Apparently NSA does not learn. Geeks go wild. They're not domestic. They bite the hand that feeds them. The NSA has been burnt before yet they don't seem to be learning...
I am very dubious of the government outlawing trans fats. After all, it was not that long ago that they sang to the high heavens the praise of margarine. Government can't be trusted to get these things right and should not be in the business of banning people from eating or using things like this. They might make advisories, which they can later retract when the next fad science produces different results, but regulatory and legislative bans are a bad idea. Government should deal with big problems like war and interstate highways. Stay out of our kitchens and food. Leave the choices up to people.
My grandfather taught me the simple trick nearly half a century ago of when you want to cool down to dunk your hands or feet in a bucket of water. To warm up, use hot water. This is merely a portable powered high tech version of this simple technology that has been around for a long time (thousands of years). Nothing new.
This would seem to go against the very well supported and proven theory that positive reinforcement is more powerful than negative reinforcement in training.
Things like this need to be banned from the patent office as unpatentable due to prior art. This rule needs to be dealt out retroactively - should clear up a lot of the bad patents.
You wasted all that for a broken rib? Wow. Too bad you have insurance. If you didn't have insurance maybe you would realize that a broken rib needs no care. No expensive irradiation from X-rays. No doctor, no nurse, no helicopter, nothing. Just ease up on it and it will heal. All the rest was just a placebo.
Theoretically the Constitution could be changed such that only dogs are allowed to have any control of the government, vote, run for office, piss on the sidewalk, etc. But it is unlikely. Trust me.
"if you read quality literary fiction you become a better person, in the sense that you are more likely to empathize with others."
That is a false assumption. Being more empathetic does not make your a better person. Too much empathy is a disease. It is also curable. There's a medication for that.
Actually, I want this. I want to use my applications and data no matter what device to the maximum potential of the device. For creating I mostly use my notebook (desktop) computer but I would like to use the same software and documents on my iPodTouch (iPhone) and iPad.
Just because you don't want it does not mean other people don't want it. You're welcome not to use it. Feel free. But keep you're over generalizations, your projections of you, to yourself.
The one shipped out was returned. That was all they made. This is a bit different than Apple who counts actual sales to end users... 9,000,000 iPhone's sold in the first weekend. But not sold out. They're still making more for next week.
There is no need to spend $50K. I designed and built a masonry (steel reinforced concrete, ferrocement and stone) small (252 sq-ft) home for our family for $7K. It is great to live in. It is also tornado proof but that is merely incidental. Because of it having a high thermal mass inside an insulating envelope it also stays cool in the summer and warm in the winter which saves more money every year on energy costs.
iOS7 is noticeably faster. I'm not a fan of the interface changes, many of which just seem to be for the purpose of change rather than actual improvement. What I wish most of all is that they would focus on legacy support. Quite frankly, they should support all hardware back to the original iPhone and gracefully fall back on features that just don't work. This would bring all users forward. Simultaneously they should support all software back to the original MacOS and even the Lisa and Apple I, II and III. They have the computational power to do the emulation. Legacy support is much more useful than these color changes.
When you turn six you'll start to care. That will be your first day of obsolescence. From then on each year they'll retire odd bits and pieces from your history. Sort of like a reverse dementia you'll live in the last five years of the present until one day they pull the plug. Forever five.
Apple needs to not only offer more robust software (and hardware) but you people need to support legacy software all the way back to MacOS 1.0 CLASSIC and iOS 1.0. You should support 68K, PPC, Rosetta, etc. Frankly you should even support the original Apple II and I, the III, the Lisa. Heck, throw in CPM, DOS and Windows as well. All under the same roof. Just make software work. There is a tremendous amount of wonderful legacy software, especially in the education field but also in entertainment and small business that does not work anymore because Apple abandoned it. Bad Apple, bad apples. Apple has the manpower, the money and the code to make this all work. Just do it.
"Can you inbreed your porkers, or would you need to have sperm for insemination brought in?"
You can inbreed. It is just like any animal, or plant. Breed the best of the best and eat the rest. Inbreeding problems don't appear by magic but are from recessive genes that become visible. Cull them. That is the problem with inbreeding where people aren't willing to cull the offspring. This is why inbreeding humans is generally frowned on.:)
"I've had meat from uncastrated boars, it's eatable but not good."
Then you had either the unfortunate result of the few breeds that have a problem with boar taint or it was miss-management. See this for more on taint. I've done a lot of research on it, we don't castrate and there is a growing movement in the industry to end castration. Basically have good genetics (most pigs don't have taint), feed correctly and manage correctly and there won't be taint.
I'm thinking that when we go into space, space, as in room, isn't going to be a big deal. We're going to make huge habitats. Lots of sunlight. Lots of solar energy. Pastures! Pig farmers in space! I would take some chickens too for a complete breakfast.:)
Wow, so much mythunderstanding and so little real knowledge in your reply:
1) Fat is a necessary dietary component. If you don't get it you won't be healthy. Even in space you'll need fat.
2) Pigs don't actually have much fat unless you breed and feed them for it. "Fat Pigs" are made that way primarily through miss-management since few people have lard type pigs now. Even lard type pigs aren't fat if kept on a proper feed.
3) Pigs thrive on kitchen wastes, weeds, pasture and just about anything making them a perfect animal for space. We raise our pigs on pasture. In fact, they can eat a more varied diet than guinea pigs. They'll even eat you when you die so we can avoid wasting resources by spacing you. Hey, in space nothing can go to waste...
4) Pigs make food for us much faster than guinea pigs. Real farm pigs grow from birth (3 lbs) to finisher size (250 lbs) in about six months on pasture. Farm pigs have eight to 20 piglets per litter and two to three litters a year. That's around 7,000 lbs of continuous production per year. You'll never find guinea pigs doing that efficient production of food.
5) Aggressive pigs should be eaten, not bred. If you're breeding aggressive boars and sows then you're making a big mistake. But based on what you're saying I have the distinct impression you know little to nothing about pigs so I don't think you're doing any pig raising or breeding. I actually breed and raise them so I'm very familiar with them. I have hundreds out on pasture. Our pigs aren't aggressive. Like with any large animal you need to handle them with care - they can step on you or bite.
6) Male pigs don't need to be castrated. There is plenty of research on that. The meat of non-castrated male (boar) pigs is very good. We sell the meat from thousands of boars to tens of thousands of people.
7) Most of all I have one word for you: Bacon.
Next time pick a topic you understand rather than spreading false information and myths.
"There was absolutely no code on his system that wasn't on between dozens and thousands of other systems depending on its age."
There is a big difference between having a backup of your system and copies of bits and pieces scattered around the Universe. With a system backup you're up and running again in minutes to hours. With what you're proposing 'bits and pieces scattered around the Universe' you must expend effort reassembling your machine's soul from the bits and pieces. That takes, better said, wastes, time and effort.
There are automated solutions that keep hourly backups. Even a day's worth may be worth saving. Provided you do important work and don't just surf the web.:)
I find it amazing to consider that he is not working on a redundant and well backed up machine. Where's last hour's backup? Yesterday's backup? Even pig farmer's know to backup their data.
The same thing we use for fertilizer here on earth. The good shit. Animal agriculture is a vital part of the equation. Plants and animals co-evolved to use each others wastes.
The way to fight usage caps is to not use the service. Don't pay for it either, of course. Instead find another provider and give them your money. May the market forces be with you.
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Apparently NSA does not learn. Geeks go wild. They're not domestic. They bite the hand that feeds them. The NSA has been burnt before yet they don't seem to be learning...
I am very dubious of the government outlawing trans fats. After all, it was not that long ago that they sang to the high heavens the praise of margarine. Government can't be trusted to get these things right and should not be in the business of banning people from eating or using things like this. They might make advisories, which they can later retract when the next fad science produces different results, but regulatory and legislative bans are a bad idea. Government should deal with big problems like war and interstate highways. Stay out of our kitchens and food. Leave the choices up to people.
This is old technology gussied up.
My grandfather taught me the simple trick nearly half a century ago of when you want to cool down to dunk your hands or feet in a bucket of water. To warm up, use hot water. This is merely a portable powered high tech version of this simple technology that has been around for a long time (thousands of years). Nothing new.
This would seem to go against the very well supported and proven theory that positive reinforcement is more powerful than negative reinforcement in training.
Things like this need to be banned from the patent office as unpatentable due to prior art. This rule needs to be dealt out retroactively - should clear up a lot of the bad patents.
A failure to find evidence is not proof of non-existance.
One more way to increase the price of food with no actual improvement. This also means more money goes to middlemen rather than to the farmer.
Alternative, use your nose and good sense - Not available everywhere.
You wasted all that for a broken rib? Wow. Too bad you have insurance. If you didn't have insurance maybe you would realize that a broken rib needs no care. No expensive irradiation from X-rays. No doctor, no nurse, no helicopter, nothing. Just ease up on it and it will heal. All the rest was just a placebo.
You made choices alright.
Theoretically the Constitution could be changed such that only dogs are allowed to have any control of the government, vote, run for office, piss on the sidewalk, etc. But it is unlikely. Trust me.
"if you read quality literary fiction you become a better person, in the sense that you are more likely to empathize with others."
That is a false assumption. Being more empathetic does not make your a better person. Too much empathy is a disease. It is also curable. There's a medication for that.
Actually, I want this. I want to use my applications and data no matter what device to the maximum potential of the device. For creating I mostly use my notebook (desktop) computer but I would like to use the same software and documents on my iPodTouch (iPhone) and iPad.
Just because you don't want it does not mean other people don't want it. You're welcome not to use it. Feel free. But keep you're over generalizations, your projections of you, to yourself.
The one shipped out was returned. That was all they made. This is a bit different than Apple who counts actual sales to end users... 9,000,000 iPhone's sold in the first weekend. But not sold out. They're still making more for next week.
There is no need to spend $50K. I designed and built a masonry (steel reinforced concrete, ferrocement and stone) small (252 sq-ft) home for our family for $7K. It is great to live in. It is also tornado proof but that is merely incidental. Because of it having a high thermal mass inside an insulating envelope it also stays cool in the summer and warm in the winter which saves more money every year on energy costs.
iOS7 is noticeably faster. I'm not a fan of the interface changes, many of which just seem to be for the purpose of change rather than actual improvement. What I wish most of all is that they would focus on legacy support. Quite frankly, they should support all hardware back to the original iPhone and gracefully fall back on features that just don't work. This would bring all users forward. Simultaneously they should support all software back to the original MacOS and even the Lisa and Apple I, II and III. They have the computational power to do the emulation. Legacy support is much more useful than these color changes.
When you turn six you'll start to care. That will be your first day of obsolescence. From then on each year they'll retire odd bits and pieces from your history. Sort of like a reverse dementia you'll live in the last five years of the present until one day they pull the plug. Forever five.
Apple needs to not only offer more robust software (and hardware) but you people need to support legacy software all the way back to MacOS 1.0 CLASSIC and iOS 1.0. You should support 68K, PPC, Rosetta, etc. Frankly you should even support the original Apple II and I, the III, the Lisa. Heck, throw in CPM, DOS and Windows as well. All under the same roof. Just make software work. There is a tremendous amount of wonderful legacy software, especially in the education field but also in entertainment and small business that does not work anymore because Apple abandoned it. Bad Apple, bad apples. Apple has the manpower, the money and the code to make this all work. Just do it.
"Can you inbreed your porkers, or would you need to have sperm for insemination brought in?"
You can inbreed. It is just like any animal, or plant. Breed the best of the best and eat the rest. Inbreeding problems don't appear by magic but are from recessive genes that become visible. Cull them. That is the problem with inbreeding where people aren't willing to cull the offspring. This is why inbreeding humans is generally frowned on. :)
"I've had meat from uncastrated boars, it's eatable but not good."
Then you had either the unfortunate result of the few breeds that have a problem with boar taint or it was miss-management. See this for more on taint. I've done a lot of research on it, we don't castrate and there is a growing movement in the industry to end castration. Basically have good genetics (most pigs don't have taint), feed correctly and manage correctly and there won't be taint.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:sugarmtnfarm.com+taint
"7) You win. :-)" :) Bacon is the gateway meat. :)
I'm thinking that when we go into space, space, as in room, isn't going to be a big deal. We're going to make huge habitats. Lots of sunlight. Lots of solar energy. Pastures! Pig farmers in space! I would take some chickens too for a complete breakfast. :)
Wow, so much mythunderstanding and so little real knowledge in your reply:
1) Fat is a necessary dietary component. If you don't get it you won't be healthy. Even in space you'll need fat.
2) Pigs don't actually have much fat unless you breed and feed them for it. "Fat Pigs" are made that way primarily through miss-management since few people have lard type pigs now. Even lard type pigs aren't fat if kept on a proper feed.
3) Pigs thrive on kitchen wastes, weeds, pasture and just about anything making them a perfect animal for space. We raise our pigs on pasture. In fact, they can eat a more varied diet than guinea pigs. They'll even eat you when you die so we can avoid wasting resources by spacing you. Hey, in space nothing can go to waste...
4) Pigs make food for us much faster than guinea pigs. Real farm pigs grow from birth (3 lbs) to finisher size (250 lbs) in about six months on pasture. Farm pigs have eight to 20 piglets per litter and two to three litters a year. That's around 7,000 lbs of continuous production per year. You'll never find guinea pigs doing that efficient production of food.
5) Aggressive pigs should be eaten, not bred. If you're breeding aggressive boars and sows then you're making a big mistake. But based on what you're saying I have the distinct impression you know little to nothing about pigs so I don't think you're doing any pig raising or breeding. I actually breed and raise them so I'm very familiar with them. I have hundreds out on pasture. Our pigs aren't aggressive. Like with any large animal you need to handle them with care - they can step on you or bite.
6) Male pigs don't need to be castrated. There is plenty of research on that. The meat of non-castrated male (boar) pigs is very good. We sell the meat from thousands of boars to tens of thousands of people.
7) Most of all I have one word for you: Bacon.
Next time pick a topic you understand rather than spreading false information and myths.
Walter Jeffries
SugarMtnFarm.com
Pastured Pigs
"There was absolutely no code on his system that wasn't on between dozens and thousands of other systems depending on its age."
There is a big difference between having a backup of your system and copies of bits and pieces scattered around the Universe. With a system backup you're up and running again in minutes to hours. With what you're proposing 'bits and pieces scattered around the Universe' you must expend effort reassembling your machine's soul from the bits and pieces. That takes, better said, wastes, time and effort.
Ah, even Jesus saves. ;-)
There are automated solutions that keep hourly backups. Even a day's worth may be worth saving. Provided you do important work and don't just surf the web. :)
I find it amazing to consider that he is not working on a redundant and well backed up machine. Where's last hour's backup? Yesterday's backup? Even pig farmer's know to backup their data.
To go where no farmer has gone before...
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/2009/04/01/pig-farmers-in-space/
The same thing we use for fertilizer here on earth. The good shit. Animal agriculture is a vital part of the equation. Plants and animals co-evolved to use each others wastes.
The way to fight usage caps is to not use the service. Don't pay for it either, of course. Instead find another provider and give them your money. May the market forces be with you.