My staff are mostly very young - I call them 'the kids'. — Tom Storm
However, physics is not suitable for describing living systems. — Wolfgang
I think in the Zappa song, ultimately there is no boss, horses get rid, cawfee gets drunk, and no work gets done. — Metaphysician Undercover
You must know "Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow". — Metaphysician Undercover
maybe the fact that I called them underlings didn’t help. — Jamal
I can't really say being a boss is better than being an employee. As an employee, your job is to do your job, but a boss' job is to make sure others do their jobs, and the only ones you deal with are those that don't. — Hanover
I don’t always laugh at your jokes, but this is one is comedy gold. — Jamal
I’ve been a big Zappa fan since I was twelve — Jamal
The song's great. — Metaphysician Undercover
Well, you know, they are all kind of related, having arrived in the Hemisphere at roughly the same time--some 20,000 years ago. It's like, say, if the French were the only group to find the western hemisphere 20,000 years ago and crossed on the since-melted glaciers, we'd now have a whole hemisphere of food snobs, haute couture, and pointless philosophy. — BC
Capitalism is just about making a profit. Capitalist politics is about creating volatility. If you think of it as just being about greed, you're missing something important about it. — frank
Assuming the reference was to some song about Montana, what does me going to New Hampshire have to do with it? — Hanover
I'll be traveling to NH soon. Jackson. — Hanover
I am referring to all law in my theoretical critique of law per se. — quintillus
Not doing something is what is known as a negative act. — quintillus
My proffer is that we first render everyone reflectively free. — quintillus
...being in possession of reflective understanding of his or her existential ontological freedom... — quintillus
Congratulations to T Clark - the first person to mention "dental floss tycoon" on TPF. — BC
Law is an existing written factual theoretical construct which, because it is a given state of affairs, cannot possibly be determinative of the acts of human beings, who act solely on the basis of not yet achieved absences. — quintillus
Translocation of shorebird siblings shows intraspecific variation in migration routines to arise after fledging
- Tracking reveals enormous variation in migratory routines, but what is the source?
- Young hand-raised godwits, matched for parentage, were moved 1,000 km east
- Translocated juveniles adopted the pattern of migration of the population at release
- Thus, migration of young godwits is not just shaped by genes and maternal material — Current Biology
Velveeta was specifically designed to provide nourishment in a post apocalyptic, radioactive world. It was meant as a provocation to the USSR. It says: we're ready for whatever you have to launch in our direction. We have stockpiles of hydrocarbons that will never rot due to technology extracted from alien spacecrafts. Yes, it tastes like secretions from some unspecified orifice (which it is), but we don't care. We can take it. — frank
If science has been made paramount due to the hourglass perception that the mirage will end when all of us run out of sand, is there a conflict raging between the existential angst of the morality of perception and its symbols which is reifying defensive materials which are strong and durable but are not hopeful symbols of an ideal oasis? — introbert
I don’t know what Velveeta is. Sounds disgusting. — Jamal
Velveeta is a brand name for a processed cheese product similar to American cheese. It was invented in 1918 by Emil Frey of the "Monroe Cheese Company" in Monroe, New York. In 1923, "The Velveeta Cheese Company" was incorporated as a separate company... The firm was purchased by Kraft Foods Inc. in 1927. — Wikipedia
I would like to do a tour of all the places that the British controlled, exploited, owned, or destroyed. More impressive than your short list of little CIA-sponsored coup d’etats and illegally funded right-wing rebel movements. — Jamal
I thought you were in South America
— frank
I am not, and never have been, and would one day quite like to be, at least for a couple of weeks. — Jamal
↪Jamal
Me too. — frank
Thankfully I did not resemble a tardigrade. I was and still am a toothpick. — Noble Dust
That's a good donut. There's also a Boston cream pie version with custard inside and a dark chocolate glaze on top. — frank
sufganiyot — Hanover
Sufganiyah... is a round jelly doughnut eaten in Israel and around the world on the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. The doughnut is deep-fried, injected with jam or custard, and then topped with powdered sugar. The doughnut recipe originated in Europe in the 16th century, and by the 19th century was known as a Berliner in Germany. — Wikipedia
I only ever ate the Bavarian and the jam one in fairness. — Baden
Definitely will try it again sometime in the future, but, I wasn't really feeling it at the moment, especially towards the last 100 or so pages of my reading. — Manuel
It is impossible that 100% of the time when a UFO crashes, the government gets to the scene first and cleans it perfectly outside the presence of any witness or video. — Hanover
To me this means it's the worst of chocolates. — Noble Dust
On the other hand, this is problematic. — Noble Dust
I don't think Hersey's milk chocolate is especially great, either. — BC
Nestle's is Swiss, like cheese. — Hanover
Those are alright. They were 50 cents each in Thailand. Ate plenty of 'em. — Baden
That photo might be worse than the teeth thing, — Noble Dust