Tabloid trash used to be contained within that special group of "news" providers, and quarantined near grocery store cash registers.
Unfortunately, the quest to extract revenue derived from clicks has pushed damn near everyone to publish and aggregate a similar flavor of clickbait bullshit.
Hey Capitalism, stop rewarding Bullshit. Otherwise, You Reap what You Sow.
You say that as if greed over resources hasn't been an integral part of existence since life on Earth first started about 3.8 billion years ago.
Greed has many levels, but anything that remains unchecked can and will eventually cause destruction. That massive chasm between the 1% and the 99% continues to grow, well beyond the realm of the elitists giving a shit about the impact of unchecked Greed.
We have many challenges ahead as we embrace things like mass automation and AI, but the hardest mathematical equation will be to Solve for Greed.
Bank infrastructure is typically less secure than Tor.
Bullshit. I have worked for three banks and they all had the best IT security money can buy. One of my current clients has a core switch that's worth more than your house, it's crammed with IDS and IPS modules and whatnot.
Meanwhile Tor has been the source of many incidents, especially once people started putting up fake nodes.
And yet with all that technology, Tor can't even hold a fucking candle to the global impact Greed and Corruption have caused in the banking industry.
You can stop your bragging now, since it's clear no amount of security can detect or prevent that insider threat.
All we have to do is get rid of Greed and fix the USPTO system.
Or you could stop trying to go back in time and pretend that virtualization and emulators somehow don't exist anymore, since their existence tends to be the entire point of this question. With the hardware race to keep Moore's law alive as long as possible, we've had "enough" GPU, CPU, and memory in hardware for quite a long time. We've had to artificially sustain hardware sales with premature obsolesce, forced by vendors who "no longer support" a given platform that is often still viable to run the latest software offerings. Again, Greed steps in.
No, it's nonsense, so there is nothing to tell. Wasting time thinking about it is bad for my health. The did their job perfectly. Here, wear this tin foil hat, it will make you feel better.
And when there IS something to tell in the future, and they also chose to keep it hidden for years? THAT is the point here. Maintaining trust is rather key with the organization who's job is to inform the Public regarding Health matters.
Break down the reasons this was kept hidden. It was hidden for the sake of capitalism, as to not induce fear and impact the lucrative cellular telecommunications industry, which was probably the accurate thing to do if there are no definitive results to prove a concern for EMF. However, this document was also hidden to continue bilking money to fund pointless studies for years.
You can practically hear the justification. I know we've done a study, but let's do another one and another one and another one, and call it a "long-term study" to continue receiving funding. Oh, and let's delay the results for as long as possible, and then summarize vague bullshit in order to support more studies, even if we already know there's nothing to see here.
Let me rephrase, do you think that the US government's constitutional role is to limit anyone's pay?
The government isn't limiting pay. The government is taxing pay over a particular threshold.
hould the government be able to limit how much of my income I can put in my saving's account
Are you unaware of the limits on deposits into IRAs and 401ks?
Are YOU aware that the obscenely rich lobby for tax loopholes to remain open so they can shelter their income in offshore tax havens?
Stop being ignorant in assuming that the wealthy stay that way by playing by the fucking rules. Put simply, they don't, and the government isn't doing jack shit to correct that.
Here's the deal: you get to make plenty of money operating in the society we built, with the infrastructure we built, supported by the education we provide to everyone... So you pay your fucking taxes and provide some decent jobs.
Nope, fuck that tax idea too. The obscenely rich would rather hide trillions in assets in offshore tax havens, to the detriment of the country itself.
Top 1% = $368,238 (20.9% of income)
Top 0.5% = $558,726 (16.8% of income)
Top 0.1% = $1,695,136 (10.3% of income)
Top 0.01% = $9,141,190 (5% of income)
There are no clarifications necessary here, as I can assure you that even the "lowly" 1% lobby with their votes and wallets to ensure their wealth is secured, regardless of impact to others.
Pass a law limiting CEO pay and shareholder payouts to some multiple of the number of the salary of every employee below C level. Even better, just limit profits and capital in a similar way, with the excess being taxed off.
And who the fuck do you think is going to lobby against that, to ensure the status quo of greed remains put?
They say control is an illusion. Bullshit. There is no mistaking who maintains control right now. And it's not the government.
Atkins and many others are nothing but fad diets that more often than not create the "yo-yo" effect, which is why most people try them, not sustain them.
Leading a good life eating healthy food and getting regular exercise lowers the risk of fucking everything related to what is prematurely killing humans today. When you sustain that from birth, the concern of losing weight does not even apply, due to the overwhelming abundance of evidence that shows that taking this common sense and proven approach leads to sustaining a normal body weight and healthy function forever, without having to ever abuse your body with fad diets (extreme Ketosis is not healthy to subject your body to)
To identify the real bullshit here, the true problem is common sense is not so common.
Once you send out the manufacturing jobs, once you send out the service jobs, once you send out the research jobs, what's left?
A reversion to the mean. The US has some of the highest wages in the world....There is nothing special about the US that entitles workers here to abnormally high wages...
The cost of housing. The cost of consumables. The cost of insurance. In other words, the cost of living in this country.
All factors in what actually makes our particular wage rate rather "special" by comparison. The US Military refers to as a Cost Of Living Allowance (COLA), which they also adjust wages for, depending on where you are forced to work.
Unfortunately, a reversion to the mean needs to adjust accordingly for ALL goods and services. Due to greed and corruption, there's no chance in hell of that happening to make it fair for Joe Citizen, which means most jobs will offer shit wages while goods and services remain priced for only the obscenely wealthy.
"Once you send out the manufacturing jobs, once you send out the service jobs, once you send out the research jobs, what's left? There's nothing left,"
Well, thank goodness people are beginning to wake up. If you're doing business (i.e.: taking money from people) in a country, especially THIS country, you have a moral obligation to employ people from the community, if possible. Adjust your profit expectations accordingly. We're all in this together, or at least, we should be.
The H1-B scam has been going on long enough.
Dearest Little People,
We have lobbied to remove Ethics and Morality from American Business, as they impact our ability to become obscenely wealthy, and will continue to do so.
Do not assume that care nor concern is capable of crossing the chasm between us, and you.
Really? I wonder how often badges fall off during encounters. They're wearing a uniform. Make it a uniform standard to secure it in a field-proven way. Problem solved.
"They can also malfunction"
Make it the responsibility of the officer to check their equipment prior to going on duty, as they should do for ALL of their equipment. Any malfunction that impacts a legal case or fails to record a violent act will be thoroughly investigated by Internal Affairs and subject to 3rd party review. Cameras are evidence gathering devices, so any officer that purposely causes a "malfunction" will face charges of destruction of evidence.
"or videos can be deleted."
Cameras are the responsibility of the officer. Any reports of deleted data will be subject to investigation. If it is determined that the loss of data was not caused by malfunction, then the officer will face mandatory suspension without pay for 2 weeks. If the data loss interferes with a legal case, then the officer will also be charged with destruction of evidence.
If you're going to create a standard, then enforce the fucking thing. Otherwise, quit pissing taxpayer money away.
Do you grill a Lawyer on case law from the 1920s during an interview?
Often require a CPA to cite tax code from 1972 in order to apply for a job?
Perhaps we should just whip out the State Bar or CPA exam instead, you know to find out who's really good, since dredging up history and concepts you left in undergrad school seems to be the name of the game in other fields...
What I mean is that their claim that it is chicken is fine. It doesn't have to be 100% chicken and nothing else, seasoning and preservatives are expected.
All their health claims are dubious, of course.
Given their health claims, I would also expect chicken claims and testing results to be dubious as well.
And perhaps the amount or ratio of "other" ingredients is not the true concern. As an example, the McPreservatives in the fries makes them rather unique in their ability to withstand a nuclear winter and still look fresh.
Seriously, I am not sure how to take this. Instant noodles are hugely popular across asia, consumed in vast quantities every day, and yet asia still has low obesity rates. So is it the noodles that are the problem OR how the people respond to what they eat?
I could not believe how bad the American obesity rate was until I traveled outside of the US. I scratched my head because the foreign diet did not seem particularly healthy, so I looked at other factors.
When comparing other countries, I believe the lack of exercise impacts obesity rates far more than diet does. People can easily get fat off eating an Asian diet if leading a sedentary lifestyle. Other countries are far more mobile and active, which I believe plays a large part here.
2- You mention an "Asian diet" like you seem to think that what you get in a Chinese food restaurant is an "Asian diet" and nothing could be further from the truth. (Chinese food as an industry, is strictly an American thing. It seems the joke has been on us for a while.) While it is true that rice is consumed copiously in Asian countries so are poultry, meats and vegetables as well as western fast food and other Americanized food items in these countries. When you say Asian food, it is not clear whether you are referring to "American Chinese restaurant food" or whether you are referring to the indigenous diet of these Asian countries where you point to a lower obesity rate. I think that it is folly to say that Asians have lower rates of obesity therefore it must be something different about Asians or that Chinese food is ok as we know it in American Chinese food restaurants. Neither point matches the evidence here.
I mention an Asian diet as a reference and intended to compare apples to apples (i.e. a true Asian diet, not the deep-fried Americanized version). Regardless of how you want to dismiss it, an active lifestyle can make all the difference in the world. The average lazy American cannot afford to consume 4000+ calories daily, but someone working out on a regular basis can easily get away with that and not become obese, and actually needs those calories to be expended as fuel. I work out with a guy in his 50's who regularly consumes 4000 calories a day, with one focused gym session every day offsetting what would normally be considered an abundance of calories for the average lazy adult.
As far as dismissing claims that Asians have lower rates of obesity, one can hardly argue with facts. The rate of obesity for men in China is 11%. In Japan it's less than 4%. American men weigh in at a staggering 35%. That's not exactly within the bounds of a rounding error, and both diet and exercise play a part in maintaining health. Seeing weight loss results without exercise is usually due to an extreme "fad" diet, and you will likely succumb to the infamous "yo-yo" effect that has plagued most people who refuse to exercise.
It is impossible to get any processed food that is not laden with salt and sugar. It contributes to high blood pressure and diabetes. Do the food companies care? Or will shipping "product" take precedence over their customers' health?
Nothing takes precedent over profit.
Not even legality, which is often worth the gamble due to pathetic punishments.
All but Subway were over 80% chicken. That's what you would expect, they are quite open about adding seasoning and yeast etc. No problem at all...
I'm sorry, but given the breakdown of the nutritional numbers and value, there is no fucking way in hell a dietary specialist would label McFood "no problem at all".
I wouldn't "expect" anything from a fast food vendor other than a corporation peddling lies and ingredients designed to create addiction.
Subway just happens to be the "healthy" liar who got caught this time.
> What actually works is a permanent lifestyle change
Surely you can link to a study where a permanent lifestyle change results in permanent weight loss in, say, 25% or more of participants.
The "study" is looking at any number of humans on the planet who permanently maintain a diet of healthy food and reasonable portions, along with a regular exercise program. There is no "yo-yo" effect, because the change is permanent, and the human body responds to that. This isn't rocket science, and there's no mystery to solve as to what it takes to maintain a healthy body.
Also, you will find that the group who has maintained that lifestyle all of their life does not even know what a "diet" is, because the concept of weight loss does not apply.
From athletes to yogis and everything in between, there are plenty of examples of the benefits and results of a permanently healthy lifestyle.
It gets frustrating as hell when I see a forum full of people assuming that things like home ownership, saving for retirement, and raising a family are somehow not life goals that are very much alive and well today for many people.
Start taking those into account that add up and can truly enrich your life in the long run, and it quickly justifies the entire point of this discussion.
Slashdot Mirror
Tabloid trash used to be contained within that special group of "news" providers, and quarantined near grocery store cash registers.
Unfortunately, the quest to extract revenue derived from clicks has pushed damn near everyone to publish and aggregate a similar flavor of clickbait bullshit.
Hey Capitalism, stop rewarding Bullshit. Otherwise, You Reap what You Sow.
All we have to do is get rid of Greed
You say that as if greed over resources hasn't been an integral part of existence since life on Earth first started about 3.8 billion years ago.
Greed has many levels, but anything that remains unchecked can and will eventually cause destruction. That massive chasm between the 1% and the 99% continues to grow, well beyond the realm of the elitists giving a shit about the impact of unchecked Greed.
We have many challenges ahead as we embrace things like mass automation and AI, but the hardest mathematical equation will be to Solve for Greed.
Bank infrastructure is typically less secure than Tor.
Bullshit. I have worked for three banks and they all had the best IT security money can buy. One of my current clients has a core switch that's worth more than your house, it's crammed with IDS and IPS modules and whatnot.
Meanwhile Tor has been the source of many incidents, especially once people started putting up fake nodes.
And yet with all that technology, Tor can't even hold a fucking candle to the global impact Greed and Corruption have caused in the banking industry.
You can stop your bragging now, since it's clear no amount of security can detect or prevent that insider threat.
All we have to do is get rid of Greed and fix the USPTO system.
Or you could stop trying to go back in time and pretend that virtualization and emulators somehow don't exist anymore, since their existence tends to be the entire point of this question. With the hardware race to keep Moore's law alive as long as possible, we've had "enough" GPU, CPU, and memory in hardware for quite a long time. We've had to artificially sustain hardware sales with premature obsolesce, forced by vendors who "no longer support" a given platform that is often still viable to run the latest software offerings. Again, Greed steps in.
No, it's nonsense, so there is nothing to tell. Wasting time thinking about it is bad for my health. The did their job perfectly. Here, wear this tin foil hat, it will make you feel better.
And when there IS something to tell in the future, and they also chose to keep it hidden for years? THAT is the point here. Maintaining trust is rather key with the organization who's job is to inform the Public regarding Health matters.
Break down the reasons this was kept hidden. It was hidden for the sake of capitalism, as to not induce fear and impact the lucrative cellular telecommunications industry, which was probably the accurate thing to do if there are no definitive results to prove a concern for EMF. However, this document was also hidden to continue bilking money to fund pointless studies for years.
You can practically hear the justification. I know we've done a study, but let's do another one and another one and another one, and call it a "long-term study" to continue receiving funding. Oh, and let's delay the results for as long as possible, and then summarize vague bullshit in order to support more studies, even if we already know there's nothing to see here.
"After keeping it hidden for years, California's Department of Public Health...
It's pretty fucking bad when you can't even make it through the first fucking sentence of TFS before wanting to dial a damn lawyer.
You had one fucking job to do, Department of Health .
This bullshit, coming from the land that gave birth to "known to the state of California to cause" warning labels.
Fucking hell.
Let me rephrase, do you think that the US government's constitutional role is to limit anyone's pay?
The government isn't limiting pay. The government is taxing pay over a particular threshold.
hould the government be able to limit how much of my income I can put in my saving's account
Are you unaware of the limits on deposits into IRAs and 401ks?
Are YOU aware that the obscenely rich lobby for tax loopholes to remain open so they can shelter their income in offshore tax havens?
Stop being ignorant in assuming that the wealthy stay that way by playing by the fucking rules. Put simply, they don't, and the government isn't doing jack shit to correct that.
Here's the deal: you get to make plenty of money operating in the society we built, with the infrastructure we built, supported by the education we provide to everyone... So you pay your fucking taxes and provide some decent jobs.
Nope, fuck that tax idea too. The obscenely rich would rather hide trillions in assets in offshore tax havens, to the detriment of the country itself.
Elon is all out of ideas, begs 5th grader to do his job for him
Or perhaps when your product practically sells itself, you can afford to focus on other things.
It's not like the man does nothing else but make homemade bongs in his garage all day...
FTFY.
Top 1% = $368,238 (20.9% of income) Top 0.5% = $558,726 (16.8% of income) Top 0.1% = $1,695,136 (10.3% of income) Top 0.01% = $9,141,190 (5% of income)
There are no clarifications necessary here, as I can assure you that even the "lowly" 1% lobby with their votes and wallets to ensure their wealth is secured, regardless of impact to others.
Pass a law limiting CEO pay and shareholder payouts to some multiple of the number of the salary of every employee below C level. Even better, just limit profits and capital in a similar way, with the excess being taxed off.
And who the fuck do you think is going to lobby against that, to ensure the status quo of greed remains put?
They say control is an illusion. Bullshit. There is no mistaking who maintains control right now. And it's not the government.
I don't understand why this is needed.
We never learn from actual history, so not learning from science fiction history seems par for the course.
Besides, I'm sure Cameron will enjoy the movie revenue from making Terminator, Episode I...
You ought to read some studies before posting bullshit. Atkins and low carb diets lower the risk of heart disease.
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2014/11/low-carb-eating-may-be-best-for-weight-loss-heart-health/
and
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates/low-carbohydrate-diets/
Atkins and many others are nothing but fad diets that more often than not create the "yo-yo" effect, which is why most people try them, not sustain them.
Leading a good life eating healthy food and getting regular exercise lowers the risk of fucking everything related to what is prematurely killing humans today. When you sustain that from birth, the concern of losing weight does not even apply, due to the overwhelming abundance of evidence that shows that taking this common sense and proven approach leads to sustaining a normal body weight and healthy function forever, without having to ever abuse your body with fad diets (extreme Ketosis is not healthy to subject your body to)
To identify the real bullshit here, the true problem is common sense is not so common.
Once you send out the manufacturing jobs, once you send out the service jobs, once you send out the research jobs, what's left?
A reversion to the mean. The US has some of the highest wages in the world....There is nothing special about the US that entitles workers here to abnormally high wages...
The cost of housing. The cost of consumables. The cost of insurance. In other words, the cost of living in this country.
All factors in what actually makes our particular wage rate rather "special" by comparison. The US Military refers to as a Cost Of Living Allowance (COLA), which they also adjust wages for, depending on where you are forced to work.
Unfortunately, a reversion to the mean needs to adjust accordingly for ALL goods and services. Due to greed and corruption, there's no chance in hell of that happening to make it fair for Joe Citizen, which means most jobs will offer shit wages while goods and services remain priced for only the obscenely wealthy.
"Once you send out the manufacturing jobs, once you send out the service jobs, once you send out the research jobs, what's left? There's nothing left,"
Well, thank goodness people are beginning to wake up. If you're doing business (i.e.: taking money from people) in a country, especially THIS country, you have a moral obligation to employ people from the community, if possible. Adjust your profit expectations accordingly. We're all in this together, or at least, we should be. The H1-B scam has been going on long enough.
Dearest Little People,
We have lobbied to remove Ethics and Morality from American Business, as they impact our ability to become obscenely wealthy, and will continue to do so.
Do not assume that care nor concern is capable of crossing the chasm between us, and you.
In short, Fuck You Very Much.
Hugs and Kisses,
- The 1%
"cameras can fall off during physical encounters"
Really? I wonder how often badges fall off during encounters. They're wearing a uniform. Make it a uniform standard to secure it in a field-proven way. Problem solved.
"They can also malfunction"
Make it the responsibility of the officer to check their equipment prior to going on duty, as they should do for ALL of their equipment. Any malfunction that impacts a legal case or fails to record a violent act will be thoroughly investigated by Internal Affairs and subject to 3rd party review. Cameras are evidence gathering devices, so any officer that purposely causes a "malfunction" will face charges of destruction of evidence.
"or videos can be deleted."
Cameras are the responsibility of the officer. Any reports of deleted data will be subject to investigation. If it is determined that the loss of data was not caused by malfunction, then the officer will face mandatory suspension without pay for 2 weeks. If the data loss interferes with a legal case, then the officer will also be charged with destruction of evidence.
If you're going to create a standard, then enforce the fucking thing. Otherwise, quit pissing taxpayer money away.
Do you grill a Lawyer on case law from the 1920s during an interview?
Often require a CPA to cite tax code from 1972 in order to apply for a job?
Perhaps we should just whip out the State Bar or CPA exam instead, you know to find out who's really good, since dredging up history and concepts you left in undergrad school seems to be the name of the game in other fields...
Okay, McShit isn't exactly good for you.
It's not good for a dog, let alone a human.
What I mean is that their claim that it is chicken is fine. It doesn't have to be 100% chicken and nothing else, seasoning and preservatives are expected.
All their health claims are dubious, of course.
Given their health claims, I would also expect chicken claims and testing results to be dubious as well.
And perhaps the amount or ratio of "other" ingredients is not the true concern. As an example, the McPreservatives in the fries makes them rather unique in their ability to withstand a nuclear winter and still look fresh.
Seriously, I am not sure how to take this. Instant noodles are hugely popular across asia, consumed in vast quantities every day, and yet asia still has low obesity rates. So is it the noodles that are the problem OR how the people respond to what they eat?
I could not believe how bad the American obesity rate was until I traveled outside of the US. I scratched my head because the foreign diet did not seem particularly healthy, so I looked at other factors.
When comparing other countries, I believe the lack of exercise impacts obesity rates far more than diet does. People can easily get fat off eating an Asian diet if leading a sedentary lifestyle. Other countries are far more mobile and active, which I believe plays a large part here.
2- You mention an "Asian diet" like you seem to think that what you get in a Chinese food restaurant is an "Asian diet" and nothing could be further from the truth. (Chinese food as an industry, is strictly an American thing. It seems the joke has been on us for a while.) While it is true that rice is consumed copiously in Asian countries so are poultry, meats and vegetables as well as western fast food and other Americanized food items in these countries. When you say Asian food, it is not clear whether you are referring to "American Chinese restaurant food" or whether you are referring to the indigenous diet of these Asian countries where you point to a lower obesity rate. I think that it is folly to say that Asians have lower rates of obesity therefore it must be something different about Asians or that Chinese food is ok as we know it in American Chinese food restaurants. Neither point matches the evidence here.
I mention an Asian diet as a reference and intended to compare apples to apples (i.e. a true Asian diet, not the deep-fried Americanized version). Regardless of how you want to dismiss it, an active lifestyle can make all the difference in the world. The average lazy American cannot afford to consume 4000+ calories daily, but someone working out on a regular basis can easily get away with that and not become obese, and actually needs those calories to be expended as fuel. I work out with a guy in his 50's who regularly consumes 4000 calories a day, with one focused gym session every day offsetting what would normally be considered an abundance of calories for the average lazy adult.
As far as dismissing claims that Asians have lower rates of obesity, one can hardly argue with facts. The rate of obesity for men in China is 11%. In Japan it's less than 4%. American men weigh in at a staggering 35%. That's not exactly within the bounds of a rounding error, and both diet and exercise play a part in maintaining health. Seeing weight loss results without exercise is usually due to an extreme "fad" diet, and you will likely succumb to the infamous "yo-yo" effect that has plagued most people who refuse to exercise.
... when totally clueless people try to be smart?
When it comes to lawmakers, no, it is not fucking "cute".
Clueless can be damaging beyond words, and affect millions of lives.
Let's hope her flavor of stupid doesn't get elected. We've already reached our quota of ignorance at that level.
Companies are already destroying Earth. And this is good, because it's profitable.
Any genetics company could unleash killer microbes on Earth.
Agricultural companies could cause mass starvation if they wanted to.
Any company running nuclear power plants could contaminate large areas.
Any company manufacturing or using explosives could build bombs.
What's the problem with dropping a few rocks?
20 trillion in debt based on FUD sales tactics.
It is impossible to get any processed food that is not laden with salt and sugar. It contributes to high blood pressure and diabetes. Do the food companies care? Or will shipping "product" take precedence over their customers' health?
Nothing takes precedent over profit.
Not even legality, which is often worth the gamble due to pathetic punishments.
All but Subway were over 80% chicken. That's what you would expect, they are quite open about adding seasoning and yeast etc. No problem at all...
I'm sorry, but given the breakdown of the nutritional numbers and value, there is no fucking way in hell a dietary specialist would label McFood "no problem at all".
I wouldn't "expect" anything from a fast food vendor other than a corporation peddling lies and ingredients designed to create addiction.
Subway just happens to be the "healthy" liar who got caught this time.
> What actually works is a permanent lifestyle change
Surely you can link to a study where a permanent lifestyle change results in permanent weight loss in, say, 25% or more of participants.
The "study" is looking at any number of humans on the planet who permanently maintain a diet of healthy food and reasonable portions, along with a regular exercise program. There is no "yo-yo" effect, because the change is permanent, and the human body responds to that. This isn't rocket science, and there's no mystery to solve as to what it takes to maintain a healthy body.
Also, you will find that the group who has maintained that lifestyle all of their life does not even know what a "diet" is, because the concept of weight loss does not apply.
From athletes to yogis and everything in between, there are plenty of examples of the benefits and results of a permanently healthy lifestyle.
It gets frustrating as hell when I see a forum full of people assuming that things like home ownership, saving for retirement, and raising a family are somehow not life goals that are very much alive and well today for many people.
Start taking those into account that add up and can truly enrich your life in the long run, and it quickly justifies the entire point of this discussion.
"Getting by" is not the life goal of everyone.