Comment: Re:That is just weird (Score 1) 468
As for outbound messages, it is a great private medium. I am free to say something about someone/something without those close to me knowing what I am saying. It doesn't interfere with the other person if they are somewhere that they cannot answer, and you have a record of the conversation. This can be more effective for the old, "On your way home pick up, milk, bread and eggs." calls.
Comment: Re:More importantly (Score 0, Troll) 654
Comment: Re:More importantly (Score 1) 654
Education Official Says Bad Teachers Can Be Good For Students 279
from the hiring-on-a-curve dept.
Comment: Re:leisure suit larry (Score 2, Funny) 460
Comment: What loons! (Score 0) 174
Comment: Re:I live in the southwest US (Score 1) 487
Well the houses are built much closer together, so a fire in wooden housing will (and has often enough in the past) spread to the entire neighborhood.
I live in an early 1800's urban, wooden home. Wooden beams, wooden floors, wooden siding, wooden lathe to hold the plaster. We have more fire houses than any other area I have ever seen. When these go up in flames, they do so in a dramatic fashion. I suspect that my 10"-12" ceiling joists would burn quite a while...
Comment: Re:I live in the southwest US (Score 1) 487
I have an upright, partially, because it has shelves. I do bulk cooking, and I freeze things laying flat on cookie sheets, and then deal with them again once they are frozen hard. In a chest freezer, there are no shelves. It's one big garbage bin.
Comment: Re:Attic (Score 1) 487
Comment: Re:Subject! (Score 1) 487
Comment: Re:Might sound like a troll but isn't intended as (Score 1) 487
Think about the way that men get screwed legally with regretted sex, that the next morning gets reclassified as rape. A woman wakes up from her drunken stupor, and looks over, and thinks, "I did WHO!??!?!" All that she has to say is, "He bought me drinks. I was not in control of myself!" Even if he drank 5 to every 1 of hers, his impairment doesn't count, and he is accountable for his actions, whereas she, is not. (This does NOT include serious drugs like animal Rx's like the paralytic drugs slipped into a drink, I am talking normal alcohol with a presumed known content.) Calling regretted sex is an affront to women who actually ARE raped, and, obviously, to the men who are abused by the courts on these issues.
Comment: Re:Might sound like a troll but isn't intended as (Score 1) 487
Comment: Re:Might sound like a troll but isn't intended as (Score 1) 487
President Obama, may I have a research grant for this, please?