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« on: February 26, 2012, 10:03:02 AM »
In no order what so ever.... My Name is Nobody Million Dollar Baby The Fountain The Longest Day Those Magnificent Men and their Flying Machines Dr. Strangelove Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, Mon Uncle, Playtime (Tati made excellent movies in general) Scaramouche Gone with the Wind the Man Who Would be King La Cage Aux Folles (the original...) Good Bye, Lenin! Extreme Measures Pan's Labyrinth It's a Wonderful Life Schindler's List Amelie The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Paint Your Wagon Le Professionel La Chevre The Life of Brian Monty Python and the Holy Grail M*A*S*H That's a mix of a bunch of genres from several counties....There are other movies that I want to see/are on my list that I'm sure I'd add later 
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« on: February 18, 2012, 06:00:05 PM »
I'm a high-heel girl. I wear them probably two out of three days. I'm a weirdo, heels tend to cause me fewer foot problems than most flats (I get blisters from most shoes). I love how they make me look, so it's win-win! I wear boots or mayjane-type flats on the days I don't wear heels. I also were waders in the field (the boots that are also overalls). You're all jealous, I know. 
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« on: February 17, 2012, 02:56:41 PM »
Well, it's not a company, but it looks like I won't be visiting Atlantic City, and I'll be suggesting to my friends that they avoid it, too. They're bringing back diving horses (where they make a horse dive 40 feet into a pool), and won't get a single penny from me until they cancel it.
Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think it is the city of Atlantic City that is doing it. It doesn't really make sense to not visit a city just because one company there is doing something unsavory especially since I don't think the city can do anything to stop it.
Edit: The company that was going to do it canceled anyways.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/15/us-usa-horses-diving-idUSTRE81E20M20120215
They did just cancel it, but I posted this before they did. It was the company that runs the boardwalk area, and they were doing it with support from city officials, so I think it did make sense. Especially since they were doing it to bring people into the city, since the boardwalk and casinos are the attractions there.
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« on: February 13, 2012, 10:28:48 AM »
Well, it's not a company, but it looks like I won't be visiting Atlantic City, and I'll be suggesting to my friends that they avoid it, too. They're bringing back diving horses (where they make a horse dive 40 feet into a pool), and won't get a single penny from me until they cancel it.
I also try to avoid big food chains and buy local, free-range, etc. when possible (though I live on imported cheese).
I try to avoid Walmart (I'd rather pay more for stuff that I won't wear out).
I won't be buying anything from Susan G. Komen again.
I don't buy any fast food.
I don't eat at one restaurant near me that gave me food poisoning...
I won't use Geek Squad (because they have ripped my boyfriend and me off repeatedly by fixing things that weren't broken, ignoring what we brought the computers in for, at the end of the warranty, so that we then have to pay to get it fixed) OR the small computer repair shop nearby (because they charged me for parts that my computer didn't need, couldn't fix it anyway, offered me a refund for the parts, and then no matter how often I contact them, never refunded me).
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« on: January 31, 2012, 05:44:57 AM »
I'm happy I'm not the only one who didn't know it (even though it is 7574 Kilometers / 4706 Miles away, I still think I should know it)
I think I'm going to sneak some into packages in the future too.
do you guys also have a "causion there is milk inside" label on cheese or something?
when I was a kid I noticed this stuff by myself like knives are sharp, heating is hot,...... how can that change?
No, but we do have labels saying that your hot beverage may be hot, your soup may be hot after removing it from the microwave, and that peanuts may contain nuts (which I guess sort of makes sense because peanuts aren't really nuts and someone may be fine with peanuts and allergic to tree nuts, but it sound silly). For a while, they were trying to make hot dogs a different shape (like hamburger shaped) because kids would occasionally choke on one.
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« on: January 25, 2012, 05:44:00 AM »
It's awful. I worked a year or two ago at a temp agency front desk while I did my Masters. I took resumes from people looking for a job. We seriously only staffed admin/receptionist/secretary jobs and we had PhDs and surgeons trying to get jobs with us because they couldn't find a job elsewhere. Seriously, people who could normally make 60-100K+ a year trying for a temporary, part-time admin job at $10/hour. It was really, really depressing.
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« on: January 19, 2012, 08:46:15 AM »
I just listened to the interview. Nuclear disasters are scary. They're deadly. They have a lot of really bad effects, some of them long term. What happened in Japan is absolutely a tragedy. But, still, fewer people are killed/given health issues by nuclear power than coal, oil, biomass, hydro, etc., even considering disasters such as Chernobyl. (from http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html): | Energy Source | Death Rate (deaths per TWh) | | Coal – world average | 161 (26% of world energy, 50% of electricity) | | Coal – China | 278 | | Coal – USA | 15 | | Oil | 36 (36% of world energy) | | Natural Gas | 4 (21% of world energy) | | Biofuel/Biomass | 12 | | Peat | 12 | | Solar (rooftop) | 0.44 (less than 0.1% of world energy) | | Wind | 0.15 (less than 1% of world energy) | | Hydro | 0.10 (Europe death rate, 2.2% of world energy) | | Hydro - world including Banqiao) | 1.4 (about 2500 TWh/yr and 171,000 Banqiao dead) | | Nuclear | 0.04 (5.9% of world energy) |
Nuclear energy currently cleaner (as far as carbon emissions) than almost anything else we have, including solar (due to manufacture of the solar cell and such). See http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/iea-comparison-of-sources-of.html for a summary of IEA tables or Life-Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation Systems and Applications for Climate Change Policy Analysis by Paul Meier, particularly table 6, for more information on CO2 emissions. Waste storage is, in my opinion, the biggest issue with nuclear. Nuclear is also fairly efficient. While I don't think that nuclear power is the final answer, I think it would be a good transition from what we're using now to renewable, sustainable sources as they become efficient and cheap enough for general use. Unfortunately, with our grid and energy demands, solar, wind and other renewable sources are just not efficient enough. They work well as additional sources, but are not efficient enough for the whole population to switch entirely to them. Hopefully someday they'll be able to be used in a wide-spread sort of way, but more significantly research needs to go into their development first. It is definitely something we have to try to make safer, but from the table above, clearly it's already one of the least deadly ways to generate energy. Additionally, having looked up the speaker online, it seems his big “claim to fame” is that baking soda cures cancer, so I’m not sure how strongly I buy his other opinions. But either way, it was interesting and thought provoking. Thanks for posting it!
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