I"m honestly curious about your age ( Perhaps you mentioned it earlier and I missed it). What I have noticed is that when you're young, everything is last minute, no plans, bail, etc. As you get older, that falls away: Life gets complicated: Marriage, kids, dogs, family members need help, and suddenly you really need to plan things out further in advance. It's not that you don't want to be impulsive, you just don't have the time slots. For example, when I was younger, weekends were two days of whatever I wanted. Now, I'm officially booked every Saturday Night: elderly parents need help and to have dinner, and often times that spills over into Saturday Day for other tasks. Sunday is my family time as well as chores needed for the following week. I only have possibly some early time on Sat, but don't know if that's there. A lot of this is stuff you can't just say "simplify your life". you can't drop your parents who are sick, can't drop having time with your family. So, if I have friends who are doing last minute stuff, I generally end up missing it.
Amazon doesn't want Whole Foods. They want their network of refrigerated storage and distribution for Amazon Grocery. Oh, sure, they'll keep calling it Whole foods, but what they really want is the ability to try to kill supermarkets.
I tire of the argument about how poverty makes everyone terrible, and it's not their fault. You know what? My Dad's family had six kids, were essentially sharecroppers. My grandmother worked in a one room school house, back when teacher was the only job a woman could get. My grandfather, ten years her senior, spent 20 years farming, ten of them with cancer. My father tells stories of him plowing fields then stopping to vomit, then plowing another row. All six children were reasonably successful. None of them were criminals. But we're led to believe that magically, because they were poor, they should all have been thugs, and that because of their poverty that would be OK. It's the character of the parents that has the largest affect. But nobody pays attention to that.
No, they do not. When interest rates lower, housing prices invariably rise, thus leading to roughly the same monthly mortgage payment. The problem is, these prices tend to be sticky, and when interest rates rise, the housing prices only slowly lower.
...We should be OK. For example, the mayor of my city, Los Angeles, vowed to make the pork-ridden DWP ( Department of Water and Power) begin contributing to the cost of their health plans. FYI: the AVERAGE DWP employee earns 26% more than the average civilian worker. They just renegotiated with the union yesterday. The new contract has them contributing nothing to health care, with a 12% raise. So , really, Vows are worthless.
We do not need better gun control, unless you define gun control as proper implementation of the laws which currently exist. The general solution that seems to come up after every shooting incident is "let's make another law". I'm guessing that once the dust settles on this, this guy probably wasn't legally allowed to own the weapon. I personally would love the idea of needing to show proof of a mandated class to own a weapon, provided they're free/cheap and easily available.
That's silly . It was always the same path: Get a set, build the set as instructed. Almost immediately start modifying it more and more. Then "crash" it, and try to rebuild without the instructions. Then crash again and build variants. Eventually it's pieces worked their way into a group of pieces.
I grew up in the 70s, firmly middle class. This was when I thought an Atari 2600 was the toy of the wealthy. I had various sets, a few space sets, and lots of odd pieces. I remember mowing neighbors' lawns in order to get a set once.
Perhaps you're parents didn't care about you that much? Or you were really really really poor. But hell, even the local library had a small Lego table .
What's really funny is that, way back int he 60s, it was the liberals crowing about free speech and the conservatives trying to shut it down. Now, the conservatives carry the free speech banner, and the liberals are doing the shutting down.
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Then, if it goes WHOOOOSH, you just lose a bunch of shoes, or melons, or whatever.
Yes: The Hunt for Red October.
The book went on FOREVER. The movie shortened it to a reasonable length.
I"m honestly curious about your age ( Perhaps you mentioned it earlier and I missed it).
What I have noticed is that when you're young, everything is last minute, no plans, bail, etc.
As you get older, that falls away: Life gets complicated: Marriage, kids, dogs, family members need help, and suddenly you really need to plan things out further in advance. It's not that you don't want to be impulsive, you just don't have the time slots.
For example, when I was younger, weekends were two days of whatever I wanted.
Now, I'm officially booked every Saturday Night: elderly parents need help and to have dinner, and often times that spills over into Saturday Day for other tasks. Sunday is my family time as well as chores needed for the following week. I only have possibly some early time on Sat, but don't know if that's there.
A lot of this is stuff you can't just say "simplify your life". you can't drop your parents who are sick, can't drop having time with your family.
So, if I have friends who are doing last minute stuff, I generally end up missing it.
He's pretty much right: They're acquaintances.
Amazon doesn't want Whole Foods. They want their network of refrigerated storage and distribution for Amazon Grocery. Oh, sure, they'll keep calling it Whole foods, but what they really want is the ability to try to kill supermarkets.
Bezos really is Lex Luthor.
I tire of the argument about how poverty makes everyone terrible, and it's not their fault.
You know what? My Dad's family had six kids, were essentially sharecroppers. My grandmother worked in a one room school house, back when teacher was the only job a woman could get. My grandfather, ten years her senior, spent 20 years farming, ten of them with cancer. My father tells stories of him plowing fields then stopping to vomit, then plowing another row.
All six children were reasonably successful. None of them were criminals. But we're led to believe that magically, because they were poor, they should all have been thugs, and that because of their poverty that would be OK.
It's the character of the parents that has the largest affect. But nobody pays attention to that.
Like Zuckerberg arguing for UBI....
Stop making the bogeyman less bogey...
Never underestimate the Queen.
You just THINK they wanted to keep the colonies. Oh no, they're just biding their time...
at how the incredibly , ridiculously, absurdly wealthy have fantastic, wide reaching plans for spending someone else's money.
It's a country with the population of California, but is geographically the second largest country in the world.
No, they do not.
When interest rates lower, housing prices invariably rise, thus leading to roughly the same monthly mortgage payment.
The problem is, these prices tend to be sticky, and when interest rates rise, the housing prices only slowly lower.
IF you're smart enough to run it, you're smart enough to have redundant communication.
And Taiwan is not a separate country from the People's Republic, but that doesn't make either of them exactly so.
Dude, the russians messed with the election because PUTIN DISLIKES HILARY.
They're the epitome of petty...
...We should be OK.
For example, the mayor of my city, Los Angeles, vowed to make the pork-ridden DWP ( Department of Water and Power) begin contributing to the cost of their health plans. FYI: the AVERAGE DWP employee earns 26% more than the average civilian worker.
They just renegotiated with the union yesterday. The new contract has them contributing nothing to health care, with a 12% raise.
So , really, Vows are worthless.
He's generally right: they often occur in "gun free zones". Perhaps not all, but the majority.
We do not need better gun control, unless you define gun control as proper implementation of the laws which currently exist.
The general solution that seems to come up after every shooting incident is "let's make another law".
I'm guessing that once the dust settles on this, this guy probably wasn't legally allowed to own the weapon.
I personally would love the idea of needing to show proof of a mandated class to own a weapon, provided they're free/cheap and easily available.
That's silly . It was always the same path: Get a set, build the set as instructed. Almost immediately start modifying it more and more. Then "crash" it, and try to rebuild without the instructions. Then crash again and build variants.
Eventually it's pieces worked their way into a group of pieces.
I grew up in the 70s, firmly middle class. This was when I thought an Atari 2600 was the toy of the wealthy. I had various sets, a few space sets, and lots of odd pieces. I remember mowing neighbors' lawns in order to get a set once.
Perhaps you're parents didn't care about you that much? Or you were really really really poor.
But hell, even the local library had a small Lego table .
I'm confused. Are you a Lego Internet Tough Guy?
Does that even work?
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Antifa is about as anti-fascist as the German Democratic Republic was Democratic.
What's really funny is that, way back int he 60s, it was the liberals crowing about free speech and the conservatives trying to shut it down.
Now, the conservatives carry the free speech banner, and the liberals are doing the shutting down.
Free from legal consequences( Imprisonment, loss of right to say it, etc.).
Nothing is completely free of consequences.