Farmers probably know the difference between how vegetables convert nutrients into energy and growth and how animals convert nutrients into energy and growth, and why that makes a huge difference to this issue.
You better stop eating vegetables too, then. They subsist on a steady diet of shit.
But they don't ingest it, which makes a huge difference.
You aren't going to slice open a tomato and find actual manure in it. Pathogens found in manure, and in the guts and bloodstreams of animals fed manure, are less likely to survive the process of their original host being synthesized in to vegetable matter.
Comparing manure used to fertilize plants and manure fed to animals is specious.
I don't think that this behavior in dogs in necessarily symptomatic of anything other than their natural garbage-gut nature. Dogs will try to eat almost anything, and if it tastes good to them they will continue to eat it unless it makes them ill enough, fast enough that they can connect the dots and learn that it should be avoided.
The media has ignored just about any possibly negative thing to say about Obama over the course of four years; even longer if you include the campaign leading up to the last election.
As a liberal, I think that is overstating it a bit. However, I will concede that he has gotten a pass on a lot of broken promises and has underperformed in many ways (even considering the massive, mostly spite-based push-back he has recieved from Republicans).
That said, the media has been up to its ears in far more entertaining conspiracy theories promoted by Republicans.
What attracts more eyeballs? Obama being blocked by Republicans from doing things, often things that Republicans wanted done before he was elected? Or supposedly serious people frothing about the absense of his mega-long-form-ultra-100%-no-foolin'-this-time birth certificate?
Tipping is institutionalized bribing to convince a person to treat you better.
If that were true, tipping would be done up front so the staff would know how to treat you.
Tipping is an opportunity for you to treat someone else better, at your own discretion. It is an opportunity to enjoy a dining experience without signing on to the exploitation of un- or semi-skilled labor.
No, "TV" is a device that allows me to watch visual and audio stimuli - it's unrelated to the content, which is what you're describing.
The content I am describing is the "audio and visual stimuli" that you are referring to. The point is that while people could stare at a blank screen or specialized patters of relaxing audio and visual stimuli, that is not what most people watch on TV.
Also, everything you've just discussed can be said for books (and many websites, for that matter). Are you giving up reading and internet surfing, too?
Give up books? Of course not, because a book is just a collection of pieces of paper bound together. A book is unrelated to the content printed within.
Your brain needs relaxation too - TV's no different than reading a book or any other mostly passive activity.
Citation?
TV is the product of decades of study to find ways to keep you watching, indefinitely if possible. It is the junk food of entertainments -- highly engineered to push every available button that will keep you consuming, with zero regard for the impact of that consumption on the consumers health or well being.
How is it "relaxing" to be assailed by an endless stream of manipulative messages designed to stimulate all manner of consumption, often by promoting various anxieties?
Too many people simply surrender control to the almighty state. It's baffling.
Why is it baffling? These are the same people who can't drag themselves or their children away from the almighty TV.
Why should children and the society that they will inhabit suffer because their parents are too incompetent to set limits? Anti-government paranoia uber-alles?
The important bit is that workers are striking not because they are against stricter quality, but because tighter quality checks meant they must work harder to produce iPhone components presumably at the same rate as earlier models.
And what better way to increase quality than to squeeze more productivity out of workers?
Would it make you feel worse if the number was a "mere" 250m? Or 100m?
I am currently ignoring 2 different accounts, FWIW. Facebook keeps sending notifications of various uninteresting types to both, I assume that they are both considered "active".
I joined with a buch of real life friends years ago, and it appears that about 1 in 10 ever post anything on a regular basis.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people rush out to purchase a new product with both unreviewed hardware and software and then get upset that there are flaws.
Do you not yet understand that the price for showing off your elite toy is that you are a paying beta tester?
That might cut it for software that can be patched or some truly cutting edge piece of gear.
For the latest of several versions of a mass market consumer product that is being manufactured and sold by the millions? Hell no. I don't and never will own an iPhone, but I don't think buyers should be scolded for expecting the iPhone5 to be beta tested by Apple.
We should not apologize for free speech, no matter who it offends.
Unless a foreigner makes a political video that offends the US, in which case we reserve the right to brand him a terrorist and send a drone to assassinate him in his own country.
The situation is a win-win for the Obama administration, who can now appear to be punishing the man whose film sparked protests and riots around the world.
This is outrageously ridiculous. Why would it be a "win-win" for the Obama administration to appear to be punishing someone for exercising his First Amendment right to free speech?
Because the people who want this guy punished don't give a fig about the reasons, or pretext as the case may be (though it isn't). They have enough distance to see through the self-righteous bleating about "freedom of speech" from Americans. Many of the live in countries where making a video critical of America may put you in the crosshairs of a American drone, possibly being actively controlled from American soil.
At the same time, this guy has availed himself to punishment for something other than is speech at a very convenient time for the current Administration.
Which is exactly why Apple chose to invest in their own map data and software: they could not come to an acceptable agreement with their direct competitor to allow them to offer this feature. Apple made the right decision.
That is a good reason to invest in their own solution. However, switching to their own solution before it was competitive was not the right decision. The right decision would have been to invest in customer satisfaction by doing what it would have taken to come to an interim agreement with the map solution that sets the standard for acceptable performance.
Isn't that what Apple is supposed to be about? Sterling user experience?
In a year, when (if) they catch up, they will still have no credibility WRT the supposed rationale behind their elevated prices.
"I paid extra for this IThing and they can't use some of that money to deliver best of breed features?"
So basically, what this new rule says is that if you don't already have a working prototype, don't bother to use Kickstarter. Otherwise, you'll have nothing visual that you would be allowed to show, and nobody will take an interest in your project. The whole purpose of mock-ups and other things is to help people quickly see the potential of your idea. Without that, the amount of effort required to sort the wheat from the chaff is excessive, and most people won't bother to donate to anything.
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(Clearly there are not a lot of farmers on /.)
Farmers probably know the difference between how vegetables convert nutrients into energy and growth and how animals convert nutrients into energy and growth, and why that makes a huge difference to this issue.
Your seafood's always been eating fish shit. Your vegetables are grown in shit.
What kind of shit? How is that shit metabolized? The devil remains in the details.
You better stop eating vegetables too, then. They subsist on a steady diet of shit.
But they don't ingest it, which makes a huge difference.
You aren't going to slice open a tomato and find actual manure in it. Pathogens found in manure, and in the guts and bloodstreams of animals fed manure, are less likely to survive the process of their original host being synthesized in to vegetable matter.
Comparing manure used to fertilize plants and manure fed to animals is specious.
I don't think that this behavior in dogs in necessarily symptomatic of anything other than their natural garbage-gut nature. Dogs will try to eat almost anything, and if it tastes good to them they will continue to eat it unless it makes them ill enough, fast enough that they can connect the dots and learn that it should be avoided.
The media has ignored just about any possibly negative thing to say about Obama over the course of four years; even longer if you include the campaign leading up to the last election.
As a liberal, I think that is overstating it a bit. However, I will concede that he has gotten a pass on a lot of broken promises and has underperformed in many ways (even considering the massive, mostly spite-based push-back he has recieved from Republicans).
That said, the media has been up to its ears in far more entertaining conspiracy theories promoted by Republicans.
What attracts more eyeballs? Obama being blocked by Republicans from doing things, often things that Republicans wanted done before he was elected? Or supposedly serious people frothing about the absense of his mega-long-form-ultra-100%-no-foolin'-this-time birth certificate?
I guess the truth hurts....
Like the truth about Mitt being two-faced at the head of this thread?
Tipping is institutionalized bribing to convince a person to treat you better.
If that were true, tipping would be done up front so the staff would know how to treat you.
Tipping is an opportunity for you to treat someone else better, at your own discretion. It is an opportunity to enjoy a dining experience without signing on to the exploitation of un- or semi-skilled labor.
Connectivity is also a luxury. The internet as a public commodity is less than a generation old, fer cryin' out loud.
No, "TV" is a device that allows me to watch visual and audio stimuli - it's unrelated to the content, which is what you're describing.
The content I am describing is the "audio and visual stimuli" that you are referring to. The point is that while people could stare at a blank screen or specialized patters of relaxing audio and visual stimuli, that is not what most people watch on TV.
Also, everything you've just discussed can be said for books (and many websites, for that matter). Are you giving up reading and internet surfing, too?
Give up books? Of course not, because a book is just a collection of pieces of paper bound together. A book is unrelated to the content printed within.
Your brain needs relaxation too - TV's no different than reading a book or any other mostly passive activity.
Citation?
TV is the product of decades of study to find ways to keep you watching, indefinitely if possible. It is the junk food of entertainments -- highly engineered to push every available button that will keep you consuming, with zero regard for the impact of that consumption on the consumers health or well being.
How is it "relaxing" to be assailed by an endless stream of manipulative messages designed to stimulate all manner of consumption, often by promoting various anxieties?
Too many people simply surrender control to the almighty state. It's baffling.
Why is it baffling? These are the same people who can't drag themselves or their children away from the almighty TV.
Why should children and the society that they will inhabit suffer because their parents are too incompetent to set limits? Anti-government paranoia uber-alles?
The important bit is that workers are striking not because they are against stricter quality, but because tighter quality checks meant they must work harder to produce iPhone components presumably at the same rate as earlier models.
And what better way to increase quality than to squeeze more productivity out of workers?
Would it make you feel worse if the number was a "mere" 250m? Or 100m?
I am currently ignoring 2 different accounts, FWIW. Facebook keeps sending notifications of various uninteresting types to both, I assume that they are both considered "active".
I joined with a buch of real life friends years ago, and it appears that about 1 in 10 ever post anything on a regular basis.
[Shrugs]
It never ceases to amaze me how many people rush out to purchase a new product with both unreviewed hardware and software and then get upset that there are flaws.
Do you not yet understand that the price for showing off your elite toy is that you are a paying beta tester?
That might cut it for software that can be patched or some truly cutting edge piece of gear.
For the latest of several versions of a mass market consumer product that is being manufactured and sold by the millions? Hell no. I don't and never will own an iPhone, but I don't think buyers should be scolded for expecting the iPhone5 to be beta tested by Apple.
We should not apologize for free speech, no matter who it offends.
Unless a foreigner makes a political video that offends the US, in which case we reserve the right to brand him a terrorist and send a drone to assassinate him in his own country.
The situation is a win-win for the Obama administration, who can now appear to be punishing the man whose film sparked protests and riots around the world.
This is outrageously ridiculous. Why would it be a "win-win" for the Obama administration to appear to be punishing someone for exercising his First Amendment right to free speech?
Because the people who want this guy punished don't give a fig about the reasons, or pretext as the case may be (though it isn't). They have enough distance to see through the self-righteous bleating about "freedom of speech" from Americans. Many of the live in countries where making a video critical of America may put you in the crosshairs of a American drone, possibly being actively controlled from American soil.
At the same time, this guy has availed himself to punishment for something other than is speech at a very convenient time for the current Administration.
Win (he is jail) Win (legitimately).
Nobody is asserting that Steve Jobs literally never apologized for anything. HTH.
Which is exactly why Apple chose to invest in their own map data and software: they could not come to an acceptable agreement with their direct competitor to allow them to offer this feature. Apple made the right decision.
That is a good reason to invest in their own solution. However, switching to their own solution before it was competitive was not the right decision. The right decision would have been to invest in customer satisfaction by doing what it would have taken to come to an interim agreement with the map solution that sets the standard for acceptable performance.
Isn't that what Apple is supposed to be about? Sterling user experience?
In a year, when (if) they catch up, they will still have no credibility WRT the supposed rationale behind their elevated prices.
"I paid extra for this IThing and they can't use some of that money to deliver best of breed features?"
I take it you've never heard of Occam's Razor.
I've never heard of Occam's Razor. What is it? I'm imagining some kind of 7 legged, supersonic, invisible shoe.
Bread (pop) and (nitro) circuses!
I suspect that the percentage of beer sold in the US that belongs to the sucky variety vindicates the joke.
How will kickstarterstarter.com weed out scammers with no intention of ever creating a product?
All funding will be done with BitCoins.
Can I get my Turturkeykey business started on there?
Is it turn-key?
So basically, what this new rule says is that if you don't already have a working prototype, don't bother to use Kickstarter. Otherwise, you'll have nothing visual that you would be allowed to show, and nobody will take an interest in your project. The whole purpose of mock-ups and other things is to help people quickly see the potential of your idea. Without that, the amount of effort required to sort the wheat from the chaff is excessive, and most people won't bother to donate to anything.
ASCII Art. Problem solved.
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