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The Other White (Pink) Meat? The Hams We Eat and the Fate of Pigs…

Published at December 14, 2006 in Rants. 0 Comments

Dinner hams, have traditionally been frairly  high in fat.  As such, to eating much pink meat meant the usual consequence of eating its “lard-like” fat.  Not so anymore, or at least not nearly as much.  A rather profound progression of improvement has occured with the pink meat in the US in the past couple of decades.

A big breakthrough happened by America’s meat industry during the early Clinton-era when beomouth meat processors starting capturing marigins previously unavailable in the preaparation of pork/ham processing, previously not very profitable, by preplacing the pork ingredient with far-more-abundant-than-pork turkey meat.  Recall, during the majority of the 1990’s ‘turkey hams’ were not only abundant in grocery meat cases, their price-per-pound beat that of ham by usually .30 or so per pound, and these almost-fatless, wrapped hunks looked nearly identical to porcine rumps. 
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PCs With No Sound, and Mac’s Approach on the (Non-existent) Problem

Published at December 14, 2006 in Rants. 1 Comment

I told you about my Mac (it’s fine, thank you), and now I shall tell you of my personal Gates’ fury-caused difficulty.

 I have no sound.  Through a mysterious entry into my hard drive, (or not so mysterious; I have a male teenager), the sound is entirely and permanently enabled.

 I can’t tell you how to repair this particular problem, as there’s no solution.   To do this sensibly and not confuse the reader of this, here’s what NORMALLY needs to be done when the sound cuts off:

 Go to Control Panel > Sounds > “Audio Devices and Properties” (should be first tab that appears if you’re in XP) and look to see if you have any ability to manipulate the ‘volume’ bar control.  If not (as I suffer), then you’re done and have a silent computer.  The bug that hit my PC, probably a male teenager not my son, designed the bug this way. 

There’s other remediation available, such as two other “sounds” tabs to pick, but they’ll be deadened buttons to.  The “System” icon (as you go back to Control Panel, click on “System”) has a back door to sounds and actual controls of the device in your system, but the rascal darkened them.

Macs, my friends, will NEVER behave this way, unless they’re thrown from waist-high altitudes onto concrete.  Mac commits to designs and configurations quite immune from virus shit.  As I often explain, they’re not the least bit interested in gaining market share; ask any Mac programmer — long-haired guys in Seattle bars.   I explain even more that Mac’s not big on customer support or providing instructions on their highly unique keystrokes, essential for Mac users.  I’d write that stuff for them and sit at a desk (maybe–it’s gotta’ have a window–ouch), but the “Culture and HR” department of the geeks/freaks of the Apple Corp would alternately laugh uproariusly or grab n’ aim weapons at me. 

They know, though, that the virus-ness of Mac systems, lap or desk, are impeccable.  

Gates, we’re all keenly aware, instructs from the VERY TOP (unpublicly) that PCs should last 3 years.  If you get more than 3 out of em’, you’re beating the system. 

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