I was investigated repeatedly by the NSA and they couldn't produce more than half a sheet of paper about me. They got a 20 page thick tome when they were done, made up entirely of things I admitted to under polygraph, and denied my clearance. 80% of my life was unaccountable to them. It frightened the shit out of them.
I don't go to any great lengths to hide. I'm just highly compartmentalized, enough that few people know much about me at all, and there's not a lot of pieces to put together. People who grew up with me can't ascribe anything more to me than face-value. Where does he go? What are his hobbies? Oh... I dunno, we just went to high school together for four years, never seen him outside school, never talked about his home life or family... he seems good at computers, I think one day he'll be Bill Gates..
Absolutely nothing on me. Not like... no criminal history, no dirt... but nothing. I look like a constructed identity. A really obvious constructed identity. Problem is they're looking at my real identity and I have no actual background; records for school, medical records--which barely fit on half a page--and a few people who recognize my name but know nothing about me and have no alibi for where I've been ever.
The whole concept of "natural rights" is moronic. Dominance and control is natural; humans organize themselves hierarchically to that end, accepting dominance and control from something they can tolerate. That's why we have police who have power over us--they prevent us from murdering each other so we don't have to fear murder. Even with the ENTIRELY ARTIFICIAL RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH, actual civilization resists it instead of supporting it: speaking your mind can get you socially rejected or killed in the night. At the very least you won't have any friends if you're a vocal Obama supporter in south Texas, which has large social consequences. That's why it's artificial: the entire species fights to keep the natural order of suppressing undesirable ideals, and punishes those who voice those ideals.
This is why I like my fists and the Jo more than swords and knives. All I can do with knives is maim and injure; with fists I can inflict more controlled injuries. I can also skip some level of maiming and go straight to killing. The option for a less-lethal combat mode is better suited to my tastes, but I can still mistakenly kill you by sweeping your legs out from under you and sending your skull crashing down on a rock.
That said, I love swords. Not like I need 5000 of them, but I want to have, learn to use, and carry one. I don't know why, some kind of romantic authority I guess. It's the same for swords and jo as it is for guitar and piano: I love the guitar, it is a fun instrument to play, it's extremely dynamic (possibly the most dynamic instrument there is), portable, it's everything. I never get any good at it. Piano... I rarely practice, I suck at it, but whenever I spend a day or three practicing I get really good REALLY FUCKING FAST. I started practicing for 20 minutes a week and in 3 weeks I was playing half of Darkness and Starlight (yes that's an hour of practice time).
The first time somebody handed me a Jo, I immediately knew I could take down armies with just a simple length of wood... it just moves on its own, it's always where it needs to be, and it can reverse position instantaneously (it's in two positions at once); I can move and it can move and together that is all the world. The sword is so hard to control, it is a slow weapon... and it is a blunt object of wanton murder; while the Jo does not command authority, it allows true defense without inflicting severe injury. I can wave a sword at someone to scare them off or I can apply force and make them bleed and die; I can deflect weapons, unseat balance, inflict bruises and pain or inflict death with the Jo, and so are my options far greater than hesitance or murder.
Guns are slow up close because they can be taken directly while being drawn, whereas you do not want to grab the blade of a knife. Just out of reach, they are fatal. I have nothing against guns or swords; if you don't want to die, you shouldn't threaten harm on others who may carry no other means to defend themselves. These weapons do not suit my purposes; I need greater options. I do not make threats; I take action. I must meet threats with defense, and the only defense a gun offers me is shooting someone immediately to uncontrollable harm.
In a civilian clash with the military, the military loses. At least half the military will defect to protect the citizenry, possibly more. With defective supergovernmental structures such as republics (i.e. the US), each state has its own military (in the US this is the "national guard"), which will likely defend its state from invasion by the central government's military with extreme prejudice. The citizenry, if sufficiently equipped, vastly outnumbers the military--in the US about half a million troops, contrast with 300 million citizenry, 170 million taxpayers, over 120 million working force, and many of the retirees can and will fight. Defected military will likely overtake armories and bases immediately--especially concentrated defections (if 80% of the base defects..) and ESPECIALLY national guards--and then supply the citizenry with weapons. In some cultures (Texas, Georgia, Alabama), women and young teenagers will fight as well.
It's ineffable for the US military to attack the US citizenry.
I want good shit. Japan preferably, but if LG got into computer manufacture I would buy their shit. Half the components are Samsung which is pretty good. Sony I wouldn't trust to suck my balls any good, much less produce good electronics.
No just get it warm. Pick up Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads, Soups, and Stews for $10 off Amazon. He's gotten just a bit past the "get the bread warm and you won't notice it's stale and tacky if you eat it quick enough" phase.
"Consumed immediately" versus "Equivalent to having just come out of the oven" indicates that your method is inferior. The method given allows you to bake bread, allow it to cool completely, then throw it in the freezer and come back in 2 months and return it to just-from-oven state as if it were never frozen.
Hey, buying cans of shit is not equivalent to buying home-cooked meal. Like Ravioli or Dinty Moore Beef Stew. Good luck with that, your time is more valuable than not eating tasteless or over-salted garbage, eh? Why don't you just eat 100% of your food off the McDonalds dollar menu?
Not frozen dough, frozen baked loaf. Thawing bread is somewhat complex--you have to let it re-absorb the water, then put it in the oven at 350F for 15 minutes.
Yeah well nice myth while I *snort* *gurgle* go put this *schluurrrrp* *glorp* glass in the sink... man why do I have like 5 gallons of mucus in my head every time I drink milk?
Actually soy is poisonous. In an apocalyptic situation our plan here is to grow soy on the outer rim of the farm because people coming to steal the food will die if they start picking and eating the beans.
Not so much because of cost (I think your time has to be worth less than 50 cents/hr to break even) but because I apparently have weird taste in food.
Uh.... I can food to save time... lots and lots of time... like, hundreds of hours a month. Do you have any clue how long it would take me to make oxtail stew if I had to do it from scratch every single time? I make at least 14 pints at once.
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Wizards can't even figure out how muggles cook without magic. That's hardly a great sign of intelligence.
I spend $5/mo for unlimited texts.
I was investigated repeatedly by the NSA and they couldn't produce more than half a sheet of paper about me. They got a 20 page thick tome when they were done, made up entirely of things I admitted to under polygraph, and denied my clearance. 80% of my life was unaccountable to them. It frightened the shit out of them.
I don't go to any great lengths to hide. I'm just highly compartmentalized, enough that few people know much about me at all, and there's not a lot of pieces to put together. People who grew up with me can't ascribe anything more to me than face-value. Where does he go? What are his hobbies? Oh... I dunno, we just went to high school together for four years, never seen him outside school, never talked about his home life or family ... he seems good at computers, I think one day he'll be Bill Gates..
Absolutely nothing on me. Not like... no criminal history, no dirt... but nothing. I look like a constructed identity. A really obvious constructed identity. Problem is they're looking at my real identity and I have no actual background; records for school, medical records--which barely fit on half a page--and a few people who recognize my name but know nothing about me and have no alibi for where I've been ever.
The whole concept of "natural rights" is moronic. Dominance and control is natural; humans organize themselves hierarchically to that end, accepting dominance and control from something they can tolerate. That's why we have police who have power over us--they prevent us from murdering each other so we don't have to fear murder. Even with the ENTIRELY ARTIFICIAL RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH, actual civilization resists it instead of supporting it: speaking your mind can get you socially rejected or killed in the night. At the very least you won't have any friends if you're a vocal Obama supporter in south Texas, which has large social consequences. That's why it's artificial: the entire species fights to keep the natural order of suppressing undesirable ideals, and punishes those who voice those ideals.
+1 fucking brilliant
This is why I like my fists and the Jo more than swords and knives. All I can do with knives is maim and injure; with fists I can inflict more controlled injuries. I can also skip some level of maiming and go straight to killing. The option for a less-lethal combat mode is better suited to my tastes, but I can still mistakenly kill you by sweeping your legs out from under you and sending your skull crashing down on a rock.
That said, I love swords. Not like I need 5000 of them, but I want to have, learn to use, and carry one. I don't know why, some kind of romantic authority I guess. It's the same for swords and jo as it is for guitar and piano: I love the guitar, it is a fun instrument to play, it's extremely dynamic (possibly the most dynamic instrument there is), portable, it's everything. I never get any good at it. Piano... I rarely practice, I suck at it, but whenever I spend a day or three practicing I get really good REALLY FUCKING FAST. I started practicing for 20 minutes a week and in 3 weeks I was playing half of Darkness and Starlight (yes that's an hour of practice time).
The first time somebody handed me a Jo, I immediately knew I could take down armies with just a simple length of wood... it just moves on its own, it's always where it needs to be, and it can reverse position instantaneously (it's in two positions at once); I can move and it can move and together that is all the world. The sword is so hard to control, it is a slow weapon... and it is a blunt object of wanton murder; while the Jo does not command authority, it allows true defense without inflicting severe injury. I can wave a sword at someone to scare them off or I can apply force and make them bleed and die; I can deflect weapons, unseat balance, inflict bruises and pain or inflict death with the Jo, and so are my options far greater than hesitance or murder.
Guns are slow up close because they can be taken directly while being drawn, whereas you do not want to grab the blade of a knife. Just out of reach, they are fatal. I have nothing against guns or swords; if you don't want to die, you shouldn't threaten harm on others who may carry no other means to defend themselves. These weapons do not suit my purposes; I need greater options. I do not make threats; I take action. I must meet threats with defense, and the only defense a gun offers me is shooting someone immediately to uncontrollable harm.
In a civilian clash with the military, the military loses. At least half the military will defect to protect the citizenry, possibly more. With defective supergovernmental structures such as republics (i.e. the US), each state has its own military (in the US this is the "national guard"), which will likely defend its state from invasion by the central government's military with extreme prejudice. The citizenry, if sufficiently equipped, vastly outnumbers the military--in the US about half a million troops, contrast with 300 million citizenry, 170 million taxpayers, over 120 million working force, and many of the retirees can and will fight. Defected military will likely overtake armories and bases immediately--especially concentrated defections (if 80% of the base defects..) and ESPECIALLY national guards--and then supply the citizenry with weapons. In some cultures (Texas, Georgia, Alabama), women and young teenagers will fight as well.
It's ineffable for the US military to attack the US citizenry.
Because intelligence is for engineers and wisdom is for magical wizards?
How are guns any more dangerous than blenders?
I want good shit. Japan preferably, but if LG got into computer manufacture I would buy their shit. Half the components are Samsung which is pretty good. Sony I wouldn't trust to suck my balls any good, much less produce good electronics.
No just get it warm. Pick up Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads, Soups, and Stews for $10 off Amazon. He's gotten just a bit past the "get the bread warm and you won't notice it's stale and tacky if you eat it quick enough" phase.
Yes but most people are too stupid to know that and will kill themselves. I mean I eat taro, which is viciously toxic.
"Consumed immediately" versus "Equivalent to having just come out of the oven" indicates that your method is inferior. The method given allows you to bake bread, allow it to cool completely, then throw it in the freezer and come back in 2 months and return it to just-from-oven state as if it were never frozen.
Non-homogenized milk is terrible. All those floating chunks of fat granules ugh.
Hey, buying cans of shit is not equivalent to buying home-cooked meal. Like Ravioli or Dinty Moore Beef Stew. Good luck with that, your time is more valuable than not eating tasteless or over-salted garbage, eh? Why don't you just eat 100% of your food off the McDonalds dollar menu?
Not frozen dough, frozen baked loaf. Thawing bread is somewhat complex--you have to let it re-absorb the water, then put it in the oven at 350F for 15 minutes.
Yeah well nice myth while I *snort* *gurgle* go put this *schluurrrrp* *glorp* glass in the sink... man why do I have like 5 gallons of mucus in my head every time I drink milk?
Sourdough lasts ridiculously long.
I did a style that involved molasses... that lasted forever.
I did a style that involved molasses ... that lasted forever.
Complaining about the increase in water content? What bullshit hippiism is that
Actually soy is poisonous. In an apocalyptic situation our plan here is to grow soy on the outer rim of the farm because people coming to steal the food will die if they start picking and eating the beans.
Reducing your wheat/starch intake (starch in excess includes like...potatoes and rice) will reduce your cholesterol.
Shortening did awesome things to bread.
Not so much because of cost (I think your time has to be worth less than 50 cents/hr to break even) but because I apparently have weird taste in food.
Uh.... I can food to save time... lots and lots of time... like, hundreds of hours a month. Do you have any clue how long it would take me to make oxtail stew if I had to do it from scratch every single time? I make at least 14 pints at once.