It is bad enough that I pay for a magazine and get mostly advertisements. I have to time my arrival at a mainstream movie theater in order to avoid the commercials I don't have a TV for.
If Amazon did this, ebooks would be DOA as far as I am concerned.
No offense meant, really, no offense, but do you think the dozens to hundreds of people involved in planning and engineering a high speed rail route would want plan to do it between two small towns?
They would likely plan a route between major cities, because that is most likely were large amounts of people would drive and want to go.
The Federal Government is already running on borrowed money and fumes.
I'm not sure borrow billions for a high speed rail is a bad idea. If it has a good business plan it will make money and help to pay for itself. It would create jobs and tax revenues.
However, I think there is justification about the large amounts of government spending that has already happened.
No, I am not a republican. I voted for President Obama and plan to again.
Trains (Amtrack) is already popular in the northeast corridor of the US.
There are plenty of short shuttle flights, say form Washington D.C. Boston or New York. We love our cars just as much as the rest of the country. Yet, Amtrack is very popular as it is a reduced set of traveling hassles.
The only problem people have with these non-high speed trains is the cost.
Many people would take it a lot more except for the ticket price which can sometimes rival a plane trip.
Taxing gas more would bring many benefits. It would encourage people to use less gas, push the development of alternative energy and give the government more funds.
The only problem is that it will never happen.
Pushing a gas tax would be political suicide for any politician who dared propose it.
People are going to want to browse the web at work. Lets accept that.
If you want to do more than check your personal email or buy a book ON A BREAK, buy a smart phone or buy a laptop. Then pay the fee for your OWN wireless connection for these devices.
If you don't want to pay for these things then you should reconsider using company internet connections and company equipment to surf to places you don't want the company to know where you have been.
With modern networking software all any network administrator has to do is literally to click 2-3 links to see EVERYWHERE you've been on the internet.
The can also see almost all of the content you've looked at unless it is behind https via a password and login.
A few years ago I lost 50 lbs with the Hackers Diet.
Before that I was driving an early 1990s Honda Civic. It wasn't tough, but it was harder getting in and out of my car with gut. The Civic sat low to the ground.
People tell me they have mini vans and SUVS because it is convenient for kids and their stuff.
That may be true, but I think part of it is that you climb up into most of these vehicales, making it easier for very heavy people.
I wonder how his identity was discovered. Anyway, I bet Mark Zuckerberg feels relieved the idiot was exposed as a result of bragging about it on facebook:).
I was just at the gym, watching CNN, while on the elliptical machine working out. It is a tragedy when someone dies in a plane crash, but Senator Stevens is being painted like a saint when only last year he was in court for extreme corruption. Yes, he is THAT Senator Stevens.
I agree with you and I hope you, as well as others, believe in what you wrote strongly enough to pay attention to politics to keep alternative energy bills from being voted down by republicans.
I also suggest you read ecogeek.com. Private enterprise is not slacking in this regard. The first commercial, quick, EV charging station in the US, just opened in Portland, Oregan last week. For $3 and 20 minutes of your time you can fully charge your EV.
1 cup of cows milk has 300 mg of calcium, only 32% of which is absorbed, yielding 96 mg net.
1 cup of ordinary mustard greens, cooked, has 128 mg of calcium, 58% of which is absorbed, yielding 74 mg net. A negligible difference.
1 cup of chinese mustard greens, cooked, which you can get in almost any oriental grocery contains 424 mg of calcium, 40% of which is absorbed, yielding 170 mg net. Just short of twice the calcium you would get to keep from drinking one cup of cows milk.
As for taste, I would suggest finding a recipe book.
I didn't notice any citations for your claims. For mine, you can find the source at this URL:
Spinach has a lot calcium, but it also has a lot of oxalic acid which binds it up and keeps a human digestive system from absorbing most of it.
Turnip greens as well as mustard greens have a shit load more of calcium and it is much more absorbable, rivaling what you can get drinking cows milk.
If you live near an Asian grocery, Chinese mustard greens taste better and have even more calcium.
While you are at the Asian grocery look for "choy sum" or "chinese flowering cabbage" one cooked cup of this green leafy vegetable has TWICE the absorbable calicum as a cup of cows milk.
I don't think it is the subculture of Washington D.C.. Remember, the original post was about coffee shop owners in LA deciding they had enough with people camping out at their tables all day.
Some nice places were starting to have a similar problem in Washington D.C., so the owners decided to cut WI-FI access off during the weekends. Seating was limited. Some people would come up, set up their lap tops and camp out at a table all day despite seeing that people who bought food had no place to sit. Some of these people would even put their feet up on other chairs and refuse to share their table if asked.
Rude and as some of the owners figured out, bad for business.
I like to go and read a book in public places sometimes, but if I see people not getting seats I pick up and go.
When I got online my surroundings vanish, so I don't see a point in going out somewhere nice to get on the computer. I can do that at home. If I am going to be somewhere nice, I want to be there.
The US population hasn't degraded. The US population never went metric outside of science classes in school - which is a very small portion of their experience.
Luckily, I learned linear measurements before the "English System" when I was a child in the 70s and there was a movement to make the US metric. Before it was killed. You know, the metric system is sort of like health care, it spooks conservatives into thinking communism is around the corner.
I have an intuitive sense of some metric measurements. A meter is about a yard. A liter is about a quart. I don't have an emotional impression for what it feels like to walk a kilometer or what centigrade feels like. 80 degrees F to me is a nice day. On a gut level I have no idea what kind of day 26 degrees C is like.
They still mail CDs?? Wow, I haven't gotten one in the mail since 2000. Hopefully they will get some new management, either people or new ideas, in time to save the business.
Given American Pharmaceutical Companies, if this discovery leads to anything, it will not be a cure. More likely they will develop a drug that will let people eat gluten as long as they keep buying a pill.
Computer *USERS* want the least amount of hassles to get the job done.
That is something many of the computer *ENTHUSIASTS* in the FOSS community do not understand, can't keep up with or refuse to accept, finding the idea offensive. That is why Linux is barely on the map ( I am and have been a linux user for 10 years ).
Microsoft won its market share on price for "good enough" quality versus excellent quality at a stiffer price.
That was a long time ago. As the article shows, computer use has been mainstream for a while and as with luggage it has finally sunk in that paying a little bit more goes a long way in avoiding hassles. Microsoft hasn't fully seen and accepted this yet. That is partially why they are losing ground to younger people.
I think of the copyright as a patent, a law that gives the creator a chance to profit from his/her work before others copy or co-opt it in some way. This is a good thing as fewer people would be motivated to take risks to make things if they could not enjoy the fruits of their labors.
Yet, keeping these protections in place decades after someone has died?
That is just old fashioned hoarding/money grubbing/robber baroning.
We have a PS3, an xbox 360 and a Wii, plus a PSP and an NDS. We have several hundred DVDs and blu-ray titles, plus on demand FiOS, several computers around the house and netflix. Our two kids spend more time in books than on all those combined. Don't blame the options available, blame the parents.
Why do you think your kids as opposed to other kids choose to read?
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It is bad enough that I pay for a magazine and get mostly advertisements. I have to time my arrival at a mainstream movie theater in order to avoid the commercials I don't have a TV for.
If Amazon did this, ebooks would be DOA as far as I am concerned.
I would not buy or use them.
No offense meant, really, no offense, but do you think the dozens to hundreds of people involved in planning and engineering a high speed rail route would want plan to do it between two small towns?
They would likely plan a route between major cities, because that is most likely were large amounts of people would drive and want to go.
The Federal Government is already running on borrowed money and fumes.
I'm not sure borrow billions for a high speed rail is a bad idea. If it has a good business plan it will make money and help to pay for itself. It would create jobs and tax revenues.
However, I think there is justification about the large amounts of government spending that has already happened.
No, I am not a republican. I voted for President Obama and plan to again.
Am I the only person who thinks a highspeed rail system would be a juicy target that would be even harder to secure than air travel?
Thousands of miles of track, impossible to guard, to sabotaged?
Trains (Amtrack) is already popular in the northeast corridor of the US.
There are plenty of short shuttle flights, say form Washington D.C. Boston or New York. We love our cars just as much as the rest of the country. Yet, Amtrack is very popular as it is a reduced set of traveling hassles.
The only problem people have with these non-high speed trains is the cost.
Many people would take it a lot more except for the ticket price which can sometimes rival a plane trip.
Taxing gas more would bring many benefits. It would encourage people to use less gas, push the development of alternative energy and give the government more funds.
The only problem is that it will never happen.
Pushing a gas tax would be political suicide for any politician who dared propose it.
All I took were some pens, which having chewed on them, I didn't think anyone else would want. Yes, I know it is nasty habit.
It is the year 2010.
People are going to want to browse the web at work. Lets accept that.
If you want to do more than check your personal email or buy a book ON A BREAK, buy a smart phone or buy a laptop. Then pay the fee for your OWN wireless connection for these devices.
If you don't want to pay for these things then you should reconsider using company internet connections and company equipment to surf to places you don't want the company to know where you have been.
With modern networking software all any network administrator has to do is literally to click 2-3 links to see EVERYWHERE you've been on the internet.
The can also see almost all of the content you've looked at unless it is behind https via a password and login.
A few years ago I lost 50 lbs with the Hackers Diet.
Before that I was driving an early 1990s Honda Civic. It wasn't tough, but it was harder getting in and out of my car with gut. The Civic sat low to the ground.
People tell me they have mini vans and SUVS because it is convenient for kids and their stuff.
That may be true, but I think part of it is that you climb up into most of these vehicales, making it easier for very heavy people.
I wonder how his identity was discovered. Anyway, I bet Mark Zuckerberg feels relieved the idiot was exposed as a result of bragging about it on facebook :).
I was just at the gym, watching CNN, while on the elliptical machine working out. It is a tragedy when someone dies in a plane crash, but Senator Stevens is being painted like a saint when only last year he was in court for extreme corruption. Yes, he is THAT Senator Stevens.
I agree with you and I hope you, as well as others, believe in what you wrote strongly enough to pay attention to politics to keep alternative energy bills from being voted down by republicans.
I also suggest you read ecogeek.com. Private enterprise is not slacking in this regard. The first commercial, quick, EV charging station in the US, just opened in Portland, Oregan last week. For $3 and 20 minutes of your time you can fully charge your EV.
1 cup of cows milk has 300 mg of calcium, only 32% of which is absorbed, yielding 96 mg net.
1 cup of ordinary mustard greens, cooked, has 128 mg of calcium, 58% of which is absorbed, yielding 74 mg net. A negligible difference.
1 cup of chinese mustard greens, cooked, which you can get in almost any oriental grocery contains 424 mg of calcium, 40% of which is absorbed, yielding 170 mg net. Just short of twice the calcium you would get to keep from drinking one cup of cows milk.
As for taste, I would suggest finding a recipe book.
I didn't notice any citations for your claims. For mine, you can find the source at this URL:
http://beforewisdom.com/blog/?p=490
that factory farming, where pigs are crammed close together to cut costs contributed to the gene mutation and spreading of the Swine Flu.
Spinach has a lot calcium, but it also has a lot of oxalic acid which binds it up and keeps a human digestive system from absorbing most of it.
Turnip greens as well as mustard greens have a shit load more of calcium and it is much more absorbable, rivaling what you can get drinking cows milk.
If you live near an Asian grocery, Chinese mustard greens taste better and have even more calcium.
While you are at the Asian grocery look for "choy sum" or "chinese flowering cabbage" one cooked cup of this green leafy vegetable has TWICE the absorbable calicum as a cup of cows milk.
Seriously.
I first started enjoying broccoli and other vegetables via Chinese restaurants which prepared these vegetables with *slightly* sweetened sauces.
If you just boil or steam the fuck out of a vegetable and do nothing else, nobody but a health food nut will like it.
I don't think it is the subculture of Washington D.C.. Remember, the original post was about coffee shop owners in LA deciding they had enough with people camping out at their tables all day.
I highly applaud this move.
Some nice places were starting to have a similar problem in Washington D.C., so the owners decided to cut WI-FI access off during the weekends. Seating was limited. Some people would come up, set up their lap tops and camp out at a table all day despite seeing that people who bought food had no place to sit. Some of these people would even put their feet up on other chairs and refuse to share their table if asked.
Rude and as some of the owners figured out, bad for business.
I like to go and read a book in public places sometimes, but if I see people not getting seats I pick up and go.
When I got online my surroundings vanish, so I don't see a point in going out somewhere nice to get on the computer. I can do that at home. If I am going to be somewhere nice, I want to be there.
The US population hasn't degraded. The US population never went metric outside of science classes in school - which is a very small portion of their experience.
Luckily, I learned linear measurements before the "English System" when I was a child in the 70s and there was a movement to make the US metric. Before it was killed. You know, the metric system is sort of like health care, it spooks conservatives into thinking communism is around the corner.
I have an intuitive sense of some metric measurements. A meter is about a yard. A liter is about a quart. I don't have an emotional impression for what it feels like to walk a kilometer or what centigrade feels like. 80 degrees F to me is a nice day. On a gut level I have no idea what kind of day 26 degrees C is like.
They still mail CDs?? Wow, I haven't gotten one in the mail since 2000. Hopefully they will get some new management, either people or new ideas, in time to save the business.
Given American Pharmaceutical Companies, if this discovery leads to anything, it will not be a cure. More likely they will develop a drug that will let people eat gluten as long as they keep buying a pill.
Your post can be summed up in one line:
Computer *USERS* want the least amount of hassles to get the job done.
That is something many of the computer *ENTHUSIASTS* in the FOSS community do not understand, can't keep up with or refuse to accept, finding the idea offensive. That is why Linux is barely on the map ( I am and have been a linux user for 10 years ).
Microsoft won its market share on price for "good enough" quality versus excellent quality at a stiffer price.
That was a long time ago. As the article shows, computer use has been mainstream for a while and as with luggage it has finally sunk in that paying a little bit more goes a long way in avoiding hassles. Microsoft hasn't fully seen and accepted this yet. That is partially why they are losing ground to younger people.
I think of the copyright as a patent, a law that gives the creator a chance to profit from his/her work before others copy or co-opt it in some way. This is a good thing as fewer people would be motivated to take risks to make things if they could not enjoy the fruits of their labors.
Yet, keeping these protections in place decades after someone has died?
That is just old fashioned hoarding/money grubbing/robber baroning.
We have a PS3, an xbox 360 and a Wii, plus a PSP and an NDS. We have several hundred DVDs and blu-ray titles, plus on demand FiOS, several computers around the house and netflix. Our two kids spend more time in books than on all those combined. Don't blame the options available, blame the parents.
Why do you think your kids as opposed to other kids choose to read?
Don't you know you are supposed to blame anyone OTHER than the parents?