Jinx? If you and Dreg have been using my moisturizer again I'm going to have to rip off your scaly- hey, what's the deal with your face?

Glory ,'Potential'


Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - Mar 02, 2006 11:47:18 am PST #927 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Hmmm....

NAPLES, Fla. - If Domino's Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan has his way, a new town being built in Florida will be governed according to strict Roman Catholic principles, with no place to get an abortion, pornography or birth control.

The pizza magnate is bankrolling the project with at least $250 million and calls it "God's will."

Civil libertarians say the plan is unconstitutional and are threatening to sue.

...

Homebuyers in Ave Maria will own their property outright. But Monaghan and Barron Collier will control all commercial real estate in the town, meaning they could insert provisions in leases to restrict the sale of certain items.

"I believe all of history is just one big battle between good and evil. I don't want to be on the sidelines," Monaghan, who sold Domino's Pizza in 1998 to devote himself to doing good works, said in a recent Newsweek interview.

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Is this a terrible infringement of people's rights? Or is it a case of, "If you don't like the rules then don't move there"?

I dunno - I think it's a bad precedent. What if half the towns in a given area that you wanted to live in were organized like this?


msbelle - Mar 02, 2006 11:51:18 am PST #928 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

The town must follow the laws of the state and the nation. If it takes away rights guaranteed from either of those then no way no how. Unless there is some private community/membership thing that can get them beyond that.

Also, I'd never choose to live there, but I wouldn;t choose to live in a dry town either and there are plenty of those.


§ ita § - Mar 02, 2006 11:53:24 am PST #929 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't want to be a full time PM, but I do want to be as excellent as my skillz will allow. Hence the studying and stuff.

Plus I haven't gotten certified in anything for forever.


Jesse - Mar 02, 2006 12:02:11 pm PST #930 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Municipalities can do a lot with zoning. Like the dry thing.

I don't want to be a full time PM, but I do want to be as excellent as my skillz will allow. Hence the studying and stuff.

Oh, sure. Go you.


tommyrot - Mar 02, 2006 12:04:25 pm PST #931 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Drunk pig fired from cannon

Probably stills from a film of some sort - hopefully fictional. Although if it was real, it appears the pig survived unharmed.


JZ - Mar 02, 2006 12:04:57 pm PST #932 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Is this a terrible infringement of people's rights? Or is it a case of, "If you don't like the rules then don't move there"?

There was some talk about this in the letters to the editor column of Salon (for once, reasonable and with hardly any whackaloon participation), and the consensus seemed to be that if they want to make themselves an entirely insular, self-selected, private and self-supporting community, it may possibly (maybe) be sorta legal, or at least unlikely to be challenged by any of the community members who, after all, are choosing to live there. But if they ask for or expect any federal, state, or local gov't funds to assist with virtually anything -- 911 phone service, sanitation, fire and police depts., etc. -- they may be SOL.


msbelle - Mar 02, 2006 12:05:28 pm PST #933 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I have never been certified for anything, well, except CPR. Nothing job related. I am sure I could get something out of the PMBOK, but I can't even find the time to figure out MSProject for our projects, so I don't see it happening anytime soon. And the idea of taking classes is below undesirable.


§ ita § - Mar 02, 2006 12:12:24 pm PST #934 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

  • CNA
  • CDA
  • CCDA
  • MCSP
  • HP ASE

And some HP UX certs I forget the details of. Now, I've never used a box running HP UX, but why should that stop me being certified? When the company needed to be able to sell something, as tech manager I was handed the certification requirements list and got to decide who took what. If we just needed one, I farmed it out to the team. If we needed two, I took one and passed one exam on.

I can't even find the time to figure out MSProject for our projects

Do you do GANTT charts? How do you perform resource levelling, and rescheduling when dependencies wiggle?


tommyrot - Mar 02, 2006 12:14:35 pm PST #935 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

No one has any thoughts/opinions on drunk pigs fired from cannon?

ION.... imagine this news item being read by cat newscasters:

Del Monte Foods Co. agreed to buy Meow Mix Holdings Inc., the second-largest dry cat-food maker, for $705 million from Cypress Group LLC to add to its Kibbles 'n Bits and 9 Lives brands.

Del Monte also agreed to sell its private-label soup and infant-food businesses to TreeHouse Foods Inc. for about $275 million. Meow Mix had 2005 revenue of about $250 million and will add ``meaningfully'' to earnings in fiscal 2008, San Francisco- based Del Monte said today in a statement.

...

``The divestiture was definitely a positive,'' Atlanta-based Susquehanna Financial Group LLP analyst Tom Morabito, who has a ``neutral'' rating on the stock, said in an interview. ``Either you have branded or private label. It's tough to be both. I do think they paid too much for the Meow Mix business.''

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Aims - Mar 02, 2006 12:15:33 pm PST #936 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

When making pot roast in a slow cooker, how important is it that you sear the meat first?