Hmm.. in this country there aren't enough farmers, so subsidies are basically the only way to keep local farmers in business! If there is a steady stream of imported foods then that's fine, but in a serious war situation or if there was some kind of trade blockade in and out of our country we'd be pretty screwed without any national agriculture..:P
People that have to struggle just to survive tend not to have other stupid problems like sitting around all day listening to emo music and slitting their wrists, or just sitting all day in front of the TV/computer. They still have problems but I think people that live in places like that are happier. A friend was over in Peru for a few months recently and commented on how content and relaxed everyone was even in conditions which we would consider pretty poor.
You can store for example grain without refridgeration as long as it is kept fairly cool and dry. You can store animals live and feed them on grain.. seriously, people did actually survive somehow before we had freezers and t'internet. Transport can be accomplished via animals. Or if the government had a decent level of sensibility and control, they could restrict fuel to only vehicles providing important infrastructure like food and possibly public transport. But the public would never stand for that (and I don't blame them, I like driving:p )
He said 'we', which is more likely to mean america than those that survive. It's obvious that we couldn't support the same population level, but the rest of the world would sort itself out and get along fine without American imports. It was me that said we've done it before. You can store food without fuel. You can transport food without fuel (fuel as in oil based fuels, obviously you will need food to feed the animals). Thanks for the compliment though, at least I know I have a place in our world's future, pulling carts.
Yeah I realise that lots of people in each country will die until some kind of balance is reached. Hopefully people won't be stupid enough to.. oh, wait.. nevermind.
You just have to read into the words.
"Patient Assistance Programs and also assits with InsuranceVerifications and Prior Authorizations...essentially, we are the good guys of the healthcare industry:-)"
Obviously he works for Microsoft, quietly destroying other peoples patents and valuable property, all the while sucking on candy as any good evil mastermind should.
Not really, it's just dumb to think that one country is 'better' than another from how much oil is on its territory. Better in natural selection terms is the country that will survive in adverse conditions.
No, the real reason is that this manager has no clue and likes to choose really strange battles. Like telling me I can't use the cupboard behind my new desk, because it was bought for the previous occupier of the desk, who had left the company by the time the cupboard had arrived.. everyone else, including my own line manager, reckoned that it was my cupboard, but this particular manager is WEIRD. And not the cool kind of weird, just a strange bitchy manipulative kind of weird.
We managed it fine before, we can do it again.. it maybe isn't quite as pleasant and easygoing as the way we do things now, but I didn't like the OPs attitude that oil > all, despite the current economic realities of that fact.
No.. I'm implying that just because some guy thinks America is better off because it has oil, isn't true unless they can ration their supply or find an alternative before it runs out. Food is much more important than fossil fuels or even biofuels
One of our managers doesn't trust anyone. That can be good in some cases, but she started telling me that I should be locking fricking £5 mice away because "we can't trust the engineers" who were authorised into that room not to steal the mice. If they were going to be stealing £5 items then I think that basically we aren't paying them enough anyway. Sometimes you can be wrong about people, but I trust everyone else in the engineering dept here not to steal frickin mice (considering these guys daily deal with equipment that is worth thousands of pounds). The sad thing is that in the same room there are much more valuable pieces of equipment, but since she is an office worker (and a really poor one at that), she thinks of the mice as valuable. I don't know how she still has a job -.-
Maybe she had a defect from birth that wasn't able to be repaired because the heart was in use, and now that it's had a chance to repair itself, she will be okay
well.. consider that your heart has to keep beating your whole life. Hers has had a nice little holiday, hopefully her heart will be able to cope after that. No, IANADoctor
And your signature should be "I think the mosquitoeses have figured out how to hackz into my internetz". Your userid is possibly one of the strangely sexiest ones I've seen so far. There's a definite rhythmic pattern thang going on there.
I doubt you can speak for every/.'er. Though personally I prefer the truth over all too. If the truth is that horrific then you maybe need to change your attitude towards it rather than try to ignore it..
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Not to be a math troll, but wouldn't it become a 2D plane rather than a 3D surface? Anti-aircraft guns should soon sort out that problem :P
Discovering that you can build an even more cost effective supercomputer than these guys: priceless
Yep it's pathetic. I've actually been working here for a few more years than her if you count working over summer while I was at Uni
There's always cannibalism! I jest, I jest.. though some people would try it no doubt.
Hmm.. in this country there aren't enough farmers, so subsidies are basically the only way to keep local farmers in business! If there is a steady stream of imported foods then that's fine, but in a serious war situation or if there was some kind of trade blockade in and out of our country we'd be pretty screwed without any national agriculture.. :P
People that have to struggle just to survive tend not to have other stupid problems like sitting around all day listening to emo music and slitting their wrists, or just sitting all day in front of the TV/computer. They still have problems but I think people that live in places like that are happier. A friend was over in Peru for a few months recently and commented on how content and relaxed everyone was even in conditions which we would consider pretty poor.
You can store for example grain without refridgeration as long as it is kept fairly cool and dry. You can store animals live and feed them on grain.. seriously, people did actually survive somehow before we had freezers and t'internet. Transport can be accomplished via animals. Or if the government had a decent level of sensibility and control, they could restrict fuel to only vehicles providing important infrastructure like food and possibly public transport. But the public would never stand for that (and I don't blame them, I like driving :p )
He said 'we', which is more likely to mean america than those that survive. It's obvious that we couldn't support the same population level, but the rest of the world would sort itself out and get along fine without American imports. It was me that said we've done it before. You can store food without fuel. You can transport food without fuel (fuel as in oil based fuels, obviously you will need food to feed the animals). Thanks for the compliment though, at least I know I have a place in our world's future, pulling carts.
Yeah I realise that lots of people in each country will die until some kind of balance is reached. Hopefully people won't be stupid enough to.. oh, wait.. nevermind.
Hopefully you get extra holidays at least? If not then you need a new job, or to renegotiate your contract..!
You just have to read into the words. "Patient Assistance Programs and also assits with Insurance Verifications and Prior Authorizations...essentially, we are the good guys of the healthcare industry:-)"
Obviously he works for Microsoft, quietly destroying other peoples patents and valuable property, all the while sucking on candy as any good evil mastermind should.
You're suggesting that somehow the whoooole rest of the frickin world would die if America stopped exporting stuff?
Not really, it's just dumb to think that one country is 'better' than another from how much oil is on its territory. Better in natural selection terms is the country that will survive in adverse conditions.
Who said I was from the US? o_0000000000000000000
And I thought Canada was the largest producer of grain (wheat at the very least)
No, the real reason is that this manager has no clue and likes to choose really strange battles. Like telling me I can't use the cupboard behind my new desk, because it was bought for the previous occupier of the desk, who had left the company by the time the cupboard had arrived.. everyone else, including my own line manager, reckoned that it was my cupboard, but this particular manager is WEIRD. And not the cool kind of weird, just a strange bitchy manipulative kind of weird.
We managed it fine before, we can do it again.. it maybe isn't quite as pleasant and easygoing as the way we do things now, but I didn't like the OPs attitude that oil > all, despite the current economic realities of that fact.
No.. I'm implying that just because some guy thinks America is better off because it has oil, isn't true unless they can ration their supply or find an alternative before it runs out. Food is much more important than fossil fuels or even biofuels
Rice tastes better anyway. I'd rather be able to eat for a few decades than drive around until I die of starvation
One of our managers doesn't trust anyone. That can be good in some cases, but she started telling me that I should be locking fricking £5 mice away because "we can't trust the engineers" who were authorised into that room not to steal the mice. If they were going to be stealing £5 items then I think that basically we aren't paying them enough anyway. Sometimes you can be wrong about people, but I trust everyone else in the engineering dept here not to steal frickin mice (considering these guys daily deal with equipment that is worth thousands of pounds). The sad thing is that in the same room there are much more valuable pieces of equipment, but since she is an office worker (and a really poor one at that), she thinks of the mice as valuable. I don't know how she still has a job -.-
Maybe she had a defect from birth that wasn't able to be repaired because the heart was in use, and now that it's had a chance to repair itself, she will be okay
well.. consider that your heart has to keep beating your whole life. Hers has had a nice little holiday, hopefully her heart will be able to cope after that. No, IANADoctor
Meh - as long as he has decent boobs too then it's okay
And your signature should be "I think the mosquitoeses have figured out how to hackz into my internetz". Your userid is possibly one of the strangely sexiest ones I've seen so far. There's a definite rhythmic pattern thang going on there.
I doubt you can speak for every /.'er. Though personally I prefer the truth over all too. If the truth is that horrific then you maybe need to change your attitude towards it rather than try to ignore it..