It must be a sad world in your neck of the woods or you're plain trolling. Gun ownership is much lower in Europe, you've been watching too many action movies "located" there.
I also don't see why you felt compelled to bring in the 2nd; the topic had nothing to do with it and nobody referred to it. Just take a deep breath and cool down.
Unfortunately, the major carriers keep scaling down the voice repeaters to increase the data bandwidth instead. The network I'm on (Sprint) is getting worse and worse for pure voice calls, with new dead zones appearing very frequently - all in a metropolitan area.
Soon the voice service will be so bad you'll be happy to permanently switch to VoIP.
what's bollocks is your assertion that the relative crime rate in Europe vs. US has anything to do with the death penalty. Easy access to guns in US has much, much, much more to do with the crime rate.
Finally an insightful comment! As opposed to the plethora of idiotic "buggy whip" vanilla bs.
That's debatable. I like my wheat beer without any extra taste (including the acidic lemon wedge), so that I can enjoy the yeast, dough and bread flavors.
Hefeweiser is liquid bread indeed and I love bread...
Chickens a make noise, all the time. They poop FAR more then you think, they're are stupid and do stupid things. They get diseases, there are predators, they die, they can fly over fences
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I usually appreciate your comments but you're dead wrong about this subject.
In my block of SFH there are 4 people keeping chicken (myself included) and there is hardly any noise related to the chicken. The only noise they make is after they've laid an egg. No rooster allowed though.
If you keep the run dry (roof against rain and covered with absorbent things, such as straw), there is no smell at all from their poop, which anyway is not an issue.
Chicken are not stupid, especially if they live in decent conditions (not crowded, clean environment, fresh water, nutritious food, gentle handling etc). Some breeds are quite smart for a bird (Ameraucana comes to mind). Almost all will protect themselves from day predators (hawks etc), especially in a backyard context. At night, you keep the coop closed, so there's no risk.
If they're well fed, chicken will not be able to fly over a 8' fence once they're reaching adulthood (but maybe the bantam do).
As for diseases, they almost never get sick if properly cared for. Good food, enough room and clean coop/run go a long way in keeping the (vet.) doctor away.
yeah, that phrase sounds awfully pretentious, but This' book has some interesting bits about why some things work in the kitchen the way they do. Understanding why you're doing something when cooking makes you a better and more consistent cook.
In the order of importance (for a residential setting):
1) good range or rangetop. The burners better be open style and capable of at least 15kBTU (22k and up to do wokking right)
2) good rangehood. At least 600-700CFM, baffle filters.
3) good oven, either in a range or stand-alone. Size is important, but evenness of baking is much more so. Steam capability optional.
4) good set of utensils. Many competing schools of thought regarding pans (I personally prefer cast iron in almost any situation), just avoid the non-stick coated thin aluminum junk. Good knives and even better knife sharpener.
Everything else is secondary, maybe the fridge/freezer are sitting on a distant #5.
Oh, and sous-vide is, i.m.o., overrated.
3) my kinetic (ie self-winding) windup watch will always be able to tell the time, so long as I keep it wound and don't break it.
Are you sure about this? It may sound stupid, but at least the Seiko Kinetic *does* contain a small battery (why not a super-capacitor?) that needs to be changed every 8 to 10 years or so and is a PITA to do it...
"shut up and take my money!" mentality.
from Lucifer's Hammer. It opens ones eyes when first reading it...
The exception being post World War II with the Marshal Plan. Which planning for that began in 1943 and by 1945 the government had managed to twist the arms of a lot of academics, economists, finance, and high ranking industry officials to spend two years post war to help rebuild western Europe.
Are you that ill-informed or just plain stupid? The Marshall plan, while quite successful, was mostly a hacked stop-gap idea in the wake of the very disastrous Morgenthau plan.
Out of respect for the hundreds of thousand German people who perished after the end of WW2, please get more informed instead of spouting elementary-level history nonsense.
Prop 8 is a California-specific law and a clear majority of votes were in its favor. You're likely as ignorant about what Prop 8 is all about (hence the stupid comment regarding "dehumanizing") as you are regarding its context.
This works very well for the medical industry, because without their strict licensing practices we could be flooded with foreign doctors just like we are with H1Bs.
Sensible argument but completely wrong regarding the medical field. The US medical system is flooded with foreign doctors (with some exceptions, mostly in the highest earning specialties).
There is some bias towards the US-trained doctors, but not much; after all, no matter where you graduated the Medical School, you still have to pass the USMLE tests, go through a residency and obtain a Medical License.
awesome MADTv sketch?
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
