The also have a big picture of an EGG on the package.
It's called "Just Mayo". It's not called "Vegan Mayo". They are going out of their way to appear like an artisinal brand of actual mayonnaise rather than some purveyor of shoddy "substitutes".
You can eat 2 eggs for breakfast every day of your life and your blood test numbers can still be not just acceptable but enough to get you a discount on your life insurance.
We are ultimately talking about a CONDIMENT here. It should not really matter how "harmful" it is. You shouldn't be eating it in any quantities where this kind of issue would come up.
Although the "harmfulness" of eggs is disputed and seems to vary like Paris fashion seasons.
Of course Vegans are going to shout down anything animal related despite the fact that we are not bovines.
Um... no. There is not plenty of protein in the plant world. Contrary to popular Vegan opinion, we are not bovines. We are omnivores. We are adapted to eat whatever we can get our hands on with the notable exception of green plant matter. THAT is something we don't digest well (or at all).
Eating an animal living off of marginal grasslands is a much more carbon friendly option for humans than trying to grow anything on such land.
Feeding an overpopulated planet won't be done in a "nice" way regardless of what kind of soylent you try to force on people. There's just too many of us.
You are not a cow regardless of how badly you want to be one.
> And what additional benefits do these American workers reap?
The money to do something interesting with my time off instead of camping or having a "staycation". I also don't have to stay in one of those gawdawful French hotels that looks like and feels like a poorly done cruise ship cabin.
> The existing laws defined them as a cable company. They were not very smart to think otherwise. The laws may need to go away, but that was always the correct interpretation.
The existing laws did no such thing. The existing laws did not even address them. Furthermore, they were going out of their way to conform to what legal precedents have been set.
The "legal theory" used by the Supreme Court in this case was a national embarrassment.
Sometimes, it doesn't matter so much if you do the "right thing" or the "wrong thing" but how you do it. This was done in such a wrong manner that the consequences of that could be far more harmful than the general "thumbs up" or "thumbs down".
"Walks like a duck" should embarrass anyone posting here.
> Innovation? They were a CATV system who didn't want to pay their statutory licensing fees.
No, not really. Not at all actually.
First they are nothing like a CATV system. That's just the lame ass "walks like a duck" nonsense from the Supremes. However, once declared a CATV system by a bunch of senile old luddites, they actually did try to pay their statutory licensing feeds.
Lesser judges wouldn't let them.
They were either a CATV system or not a CATV depending on the way the wind was blowing and the judge du jour and the will of the incumbent monopolies.
Chromecast and the Roku thumb sized machines are very specialized hardware that likely won't have the capabilities or flexibility of an Intel variant. They likely not to be in the same class at all.
If anything, they might be comparable to some generic Android stick and possibly not even that due to the limitations of Android.
We like Unix because it works a HELL of a lot better than the alternatives. Linux gained a foothold because it was a cheap Unix that worked well. It was a re-implementation of a well understood and successful design.
Unix is the product of "real pros". It's managed by "real pros". These are people that are probably responsible for keeping you fed and keeping your lights on.
Destroying a successful design that's the workhorse of the industry is a dubious prospect at best.
The only problem with that is that Macs probably represent all of the anti-Unix nonsense he's trying to get away from by fleeing to one of the pure BSDs.
I also can't imagine a Gentoo user being satisfied with Mac hardware. Gentoo is kind of the polar opposite of the Apple mentality. The end user has limited control and is presented with limited questionable choices.
They are bean counters pandering to other bean counters. Free TV is a model for cheapskates. It's interesting that it took as long as it did for it to slide into a race to the bottom with cut-rate reality style programming.
It's hard to say how many discriminating customers there are out there and if there are enough to support the better shows. You may think that "insert favorite show here" is the bee's knees but there might not be enough audience to support it.
Although the ala carte premium channels like HBO and Cinemax seem to do OK.
...except they can't advertise to any of those people. If anything, it's perhaps a good way of measuring how far people will go to escape from the old model.
This seems like something useful for production companies that might contemplate bypassing conventionl TV entirely.
Still don't see the value in going through Neilson though. At best they could rate entire services and possibly give extra exposure to lesser services (besides the ones mentioned here).
They are your individual rights. They are not your collective rights when you choose to become part of some collective. You can still exercise your rights outside of the collective. Nothing is stopping that.
The corporation is a legal fiction with limited moral awareness and should be treated as such.
> I always wondered what kind of imbecile thinks that people stop being people just because they form a group.
People stop being "people" when they lose all moral awareness and are absolved from all personal responsibility.
A group of people does not have the same attributes as it's individuals. This is especially true when the group is specifically formed to avoid moral and legal responsibility.
Sounds like Corinthian. They've been in the news lately for being a total scam preying on the weak and taking them for large sums of money. They made some pretty impressive claims too. They all turned out to be completely bogus.
What this outfit claims about itself is just more advertising propaganda. You can't trust it.
> What college has become is a crutch for the public school system for being as shit as it is. And it is shit because it has to pass most people.
That's only because we have this absurd fixation on college prep. This is something also inherent in common core. Not everyone is suited for college. So not everyone should be pushed into the college prep program.
Most people would be better off with the vocational programs that used to be quite common but don't exist anymore.
So both types of "college" have become a crutch for mismanaged public schools.
A lot of jobs could be handled as apprenticeships but that's not the way that corporations want to treat labor anymore. They want custom tailored laborers for cheap with no effort expended on their part.
Also, this kind of ventures into the territory of "you can be smart or you can be pretty". It helps perpetrate the idea that you have to make yourself a pariah from the majority of women in order to actually be anything you want to be. That's because the missing bit of information here is that women are as sexist as anyone else and will impose their sense of orthodoxy quite readily.
A genuinely liberated "taking care of business" type of woman may find herself shunned by both the homemaker and the "feminist" crowd.
Both will want to control your choices equally.
That's what this "sexism" rating is all about: feminists want to act like church ladies and impose their neo-victorian attitudes on everyone.
Feminists are Tea Baggers without the biblical references.
Yes... the demented world of Apple where daring to buy a 3rd party peripheral is only for "power users" or "cheapskates" or some other class of person that will be denigrated by the hive mind.
THIS here is the biggest reason to avoid Apple products. Not the price. Not the novelty form factors that cook your machine. Not the fact that nothing is maintainable.
It's THIS attitude here that anyone that's using this "platform for creatives" in a remotely creative way will get shouted down by the hive mind.
This is not a feature that adds to that security though. Apple benefits from it's underlying Unixness and not doing the stupid things in Apple apps that get done in MIcrosoft apps.
This extra bit of "security" is entirely unecessary. It's just more of the usual Apple style nonsense where crippling a device is confused with making it better.
It's the kind of propaganda that plays well to idiots that are proud of the fact that they don't know how anything works.
> In my experience, mac laptops cost 20% more and last twice as long as alternative PC laptop manufacturers. That doesn't seem like a bad deal to me.
In my experience PC hardware in general is not nearly as failure prone as Apple fanboys would make you believe. On the other hand, PC hardware in general is not restricted to the "cook your components" form factors that Apple fixates on. So a PC will actually be more durable.
This is why my PC IONs are still chugging along long after the Apple equivalent cooked itself.
Total lack of maintainability can't help Apple hardware either.
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The also have a big picture of an EGG on the package.
It's called "Just Mayo". It's not called "Vegan Mayo". They are going out of their way to appear like an artisinal brand of actual mayonnaise rather than some purveyor of shoddy "substitutes".
You can eat 2 eggs for breakfast every day of your life and your blood test numbers can still be not just acceptable but enough to get you a discount on your life insurance.
A little self-awareness goes a long way.
We are ultimately talking about a CONDIMENT here. It should not really matter how "harmful" it is. You shouldn't be eating it in any quantities where this kind of issue would come up.
Although the "harmfulness" of eggs is disputed and seems to vary like Paris fashion seasons.
Of course Vegans are going to shout down anything animal related despite the fact that we are not bovines.
Um... no. There is not plenty of protein in the plant world. Contrary to popular Vegan opinion, we are not bovines. We are omnivores. We are adapted to eat whatever we can get our hands on with the notable exception of green plant matter. THAT is something we don't digest well (or at all).
Eating an animal living off of marginal grasslands is a much more carbon friendly option for humans than trying to grow anything on such land.
Feeding an overpopulated planet won't be done in a "nice" way regardless of what kind of soylent you try to force on people. There's just too many of us.
You are not a cow regardless of how badly you want to be one.
> And what additional benefits do these American workers reap?
The money to do something interesting with my time off instead of camping or having a "staycation". I also don't have to stay in one of those gawdawful French hotels that looks like and feels like a poorly done cruise ship cabin.
Plus I can actually make that kind of comparison.
> The existing laws defined them as a cable company. They were not very smart to think otherwise. The laws may need to go away, but that was always the correct interpretation.
The existing laws did no such thing. The existing laws did not even address them. Furthermore, they were going out of their way to conform to what legal precedents have been set.
The "legal theory" used by the Supreme Court in this case was a national embarrassment.
Sometimes, it doesn't matter so much if you do the "right thing" or the "wrong thing" but how you do it. This was done in such a wrong manner that the consequences of that could be far more harmful than the general "thumbs up" or "thumbs down".
"Walks like a duck" should embarrass anyone posting here.
> What is innovative about a CATV system? Welcome to the 1980s.
They did it in a manner that would allow for multiple competing services and did not depend on them owning a physical network monopoly.
THAT is actually a nice marginal improvement (aka an innovation).
> Innovation? They were a CATV system who didn't want to pay their statutory licensing fees.
No, not really. Not at all actually.
First they are nothing like a CATV system. That's just the lame ass "walks like a duck" nonsense from the Supremes. However, once declared a CATV system by a bunch of senile old luddites, they actually did try to pay their statutory licensing feeds.
Lesser judges wouldn't let them.
They were either a CATV system or not a CATV depending on the way the wind was blowing and the judge du jour and the will of the incumbent monopolies.
Chromecast and the Roku thumb sized machines are very specialized hardware that likely won't have the capabilities or flexibility of an Intel variant. They likely not to be in the same class at all.
If anything, they might be comparable to some generic Android stick and possibly not even that due to the limitations of Android.
This might be more like a Chromebox.
We like Unix because it works a HELL of a lot better than the alternatives. Linux gained a foothold because it was a cheap Unix that worked well. It was a re-implementation of a well understood and successful design.
Unix is the product of "real pros". It's managed by "real pros". These are people that are probably responsible for keeping you fed and keeping your lights on.
Destroying a successful design that's the workhorse of the industry is a dubious prospect at best.
No. Apple is lame and restrictive.
If he uses a real BSD, he can install it on any hardware he likes.
If he uses "marketing-bullet-point-BSD", he can only install it on a small number of overpriced machines in strange novelty form factors.
HELL, he could try the real BSD of his choice in a VM right now without disturbing his Gentoo install and without spending any extra money.
If only trying "marketing-bullet-point-BSD" were so cheap and easy.
The only problem with that is that Macs probably represent all of the anti-Unix nonsense he's trying to get away from by fleeing to one of the pure BSDs.
I also can't imagine a Gentoo user being satisfied with Mac hardware. Gentoo is kind of the polar opposite of the Apple mentality. The end user has limited control and is presented with limited questionable choices.
They are bean counters pandering to other bean counters. Free TV is a model for cheapskates. It's interesting that it took as long as it did for it to slide into a race to the bottom with cut-rate reality style programming.
It's hard to say how many discriminating customers there are out there and if there are enough to support the better shows. You may think that "insert favorite show here" is the bee's knees but there might not be enough audience to support it.
Although the ala carte premium channels like HBO and Cinemax seem to do OK.
...except they can't advertise to any of those people. If anything, it's perhaps a good way of measuring how far people will go to escape from the old model.
This seems like something useful for production companies that might contemplate bypassing conventionl TV entirely.
Still don't see the value in going through Neilson though. At best they could rate entire services and possibly give extra exposure to lesser services (besides the ones mentioned here).
So this is actually a freedom of the press issue?
That at least seems to be more relevant, make more sense, and avoids expanding this whole "corporations are people" nonsense.
You can do the right thing and still do it for the wrong reason and manage to cause collateral damage. This is another fine case of that.
They are your individual rights. They are not your collective rights when you choose to become part of some collective. You can still exercise your rights outside of the collective. Nothing is stopping that.
The corporation is a legal fiction with limited moral awareness and should be treated as such.
> I always wondered what kind of imbecile thinks that people stop being people just because they form a group.
People stop being "people" when they lose all moral awareness and are absolved from all personal responsibility.
A group of people does not have the same attributes as it's individuals. This is especially true when the group is specifically formed to avoid moral and legal responsibility.
At best. That is a child or a house pet.
Sounds like Corinthian. They've been in the news lately for being a total scam preying on the weak and taking them for large sums of money. They made some pretty impressive claims too. They all turned out to be completely bogus.
What this outfit claims about itself is just more advertising propaganda. You can't trust it.
Universities are also careful not to use languages that will do too much of the work for the student.
You forgot that part.
"Sorry you can't use language X for this assignment. There would be no point."
> What college has become is a crutch for the public school system for being as shit as it is. And it is shit because it has to pass most people.
That's only because we have this absurd fixation on college prep. This is something also inherent in common core. Not everyone is suited for college. So not everyone should be pushed into the college prep program.
Most people would be better off with the vocational programs that used to be quite common but don't exist anymore.
So both types of "college" have become a crutch for mismanaged public schools.
Even that requires more than a weekend seminar.
A lot of jobs could be handled as apprenticeships but that's not the way that corporations want to treat labor anymore. They want custom tailored laborers for cheap with no effort expended on their part.
Also, this kind of ventures into the territory of "you can be smart or you can be pretty". It helps perpetrate the idea that you have to make yourself a pariah from the majority of women in order to actually be anything you want to be. That's because the missing bit of information here is that women are as sexist as anyone else and will impose their sense of orthodoxy quite readily.
A genuinely liberated "taking care of business" type of woman may find herself shunned by both the homemaker and the "feminist" crowd.
Both will want to control your choices equally.
That's what this "sexism" rating is all about: feminists want to act like church ladies and impose their neo-victorian attitudes on everyone.
Feminists are Tea Baggers without the biblical references.
Yes... the demented world of Apple where daring to buy a 3rd party peripheral is only for "power users" or "cheapskates" or some other class of person that will be denigrated by the hive mind.
THIS here is the biggest reason to avoid Apple products. Not the price. Not the novelty form factors that cook your machine. Not the fact that nothing is maintainable.
It's THIS attitude here that anyone that's using this "platform for creatives" in a remotely creative way will get shouted down by the hive mind.
This is not a feature that adds to that security though. Apple benefits from it's underlying Unixness and not doing the stupid things in Apple apps that get done in MIcrosoft apps.
This extra bit of "security" is entirely unecessary. It's just more of the usual Apple style nonsense where crippling a device is confused with making it better.
It's the kind of propaganda that plays well to idiots that are proud of the fact that they don't know how anything works.
> In my experience, mac laptops cost 20% more and last twice as long as alternative PC laptop manufacturers. That doesn't seem like a bad deal to me.
In my experience PC hardware in general is not nearly as failure prone as Apple fanboys would make you believe. On the other hand, PC hardware in general is not restricted to the "cook your components" form factors that Apple fixates on. So a PC will actually be more durable.
This is why my PC IONs are still chugging along long after the Apple equivalent cooked itself.
Total lack of maintainability can't help Apple hardware either.