Everyone thinks this, but look at the cost of ownership of a home, as well as the massive interest you pay on a 30 year loan. I may not be getting equity on my apartment, but I'm also not paying the myriad of fees associated with home ownership, but instead investing the money elsewhere. Also, the childfree population is growing quickly, so in the future the idea of 'Grow up, have kids.' will probably be obsoleted as more people choose to have careers, hobbies, and friends instead of children.
I've got 20 acres of retirement land and we put good money away for kids college and nest egg. You just gotta know how to wisely manage money.
If you're in a climate that can handle it, and don't mind investing about 1k$ now for a pretty good return in 10-12 years, plant pine trees all over every free inch of land you have. They grow to maturity in approx 12-15 years, you sell them all to a logging company and you replant. It's pretty good money and it's not subject to the vagaries of the stock market. Lumber prices stay pretty constant.
False Assumption. Not everyone has kids, and not everyone has a mortgage, even when they get older. Example, I'm not having kids, ever. I MIGHT acquire a mortgage, though I had one before and didn't like it. But not until I'm 35 or so. Until then I like living in my apartment.
I've spent the last 6 months trying to gain 6 lbs to get up to 130, for a while I was up to 129.7, then KABOOM, I dropped 5 lbs in 3 days and I haven't been able to get back over 125 since then. It seems to have coincided with me cresting the 160lb mark on my bench press a few weeks ago. I guess I just put on enough muscle that the extra protein and calories I've been eatting isn't enough anymore. Bah...
Grrr! STOP this crap damnit. The problem is not carbohydrates. It's simple sugars which are a FORM of Carbohydrates, but not ALL carbohydrates that are the problem. A good, balanced diet for most people is 60/20/20 Carbohydrates/Protein/Fat for some people their bodies don't handle carbs the same way and they have to go 20/60/20 instead. But Pasta is mostly Starchy Carbohydrates and is good for you. Sugar is the enemy here, not Carbs.
Couldn't scrape up the cash for that second nipple? I'm kind of surprised there is any stigma left to piercings considering how many people I see with 6 or more...
Most of the Diabetics I know should get a Demonic Face in a normal tatto ink, and then make the eyes and mouth this stuff, that way when they go Hypo the demon eyes will glow and you know to get the hell away from them until they deal with it. Preferably this should be right on their forehead so we don't miss it and accidentally speak to one of them...
I just came back from DragonCon, so this is fresh in my mind, but I saw a band called the Brobdingnagian Bards. They have one of the most popular songs on Mp3.com, and are somewhere in the top 20 most popular bands, I think 14th... They do sell CDs, they have one produced by Mp3.com, and 2 produced by some other folks. The mp3.com CD that I got from them for 15$, contains 17 songs PLUS all 17 songs in mp3 format. The other two cds cost me about 10$ apiece, maybe a bit more. They don't contain the Mp3s. As far as I can tell these guys just go to RenFairs, Cons, etc... play their music, sell their CDs, put stuff on Mp3.com, etc... They make pretty decent money from what I can tell. So what entitles Musicians to 'Make it big' ? Why can't they make it 'big enough' and be happy? Why sign with a record label at all if you don't have to?
Lol, I do indeed mean 3rd world. And I think the poster I was responding too meant 3rd world as well... We're all just confused.
And if you go back far enough, every civilization started out with what we classify as dirt nothing. Culture and society developed in an effort to increase the reproduction rate and lifespan of the members of each society. Some did better than others, making them the 1st and 2nd world cultures. But everyone started out evenly.
The voice control and automation of the home will someday be a HUGE help to handicapped people. So yes, this stuff could be incredibly useful to someone. And for everyone else it's just neat.
What if you just like the idea of setting up a WAP and letting anyone who happens by use it? It's not like some guy is gonna sit on the sidewalk outside my house and leech pr0n all day... If I do decide to do that, I'd limit the bandwidth available on the WAP to something like 20% of my total bandwidth. That's still pretty decent... Then I would log everyone/thing that connected to it and see if I could use it to find other geeks in my local area.
Assuming metered access and not flat rate, would I then be able to sue anyone who sent me an unrequested e-mail, pop-up window, or anything else since they would be directly increasing my bill by sending me things I didn't want? I'm pretty sure that's the idea behind Fax spam laws.
Privatizing roads == stupid. You can't have competition in Roads. It's not like there are going to be 6 functionally identical roads all going to the same place. so the 1 road that does go there will charge a 100$ per car toll. And you either pay that, or you drive 250 miles out of your way to go around the countryside to get to where you are going. That's not competition. There's also no motivation to improve the road if there isn't an alternate road people can take.
The idea I came up with a kid involved one way only invisibility using about 40 million of those little fiberoptic tubes you can get, and bending then around your body so that one end pointed behind you, and the other pointed in front of you. So people would just look right through you. It didn't work as a 'I'm walking through this crowd of people and they can't see me' invisibility, but it seemed like it would work great if you didn't move much (A sniper or something).
Even if it only reduces the visibility of an object by 30% it will be incredibly useful for military vehicles. I don't know if it would be more, or less useful than current camo techniques, but I'm sure it will have some great uses once it is further refined.
Didn't the lensman solution use a Diesel engine for one of these things? Since it was completely undetectable as far as energy emissions went, and the person only needed to move a very very short distance with it?
Unfortunately that's not always true, in my state you only need a bachelors degree and a teaching certificate. Our requirements for the teaching cert are so low that just about any retard off the street CAN get one... Which means we end up with 90% dirt stupid useless teachers and 10% REALLY GOOD teachers. And the really good teachers burn out after 3 years of dealing with the unruly kids and their moron co-workers.
It's the sound a billion chinese people yelling fuck you.
Yes, their religion does involve dragons. No that doesn't make it any less or more valid than any other. I have no idea whether it's included in the US census or Australian census as a valid religion.
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Bah! Mating has nothing to do with it! It's all of those RPGs we've been playing for the last 30 years! Where the more expensive something is, the better it is. You KNOW that if you step into a shop, and that rusted out helmet costs 25,000gp, but the shining gold and platinum helmet next to it costs 125gp, the rusted Helmet is a mystic artifact that is WAAAAY better than the shiny one! So of course, everyone now knows that the more expensive something is the better it is!
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Everyone thinks this, but look at the cost of ownership of a home, as well as the massive interest you pay on a 30 year loan. I may not be getting equity on my apartment, but I'm also not paying the myriad of fees associated with home ownership, but instead investing the money elsewhere. Also, the childfree population is growing quickly, so in the future the idea of 'Grow up, have kids.' will probably be obsoleted as more people choose to have careers, hobbies, and friends instead of children.
Kintanon
I've got 20 acres of retirement land and we put good money away for kids college and nest egg. You just gotta know how to wisely manage money.
If you're in a climate that can handle it, and don't mind investing about 1k$ now for a pretty good return in 10-12 years, plant pine trees all over every free inch of land you have. They grow to maturity in approx 12-15 years, you sell them all to a logging company and you replant. It's pretty good money and it's not subject to the vagaries of the stock market. Lumber prices stay pretty constant.
Kintanon
False Assumption. Not everyone has kids, and not everyone has a mortgage, even when they get older. Example, I'm not having kids, ever. I MIGHT acquire a mortgage, though I had one before and didn't like it. But not until I'm 35 or so. Until then I like living in my apartment.
Kintanon
I've spent the last 6 months trying to gain 6 lbs to get up to 130, for a while I was up to 129.7, then KABOOM, I dropped 5 lbs in 3 days and I haven't been able to get back over 125 since then. It seems to have coincided with me cresting the 160lb mark on my bench press a few weeks ago. I guess I just put on enough muscle that the extra protein and calories I've been eatting isn't enough anymore. Bah...
Kintanon
Since we're talking about how thin we are, I'm 5'7" and 124lbs, I have less than 4% bodyfat, and I bench 180lbs and can run a mile at a steady 7mph.
Kintanon
Grrr! STOP this crap damnit. The problem is not carbohydrates. It's simple sugars which are a FORM of Carbohydrates, but not ALL carbohydrates that are the problem. A good, balanced diet for most people is 60/20/20 Carbohydrates/Protein/Fat for some people their bodies don't handle carbs the same way and they have to go 20/60/20 instead. But Pasta is mostly Starchy Carbohydrates and is good for you. Sugar is the enemy here, not Carbs.
Kintanon
Couldn't scrape up the cash for that second nipple?
I'm kind of surprised there is any stigma left to piercings considering how many people I see with 6 or more...
Kintanon
Most of the Diabetics I know should get a Demonic Face in a normal tatto ink, and then make the eyes and mouth this stuff, that way when they go Hypo the demon eyes will glow and you know to get the hell away from them until they deal with it.
Preferably this should be right on their forehead so we don't miss it and accidentally speak to one of them...
Kintanon
I just came back from DragonCon, so this is fresh in my mind, but I saw a band called the Brobdingnagian Bards. They have one of the most popular songs on Mp3.com, and are somewhere in the top 20 most popular bands, I think 14th... They do sell CDs, they have one produced by Mp3.com, and 2 produced by some other folks. The mp3.com CD that I got from them for 15$, contains 17 songs PLUS all 17 songs in mp3 format. The other two cds cost me about 10$ apiece, maybe a bit more. They don't contain the Mp3s. As far as I can tell these guys just go to RenFairs, Cons, etc... play their music, sell their CDs, put stuff on Mp3.com, etc... They make pretty decent money from what I can tell.
So what entitles Musicians to 'Make it big' ? Why can't they make it 'big enough' and be happy? Why sign with a record label at all if you don't have to?
Kintanon
Lord of the Rings the Day it was Released, freely available to anyone walking into the store, and with plenty of them to spare for 16$.
At Wal-Mart.
I bet that by christmas the version I got will be $9.99 most places. Thought the special edition ones will be more expensive.
Kintanon
Lol, I do indeed mean 3rd world. And I think the poster I was responding too meant 3rd world as well... We're all just confused.
And if you go back far enough, every civilization started out with what we classify as dirt nothing.
Culture and society developed in an effort to increase the reproduction rate and lifespan of the members of each society. Some did better than others, making them the 1st and 2nd world cultures. But everyone started out evenly.
Kintanon
The voice control and automation of the home will someday be a HUGE help to handicapped people. So yes, this stuff could be incredibly useful to someone. And for everyone else it's just neat.
Kintanon
Why is everyone obsessed with improving 1st world countries? Why can't they improve themselves? Every country was first world at one point...
Kintanon
Yes! I am flamebait! Fuck you Moderators! I can't even tell how much Karma I have anymore, but it's still OVER 50!
What if you just like the idea of setting up a WAP and letting anyone who happens by use it? It's not like some guy is gonna sit on the sidewalk outside my house and leech pr0n all day... If I do decide to do that, I'd limit the bandwidth available on the WAP to something like 20% of my total bandwidth. That's still pretty decent... Then I would log everyone/thing that connected to it and see if I could use it to find other geeks in my local area.
Kintanon
Assuming metered access and not flat rate, would I then be able to sue anyone who sent me an unrequested e-mail, pop-up window, or anything else since they would be directly increasing my bill by sending me things I didn't want?
I'm pretty sure that's the idea behind Fax spam laws.
Kintanon
Privatizing roads == stupid.
You can't have competition in Roads. It's not like there are going to be 6 functionally identical roads all going to the same place. so the 1 road that does go there will charge a 100$ per car toll. And you either pay that, or you drive 250 miles out of your way to go around the countryside to get to where you are going. That's not competition.
There's also no motivation to improve the road if there isn't an alternate road people can take.
Kintanon
Ahhh yeah! I was thinking there must have been another component to it. I really enjoyed the weird tech from those books...
Kintanon
The idea I came up with a kid involved one way only invisibility using about 40 million of those little fiberoptic tubes you can get, and bending then around your body so that one end pointed behind you, and the other pointed in front of you. So people would just look right through you. It didn't work as a 'I'm walking through this crowd of people and they can't see me' invisibility, but it seemed like it would work great if you didn't move much (A sniper or something).
Kintanon
Even if it only reduces the visibility of an object by 30% it will be incredibly useful for military vehicles. I don't know if it would be more, or less useful than current camo techniques, but I'm sure it will have some great uses once it is further refined.
Kintanon
Didn't the lensman solution use a Diesel engine for one of these things? Since it was completely undetectable as far as energy emissions went, and the person only needed to move a very very short distance with it?
Kintanon
Unfortunately that's not always true, in my state you only need a bachelors degree and a teaching certificate. Our requirements for the teaching cert are so low that just about any retard off the street CAN get one... Which means we end up with 90% dirt stupid useless teachers and 10% REALLY GOOD teachers. And the really good teachers burn out after 3 years of dealing with the unruly kids and their moron co-workers.
Kintanon
That's where this comes in:
Prosecuter: And what was the defendant doing at the time?
Reportner: I don't remember...
Prosectuer: Well, where was the defendant?
Reporter: I'm afraid I just don't remember.
Prosectuer: Well, do you remember anything?
Reporter: Nothing that I can recall....
They can't FORCE you to remember.
Kintanon
Hear that? listen a little closer....
It's the sound a billion chinese people yelling fuck you.
Yes, their religion does involve dragons. No that doesn't make it any less or more valid than any other. I have no idea whether it's included in the US census or Australian census as a valid religion.
Kintanon
THPPPT! Jokes on you, I'm married. So Nyah!
Kintanon
The following text is being inserted in order to kill time so that slashdot won't discriminate against me for typing too fast.
The previous text was insreted in order to kill time so that slash, eh nevermind that wasn't as funny as I thought it would be.
Bah! Mating has nothing to do with it! It's all of those RPGs we've been playing for the last 30 years! Where the more expensive something is, the better it is. You KNOW that if you step into a shop, and that rusted out helmet costs 25,000gp, but the shining gold and platinum helmet next to it costs 125gp, the rusted Helmet is a mystic artifact that is WAAAAY better than the shiny one! So of course, everyone now knows that the more expensive something is the better it is!
Kintanon
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