Letters to the Editor
mattwa33186
Published Letters: 395 Editor's Choice: 41
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Chinese food in Miami
[Read the article: How the fortune cookie crumbles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is about the same as anywhere else, from what I've found, though I haven't looked all that hard. I've pretty much given up. The best I've had down here is at a Nicaraguan Chinese restaurant. The food doesn't have any kind of Latin flavor to it, but it's a lot better seasoned and prepared and a lot less saucy than most. Place looks like a very typical Chinese American restaurant as well.
Best I've had was in upstate New York, 2 places. One was authentic Chinese prepared by a Chinese chef who trained at CIA and Le Cordon Bleu. The other was owned by another classically trained Chinese chef. I think we tend to forget that to make really good food in a place with a menu of any size, you have to be a really good cook first. Being Chinese doesn't mean you can make great Chinese food.
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I don't get it
[Read the article: A look at Spitzer's Emperors Club Web site]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This guy is relatively young and intelligent. Is he this naive in the ways of the internet? The point of how bad the web site was (and it was really, really bad) is that it indicates a severe lack of professionalism on the part of the company behind it. If I were a pimp running $4000 an hour whores I'd have a killer website that positively oozed discretion. Hell, I'd do that if all I had was one diamond girls working for $500 an hour :) I'd have better pictures, too.
So you manage to become Governor of the second largest state in the union, and you conduct an illegal transaction through a web site you probably wouldn't trust if you were ordering a subscription to Consumer Reports?
Maybe the tech aspect of this decidedly non-technical technical blog post is that almost 10% of the way into the 21st century, the powers that be still don't understand what they are dealing with. But we knew that already, didn't we?
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What's going to kill off industrial farming is
[Read the article: How the fortune cookie crumbles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]not animal cruelty, animal rights activists, or militant vegan saboteurs. Nope, it's going to be fuel prices and global warming that does it in. At some point it's going to be cheaper to raise livestock close to the point of consumption than it is at some mega-agriplex in the geographic center of the country. And sooner or later someone will come to understand that building shopping malls and McMansions instead of farms isn't helping the environment at all.
Farming doesn't really scale all that well, as it turns out. The bad news is we have a lot of damage to undo because it's taking so long to figure that out. The good news is that it's a reality even the Chinese can understand and respond to in the way we'd all like.
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???
[Read the article: Spitzer's escort's MySpace: Meet Ashley Alexandra Dupre]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Yes, it is unsettling that she moans in the song; yes, you do wonder whether the Gov. is familiar with that moan."
That has to be the worst thing written on the internet today.
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Spitzer was not looking to date, but to have sex.
[Read the article: Spitzer's escort's MySpace: Meet Ashley Alexandra Dupre]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]True. You don't pay them for sex, you pay them to leave.
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Typical European conservative bullshit
[Read the article: The rise of the superclass]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A call for the return to monarchy, but it will be better this time. Really, it will.
His arguments against free markets are ignorant at best or disingenuous at worst. Free markets are not tweaked because they aren't perfectly efficient, they aren't perfectly efficient because they are tweaked. Same reason communism doesn't work. If you let the market run as the mindless machine it wants to be, it works. But there are not many people who could get on his list who could live with that. No real arbitrage opportunities, rewards that are proportional to actual value and risk, no divine right to wealth.
The purpose of the list is for this guy to be able to brown nose his clients by telling them (or implying) that they are in fact on the list, so he wants to help them spend their money. Or to imply that he can help you get on the list, even though he apparently isn't on it himself. Aspirational marketing, people who aren't on the list want to be so he can sell to them. If he can get people to pay 26 bucks for his company's marketing materials maybe he isn't an idiot after all.