Great post.Those that struggle the resources need only look to the foods and dishes created by the poor cultures of the world. Every civilization and society had a poor class that used the nasty bits as the main course. Re-learn some of those traditional dishes, and expose your kids to it at an early age!...before they develop a taste for pure sweets and fats.
The poor cooked great food because THEY HAD TO. You don't need cooking skills or fine ingredients to make a filet mignon taste good. But if a meal of beef tendon and coagulated pork blood in soup can be made palatable, you KNOW that stuff is gonna be delicious.
While we wait for nanobatteries, we could ditch the battery supply altogether and use external magnetic forces to propel it through the vessels. Maybe an MRI unit with some tweaks? Then harness the energy of rushing/flowing blood to power the sensors taking readings.
I've heard other discussions about rare earth mining here on/. and one factor that seemed to pop up all the time was China.
Specifically, China being so willing to mine without much regard to pollution or contanimation. They are the biggest suppliers of it now so they can set the price. If someone were to stand up a mining operation in say...california, all China would have to do is drop their asking price or ramp up production and watch the California mine collapse in bankruptcy.
It is my understanding that propping up a rare earth mining/refining operation requires tons of capital and an incredible amount of preparation for enviornmental concerns (at least in western nations where people don't like radioactive pools leaking into their ground water). Investors would be understandibly weary of putting money on the line when China could potentially kick the legs from under the entire enterprise.
Hard to compete when your competitor is willing to turn their backyard into a wasteland.
With so much of movement through space being dependent on gravitational forces, I'd imagine the FIRST era of space battles being fairly bleek and fatalistic...much like WWI, where waves of men went charging to their death because technology outpaced current warfare tactics. I imagine two sides launching missles at eachother from hundres of thousands of km away, with both sides making no attempt to change their trajectory, praying to the space gods that the other side's weapons failed or were inaccurate.
Lets say you have a ship going from earth to...Jupiter. Your flight course would be a rigid window because other planetary bodies will be pushing and pulling you in different directions.. Altering your ship's course would alter your ability to reach your intended destination. Moving out of the way of a weapon or slowing down might slingshot you out of an orbit, or pull you into another. Such gravitational forces would need serious power to counteract. Would a ship carry enough resources to do this?
I'm thinking of it similar to naval battles where large ships take immense power to change their direction or speed. A large ship can only turn so fast, and even then it's a fairly slow correction. Torpedos fired undetected or from a close enough distance with consideration to target's speed and direction could make maneuvering futile. Space battle could have similar problems to deal with. Can you detect a missle before it hits you? Could you change direction to avoid it without putting your trajectory at risk? Do you have the power and resources to do it at all?
If someone decided to use LASERS PEW PEW!, any space travel would be signing your own death warrant.
While you make a good point, as an Asian I have to say there are consequences to the rice diet. Diabetes. Modern Asian life expectancy is pretty high now, but during the times when rice diets were out of necessity..dying young was common.
Rice is a heavy component, even for westernized Asians, because it is what we are used to culturally. Our families came from very poor or rural backgrounds where it was a cheap source of calories. My girlfriend, also asian, has a family member diagnosed with diabetes nearly every few months.Compound that with western lifestyle and its pretty bad.
tl;dr -- The smart and healthy Westernized Asians with access and financial capability will choose a diet with less rice and carbs too. high fiber veggies fill you up like rice, but with less calorie impact.
What if the customer service positions were filled with sales oriented people? It would be an oppurtunity to have conversations about other products. Cross selling extended warranties, insurance packages, games or pc peripherals...
Think of it as an account representative. Similar service level of someone like your financial advisor, tax man, or sales rep for your business--but of course providing an IT support service. Like account reps, I'm sure they could have other reps fill in for vacations/emergencies
If they DO go this route, you could expect the positions to be filled with sales/customer service oriented mindsets as well as basic computer skills. You could have a personable rep who is genuinely interested in you, because its profitable for them. It could also be another avenue for cross selling--driving company profits up.
These anti-vax people won't be the ones dying unfortunately. They'll be the carriers and spreaders of disease. These people may get sick, but they'll recover.
It's their newborn children and elderly parents that will be doing the dying. Self-serving asses always seem to catch a break.
my vest had some pockets with some elastic bands that seemed to help keep pockets compressed. And it does that quite well considering the slimp profile of the vest itself, so don't let our comments deter you from giving it a try. Of course laws of physics sets performance boundaries here. A bulky rigid camera packed next to your George Costanza wallet will show through anything short of a winter parka.
I think the biggest gripe you should take from us is not how it performs, but what you end up doing with 23 pockets. You end up carrying unneccessary things just because you can. 20lb articles of clothing makes you an unwieldy mess, and no longer will you walk by your company board meeting without an awkward glare towards your rattling and clanking body.
And it's been sitting in my closet because I've realized how much of a raging nerd I looked like carrying 20lbs of gear on me.
They are fantastic for frequent travelleing. Keep all your personal items in the vest then drop the vest into the xray while you walk through the metal detector. No more digging for keys, phones/music players, loose change etc..
The worst part is you end up hoarding stupid stuff. Then your clothing becomes similar in weight to a soldier's full combat load. I had to quit that habit.
There is counterfeit medicine that is indeed FAKE (as in containing no real medicinal properties) medicine. U.S. Customs has intercepted FAKE, not generic, drugs like insulin, blood pressure meds, and even chemotherapy drugs. Guess where they come from? China; often in the same shipment as the knockoff FILA shoes and Gucci handbags.
Hijacking a brand name isn't the only problem with counterfeiting. Sometimes the knockoff products pose true safety hazards.
whats really odd is conservatives are fine with killing adults knowing sometimes they just might fry an innocent person, but the second you suggest an abortion of a non sentient cluster of tumor-like cells they scream like a stuck pig.
We could go so many routes with this conversation.
As I've heard from another/. user reply just yesterday... Maybe it's something they're already considering...Maybe they aren't doing it now because the current execs running the music industry are doing just fine running the companies into the ground.
Imagine a world where Google swoops in and buys up music companies on their death beds, then releases millions of copyrighted songs to public domain. They could deliver a huge blow to Apple's music business while simultaneously producing an image of philanthropy and do-no-evilness.
Not to mention a massive burst in new art creation. Or cheaply produced marketing and advertising products that drive more sales and less create less expense for businesses.
not intending to flame, but could this be then applied to alcohol, tobacco or import tariffs? Taxation, or tax break incentives have been used quite often (and sometimes with success) to encourage business growth or advancement of technlogies, as well as curbing undesirable or unhealthy behaviors. Are you claiming tax proposals such as the ones I've given example of are all constitutionally problematic? If not, how are they different?
Note:
-Not implying that playing video games is an undesriable activity
-I am making the assumption that this tax proposal is similar to ones I've listed.
It's a problem with poor coping skills and conflict resolution abilities.
Fatherless children and nanny-state court systems that issue jail time to 12 year olds for school yard brawls are the problem...Money wasted.
We need parents that teach personal strength. And we need to let kids practice resolving their own problems. It sounds barbaric...but we've all known some kids that beat the living crap out of eachother, then became total bros after the fight.
There was a discussion on/. a while back regarding this....saying the entire music industry is worth rougthly $10bn US.
Google could pony up and buy Capitol Records completely, release all copyrights held, then break up and sell what worthless assets it has left in a fire sale. While they probably have the capability to purchase the entire industry, they only need to stop there with Capitol Records aquisition.
(brainwashed religious nuts, underwear bomber booking a one-way flight to detroit in the middle of winter with no bags or even a jacket, shoe-bomber, virgins in afterlife...)
So let's say I'm God and present you with a game of heads or tails x 1000 and gives you a choice to play or not....
1000 heads up: 1/3 of the population will die.
Anything less than 1000 heads up: I grant you and all humankind access to the unending knowledge of the universe.... How to create life, build worlds or travel to distant planets.
What would you choose? Play or go home?
And how could you possibly live with yourself knowing one day you might be the one infected with the super flu virus that kills everyone? Don't think you'll get killer flu? how do you know? It's probable right?
Is google paying for time, resources and labor to monitor for the next 20 years, or is this tax dollars at work?
I'd imagine keeping tabs on a company as expansive as google is expensive. I don't know who to be mad at; the government for intervening, or google for being a burden to the taxpayer.
If the FTC thinks google isn't playing nice with privacy, FINE them to cover the costs. If they aren't doing something wrong or worthy of penalty, get out of their business and let them run.
Do some highway driving close to the mexico border and you'll see border patrol already at work doing this. I get pulled into a random search frequently. Drug dog comes by without asking. The agent sets of a series of questions to try and make you trip up.
Agent: What citizenship are you?
me: US...i didn't cross any border...
Agent:Where you going?
me: San Diego
Agent: Where you coming from?
me:Phoenix
Agent: Where do you live?
me: Phoenix
Agent: Didnt you just come from El Centro?
me: well yeah...passed through it driving here... (ohyou.jpg)
Agent: How long you staying?
me: 3 days
Agent: You have anything in the trunk I should know about?
me: nope
Agent: 3 days and no clothes?
me: its in the trunk
Agent: I thought you said there's nothing in the trunk...(trollface.jpg)
I didn't sign up for this bullshit...Being treated like an ass, as if it is a priviledge to travel within my own fucking home country and prove I'm not some terrorist to everyone with a uniform.
From the article from readwriteweb--
"Senator Lieberman issued a statement saying that Amazon.com has informed his staff that the company has ceased hosting Wikileaks."
First off...go figure Joe Lieberman has anything to do with this. Second, why must Amazon.com report to Joe Lieberman and his staff for any reason? I'm not the type to boycott services for politcal views, but I'm willing to boycott Amazon for associating with such a toolbag.
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Great post.Those that struggle the resources need only look to the foods and dishes created by the poor cultures of the world. Every civilization and society had a poor class that used the nasty bits as the main course. Re-learn some of those traditional dishes, and expose your kids to it at an early age!...before they develop a taste for pure sweets and fats.
The poor cooked great food because THEY HAD TO. You don't need cooking skills or fine ingredients to make a filet mignon taste good. But if a meal of beef tendon and coagulated pork blood in soup can be made palatable, you KNOW that stuff is gonna be delicious.
While we wait for nanobatteries, we could ditch the battery supply altogether and use external magnetic forces to propel it through the vessels. Maybe an MRI unit with some tweaks? Then harness the energy of rushing/flowing blood to power the sensors taking readings.
I've heard other discussions about rare earth mining here on /. and one factor that seemed to pop up all the time was China.
Specifically, China being so willing to mine without much regard to pollution or contanimation. They are the biggest suppliers of it now so they can set the price. If someone were to stand up a mining operation in say...california, all China would have to do is drop their asking price or ramp up production and watch the California mine collapse in bankruptcy.
It is my understanding that propping up a rare earth mining/refining operation requires tons of capital and an incredible amount of preparation for enviornmental concerns (at least in western nations where people don't like radioactive pools leaking into their ground water). Investors would be understandibly weary of putting money on the line when China could potentially kick the legs from under the entire enterprise.
Hard to compete when your competitor is willing to turn their backyard into a wasteland.
With so much of movement through space being dependent on gravitational forces, I'd imagine the FIRST era of space battles being fairly bleek and fatalistic...much like WWI, where waves of men went charging to their death because technology outpaced current warfare tactics. I imagine two sides launching missles at eachother from hundres of thousands of km away, with both sides making no attempt to change their trajectory, praying to the space gods that the other side's weapons failed or were inaccurate.
Lets say you have a ship going from earth to...Jupiter. Your flight course would be a rigid window because other planetary bodies will be pushing and pulling you in different directions.. Altering your ship's course would alter your ability to reach your intended destination. Moving out of the way of a weapon or slowing down might slingshot you out of an orbit, or pull you into another. Such gravitational forces would need serious power to counteract. Would a ship carry enough resources to do this?
I'm thinking of it similar to naval battles where large ships take immense power to change their direction or speed. A large ship can only turn so fast, and even then it's a fairly slow correction. Torpedos fired undetected or from a close enough distance with consideration to target's speed and direction could make maneuvering futile. Space battle could have similar problems to deal with. Can you detect a missle before it hits you? Could you change direction to avoid it without putting your trajectory at risk? Do you have the power and resources to do it at all?
If someone decided to use LASERS PEW PEW!, any space travel would be signing your own death warrant.
Maybe they should get some nukes and join the peace community like us!
/flamesuit
While you make a good point, as an Asian I have to say there are consequences to the rice diet. Diabetes. Modern Asian life expectancy is pretty high now, but during the times when rice diets were out of necessity..dying young was common.
Rice is a heavy component, even for westernized Asians, because it is what we are used to culturally. Our families came from very poor or rural backgrounds where it was a cheap source of calories. My girlfriend, also asian, has a family member diagnosed with diabetes nearly every few months.Compound that with western lifestyle and its pretty bad. tl;dr -- The smart and healthy Westernized Asians with access and financial capability will choose a diet with less rice and carbs too. high fiber veggies fill you up like rice, but with less calorie impact.
What if the customer service positions were filled with sales oriented people? It would be an oppurtunity to have conversations about other products. Cross selling extended warranties, insurance packages, games or pc peripherals...
Think of it as an account representative. Similar service level of someone like your financial advisor, tax man, or sales rep for your business--but of course providing an IT support service. Like account reps, I'm sure they could have other reps fill in for vacations/emergencies
If they DO go this route, you could expect the positions to be filled with sales/customer service oriented mindsets as well as basic computer skills. You could have a personable rep who is genuinely interested in you, because its profitable for them. It could also be another avenue for cross selling--driving company profits up.
That is assuming they could do this correctly.
These anti-vax people won't be the ones dying unfortunately. They'll be the carriers and spreaders of disease. These people may get sick, but they'll recover.
It's their newborn children and elderly parents that will be doing the dying. Self-serving asses always seem to catch a break.
my vest had some pockets with some elastic bands that seemed to help keep pockets compressed. And it does that quite well considering the slimp profile of the vest itself, so don't let our comments deter you from giving it a try. Of course laws of physics sets performance boundaries here. A bulky rigid camera packed next to your George Costanza wallet will show through anything short of a winter parka.
I think the biggest gripe you should take from us is not how it performs, but what you end up doing with 23 pockets. You end up carrying unneccessary things just because you can. 20lb articles of clothing makes you an unwieldy mess, and no longer will you walk by your company board meeting without an awkward glare towards your rattling and clanking body.
Yes I'm exaggerating...but not by much.
And it's been sitting in my closet because I've realized how much of a raging nerd I looked like carrying 20lbs of gear on me.
They are fantastic for frequent travelleing. Keep all your personal items in the vest then drop the vest into the xray while you walk through the metal detector. No more digging for keys, phones/music players, loose change etc..
The worst part is you end up hoarding stupid stuff. Then your clothing becomes similar in weight to a soldier's full combat load. I had to quit that habit.
There is counterfeit medicine that is indeed FAKE (as in containing no real medicinal properties) medicine. U.S. Customs has intercepted FAKE, not generic, drugs like insulin, blood pressure meds, and even chemotherapy drugs. Guess where they come from? China; often in the same shipment as the knockoff FILA shoes and Gucci handbags.
Hijacking a brand name isn't the only problem with counterfeiting. Sometimes the knockoff products pose true safety hazards.
whats really odd is conservatives are fine with killing adults knowing sometimes they just might fry an innocent person, but the second you suggest an abortion of a non sentient cluster of tumor-like cells they scream like a stuck pig.
We could go so many routes with this conversation.
good point. thanks for clarifying
As I've heard from another /. user reply just yesterday... Maybe it's something they're already considering...Maybe they aren't doing it now because the current execs running the music industry are doing just fine running the companies into the ground.
Imagine a world where Google swoops in and buys up music companies on their death beds, then releases millions of copyrighted songs to public domain. They could deliver a huge blow to Apple's music business while simultaneously producing an image of philanthropy and do-no-evilness.
Not to mention a massive burst in new art creation. Or cheaply produced marketing and advertising products that drive more sales and less create less expense for businesses.
not intending to flame, but could this be then applied to alcohol, tobacco or import tariffs?
Taxation, or tax break incentives have been used quite often (and sometimes with success) to encourage business growth or advancement of technlogies, as well as curbing undesirable or unhealthy behaviors. Are you claiming tax proposals such as the ones I've given example of are all constitutionally problematic? If not, how are they different?
Note:
-Not implying that playing video games is an undesriable activity
-I am making the assumption that this tax proposal is similar to ones I've listed.
It's a problem with poor coping skills and conflict resolution abilities.
Fatherless children and nanny-state court systems that issue jail time to 12 year olds for school yard brawls are the problem...Money wasted.
We need parents that teach personal strength. And we need to let kids practice resolving their own problems. It sounds barbaric...but we've all known some kids that beat the living crap out of eachother, then became total bros after the fight.
...because the FBI can't be bothered to actually do the real police work.
There was a discussion on /. a while back regarding this....saying the entire music industry is worth rougthly $10bn US.
Google could pony up and buy Capitol Records completely, release all copyrights held, then break up and sell what worthless assets it has left in a fire sale. While they probably have the capability to purchase the entire industry, they only need to stop there with Capitol Records aquisition.
The rest of the industry will STFU and play nice.
...Or that terrorists aren't very smart.
(brainwashed religious nuts, underwear bomber booking a one-way flight to detroit in the middle of winter with no bags or even a jacket, shoe-bomber, virgins in afterlife...)
how about legit files of your own creation that you had complete ownership of and decided to put on a cloud service?
So let's say I'm God and present you with a game of heads or tails x 1000 and gives you a choice to play or not....
1000 heads up: 1/3 of the population will die.
Anything less than 1000 heads up: I grant you and all humankind access to the unending knowledge of the universe.... How to create life, build worlds or travel to distant planets.
What would you choose? Play or go home?
And how could you possibly live with yourself knowing one day you might be the one infected with the super flu virus that kills everyone? Don't think you'll get killer flu? how do you know? It's probable right?
Is google paying for time, resources and labor to monitor for the next 20 years, or is this tax dollars at work?
I'd imagine keeping tabs on a company as expansive as google is expensive. I don't know who to be mad at; the government for intervening, or google for being a burden to the taxpayer.
If the FTC thinks google isn't playing nice with privacy, FINE them to cover the costs. If they aren't doing something wrong or worthy of penalty, get out of their business and let them run.
Do some highway driving close to the mexico border and you'll see border patrol already at work doing this. I get pulled into a random search frequently. Drug dog comes by without asking. The agent sets of a series of questions to try and make you trip up.
Agent: What citizenship are you? me: US...i didn't cross any border... Agent:Where you going?
me: San Diego
Agent: Where you coming from?
me:Phoenix
Agent: Where do you live?
me: Phoenix
Agent: Didnt you just come from El Centro?
me: well yeah...passed through it driving here... (ohyou.jpg)
Agent: How long you staying?
me: 3 days
Agent: You have anything in the trunk I should know about?
me: nope
Agent: 3 days and no clothes?
me: its in the trunk
Agent: I thought you said there's nothing in the trunk...(trollface.jpg)
I didn't sign up for this bullshit...Being treated like an ass, as if it is a priviledge to travel within my own fucking home country and prove I'm not some terrorist to everyone with a uniform.
From the article from readwriteweb--
"Senator Lieberman issued a statement saying that Amazon.com has informed his staff that the company has ceased hosting Wikileaks."
First off...go figure Joe Lieberman has anything to do with this. Second, why must Amazon.com report to Joe Lieberman and his staff for any reason? I'm not the type to boycott services for politcal views, but I'm willing to boycott Amazon for associating with such a toolbag.