Good job. That ought to convince a half dozen maroons that you weren’t acting like a spoiled brat.
Everyone makes an ass out of themselves form time to time. The best way to handle it is to step away from the situation - stop being angry, take your hat off and apologize.
Working on a Saturday, yet again. Wherever I work, I find myself tied to proprietary and slow web applications. On the upside, this means that I have time to browse the web.
I blow a big raspberry to the thought processes that got Justia into trouble at all, but cooler heads prevailed and now anyone can delve into Oregon’s laws all they want.
Seriously, Flesh of Christ is a freaking color? Also, Christ was peach colored? And there were dinosaurs on the Ark? I knew I was missing out on learning the whole story when I skipped religion class in high school. Then again, it was a Catholic high school, so I probably just missed the pederasty. Am I right, am I right? Huzzah!
PS: Work is making me go insane (but pictures like this certainly aren’t helping). Cut it out, Internet!
Well, I’ve never tried real farming or working with dynamite before, but this pamphlet has me pretty much sold on the idea that Farming with Dynamite is a truly awesome way to go about life.
Aside from the indubitable charm of combining a respected agricultural tradition with large explosions, the booklet is very much a marketing gem. From 1910, an easy and clear read; you should take the time to read it yourself. Excellent wording, data presentation and well conveyed buoyant enthusiasm.
Also, if you know where I can get an inexpensive farm and some dynamite, please let me know. I want to blow holes in the ground and then plant things there. Cultural metaphors, I’m looking at you!
I am very sick and tired of hearing people whine about how the big, evil, Bear Stearns bank got bailed out, but the little guy - Joe Homeowner - is left out to dry and isn’t getting any mortgage relief. “It’s corporate welfare!!!” “It’s so unfair!!!”
Well, you know freaking what? Joe Homeowner isn’t being left out to dry by the bailout. You know why? Because there are a hell of a lot fewer stupid homeowners than reasonable homeowners who bought homes sensibly and are making their payments. So the average homeowner isn’t screwed over by the bailout, they’re helped.
You know why?
Because if a large firm like Bear Stearns goes tits up without any bailout, that affects the WHOLE national and international economy - negatively. That sends the dollar down in value. This means that everything else (especially imported goods) cost more.
In a perfect world, we wouldn’t have elected (TWICE!) the morons that caused the dollar to tank in the first place, so our economy would have been able to withstand the ripple from a bank failure. But an already compromised dollar? It can’t take it! The bailout was necessary to preserve not only the the big wigs, but also the average person who needs to buy food and keep a roof over their heads (even if it’s *gasp* rented).
Now, if some silly bastard takes out a loan that they can’t pay, and they can’t get out of the loan by selling their property because their house value dropped and their mortgage is valued higher than the house - they get foreclosed on. This means that they have to move out, get an apartment, and deal with a black mark on their credit record. Further, if the bank has to sell the house at a price lower than the mortgage was worth the time of foreclosure, the former homeowner does in fact owe the difference. This is part of the mortgage contract that was signed. This isn’t unique. This is how virtually all loans in the modern world work. If you can’t pay the difference (that you contractually owe), then you can declare bankruptcy and get a slightly larger black mark on your credit. This does NOT take away your ability to live within your means in apartment. It just means that you have bad credit and rent instead of owning.
I own a home. I bought within my means. And barring a very severe economic downturn, I’ll be able to continue affording it. In fact, even if I lost my job and had no money in reserve, my unemployment check alone would cover not only my monthly mortgage and utility bills but would even have room left over for other things, like gas and food.
That doesn’t mean I didn’t get a little jealous (and vaguely suspicious) when I saw acquaintances in my same income level purchasing far more expensive and luxurious homes.
But how many of those people are still in those homes? Just one - and he’s up to his ass in debt that keeps mounting.
In summation, if Bear Stearns went down without any bailout, it would affect the purchasing power of every dollar in the US - affecting everyone. Especially those that had even larger debts to pay off due to mortgage defaults. More importantly though, it would greatly affect all the people out there who made good decisions.
Come to think of it, allowing a financial failure that affects even those who made the right choices is just like re-electing George W. Bush a third time. Unconscionably moronic.
I hate Sony. For too long has their proprietary shit machines have bummed me out. Everything, that is, except their consoles.
When the Wii and PS3 launched, I bought a Wii - because that was the sensible thing to do. I don’t need a $600 video game console with $50 games. Especially not when I just built a $1200 smoking fast desktop PC.
And yet, hooker killing in a game that might make me feel bad about it beckons mightily…
And if rt would just tell how the media streaming is, I could finally make a choice to abstain, or to plunge headlong into a fiery chasm of vicarious violence that offers an appalling look at myself in a world with slightly fewer consequences.
Update
Okay, so the PS3 doesn’t actually function as a network media streamer. Very disappointing.
If you want to stream media to the PS3, it looks like you have to run some app on *another* computer on your network to stream media that’s been selected in the app to the PS3.
Weak sauce, Sony - royal weak sauce.
Looks like a Mac mini is in my future.
(Well, either a mac mini or another soft-modded original xbox, which functions pretty damn well as a media streamer, with the exception of easy non-xbox remote setup…)
Gee, I don’t know - but I can tell how Hillary Clinton’s adviser feels about the working class *and* black people. God only knows what he thinks of working class black people. What a classist, racist tool!
Oooh…. I want!
60 mpg and the ability to run biodiesel? Sounds damn good to me.
The best part of this news? It probably means that a mass-produced biodiesel-electric hybrid is right around the corner. I can’t wait!
Kudos to Patagonia for being such recycling badasses.
The only possible downside is that they seemed to put all their focus on underwear; I imagine that any capilene clothing item could be recycled in their program. I bet there are a lot more old and ratty capilene shirts and (liner) socks than capilene underwear. Of course, underwear is funnier than socks or shirts…
