It's true. Out of the plethoral diversity of jobs I've taken, car salesman was one I ducked out of for moral reasons. During the morning I shadowed experienced sales, during the afternoon, I trained from "the book". Basically , it's a book that shows you HOW to lie, what you can get away with and the techniques for prying money from innocents hands for a car that may or may not suit them. You don't care, as long as they spend MORE money than they came in to spend. I woke up one morning two weeks later, fixed breakfast, stayed home and felt good about myself. I had another job by afternoon.
So far I've been through many computers, with many players on many OSs. I still haven't found the combination that would make my hoard a decent home radio station/jukebox. They all crash, whine about memory and just when things work just about tolerably....a new version comes along and screws it all to grease. I started out with winamp and when it started adding features and bloat, I had to jettison it. I liked the features, but many didn't work or worked marginally. The more they fixed it the more broke it got. I was actually fond of VLC for a while and still use it for some things, but it's not the one. The desire to make up a media serving station is an old one, I can still do it with unacceptable limitations, like only a few gigs of playlist at a time, or something light that lacks features, but then I'm not going to do this on a NEW computer, it really needs to be an older workhorse, cram it with ram and drives and stick it on the network.
There was a time Winamp was "probably" destined to handle large loads like that. Then It became bloatware and was obese.Then it packed on the features and it was morbidly obese. It's just holding on till it can pack that last Tbsp. of butter into its heart. Then they pull the plug.
"I have never had a ticket, not once. I have been pulled over for speeding a few times, but the police I dealt with were people and I treated them like people."
Time's a comin', you'll get one that is clearly not people and instructions on where to pay or contest the ticket.
You have my sympathy. Cops are pretty much the same everywhere. They tend to draw the outcast who lack power and have felt belittled in their social roles, so they see it as empowerment. Like politicians, the problem is; anyone wanting to be one, probably should be prevented from being one. Sticky situation....
I didn't say we were there, I'm communicating , that is where it is going. If you haven't been paying attention since the world trade center bombing, the U.S. is all about security at any cost, including our "guaranteed" rights. We already hear what happens to captured foreign detainees, we won't hear what happens to the domestic ones. What we had is gone, what is coming is what my post is about. So if you don't feel like a sucker, you probably don't have anything to contrast the situation with.
30 years of profiling applicants with a test used nationally. These numbers are not collected and tallyed on a national basis. They are largely centered on 2-3 counties and some spread over 3 states. Locale isn't going to make a big enough difference to note. Standards aren't different enough from state to state to make a difference. I guess if you live in TV land it would be different, but not in the real world. Ax grinding doesn't do any good, this is more like a public service message.
What, you didn't think lying , corrupt cops would give directions or have social graces? You're basing your trust on their knowledge of bar locations and casual conversation? I think maybe your bar is set a little low. Everyone gets tickets from time to time, noobs and fat boys get to spend their time on radar patrol (not reflective of highway patrol), Two cases in 10 years of sexual assault out in the county by the radar boys, here. At least one case I heard from the horses mouth of marijuana confiscation coupled with emptying their wallet of money for the good officer. No, I won't put the weight solely on the shoulders of the radar losers, they are such a SMALL part of the problem as well as a small part of a larger force. Nope, I'm talkin mostly about the cruisers and detectives (no foot patrol here although the bike patrol in summer have shown their colors). I have personally caught two cruisers smoking pot and witnessed an officer on the highway drive by me with a head bobbing in his lap. I also knew a girl in the 80s who was raped by a radar boy, coming back from the lake, late one night. She was too scared to report it. Well, back in the 60s, the problem probably wasn't as publicized, social norms were different, but I doubt there was much difference from today. The job tends to draw a particular demographic (thanks to testing). Next to criminals, cops are the biggest threat to the everyman. No need to be a criminal , either.
My mind goes farther and farther back in time. When and where are you talking about? They were lying shit in the 70s and I presume the 60s from stories I hear. Beyond that the history books aren't kind either. I guess television always showed fictitious nice cops. I suppose the highway patrolmen touring the elementary school safety circuit are probably nice guys, but, those are the ones they send on tour. I'm fairly loaded with psych case histories and results of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory battery of tests of cops over the last 30 years or so in my area. They're fairly simple, power hungry and can have some pretty major deviations and will still be hired. That's the profile you get, here and elsewhere. As long as you're no brainiac, have no record and can read and write,you can be a real nut job and still be a cop fresh out of training and believe me, the majority do. The worst of them trickle down to the podunk towns after and if they get fired from urban areas. Here in my area of the state, there are 3 separate cases of incarcerating officers sexually assaulting suspects this year alone. There is also a regional rash THIS YEAR of 6 cases of suspects fleeing, jumping in ponds and drowning. Not years previous, just this year.This is a two county area I'm speaking of. We have two officers up for murder and one, a police trainer, convicted of murdering his wife and committing arson to cover it up. There aren't even a million people here. This is only the headline stuff too. Soooo much more. It ain't 9-11 anymore, the polish wore off and all we have left is punks with badges all the way up to Federal levels.
Doubtless there were hieroglyphs advertising those same dinners when they were first frozen. The ancient Egyptians were amazing. I like the turkey and the terriyaki too. I like the chicken if the sauce is not too blue....
No one said anything about monomolecular, but you. Haircutters make enough to support the sharpeners trade when he comes around, hair cutters. Sure it works fine to cut food. I'm sure she does the Edward scissorhands bit to a baron of roast. No? Doesn't make it look like a pig head? She could, if she had the tools....You would've thought of that if you had a tool, well, I got a tool , even if I don't use it well. Maybe she could say if I use it well Once upon a time, man cut food with a rock and it worked just fine.
Yeah, man. Keep the faith. Check out those rocket mass heaters though. They're pretty cool. My old Vogelzang stove is going out on the patio (on casters) so I can cook right beside my barbeque. Damn I love cooking outdoors.
Once I spray-glue several grits onto glass, they last a very long time, through many, many sharpenings. I doubt I spend a stones cost on sandpaper for that, in 5 years. I actually have some dusty old stones, even some diamond "stones". I break them out when I don't want to take the blade off the mower.
Yeah, yeah, I know, but I sharpen so many things, I still call it setting the angle. I have used a strop before. Now I use scary sharp for everything and have for years.
No stones needed, unless you are putting an initial bevel edge on it to begin with, in that case I start with an electric grindstone. I choose an angle suitable for task , jig it up and set the degrees for the tool. Then I spray glue a number of grits of wet/dry from 150 to 2000 (or more) to a sheet of glass. I jig up the blade once again, at the same angle, in a jig with a wheel and run that sucker back and forth over the wet sandpaper, grit by grit, till I see a mirror. I unjig and finish the tip by hand the same way. Stones are for the sentimental who have time on their hands. In this way I can make a maul into a razor or put a suitable edge on an axe. I could even put a razor edge back on a razor, I'm so damn cheap, I even resharpen X-acto blades. I haven't met a metal meant for a blade that I couldn't sharpen, appropriately or inappropriately.
Now we all know a razor edge on a maul would ruin the maul, but I have sharpened an ax to a razor point. It was old, had seen its day, had enough metal missing that it felt funny. It tore into the wood nicely for a few strokes, regressed to regular ax strokes, then faded into dullness after a couple trees. So , no, it isn't beneficial to sharpen THAT sharp. But you can. I have sharpened straights this way too. Yes, I can shave that way. Further, I use no "shaving cream", I only use water to shave.
Sorry, but a history of synthetic products , especially preservatives show many more trial and errors producing unhealthy results, than hitting one out of the park. Meanwhile natural food has a much better track record. Synthetic can turn up carcinogenic, it can upset hormonal balances, it can affect brain chemistry, it can affect your organs and no one is the wiser til' it's too late. Sure, some appear to do their job, but with a fail rate that the jury is still out on. Perhaps we should feed prisoners these things for a lifetime and take note before offering them to the public. Feel free to guinea pig yourself out. I'll eat a nice healthy meal.
Forgetting the whole thing is the only way to fix this. Providing you supplement it with regulating the health care industry, which IS constitutionally provided for as commerce. That means, controlling costs, setting better standards for medication, executing anyone involved in bribery, extortion, patent trolling or whining about false limitations on research. Finally then we do the same to insurance companies and cut the flow off to an appropriate amount. If we level the playing field, we can finally move forward. Jettison the current paradigm, it is the equivalent of "banging your head till it feels better", finally execute all the politicians supporting the current framework. To your health!
Puleeeez!! Talk to the hand.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_sharp Slice your tomatoes nicely, sharpen a butter knife and use it to impress your friends. Be the life of the party! This is easy and cheap. Sandpaper costs sooooo much less than sharpening paraphernalia. up to 2000 grit is usually sufficient for most jobs, but you can go up to 12000 grit if you really want to slice atoms.
If you merely invest in a tool without learning how to use it, your fear is realized. You might as well say, "learn to drive , and run the risk of having an accident". Let's focus on what IS probable so we don't look silly talking about possible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_sharp
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It's true. Out of the plethoral diversity of jobs I've taken, car salesman was one I ducked out of for moral reasons. During the morning I shadowed experienced sales, during the afternoon, I trained from "the book". Basically , it's a book that shows you HOW to lie, what you can get away with and the techniques for prying money from innocents hands for a car that may or may not suit them. You don't care, as long as they spend MORE money than they came in to spend. I woke up one morning two weeks later, fixed breakfast, stayed home and felt good about myself. I had another job by afternoon.
So far I've been through many computers, with many players on many OSs. I still haven't found the combination that would make my hoard a decent home radio station/jukebox. They all crash, whine about memory and just when things work just about tolerably....a new version comes along and screws it all to grease.
I started out with winamp and when it started adding features and bloat, I had to jettison it. I liked the features, but many didn't work or worked marginally. The more they fixed it the more broke it got. I was actually fond of VLC for a while and still use it for some things, but it's not the one.
The desire to make up a media serving station is an old one, I can still do it with unacceptable limitations, like only a few gigs of playlist at a time, or something light that lacks features, but then I'm not going to do this on a NEW computer, it really needs to be an older workhorse, cram it with ram and drives and stick it on the network.
There was a time Winamp was "probably" destined to handle large loads like that. Then It became bloatware and was obese.Then it packed on the features and it was morbidly obese. It's just holding on till it can pack that last Tbsp. of butter into its heart. Then they pull the plug.
Dunno, they never called me,either. Losers, well, you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. They knew they couldn't afford me.
"I have never had a ticket, not once. I have been pulled over for speeding a few times, but the police I dealt with were people and I treated them like people."
Time's a comin', you'll get one that is clearly not people and instructions on where to pay or contest the ticket.
You have my sympathy.
Cops are pretty much the same everywhere. They tend to draw the outcast who lack power and have felt belittled in their social roles, so they see it as empowerment. Like politicians, the problem is; anyone wanting to be one, probably should be prevented from being one. Sticky situation....
I didn't say we were there, I'm communicating , that is where it is going. If you haven't been paying attention since the world trade center bombing, the U.S. is all about security at any cost, including our "guaranteed" rights. We already hear what happens to captured foreign detainees, we won't hear what happens to the domestic ones. What we had is gone, what is coming is what my post is about. So if you don't feel like a sucker, you probably don't have anything to contrast the situation with.
30 years of profiling applicants with a test used nationally. These numbers are not collected and tallyed on a national basis. They are largely centered on 2-3 counties and some spread over 3 states. Locale isn't going to make a big enough difference to note. Standards aren't different enough from state to state to make a difference. I guess if you live in TV land it would be different, but not in the real world.
Ax grinding doesn't do any good, this is more like a public service message.
What, you didn't think lying , corrupt cops would give directions or have social graces? You're basing your trust on their knowledge of bar locations and casual conversation? I think maybe your bar is set a little low.
Everyone gets tickets from time to time, noobs and fat boys get to spend their time on radar patrol (not reflective of highway patrol), Two cases in 10 years of sexual assault out in the county by the radar boys, here. At least one case I heard from the horses mouth of marijuana confiscation coupled with emptying their wallet of money for the good officer.
No, I won't put the weight solely on the shoulders of the radar losers, they are such a SMALL part of the problem as well as a small part of a larger force.
Nope, I'm talkin mostly about the cruisers and detectives (no foot patrol here although the bike patrol in summer have shown their colors). I have personally caught two cruisers smoking pot and witnessed an officer on the highway drive by me with a head bobbing in his lap. I also knew a girl in the 80s who was raped by a radar boy, coming back from the lake, late one night. She was too scared to report it.
Well, back in the 60s, the problem probably wasn't as publicized, social norms were different, but I doubt there was much difference from today. The job tends to draw a particular demographic (thanks to testing).
Next to criminals, cops are the biggest threat to the everyman. No need to be a criminal , either.
My mind goes farther and farther back in time.
When and where are you talking about? They were lying shit in the 70s and I presume the 60s from stories I hear. Beyond that the history books aren't kind either. I guess television always showed fictitious nice cops. I suppose the highway patrolmen touring the elementary school safety circuit are probably nice guys, but, those are the ones they send on tour. I'm fairly loaded with psych case histories and results of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory battery of tests of cops over the last 30 years or so in my area. They're fairly simple, power hungry and can have some pretty major deviations and will still be hired. That's the profile you get, here and elsewhere. As long as you're no brainiac, have no record and can read and write,you can be a real nut job and still be a cop fresh out of training and believe me, the majority do. The worst of them trickle down to the podunk towns after and if they get fired from urban areas.
Here in my area of the state, there are 3 separate cases of incarcerating officers sexually assaulting suspects this year alone. There is also a regional rash THIS YEAR of 6 cases of suspects fleeing, jumping in ponds and drowning. Not years previous, just this year.This is a two county area I'm speaking of.
We have two officers up for murder and one, a police trainer, convicted of murdering his wife and committing arson to cover it up. There aren't even a million people here. This is only the headline stuff too. Soooo much more.
It ain't 9-11 anymore, the polish wore off and all we have left is punks with badges all the way up to Federal levels.
Doubtless there were hieroglyphs advertising those same dinners when they were first frozen. The ancient Egyptians were amazing.
I like the turkey and the terriyaki too.
I like the chicken if the sauce is not too blue....
Add water, makes its own sauce...
And they always used to portray that in movies as happening in "communist" countries to our parents and grandparents.
Feel like a sucker yet?
You can't believe a damn thing anyone in law enforcement says.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fZQWjDVKE
Never could, no point in starting any time soon.
Makes good family viewing. Especially your kids.
No one said anything about monomolecular, but you.
Haircutters make enough to support the sharpeners trade when he comes around, hair cutters.
Sure it works fine to cut food. I'm sure she does the Edward scissorhands bit to a baron of roast. No? Doesn't make it look like a pig head? She could, if she had the tools....You would've thought of that if you had a tool, well, I got a tool , even if I don't use it well. Maybe she could say if I use it well
Once upon a time, man cut food with a rock and it worked just fine.
Yeah, man. Keep the faith.
Check out those rocket mass heaters though.
They're pretty cool.
My old Vogelzang stove is going out on the patio (on casters) so I can cook right beside my barbeque. Damn I love cooking outdoors.
Once I spray-glue several grits onto glass, they last a very long time, through many, many sharpenings.
I doubt I spend a stones cost on sandpaper for that, in 5 years. I actually have some dusty old stones, even some diamond "stones". I break them out when I don't want to take the blade off the mower.
Yeah, yeah, I know, but I sharpen so many things, I still call it setting the angle.
I have used a strop before. Now I use scary sharp for everything and have for years.
No stones needed, unless you are putting an initial bevel edge on it to begin with, in that case I start with an electric grindstone. I choose an angle suitable for task , jig it up and set the degrees for the tool. Then I spray glue a number of grits of wet/dry from 150 to 2000 (or more) to a sheet of glass. I jig up the blade once again, at the same angle, in a jig with a wheel and run that sucker back and forth over the wet sandpaper, grit by grit, till I see a mirror. I unjig and finish the tip by hand the same way. Stones are for the sentimental who have time on their hands. In this way I can make a maul into a razor or put a suitable edge on an axe. I could even put a razor edge back on a razor, I'm so damn cheap, I even resharpen X-acto blades. I haven't met a metal meant for a blade that I couldn't sharpen, appropriately or inappropriately.
Now we all know a razor edge on a maul would ruin the maul, but I have sharpened an ax to a razor point. It was old, had seen its day, had enough metal missing that it felt funny. It tore into the wood nicely for a few strokes, regressed to regular ax strokes, then faded into dullness after a couple trees. So , no, it isn't beneficial to sharpen THAT sharp. But you can. I have sharpened straights this way too. Yes, I can shave that way. Further, I use no "shaving cream", I only use water to shave.
Sorry, but a history of synthetic products , especially preservatives show many more trial and errors producing unhealthy results, than hitting one out of the park. Meanwhile natural food has a much better track record. Synthetic can turn up carcinogenic, it can upset hormonal balances, it can affect brain chemistry, it can affect your organs and no one is the wiser til' it's too late. Sure, some appear to do their job, but with a fail rate that the jury is still out on.
Perhaps we should feed prisoners these things for a lifetime and take note before offering them to the public.
Feel free to guinea pig yourself out. I'll eat a nice healthy meal.
Forgetting the whole thing is the only way to fix this.
Providing you supplement it with regulating the health care industry, which IS constitutionally provided for as commerce.
That means, controlling costs, setting better standards for medication, executing anyone involved in bribery, extortion, patent trolling or whining about false limitations on research. Finally then we do the same to insurance companies and cut the flow off to an appropriate amount. If we level the playing field, we can finally move forward. Jettison the current paradigm, it is the equivalent of "banging your head till it feels better", finally execute all the politicians supporting the current framework.
To your health!
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Wisdom, tried and true , since barter was invented.
Puleeeez!!
Talk to the hand....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_sharp
Slice your tomatoes nicely, sharpen a butter knife and use it to impress your friends. Be the life of the party! This is easy and cheap.
Sandpaper costs sooooo much less than sharpening paraphernalia.
up to 2000 grit is usually sufficient for most jobs, but you can go up to 12000 grit if you really want to slice atoms.
If you merely invest in a tool without learning how to use it, your fear is realized.
You might as well say, "learn to drive , and run the risk of having an accident".
Let's focus on what IS probable so we don't look silly talking about possible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_sharp
NONE? REALLY?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_sharp
-1 lacks insight.