private schools for your kids, I find just the opposite, it is quite CHEAP to live here. Groceries and booze are much cheaper that what I find in the rest of the US. Hell, being a port city, we get a lot of good stuff...fresh produce, meat and you can't beat the place for seafood. Heck, I often get friends dropping off bags of free fresh shrimp 'cause they just have too much for their freezer.
And I've been here so long...that I would really miss the concept of a to go cup so you can take your drink with you out of the bar. The fact that you can buy beer, wine and booze 7 days a week...at a GROCERY store is amazing.
And I remember a few years back...something to the effect that in the New Orleans area alone, there are something like 64 or more planned annual festivals. There are only 52 weeks in a year.
There is always something going on down here with music, food and fun. Sure there are trade offs, but, I and most everyone I know loves living here.
"These three are irrelevant, because a picture of the driver is included with the ticket in the mail. If you don't look like the picture, then it's pretty easy to contest it."
Nope...not in LA. Part of the law passed did actually take into account privacy issues...so, no they can't take a picture of the driver.
Also, down here...the cameras are run by a private business for profit. The charges don't come at you from regular traffic court, these are treated basically as civil crimes/fines...you don't have the same rights to confront the evidence as in normal traffic ct.
Currently I think they are still trying to rule the unconstitutional down here.
I don't really see that this is 'news' per se...I mean, I see SUV's driving around all the time with video screens playing away. This is at speed, and certainly viewable by the driver.
"OTOH, if banning a drug actually were an effective way of getting people to give up, why was the ban on alcohol in the US such a fiasco?"
The bigger question is, why did it take a constitutional amendment to both make alcohol illegal in the US, and to repeal said ban...yet nothing of that magnitude was required to make pot and other 'drugs' illegal afterwards??
"I don't care what the studies say; Getting your partner tested for STDs before having sex with them doesn't require removing a piece of your own body and is even more effective at preventing the spread of STDs."
Whew...talk about a romance KILLER!!
Lol...and someone above complained about having to stop in the middle of getting all worked up, to put a rubber on...
You get all worked up...and then ask her to take some tests? LOL...can you keep it up till you get the results back from the lab!??!
Wow, sorry, but you just caught me off guard, never heard of anyone having a potential partner tested first. I'd just have to guess that really cuts down on the number of partners you can get, no? How many women are gonna want to submit to that before you ever get them in the sack?
"But when their woman gets a job it's her money she earned it. BTW you care because women are skilled at making your life a living hell if you don't."
Well, sure a woman will get away with what you let her get away with.
I dunno why so many guys puss out when they get married. She won't respect you when you do that. Why would a man let a woman make his life hell? If she is that bad, kick her to the curb, and get another one out there...there are plenty of them. There is NO pussy that is worth all that crap you talk about. Sure it can be good, but it isn't the ONLY one out there...
"He's not getting his kid out of it. They will still be required by law to obtain a SSN indirectly when they start filing their income taxes (you *must* supply your SSN on the 1040)."
Actually, you can get out of paying SS....as long as you NEVER join, once you're in...you can't get out of it.
At the very least you can claim a religious belief against it....
You will get a Tax ID...but, as long as you never join SS....you don't get a number, you don't have to pay, and you don't collect any benefits (if any remain that long).
"You'll be thrilled come next April and you find out that you don't get the $3650 tax deduction for having a dependent unless the dependent has a SSN.
No, they're not required, but you're going to pay tens of thousands of dollars over the next 18+ years to keep him from having one. And for what? So he can sign up for one himself as soon as he realizes it's required to be a full member of our society?"
Considering that SS will likely be insolvent/broke by the time "I" hit retirement, it is probably the best gift a parent could give their child...keeping them OUT of the system.
What I would give to even now at my age...get out of paying SS taxes, and using that money to invest myself for my own retirement!!!
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Wow...I didn't know they had that position?!?!
I'm not sure I'd WANT to be fist director....sounds like more of a strange pr0n thing than a NASA office.
Not to mention our pr0n chicks usually are much better looking...and aren't hairy as a bigfoot.
Geez, I've seen some foreign pr0n that looks as bad as some of the stuff we had in the US in the 70's. Hell, with some of those chicks, you'd need a machete to get through the 'jungle'.
I won't even get into them needing to braid the hair under their arms....[shudder]
Wow....that's kind of sad.
I"d hope you could get better friends/guests. Hell, pretty much most of my friends I have in town actually have keys to my house. Right now I think I have about 5-7 keys to my place with friends around the country. There are at least 5+ more people I'd give them too if they wanted them. Especially friends that live outside the city and come to visit, that way if they fly in to the airport while I"m at work..they can take a cab and let themselves in, and leave they same way if need be.
I have a decent number of people I trust pretty much implicitly.
I live in New Orleans, I have for over a decade.
Just from my life here alone, I am intimately familiar with 'those people' that I speak of, of all races. The largest example of seeing generations of people living on the dole as I previously described is/was easily seen here by driving by any of the large number of housing projects and seeing what life is like there.
No, not everyone here speaks sitting from a throne on high. I've seen it...I have known extremely poor working class people. While some of those friends and people have made it out of that cycle and lifestyle...most have not, and ARE leeches on society and the system.
Once I'm dead...again, I won't be around to care. They can burn my dead corpse or do whatever they want with it...I won't be using it.
Your family is not responsible for your debts.
If my parents died and left behind $100million in debt.....I'd certainly not be liable for any of it.
Trouble is...most of those people will still buy TV's first, and then complain they can't feel their kids.
Wow, that's the way I'd like to go...owing about $400 million.
That means you could afford a pretty good life up until then...and when you're gone, what do you care?
Err...I'm here on earth living now...why do I give a fuck about 'future' generations? By the time they're here to bitch about it, I'll be cold and dead in the ground not caring.
Well, it would be nice to have highspeed rail, and other mass transit, trouble is...we've developed already without it.
Casting aside the idea (a major concern) for how much this would cost in the bad economy, are you ready to tear up cities all over the us, take private property from a great number of people, uproot lives and communities to put up all this infrastructure to have highspeed and local rail systems?
Actually, that is only true for certain states. Bars and bartenders aren't liable in most states I've ever lived in.
But it does seem to be good advice, to always keep your woman/wife/girlfriend/girl you want to lay...always to your left side, so that she only hears you on the right side, you only get her talk into your left. At least..if you're walking side by side, that is.
Rehab is for quitters
Due to the aforementioned cost and logistical issues, patients are effectively restricted to only 1 center. However, Steve Jobs -- with his billions of dollars -- can enter his name into all the waiting lists of all the centers. He can hire a private jet service to take him to any center immediately.
Life just is not fair."
Wow..bulletin, this just in:
Apparently being rich is better, you can afford things non-rich people cannot.
Wow, what is the big deal here? If you have the means, you have the advantages..nothing is new here, and nothing is wrong with taking advantage of your advantage. A person that works at a department store gets a discount on what they buy there...the avg person does not.
Many people, for wealth or other reasons...have an advantage over other people in some aspects of life. This is a natural way of things...some people are born smarter than others.
You last statement summed it up....NO life is NOT fair. It never has been, it never will be. Life owes you nothing, the world owes you nothing. Through luck of the draw and hard work, you can get wealth or whatever it is that gives you pleasure and advantages, money or a place at the head of the line for something. Get used to it. That's the way life is, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Unless you can change the basic nature of life on earth.
I'll agree in NOLA that IT jobs are very LIMITED, but, I very much love living here. Sure you have to put up with the bad streets, but, aside from that, the culture, the food and all that goes on here makes life a BLAST...especially if you are a single adult. If I had family and kids, I'd probably have to move to the northshore for the schools (no way I'd send a kid to public school down here).
As for crime, well, like always, in general if you're not out trying to buy crack near the projects, you likely aren't gonna get robbed, killed or mugged.
High cost of living?? I mean, unless you have having to pay for private schools for your kids, I find just the opposite, it is quite CHEAP to live here. Groceries and booze are much cheaper that what I find in the rest of the US. Hell, being a port city, we get a lot of good stuff...fresh produce, meat and you can't beat the place for seafood. Heck, I often get friends dropping off bags of free fresh shrimp 'cause they just have too much for their freezer.
And I've been here so long...that I would really miss the concept of a to go cup so you can take your drink with you out of the bar. The fact that you can buy beer, wine and booze 7 days a week...at a GROCERY store is amazing.
And I remember a few years back...something to the effect that in the New Orleans area alone, there are something like 64 or more planned annual festivals. There are only 52 weeks in a year.
There is always something going on down here with music, food and fun. Sure there are trade offs, but, I and most everyone I know loves living here.
Well, out of the top '3' they listed, I'd have to pick it.
I couldn't live with the weather they get up there in the northern cities in the US. WAY too freakin' cold for me too long out of the year.
Nope...not in LA. Part of the law passed did actually take into account privacy issues...so, no they can't take a picture of the driver.
Also, down here...the cameras are run by a private business for profit. The charges don't come at you from regular traffic court, these are treated basically as civil crimes/fines...you don't have the same rights to confront the evidence as in normal traffic ct.
Currently I think they are still trying to rule the unconstitutional down here.
Nothing new to see here...?
The bigger question is, why did it take a constitutional amendment to both make alcohol illegal in the US, and to repeal said ban...yet nothing of that magnitude was required to make pot and other 'drugs' illegal afterwards??
Whew...talk about a romance KILLER!!
Lol...and someone above complained about having to stop in the middle of getting all worked up, to put a rubber on...
You get all worked up...and then ask her to take some tests? LOL...can you keep it up till you get the results back from the lab!??!
Wow, sorry, but you just caught me off guard, never heard of anyone having a potential partner tested first. I'd just have to guess that really cuts down on the number of partners you can get, no? How many women are gonna want to submit to that before you ever get them in the sack?
Because fucking with a condom on, is like eating a steak with one on your tongue.
Sure, you know you're doing something fun, but what good is it if you can't sense it?
I just don't usually use them...
Well, sure a woman will get away with what you let her get away with.
I dunno why so many guys puss out when they get married. She won't respect you when you do that. Why would a man let a woman make his life hell? If she is that bad, kick her to the curb, and get another one out there...there are plenty of them. There is NO pussy that is worth all that crap you talk about. Sure it can be good, but it isn't the ONLY one out there...
Nope...I speak of what I know.
Actually, you can get out of paying SS....as long as you NEVER join, once you're in...you can't get out of it.
At the very least you can claim a religious belief against it....
You will get a Tax ID...but, as long as you never join SS....you don't get a number, you don't have to pay, and you don't collect any benefits (if any remain that long).
No, they're not required, but you're going to pay tens of thousands of dollars over the next 18+ years to keep him from having one. And for what? So he can sign up for one himself as soon as he realizes it's required to be a full member of our society?"
Considering that SS will likely be insolvent/broke by the time "I" hit retirement, it is probably the best gift a parent could give their child...keeping them OUT of the system.
What I would give to even now at my age...get out of paying SS taxes, and using that money to invest myself for my own retirement!!!