People who are sort of geeky may know how to act but it is hard work keeping track of all the social nuances, but the terminally geeky person can no more understand social norms than the average American English speaker can understand Chinese. There is so much to remember, your belt doesn't match your shoes, you use the wrong fork, you don't introduce your date, if you can actually get one, the right way. I was able to find a wife, I was nice looking and had my own house and business so she agreed to marry me. She is an artist so we complement each other in weirdness, and every time she screws up her computer I can fix it for her.
On my first day of school during lunch, a large, bald headed kid ( he looked like Charley Brown) made fun of the way I held my spoon. That was 54 years ago. I try to do it correctly but often forget. With severe carpel tunnel syndrome I find that unless I grip my fork tightly it tends to fall out of my hand so I do it my way. If you are offended, don't look.
It's wonderful (not) to have a condition that doctors have never heard of and to have the pain made five times worse by a medication prescribed for a different problem. Fortunately for me a second medication taken for a different condition also controls the first condition. I was accepted for full disability with my first application so the doctors do agree that I am a sick man.
I had hand surgery. My surgeon was part owner of the outpatient surgery center. My total bill, $3500, was the same as the lowest cost I could find with an internet search. I do not have insurance and paid cash. This was one third the average hospital cost. Some doctors do not overcharge for procedures done in their private facilities.
Geeks are not "normal". Most of us are concentrating on what makes us geeky and miss all the social clues normal people see. Trying to learn to read these clues when you are 18 is difficult if not impossible. it also seems like a big waste of time. We usually are concentrating on what we are doing or thinking about and we don't adjust our behavior to be socially acceptable.
Many geeks can't tolerate alcohol or do not like its effects and also find drunk people annoying so avoid most social gatherings. This also limits your options as a business man.
If you are peeing on your hands you are doing it wrong. Also the foreskin is retractable and the opening of the urethra is on the lower part of the penis so the urine stream encounters no folds of skin. At least that is how mine is, YMMV.
I rank that a little lower than Maxine Waters claiming the sequester will cost 170 million jobs. These types of politicians are just puppets and sometimes they open their mouths without anyone intelligent pulling the string.
THERE ARE NO CUTS! Only a diminishing in the rate of growth. Some people or projects may get less but only because other people got more and new projects were started. There will be more taxes collected and more money spent next year than this year. 2007 budget 2.7 trillion,deficit, 161 million, 2013 federal budget 3.8 trillion, 901 billion deficit.
Most companies,unlike Apple, compete on price, . If one company cuts cost by off shoring, the others have to follow. It's not greed, just survival. If the first company couldn't off shore, the others could still compete using domestic labor. If whatever they're making cost so much that consumers can't afford it they will have to go bankrupt. People will just buy something else. Importing a cheap good that people can afford sends American capital out of the country. If all manufacturing is off shored people with money can raise their standard of living with cheap goods but the unemployed factory worker can't share in that.
Steel is heavy. You can't smuggle it in with a small plane or walk it across the border. Tariff the crap out of it and most American steel workers would still have their jobs. Sure, things that could only be built using cheap steel would not get built, but the Empire State Building was built with American steel during the Great Depression, so progress wouldn't have stopped. Government workers, pensioners and office workers love cheap imports but blue collar workers don't care to, and most can't, work for Indian or Chinese wages.
A lot of tractors have cabs that "were" air-conditioned. Most farmers are cheap and when the AC breaks they do not fix it, except for the one they personally drive. Driving a cab tractor with a busted AC in Florida is a very hot job, bring at least a gallon of Gatorade with you.
Just because you spend huge sums of money on a problem doesn't mean you will find the solution. If millions are forced to move closer to work because gas is too expensive does that mean cheap housing is available close to their jobs?
I graduated high school in 1970. I hated writing, I couldn't spell, and being left handed only made worse. In 1996 I went to a community collage for a semester. I found out I loved writing because I now had a lot to say and using my computer as a word processor made spelling mistakes a thing (literally) of the past. I had a typewriter in high school but fixing typos with white out was tedious and how do you fix a spelling error when you don't know the word is spelled wrong? Proof reading my writing and correcting what Word flags allows me to edit my work and turn the first draft into the finished product on the fly. If Word has no idea what word I'm trying to spell I can use Google to search for a synonym.
All cars have an electric fuel pump. Splice a disconnect switch into the power lead. If the car misbehaves flip the switch off, engine supers and dies, no drama.
Unfortunately big government does what it wants to and is mostly ran for corporate profits. Stop mandating ethanol production and ban corn fed beef production. That would take millions of corn acres out of production. The cellulose ethanol mandate has yet to produce a commercial process even though producers are fined because they aren't using enough cellulose ethanol. Stamping your foot and demanding cellulose ethanol be created doesn't auto-magically make it happen.
Farmers have ten to fifteen thousand dollars an acre invested in corn land. Letting half of it lie fallow each year is economically unpopular or even imposable if money is owed on the land purchase. Having bureaucrats telling farmers what they can and can't grow usually results in food shortages. Of course we could collectivize the farms but that usually doesn't go well either.
Part of my land was cleared by me from virgin forest. Mostly sugar sand, the new land is no more fertile then the old part of the field. If you put back what you take out every year a good yield can be had every year. Organic fertilizer programs and low impact hand cultivation make rich fertile soils but finding that much organic matter and the hand labor to apply it is not going to happen.
Corn is actually quite easy to grow. I know, I have done it. The field in front of my house has been in constant cultivation for almost one hundred years. This land is north Florida sand. We grow our winter crop, potatoes, harvest those in May then plant a cover crop of sorghum-suden grass and in late summer plow that under to rebuild organic mater. The last three years corn was planted as the second crop and harvested in early fall. We have irrigation but summer rains usually provide enough water. This brings added income for the farmer and the stalks are chopped up to prepare for the next potato planting. Right now the potato plants are a few inches high and hopefully there won't be a frost this weekend.
Millions of acres in the south can be double cropped this way as long as corn is more then $3 a bu. Farmers know how to take care of their land. It would be uneconomical to grow corn in a greenhouse but adding nutrients to poor soils is feasible if the return is enough. My land will scarcely grow weeds but add the right fertilizer and 150 bu corn is possible.
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People who are sort of geeky may know how to act but it is hard work keeping track of all the social nuances, but the terminally geeky person can no more understand social norms than the average American English speaker can understand Chinese. There is so much to remember, your belt doesn't match your shoes, you use the wrong fork, you don't introduce your date, if you can actually get one, the right way. I was able to find a wife, I was nice looking and had my own house and business so she agreed to marry me. She is an artist so we complement each other in weirdness, and every time she screws up her computer I can fix it for her.
Got full disability, no mortgage, wife works, no worries about getting a job. Thanks for your concern
On my first day of school during lunch, a large, bald headed kid ( he looked like Charley Brown) made fun of the way I held my spoon. That was 54 years ago. I try to do it correctly but often forget. With severe carpel tunnel syndrome I find that unless I grip my fork tightly it tends to fall out of my hand so I do it my way. If you are offended, don't look.
It's wonderful (not) to have a condition that doctors have never heard of and to have the pain made five times worse by a medication prescribed for a different problem. Fortunately for me a second medication taken for a different condition also controls the first condition. I was accepted for full disability with my first application so the doctors do agree that I am a sick man.
I had hand surgery. My surgeon was part owner of the outpatient surgery center. My total bill, $3500, was the same as the lowest cost I could find with an internet search. I do not have insurance and paid cash. This was one third the average hospital cost. Some doctors do not overcharge for procedures done in their private facilities.
Geeks are not "normal". Most of us are concentrating on what makes us geeky and miss all the social clues normal people see. Trying to learn to read these clues when you are 18 is difficult if not impossible. it also seems like a big waste of time. We usually are concentrating on what we are doing or thinking about and we don't adjust our behavior to be socially acceptable.
Many geeks can't tolerate alcohol or do not like its effects and also find drunk people annoying so avoid most social gatherings. This also limits your options as a business man.
You had friends? Lucky you.
If you are peeing on your hands you are doing it wrong. Also the foreskin is retractable and the opening of the urethra is on the lower part of the penis so the urine stream encounters no folds of skin. At least that is how mine is, YMMV.
He probably bought this book from Dixie Gun Works for $11.95, "BO1608 Hand Rifling A Muzzle Loading Rifle Barrel At Home Book".
I rank that a little lower than Maxine Waters claiming the sequester will cost 170 million jobs. These types of politicians are just puppets and sometimes they open their mouths without anyone intelligent pulling the string.
Got mod points, +1 insightful
THERE ARE NO CUTS! Only a diminishing in the rate of growth. Some people or projects may get less but only because other people got more and new projects were started. There will be more taxes collected and more money spent next year than this year. 2007 budget 2.7 trillion,deficit, 161 million, 2013 federal budget 3.8 trillion, 901 billion deficit.
I waited almost 20 years for 1984, I wish I could have been disappointed.
So a drone is said to be a not maned aircraft?
To bad Bill Gates didn't take your advice.
Most companies,unlike Apple, compete on price, . If one company cuts cost by off shoring, the others have to follow. It's not greed, just survival. If the first company couldn't off shore, the others could still compete using domestic labor. If whatever they're making cost so much that consumers can't afford it they will have to go bankrupt. People will just buy something else. Importing a cheap good that people can afford sends American capital out of the country. If all manufacturing is off shored people with money can raise their standard of living with cheap goods but the unemployed factory worker can't share in that.
Steel is heavy. You can't smuggle it in with a small plane or walk it across the border. Tariff the crap out of it and most American steel workers would still have their jobs. Sure, things that could only be built using cheap steel would not get built, but the Empire State Building was built with American steel during the Great Depression, so progress wouldn't have stopped. Government workers, pensioners and office workers love cheap imports but blue collar workers don't care to, and most can't, work for Indian or Chinese wages.
Just remember to take it OUT of your pocket before the wife throws your jeans in the washer. On that note, dehumidifiers actually do.
A lot of tractors have cabs that "were" air-conditioned. Most farmers are cheap and when the AC breaks they do not fix it, except for the one they personally drive. Driving a cab tractor with a busted AC in Florida is a very hot job, bring at least a gallon of Gatorade with you.
Just because you spend huge sums of money on a problem doesn't mean you will find the solution. If millions are forced to move closer to work because gas is too expensive does that mean cheap housing is available close to their jobs?
I graduated high school in 1970. I hated writing, I couldn't spell, and being left handed only made worse. In 1996 I went to a community collage for a semester. I found out I loved writing because I now had a lot to say and using my computer as a word processor made spelling mistakes a thing (literally) of the past. I had a typewriter in high school but fixing typos with white out was tedious and how do you fix a spelling error when you don't know the word is spelled wrong? Proof reading my writing and correcting what Word flags allows me to edit my work and turn the first draft into the finished product on the fly. If Word has no idea what word I'm trying to spell I can use Google to search for a synonym.
All cars have an electric fuel pump. Splice a disconnect switch into the power lead. If the car misbehaves flip the switch off, engine supers and dies, no drama.
Unfortunately big government does what it wants to and is mostly ran for corporate profits. Stop mandating ethanol production and ban corn fed beef production. That would take millions of corn acres out of production. The cellulose ethanol mandate has yet to produce a commercial process even though producers are fined because they aren't using enough cellulose ethanol. Stamping your foot and demanding cellulose ethanol be created doesn't auto-magically make it happen.
Farmers have ten to fifteen thousand dollars an acre invested in corn land. Letting half of it lie fallow each year is economically unpopular or even imposable if money is owed on the land purchase. Having bureaucrats telling farmers what they can and can't grow usually results in food shortages. Of course we could collectivize the farms but that usually doesn't go well either.
Part of my land was cleared by me from virgin forest. Mostly sugar sand, the new land is no more fertile then the old part of the field. If you put back what you take out every year a good yield can be had every year. Organic fertilizer programs and low impact hand cultivation make rich fertile soils but finding that much organic matter and the hand labor to apply it is not going to happen.
Corn is actually quite easy to grow. I know, I have done it. The field in front of my house has been in constant cultivation for almost one hundred years. This land is north Florida sand. We grow our winter crop, potatoes, harvest those in May then plant a cover crop of sorghum-suden grass and in late summer plow that under to rebuild organic mater. The last three years corn was planted as the second crop and harvested in early fall. We have irrigation but summer rains usually provide enough water. This brings added income for the farmer and the stalks are chopped up to prepare for the next potato planting. Right now the potato plants are a few inches high and hopefully there won't be a frost this weekend. Millions of acres in the south can be double cropped this way as long as corn is more then $3 a bu. Farmers know how to take care of their land. It would be uneconomical to grow corn in a greenhouse but adding nutrients to poor soils is feasible if the return is enough. My land will scarcely grow weeds but add the right fertilizer and 150 bu corn is possible.