Absolutely true! When I got into computers 30 years ago, only nerds, freaks, and geeks seriously considered it. Everyone who was good with computers was portrayed as an awkward social misfit.
If I ran a retail operation, it would be cards only, no cash accepted. That would cut costs so much in terms of no having to make cash deposits, not having to keep cash to make change, not having to worry about employees skimming, not having to worry about robberies, etc.
I can point to a very likely complex situation that self-driving cars can't safely navigate, one that I experience every winter: driving late at night on gravel roads during a blizzard with drifts covering parts of the road. There's also driving dirt paths in the river bottoms. When a self-driving car can do that better than I can, we'll talk.
Keeping up with an idiot is no problem. If there were no demand for the goods and services these jobs would provide, THEY WOULD GENERATE NO PROFIT AND THUS NO INTEREST ON THE INVESTMENT. Do you seriously think rich people take a lower ROI to keep the poor down or some stupid shit like that? They didn't get rich on bad investments.
I have 4 kids and I have traveled extensively with them. The British sister is a spectacular enabler. My kids will eat anything because if they didn't eat what they were served, they didn't eat. Parents who say "you must not have kids" when someone points out that some brat is picky and spoiled are usually lazy spectacular enablers themselves.
Much of it is just sitting around accumulating interest
How the hell do you think that interest accumulates? Magic? No, it gets loaned out to people who use it to start and run businesses, which --gasp!-- creates jobs!
I use the free tier. It generates Discover Weekly and Release Radar. It also give 6 daily mixes, generated from selections from several of my playlists. I've found plenty of great songs via Spotify, maybe more than I ever found in all my years of using Pandora.
My only complaint with Spotify's free tier is that most of the commercials they play are trying to get you to subscribe! I'd really rather they just play commercials for stuff I might actually want to buy.
You seem to be of the belief that drinking unlimited amounts of fruit juice will have no negative health outcomes, which is prima facie moronic. The science on how the body deals with fructose vs. sucrose is pretty well understood. The bodily response to drinking corn syrup water is very similar to drinking the same volume of fruit juice at the same sugar concentration level-- same insulin spike, etc. You seem to be the one who swallowed the propaganda, probably with a big glass of apple juice.
Are you really that dumb? The sugar in fruit juice is fructose, the same sugar as in the corn syrup used to make soda (and the same as in agave nectar).
And before you start on the 2nd amendment, I will remind you that at the time, smooth bore muzzle loader flintlocks were the prevalent weapon
And do you apply that same reasoning to the 1st Amendment? Are color magazines and DVDs and computers not protected under the 1st Amendment? After all, at the time all they had was quill pens and parchment and very simple manual printing presses.
I recently had the idea that the next time I'm part of an interviewing process, I'm going to ask the candidates to write a short essay on the importance of a programming principle like DRY or YAGNI. I think someone who understands why it's important and can communicate it clearly is going to write better code than someone who has memorized some technical minutiae.
No, if you were interested in accuracy you wouldn't be quibbling over a common food industry term. Read this: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPD...
Canada defines it thusly: processed means, in respect of a food product, canned, cooked, frozen, concentrated, pickled or otherwise prepared to assure preservation of the food product in transport, distribution and storage, but does not include the final cooking or preparation of a food product for use as a meal or part of a meal such as may be done by restaurants, hospitals, food centres, catering establishments, central kitchens or similar establishments where food products are prepared for consumption rather than for extended preservation; (http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/C.R.C.,_c._291/FullText.html)
So then you're on the other side? You love processed meats and can't stand that they're not healthy like fresh meat is? Everybody knows what processed meats are and trying to be pedantic about it to act like there's no difference between processed and fresh meat just makes you look stupid.
Like it or not, processed meats are not healthy for you. Fresh meat is. Veg.*ans love to conflate the two as a way to implicate all meat as being unhealthy. Processed meats without crap carbs like pasta and bread are still better than crap carbs without any meat.
If you want to be a pedantic meat hating ass, feel free. You obviously know what people mean by processed meat, you know it's not the same as fresh meat, but you don't care. You're happy to create confusion on the topic in an effort to impugn fresh meat by association with processed meat.
Things like hot dogs, sausage, chicken nuggets, and bacon, which have been processed or cured with a variety of chemicals, including nitrates and MSG. These are quite different from fresh (i.e. unprocessed) meats like steak, chuck roast. To conflate fresh meat and processed meat is dishonest or ignorant.
Animal fat does not give you heart disease. Sugar and carbohydrates do. Many vegetable fats (e.g. corn and soybean oil) have the wrong balance of Omega-6/Omega-3 fatty acids and thus are horrible for you. Only palm, coconut, and olive oil have the proper ratios.
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Absolutely true! When I got into computers 30 years ago, only nerds, freaks, and geeks seriously considered it. Everyone who was good with computers was portrayed as an awkward social misfit.
You'd think that people would know better than to just toss something off on their computer and back date it by now.The internet will find you out!
You over-estimate the intellect of the crack head. They're crack heads, not smart shoppers. Of course they'd do something that stupid.
If I ran a retail operation, it would be cards only, no cash accepted. That would cut costs so much in terms of no having to make cash deposits, not having to keep cash to make change, not having to worry about employees skimming, not having to worry about robberies, etc.
I don't worry about how much cash I carry because I carry 9 230gr .45 caliber JHPs in a convenient dispenser to give to would-be muggers.
I can point to a very likely complex situation that self-driving cars can't safely navigate, one that I experience every winter: driving late at night on gravel roads during a blizzard with drifts covering parts of the road. There's also driving dirt paths in the river bottoms. When a self-driving car can do that better than I can, we'll talk.
Keeping up with an idiot is no problem. If there were no demand for the goods and services these jobs would provide, THEY WOULD GENERATE NO PROFIT AND THUS NO INTEREST ON THE INVESTMENT. Do you seriously think rich people take a lower ROI to keep the poor down or some stupid shit like that? They didn't get rich on bad investments.
Shall I speak slower so you can keep up?
I have 4 kids and I have traveled extensively with them. The British sister is a spectacular enabler. My kids will eat anything because if they didn't eat what they were served, they didn't eat. Parents who say "you must not have kids" when someone points out that some brat is picky and spoiled are usually lazy spectacular enablers themselves.
Much of it is just sitting around accumulating interest
How the hell do you think that interest accumulates? Magic? No, it gets loaned out to people who use it to start and run businesses, which --gasp!-- creates jobs!
I use the free tier. It generates Discover Weekly and Release Radar. It also give 6 daily mixes, generated from selections from several of my playlists. I've found plenty of great songs via Spotify, maybe more than I ever found in all my years of using Pandora.
My only complaint with Spotify's free tier is that most of the commercials they play are trying to get you to subscribe! I'd really rather they just play commercials for stuff I might actually want to buy.
I wouldn't call that patent trolling, I'd call that defensive patenting.
You're right, I am an idiot. I argued with a moron on /.
You seem to be of the belief that drinking unlimited amounts of fruit juice will have no negative health outcomes, which is prima facie moronic. The science on how the body deals with fructose vs. sucrose is pretty well understood. The bodily response to drinking corn syrup water is very similar to drinking the same volume of fruit juice at the same sugar concentration level-- same insulin spike, etc. You seem to be the one who swallowed the propaganda, probably with a big glass of apple juice.
Are you really that dumb? The sugar in fruit juice is fructose, the same sugar as in the corn syrup used to make soda (and the same as in agave nectar).
And before you start on the 2nd amendment, I will remind you that at the time, smooth bore muzzle loader flintlocks were the prevalent weapon
And do you apply that same reasoning to the 1st Amendment? Are color magazines and DVDs and computers not protected under the 1st Amendment? After all, at the time all they had was quill pens and parchment and very simple manual printing presses.
Do you see how stupid that reasoning is?
I recently had the idea that the next time I'm part of an interviewing process, I'm going to ask the candidates to write a short essay on the importance of a programming principle like DRY or YAGNI. I think someone who understands why it's important and can communicate it clearly is going to write better code than someone who has memorized some technical minutiae.
No, if you were interested in accuracy you wouldn't be quibbling over a common food industry term. Read this: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPD...
Canada defines it thusly:
processed means, in respect of a food product, canned, cooked, frozen, concentrated, pickled or otherwise prepared to assure preservation of the food product in transport, distribution and storage, but does not include the final cooking or preparation of a food product for use as a meal or part of a meal such as may be done by restaurants, hospitals, food centres, catering establishments, central kitchens or similar establishments where food products are prepared for consumption rather than for extended preservation; (http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/C.R.C.,_c._291/FullText.html)
humans convert almost everything into glucose...
Not remotely true. Have you not heard of Ketosis?
You're obviously more interested in semantic games than clearly communicating. It's not clever; it's childish.
So then you're on the other side? You love processed meats and can't stand that they're not healthy like fresh meat is? Everybody knows what processed meats are and trying to be pedantic about it to act like there's no difference between processed and fresh meat just makes you look stupid.
Like it or not, processed meats are not healthy for you. Fresh meat is. Veg.*ans love to conflate the two as a way to implicate all meat as being unhealthy. Processed meats without crap carbs like pasta and bread are still better than crap carbs without any meat.
If you want to be a pedantic meat hating ass, feel free. You obviously know what people mean by processed meat, you know it's not the same as fresh meat, but you don't care. You're happy to create confusion on the topic in an effort to impugn fresh meat by association with processed meat.
Things like hot dogs, sausage, chicken nuggets, and bacon, which have been processed or cured with a variety of chemicals, including nitrates and MSG. These are quite different from fresh (i.e. unprocessed) meats like steak, chuck roast. To conflate fresh meat and processed meat is dishonest or ignorant.
No, actually cancers don't feed on everything you feed on. They must have glucose or they starve.
https://proteinpower.com/drmik...
Animal fat does not give you heart disease. Sugar and carbohydrates do. Many vegetable fats (e.g. corn and soybean oil) have the wrong balance of Omega-6/Omega-3 fatty acids and thus are horrible for you. Only palm, coconut, and olive oil have the proper ratios.
The SPLC is itself a hate group.