MW: Meanwhile, another celebrity chef was helpful in putting Comet on the map — Guy Fieri, who filmed an episode of his popular Food Network show Diners, Dive-Ins and Dives there five years ago.
ALEFANTIS: It’s so crazy. We had been open a few years by then. It took forever for Comet to be figured out. People were like, “You’re just a beer bar.” They didn’t appreciate what we were doing with the food right away. And I was honestly a little bit nervous. Because I had Buck’s, which had gotten good reviews. And I was young, and nervous to put myself out there. At Comet I was the chef, and I was thinking, “What if people don’t like my pizza?” So I didn’t really do anything, I didn’t really tell anyone.
Then the Food Network called, and I thought, “Oh, this will be cool, we’ll do it.” I didn’t really know the show even. His producers said, “You need to close for a day. These are all the requirements.” We filmed all day for two days. And as we’re cooking, they’re like, “You make this?” I said, “Yeah, what do you mean?” And they say, “You know, this is the best restaurant we’ve ever done.”
MW: What was it they couldn’t believe you had made?
ALEFANTIS: Well, we make everything from scratch. Other restaurants, even good restaurants, will, like, not roast their own peppers. You can just buy the roasted peppers in a can. Or you can buy garlic oil. Some products you can get, and they’re consistent and they’re easy. But I didn’t even know that existed actually until they said that. I was like, “What do you mean? There’s another way? You can just buy these things?” Because a lot of restaurants will open a can and put it on. Like our sauce — we harvest a whole crop of organic tomatoes — 10 tons of tomatoes every year. Can them all, store them in the basement, have like a harvest party when it gets loaded in.
Guy was very enthusiastic. We had a really great long segment, and it aired, and we had a viewing party. The next day I’m exhausted, I come late, and there’s literally a line from the front of the restaurant, down and around the corner.
I don't see anywhere in the article where he says he stores all his food in a separate restaurant and brings it to Comet Ping Pong when he needs it. The context would be him talking about the basement in Comet Ping Pong, not a separate restaurant down the street. If you have information otherwise, I'd be interested in seeing it.
“They ignore basic truths. For instance, the conspiracy supposedly is run out of the restaurant’s basement. We don’t even have a basement.” — James Alefantis to the BBC
“Well, we make everything from scratch. Other restaurants, even good restaurants, will, like, not roast their own peppers. Like our sauce, we harvest a whole crop of organic tomatoes, 10 tons of tomatoes every year. Can them all, store them in the basement, have like a harvest party when it gets loaded in.” — James Alefantis to Metro Weekly
Yes, PragerU and others who complain about YouTube and Twitter should just take it and shut up (at least according to comments on stories here lately), but we must force Disney to submit to our demands!
How is this any different from YouTube or Twitter banning users? If they don't like the LA Times, why should they have to allow them into their screenings? Private company should be able to block anyone they want.
The first amendment only applies to the government.
> And then you get to a state like Florida, which by law, requires EVERYONE to be connected to the power grid. No premise is allowed to be off grid.
Why not just have them attach your electricity to your shed and you connect your house to your own solar/generator? Technically you're connected, but practically you're not.
According to the original author of that statement, it's the opposite:
> I said ‘The plural of anecdote is data” some time in the 1969-70 academic year while teaching a graduate seminar at Stanford. The occasion was a student’s dismissal of a simple factual statement — by another student or me — as a mere anecdote. The quotation was my rejoinder.
My wife tells me that Saddam Hussein regularly had the TV stations in Iraq broadcast Hollywood movies. I don't know if he had paid for the rights to them or not, but I don't think it was a priority for him.
But it looks like the lawyer is doing what he should be doing: preserving emails by forwarding official ones to the White House. Since he doesn't seem to think he's being pranked (and therefore trying to look good to the public), it's good that he didn't respond with, "Delete all of it!"
But partisans will not give anyone on the other side even a tiny benefit of a doubt.
So someone sue Crowell for copyright infringement and demand *he* turn over all his electronic devices for inspection. When he protests, just use his own words against him.
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From the original article (emphasis added):
MW: Meanwhile, another celebrity chef was helpful in putting Comet on the map — Guy Fieri, who filmed an episode of his popular Food Network show Diners, Dive-Ins and Dives there five years ago. ALEFANTIS: It’s so crazy. We had been open a few years by then. It took forever for Comet to be figured out. People were like, “You’re just a beer bar.” They didn’t appreciate what we were doing with the food right away. And I was honestly a little bit nervous. Because I had Buck’s, which had gotten good reviews. And I was young, and nervous to put myself out there. At Comet I was the chef, and I was thinking, “What if people don’t like my pizza?” So I didn’t really do anything, I didn’t really tell anyone. Then the Food Network called, and I thought, “Oh, this will be cool, we’ll do it.” I didn’t really know the show even. His producers said, “You need to close for a day. These are all the requirements.” We filmed all day for two days. And as we’re cooking, they’re like, “You make this?” I said, “Yeah, what do you mean?” And they say, “You know, this is the best restaurant we’ve ever done.” MW: What was it they couldn’t believe you had made? ALEFANTIS: Well, we make everything from scratch. Other restaurants, even good restaurants, will, like, not roast their own peppers. You can just buy the roasted peppers in a can. Or you can buy garlic oil. Some products you can get, and they’re consistent and they’re easy. But I didn’t even know that existed actually until they said that. I was like, “What do you mean? There’s another way? You can just buy these things?” Because a lot of restaurants will open a can and put it on. Like our sauce — we harvest a whole crop of organic tomatoes — 10 tons of tomatoes every year. Can them all, store them in the basement, have like a harvest party when it gets loaded in. Guy was very enthusiastic. We had a really great long segment, and it aired, and we had a viewing party. The next day I’m exhausted, I come late, and there’s literally a line from the front of the restaurant, down and around the corner.
I don't see anywhere in the article where he says he stores all his food in a separate restaurant and brings it to Comet Ping Pong when he needs it. The context would be him talking about the basement in Comet Ping Pong, not a separate restaurant down the street. If you have information otherwise, I'd be interested in seeing it.
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“Well, we make everything from scratch. Other restaurants, even good restaurants, will, like, not roast their own peppers. Like our sauce, we harvest a whole crop of organic tomatoes, 10 tons of tomatoes every year. Can them all, store them in the basement, have like a harvest party when it gets loaded in.” — James Alefantis to Metro Weekly
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But...
The takeover regs are FOUR TIMES longer than the ones that keep the internet FREE!!!!
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Re: Like I always say
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A ruse!
Assange: "Great! I can go home now!"
UK: "Not so fast...we found them in the box in the back!"
Cue evil laugh....
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That's not how any of this works!
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Double standard? Got it.
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The first amendment only applies to the government.
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Notice
I bought this exact model from China a year or so ago and the battery burst in the heat we had over the summer.
If you are thinking of getting one to use in a hot climate, make sure it has a capacitor for holding a charge instead of a battery!
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Could making the people who actually arrested him pay for the settlement, instead of taxpayers, curb future abuses?
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Re: Re: What's old is new
Why not just have them attach your electricity to your shed and you connect your house to your own solar/generator? Technically you're connected, but practically you're not.
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> I said ‘The plural of anecdote is data” some time in the 1969-70 academic year while teaching a graduate seminar at Stanford. The occasion was a student’s dismissal of a simple factual statement — by another student or me — as a mere anecdote. The quotation was my rejoinder.
Source: http://freakonomics.com/2010/04/29/quotes-uncovered-whats-the-plural-of-anecdote/
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in Iraq
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Re: Re: Hmmm.
Proving my statement: But partisans will not give anyone on the other side even a tiny benefit of a doubt.
Good job!
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Hmmm.
But it looks like the lawyer is doing what he should be doing: preserving emails by forwarding official ones to the White House. Since he doesn't seem to think he's being pranked (and therefore trying to look good to the public), it's good that he didn't respond with, "Delete all of it!"
But partisans will not give anyone on the other side even a tiny benefit of a doubt.
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Just sue him
Problem solved.
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One day
That same day, rainbows will shoot out of my behind and I will ride a unicorn to work!
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