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Wheat Is King No More
Topic Started: Apr 29 2008, 01:11 AM (328 Views)
QuirtEvans
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Daniel
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I'm not even going to pretend to know the answer to this one.

"But with 100-pound bags of North Dakota flour now above $50 -- more than double what they were a few months ago -- he sees no alternative to a hefty increase in the price of his signature product, a bagel made by hand in the back of the store.

"I've never seen anything like this in 20 years," he said. "It's a nightmare."

:no:
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Wait! What happened to cotton?

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This is just an amazing time we are living in. Short of keeping China and India poor, the American ride may be over.
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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Horace
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we get a lot of negative stories about the economy and prices and prosperity etc but it's just a bunch of contextless numbers. I'd like to see a visual representation of overall 'american prosperity' compared to the rest of the world and see the real effect over the past several years. I suspect if one could condense it to a single number and scale it to 1-100 for all countries, we'd see america fall from a 95 to a 93 over the past seeral years and china rise from 15 to 18 or something. That would put these doomsday predictions into perspective. We're still prosperous and ridiculously advantaged and will be for the next several decades at least. (In my uneducated opinion.)

I heard a story on NPR yesterday where it was big news that they'd received an email from a listener who said that she and her husband were eating less so that their kids could eat more.

That should never ever happen in america apparently and it means we're one short step away from little babies with distended bellies and flies crawling across their face.
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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sue
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Well said, Horace.

And I'd be willing to bet we North Americans would probably survive if we ate a few less wheat products a day.
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Atkins diet.
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sue
Apr 29 2008, 12:40 PM
Well said, Horace.

And I'd be willing to bet we North Americans would probably survive if we ate a few less wheat products a day.

And be healthier too!

But that's not the point.
The point is that we should always strive to grow the economy and forever be the biggest economy in the world!
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sue
Apr 29 2008, 08:40 AM
Well said, Horace.

And I'd be willing to bet we North Americans would probably survive if we ate a few less wheat products a day.

DO3S HO7 PO(K37S COUN7 4S WH3A7 PRODUC7? :(
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Apr 29 2008, 01:08 PM
sue
Apr 29 2008, 08:40 AM
Well said, Horace.

And I'd be willing to bet we North Americans would probably survive if we ate a few less wheat products a day.

DO3S HO7 PO(K37S COUN7 4S WH3A7 PRODUC7? :(

Whoever developed the concept of text messaging needs to be shot!

Is it really so difficult to use 26 letters? Is it really that much quicker to try to figure out which numbers look vaguely like a letter and substitue it for that letter?

ARRRRRRRRRGGGHHHH!!!!! :veryangry:
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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Apr 29 2008, 09:12 AM

Whoever developed the concept of text messaging needs to be shot!

Is it really so difficult to use 26 letters? Is it really that much quicker to try to figure out which numbers look vaguely like a letter and substitue it for that letter?

ARRRRRRRRRGGGHHHH!!!!! :veryangry:

:lol:

Actually the history of the use of l33t-speak is three-fold.

1. It was used by ha><0rz back in the day (70's) to thwart text scanning government programs from finding out what files were being transferred. To make such a simple cipher that was so easy for humans to read yet so hard for computers was ingenious.

2. Later on (80's, 90's), it was used by folks who wanted to be associated with said ha><orz but had no credentials. Mostly, these were kids.

3. Mostly today, it's either used by people who are still in group (2), still mostly kids, or people who are making fun of people in group (2), because just about anything that's said with l33t-speak is retarded. That's me because I find it hilarious to listen to myself speak this stuff. :lol:
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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sue
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Apr 29 2008, 10:25 AM
Luke's Dad
Apr 29 2008, 09:12 AM

Whoever developed the concept of text messaging needs to be shot!

Is it really so difficult to use 26 letters? Is it really that much quicker to try to figure out which numbers look vaguely like a letter and substitue it for that letter?

ARRRRRRRRRGGGHHHH!!!!! :veryangry:

:lol:

Actually the history of the use of l33t-speak is three-fold.

1. It was used by ha><0rz back in the day (70's) to thwart text scanning government programs from finding out what files were being transferred. To make such a simple cipher that was so easy for humans to read yet so hard for computers was ingenious.

2. Later on (80's, 90's), it was used by folks who wanted to be associated with said ha><orz but had no credentials. Mostly, these were kids.

3. Mostly today, it's either used by people who are still in group (2), still mostly kids, or people who are making fun of people in group (2), because just about anything that's said with l33t-speak is retarded. That's me because I find it hilarious to listen to myself speak this stuff. :lol:

:smile: Does that mean it's on it's way out?!! That it'd be ok if I never quite got it because it'll be like so last year, soon? :tongue:
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sue
Apr 29 2008, 10:01 AM

:smile: Does that mean it's on it's way out?!! That it'd be ok if I never quite got it because it'll be like so last year, soon? :tongue:

Well, it's been "so last year" for a couple of decades now. Kids these days who think it's some new fad have obviously not been around very long.

For example, imagine my surprise growing up, when I learned the stuff was mainly used 10 years before my time. :lol:

It's old hat, but no I don't see it going away anytime soon, either. ^_^
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sue
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Apr 29 2008, 11:08 AM
Well, it's been "so last year" for a couple of decades now.  Kids these days who think it's some new fad have obviously not been around very long.

For example, imagine my surprise growing up, when I learned the stuff was mainly used 10 years before my time. :lol:

It's old hat, but no I don't see it going away anytime soon, either. ^_^

decades? :unsure: Oh, oh, this is one of those getting old moments, I guess. :leaving:
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Aqua Letifer
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sue
Apr 29 2008, 10:12 AM

decades? :unsure: Oh, oh, this is one of those getting old moments, I guess. :leaving:

Nahh. It's only been mainstream since computers have invaded our households and cell phones, blackberries and other PDAs have invaded our pockets. ^_^
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It seems to me that producing something that people worldwide are clamoring to buy at prices that are at record highs should in general be good for the American economy and the balance of payments. Within the country, it transfer wealth from consumers to farmers (for a change) and others in the production chain and you can argue over who deserves it more, but internationally, it should help to improve our trade accounts, which seems to me to be an unmixed blessing for the USA.

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Frankly, I think we should work at being the world's largest producer of Soylent Green.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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I hear it makes you impotent.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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