Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "Business Insider" channel.

  1. Yet it earns them more than growing, say corn, apparently. Not so much a "trap" as an opportunity. Imagine taking it away, what happens to those families dependent on that income.
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  2. According to this comments section, Brazil still burns.
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  3. Good point, diff places should have unique character. Can we also bring back the thigh gap, been missing that this century. ;-)
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  4. Likely the best pay he can get. Do you want to take that option away from him while pretending to do good?
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  5.  @addanametocontinue  Here in America we forget our recent past century or so... we too went thru such fazes and came out alright. (ask me about American underground coal mines in 1980 even, great adventure and pay for a young fast thinking athletic man, but NOT safe) Just perspective, not a moral or policy judgement.
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  6. Ideally all those minerals would be returned to the fields they came from but that's rarely done or feasible. I'd love it for compost. If intercepted clean right out of the plant one could make brandy, or....? By far best brandy ever had was from wine brewing tank SLUDGE.
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  7. Consumers purchasing sugar is inexcusable.
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  8. Nukes are good but so can be wind. More CO2 is probably good too, contrary to popular mythology and hysteria.
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  9. Y has some major innovations--reduction of wire harness by an 'order of magnitude' for one.
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  10.  @gandalf_the_pink-k  I see, thanks. I grow a little cane in my modest yard, didn't even know it was possible here in farther N. Commifornia, but of course there are many varieties, I tried 2, one failed the other thrives on neglect, little water required which is important for me. Nice green 'fence'. Like to grow as many eatables as possible.
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  11.  @gandalf_the_pink-k  Thanks for the tip!
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  12. It failed like everything he touches.
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  13. Economics can sort it all out. Your imagination isn't relevant here.
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  14. As a kid we'd often spend a fall day in the pinon forests around 7k ft. altitude to harvest these nuts. Fresh soft and wet are an entirely different animal, nothing like the crap you can buy dried. Pinons are nothing like the trees shown here tho and the nuts are different. Pinons are not very tall but dense and bushy, we'd spread tarps below and bash the cones out of tree. Some yrs the cones were sparse and not very productive other yrs were extremely laden with cones and nuts. Anyway we'd have buckets of nuts for the winter and have baggies of them in our school lunches.
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  15. Here in America our computers cost less than your sea salt. :D
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  16.  @peterv1318  TOO many good jobs in America already, try finding a good diesel mechanic, welder or many other trades...they've been in short supply for decades....on your own $120/hr plus is readily available if you have the skills, integrity and work ethic.
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  17.  @deadeyeduncan5022  Yeah and I don't buy it, right around the wells, sure. But not in general, petrol has been seeping out in places all over the planet, for 100 M yrs, entire ecosystems depend on it in the Gulf of Mexico sea floor. It's organic and slowly breaks down over time. Asphalt roads get eaten by microbes from below and plants grow in the cracks just fine, after 50 yrs of abandonment it's pretty much reclaimed by nature.
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  18. One would really "feel at one with the road" after crossing paths with an F-150.
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  19. Everything we consume is an acquired taste, we just don't usually remember when we acquired a taste for it. Always worth trying new things.
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  20.  @donaldclifford5763  Most successful conman in recent history for sure. Sometimes crime does pay.
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  21.  @donaldclifford5763  Hillary WHO? What does some other random person have to do with the Mob Boss?? So you really think that a dozen or so of DT's closest associates have confessed or been convicted of felonies and Trump himself just happens to be innocent? Not likely. BTW he admitted he committed obstruction of justice regarding Comey, remember that? Yeah that's what put Martha Stewart and others in prison for months. And it's pretty damned obvious he has was in collusion with his boss Putin, no innocent person in history has protested so vociferously, but let's let the justice system confirm it first. Oh...and Trump University was convicted of fraud, he was well know for cheating contractors on his construction sites, on and on and on....so many scandals it's impossible to keep track of them all. That said--it doesn't mean he hasn't done a couple seriously good things for the nation, deregulation and cutting corporate taxes in particular. Just because he's a crim doesn't automatically make him a bad pres, but his childish behavior doesn't help.
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  22. Stick with a few types that thrive for YOU and experiment around the edges for others. My focus is yard 'food jungles', half dozen inside must be low maintenance.
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  23. 8:15 $14 in 1985 is a lot more than $26 today. In real terms that's roughly $40 to $26.
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  24. The short answer: It's damn tough to make money running an airline, other than recent years its been historically one of the worst businesses to be in.
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