NJ Gas is the cheapest of any of the neighboring states... so if you're just driving through, it is actually a very good idea to buy gas, and the last gas station before the GWB to Manhattan is usually quite busy.
A good solution would be to subsidize (or tax break) based on size of farm or amount of output. A mom & pop farm should get some subsidy while monolithic corporate-sized farms should not. Otherwise all we will have are the giant corporate farms and we end up with massive recalls whenever a new virus spreads through them. There needs to be variety and competition in food source, even if it is forced.
What else? Try: Most condiments like ketchup, sweet and sour sauce, honey mustard sauce, tartar sauce. Not always cheap store brand either. Powerade and fruit drinks (interestingly enough, Gatorade doesn't). Anything with less than 100% juice probably has it. Medicines like Nyquil. Cheap store brand breads and buns. Store brand versions of Yogurt and Ice Cream (interesting you mentioned it, but some name brands like Friendly's use sugar). Canned fruit (likely the liquid it floats in).
There's probably a list out there, but you get my point. I tried to cut out HFCS entirely (as an experiment) and found it everywhere, gave up a day later. It's easier to become a vegetarian. And yes, some cheap sandwich meats even have it!
Eh, how is that number excessive? That comes out to just over 40 miles per day. Reachable for: -someone who lives 20 miles outside of town -or lives 30 miles from their employer -or only 20 miles from work, but their children go to a school 10 miles in the opposite direction or past the office
Throw in a few longer distance trips to visit relatives and I can see people hitting that number quite easily.
To reduce that 15,000 number, un-sprawling needs to happen, good luck with that...
Even if they do, how does that invalidate GP's arugment? How is Skype's pseudo encryption worse than Google's no encryption? Most people are not important enough for the government to snoop, but not unimportant enough for some random guy at an internet cafe trying to grab CCNs/passwords/trade secrets from someone on a business trip in a foreign country...
I often work from home and have VoIP setup at my home for office calls, and I have to say call quality is as good as landline ever was. The only drawback is if I have something maxing my upload they can't hear anything I say. It's a standalone SIP phone so my computer has nothing to do with it.
But to get my house on the company's pbx using landlines? Not even remotely financially feasible. Definitely not a step backward.
During a localized power outage, a cell phone will also reliably make calls, and you can charge it at work / in your car / off your laptop battery as needed. Landline is still king for this case, but the step backwards is a lot smaller than it appears.
People sending a text message/email instead of leaving a voicemail / message on an answering machine is also a step forward. It takes me 2 seconds to read a line of text, but to listen for a message requires me wasting over a minute of my time with lots of button pushing, and I have to get out a pen and paper to write the number to respond to respond if the phone number is masked.
Landline phones aren't always problem free either. A friend (in an urban area) experiences one out of every 30 incoming calls with heavy distortion. There is probably an issue at the switch somewhere, but the phone company can't or won't bother to figure it out for such a low fail rate.
Umm, because Amtrak already does it, and it takes longer to load a train with cars, and empty the cars off the train, then it would to fly from Virginia to Florida and rent a car when you get there. Look at the schedule if you don't believe me.
How about you do some research before you disrespect a poster. And you got "Insightful" for it too, for shame...
Admittedly not the EU, but bad shit has happened all over the world. The correct response would be to sacrifice the least amount of liberty / financing to get the most amount of additional security. If every time the terrorists sacrifice a dozen guys, the US to spends hundreds of billions of dollars to help take away the freedoms they hate us for, they win.
And that is why modern games have achievement systems. For those who just want to happily run along with the plot and shoot things (or what have you), the game is accommodating. For those who want the challenge, there is a reward structure in place.
And even before achievements, a few of the Resident Evil games had nice easter eggs for those who completed them without saving.
There has been software to read websites to the blind for years, how will this differ?
Sites with poorly formed HTML, excessive amounts of Flash and JavaScript, important information in images with no alt text would become illegal. Overall it could be a net improvement (excuse the pun) as sites would go back to their roots of simple and functional (or have to offer a simple and functional alternative). There are so-called artistic types in company web departments that love to do flashy stuff despite its negative impact on functionality, this would be a nice way of keeping that in check.
On the other hand, if taken too far, creativity would be stifled. Sites that are inherently about entertainment should be exempt, while sites that provide services like utilities, bank, etc should be made to follow it.
A lot of that "inefficiency" is that mailing a letter from a rural village in the south to a similar village in Alaska costs the same (and has roughly the same quality of service) as mailing a letter from one side of a major city to the other. If you break up the monopoly and allow USPS to exit markets it finds unprofitable, a whole lot of places will stop getting mail. If you break up the monopoly but do not allow USPS to exit markets, then their revenue will reduce even further as the popular ones are taken by competitors.
Also as far as USPS is concerned, a county made up mostly of farms that sees 15 pieces of legitimate mail a month is not worth their time. But when those 15 pieces of legitimate mail are vital to our food supply...
Hmm, at least we're not quite there yet. Here in the US you can walk into a Starbucks or Borders, buy a hot chocolate with cash, click 'agree' on some ToS and have internet. Also I have not yet been to a hotel (and I travel alot for work) that required any identification to get online (Hampton Inns require a code but that is shared by all hotel residents and obtained from any keycard sleeve).
That said, apparently to sign up for a new phone contract with most providers in the US you are required to give your SSN (there is a way around it for some by paying a hefty deposit). How were they allowed to do this without so much as a whimper? Now I'm stuck with my current provider unless I'd like my telco to have my SSN.
One other bit of anonymity that is surprisingly hard to come by nowadays is travel anonymity. Cameras on highways photo your license plate, and you need ID for plane, Amtrak (train) and greyhound (bus) tickets (level of enforcement may vary, but the requirement is on the books). There are some bus companies that deal mainly in cash, and there's always hitching rides, but as things stand now it's easy for "the man" to narrow down the geographic location of any given person. A decade ago, Amtrak and Greyhound used to just fill in generic names on the ticket like "Welcome / Aboard" if you paid cash... I didn't even have any sort of ID card.
That article is misleading, as it is only talking about "smartphones". Japanese "dumbphones" have most of the features that we use smartphones for, and then some (email, web, QR codes, camera, video, watch HDTV off air, gps, etc). Considering 40-50 million phones are sold in Japan each year, the numbers in that article total less than 10% of the phone market.
Yes but they're using Macs. Why not just use netbooks w/Windows 7 Starter? Cheaper for taxpayers and parents alike, and Windows 7 at least prepares them for the corporate world.
Mod this up... Honestly there is absolutely no point to a laptop search, unless the physical laptop may have been tampered with (which the visual inspection already done for domestic travel would suffice). What keeps someone from putting data onto a memory card and sticking it into their phone / game system / whatever on a hidden partition? Or better yet, using the internet to simply transfer it from a public PC lab outside of the country to a server they set up inside (if they are a returning US citizen it isn't hard to expect them to have a computer already on the inside of the border). The reverse, a visitor could use a public pc lab / free wifi to download whatever from a server in their home country. If the laptop was used for criminal activity worthy of scrutiny, a criminal would simply throw it away and buy a new one (since the activity would certainly have been worth the cost of a new computer, if it was worth searching for to begin with).
Laptop drive/media searches are *entirely* security theater... all it does is cost criminals $400 and everyone else time and dignity...
Not really... If you approach Kanji the way you approach a phonetic alphabet of course it will appear asinine. However, Kanji [in a Japanese context] are best looked at in a purely idiomatic manner, with characters representing ideas. Instead of "text->sound it out in your head->meaning" for phonetic languages, it's "text->meaning->what is the sound that corresponds to that meaning". This enables someone to read a newspaper article and get the general idea purely by skimming Kanji (and Katakana), since important things like nouns, verbs and adjectives are usually written in Kanji while grammatical fluff is always in Hiragana. It also cuts out the sound part if you're just trying to read to gain information. Compare how often you read something aloud without thinking about the meaning, versus how often you read something for the meaning without caring about the sound?
This is also how my Chinese roommate can get the jist of a Japanese work that employs a lot of Kanji, but is lost in anything aimed at a younger audience as it employs mostly phonetic characters. In that sense it is actually superior: The Japanese and Chinese have a head start on learning to read each other's languages, even if they cannot speak or understand it. While similar to using Latin word roots to help with learning Romance languages, there is a far greater chance that the same pattern of characters could be misinterpreted in the Latin alphabet as it can be with a Chinese based one.
That makes no sense... if someone truly believed there was no cosmic balance (via either God or Karma or some unknown force), and there was something they wanted to do and knew they would suffer no consequences for doing it, logic would dictate that there is no reason not to do it.
The ancient Greeks and Romans would often do what we would consider rape their slaves, sisters, children. There was no "sense of regret" because... it wasn't considered as big of a wrong. They weren't "hurting" anyone, it was about 10-20 minutes of discomfort for the 'victim', and everyone would go on with their lives. You could also say they had lower rates of sexual abuse simply because there was no such concept in the minds of the "victims".
The point I'm making is, in the absence of religion there would be no such thing as sexual abuse, because the entire concept was created by religion in the first place. Religion is what made the chain go touch->feel good->feel guilty that you felt good->feel angry at the person who triggered that response without your permission. They could just as easily have demonized tickling in the same way...
Yup, there are many times in the past where I've wanted to order from http://wingsover.com/ but since the menu is behind flash, I end up ordering from somewhere else...
Flash-only for a restaurant is a very bad idea, it really doesn't make business sense. Not only does it exclude smartphones but it also excludes any office where flash is blocked administratively, limiting lunch ordering options...
Actually when the oil crisis hits Japan's embracing of alternate fuel sources would give them a leg up on military technology... when the US has to choose between fueling a tank and fueling trains and trucks to transport food to our sprawled out society, Japan will be using their 65% electrified rail system running on wind, solar and nuclear power to get its goods around while solar charged automated hovercraft protect their borders...
Yup. My most recently found USB drive was a nice 2GB one that I found in a *dryer* at the laundromat. I highly doubt any magnetic storage could deal with the flooding of soap and water followed by 45 minutes of heat.
Your hosting provider is more likely to send it off to you before deleting your stuff, though. If you're paying for the service, they can't just go and delete things without opening themselves up to potential lawsuits from their clients.
I graduated at around the same time you did, but I'm going to say I've noticed things have changed. You didn't need a laptop in 2006, because there were large computer labs and less homework needed computers. Now, with more courses having online components, and with schools slashing their computer lab budgets (my college has less computers now than there were in 2006), you need a laptop just to get anything done outside of home.
And, counter-strike is very useful for passing the time in large gen-ed classes with mandatory attendance yet little substance.
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NJ Gas is the cheapest of any of the neighboring states... so if you're just driving through, it is actually a very good idea to buy gas, and the last gas station before the GWB to Manhattan is usually quite busy.
A good solution would be to subsidize (or tax break) based on size of farm or amount of output. A mom & pop farm should get some subsidy while monolithic corporate-sized farms should not. Otherwise all we will have are the giant corporate farms and we end up with massive recalls whenever a new virus spreads through them. There needs to be variety and competition in food source, even if it is forced.
What else? Try:
Most condiments like ketchup, sweet and sour sauce, honey mustard sauce, tartar sauce. Not always cheap store brand either.
Powerade and fruit drinks (interestingly enough, Gatorade doesn't). Anything with less than 100% juice probably has it.
Medicines like Nyquil.
Cheap store brand breads and buns.
Store brand versions of Yogurt and Ice Cream (interesting you mentioned it, but some name brands like Friendly's use sugar).
Canned fruit (likely the liquid it floats in).
There's probably a list out there, but you get my point. I tried to cut out HFCS entirely (as an experiment) and found it everywhere, gave up a day later. It's easier to become a vegetarian. And yes, some cheap sandwich meats even have it!
Eh, how is that number excessive? That comes out to just over 40 miles per day.
Reachable for:
-someone who lives 20 miles outside of town
-or lives 30 miles from their employer
-or only 20 miles from work, but their children go to a school 10 miles in the opposite direction or past the office
Throw in a few longer distance trips to visit relatives and I can see people hitting that number quite easily.
To reduce that 15,000 number, un-sprawling needs to happen, good luck with that...
Even if they do, how does that invalidate GP's arugment? How is Skype's pseudo encryption worse than Google's no encryption? Most people are not important enough for the government to snoop, but not unimportant enough for some random guy at an internet cafe trying to grab CCNs/passwords/trade secrets from someone on a business trip in a foreign country...
I often work from home and have VoIP setup at my home for office calls, and I have to say call quality is as good as landline ever was. The only drawback is if I have something maxing my upload they can't hear anything I say.
It's a standalone SIP phone so my computer has nothing to do with it.
But to get my house on the company's pbx using landlines? Not even remotely financially feasible. Definitely not a step backward.
During a localized power outage, a cell phone will also reliably make calls, and you can charge it at work / in your car / off your laptop battery as needed. Landline is still king for this case, but the step backwards is a lot smaller than it appears.
People sending a text message/email instead of leaving a voicemail / message on an answering machine is also a step forward. It takes me 2 seconds to read a line of text, but to listen for a message requires me wasting over a minute of my time with lots of button pushing, and I have to get out a pen and paper to write the number to respond to respond if the phone number is masked.
Landline phones aren't always problem free either. A friend (in an urban area) experiences one out of every 30 incoming calls with heavy distortion. There is probably an issue at the switch somewhere, but the phone company can't or won't bother to figure it out for such a low fail rate.
Umm, because Amtrak already does it, and it takes longer to load a train with cars, and empty the cars off the train, then it would to fly from Virginia to Florida and rent a car when you get there. Look at the schedule if you don't believe me.
How about you do some research before you disrespect a poster. And you got "Insightful" for it too, for shame...
Oh, you mean like a subway station bombing?
Admittedly not the EU, but bad shit has happened all over the world. The correct response would be to sacrifice the least amount of liberty / financing to get the most amount of additional security. If every time the terrorists sacrifice a dozen guys, the US to spends hundreds of billions of dollars to help take away the freedoms they hate us for, they win.
And that is why modern games have achievement systems. For those who just want to happily run along with the plot and shoot things (or what have you), the game is accommodating. For those who want the challenge, there is a reward structure in place.
And even before achievements, a few of the Resident Evil games had nice easter eggs for those who completed them without saving.
What if someone is physically unable to click - how will a website cater to that need?
You could always use MouseKeys.
There has been software to read websites to the blind for years, how will this differ?
Sites with poorly formed HTML, excessive amounts of Flash and JavaScript, important information in images with no alt text would become illegal. Overall it could be a net improvement (excuse the pun) as sites would go back to their roots of simple and functional (or have to offer a simple and functional alternative). There are so-called artistic types in company web departments that love to do flashy stuff despite its negative impact on functionality, this would be a nice way of keeping that in check.
On the other hand, if taken too far, creativity would be stifled. Sites that are inherently about entertainment should be exempt, while sites that provide services like utilities, bank, etc should be made to follow it.
A lot of that "inefficiency" is that mailing a letter from a rural village in the south to a similar village in Alaska costs the same (and has roughly the same quality of service) as mailing a letter from one side of a major city to the other. If you break up the monopoly and allow USPS to exit markets it finds unprofitable, a whole lot of places will stop getting mail. If you break up the monopoly but do not allow USPS to exit markets, then their revenue will reduce even further as the popular ones are taken by competitors.
Also as far as USPS is concerned, a county made up mostly of farms that sees 15 pieces of legitimate mail a month is not worth their time. But when those 15 pieces of legitimate mail are vital to our food supply...
But presumably you prebook the room. Would the same apply if you turned up unannounced and paid cash for the room?
If you can get online in most hotels without ever booking a room in the first place, what does it matter how you paid?
Hmm, at least we're not quite there yet. Here in the US you can walk into a Starbucks or Borders, buy a hot chocolate with cash, click 'agree' on some ToS and have internet. Also I have not yet been to a hotel (and I travel alot for work) that required any identification to get online (Hampton Inns require a code but that is shared by all hotel residents and obtained from any keycard sleeve).
That said, apparently to sign up for a new phone contract with most providers in the US you are required to give your SSN (there is a way around it for some by paying a hefty deposit). How were they allowed to do this without so much as a whimper? Now I'm stuck with my current provider unless I'd like my telco to have my SSN.
One other bit of anonymity that is surprisingly hard to come by nowadays is travel anonymity. Cameras on highways photo your license plate, and you need ID for plane, Amtrak (train) and greyhound (bus) tickets (level of enforcement may vary, but the requirement is on the books). There are some bus companies that deal mainly in cash, and there's always hitching rides, but as things stand now it's easy for "the man" to narrow down the geographic location of any given person. A decade ago, Amtrak and Greyhound used to just fill in generic names on the ticket like "Welcome / Aboard" if you paid cash... I didn't even have any sort of ID card.
That article is misleading, as it is only talking about "smartphones". Japanese "dumbphones" have most of the features that we use smartphones for, and then some (email, web, QR codes, camera, video, watch HDTV off air, gps, etc). Considering 40-50 million phones are sold in Japan each year, the numbers in that article total less than 10% of the phone market.
Yes but they're using Macs. Why not just use netbooks w/Windows 7 Starter? Cheaper for taxpayers and parents alike, and Windows 7 at least prepares them for the corporate world.
A lot of places charge employees for parking, to encourage carpooling / mass transit. Lot space doesn't grow on trees...
Mod this up...
Honestly there is absolutely no point to a laptop search, unless the physical laptop may have been tampered with (which the visual inspection already done for domestic travel would suffice). What keeps someone from putting data onto a memory card and sticking it into their phone / game system / whatever on a hidden partition? Or better yet, using the internet to simply transfer it from a public PC lab outside of the country to a server they set up inside (if they are a returning US citizen it isn't hard to expect them to have a computer already on the inside of the border). The reverse, a visitor could use a public pc lab / free wifi to download whatever from a server in their home country. If the laptop was used for criminal activity worthy of scrutiny, a criminal would simply throw it away and buy a new one (since the activity would certainly have been worth the cost of a new computer, if it was worth searching for to begin with).
Laptop drive/media searches are *entirely* security theater... all it does is cost criminals $400 and everyone else time and dignity...
Not really... If you approach Kanji the way you approach a phonetic alphabet of course it will appear asinine.
However, Kanji [in a Japanese context] are best looked at in a purely idiomatic manner, with characters representing ideas. Instead of "text->sound it out in your head->meaning" for phonetic languages, it's "text->meaning->what is the sound that corresponds to that meaning". This enables someone to read a newspaper article and get the general idea purely by skimming Kanji (and Katakana), since important things like nouns, verbs and adjectives are usually written in Kanji while grammatical fluff is always in Hiragana. It also cuts out the sound part if you're just trying to read to gain information. Compare how often you read something aloud without thinking about the meaning, versus how often you read something for the meaning without caring about the sound?
This is also how my Chinese roommate can get the jist of a Japanese work that employs a lot of Kanji, but is lost in anything aimed at a younger audience as it employs mostly phonetic characters. In that sense it is actually superior: The Japanese and Chinese have a head start on learning to read each other's languages, even if they cannot speak or understand it. While similar to using Latin word roots to help with learning Romance languages, there is a far greater chance that the same pattern of characters could be misinterpreted in the Latin alphabet as it can be with a Chinese based one.
That makes no sense... if someone truly believed there was no cosmic balance (via either God or Karma or some unknown force), and there was something they wanted to do and knew they would suffer no consequences for doing it, logic would dictate that there is no reason not to do it.
The ancient Greeks and Romans would often do what we would consider rape their slaves, sisters, children. There was no "sense of regret" because... it wasn't considered as big of a wrong. They weren't "hurting" anyone, it was about 10-20 minutes of discomfort for the 'victim', and everyone would go on with their lives. You could also say they had lower rates of sexual abuse simply because there was no such concept in the minds of the "victims".
The point I'm making is, in the absence of religion there would be no such thing as sexual abuse, because the entire concept was created by religion in the first place. Religion is what made the chain go touch->feel good->feel guilty that you felt good->feel angry at the person who triggered that response without your permission. They could just as easily have demonized tickling in the same way...
Yup, there are many times in the past where I've wanted to order from http://wingsover.com/ but since the menu is behind flash, I end up ordering from somewhere else... Flash-only for a restaurant is a very bad idea, it really doesn't make business sense. Not only does it exclude smartphones but it also excludes any office where flash is blocked administratively, limiting lunch ordering options...
Actually when the oil crisis hits Japan's embracing of alternate fuel sources would give them a leg up on military technology... when the US has to choose between fueling a tank and fueling trains and trucks to transport food to our sprawled out society, Japan will be using their 65% electrified rail system running on wind, solar and nuclear power to get its goods around while solar charged automated hovercraft protect their borders...
Yup. My most recently found USB drive was a nice 2GB one that I found in a *dryer* at the laundromat. I highly doubt any magnetic storage could deal with the flooding of soap and water followed by 45 minutes of heat.
Your hosting provider is more likely to send it off to you before deleting your stuff, though. If you're paying for the service, they can't just go and delete things without opening themselves up to potential lawsuits from their clients.
I graduated at around the same time you did, but I'm going to say I've noticed things have changed. You didn't need a laptop in 2006, because there were large computer labs and less homework needed computers. Now, with more courses having online components, and with schools slashing their computer lab budgets (my college has less computers now than there were in 2006), you need a laptop just to get anything done outside of home. And, counter-strike is very useful for passing the time in large gen-ed classes with mandatory attendance yet little substance.
Yup, twas directed at the parent. Move along, nothing to see here...