That opens the prospect of a new generation of bug zappers that kill only certain insects or just females rather than males.
Males are the throwaway gender. Need to get the egg bearing females to reduce the population. Then the males will fight over the remaining females until they're also reduced.
Win-Win!
[John ]
Perhaps. But the more folks who start out on 2 wheels, the more observant they are of the surrounding area and of motorcyclists. So bring it on. The more, the better.
[John]
I think he's stolen my idea. I have three of these motor-driven cycles. One working model (with 120,000 miles on the clock), one with some minor electrical problems that I'm ironing out (22,000 miles before the problems started), and one that has minimal electronics that I'm in the process of building.
The bastard!
[John]
The rationale given for the regulation change that requires auto companies to sell through dealers is that it ensures “consumer protection”. If you believe this, Gov. Christie has a bridge closure he wants to sell you! Unless they are referring to the mafia version of “protection”, this is obviously untrue. As anyone who has been through the conventional auto dealer purchase process knows, consumer protection is pretty much the furthest thing from the typical car dealer’s mind.
Ow, that's gotta hurt!
[John]
That's what the cloud is. Paper.
[John]
Like watching DVDs I own or renting DVDs or something more like watching Hulu maybe.
Nope. Don't watch Netflix or Hulu or any on line streaming video other than the occasional music video or guitar instruction video.
My time is spent working on computer projects, learning/playing guitar, and reading books with occasional DVD watching.
[John]
I tend to get Salmon more than anything else and farm raised Salmon tastes like plastic to me. I'll occasionally get trout or swordfish but generally it's Salmon.
[John]
Sure I don't expect my wife to do all that work. But I find that when I do it, I'm not meeting her expectations of clean/cooking. She goes behind me and cleans it to her satisfaction. So it ends up that she does all that work around the house. I'll pick up my stuff and put things in the sink or dishwasher but I won't go shopping (unless it's with her) and won't clean or cook unless she's away.
I do yardwork (cleanup; mow, gutters, roof, leaves, trim bushes but no design stuff), manage the garage, and keep the vehicles going and build things.
If it has to do with the inside though, it's off limits (unless I'm doing the work like painting or moving furniture).
With that said, that's in the past now. She bailed a couple of years back so I do _all_ the work now. Turns out I'm a lot pickier about keeping the house clean than she was. She just needed to be in control.
[John]
But all you need is one person who's willing to be exploited in order to get a better job/more pay to mess this up.
Personally I work extra hours because of stuff I do to make the job more enjoyable. I create scripts to retrieve information from servers in order to catch problems before they get worse. I'm certainly not doing it to try and get a better job.
[John]
Perhaps. But if you only have steak every so often, it's more of a treat. Daily for me is generally chicken with the occasional hamburger and one day a week of fish (non-farm raised thank you very much). Steak is very much a special occasion thing for me.
[John]
Stupid people on the internet again. Hey, why not just bring up google and type in "convert 1.5 quarts to quatloos" or whatever your preferred method of measure is? Mandarin is the most common language on Earth. Why aren't we typing in a sensible language like Mandarin?
Idiot.
[John]
Last time I watched a WNBA game? I think I saw part of one years ago.
Even more telling, the last time I watched an NBA game. I've seen bits here and there, mostly in the news I think.
The last time I watched any sports at all? Well, my girlfriend made me watch the last 3 or 4 football games including the Superbowl
The last time I watched any sports because I _wanted_ to was a couple of years back when I watched MotoGP racing.
[John]
Ain't that the truth. Our recent company wide all hands meeting offered congratulations to three of the four departments in the company for work they did. The department that was ignored? Operations. Talk about feeling unwelcome.
[John]
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.
