The Mediterranean diet is flawed because it incorporates a lot of seafood.
It isn't flawed if your genome is accustomed to seafood. For example, Asians eat a great deal of seafood, and their life expectancies are above the world average. (Setting aside possible tragic societal factors such as higher suicide rate.)
The healthiest diet is a plant-based diet.
That's debatable. Getting all the nutrients you need from a vegan diet is possible, but tricky. And as Zontar the Mindless mentions on this thread, we are omnivores. Look at the teeth in our mouths and our digestive tracts. We evolved to eat food from a variety of sources. And we are predators, built for the hunt, with eyes in the front of our heads, the better to spot prey with stereo vision.
I admire Stephen Hawking greatly, for his contributions to science and his example of facing adversity and making the best of his situation. His legacy will be long-lasting. And he certainly didn't deserve to suffer in his life the way he did.
That said, I think you overdo it when you say he "did nothing wrong his entire life." He was an imperfect human being, like all of us.
And while there are those who pervert religion to evil purposes, I wouldn't say it consists of nothing but "evils." It has tried, and often succeeded, to illustrate the nature of humanity and compassion. Faith should never be the enemy of reason. But reason needs evidence, and sometimes you just don't have it.
Stephen Hawking was an atheist. He often spoke of God, but as a metaphor for concepts others identify with. A quote:
God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.
He also famously countered Einstein's complaint of quantum mechanics ("God does not play dice!") with his own comments:
[E]ven God is bound by the Uncertainty Principle, and can not know both the position, and the speed, of a particle. So God does play dice with the universe. All the evidence points to him being an inveterate gambler, who throws the dice on every possible occasion.
[...]
Not only does God definitely play dice, but He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
RIP Professor Hawking. Whether or not there is a God, IMHO you have earned a place in the Pantheon of great minds in history.
Now, our business has the choice of exactly *one* shitty ISP. Fucking wonderful.
What are you talking about? AT&T wants to buy a media company, not another ISP.
It's not that an ISP buying a media company doesn't concern me (especially with net neutrality now dead.) It's just that this doesn't reduce your choice of ISP.
It's really difficult to run a business in the US due to our shocking lack of regulations.
I'm certainly not anti-regulation. It's just not clear to me what regulation you think is missing here.
Now I'll grab some popcorn and watch as the libertarians flame both of us.
does his family get royalties from his voice when he's long gone?
Hm. Excellent question. I'd say yes... unless there's something in the app EULA that says "all your words are belong to us." If the latter, I'll get some popcorn and watch what the courts do.
I see you point, but you didn't provide any kind of substantive rebuttal. You just gainsaid the OP's statements. I'm sure you're better than that, and you can show it.
I'm not saying it's aliens...But it's aliens! (The extra-terrestrial kind not the undocumented immigrant kind) They are terraforming the planet for their impending invasion.
Stop worrying. Donald Trump will build a force-field and make the aliens pay for it.
A beautiful force-field. Really classy. Lots of marble.
As others have pointed out on this thread, China is the largest emitter of CO2. However, it ranks pretty much in the middle per capita. The USA, Australia, and various middle-eastern oil-rich countries are the worst offenders.
Like many other such employers, they have a habit of only offering less than 30 hours a week employment per employee so as to not have to pay full benefits. Thus pushing people into multiple jobs, multiple commutes per day, and juggling hours. Now with added study hours on top? There's only so many hours in a week.
This. Also, look at this from TFA:
OUR Walmart, an activist group, called the plan a “step forward” in a statement, but questioned how many employees would be able take advantage of it because of the company’s scheduling system, which might make it difficult to juggle work and college.
“As soon as you tell Walmart you’re going to school, you lose access to a full-time schedule,” Andrea Dehlendorf, co-executive director of OUR Walmart, said in an interview after the company’s shareholder meeting Wednesday.
I don't shop at Walmart. I confess, when I saw this headline, I almost reconsidered. Almost.
After what they did to us with systemd, there would probably be riots in the gnome user community.
No there wouldn't. Because after all the fantastical "we'll switch to BSD" angry nonsense the result was that instead of doing that or even forking the upstream and getting out from under RedHat's domination of the majority of the Linux community the result was to just STFU and accept systemd. Proof that RedHat OWNS the desktop Linux community (the vast majority of it anyway, inbefore the 'oh i use slackware' or 'oh i use gentoo').
Red Hat OWNS the Linux desktop? I don't think so. Currently it ranks 50 on distrowatch. Even Fedora is in 8th place, behind Debian, Ubuntu, and others.
And speaking of Debian and Ubuntu, they also adopted systemd, after Fedora was the first to do so. Whatever you think of systemd, you can't just blame Red Hat for it.
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This. Don't anthropomorphize cameras. They hate that.
The Mediterranean diet is flawed because it incorporates a lot of seafood.
It isn't flawed if your genome is accustomed to seafood. For example, Asians eat a great deal of seafood, and their life expectancies are above the world average. (Setting aside possible tragic societal factors such as higher suicide rate.)
The healthiest diet is a plant-based diet.
That's debatable. Getting all the nutrients you need from a vegan diet is possible, but tricky. And as Zontar the Mindless mentions on this thread, we are omnivores. Look at the teeth in our mouths and our digestive tracts. We evolved to eat food from a variety of sources. And we are predators, built for the hunt, with eyes in the front of our heads, the better to spot prey with stereo vision.
We humans aren't much different, with the exception of it taking a munch longer timeline.
I saw what you did there,
I'm on board with your post, but some comments.
I admire Stephen Hawking greatly, for his contributions to science and his example of facing adversity and making the best of his situation. His legacy will be long-lasting. And he certainly didn't deserve to suffer in his life the way he did.
That said, I think you overdo it when you say he "did nothing wrong his entire life." He was an imperfect human being, like all of us.
And while there are those who pervert religion to evil purposes, I wouldn't say it consists of nothing but "evils." It has tried, and often succeeded, to illustrate the nature of humanity and compassion. Faith should never be the enemy of reason. But reason needs evidence, and sometimes you just don't have it.
Stephen Hawking was an atheist. He often spoke of God, but as a metaphor for concepts others identify with. A quote:
God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.
He also famously countered Einstein's complaint of quantum mechanics ("God does not play dice!") with his own comments:
[E]ven God is bound by the Uncertainty Principle, and can not know both the position, and the speed, of a particle. So God does play dice with the universe. All the evidence points to him being an inveterate gambler, who throws the dice on every possible occasion.
[...]
Not only does God definitely play dice, but He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
RIP Professor Hawking. Whether or not there is a God, IMHO you have earned a place in the Pantheon of great minds in history.
Time Warner spun off Time Warner Cable which was snarfed up by Charter Communications in 2016. Time Warner is NOT on the list of US ISPs.
FTFY, although I'm sure you meant to add what I did. Thanks for the informative post.
Now, our business has the choice of exactly *one* shitty ISP. Fucking wonderful.
What are you talking about? AT&T wants to buy a media company, not another ISP.
It's not that an ISP buying a media company doesn't concern me (especially with net neutrality now dead.) It's just that this doesn't reduce your choice of ISP.
It's really difficult to run a business in the US due to our shocking lack of regulations.
I'm certainly not anti-regulation. It's just not clear to me what regulation you think is missing here.
Now I'll grab some popcorn and watch as the libertarians flame both of us.
Others have supplied more uplifting endings to this strip:
https://i.imgur.com/VZvj5S7.jp...
https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/...
And my favourite:
https://imgur.com/VbKV9DF
does his family get royalties from his voice when he's long gone?
Hm. Excellent question. I'd say yes ... unless there's something in the app EULA that says "all your words are belong to us." If the latter, I'll get some popcorn and watch what the courts do.
For the love of FSM, mod this plus infinity insightful. Computerphile does a brilliant job of summarizing why e-voting is an absolutely terrible idea.
They're smart men, so I'd opt for corrupt.
Alas, here is the dilemma of the voter in a democracy. Do you vote for the knave, or the fool?
Answer: vote for the knave, because the knave is competent. But watch the knave like a hawk.
For readers in the USA: I leave it as an exercise to decide whether the knave or the fool ascended to the WH in 2016.
Brazil is the biggest democracy in the world
Bzzzt. Wrong. That would be India. Thanks for playing.
I see you point, but you didn't provide any kind of substantive rebuttal. You just gainsaid the OP's statements. I'm sure you're better than that, and you can show it.
I'm not saying it's aliens...But it's aliens! (The extra-terrestrial kind not the undocumented immigrant kind) They are terraforming the planet for their impending invasion.
Stop worrying. Donald Trump will build a force-field and make the aliens pay for it.
A beautiful force-field. Really classy. Lots of marble.
Your link is broken. Here, let me fix it for you.
As others have pointed out on this thread, China is the largest emitter of CO2. However, it ranks pretty much in the middle per capita. The USA, Australia, and various middle-eastern oil-rich countries are the worst offenders.
Hm. Maybe I'm the one with the cognitive fail. Perhaps you were saying exactly what I said. If so, sorry.
If the past is doomed to repeat itself then I want a dinosaur as a pet.
Go ahead and get one at a pet store. Lots of dinosaurs survived the mass extinction event. Just not the big ones.
Unfortunately, this trait isn't just limited to socialists. See: BUT BUT BUT THE REPUBLICANS FREED THE SLAVES!
Cognitive fail.
When Republicans freed the slaves, they were on the progressive side of the spectrum and the Democrats were not. They switched places in the 1960s.
For once, TFA provides the answers:
"offered to part-time staff as well as full-timers"..." Courses can be taken...online"...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
But once you sign up for the program, you can no longer be a full-time staffer. That's in TFA, at the end.
Like many other such employers, they have a habit of only offering less than 30 hours a week employment per employee so as to not have to pay full benefits. Thus pushing people into multiple jobs, multiple commutes per day, and juggling hours. Now with added study hours on top? There's only so many hours in a week.
This. Also, look at this from TFA:
OUR Walmart, an activist group, called the plan a “step forward” in a statement, but questioned how many employees would be able take advantage of it because of the company’s scheduling system, which might make it difficult to juggle work and college.
“As soon as you tell Walmart you’re going to school, you lose access to a full-time schedule,” Andrea Dehlendorf, co-executive director of OUR Walmart, said in an interview after the company’s shareholder meeting Wednesday.
I don't shop at Walmart. I confess, when I saw this headline, I almost reconsidered. Almost.
Why keep paying these guys high salaries when fresh college grads will do the work for a fraction?
Because they have more experience.
Despite their many virtues, fresh college grads still need adult supervision and mentoring.
After what they did to us with systemd, there would probably be riots in the gnome user community.
No there wouldn't. Because after all the fantastical "we'll switch to BSD" angry nonsense the result was that instead of doing that or even forking the upstream and getting out from under RedHat's domination of the majority of the Linux community the result was to just STFU and accept systemd. Proof that RedHat OWNS the desktop Linux community (the vast majority of it anyway, inbefore the 'oh i use slackware' or 'oh i use gentoo').
Red Hat OWNS the Linux desktop? I don't think so. Currently it ranks 50 on distrowatch. Even Fedora is in 8th place, behind Debian, Ubuntu, and others.
And speaking of Debian and Ubuntu, they also adopted systemd, after Fedora was the first to do so. Whatever you think of systemd, you can't just blame Red Hat for it.
You are mentally ill and need clinical help.
This.
Y'know, when I look at the deranged crap on this thread, I kind of miss the "you are all cows" posts.
Kilaeua has spewed out more junk into the atmosphere in its latest eruption that everything saved by Prius cars in a year. So sue the volcano.
Fine. I volunteer you to serve the papers.
Only universal confiscation of guns will eliminate gun violence, and you know as well as I do how impossible that would be.
I saw what you did there.
Countries outside the USA have managed to balance gun ownership with far lower incidents of gun violence.
Like others, I read it as: our residents are using your product to harm the environment, and we want you, not them, to pay for it.
Believe me, the residents will pay for it. The city just wants oil companies to help.