Not according to the FDA. According to the FDA, soy beans are as high quality a protein as steak itself. But I digress.
And don't forget, that the cows are still getting their protein from the grain...and in the process using it themselves, leaving us with a hefty "food chain tax". If plants were such a poor source of protein then why is it the staple of the cattle we slaughter for food?
Maybe people just like meat so much they don't give a shit how much grain it sucks up in the form of cattle feed.
I'd much rather have ECN than packet loss. If an application is told straight up that it's suffocating the network, then it can back off immediately and smoothly instead of getting stung by packet drops.
Actually there will be a net gain in the plant population.
Plants are already at the bottom of the food chain and the higher up your OWN meal is on the food chain, the more plant mass is required to grow your food. Those plants are going to get eaten no matter what.
Skip the trophic levels and go straight to the bottom, and you save on calorie taxes that are imposed on carnivores.
Eat a pound of beef, and you use up the 12 pounds of grain that were needed to grow the beef. Eat a pound of grain, and you preserve 11 pounds of grain that would otherwise have gone into ranching.
Besides, you can't get rid of cows by eating them. That's called demand, and demand increases price, and price increases boost supply. So the long and short of it is that attempting to exterminate methane farting cows by eating them will only encourage farmers to breed more of them. The only way to make someone stop selling a good is to stop buying it.
News flash: There are PLENTY of resources for everyone, if only we weren't wasteful and/or greedy.
Consider that when you eat a tasty pricey steak, you're eating about 3 loaves of bread worth of grain that went into growing that beef. Grain that could have fed a lot more had it been made into that bread instead of fed to a cow.
This is just one example of how resources are being misdirected. Just because people of the upper crust would rather have a resource intensive meal, they get it because they're rich and willing to pay for it. Sucks for the poor folks that HAVE to use grain, which is now going to be more expensive because some of it got taken for beef production. The meat eater is crowding the plant eater out of the market.
The FCC's political masters back in Congress have already sold out to special interests and are more than happy to act as hired mercenaries to enforce big content's divine will upon the internet by keeping the big bad FCC out of their way.
Unless these recommendations are binding, it's a big fat case of "tough luck" because the judge was the one issuing the sentence.
If they are optional the only choice is to bring it to the attention of the sentencing judge and hope they see fit to change their mind.
Isn't judicial discretion wonderful?
Not to mention that the power to put some "jerk" in jail is quite intoxicating. And if you can get that power and have it disguised as a clerical error...*evil laugh*.
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The proper venue in this case would seem to be a FEDERAL court, yes?
You know, the one presided over by a judge whose salary is funded by federal corporate income taxes?
Indeed.
And vegetarianism is a planet-saving option that doesn't require killing people.
Not according to the FDA. According to the FDA, soy beans are as high quality a protein as steak itself. But I digress.
And don't forget, that the cows are still getting their protein from the grain...and in the process using it themselves, leaving us with a hefty "food chain tax". If plants were such a poor source of protein then why is it the staple of the cattle we slaughter for food?
Maybe people just like meat so much they don't give a shit how much grain it sucks up in the form of cattle feed.
Round round get around, I get around...
Tragedy of the Commons
I'd much rather have ECN than packet loss. If an application is told straight up that it's suffocating the network, then it can back off immediately and smoothly instead of getting stung by packet drops.
Put another way, 1 billion people eating steak is just as taxing on the environment as 12 billion people eating grain.
Maybe you missed the part, also repeated elsewhere, that going vegetarian will multiply our food supply, not just add to it.
It takes about 12 pounds of grain to make one pound of meat. Those who eat grain instead of meat stretch the world food supply twelve-fold.
As far as the rainforests go...if we stop eating meat, we can stop slashing fields for grazing space.
Actually there will be a net gain in the plant population.
Plants are already at the bottom of the food chain and the higher up your OWN meal is on the food chain, the more plant mass is required to grow your food. Those plants are going to get eaten no matter what.
Skip the trophic levels and go straight to the bottom, and you save on calorie taxes that are imposed on carnivores.
Eat a pound of beef, and you use up the 12 pounds of grain that were needed to grow the beef. Eat a pound of grain, and you preserve 11 pounds of grain that would otherwise have gone into ranching.
Besides, you can't get rid of cows by eating them. That's called demand, and demand increases price, and price increases boost supply. So the long and short of it is that attempting to exterminate methane farting cows by eating them will only encourage farmers to breed more of them. The only way to make someone stop selling a good is to stop buying it.
News flash: There are PLENTY of resources for everyone, if only we weren't wasteful and/or greedy.
Consider that when you eat a tasty pricey steak, you're eating about 3 loaves of bread worth of grain that went into growing that beef. Grain that could have fed a lot more had it been made into that bread instead of fed to a cow.
This is just one example of how resources are being misdirected. Just because people of the upper crust would rather have a resource intensive meal, they get it because they're rich and willing to pay for it. Sucks for the poor folks that HAVE to use grain, which is now going to be more expensive because some of it got taken for beef production. The meat eater is crowding the plant eater out of the market.
Yes, planned leaks.
Also known as beta versions.
I can download hardware, sorta:
Project64
Dolphin
GnuBoy
ZSNES
Gens
Windows, however, is bigger overall.
And you don't really need a beefy server in your botnet. A desktop will do just fine.
The MAFIAA needs to be boycotted.
But heaven help us if their litigation machine ever proves profitable even without sales to back them up. Then there will be no stopping them.
We've already lost.
The FCC's political masters back in Congress have already sold out to special interests and are more than happy to act as hired mercenaries to enforce big content's divine will upon the internet by keeping the big bad FCC out of their way.
Please Obama, VETO the anti-net-neutrality bill.
There will be corruption no matter which way you go.
"It's a two party system, you have to vote for one of us!"
The FCC must have hit a bullseye because the internet industry is howling in pain to their congress critters.
Slashdot had a bit of a bad glitch yesterday that got all the articles mislinked.
The legal system doesn't give a rat's ass if you screwed up.
This is the exact same "speak now or forever hold your peace" rush-mongering that got spamhaus in trouble when they were sued by e390.
What gripes me is that you even have to make a deal in the first place.
Negotiation belongs in the boardroom.
Keep it out of the criminal justice system please.
update: I did forget about due process appeals.
Unless these recommendations are binding, it's a big fat case of "tough luck" because the judge was the one issuing the sentence.
If they are optional the only choice is to bring it to the attention of the sentencing judge and hope they see fit to change their mind.
Isn't judicial discretion wonderful?
Not to mention that the power to put some "jerk" in jail is quite intoxicating. And if you can get that power and have it disguised as a clerical error...*evil laugh*.
THE CAKE IS A LIE!
I see developing nations as growing children.
Yes, they need fed and cared for, but you don't just spoil them rotten by giving them shitloads of free money.
They need to learn, just like real children, how to support themselves.
The FCC finally gets balls enough to put a stop to telco discrimination, and here comes big bad congress trying to de-fang them.
Looks like the FCC royally pissed off some special interests.