Won't someone think of the poor vegetarians! The horror! The horror!
There is the compass plant, which is not totally edible, but its rosin can be used as chewing gum. As the name implies, it has leaves that align themselves north-south -- and cattle find it delicious. It doesn't really seek the magnetic North Pole, it just tries to avoid getting dried out by the hot summer sun. If I didn't have any shade, I might just turn my back to the sun, too.
How is this any different from how they're operating now? What does it matter that they're no longer going to breaking a law they never paid any attention to in the first place?
So it works like this:
Step 1: Do whatever you want to do.
Step 2: When Congress or the people complain, ignore or deny Step 1.
Step 3: Announce that you will do whatever it is you started in Step 1.
Step 4: What's the point in complaining, they're already doing it?
"You have to pick your battles". Translation: "I don't think you should fight this battle". Just come out and say it right off! We read the summary. It's not like he doesn't know it's a "battle" to fight. He brought up the dilemma in the first place.
It's almost as bad as when my fortune cookie gives me some cheap piece of pseudo-wisdom instead of the fortune I was looking for, like: "A merry heart makes a happy countenance". Well, sure. Being happy makes you look happy. "You gotta pick your battles." Right, but should I pick this one?!?
Sorry to sound cranky, but I've been getting a really lousy series of rather vapid confections at lunch, including that stupid "merry heart" one.
I just get really nervous when signing legal documents and my signature goes all funky. Jeez, you gotta make a federal case of it? He said "illegible".
I've got some bad news for you then. If a firearms officer is told that 'X' is a terrorist, he is not expected to conduct his own investigation as to whether 'X' really is a terrorist or not. He has to accept the information that he is given - the responsibility for this lies with his superiors. . . If he believes that 'X' posed a threat his correct response was to open fire - at whatever range he can reasonably expect to achieve a 'kill' - and remove the threat without unduly risking the life of others.
That sounds more like the job description of an "Assassin", not a "Policeman".
Well, I've got news for you, this is how property rights work. If it's your property, you get to decide what to do with it.
Property rights aren't always absolute. E. g. You might get some disagreement from a surprising source if you started exercising your property rights to remove your local cable provider's transmission lines from your yard
Fortunately, extrapolation also shows us the solution. The number of Americans incarcerated in jails and prisons is doubling every decade. So in 80 years or so, we'll all be in jail. This makes broadband wiring much easier -- forget everywhere else and just wire up jails!
If that were my project and I was putting that much work into the data creation I would want a lot more reliable hardware and backups. I'd also work to do more automation.
If it were my project, I'd put so much effort into getting the setup just so: trying a new format one day, scouring the planet for 78 cartridges, tweaking and automating my IT, that I'd probably only have maybe 1 or 2 songs digitized by now! I'm definitely glad he just got to it and didn't do it my way!
That was pretty brilliant of the record companies, though, don't you think? Make the medium out of nice, soft vinyl, and make the worthless, replaceable needle out of the hardest mineral on the Mohs scale.
Brilliant, that is, if you want to maximize the rate at which the media wear out.
Many 78s are shellac on a metal substrate. If you really played the heck out of them, you could see the aluminum or other metal shining through. I doubt that either vinyl or shellac were chosen due to the fact that they wore out -- the recorded music business, then as now, is interested in "hits". Fickle public tastes could wear out a song faster than a needle.
But that brings up an interesting point, that one could examine record wear to get an insight on the owner's taste. I have an old (1924) disc that had been in my Dad's possession in his childhood. On one side is "Whispering" and on the other "Japanese Sandman". "Whispering" is still in great shape. Evidently my Dad loved "Japanese Sandman", which is barely audible now. Kind of trivial, but it gives me a little glimpse of his early years -- especially since I can't ask him about that anymore
Not just MP3s, but 128 kbps MP3s. I know the guy means well, but there are plenty of other audiophiles doing the same thing, but they're ripping at 320 or using FLAC and putting the results on bit torrent.
It's his bandwidth, he makes the call. And we're talking about 78s here. Most of these recordings predate studio tape, and many were even recorded before electric microphones existed.
This is not what we would consider to be a customary home occupation.
So his ''crime'' was to do something slightly different from the rest of the population.
Indeed. According to the Code Enforcement Officer of Crazytown, it's against city codes to have a job she can't understand.
My town does have an ordinance about what occupations can be performed in a residence, and I suppose that Crazytown does too. The appropriate action for a code enforcer concerned about potential uncustomariness would be to contact the resident and ask about his vocation. If that still doesn't clear things up, then perhaps a trip to a library of the interwebs, or maybe a chat with someone smarter might be in order. But we live in times where intelligence and curiosity are looked on with suspicion, ignorance and uninformed "decisiveness" are lauded.
I might add, in case Ms. Wilderman is reading this, that "lauded" means "felt good about by 'alot' o' folks".
That's how I get past the liquids and gels restrictions: gaseous toothpaste. It is 4 oz, man!
Actually, I found that you can still get powder toothpaste and solid shampoo, so I carry those in my bag. I let the leaky, sticky lube bottle go through by itself -- not my fault that it makes the plastic zipper not stay closed!
What? huh? Who cares how much oil you are "adding to the market" if you are not using it! That's like saying, "Hey, everybody! We could add more food to the market if we add just stop eating! Hooray!" Please do not mistake me, I am not against conservation. Clearly in my last analogy, there are some people (not everybody) who could go with less food. They would have more personal wealth and there would be more food available for others, but this will not keep feeding people indefinitely. The world's population today could not have lived on the food supply of ages past, even if everybody was on strict rations.
I think you're suggesting that if you save a gallon of gas or a loaf of bread a week, that next week you'll have to make it up by consuming an extra to make up your personal deficit. And that would be true if you'd saved the gallon of gas my not making a trip this week that you have to make up for the next. But if you can reduce your car's "appetite" for fuel, so that it simply requires less fuel to do the same work, then you don't have that personal fuel deficit to make up. You left a gallon of fuel at the station, effectively "adding it to the market".
I'll agree that that's no reason not to pursue long term remedies at the same time. Conservation now can give us a little breathing room, especially if it's something as painless as checking the tires.
So we need to market bags that are trendy and won't get grungy? What a shame not destroying the environment requires that the good choice also be stylish. I wonder where the threshold for survival vs. trendiness is?
As far as the filthiness/grunginess of the bag is concerned, you could argue that attaching cleaning/washing instructions makes good sense. Cleaning is, after all, a form of maintenance, and good maintenance reduces premature disposal.
There is nothing wrong with the employer checking up the quality of your health before buying. If you make that illegal, you should outlaw Consumer Reports and, in particular, their repair-history database...
Your employer is not agreeing to buy your labor for the rest of your life. In just about every US state, an individual is an "at will" employee. So the timeframe an employer is committing for is something between maybe 1 and 80 hours of labor. You don't really need detailed files to determine if someone is likely to live through the day or the week. Now if an employer were to sign an iron-clad contract to pay you for your labors at a year or ten at a time, then your health might be a legitimate issue.
Social Security, Welfare, Medicare and Medicaid exceed the entire military AND discretional [sic] budget (not just the Iraq war) and all are horribly broken.
Think how many countries we could occupy if we weren't wasting all our money on social programs!
[I]f you really want fiscally responsible policies... vote them all out of office and start taking care of yourself for a change.
Since you make the "start taking care of yourself" suggestion in contrast to the "knee-jerk, liberally biased" programs such as Social Security, Welfare, Medicare and Medicaid, I'll just say that you and I -- and everyone else -- were born naked and helpless. We depended on others to provide us with food, shelter and clothing until we could provide for ourselves. The condition of our births was in no way a result of any planning, effort or desire on our own parts. We did not earn the ability to take care of ourselves through our own virtue or labors, and our continued good fortune is only partly within our own power to ensure.
My interpretation of TFA (and not necessarily the policy/practice) is that the Government reserves the right to decide which information can cross the border into the US, whether by electronic or physical means. Presumably, this would include subversive and seditious materials, i.e., those that strongly challenged the administration.
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Won't someone think of the poor vegetarians! The horror! The horror!
There is the compass plant, which is not totally edible, but its rosin can be used as chewing gum. As the name implies, it has leaves that align themselves north-south -- and cattle find it delicious. It doesn't really seek the magnetic North Pole, it just tries to avoid getting dried out by the hot summer sun. If I didn't have any shade, I might just turn my back to the sun, too.
How is this any different from how they're operating now? What does it matter that they're no longer going to breaking a law they never paid any attention to in the first place?
So it works like this:
Step 1: Do whatever you want to do.
Step 2: When Congress or the people complain, ignore or deny Step 1.
Step 3: Announce that you will do whatever it is you started in Step 1.
Step 4: What's the point in complaining, they're already doing it?
I'm sure there's profit in there somewhere.
Lord you brought back some memories. I still have the original Wolf game (on a PC mind you, not an 8-bit console) sitting on a floppy
I'll do you one better, nostalgia-wise. I've got an original Wolfenstein for C=64 and Apple ][ -- that's right, both of them -- on one "flippy".
"You have to pick your battles". Translation: "I don't think you should fight this battle". Just come out and say it right off! We read the summary. It's not like he doesn't know it's a "battle" to fight. He brought up the dilemma in the first place.
It's almost as bad as when my fortune cookie gives me some cheap piece of pseudo-wisdom instead of the fortune I was looking for, like: "A merry heart makes a happy countenance". Well, sure. Being happy makes you look happy. "You gotta pick your battles." Right, but should I pick this one?!?
Sorry to sound cranky, but I've been getting a really lousy series of rather vapid confections at lunch, including that stupid "merry heart" one.
I just get really nervous when signing legal documents and my signature goes all funky. Jeez, you gotta make a federal case of it? He said "illegible".
I've got some bad news for you then. If a firearms officer is told that 'X' is a terrorist, he is not expected to conduct his own investigation as to whether 'X' really is a terrorist or not. He has to accept the information that he is given - the responsibility for this lies with his superiors. . . If he believes that 'X' posed a threat his correct response was to open fire - at whatever range he can reasonably expect to achieve a 'kill' - and remove the threat without unduly risking the life of others.
That sounds more like the job description of an "Assassin", not a "Policeman".
Well, I've got news for you, this is how property rights work. If it's your property, you get to decide what to do with it.
Property rights aren't always absolute. E. g. You might get some disagreement from a surprising source if you started exercising your property rights to remove your local cable provider's transmission lines from your yard
Does your employer have a charging station for electric cars? Mine doesn't. I doubt that many do.
Someone does . . . Check out this message in the yahoo ZENN EV group
Fortunately, extrapolation also shows us the solution. The number of Americans incarcerated in jails and prisons is doubling every decade. So in 80 years or so, we'll all be in jail. This makes broadband wiring much easier -- forget everywhere else and just wire up jails!
If that were my project and I was putting that much work into the data creation I would want a lot more reliable hardware and backups. I'd also work to do more automation.
If it were my project, I'd put so much effort into getting the setup just so: trying a new format one day, scouring the planet for 78 cartridges, tweaking and automating my IT, that I'd probably only have maybe 1 or 2 songs digitized by now! I'm definitely glad he just got to it and didn't do it my way!
That was pretty brilliant of the record companies, though, don't you think? Make the medium out of nice, soft vinyl, and make the worthless, replaceable needle out of the hardest mineral on the Mohs scale.
Brilliant, that is, if you want to maximize the rate at which the media wear out.
Many 78s are shellac on a metal substrate. If you really played the heck out of them, you could see the aluminum or other metal shining through. I doubt that either vinyl or shellac were chosen due to the fact that they wore out -- the recorded music business, then as now, is interested in "hits". Fickle public tastes could wear out a song faster than a needle.
But that brings up an interesting point, that one could examine record wear to get an insight on the owner's taste. I have an old (1924) disc that had been in my Dad's possession in his childhood. On one side is "Whispering" and on the other "Japanese Sandman". "Whispering" is still in great shape. Evidently my Dad loved "Japanese Sandman", which is barely audible now. Kind of trivial, but it gives me a little glimpse of his early years -- especially since I can't ask him about that anymore
Not just MP3s, but 128 kbps MP3s. I know the guy means well, but there are plenty of other audiophiles doing the same thing, but they're ripping at 320 or using FLAC and putting the results on bit torrent.
It's his bandwidth, he makes the call. And we're talking about 78s here. Most of these recordings predate studio tape, and many were even recorded before electric microphones existed.
So his ''crime'' was to do something slightly different from the rest of the population.
Indeed. According to the Code Enforcement Officer of Crazytown, it's against city codes to have a job she can't understand.
My town does have an ordinance about what occupations can be performed in a residence, and I suppose that Crazytown does too. The appropriate action for a code enforcer concerned about potential uncustomariness would be to contact the resident and ask about his vocation. If that still doesn't clear things up, then perhaps a trip to a library of the interwebs, or maybe a chat with someone smarter might be in order. But we live in times where intelligence and curiosity are looked on with suspicion, ignorance and uninformed "decisiveness" are lauded.
I might add, in case Ms. Wilderman is reading this, that "lauded" means "felt good about by 'alot' o' folks".
...is to get yourself labeled as a crackpot.
Tell me about it . . .
Yup, videos of Jihadists killing American Soldiers can stay up. Videos recruiting terrorists can stay up.
If they're your videos of Jihadists and recruiting efforts, then just send Youtube a DMCA notice and they'll take them down for you.
True! I just moved to a new town(still in the process, actually), and I couldn't believe how much crap I had accumulated.
It's all about inertia, isn't it? When not moving, it's easier to let the junk remain at rest, but when it comes time to move, it's easier to toss it.
In some places this is against the law. I know where I live you are not allowed to put out your garbage until after 4pm the night before pick-up.
So put it out in front of a neighbor's house. At night. When God is sleeping.
Is that 4oz in weight or 4oz in volume?
That's how I get past the liquids and gels restrictions: gaseous toothpaste. It is 4 oz, man!
Actually, I found that you can still get powder toothpaste and solid shampoo, so I carry those in my bag. I let the leaky, sticky lube bottle go through by itself -- not my fault that it makes the plastic zipper not stay closed!
You haven't flown since 1999? What value could you possibly bring to the discussion then?
You must be new here.
Cool. That means we got at least you, me, and Paris Hilton on the "hybrid plan".
What? huh? Who cares how much oil you are "adding to the market" if you are not using it! That's like saying, "Hey, everybody! We could add more food to the market if we add just stop eating! Hooray!" Please do not mistake me, I am not against conservation. Clearly in my last analogy, there are some people (not everybody) who could go with less food. They would have more personal wealth and there would be more food available for others, but this will not keep feeding people indefinitely. The world's population today could not have lived on the food supply of ages past, even if everybody was on strict rations.
I think you're suggesting that if you save a gallon of gas or a loaf of bread a week, that next week you'll have to make it up by consuming an extra to make up your personal deficit. And that would be true if you'd saved the gallon of gas my not making a trip this week that you have to make up for the next. But if you can reduce your car's "appetite" for fuel, so that it simply requires less fuel to do the same work, then you don't have that personal fuel deficit to make up. You left a gallon of fuel at the station, effectively "adding it to the market".
I'll agree that that's no reason not to pursue long term remedies at the same time. Conservation now can give us a little breathing room, especially if it's something as painless as checking the tires.
So we need to market bags that are trendy and won't get grungy? What a shame not destroying the environment requires that the good choice also be stylish. I wonder where the threshold for survival vs. trendiness is?
As far as the filthiness/grunginess of the bag is concerned, you could argue that attaching cleaning/washing instructions makes good sense. Cleaning is, after all, a form of maintenance, and good maintenance reduces premature disposal.
There is nothing wrong with the employer checking up the quality of your health before buying. If you make that illegal, you should outlaw Consumer Reports and, in particular, their repair-history database...
Your employer is not agreeing to buy your labor for the rest of your life. In just about every US state, an individual is an "at will" employee. So the timeframe an employer is committing for is something between maybe 1 and 80 hours of labor. You don't really need detailed files to determine if someone is likely to live through the day or the week. Now if an employer were to sign an iron-clad contract to pay you for your labors at a year or ten at a time, then your health might be a legitimate issue.
Social Security, Welfare, Medicare and Medicaid exceed the entire military AND discretional [sic] budget (not just the Iraq war) and all are horribly broken.
Think how many countries we could occupy if we weren't wasting all our money on social programs!
[I]f you really want fiscally responsible policies... vote them all out of office and start taking care of yourself for a change.
Since you make the "start taking care of yourself" suggestion in contrast to the "knee-jerk, liberally biased" programs such as Social Security, Welfare, Medicare and Medicaid, I'll just say that you and I -- and everyone else -- were born naked and helpless. We depended on others to provide us with food, shelter and clothing until we could provide for ourselves. The condition of our births was in no way a result of any planning, effort or desire on our own parts. We did not earn the ability to take care of ourselves through our own virtue or labors, and our continued good fortune is only partly within our own power to ensure.
My interpretation of TFA (and not necessarily the policy/practice) is that the Government reserves the right to decide which information can cross the border into the US, whether by electronic or physical means. Presumably, this would include subversive and seditious materials, i.e., those that strongly challenged the administration.