As far as the food industry is concerned, labelling is equivalent to banning genetically modified food.
As far as I am concerned, if they can't sell it for what it is, then they shouldn't be selling it.
That's not entirely true. Look at High Fructose Corn Syrup. It has been labelled as such (vs. real sugar) for a while, and there are technically alternatives, but all of the big name sodas (and a whole slew of other products) still use it. Even with its richly deserved bad publicity, it is still out there and being sold a lot.
Do you really think it's illegal because of "right-wing lies"? Why did Obama recently refuse to even entertain the idea of decriminalizing marijuana, despite most of Latin America being in favor of it?
I can answer this one at least. It turns out politicians don't really care much about "winning votes". They are far more concerned about not losing votes. If you embrace a change which is unpopular with a significant subset of your voter base, then you are going to lose.
That's why it's mildly surprising that Obama came out pro-gay marriage. Although, I guess the subset of his voter base that is against it is pretty small.
I blogged about your comment on angrylibertarian.tumblr.com if you care (I did it even if you don't care too).
This is from your blog:
Iâ(TM)m pretty sure that nobody in their right mind is claiming that âoeWhat I do doesnâ(TM)t affect youâ but rather the claim is âoeNot everything that affects you allows you to legitimately respond with violenceâ.
Now since you were responding to me, and I was talking about helmet laws, how do you get "respond with violence" from "require motorcycle riders to wear helmets or goggles"?
I think this is how libertarians get their reputation as being a little bit goofy.
Hey man, calm down, there's no reason to get all violent!
* Well, I know that there is a team called the "Red Socks" but I have no idea whether it's a baseball or football team, nor do I care about it enough to ask Wikipedia.
There's no such team in the NFL or the MLB. However, the Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team (MLB). So, the one little fact you knew about sports was wrong. That's a shame.
I'd explain the difference between an earned run and an unearned run, but I know deep down you don't give a shit.
What tha fuck does this have to do with a slash and a dot? or a pound and bang for that matter? WTF?? How the fuck is this news for nerds? What the fuck is happening to Slashdot lately? Useless unrelated political crap and Google bashing is about all you find these days.
Yeah, so you really should stop reading the articles. And posting about them, especially stop posting about them.
If I can spot a major typo in the summary 2 seconds after seeing it for the first time ("Litesqaured" in this case) the you are not doing your fucking job.
It's pretty clear that you're OK with minor typos.
It blows my mind how the most insightful post in the entire discussion is a 1, but immediately below it, some ignoramus screaming "FIRE HIM IMMEDIATELY!!1" is modded up to 5, Insightful.
I must be new around here.
I think the root cause is that the sentence "Competant people often have to fake credentials to get decent jobs." encapsulates everything that decent human beings hate about corporate America. Those of us that are competent AND have the proper credentials (and the resultant student loan debt) tend to be a little upset when this kind of thing happens. The spelling error adds just the right amount of "fuck you".
The whole thing reminds me of the guy that speeds past a line of cars by using the shoulder. Of course he gets away with it, and gets to where he's going an hour before the rest of us.
1) Send a message, "Hello, are you out there?"
2) 200 years later..., "Yes we are, is there something we can help you with?"
3) 200 years later..., "Can you give us the secret to faster than light travel?"
4) 200 years later..., "Obviously not."
Total time: 800 years.
I forgot (5).
5) 200 years later..., "Ok, never mind then."
If you fill the potholes, property values would go up, and with them property taxes. I am firmly against your plan to raise taxes. You must be some sort of democrat.
Psychological addiction was unaffected of course. Sit at computer, sip energy drink, right?
FWIW I've been working on a serious diet-soda addiction. As in diet soda was my primary source of fluids every day of the week.
I bought a "Primo Flavorstation" from Loews - it lets you carbonate tap water. They want you to buy syrups as a make-your-own-soda thing. But I've found that simply carbonated water does it for me about 90% of the time (and all of the syrups I've tried taste like shit).
There is another brand out there - Sodastream. But sodastream sucks because they booby-trap their co2 tanks to force you to buy refils from them at ~$25 a tank (and their new units have half-size tanks too). The Primo takes standard paintball tanks, so you can refill the cansister for about $3 at almost any sports store (I use the sports authority that is just down the block from me). Primo also wants to sell you $25 refills, but they don't try to force you - only give you BS about "food grade" co2, which is no different from any other kind of non-medical co2.
I have a Sodastream. The refills are actually more like $15 (still quite a bit higher than $3, but I didn't even know that Primo Flavorstation existed when I bought it). I'm sure the syrups for Sodastream are compatible with your machine, and some of them aren't terrible. The Cola one is pretty good (and it uses real sugar!). Stay away from the Red Bull one though, it truly is nasty.
As far as food-grade CO2 goes. BS it may well be, but I once worked for a company that used bulk CO2 as a key ingredient for some of its processing. They had to pay more for the food-grade, because the process engineers claimed that it was necessary. I'm not a process engineer though, so I don't really know.
You didn't rip off that tag on your mattress did you? Big brother has interests in your bedroom.
Just so you know, it is perfectly legal for the end-user to rip the tag off the mattress. The tag is only there for the middle handlers (e.g. wholesaler, retailer, etc). It cannot be legally removed until the customer receives the product.
In this case, it is actually to protect the consumer by disclosing the materials used in the mattress, primarily "all new" versus "recycled".
The sad truth is that Big Brother is much more covert in its interests in your bedroom.
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As far as the food industry is concerned, labelling is equivalent to banning genetically modified food.
As far as I am concerned, if they can't sell it for what it is, then they shouldn't be selling it.
That's not entirely true. Look at High Fructose Corn Syrup. It has been labelled as such (vs. real sugar) for a while, and there are technically alternatives, but all of the big name sodas (and a whole slew of other products) still use it. Even with its richly deserved bad publicity, it is still out there and being sold a lot.
After all I have read about this "class" of people, I can reach no other conclusion. Same goes for the politicians hired-hands... the bureaucrats.
You are under the illusion that there are people who are not scumbags. How quaint.
Keep seeing all these whippersnappers nowadays wearing the same clothes I wore years ago.
You should have thought of that before you donated them.
Uh... I think you're wrong. Unless you think JEL and Brooks Automation are not in the business of making robots.
Or maybe you can't count past one in Merriam Webster's definition. You're either an idiot or a troll, or perhaps a little bit of both, hmm?
Wheel... Of Money!
Do you really think it's illegal because of "right-wing lies"? Why did Obama recently refuse to even entertain the idea of decriminalizing marijuana, despite most of Latin America being in favor of it?
I can answer this one at least. It turns out politicians don't really care much about "winning votes". They are far more concerned about not losing votes. If you embrace a change which is unpopular with a significant subset of your voter base, then you are going to lose.
That's why it's mildly surprising that Obama came out pro-gay marriage. Although, I guess the subset of his voter base that is against it is pretty small.
This is from your blog:
Now since you were responding to me, and I was talking about helmet laws, how do you get "respond with violence" from "require motorcycle riders to wear helmets or goggles"?
I think this is how libertarians get their reputation as being a little bit goofy.
Hey man, calm down, there's no reason to get all violent!
Every time a see a password like this "12ol3jkh!!asrdfw9g8"
That's the password on my luggage!
* Well, I know that there is a team called the "Red Socks" but I have no idea whether it's a baseball or football team, nor do I care about it enough to ask Wikipedia.
There's no such team in the NFL or the MLB. However, the Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team (MLB). So, the one little fact you knew about sports was wrong. That's a shame.
I'd explain the difference between an earned run and an unearned run, but I know deep down you don't give a shit.
Carl Sagan would be pround.
He sure woulnd.
What tha fuck does this have to do with a slash and a dot? or a pound and bang for that matter? WTF?? How the fuck is this news for nerds? What the fuck is happening to Slashdot lately? Useless unrelated political crap and Google bashing is about all you find these days.
Yeah, so you really should stop reading the articles. And posting about them, especially stop posting about them.
If I can spot a major typo in the summary 2 seconds after seeing it for the first time ("Litesqaured" in this case) the you are not doing your fucking job.
It's pretty clear that you're OK with minor typos.
Same here, if only the days were longer. We need to find some way to slow the rotation of the earth.
That sounds like a lot of work, and I'm pretty tired.
IGNORANT PEOPLE with internet access.
100 years ago, ignorance spread rather slowly. Today, you can convince 1000 people of some bullshit in a matter of seconds.
I'll buy that.
It blows my mind how the most insightful post in the entire discussion is a 1, but immediately below it, some ignoramus screaming "FIRE HIM IMMEDIATELY!!1" is modded up to 5, Insightful.
I must be new around here.
I think the root cause is that the sentence "Competant people often have to fake credentials to get decent jobs." encapsulates everything that decent human beings hate about corporate America. Those of us that are competent AND have the proper credentials (and the resultant student loan debt) tend to be a little upset when this kind of thing happens. The spelling error adds just the right amount of "fuck you".
The whole thing reminds me of the guy that speeds past a line of cars by using the shoulder. Of course he gets away with it, and gets to where he's going an hour before the rest of us.
1) Send a message, "Hello, are you out there?" 2) 200 years later..., "Yes we are, is there something we can help you with?" 3) 200 years later..., "Can you give us the secret to faster than light travel?" 4) 200 years later..., "Obviously not." Total time: 800 years.
I forgot (5).
5) 200 years later..., "Ok, never mind then."
Now the total time is 800 years.
1) Send a message, "Hello, are you out there?"
2) 200 years later..., "Yes we are, is there something we can help you with?"
3) 200 years later..., "Can you give us the secret to faster than light travel?"
4) 200 years later..., "Obviously not."
Total time: 800 years.
At least it them a way to write Charlie out of the show.
I think you a word there, champ!
There's no counter argument to that.
There's always a counter argument.
If you fill the potholes, property values would go up, and with them property taxes. I am firmly against your plan to raise taxes. You must be some sort of democrat.
Psychological addiction was unaffected of course. Sit at computer, sip energy drink, right?
FWIW I've been working on a serious diet-soda addiction. As in diet soda was my primary source of fluids every day of the week.
I bought a "Primo Flavorstation" from Loews - it lets you carbonate tap water. They want you to buy syrups as a make-your-own-soda thing. But I've found that simply carbonated water does it for me about 90% of the time (and all of the syrups I've tried taste like shit).
There is another brand out there - Sodastream. But sodastream sucks because they booby-trap their co2 tanks to force you to buy refils from them at ~$25 a tank (and their new units have half-size tanks too). The Primo takes standard paintball tanks, so you can refill the cansister for about $3 at almost any sports store (I use the sports authority that is just down the block from me). Primo also wants to sell you $25 refills, but they don't try to force you - only give you BS about "food grade" co2, which is no different from any other kind of non-medical co2.
I have a Sodastream. The refills are actually more like $15 (still quite a bit higher than $3, but I didn't even know that Primo Flavorstation existed when I bought it). I'm sure the syrups for Sodastream are compatible with your machine, and some of them aren't terrible. The Cola one is pretty good (and it uses real sugar!). Stay away from the Red Bull one though, it truly is nasty.
As far as food-grade CO2 goes. BS it may well be, but I once worked for a company that used bulk CO2 as a key ingredient for some of its processing. They had to pay more for the food-grade, because the process engineers claimed that it was necessary. I'm not a process engineer though, so I don't really know.
You didn't rip off that tag on your mattress did you? Big brother has interests in your bedroom.
Just so you know, it is perfectly legal for the end-user to rip the tag off the mattress. The tag is only there for the middle handlers (e.g. wholesaler, retailer, etc). It cannot be legally removed until the customer receives the product. In this case, it is actually to protect the consumer by disclosing the materials used in the mattress, primarily "all new" versus "recycled".
The sad truth is that Big Brother is much more covert in its interests in your bedroom.
Not at all, I'm certain Slashdot just ate Alex's whitespace.
,Alex
"What is GPS?"
I suppose the comma could have been in the first line as well... curse you Slashdot!
I expect the only real-world application would be financial companies trying to squeeze a few more nanoseconds off NYC-London communications.
At the rates the automated trades occur, that would be a big enough deal to destroy the whole market.
Um right. The head of physics at LHEP is a yahoo? But the guy on Slashdot is a genius.
I would have believed him if his ID were lower. Anyone over 900000 is clearly an idiot and can't be trusted at all. Am I right?
You left out the fact that terrorism is so rare that even if they worked as described, the machines would kill more people than they save.
Yeah, but not all at once.