Comment Re:This is news? (Score 1) 217
'In living memory'? Ask George Takei what he remembers from his childhood.
'In living memory'? Ask George Takei what he remembers from his childhood.
Now if only trucks or trains could be used to transport lithium...
How many factory workers were middle class, during this heyday of which you speak?
In the 50's and 60's? Most of them.
"Heads, I win, tails, you lose" isn't a new scenario.
The militaries of the world take people who are 'just' farmers all the time. Most equipment is made to be operated by and maintained by average guys of average intelligence. (Depending on the level of mechanization of the farm, the proverbial farmer may be overqualified to operate some machinery)
He's one cowboy away from a Brokeback Mountain.
How do you lose the advantage of the skin when it is cut prior to cooking? I'm seriously at a loss here.
(As far as your other observations, I don't know. Seems odd to me that you couldn't find something considerably better than TH for considerably less than $100. I suspect part of the problem is not knowing the area and which non-chain restaurants to hit. Chains are almost invariably aimed at the lowest common denominator)
There's a helluva lot of territory between Tim Horton's and $100 meals.
And what's wrong with fries fried with skin on? Most of the nutritive value of a potato is in the skin.
"Works for me. Close ticket"
That's not how science works.
Can someone explain this with a car analogy?
Star Trek Into Darkness:Star Trek The Wrath of Khan
No idea about the laser.
Isn't this probaly one of the foremost National Security issues of the US? The freaking Stock Exchanges? You're telling me they don't know to what end, or who was in it?
If even part of this is true, this country really is FUCKED! All the way to the top!
Guess who didn't RTFA?
And the Republicans will blame Clinton for everything
I don't see how, given how much more the Gingrich House got done than the Boehner House has.
Because blowjobs!
In most cases, you would end up paying for the Ex-Wife's apartment and one for you without the hopes of having a mistress because you are broke.
If you need money to get companionship, you may want to invest that same money into buying a personality.
It would actually be easy enough for Walmart to anonymize them, by simply recording the transaction as "$50 Prepaid Debit Card" and not record which particular debit card number went to which customer. Also, if you anonymously acquire a prepaid debit card used for a transaction involved with some nefarious purpose, you still don't get picked up, because it may trace to that transaction, but it doesn't trace to you.
It would actually be easy enough for Walmart to switch to paper debit cards that had the amount of the card printed on the front. When you used that card, the cashier simply gave you lower-denomination of cards (say, a $5 debit card when you paid for a 5 dollar item with a $10 debit card).
Once this practice became pervasive enough, unfortunately the government would have to step in to create rules and regulations as to how all the printing would appear, and to prevent fraud. I suggest they mandate the use of engraved printing plates; green magnetic ink; and heavy cotton rag for the card. Oh, and to certain security features like holograms, watermarks, embedded plastic strips, etc.
My god, the level of convenience we'd enjoy would blow away any other form of paying for goods and services literally overnight.
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.
