Sadly one of the most watched things on netflix in my household is Mighty Machines which is a Canadian show. With 2 small boys it is a godsend and so much less grating that Hard Hat Harry.

If to you affluent is a hundred-dollar word then you obviously aren't part of the bourgeoisie and are probably just part of the proletariat.

Now that I am done with word fun I seem to frequently hear people describe others as affluent solely based off of their perceived net worth.

I'm not worried about things that happen after the heat death of the universe though. I will be long dead and gone.

The Brits use metric now it is only those old dodgy whitworth ones you have to be on the lookout for.

Just knock them out with a $5 wrench and call it good.

$5 doesn't get you a good wrench for hitting someone with as they are too small to be worth while. In the $20 to $30 range now you are talking. Personally I would just use a piece of 1/2" re-bar that is a couple of feet long much cheaper.

No he doesn't all he would have to do would be to go sit in on a session of congress.

Well an EMP would at least make the Lucas made electrical components consistent so there is a potential upside.

Sounds like the internal clock may be getting a bit flaky and/or at times you had some really bad multipath issues. I have had a handheld GPS correctly show bearing and speed but also be off by 10s of miles because it's internal clock had drifted too much while off. After a bit it had resynced the internal clock and probably downloaded the current almanac and did the snap to correct position thing.

So you mean $50,000 each for drinking fountains isn't making good use of our money?

What I have always wondered is if I wrote something down by hand using a super secrete unbreakable code that was related to a crime can I be forced to interpret that piece of paper for the police so they can understand it or can I tell them to go fuck themselves with a spindle sander? This is really what is happening with encrypted data I am being asked to interpret it for the police and it is data that is encoded in such a fashion that without my help they can't decipher it and at least to my non legal mind that seems awfully close to violating the 5th amendment.

If Alice is off killing trolls what is Bob doing? Looting their corpses before Eve gets there?

That is why I don't support big beef but will buy from a local farmer who is one of my father's friends. Compared to other cattle feeds corn also is very nutritionally lacking, it may be good for fattening them up quickly and cheaply (this part is changing) but it really isn't good for the cattle. Meat from properly raised cattle butchered at a quality shop flash frozen, not packed in CO2, and not treated with ammonia has such a wonderful flavor and smell. It also is a much darker red almost a purple when compared to the standard meat sold in a store. Problem is that unless the farmer has their own customer base for boutique meat they would prefer to pump them full of antibiotics, growth hormones, and cheap grain to get the ~200 extra pounds on each head all while getting them to market quicker.

Let us not forget about beet sugar which is produced in fairly large quantities around the red river valley (Warning xls spread sheet from the USDA). These 2 states produce about 1/2 the entire US crop of sugar beets (~15 million tons out of ~32 million tons) and both are also corn states too.

The Pepsi and Mt. Dew Throwback are still available where I live (Twin Cities metro area). Although I had heard an interesting stat that I don't know if it is true but seem reasonable that Minnesotans have the highest per capita consumption in the nation of Mt. Dew so that may be part of the reasons. Another guess (purely speculative) would be that we grow a lot of sugar beets.