So.. does he have to make a stupid pun whenever he toggles his shades, or does he just toggle his shades whenever a snarky pun about the victim of the week comes to mind?
The former would explain why he wears them indoors so much, but then again, so would the glass-walled police station with huge banks of yellow lamps all over the place.
Sadly, the "qualification" is not the ability to competently run something, but rather, the membership in the special club which may or may not correlate with actual competence. For instance, Carly Fiorina....
Do you really believe, that in a nation of 300M people, that we couldn't find people willing and capable to do almost any administrative job for far less than 800k in total remuneration?
I think the term, "McMansion" is not intended to be derogatory towards actual mansions, but rather towards homes that save money by using "standard" designs optimized to reduce building material and labor cost (and whose plan price itself is lower due being spread out over more homes.)
The term is used by the well-off (with "real" mansions or "nice homes") to deride the slightly less well-off by implying (through analogy to fast food) that their optimizations to get the most house for their money have resulted in substandard building materials and/or techniques.
Agreed. I have only ever rarely had turkey dinner that didn't need to be covered in gravy to simulate the moistness that it should have had to begin with, despite fellow diner's claims to the contrary.
Did you also get the thing where if you don't put much on your plate, or don't eat it all, they want to know why, see through your attempts to lie about not being that hungry or whatever else you can think of, and get upset when you tell the truth?
I have, however, occasionally had good turkey dinner, and I can't quite figure out the variables involved, I have some things I might suggest you experiment with.
1) The dark meat has more fat, I think, so it'll be a bit moister, in general, despite being in the bits that actually cook the fastest. It also has the most flavor, and turkey racists think they don't like it, so triple-win there.
2) Cooking time is pretty critical. Too short, and you could get sick, but most thanksgivings are organized in such a way that the turkeys are way over-cooked. The thermometer is hard to place, and the turkey is often pulled out after the cooking is done and carved *right away*, then left to finish cooking exposed. This is pretty much a disaster for keeping the juices in, made worse by the fact that consumer ovens aren't sold based on how closely they hold temperature. Cook time is *not* linear with temperature, and 25 degrees means a big difference in time. My oven can hold temperature to +/- 100 degrees pretty reliably...
3) Basting might help. It rarely happens for thanksgiving turkeys, which are more of the fire-and-forget school of cooking. There's socializing to do, you know.
4) There is a french technique for helping to keep the juices in that is basically creating a shell of some other, fattier meat over the turkey. Like Bacon, or Salt pork. I've tried this, and it seems to help a little, but it takes a *lot* of bacon to get good coverage, and the bacon is pretty tough afterwards, so you might not want to add it to post thanksgiving sandwiches.
Interesting theory, however I've seen movies in actual theaters, with a native frame rate of 24 fps, and the stuttering effect is there, plain as day. Worse, actually, because the equipment is invariably poorly focused and insufficiently maintained such that the frames themselves are moving around. Perhaps your 120hz display is also doing some interpolating/morphing to smooth out the inter-frame.. er.. frames.
Also, my 60hz display can be re-clocked to 24hz by changing a setting in a menu, so I don't really see why extreme frame-rates should be necessary to match the known standard frame rates.
I'm pretty sure that the constitution does not forbid you to yell fire in a theater. Nor does it permit the government to prevent you from yelling fire in a theater. However, if there is no fire (if there really is a fire, you're a hero, of course), you might be liable for some civil damages possibly criminal liability, depending on the outcome.
They're trying to reduce their costs (paper, stamps, design, etc.) If emailing statements was more expensive, they would not push us in that direction.
In an economy where dollars spent maps pretty strongly to resources expended (tree harvesting, chemical processing, human effort, etc..), some would argue that if you're not saving money, you probably aren't really "going green" either.
Well, we don't need that any more now that we have the commodities futures market to do the exact same thing, only more directly addressing the real problem.
Further, my "local" farmer doesn't seem to be able to compete on price with the great factory farms of the midwest very well. Perhaps in part because they're getting the same damn subsidies, and the economies of scale of a large operation means it can apply for *all* eligible subsidies.
The original estimate could've been in 5879ary, and it only looks like there is more than 1 significant digit because of a sloppy conversion for printing purposes.
Greedo never had a chance to shoot, because he was dead, from being too slow or perhaps from being too dimwitted to realize that he was making a threat that was just enough justification for Han to grasp a tenuous moral justification for what was arguably cold-blooded murder.
Alternately, there is a version out there where Greedo shoots Han from less than an arm's length away, misses by half that distance, and Han kills Greedo in perfectly justified self-defense.
That version is a little boringer, but also more publicly available. In neither version was there an additional shot *after* Han shoots.
I'm cool with a rental model, as long as I can rent any move I want at any time, for a reasonable price. I'm even willing to pay more for films that are still in their theatrical release.
Since blu-ray (and netflix) came out, I haven't bought a single disk. I just don't see the point when blu-ray itself doesn't even take full advantage of an HD screen, so there's going to be more formats coming....
The rental model actually makes a lot of sense - don't pay like you're buying something, pay just for this one viewing instead.
And yet, people outside flood prone areas can still get their homes destroyed by flooding.
Sadly, this sounds like a situation where there is a market failure possibly due to over regulation. If I live in an area that almost never gets flooding, flood insurance should be super cheap, right? But then it'd be so cheap that vs. the minuscule chance of a catastrophic even that I absolutely couldn't afford, I'd be stupid not to buy it, right?
the category of ale encompasses many beers, including stouts like Guinness.
It does not, however, encompass lager, which if Budweiser is representative, is a category of beer whose terrible flavor is only mitigated by its incredible weakness.
And compare the above description to Kiva, the "micro loan" program that has a very similar example about a farmer expanding their operation (by purchasing a tractor, iirc) in their sales pitch as well.
Except your donation is actually given to loan sharks to lend out at usury rates and you don't get anything in return at all, unless you really love the feeling that some of your money has increased the wealth and power of third world moneylenders...
That's true, but I am assuming that publishers are self-interested entities. FireFly was not cancelled as a result of vendetta but because it was too expensive to produce.
Not saying you're wrong, but when half the episodes took place in the southern californian woods and were about people riding around on horseback through old west towns, and half the remaining episodes took place entirely within a single five-room spaceship set, It's hard to believe that it was particularly expensive to produce....
I suspect the real reason is that it just wasn't watched in big numbers, in part because people want their sci fi to be sci fi, and not 83% "old west shanty town"
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So.. does he have to make a stupid pun whenever he toggles his shades, or does he just toggle his shades whenever a snarky pun about the victim of the week comes to mind?
The former would explain why he wears them indoors so much, but then again, so would the glass-walled police station with huge banks of yellow lamps all over the place.
Sadly, the "qualification" is not the ability to competently run something, but rather, the membership in the special club which may or may not correlate with actual competence. For instance, Carly Fiorina....
Do you really believe, that in a nation of 300M people, that we couldn't find people willing and capable to do almost any administrative job for far less than 800k in total remuneration?
I think the term, "McMansion" is not intended to be derogatory towards actual mansions, but rather towards homes that save money by using "standard" designs optimized to reduce building material and labor cost (and whose plan price itself is lower due being spread out over more homes.)
The term is used by the well-off (with "real" mansions or "nice homes") to deride the slightly less well-off by implying (through analogy to fast food) that their optimizations to get the most house for their money have resulted in substandard building materials and/or techniques.
That's where they store the statutes. Carved in stone on the city's statuary. That's why it's so hard to get them repealed.
Agreed. I have only ever rarely had turkey dinner that didn't need to be covered in gravy to simulate the moistness that it should have had to begin with, despite fellow diner's claims to the contrary.
Did you also get the thing where if you don't put much on your plate, or don't eat it all, they want to know why, see through your attempts to lie about not being that hungry or whatever else you can think of, and get upset when you tell the truth?
I have, however, occasionally had good turkey dinner, and I can't quite figure out the variables involved, I have some things I might suggest you experiment with.
1) The dark meat has more fat, I think, so it'll be a bit moister, in general, despite being in the bits that actually cook the fastest. It also has the most flavor, and turkey racists think they don't like it, so triple-win there.
2) Cooking time is pretty critical. Too short, and you could get sick, but most thanksgivings are organized in such a way that the turkeys are way over-cooked. The thermometer is hard to place, and the turkey is often pulled out after the cooking is done and carved *right away*, then left to finish cooking exposed. This is pretty much a disaster for keeping the juices in, made worse by the fact that consumer ovens aren't sold based on how closely they hold temperature. Cook time is *not* linear with temperature, and 25 degrees means a big difference in time. My oven can hold temperature to +/- 100 degrees pretty reliably...
3) Basting might help. It rarely happens for thanksgiving turkeys, which are more of the fire-and-forget school of cooking. There's socializing to do, you know.
4) There is a french technique for helping to keep the juices in that is basically creating a shell of some other, fattier meat over the turkey. Like Bacon, or Salt pork. I've tried this, and it seems to help a little, but it takes a *lot* of bacon to get good coverage, and the bacon is pretty tough afterwards, so you might not want to add it to post thanksgiving sandwiches.
Anyway good luck at the next one.
You are comparing the price of the *building* to the price of what? An entire lot with a home built on it? The lot is the expensive part!
60 isn't "all the way."
Visual perception studies suggest that "all the way" is probably somewhere past 500.
Why does all my stuff have to be nerfed because a bunch of baby boomers can't cope with change?
If you really liked steak, you wouldn't be buying the Filet....
Interesting theory, however I've seen movies in actual theaters, with a native frame rate of 24 fps, and the stuttering effect is there, plain as day. Worse, actually, because the equipment is invariably poorly focused and insufficiently maintained such that the frames themselves are moving around. Perhaps your 120hz display is also doing some interpolating/morphing to smooth out the inter-frame.. er.. frames.
Also, my 60hz display can be re-clocked to 24hz by changing a setting in a menu, so I don't really see why extreme frame-rates should be necessary to match the known standard frame rates.
I'm pretty sure that the constitution does not forbid you to yell fire in a theater. Nor does it permit the government to prevent you from yelling fire in a theater. However, if there is no fire (if there really is a fire, you're a hero, of course), you might be liable for some civil damages possibly criminal liability, depending on the outcome.
They're trying to reduce their costs (paper, stamps, design, etc.) If emailing statements was more expensive, they would not push us in that direction.
In an economy where dollars spent maps pretty strongly to resources expended (tree harvesting, chemical processing, human effort, etc..), some would argue that if you're not saving money, you probably aren't really "going green" either.
Well, we don't need that any more now that we have the commodities futures market to do the exact same thing, only more directly addressing the real problem.
Further, my "local" farmer doesn't seem to be able to compete on price with the great factory farms of the midwest very well. Perhaps in part because they're getting the same damn subsidies, and the economies of scale of a large operation means it can apply for *all* eligible subsidies.
Their plan to collect... is to destroy all our stuff?
I barely graduated high school and I hold a high level IT position.
Key plan: don't lie about your college degree!
Unless you like being the ceo of a large tech company....
The original estimate could've been in 5879ary, and it only looks like there is more than 1 significant digit because of a sloppy conversion for printing purposes.
Han shot. Greedo died.
Greedo never had a chance to shoot, because he was dead, from being too slow or perhaps from being too dimwitted to realize that he was making a threat that was just enough justification for Han to grasp a tenuous moral justification for what was arguably cold-blooded murder.
Alternately, there is a version out there where Greedo shoots Han from less than an arm's length away, misses by half that distance, and Han kills Greedo in perfectly justified self-defense.
That version is a little boringer, but also more publicly available. In neither version was there an additional shot *after* Han shoots.
I'm cool with a rental model, as long as I can rent any move I want at any time, for a reasonable price. I'm even willing to pay more for films that are still in their theatrical release.
Since blu-ray (and netflix) came out, I haven't bought a single disk. I just don't see the point when blu-ray itself doesn't even take full advantage of an HD screen, so there's going to be more formats coming....
The rental model actually makes a lot of sense - don't pay like you're buying something, pay just for this one viewing instead.
And yet, people outside flood prone areas can still get their homes destroyed by flooding.
Sadly, this sounds like a situation where there is a market failure possibly due to over regulation. If I live in an area that almost never gets flooding, flood insurance should be super cheap, right? But then it'd be so cheap that vs. the minuscule chance of a catastrophic even that I absolutely couldn't afford, I'd be stupid not to buy it, right?
So.. why isn't it?
the category of ale encompasses many beers, including stouts like Guinness.
It does not, however, encompass lager, which if Budweiser is representative, is a category of beer whose terrible flavor is only mitigated by its incredible weakness.
And compare the above description to Kiva, the "micro loan" program that has a very similar example about a farmer expanding their operation (by purchasing a tractor, iirc) in their sales pitch as well.
Except your donation is actually given to loan sharks to lend out at usury rates and you don't get anything in return at all, unless you really love the feeling that some of your money has increased the wealth and power of third world moneylenders...
That's true, but I am assuming that publishers are self-interested entities. FireFly was not cancelled as a result of vendetta but because it was too expensive to produce.
Not saying you're wrong, but when half the episodes took place in the southern californian woods and were about people riding around on horseback through old west towns, and half the remaining episodes took place entirely within a single five-room spaceship set, It's hard to believe that it was particularly expensive to produce....
I suspect the real reason is that it just wasn't watched in big numbers, in part because people want their sci fi to be sci fi, and not 83% "old west shanty town"
DS9 was not about a married man balancing the needs of his family with the needs of his job.
It was about a single father workaholic who was barely present in his son's life....
Frankly I'm confused that they couldn't scrounge up $100k amongst all those names...