I'm glad that someone else brought this up because I know of a transplant patient that tried to subsist on orange juice and was told by his doctors that he would kill his liver that way.
At some time or another you end up in a position where you are lucky if you can just get liquids down.
"energy drinks" also tend to have ingredients other than caffeine. Some are also highly fortified. Also, not all energy drinks are full of sugar.
Not all drink formulations do well with a lot of added sugar.
They are distinctive enough to be in their own category.
If anything, they are sort of a revival of the original idea of sodas as patent medicine. They are a bit more creative in terms of the idea of "pep". Whereas the conventional brands are mostly stagnant coasting on 100 year old recipes that have been mutilated for the sake of industrial production and cost cutting.
Drinking out of ditches is very doable. Clearly you haven't been watching the Walking Dead lately.
That said, there is really nothing to be gained from buying some other city's tap water from the Coca-Cola corporation. All you're doing is wasting the resources it takes to bottle and ship the same stuff you could get out of your own tap and put into a carafe yourself.
You could even call it "Carafe d'eau" and say that it's something French and trendy.
> This is Slashdot - where the impulse is to find a way, howsoever ludicrous or convoluted, to excuse the engineers from fault.
The engineers aren't in charge.
There's like an entire corporate machine in place to ensure that a lone wolf can't through error or malice can't cause problems. Things like basic software development practices should ensure that bad/stupid things don't go unnoticed.
What are the practical requirements for implementing this "cheat" with a beaurocracy of this kind?
No. You just have a naieve and unrealistic idea of what war is or what war can be.
If we had CNN in the 40s we never would have been able to defeat Japan or Germany because of all of the bleeding hearts. Now THAT was real carnage. Nothing that the US does today is remotely comparable.
> So when will Google and Apple be selling Fire products in their respective stores?
Neither of those have ever made any pretense about being a general store. Amazon is a bit like an online Walmart and should be treated much the same. The fact that you may be a fan of Amazon is no excuse to let them off easy.
...there won't even be the same sort of mass outrage associated with this. Only a few geeks will even notice or pay attention. Making it even less likely that anything will change.
Nobody expects Apple to play nice with other options it can afford to ignore. No one is surprised by this. They wouldn't have an iTunes client for Windows if Microsoft weren't beast of the desktop for the last 30 years.
Like any flat fee product, it's easy enough to make your money back if you use it often enough. That's the real question. It's pretty easy math really. Not something to get at all excited about.
This isn't about "small electronics". It's about streamers and content. And yes, having their own vertically integrated platform does make them ripe for an anti-trust inquiry. The same goes for Apple too.
There's no reason to lick their boots, either of them.
...or you could just find something the kid likes to eat and not botch it.
It helps if you always set the expectation that the vegetable is not optional. By the time the kid goes off to school, it's already far too late to fix this. They will be like the hillbilly parents that object when do-gooers try to change the menu.
This is one aspect of this whole thing that gets overlooked.
It's not hard to cook vegetables properly but you have to care about what you are doing and pay attention. This is not something I would expect in any American institutional setting.
If the vegetables aren't cooked right, children will rightly have an instinctive aversion too them as they have become bitter and nutritionally worthless.
Although they're not that bad really. They're just something that "sounds bad" and scare xenophobes.
They take on the taste of whatever sauce they're served with. Since a big part of French cooking is sauces, it's a good indicator of whether or not you will like the rest of what a restaurant is serving.
That's all just information that you can get at a library or in a book. You can cram that information in if necessary if you're just trying to regurgitate it for a test.
You don't even have to be a snooty violin player or have parents that are members of a country club.
> Entire cultures and ethnicities dropped right at the bottom of the totem pole and you think 50 years is supposed to be enough time for everything to even out? > > There's people in the prime of their careers who weren't even born 50 years ago!
I know entire clans of professional blacks. I know ancient IT geeks that are black and weren't even the first people in their family to get college degrees. I know blacks that have sent their kids to Ivy League schools (or went to them).
There are plenty of blacks that don't need bleeding hearts that are really racists in disguise.
50 years is generations.
It's also a big pile of money.
There is a widening gap between those that just take care of business and those that make excuses and have excuses made for them.
50 years isn't long enough yet people who come here from somewhere else can quickly pull themselves off the bottom.
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I'm glad that someone else brought this up because I know of a transplant patient that tried to subsist on orange juice and was told by his doctors that he would kill his liver that way.
At some time or another you end up in a position where you are lucky if you can just get liquids down.
> > Along with that, I think somebody should point out that fuit juice is almost as bad as soda.
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> I see you drink Kool-Aid.
I treat it all the same and view it all as equally dangerous.
Even soda used to be sold and consumed in small amounts. The classic soda bottle was about as big as the classic juice glass.
"energy drinks" also tend to have ingredients other than caffeine. Some are also highly fortified. Also, not all energy drinks are full of sugar.
Not all drink formulations do well with a lot of added sugar.
They are distinctive enough to be in their own category.
If anything, they are sort of a revival of the original idea of sodas as patent medicine. They are a bit more creative in terms of the idea of "pep". Whereas the conventional brands are mostly stagnant coasting on 100 year old recipes that have been mutilated for the sake of industrial production and cost cutting.
Capitalism is supposed to be all about informed consumers making rational choices.
Well, those rational choices can't be made without the information.
Welcome to the information. Or would you have everyone's right to free speech and the press shredded just to benefit corporations (like ag-gag) laws.
It's up to the individual to determine what they're going to do once they have all of the information.
Drinking out of ditches is very doable. Clearly you haven't been watching the Walking Dead lately.
That said, there is really nothing to be gained from buying some other city's tap water from the Coca-Cola corporation. All you're doing is wasting the resources it takes to bottle and ship the same stuff you could get out of your own tap and put into a carafe yourself.
You could even call it "Carafe d'eau" and say that it's something French and trendy.
> This is Slashdot - where the impulse is to find a way, howsoever ludicrous or convoluted, to excuse the engineers from fault.
The engineers aren't in charge.
There's like an entire corporate machine in place to ensure that a lone wolf can't through error or malice can't cause problems. Things like basic software development practices should ensure that bad/stupid things don't go unnoticed.
What are the practical requirements for implementing this "cheat" with a beaurocracy of this kind?
No. You just have a naieve and unrealistic idea of what war is or what war can be.
If we had CNN in the 40s we never would have been able to defeat Japan or Germany because of all of the bleeding hearts. Now THAT was real carnage. Nothing that the US does today is remotely comparable.
Neither are paid for Harry Potter books that have no DRM.
The fact that something is cheap is no reason to put up with obviously bogus technical limitations.
> So when will Google and Apple be selling Fire products in their respective stores?
Neither of those have ever made any pretense about being a general store. Amazon is a bit like an online Walmart and should be treated much the same. The fact that you may be a fan of Amazon is no excuse to let them off easy.
...there won't even be the same sort of mass outrage associated with this. Only a few geeks will even notice or pay attention. Making it even less likely that anything will change.
A device that can do Netflix and Prime? You didn't need a FireTV for that. If anything, Amazon was LAST to the party in this respect.
Nobody expects Apple to play nice with other options it can afford to ignore. No one is surprised by this. They wouldn't have an iTunes client for Windows if Microsoft weren't beast of the desktop for the last 30 years.
Like any flat fee product, it's easy enough to make your money back if you use it often enough. That's the real question. It's pretty easy math really. Not something to get at all excited about.
This isn't about "small electronics". It's about streamers and content. And yes, having their own vertically integrated platform does make them ripe for an anti-trust inquiry. The same goes for Apple too.
There's no reason to lick their boots, either of them.
...or you could just find something the kid likes to eat and not botch it.
It helps if you always set the expectation that the vegetable is not optional. By the time the kid goes off to school, it's already far too late to fix this. They will be like the hillbilly parents that object when do-gooers try to change the menu.
This is one aspect of this whole thing that gets overlooked.
It's not hard to cook vegetables properly but you have to care about what you are doing and pay attention. This is not something I would expect in any American institutional setting.
If the vegetables aren't cooked right, children will rightly have an instinctive aversion too them as they have become bitter and nutritionally worthless.
> ...vegetables have plenty of protein.
You are an idiot and would probably get slapped by a monk. Certainly by any Sifu.
Snails are part of "haute cuisine".
Although they're not that bad really. They're just something that "sounds bad" and scare xenophobes.
They take on the taste of whatever sauce they're served with. Since a big part of French cooking is sauces, it's a good indicator of whether or not you will like the rest of what a restaurant is serving.
The number of McD's and KFC's in France shocked me. So did the number of people wandering around Paris with McD bags.
Wasn't about to try that stuff though. It would have kind of defeated the whole point of being in France.
...again with the corporate boot licking.
Only corporations can have rights. People don't have rights. They only are allowed to do what our corporate masters tell us we can do.
What's worse are the number of corporate bootlickers that have already crawled out of the woodworks to come to Apple's defense here.
> Go home Michelle.
>
> We know what to feed our own kids.
Sure. That's why they're lard butts that are going to be a burden on our medical system.
If you give a kid a burger and fries, his body knows it's done already. He will be full by the time he gets to any vegetable.
That's all just information that you can get at a library or in a book. You can cram that information in if necessary if you're just trying to regurgitate it for a test.
You don't even have to be a snooty violin player or have parents that are members of a country club.
> Entire cultures and ethnicities dropped right at the bottom of the totem pole and you think 50 years is supposed to be enough time for everything to even out?
>
> There's people in the prime of their careers who weren't even born 50 years ago!
I know entire clans of professional blacks. I know ancient IT geeks that are black and weren't even the first people in their family to get college degrees. I know blacks that have sent their kids to Ivy League schools (or went to them).
There are plenty of blacks that don't need bleeding hearts that are really racists in disguise.
50 years is generations.
It's also a big pile of money.
There is a widening gap between those that just take care of business and those that make excuses and have excuses made for them.
50 years isn't long enough yet people who come here from somewhere else can quickly pull themselves off the bottom.
That even includes genuine Africans.