Official BBO Hijacked Thread Thread

[y66]

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[Winstonm]

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I believe I can fly.

[blackshoe]

So you can — but you'll have to deal with TSA first.

[y66]

Why Italians love Francis.

 

Excerpt:

 

“I look on the church as a field hospital after a battle,” he said in a recent interview. “There’s no point in asking a seriously injured man how high his blood sugar is! You tend his wounds.”

 

And there is much to tend. The new pope promises new takes on homosexuality, on couples who divorce and remarry, on relations with other religions and on the importance of conscience.

 

Francis has substituted a reluctance to accept papal office — a reluctance that led the cardinals to opt for Mr. Ratzinger, the German cardinal who became Benedict XVI, in 2005 — with ceaseless activity and disarming sincerity. “Heads of the church have often been narcissists, flattered and thrilled by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy,” he told the 89-year-old journalist (and atheist) Eugenio Scalfari.

 

Nor has he stopped at words. A few days ago the Vatican Bank closed the accounts of some 900 organizations and embassies, some of them suspected of money laundering. The Italian-Argentine Francis worked as a bouncer in his Buenos Aires youth — it may have helped.

 

...

 

Italy’s parish priests are particularly happy with him. With attendance at Sunday Mass now below 30 percent of the population, parishes are quick to welcome a pope who thrills believers and inspires respect in nonbelievers.

 

Francis likes people at least as much as Benedict XVI liked books. The German pope gave Catholics an unremitting theology lesson. The Argentine gives them reassurance and understanding. All you need is love. Don’t be surprised if Francis starts quoting John Lennon.

 

This pope communicates. Not because he tweets; the powerful everywhere do. Not because he calls strangers on the phone. Not because he paid the bill at the Domus Internationalis Paulus VI, where he stayed in the days before the conclave. Francis’s ability to communicate derives from empathy, not individual actions. Only Bill Clinton and the early Barack Obama showed the same ability to get on other people’s wavelengths.

 

When Francis moves among crowds, he catches the gifts they throw to him and gives a thumbs up. He poses for photos with students. When he met with the Argentine soccer team and one of the players, Ezequiel Lavezzi, promptly sat on the papal throne, Francis chuckled, “That’s my people!” adding later, “Now do you see why I’m like this?”

[y66]

Rethinking Big Water (pdf) by Erica Gies.

 

October 21, 2013 — Las Vegas has long served as a stereotype of human excess: gambling, drinking, sex, all-you-can-eat buffets. But the latest chapter is playing out away from the Strip, in the part of the valley where two decades of booming development have swelled the population to 2 million residents who rely on a dwindling water supply.

 

Ninety percent of the southwestern U.S. city’s drinking water comes from the Colorado River, impounded behind Hoover Dam in Lake Mead. An extended drought has sucked the lake’s water levels down more than 100 feet since 2000, and the pipes that convey the lake’s water to the city may soon protrude into open air.

 

If Las Vegas’ excess in trying to support the water needs of millions in a sere valley marks an extreme, its proposed solution — boosting supply through megaprojects — is all too common. To ensure continued water delivery, the Southern Nevada Water Authority, which manages Las Vegas’ water supply, has spent the past five years boring a lower feed pipe through rock at a cost of $817 million. And to diversify supply, the SNWA also plans to spend another $3 billion to $15 billion (depending upon who’s counting) to build a 263-mile-long pipeline to bring in groundwater from rural northeastern Nevada.

 

Other massive water supply projects are being planned elsewhere in the U.S. Seventeen desalination plants have been proposed in California alone, according to the Pacific Institute, a non-governmental organization that conducts research and policy analysis. And Dallas–Fort Worth water authorities recently proposed a series of supply-boosting infrastructure projects that could cost $21.5 billion by 2060, according to Sharlene Leurig, senior manager of the water program at Ceres, an NGO that advocates for sustainable business.

 

The irony is that all this expense and financial risk may not even be necessary. “It’s mythology that population growth means increase in water use.” says Leurig. She and other water analysts think the persistent impulse to boost supply is an anachronism. Many utilities’ water supply managers believe they need to build new water supply infrastructure because they are using demand forecasts based upon historic use or tied to population growth, or don’t forecast demand at all.

 

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[Aberlour10]

This thread needs some traditional refreshing

 

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[Winstonm]

How can we resist?

[y66]

New programming language (maybe) for educators: Pyret

[ggwhiz]

Letterman's top 10 from last night. They all have the same (sane?) answer.

 

10.Gosh you look great. What's your secret?

9. Why not become a vegetarian?

8. Did you smell anything right before the stroke?

7. Kevin who?

6. What was the top selling pork product in 1962?

5. Is there anything Democrats and Republicans can agree on?

4. What should I bait the trap with?

3. Cause of death?

2. Why hasn't Chris Christies lap band surgery worked?

1. Would you like anything with your bacon?

[blackshoe]

Heheh.

[Aberlour10]

Letterman's top 10 from last night. They all have the same (sane?) answer.

 

10.Gosh you look great. What's your secret?

9. Why not become a vegetarian?

8. Did you smell anything right before the stroke?

7. Kevin who?

6. What was the top selling pork product in 1962?

5. Is there anything Democrats and Republicans can agree on?

4. What should I bait the trap with?

3. Cause of death?

2. Why hasn't Chris Christies lap band surgery worked?

1. Would you like anything with your bacon?

 

 

There are more existential questions....like this for ex>>>

 

11. Why does this artwork has been sold for $ 142 000 000 last week?

 

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[y66]

It's pretty amusing when you can read a story about a record art sale in the paper and just know that somewhere in this beautiful, cold, dark world, someone else is having the same weird thought that you are.

[y66]

From Ayn Rand-loving CEO destroys his empire

 

Eddie Lampert is now known as one of the worst CEOs in America — the man who flushed Sears down the toilet with his demented management style and harebrained approach to retail. Sears stock is tanking. His hedge fun is down 40 percent, and the business press has turned from praising Lampert’s genius towatching gleefully as his ship sinks. Investors are running from “Crazy Eddie” like the plague.

 

That’s what happens when Ayn Rand is the basis for your business plan.

 

Crazy Eddie has been one of America’s most vocal advocates of discredited free-market economics, so obsessed with Ayn Rand he could rattle off memorized passages of her novels. As Mina Kimes explained in a fascinating profile in Bloomberg Businessweek, Lampert took the myth that humans perform best when acting selfishly as gospel, pitting Sears company managers against each other in a kind of Lord of the Flies death match. This, he believed, would cause them to act rationally and boost performance.

 

If you think that sounds batshit crazy, congratulations. You understand more than most of America’s business school graduates.

[Winstonm]

Way to go, Ayn.

[mike777]

From Ayn Rand-loving CEO destroys his empire

 

 

as usual these writers don't know what the hell they are writing about.

 

For the record Sears starting going downhill into the toilet the day they started building Sears Tower(1971 or so, finished around 1973). long before lampert, many years before.

 

If the agenda was simply to bash Ayn Rand ok.

 

People forget that entrepreneurs/risk takers frequently try out "batshit crazy" ideas and they fail often and that is ok. The fact that they try I hope one day will be praised and that their failure is not shameful.

[kenberg]

We must ask for the timeline. Perhaps he read Horatio Alger growing up, applied the principles he learned there to become the richest man in Connecticut, then read Ayn Rand, went crazy, and lost it all?

 

Reading is very dangerous. Stick with the funnies.

[PassedOut]

as usual these writers don't know what the hell they are writing about.

I concede that this is an observation that you are uniquely qualified to make.

 

People forget that entrepreneurs/risk takers frequently try out "batshit crazy" ideas and they fail often and that is ok. The fact that they try I hope one day will be praised and that their failure is not shameful.

I've advised my sons to avoid getting into a situation where they felt that they needed a particular job. When in the corporate world, I saw lots of folks who had let themselves get trapped like that, not feeling secure enough to challenge "batshit crazy" ideas for fear of losing their jobs. That's my personal concept of hell.

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[y66]

Is salo the new bacon?

 

KIEV, Ukraine — As much as by outrage, the pro-European uprising here is being fueled by heaping bowls of buckwheat and pork fat, steaming helpings of borscht and other meaty and fatty fare.

 

Since the demonstrations began more than three weeks ago, with a spontaneous outpouring of public anger over President Viktor F. Yanukovich’s refusal to sign political and trade accords with Europe, leaders have worried about how to consistently maintain the large crowds in Independence Square. Recognizing the axiom that an army marches on its stomach, organizers have taken great pains to keep the crowds well fed.

 

The protesters can choose from a rotating menu of a half-dozen Ukrainian folk recipes, intended to provide fortification for people spending hours on the streets in the icy Ukrainian winter, not to speak of girding for an occasional clash with the police.

 

“People are very grateful for anything warm,” said Anastasia Slobodyanyuk, a 15-year-old volunteer who carries platters of tea through the crowd in the evenings after school, a heart in the yellow and blue colors of the Ukrainian flag painted on her cheek.

 

In the protesters’ arsenal are trays with slices of buttered bread and the central ingredient of the classic Ukrainian sandwich: smoked and salted pork fat, or salo.

 

More than a few Ukrainians swear that salo makes them strong and beautiful, and some insist that it can treat liver problems. There were many takers for the salo sandwiches making the rounds on the revolutionary square, especially for the “troshechki” variety, with a generous coating of pepper on bits of salted pork fat.

 

While there are restaurants open nearby, not everybody can afford them. And the goal, of course, is to keep a sea of demonstrators visible at all times to the television cameras that are broadcasting the protest events live virtually around the clock. Outdoor canteens where protesters can line up for bowls of soup and cups of tea, and volunteers who circle through the crowd like waiters and waitresses at some huge, outdoor cocktail party, serve the goals of the protest movement far more than people sneaking off to McDonald’s.

 

Wherever the eye falls on Independence Square, cooks busy themselves about huge kettles over bonfires in an all but medieval tableau of an army at camp, but for the blinking neon advertisements all about.

 

One cook, Yuri Dorozhivsky, shared this recipe for buckwheat with salo (feeds thousands):

 

1) Heat a 50-gallon kettle over an open fire.

 

2) Brown 20 pounds of salo and 10 pounds of onions.

 

3) Fill with water and bring to a gentle boil, stir in 60 pounds of buckwheat kernels.

 

4) Simmer for an hour, then remove from direct heat, salt to taste.

[kenberg]

We are having a party to celebrate my 75th birthday. I'll suggest the above recipe to my wife. It will make me strong and beautiful? Better late than never.

[y66]

Happy birthday comrade!

[Aberlour10]

We are having a party to celebrate my 75th birthday. I'll suggest the above recipe to my wife. It will make me strong and beautiful? Better late than never.

 

 

This not, but it can make you famous

 

What to do?

 

Invite the entire village population

 

Start to cook FREEDOM SALO on big fire in the garden

 

Choose together motto for demonstrating like>>> We against BEER TAX, or ACBL restrictions or something different.

 

Build tent camp in the gardens and snow barricades at the street.

 

Dont stop mix the SALO

 

Wait for the CNN

 

so far the first instructions...

 

I will take a look on the Breaking News later, maybe the live reports about Ken's uprising are already on.

 

.....

 

So far, Happy Birthday dude!!!

[Winstonm]

We are having a party to celebrate my 75th birthday. I'll suggest the above recipe to my wife. It will make me strong and beautiful? Better late than never.

 

Happy birthday, Ken.

[kenberg]

Thank you all. I hadn't meant to hijack the hijack thread for gathering birthday greetings but I accept them. The following came to mind. At my first wedding, back when our President's first name was Dwight, one newly acquired relative would beat his fists on his chest and shout "I got eighty years". This accomplishment means more to me now than it did at the time.

[Winstonm]

OK. That's enough of that. Let's get back off topic.

[Aberlour10]

OK, a simple trivia question>>>>

 

Where is this venue and what will take place in there ?

 

 

 

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