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  • Martel
    Martel Posts: 3,306 ✭✭✭✭
    Yakster said:
    It's grant money for an experiment, none of it comes out of Stockton's budget.  
    I'm going to have to ask my buddy in Stockton about this, now.  

    Okay, here's what he said, paraphrased: it's rich people giving poor people their money voluntarily through the grant process.  People need to shut up about California. We feed the country.
    Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

    I like Oliva and Quesada (including Regius) a lot.  I will smoke anything, though.
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2018
    @Martel

    youve got me confused. (Not so difficult, really). Your sign-in says “Somewhere in PA” but you’re sticking up for California. Whassup??
  • Martel
    Martel Posts: 3,306 ✭✭✭✭
    jlmarta said:
    @Martel

    youve got me confused. (Not so difficult, really). Your sign-in says “Somewhere in PA” but you’re sticking up for California. Whassup??
    We're all in this together. Mostly, I just hate false narratives that build up over stuff like this.

    Though in full disclosure, I did go to college in SoCal.
    Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

    I like Oliva and Quesada (including Regius) a lot.  I will smoke anything, though.
  • jw517
    jw517 Posts: 234 ✭✭✭
    Did you see that launch today? The boosters landed back on the ground at the same moment! Best thing I've seen in years! Fantastic!
  • jw517
    jw517 Posts: 234 ✭✭✭
    That's beautiful!
  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Have to applaud that business plan
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Martel said:
    Yakster said:
    It's grant money for an experiment, none of it comes out of Stockton's budget.  
    I'm going to have to ask my buddy in Stockton about this, now.  

    Okay, here's what he said, paraphrased: it's rich people giving poor people their money voluntarily through the grant process.  People need to shut up about California. We feed the country.
    I actually heard an interview with the mayor of Stockton about this recently on the radio, which is how I knew.  
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  • jw517
    jw517 Posts: 234 ✭✭✭
    Martel said:
    Yakster said:
    It's grant money for an experiment, none of it comes out of Stockton's budget.  
    I'm going to have to ask my buddy in Stockton about this, now.  

    Okay, here's what he said, paraphrased: it's rich people giving poor people their money voluntarily through the grant process.  People need to shut up about California. We feed the country.
    Thank you for feeding me!  Cali.is a "Santuary" for the needy.
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I just read an online article about NY lawmakers passing new laws regarding the packaging of laundry detergents to keep people from eating it.  Yes, I've heard of "the Challenge", but considered this natures way of weeding out the idiots.

    Is it just me?  Or, does anyone else consider this a huge waste of time and taxes?  Shouldn't we want to weed out the idiots?
    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Amos_Umwhat said:
    I just read an online article about NY lawmakers passing new laws regarding the packaging of laundry detergents to keep people from eating it.  Yes, I've heard of "the Challenge", but considered this natures way of weeding out the idiots.

    Is it just me?  Or, does anyone else consider this a huge waste of time and taxes?  Shouldn't we want to weed out the idiots?
    Would an idiot dumb enough to eat Tide pods read, comprehend, and obey a written warning?
    Are there enough of them to worry about?
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
  • deadman
    deadman Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2018

    Sometimes you have to skip the Orbit and go straight to the Tide.
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dang, your making me laugh in the bathroom at work.
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  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yakster said:
    Dang, your making me laugh in the bathroom at work.
    That's funny itself.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,566 ✭✭✭✭✭
    not so sure I like where technology might take this:

    Wearable scanners will be able to read our minds
    Tiny pixel sizes, light analysis and blood flow maps mark big advance on MRI machines
    https://www.ft.com/content/bfd733b0-e501-11e7-a685-5634466a6915
  • deadman
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    https://reason.com/blog/2018/02/09/this-sociology-professor-insists-austral

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,566 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ^I tried going to college, twice. The academic ego was unpleasant. Maybe I got the wrong professors.
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,566 ✭✭✭✭✭
    goodbye news papers
    "I believe at least 10 years is what we can see in the U.S. for our print products," New York Times (NYSE:NYT) CEO Mark Thompson told CNBC, but admitted that printing presses might face an expiration date. "The key thing for us is that we're pivoting, he declared. Revenue from digital subscriptions increased more than 51% in Q4, while the company added 157,000 digital subscribers.
  • webmost
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    https://youtu.be/80TkJ-A5JB0
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,566 ✭✭✭✭✭
    just the beginning, middle class is going to keep getting squeezed:

    "The American consumer is loading up. Total household debt rose by $193B to an all-time high of $13.15T at year-end 2017 from the previous quarter, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Center for Microeconomic Data. It was the fifth consecutive year of annual household debt growth with increases in the mortgage, student, auto and credit card categories."
  • Stubble
    Stubble Posts: 10,210 ✭✭✭✭✭
    webmost said:
    https://youtu.be/80TkJ-A5JB0
    Flip flopping like a fish out of water.  That is one ugly man behind Swinestien.....
    Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I just saw a headline on the Yahoo News feed claiming that San Ramon High School, somewhere near San Francisco CA, has banned the playing of the National Anthem at school functions because it's "racist and outdated".

    Is this even possible?  Fake news?  I don't know.
    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • Wylaff
    Wylaff Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭✭✭
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/student-apparently-dead-bodies-classroom-door/story?id=53089556

    I really wish people were making this stuff up...
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  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2018
    Wylaff said:
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/student-apparently-dead-bodies-classroom-door/story?id=53089556

    I really wish people were making this stuff up...

    The FBI new about him months ago. 

    Grandma turned this one in.
    http://video.foxnews.com/v/5734413827001/?#sp=show-clips
  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2018

    Lawmakers pass bill to take guns away from those deemed at risk of suicide, shooting sprees


    So what prevents them from deciding anyone is a risk?
    If someone doesn't like you, they can report you as a risk and they can take your guns?

    I can see this going very badly.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • Diver43
    Diver43 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2018
    0patience said:

    Lawmakers pass bill to take guns away from those deemed at risk of suicide, shooting sprees


    So what prevents them from deciding anyone is a risk?
    If someone doesn't like you, they can report you as a risk and they can take your guns?

    I can see this going very badly.
    Knock Knock, good morning, you have been deemed a risk, where are your guns?  Locked in the safe.  Open the safe, we are here to confiscate them.  No

    What happens next?
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  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2018
    And the in-flight movie was Blazing Saddles, right?  

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/pilot-forced-make-emergency-landing-12038181

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