Well damn cosmo, you've painted that picture resembling the military coop Ike warned the world about in 61'-Fifty-two years later and the hydra keeps sprouting heads while the citizenry seem to grow duller and dimmer as to how to proceed-Wait too long and we'll all be told exactly how and where to proceed.

"The revolution might not be televised, but the coop has already been broadcasted over every channel."

The gameplay mockup looked pretty pedestrian to me. Coop shooter? It looked less interesting than Borderlands 2.

Regardless, if Gustavo Fring tells me to buy a video game I will.

Absurdity. So she was drunk and unruly and they land a plane to get her off.

Why not just let the attendants have tasers to "quiet" the problem passengers, and a roll of duct tape and some rope for them to wake up wearing?

No cell-phone pictures on an American Airlines commercial flight? Probably some bullshit rule associated with 911, the biggest clusterfuck of a coop of all time.

>> ^VoodooV:

I'm ok with foreign aid especially when it comes to humanitarian aid, we're all on this planet together after all, but we can't buy good relations and times ARE tight now and that money could be put to good use here.


Naiveite. Overly-simplistic view of Government(s) in the current paradigm. Flowers in gun barrels???
Guns still fire bullets unless you fill the barrel completely. Humanitarian aid invariably involves coop.

Sssssshhhhhhhhh! The chicken coop is where I get my jollies at.

@renatojj

Church has high interested in religious candidates being elected. Most of the debates going on in politics are based on religious philosophy. Few off the top of my head are abortion, creationism, and women's rights. They've been going against the grain of the Constitution trying to get creationism which is a arguably religion based subject taught in schools. Which in turn possibly gets them more followers, which in turn gets them more tithing and more people in their "group" giving them more power. In fact I would argue they are specifically trying to erode the line between church and state with these arguments, injecting religion based reasons into many of the arguments.

Big media networks push for things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996 where the reason for the bill is not actually what ends up happening. It was supposed to deregulate and open up the market for competition and instead it allowed them to reconsolidate by buying up competitors. And they largely don't fight with censorship on curse words because generally it drives off their audience, and those networks that don't have to censor curse words charge for the privilege of hearing them and seeing some nudity to boot. And they also support SOPA-like bills which are essential a blanket tool to censor the web....they also support monitoring and traffic shaping on the networks they control...which is another potential avenue for censorship.

You'll have to be more specific on what you're getting at......all these groups are eroding divisions we built through regulation and have been doing so steadily since the 80s at every opportunity across industries.

I've already shown that given the chance, they buy up competition to remain a monopoly. Look at ISPs, look at all the oil companies we USED to have. Look at the media conglomerates that own the majority of your radio stations ( I think there's two major radio networks, but they have like a million different stations under the same banners so it LOOKS like choice). How the record labels and movie industries are all tied together and often even tied into the same parent company that owns your ISP. Cell phone industry, ATT trying to buy T Mobile which would have brought it down to 3 major providers and they did it in the name of "better service" but still haven't announced plans to build out their infrastructure since the deal went through...why? Because it wasn't about better service, it was about buying up a competitor that offered plans at prices people preferred.

When people are unhappy with their ISPs they've tried to form local government run coop non-profit ISPs, and they get sued by the huge companies who refuse to service their area. It's happened multiple times. With regulation, they would have to provide internet to those places in a timely manner instead of preventing people from doing their own thing.

Did GoDaddy pay dearly for supporting SOPA? I heard they lost 30k subscribers at some point, but did they really? You'll have to show me on that. GoDaddy did lots of terrible things before it, yet they were still a huge provider and still are. They cybersquat on domain names people search for and allow you to buy them at "auction" from them when you try to look up if it's taken or not..they snatch it up to sell to you. They also give away people's domain names with no repercussions and a myriad of other things. Sounds like it needs a regulatory body with some teeth on it to make them act right or shut them down.

Unions are actually a really good way to fight monopolies and under the table deals, but they've been systematically villified. And unions aren't monopolies if they aren't mandatory, and most places are not fully unionized anymore. Often times they will have sections with union employees to do government work and non-union to do non-government work. Non-union guys make half the rate of union guys usually, and have less protections in place to keep themselves from getting shafted. But I don't really see how a union is a monopoly when there are lots of unions and lots of individuals in a union who make decisions for themselves and not as a collective like a company would. IE a company has a "head" that directs it and unions are a collective of individuals. Companies are people after all, unions are not (they are made up of people).

There are laws governing behavior usually based roughly on societal standards. Like pot being illegal is kind of against most of the societies beliefs, yet it remains illegal is an example of where it doesn't quite track. But overall we have laws that say you can't write a check that you know won't cash. Drunk driving, trespassing, vandalism, theft.....yelling fire in a crowded building.......setting off the fire alarm for fun.....etc. Giving people the finger isn't against the law....well probably not in most places so that might fall under social pressure. But we see that social pressure fails miserably at stopping bad behavior, so we have laws to enforce behavior...like not stealing and not murdering. This is society and people holding other people to standards, without the law to judge and convict them by the only thing you have left is personal interpretation and meeting out punishment by each individual or vigilante justice.

If you don't regulate business there is nothing stopping them, because nothing about our market is free. You can't have a free market without perfect information. You can't know every possible thing going on, so you will never have perfect information even if it was possible. So you will have swindlers and knock offs, pyramid schemes, etc. And without laws and regulations on these things, you will never be able to punish the company for what they did in a court of law.

Even if they were 100% above the board honest, they'd still be sourcing their materials from overseas and getting inferior materials to what you are paying for. It happens to the military all the time right now. They buy a bunch of nuts and bolts and some of them are chinese knockoffs that fail well after the installation is done and the machine is in operation. They can't catch them because china is basically lawless when it comes to producing goods for knock off purposes. It could just as easily be a US source doing it if we de-regulated everything and made no way for people to sue them into oblivion...because the damage would be done as soon as you buy a knock off and it fries the rest of your stuff.

The definition of "free market" right now means they want to be able to buy stuff cheap as shit from overseas and charge you US built prices for it. And when it comes to financial industry "free market" means they want to have speculation upon speculation to where the financial industry has 10-100x more money leveraged than what actually exists. It's a house of cards if they can just inflate it without any kind of acceptable risks being enforced.

All those shavings would also be useful for lining his chicken coop, or making humanure compost.

The final result sure is stunning.

However, most thermal paper have BPAs so they are killing us all.

At the food coop where I work, we searched hard to find non-BPA paper. Which is expensive.


>> ^Fletch:

>> ^oritteropo:
Ah yes but I remember how expensive thermal paper is, how quickly it fades, and how much it sucks. I think I might give this product a miss.
This article disagrees, ironically from a company called POS Paper, so maybe they're projecting.

>> ^Yogi:

Which credit union is the best one though?


Credit unions memberships are limited to a certain locality or group. So it varies depending on where you live. I'd choose the one that has the most locations, and is insured by the NCUA (nearly all are).

Also, it's helpful if the credit union is part of the coop network. If it is, you can use ATMs at other Coop network credit unions at no charge. And you can use any ATM with the Coop network logo for free. For example, all ATMs at 7-11s use the coop network. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO-OP_Financial_Services

I'm quite happy with my credit union. Free overdraft protection to a line of credit beats the hell out of $30 overdraft fees at large banks.

$6 million in gross sales with FIVE HUNDRED EMPLOYEES??????

The Food Coop has $10 million in sales with 90 employees and we don't have that big a bottom line.

There is bullshit going on here. Or some very very VERY poorly paid employees.

Urgh, from the looks of it, coop is gonna be a bitch. Better get some more beer, just to be on the safe side.

I'd hump Coop's face in a heartbeat.


Oh boy, I said the quiet part loud.

One big room full of bad bitches

And we stunting like
Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada
Basic bitches wear that shit so I don't even bother

Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada
The basic bitches wear that shit, so I don't even bother
I put that on my partner, I put that on my family
Oakland city representer, address me as your majesty
Yeah you can kiss the ring, but you can never touch the crown
I smoke a million Swisher bluntsand I ain't never coming down
Bitch you ain't no Barbie I see you work at Arby's
Number 2, super-sized Hurry up I'm starving
Gnarly, radical, on the block I'm magical
See me at your college campus baggie full of Adderalls
Call me if you need a fix, call me if you need a boost
See them other chicken heads? They don't never leave the coop
I'm in the coupe cruising, I got the stolen plates
Serving all the fiends over there by the Golden Gate
Bridge, I'm colder than the fridge and the freezer
I'm snatching all your bitches at my leisure


And we stunting like
Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada
Basic bitches wear that shit so I don't even bother

Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada
I'm lookin like Madonna but I'm flossing like Ivana
Trump, you know I keep that work in my trunk
Got my hand on the pump if you wanna press your luck
I'm yelling "Free V-Nasty" 'til my throat is raspy
Young, rich and flashy I be where the cash be
You can't find that? I think you need a Google Map
My pearl-handled kitty-cat will leave and press your noodle back
Now Google that groupies follow me like Twitter
I'm rolling up my catnip and shitting in your litter
Why you looking bitter? I be looking better
The type of bitch that make you wish that you ain't never met her
The editor, director plus I'm my own boss
So posh, nails fierce with the gold gloss
Which means nobody getting over me
I got the swag and it's pumping out my ovaries

And we stunting like
Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada
Basic bitches wear that shit so I don't even bother

Oh, all you basic ass hoes out there
Man I got rooms full of bad bitches
They don't need Gucci, they don't need Louis
We swagging, ehh, meow

From what I understand raw milk actually isn't that bad for you. Like I said, I may as well drink your mom's breast milk if I drank raw milk but that is just how I feel. I mean I think milk is weird in general. I just drank some Rice milk today and was thinking "huh, what a funny thing, how DO they DO it." I mean for the arguing to go on I want to see scientific proof that raw milk might potentially have health benefits or risks. Otherwise, we're just shooting in the dark.

This whole event (did I post this already, I could have sworn I already posted this post), wreaks of being politically motivated to me. "Let's go git dem pure food lovin, socialist utopia living, deadbeat, hippies that make hugenormous bonuses at the end of the year, way more den I's do and all dems is doin is sellin dem greens!! Let's scare the SHIT outta dem boys - dat ill teach erm!{there are people in LA who talk like this, I swear)" Pigs. Gotta love em.

So, they need a license to distribute... why to prove they know how to distribute? Looks like they know how to distribute just fine to me.

Screw the laws, I've gone to my coop and bought all sorts of herbal pills that were unregulated by FDA - never had a problem. But, like I was saying, milk is weird but I want proof that raw milk actually poses any sort of danger to an adult.