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Romial commented on SL Letter of the Day: Gonna Boil My Laptop After Answering This One.
May 17
Romial commented on "Bus service shouldn't be optional—it should be a right.".
@33, I want to know where a non union driver can make 40 an hour driving in a legal (or even somewhat sane) manner. Being only slightly overpaid for this industry (based on how long I have been driving trucks since straight trucks don't count toward pay scale) I only make 22 dollars an hour when driving down the road at 65. Now that assumes a 65+ speed limit (not the case on the west coast) and that all I do is drive. Now we have to figure in things that are work but don't get me any pay. 1 to 11/2 hours a day doing a federally required inspection, fueling the truck takes time, loading and unloading take up a lot of time, and of course scale houses and DOT roadside inspections (which I always pass due to doing that mandated inspection) also take up time in my (nominal) 70 hour week. All of that extra stuff isn't paid by the way. I only get paid when the tires are turning. So on a good week I get somewhere around 15 dollars an hour for all the hours I work. No overtime or holiday pay either. No sick pay either for that matter. All so you can eat. Oh and I work for one of the GOOD companies that way. Not even owner operators (guys who own their own trucks and authority) get that much after expenses (fuel, truck taxes, repairs, etc ad nauseum).
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May 17
Romial commented on It's Spring! Who's Ready for Street Harassment?.
@132 for most of us being a pig is only a part time deal and only on special occasions.
But am I the only one who noticed that #71 item 11 part 1) has her (politely) saying nice tits to Cienna? Having never seen Cienna's breasts, in person or pictured, I have no opinion on them, but even if I did have an opinion on them I wouldn't be posting it or saying it to anyone with the probable exception of my girlfriend (yes I do have one). I would most certainly NOT post that opinion on SLOG like #71 did.
But am I the only one who noticed that #71 item 11 part 1) has her (politely) saying nice tits to Cienna? Having never seen Cienna's breasts, in person or pictured, I have no opinion on them, but even if I did have an opinion on them I wouldn't be posting it or saying it to anyone with the probable exception of my girlfriend (yes I do have one). I would most certainly NOT post that opinion on SLOG like #71 did.
May 15
Romial commented on "If it goes one inch further, I'm going to start killing people!".
@37 and his "I refused to renew their lease, yes. Just as I refuse to do business with any suppliers or subcontractors who are owned by or hire fags or dykes. If they wish to make war on decent people, marriage and family, I refuse to make it easier for them with my hard earned money."
So I take it you are growing your own food, making your own clothes (after making the cloth that you make them out of), and damn but you are also a licensed electrician and plumber along with a guy that can make every part of whatever you use for transportation and communication.
I just want to know how you are getting Internet access. I mean you aren't using a company that hires "fags and dykes" so you aren't using any communications company here in the US or even in most of the world. On top of that the top level providers that own the cables that carries the internet (and the satellites that help) all hire "fags and dykes" so you are an amazing guy who can post to slog without actually using ANY of the infrastructure that is required to do so for the rest of us mortals. You are truly amazing. So since to do all of that requires you to have god-like powers we just have to figure out who you are...
Lets see... Since the war in heaven (as described in the Revelation of St. John the Divine) hasn't happened yet (it is at the end after all) you can't be Lucifer or his minions since they still work for Jehovah (getting more and more pissed at his inept management style but still working for his dictatorship) which cuts down possibilities by a third. You can't be part of the 2/3rds that are loyal because interference on Earth is reserved by God for God and those he ORDERS to interfere with happenings on Earth. Since God has decreed that mankind is allowed free-will that limits what HE has allowed HIMSELF to do (except of course when he ignores that self-imposed limit) altho it does allow HIM to play agent-provocateur as long as HE doesn't actually do something divinely powered that materially affects humans. Of course HE can always ignore HIS self-imposed limits as HE has done lots of times in the past since those who follow HIM will say it was just done so that we can use our free-will for better purposes. So since you can not be anyone else (and no human can possibly have all of your knowledge and skills) can I (an unbeliever but easy to convert in this case) have your autograph Jehovah? I mean you know where I am so sending it should be simple. Heck you probably already know which truckstop I'll be parking at tonight (well early in the morning since I should be somewhat more accurate when typing at you) and can send it overnight there by conventional (human) means.
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So I take it you are growing your own food, making your own clothes (after making the cloth that you make them out of), and damn but you are also a licensed electrician and plumber along with a guy that can make every part of whatever you use for transportation and communication.
I just want to know how you are getting Internet access. I mean you aren't using a company that hires "fags and dykes" so you aren't using any communications company here in the US or even in most of the world. On top of that the top level providers that own the cables that carries the internet (and the satellites that help) all hire "fags and dykes" so you are an amazing guy who can post to slog without actually using ANY of the infrastructure that is required to do so for the rest of us mortals. You are truly amazing. So since to do all of that requires you to have god-like powers we just have to figure out who you are...
Lets see... Since the war in heaven (as described in the Revelation of St. John the Divine) hasn't happened yet (it is at the end after all) you can't be Lucifer or his minions since they still work for Jehovah (getting more and more pissed at his inept management style but still working for his dictatorship) which cuts down possibilities by a third. You can't be part of the 2/3rds that are loyal because interference on Earth is reserved by God for God and those he ORDERS to interfere with happenings on Earth. Since God has decreed that mankind is allowed free-will that limits what HE has allowed HIMSELF to do (except of course when he ignores that self-imposed limit) altho it does allow HIM to play agent-provocateur as long as HE doesn't actually do something divinely powered that materially affects humans. Of course HE can always ignore HIS self-imposed limits as HE has done lots of times in the past since those who follow HIM will say it was just done so that we can use our free-will for better purposes. So since you can not be anyone else (and no human can possibly have all of your knowledge and skills) can I (an unbeliever but easy to convert in this case) have your autograph Jehovah? I mean you know where I am so sending it should be simple. Heck you probably already know which truckstop I'll be parking at tonight (well early in the morning since I should be somewhat more accurate when typing at you) and can send it overnight there by conventional (human) means.
May 8
Romial commented on Distorted Coverage of May Day and SPD Conduct Show Need for Big Changes in Seattle.
What I wonder about is why is everyone saying that SPD used flash-bang GRENADES on the crowd? While they probably used a bang ball which is nowhere near a flash-bang grenade in effect they most certainly didn't use flash-bang grenades on that crowd. Flash-bangs tossed into a crowd will most certainly leave people bleeding from the ears. If one goes off right next to you then you will most certainly not be standing around talking about it to anyone for a while. More likely is that you will be laying there rolling around on the ground screaming loudly while blood drips out of your ears. I remember reading here on slog of one guy saying they used 3 of them on him. If they had fired 3 flash-bangs at his feet he wouldn't have been talking about it. At least not till the surgeons finished repairing his legs and feet and got lots of good painkillers in him while he healed from the skin grafts. Saying flash-bangs while meaning bang balls is like calling all firecrackers M-80's. But your standard blackcat firecracker, if held in an open palm, will usually cause just a small burn and a stinging pain that goes away fairly quickly while an M-80 held the same way will blast the skin off your palm if it doesn't just blast a hole all the way thru.
Flash bangs are designed to stun or incapacitate people which takes a fairly decent sized powder charge with appropriate damage if you are too close to it while a bang ball is designed to make the target stop and hopefully start thinking about what he or she is doing and stop doing it.
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Flash bangs are designed to stun or incapacitate people which takes a fairly decent sized powder charge with appropriate damage if you are too close to it while a bang ball is designed to make the target stop and hopefully start thinking about what he or she is doing and stop doing it.
May 7
Romial commented on US Senate Approves Internet Sales Tax.
@31 When talking about the "Texas Miracle" it helps to note that DFW is the headquarters of just about all of those companies that sell gasoline in the US. Those same companies do indeed do a lot of oil and gas drilling (and fracking) but those are NOT low paying jobs. Even a low on the scale roustabout gets a much better than simply living wage while roughnecks on up do better than that. And yes roughneck and roustabout are actual job titles. They also don't hire illegals, but that is mainly because most of those don't speak english well enough to keep from getting killed on the job site. Oil drilling pays well because it is dangerous and you don't want the guy next to you not being able to either warn you or understand your warning him.
Houston is where all that oil is refined. Think of that area as the worlds largest petro-chemical plant and you get why it always has jobs. Along with one of the larger port complexes in the US also adding jobs since a lot of companies would rather not use either NY or the LA area ports.
Austin has the title of silicon valley east for a very good reason. Lots of computer related companies there. Some of which are in the actual silicon valley area also but when they needed more real estate found it was a lot cheaper to open a satellite office in Austin than to simply add on in CA.
To give you an idea of just how large the petro-chem complex in the Houston area is... Dow Chemical plants alone cover more area than the (actual) city of Seattle. That doesn't even begin to cover the space the actual refineries use up. For that matter if you toss a couple of the refineries in with Dow you can cover the entire 84 square miles of the Seattle metro area. When you have a couple of hundred square miles of petro-chemical plants it is amazing how many jobs you can have. We may be uncivilized, have a nutcase for a governor and smog that sometimes comes close to LA (amazing it doesn't surpass LA considering the draconian EPA laws in Cali and the, um, rather lax ones in Texas) but we do have jobs.
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Houston is where all that oil is refined. Think of that area as the worlds largest petro-chemical plant and you get why it always has jobs. Along with one of the larger port complexes in the US also adding jobs since a lot of companies would rather not use either NY or the LA area ports.
Austin has the title of silicon valley east for a very good reason. Lots of computer related companies there. Some of which are in the actual silicon valley area also but when they needed more real estate found it was a lot cheaper to open a satellite office in Austin than to simply add on in CA.
To give you an idea of just how large the petro-chem complex in the Houston area is... Dow Chemical plants alone cover more area than the (actual) city of Seattle. That doesn't even begin to cover the space the actual refineries use up. For that matter if you toss a couple of the refineries in with Dow you can cover the entire 84 square miles of the Seattle metro area. When you have a couple of hundred square miles of petro-chemical plants it is amazing how many jobs you can have. We may be uncivilized, have a nutcase for a governor and smog that sometimes comes close to LA (amazing it doesn't surpass LA considering the draconian EPA laws in Cali and the, um, rather lax ones in Texas) but we do have jobs.
May 5
Romial commented on Remember When Hotmail Was Cool?.
@35 Of course PINE wasn't ELM. In some ways it was worse (in version 1 that is). And if you are going to talk about us old fogeys and our arguments then also include the ones about whether papertape or punch cards were better (its papertape by a landslide). Having used PINE and ELM and others from that era, I think I will continue with my nice, modern, off-line capable Email client.
Regretfully I do have to agree with Bax up there that they did a good job on the redesign of Outlook.com altho I don't do much with my hotmail/outlook account any more. Was using hotmail before the buyout and used it after but it has never really been my primary email account. I never thought of it as cool tho. Cool was having an AIM account that had only 5 numbers or less. The lower the better. (mine was 5 digits starting with a 1). Real nerd cool was spending a week with a friend soldering 4K of ram onto a daughter-board to build a micro-computer in the days before you could buy one pre-built. Super cool is watching a kids face when he tells me that "HE" (it is always young guys for some reason) has been using computers all his life and therefor knows what he is talking about crumple when I mention that I was using computers before his parents were born so I might know a few things about them. I just don't mention that practically anything with a computer chip in it has more capability than that System 32 machine did.
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Regretfully I do have to agree with Bax up there that they did a good job on the redesign of Outlook.com altho I don't do much with my hotmail/outlook account any more. Was using hotmail before the buyout and used it after but it has never really been my primary email account. I never thought of it as cool tho. Cool was having an AIM account that had only 5 numbers or less. The lower the better. (mine was 5 digits starting with a 1). Real nerd cool was spending a week with a friend soldering 4K of ram onto a daughter-board to build a micro-computer in the days before you could buy one pre-built. Super cool is watching a kids face when he tells me that "HE" (it is always young guys for some reason) has been using computers all his life and therefor knows what he is talking about crumple when I mention that I was using computers before his parents were born so I might know a few things about them. I just don't mention that practically anything with a computer chip in it has more capability than that System 32 machine did.
Apr 12
Romial commented on How to Make SLU an Affordable Neighborhood.
@34
About all you can really say for the Houston way of doing things is that it works. For Houston. It would never work in Seattle. In fact I don't think it would work anywhere that already has zoning laws. Houston works because it was all set up when the neighborhoods were indeed neighborhoods (and lots of them still are) and there are codicils in the deeds that limit what you can do on a piece of property. Changing them requires a court order and the courts are VERY reluctant to approve a change. Besides you can be sure your neighbors will show up at the hearing to say NO. And they will be listened to.
I really can't see the people of Seattle doing block by block agreements about what can be done with their property. I can see you people telling OTHERS what they can do with their property but not see you wanting those same people telling you what can be done with yours and you putting that in as a deed restriction.
About all you can really say for the Houston way of doing things is that it works. For Houston. It would never work in Seattle. In fact I don't think it would work anywhere that already has zoning laws. Houston works because it was all set up when the neighborhoods were indeed neighborhoods (and lots of them still are) and there are codicils in the deeds that limit what you can do on a piece of property. Changing them requires a court order and the courts are VERY reluctant to approve a change. Besides you can be sure your neighbors will show up at the hearing to say NO. And they will be listened to.
I really can't see the people of Seattle doing block by block agreements about what can be done with their property. I can see you people telling OTHERS what they can do with their property but not see you wanting those same people telling you what can be done with yours and you putting that in as a deed restriction.
Apr 9
Romial commented on Nice Try, Pro-Gun Poster.
I see seattleblues is back from hiding out in Italy. Makes me wonder if I should have asked my future in-laws to make him so welcome in Italy that he stayed there. I'm sure both the Gambino and Castiliano families could have come up with something to entice him to stay there.
And before someone comments... Yes I am aware that my in-laws to be are the reason Italy had to construct a super secure and highly fortified courtroom.
And before someone comments... Yes I am aware that my in-laws to be are the reason Italy had to construct a super secure and highly fortified courtroom.
Apr 2
Romial commented on Only Straight People Can Get Pregnant By Accident.
ok not first. I tried tho.
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