>>@bmacs27: marbles
Who flew planes into the WTC on 9/11? By the way, I read "Which Path to Persia".
Have you heard of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion?"



Haha, let me guess. You have a argument to make that the "Which Path to Persia" manual is fraudulent?

So is that 9/11 question troll bait or what? Who made all the abnormal amount of Wall Street put bets on American Airlines and United between Sept 6 and 7. And on American Sept 10 at the Chicago Board of Options Exchange. Better yet, who sent US government made anthrax with hand written notes saying "Allah is great" to Congress men who were likely to oppose the Patriot Act?

Oh the alleged hijackers (courtesy of Paul Joseph Watson/Infowars.com):
Every single shred of evidence concerning the alleged 9/11 hijackers points to the fact that they were patsies controlled by informants working for the US government.
The US Special Operations Command’s Able Danger program identified the hijackers and their accomplices long before 9/11, but when the head of the program, Colonel Anthony Shaffer, tried to pass the information on to the 9/11 Commission, he was gagged and slandered and the vital information his team had passed on was ignored and buried.
Curt Weldon, Former U.S. Republican Congressman and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, documented how the US government tracked the hijackers’ movements before 9/11.
Louai al-Sakka, the man who trained six of the hijackers, was a CIA informant. A number of the other alleged hijackers were trained at US air bases. In the months prior to 9/11, alleged hijackers Khalid Almidhar and Nawaf Alhazmi were renting rooms in a house owned and lived in by an FBI informant.
In a 2002 article entitled The Hijackers We Let Escape, Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman documented how, “The CIA tracked two suspected terrorists to a Qaeda summit in Malaysia in January 2000, then looked on as they re-entered America and began preparations for September 11.”
The fact that there were numerous Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists involved in the pre-planning stages of 9/11 is unsurprising given former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds’ testimony that Bin Laden was working for the US right up until the day of 9/11.

On the very morning of 9/11, the money man behind the alleged hijackers, Pakistan’s ISI Chief Mahmoud Ahmad, was meeting with U.S. government and intelligence officials.
Indeed, even after 9/11, the so-called spiritual leader of the very hijackers who allegedly slammed Flight 77 into the Pentagon, Anwar al-Awlaki, was himself invited to dine with Pentagon top brass mere months after the attack.

Tonight we dine on turtle soup.

I remember going to Chile in 1994. One thing that impressed me in the shops was how many people they had working in them which led us to draw the conclusion they were being very creative in dealing with unemployment.

A typical example was this cake shop. We'd ask for a cake, the person would select it and bag it. Then we had to pay another person for the cake after which point we got the cake. There were lots of little quirky things like that going on but I was impressed with things generally and dining out was very reasonable.

I wouldn't mind going back one day.

Actually, the fire control rooms had more than 20 people all operating in a room the size of a small McDonald's dining area. I looked for pictures, but in the USS North Carolina, they have silhouettes of the operators huddles around the computers and it's mind-boggling how they got it all done. Ah, here it is: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_KuYLyRjiSR8/SfXkK4QJYEI/AAAAAAAAFbQ/egYSw3kQhfo/DSC_2338.JPG

>> ^spawnflagger:

Really fascinating videos, I watched all 7 parts. I wonder how much the whole computer weighed?
Seems like it would be a reliable device, as long as it's well greased, and the 3+ operators are well trained.
Of course nowadays a single chip smaller than a fingernail could achieve equal results with 0 operators, but an electronic computer in 1953 would have been much larger and much less reliable (transistor tubes tend to burn out) and required more energy than equivalent to feeding a few humans.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^lucky760:

(Pro tip: They routinely "forget" to make your order, so if you feel like your food should already have been served up while dining in, don't hesitate to go up and ask. Two visits ago, after starving for a half hour, the manager admitted that they accidentally just miss an order all the time. And on my last visit, I witnessed someone else having their meal skipped.)


I've been eating at In-n-Out for almost 15 years I have never had an order problem with a special order. You should report or kill everyone at that location.


I've been eating at In-n-Out for over 20 years and until two visits ago, I've never had them forget to make my order. (Btw, it has nothing to do with special versus non-special orders; they just skip any random order by accident.) Also, the two events I wrote about happened at two different locations.

>> ^lucky760:

(Pro tip: They routinely "forget" to make your order, so if you feel like your food should already have been served up while dining in, don't hesitate to go up and ask. Two visits ago, after starving for a half hour, the manager admitted that they accidentally just miss an order all the time. And on my last visit, I witnessed someone else having their meal skipped.)



I've been eating at In-n-Out for almost 15 years I have never had an order problem with a special order. You should report or kill everyone at that location.

I hate these reviewers for their bad taste in good food (especially when they're obviously eating the food cold!).

The Flying Dutchman is delicious (that's what she said), as is the grilled cheese sandwich. The animal style fries, while very rich, are spectacular.

(Pro tip: They routinely "forget" to make your order, so if you feel like your food should already have been served up while dining in, don't hesitate to go up and ask. Two visits ago, after starving for a half hour, the manager admitted that they accidentally just miss an order all the time. And on my last visit, I witnessed someone else having their meal skipped.)

You can also order as many patties as you'd like on a single burger. For example, here's a 100 x 100:

(Via Femtalks)

P.S. I'm fighting the urge to downvote @darkrowan's sacrilegious comment because In-n-Out's grilled onions are simply divine; I always insist on extra in my burger and fries.

I bet that asshole goes to a fine dining restaurant and has dessert with an assload of creme fresh and doesn't understand that he's a hypocrit.

I always liked Russell Brand's Bob Geldof joke:

"It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on 'I Don't Like Mondays' for 30 years."

Macaronis, "cheese" and BREAD CRUMBS?

- Wow, that is some fine dining there, American business man!

http://www.lyricsmania.com/bottom_of_the_world_lyrics_tom_waits.html

My daddy told me, lookin back,
The best friend you'll have is a railroad track
So when I was 13 said, I'm rollin' my own
And I'm leavin' Missouri and I'm never comin' home

And I'm lost
And I'm lost
I'm lost at the bottom of the world
I'm handcuffed to the bishop and the barbershop liar
I'm lost at the bottom of the world.

Satchel Puddin' and Lord God Mose
Sitting by the fire with a busted nose
That fresh egg yeller is too damn rare
But the white part is perfect for slickin' down your hair

And I'm lost
And I'm lost
I'm lost at the bottom of the world
I'm handcuffed to the bishop and the barbershop liar
I'm lost at the bottom of the world.

Blackjack Ruby and Nimrod Cain
The moon's the color of a coffee stain
jesse Frank and Birdy Joe Hoaks
But who is the king of all these folks?

And I'm lost
And I'm lost
I'm lost at the bottom of the world
I'm handcuffed to the bishop and the barbershop liar
I'm lost at the bottom of the world.

Well I dined last night with Scarface Ron
On Telapia fish cakes and fried black swan
Razorweed onion and peacock squirrel
And I dreamed all night about a beautiful girl

And I'm lost
And I'm lost
I'm lost at the bottom of the world
I'm handcuffed to the bishop and the barbershop liar
I'm lost at the bottom of the world.

Well God's green hair is where I slept last
He balanced a diamond on a blade of grass
Now I woke me up with a cardinal bird
And when I wanna talk
He hangs on every word

And I'm lost
And I'm lost
I'm lost at the bottom of the world
I'm handcuffed to the bishop and the barbershop liar
I'm lost at the bottom of the world

>> ^raverman:

They should build a safety feature - at least in these rooms with lots of movable dangerous objects.
e.g. something that launches a heavy net from the ceiling to hold everything to the ground.
You can't stop heavy seas, but you can prepare to keep people safe so they aren't flying 20 feet into a table leg.


If you think about it, that idea is really bad.

- the logistics of suspending a net above a very large room - including support pillars (so it'd have to be lots of nets or a huge net that's made around the pillars with holes for the pillars)
- never mind a HEAVY net, and the weight of the net on these sophisticated pieces of "dropping" mechanisms
- you'd have an ugly "heavy" net hanging over a dining room
- which would then drop in a storm trapping furniture AND PEOPLE
- power failure = heavy net falling on people?
- general mishaps with a heavy net suspended above people?
- the cost of getting sued by people getting hit by a heavy net?
- you'd have to have loads of release mechanisms to go at the same time to release said net
- you can't have anything upstanding/on the walls which would catch the net and stop the full release
- you'd have to trigger it whilst very stable otherwise the net would fall incorrectly/warp in the air
- the net would need to be pinioned at various places in the room otherwise things would just slide around under it because there's no tension to keep things held in place even if they got caught

- and if you're referring to the fork lift truck, i'd like to see the net that could stop a fork lift from sliding around a floor which suddenly becomes a wall assuming all the other problems listed were overcome. THAT would be a net hooper and chief brody would have wanted.

Ok, weird tangent. I used to work in a fine dining restaurant here in Australia. On the night of the opening of the Sydney Olympics, I was working in the private dining room of the restaurant, serving a group of 20-odd rich white people. There was much debate about who would light the o;ympic flame that night, and I was coming in and out of the room giving updates of who was holding the torch etc. Each prominent (white) Australian athlete who held the flame met with grand approval from the room, until I came in announcing that Cathy Freeman, an Aboriginal athlete and most prominent Australian track star at the time (and since, to be fair) had lit the flame. The announcement was met with cold shock, and a number of "I'm not racist, but she's not appropriate etc etc..." sentences.

I can't put words in their mouths, but I'm confident they would all argue that they don't believe one race has a moral right to dominate another. However, it seemed to me that the main reason for their displeasure was the race of the athlete, and that they were indeed racist.

Where does this fit within your consciousness argument?

>> ^harry:

Whoa there....
Americans drink tea?


^Oh , goodness no! ...but sometimes members of ex British Empire countries visit the US to take photographs of our celebrities and dine to at our fast food joints.

Are they advertising their food as being easy to eat while driving?

The only thing I ever get from Taco Bell are crunchy tacos, the rest of their food is just nasty. I only get those because the only places open after 9/10pm are McDonald's, What-a-(nastyass)burger and Taco Bell. We have a locally owned Mexican "fast food" place right down the street that has much better tacos than Taco Bell and the dine-in Mexican restaurants.