I can't wait til they're required by law to give us all the nutritional information of every piece of fruit, down to the calorie count and the chemical breakdown. Perhaps government will put missing persons reports on them, or government mandated reminders of what it means to be a good citizen! So many useful applications!
I can wait.
While factory food is standard, and large processes and labs are well equipped to measure all you want to know - each batch of fruit has a different nutritional value. A little more sun can do a lot. There is a wide variation in the amount of vitamins in apples.
The costs associated with all the measurements of what you propose are immense.
Also, fruits have very few (none) added sugars or added other components... and there is no trickery.
Just remember: fruit is healthy. It never hurts to eat it. Why have a label if this is true anyway?
"How many times have you bit into a piece of fruit only to find that you're also chomping on a sticker label?
Answer: Never They're quite easy to spot: they look like a little sticker label. In addition, most fruits here don't even have a sticker. We're quite capable of distinguishing between a banana and an apple without sticker.:D
The world doesn't need this rat. But perhaps our kids will actually also have a better memory because of it. Then they can all still remember the history lessons they learned in school when they get to a position of power. And humanity will actually be able to learn from mistakes made in the past. And the world will be a better place. Free drinks for everyone.
If everybody had an ocean Across the desert sands, Then everybody'd be surfin' Like Ethiop-I-A You'd see 'em wearin' their baggies Huarachi sandals, too A bushy bushy blonde hairdo Surfin' Africa.
They should patent the evaporation of water. And patent photosynthesis too, for good measure. they obviously made a great invention.
p.s. Don't tell them that they found nothing new. This is just like a biologist finding out that cars exist (carrus automaticus gasolinus). Quite exciting really, and certainly worth a publication or two.:)
It's a well known fact that making votes public and not anonymous well influence the votes.
It's a miracle that it didn't influence it too much but you can bet that next time any topic will come up for voting, people will think more of "what the neighbors / friends will think about it" than about their own opinion.
Saddam Hussein also checked who didn't vote for him. That's how democratic this system is. Equal to Iraqi democracy before the invasion.
The game has been carefully designed to statistically create a profit for the casino, assuming that the deck of cards is too complex for players to memorize.
For really smart people who can count really well, assumption is false, so the system fails. But for stupid people, the assumption is true and the system works.
So, they want only stupid people.
~I prefer to spend my money in the bar: enter being smart, and become stupid as a result of spending money.
Funny that in the Netherlands privatization of healthcare has made it more expensive... and you're afraid of an increase in costs from the exact opposite.
Americans leave a country which they invaded because they install a government which listens to Washington... there's no point in staying. Job's done.
The goal for America is not to bring democracy. It is to bring democracy (or dictatorship) which listens to Washington.
The Romans did pretty much the same. Invade, convert, assimilate... if possible, they'd call it a protectorate which is the same idea.
But don't get me wrong - it's a pretty good idea... but the focus should shift a bit more to winning the population, not just the installation of a new government.
Developers need to be paid. As much as we want it, it is highly unlikely that all software in the world will be developed in the form of open source projects.
While open source projects will undoubtedly continue, the paid software and software that contains ads will also always be there...
Youtube also has ads at the start of the movies. I've already adopted a strategy to have my mouse of the volume control as soon as a movie starts.
~I prefer creative advertisers who push their message into my brain to voluntarily taking the message in me. In other words: I prefer ad-rape to ad-love~
How many more programs are there that do the same?
I never liked to have programs running in the background... this is just another reason not to install any program at all that wants to start up when I turn the computer on.
Privacy... what's that?
Can someone just make sure that these freaks are locked away for a decade or two please? Any invasion of privacy as extreme as this surely is illegal???
Ok, I agree that when you sell millions of CD's, you'll be a wealthy person. But your average artist can be famous, but still not wealthy.
But somehow I really do not believe that any of this proposed "tax" (theft is a better word) is going to the artists to compensate them for all the blood sweat and tears.
I propose we build a giant space ship and stuff all the lawyers and those who come up with obsolete ideas like this into it.
It used to be simple: Record companies want music offline, want more money, want no sharing. Nerds and geeks want music online, all for free, share with everybody.
And there were no other parties. Now there are geeks in 10 different categories (ranging from small groups of geeks at the pirate bay to huge companies such as Google that owns youtube). And it seems that the music industry are now themselves hijacked by the lawyers, media, ISP's, electronics manufacturers and whatever else there is in all the posts here on/. And then there's the RIAA who sue everybody, but I'm not sure if they're still being controlled by anyone, or if they now make their own agenda like a Frankenstein's Monster.
And nobody ever seems to ask the artists anything (except Metallica, who didn't realize that 50% of their fans are geeks).
So... I've come to realize that for every euro I spend on music... at least 99.999% should go to all those organizations and industries. And the percentage is still growing. Parasites.
Anyway, I'll just copy my music using my USB stick from friends. Quality and quantity are guaranteed. All offline.
We do have new technology, but we fail to implement it. New types of energy could, and should, be implemented a.s.a.p.
Right now, we have an economy that aims to produce more for less. In the good old days, there was energy to spare, and it was quality that mattered. But in order to get quality, you need to spend more energy. And since energy is the bottleneck nowadays, we should be tackling that first.
With a nice new shiny infrastructure for clean energy, we can again send people to the moon and build flying cars. But I wouldn't even want a flying car if that means I have to spend 200 euro on gas just to get to work and back.
A second remark: While we don't all have DNA analyzers at home, some serious advances have been made in the medical field. While we didn't put another man on the moon, 2 rovers have been driving around Mars for several years. While computers have been around for years now, they do start to resemble a tricorder in many ways (except that we still can't set our blackberry to stun).
I think that we're just getting very used to technical progress... and if you want a "revolution"... the internet itself is one.
A last remark: The more stuff you have, the more you need to spend on maintenance. In the good old days, people just didn't have so much, and spent all their efforts on creating new stuff. Now, we spend all our efforts just to keep all the stuff we built over the last decades up and running.
I mean, there are a few other things on the internet that use a little bandwidth.
I would suggest that everybody who puts something on youtube that gets more than 100 views has to pay extra tax. In addition, their upload gets downgraded for the next 3 months. That'll teach them for making the internet a popular tool for sharing information!
On a more serious note: I suggest we block all traffic between copyright lobbyists and internet providers... that should solve the problem rather quickly.
But Google maps sure as hell increased my local knowledge. I like staring at maps. I like to pick a spot, and go there by bike. I could see that a sat-nav on a bike will make one more courageous to explore the local area... and if you're one of those polluting road-jamming filthy bastards, you might explore the region by car...
If you look at it like that, sat-nav increases local knowledge.:D
Yes, but you have to admit that the Europeans act as a single country when it comes to spaceflight. ESA has institutes all over Europe, and they are all cooperating, and have researchers from all over Europe.
Besides, the British are part of the EU too, and they insist on using the imperial system too... Even worse, their imperial system might differ from the other imperial system(s?). Pity that Napoleon never invaded the UK:D (Napoleon is said to have spread the Metric system to other countries)
Now that we are aware of the increasing use by law enforcement of cell phone records, won't criminal simply setup their cell phones at some alibi spot, go off and commit the crime and use the records as support for that alibi?
So, not only do mobile phones bust the alibi of the guilty, they now also cause doubts about the alibi of those not guilty??
Doesn't that mean that a mobile phone should not be used as evidence?
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A number of false positives reported in the media, and everybody will fear that machine...
So long and thanks for all the bread...
I can't wait til they're required by law to give us all the nutritional information of every piece of fruit, down to the calorie count and the chemical breakdown. Perhaps government will put missing persons reports on them, or government mandated reminders of what it means to be a good citizen! So many useful applications!
I can wait.
While factory food is standard, and large processes and labs are well equipped to measure all you want to know - each batch of fruit has a different nutritional value. A little more sun can do a lot. There is a wide variation in the amount of vitamins in apples.
The costs associated with all the measurements of what you propose are immense.
Also, fruits have very few (none) added sugars or added other components... and there is no trickery.
Just remember: fruit is healthy. It never hurts to eat it. Why have a label if this is true anyway?
"How many times have you bit into a piece of fruit only to find that you're also chomping on a sticker label?
Answer: Never :D
They're quite easy to spot: they look like a little sticker label.
In addition, most fruits here don't even have a sticker. We're quite capable of distinguishing between a banana and an apple without sticker.
The world doesn't need this rat.
But perhaps our kids will actually also have a better memory because of it. Then they can all still remember the history lessons they learned in school when they get to a position of power. And humanity will actually be able to learn from mistakes made in the past. And the world will be a better place. Free drinks for everyone.
If everybody had an ocean
Across the desert sands,
Then everybody'd be surfin'
Like Ethiop-I-A
You'd see 'em wearin' their baggies
Huarachi sandals, too
A bushy bushy blonde hairdo
Surfin' Africa.
They should patent the evaporation of water. And patent photosynthesis too, for good measure. they obviously made a great invention.
p.s. Don't tell them that they found nothing new. This is just like a biologist finding out that cars exist (carrus automaticus gasolinus). Quite exciting really, and certainly worth a publication or two. :)
It's a well known fact that making votes public and not anonymous well influence the votes.
It's a miracle that it didn't influence it too much but you can bet that next time any topic will come up for voting, people will think more of "what the neighbors / friends will think about it" than about their own opinion.
Saddam Hussein also checked who didn't vote for him. That's how democratic this system is. Equal to Iraqi democracy before the invasion.
They basically only want stupid people to play.
The game has been carefully designed to statistically create a profit for the casino, assuming that the deck of cards is too complex for players to memorize.
For really smart people who can count really well, assumption is false, so the system fails.
But for stupid people, the assumption is true and the system works.
So, they want only stupid people.
~I prefer to spend my money in the bar: enter being smart, and become stupid as a result of spending money.
Funny that in the Netherlands privatization of healthcare has made it more expensive... and you're afraid of an increase in costs from the exact opposite.
Americans leave a country which they invaded because they install a government which listens to Washington... there's no point in staying. Job's done.
The goal for America is not to bring democracy. It is to bring democracy (or dictatorship) which listens to Washington.
The Romans did pretty much the same. Invade, convert, assimilate... if possible, they'd call it a protectorate which is the same idea.
But don't get me wrong - it's a pretty good idea... but the focus should shift a bit more to winning the population, not just the installation of a new government.
There are a number of hints that say that we're dealing with a great energy-crop:
1. It burns extremely hot (yay)
2. It grows fast (good)
3. It certainly won't require herbicides (meaning it's "biological").
We just need some biologists to turn this stuff into fuel (ethanol)... alternatively, it can be pelletized.
Developers need to be paid. As much as we want it, it is highly unlikely that all software in the world will be developed in the form of open source projects.
While open source projects will undoubtedly continue, the paid software and software that contains ads will also always be there...
Youtube also has ads at the start of the movies. I've already adopted a strategy to have my mouse of the volume control as soon as a movie starts.
~I prefer creative advertisers who push their message into my brain to voluntarily taking the message in me. In other words: I prefer ad-rape to ad-love~
Darwin's Voyage is soooo 1831.
I still use my old bookshelves, where I order everything alphabetically...
I guess it's better to have "The Hobbit" than "Lord of the Rings II, Saruman rises AGAIN" or something :)
How many more programs are there that do the same?
I never liked to have programs running in the background... this is just another reason not to install any program at all that wants to start up when I turn the computer on.
Privacy... what's that?
Can someone just make sure that these freaks are locked away for a decade or two please? Any invasion of privacy as extreme as this surely is illegal???
Since when is any money going to the artists?
Ok, I agree that when you sell millions of CD's, you'll be a wealthy person. But your average artist can be famous, but still not wealthy.
But somehow I really do not believe that any of this proposed "tax" (theft is a better word) is going to the artists to compensate them for all the blood sweat and tears.
I propose we build a giant space ship and stuff all the lawyers and those who come up with obsolete ideas like this into it.
It used to be simple:
Record companies want music offline, want more money, want no sharing.
Nerds and geeks want music online, all for free, share with everybody.
And there were no other parties. Now there are geeks in 10 different categories (ranging from small groups of geeks at the pirate bay to huge companies such as Google that owns youtube). /.
And it seems that the music industry are now themselves hijacked by the lawyers, media, ISP's, electronics manufacturers and whatever else there is in all the posts here on
And then there's the RIAA who sue everybody, but I'm not sure if they're still being controlled by anyone, or if they now make their own agenda like a Frankenstein's Monster.
And nobody ever seems to ask the artists anything (except Metallica, who didn't realize that 50% of their fans are geeks).
So... I've come to realize that for every euro I spend on music... at least 99.999% should go to all those organizations and industries. And the percentage is still growing. Parasites.
Anyway, I'll just copy my music using my USB stick from friends. Quality and quantity are guaranteed. All offline.
...and put all the lawyers, hairdressers and managers in it?
We do have new technology, but we fail to implement it. New types of energy could, and should, be implemented a.s.a.p.
Right now, we have an economy that aims to produce more for less. In the good old days, there was energy to spare, and it was quality that mattered. But in order to get quality, you need to spend more energy. And since energy is the bottleneck nowadays, we should be tackling that first.
With a nice new shiny infrastructure for clean energy, we can again send people to the moon and build flying cars. But I wouldn't even want a flying car if that means I have to spend 200 euro on gas just to get to work and back.
A second remark:
While we don't all have DNA analyzers at home, some serious advances have been made in the medical field. While we didn't put another man on the moon, 2 rovers have been driving around Mars for several years. While computers have been around for years now, they do start to resemble a tricorder in many ways (except that we still can't set our blackberry to stun).
I think that we're just getting very used to technical progress... and if you want a "revolution"... the internet itself is one.
A last remark:
The more stuff you have, the more you need to spend on maintenance. In the good old days, people just didn't have so much, and spent all their efforts on creating new stuff. Now, we spend all our efforts just to keep all the stuff we built over the last decades up and running.
I mean, there are a few other things on the internet that use a little bandwidth.
I would suggest that everybody who puts something on youtube that gets more than 100 views has to pay extra tax. In addition, their upload gets downgraded for the next 3 months. That'll teach them for making the internet a popular tool for sharing information!
On a more serious note: I suggest we block all traffic between copyright lobbyists and internet providers... that should solve the problem rather quickly.
But Google maps sure as hell increased my local knowledge. I like staring at maps. I like to pick a spot, and go there by bike.
I could see that a sat-nav on a bike will make one more courageous to explore the local area... and if you're one of those polluting road-jamming filthy bastards, you might explore the region by car...
If you look at it like that, sat-nav increases local knowledge. :D
Yes, but you have to admit that the Europeans act as a single country when it comes to spaceflight. ESA has institutes all over Europe, and they are all cooperating, and have researchers from all over Europe.
Besides, the British are part of the EU too, and they insist on using the imperial system too... Even worse, their imperial system might differ from the other imperial system(s?). Pity that Napoleon never invaded the UK :D
(Napoleon is said to have spread the Metric system to other countries)
Now that we are aware of the increasing use by law enforcement of cell phone records, won't criminal simply setup their cell phones at some alibi spot, go off and commit the crime and use the records as support for that alibi?
So, not only do mobile phones bust the alibi of the guilty, they now also cause doubts about the alibi of those not guilty??
Doesn't that mean that a mobile phone should not be used as evidence?