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Stop milking it guys.-Stephen66515 (January 16, 2015, 07:41 PM)
It truly is astonishing how these fools who were put in place to enact the will of the people...-Stoic Joker (January 16, 2015, 04:56 PM)
People on this thread be like:
(see attachment in previous post)-Stephen66515 (January 16, 2015, 07:26 PM)
Idea: Invent a cell-phone-signal-blocker for a sunvisor or dashboard. Maybe with a 10 yard radius.
This could save some lives, help prevent some road-rage and make people pull off the road to talk.-crabby3 (January 15, 2015, 09:52 AM)
They exist, but are usually illegal. There are quite a few films that I've seen in the past that won awards and had lots of praise, and turned out to be some of the worst drivel.-Renegade (January 13, 2015, 09:14 PM)
I generally attribute it to one of the worst possible scams a writer can try to pull: Being deliberately obscure in the hopes someone will mistakenly think you're profound.-40hz (January 14, 2015, 09:29 PM)
I know everyone will think I'm either kidding and being sarcastic, or paranoid.-Renegade (January 14, 2015, 08:31 PM)
Now why would anybody here ever possibly think a thing like that?-40hz (January 14, 2015, 09:05 PM)
Mowing the lawn.
The price of robo-mowers is way too high.-bit (January 14, 2015, 09:02 PM)
Rather than a highly 'inefficient' and difficult to maintain grass lawn, why not just naturalize?
Possible answers:
- Too much personal fondness for the color green to give it up
- Non-standard landscaping may reduce your property's market value
- You have small livestock to feed
- Your homeowner's association agreement may not allow it
- It may be illegal where you live (no joke btw!)
-40hz (January 14, 2015, 09:11 PM)
+1 w/Renegade. I'm actually doing as much as possible to reduce my technical and energy footprint these days. My new goal: As little as possible - and simplify, simplify, simplify.
-40hz (January 12, 2015, 06:14 PM)
Home automation could actually reduce your energy footprint though.-phitsc (January 13, 2015, 01:35 AM)
These everyday angels were Hell’s Angels
In the early 1960s, my wife, Anne Sarsfield Martin; our 3-year-old daughter, Leslie Jane Marshall (who now lives in Oregon); and I drove from San Francisco and across the Golden Gate Bridge to see the giant redwoods in Muir Woods.
There was little traffic, especially on the side roads. We were passing through an isolated area when we had a flat tire. And when I opened the trunk, I discovered the spare was also flat.
We waited for more than two hours, and no cars came by. Finally, we heard a rumbling noise approaching. It was a group of about 15 Hell’s Angels on their Harley-Davidsons. They pulled over and, needless to say, I was quite apprehensive. We were sitting on a fallen tree, and they all joined us there.
Two of the ladies riding with them asked whether we had eaten. I told them no, so one of them opened a saddlebag and brought us sandwiches and juice. The guys asked if I needed help in changing the tire and I explained the spare was flat. They told us not to worry, and two of them took the tires, somehow strapped them to the back of their bikes, and roared off.
The rest stayed with us and seemed to have a good time playing with our daughter, who loved all the attention.
About an hour later, the two returned with both tires repaired. When I got up to help put the tire back on the car, they told me to just relax. In no time at all, they had one tire on the ground and the other stored in the trunk. I tried to pay them for the garage bill and their time, but they refused to accept anything.
After handshakes and some back-slapping, they drove off. I know that the Hell’s Angels, as well as other motorcycle groups, get bad publicity, but you will never hear any of that from us. We would never call them gangs. Now, whenever I pass a group of bikers, I make it a point to wave.
You never know who will be your angel.
"When we do right, nobody remembers. When we do wrong, nobody forgets."
The New CISPA Bill Is Literally Exactly the Same as the Last One
The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over expecting different results. That's a cliche, but politicians often follow the hoariest routes to power, and attempting to enact change by doing the same thing repeatedly is one of them. When word broke last week that the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, the twice-defeated bill known as CISPA, was being re-revived by Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.), it wasn't clear if the zombie legislation would be updated to address the myriad concerns with previous versions. We combed through the full text of the bill and, nope, it's exactly the same, word for word for overly broad data-scooping power-granting word.
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The Evolution of Auto Show ‘Booth Babes’ - WSJ-Arizona Hot (January 14, 2015, 05:12 PM)
... and if encryption is banned, then the government can't use encryption either ...-Deozaan (January 13, 2015, 12:28 PM)
Since when did the laws of a country ever apply equally to its people and its Government ?-4wd (January 13, 2015, 11:17 PM)
For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what
was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single
Commandment. It ran:
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
After that it did not seem strange when next day the pigs who were
supervising the work of the farm all carried whips in their trotters.
No such thing. Ideas are a dime a dozen. Implementation is what changes the world.-Vurbal (January 13, 2015, 08:23 PM)
I'm not quite sure why this film has attained the nascent cult status it has.-40hz (January 13, 2015, 08:44 PM)
