Buy some unsalted roasted peanuts, or raw peanuts and roast yourself. Blend very well. The result should be peanut butter with no sugar, salt or oils. It isn't rocket science.
And if you are worried about money, grow some veggies. You can make a small amount of land do a lot if you grow potatoes, carrots, onions etc. Even herbs, chillies, peppers on a window sill or balcony if you are living in a vertically stacked urban environment (names vary by country).
I am far more worried by the difficulty in getting basic ingredients to make foods from, such as bakers flour and unhomogenised milk.
My philosophy. Eat as close to nature as you can. Less opportunity for corporations to a) fuck it up and b) make a profit.
Problem is that as well as being shiny shiny diamond is also quite useful if you want to cut things. Which means that a large part of the diamond market is industrial.
It doesn't help that Notch has given a new generation a love of the things. And you need a lot of diamonds for that breastplate.
While it may make people cosy and warm to think that the space race was about moving science forwards, the truth of the matter is that it was all about prestige and military dominance.
You think that the US would have managed to have so few casualties in the recent wars it has fought if it didn't have control of space.
As for the feeding the world thing. Well if the richest country has 15% of its own people living in poverty, it is probably because it wants it that way.
I don't understand UK train prices. I grew up there, and still don't understand them. But it is probably down to Maggies privatisation of the railways.
Here in Sydney, last time I traveled up to the far side of the Blue Mountains, about 120kms away, it cost me about 10 pounds (AUD$15) one way. I can only assume they are as expensive as they are because the alternative, driving, is also very expensive due to high tax on fuel (we are about 2/3 of your price, and that is with the AUD at unnatural highs).
But a computer doesn't have to be better than you the way you do it. It just has to be better than you.
Night vision, radar, knowledge of traffic light sequences, knowledge of prevailing traffic conditions, always knowing the speed limit, being able to check that it is in the optimum stopping distance from the car in front AND behind, sensing the road temperature and moisture. Hell it may even have access to the driving patterns of all other drivers on the road, and be in communication with them. And it can update its knowledge thousands of times a second.
You really don't know what you are up against.
Incidentally, the local authority could be given feedback on road conditions and get to that pothole long before it became a serious problem. Whether the local authority would act on it is another question entirely...
Road deaths (at least in Oz, and we do a fuck of a lot of driving) have declined by 26% in the last 10 years, and I am guessing that total distance traveled has increased quite substantially.
One in 10 of those deaths is a pedestrian. They have also benefited with the removal of hood ornaments and softer shelled cars, but are probably worse off by the % of 4WD vehicles and digital media/phones...
About 95% of the people I saw on the Freeway this morning (and I traveled 300km, so not a bad sample) were driving 5-15k over. Most seemed to be on cruise from what I could tell. You could spot the police speed traps a mile off because people slowed down.
In a democracy when the majority flout laws you should change them, not re-educate them. Or are you in favour of Big Brother?
Long before that, as soon as the stats show that accidents mostly happen when drivers override the computer, you will find that insurance companies will not cover overrides, and hey presto, no more free driving except for the very rich and uninsured.
New Scientist ran an article earlier this year on a study which indicated that if something like 1 in 10 vehicles were autonomous and were linked to information about traffic lights etc, it would order traffic and improve everyone's time to work.
The fact is that our cars have been getting more automated over time. I have cruise control, intelligent braking and anti-skid technology in my car, and it ain't anything special.
I can't wait for more automation. Especially something that can spot kanga-fucking-roos. I would like something to predict their movements too, but I suspect they are quantum events that are only resolved once they are under the wheels of your car.
Oh, and 1.2 million people die every year in road accidents due to human error. That isn't a particular hard target to improve on. People are stupid. And stupid people often drive very fast. Just this morning I was held up by an idiot who put his high performance car under a ute (sure it could have been the utes fault, but my money is on the rev-head dickhead). I have to say that his day started (and probably ended) worse than mine - it took them over an hour to get him out.
If only it were possible to design an operating system that kept all user data in one place but apparently a fundamental law of physics states that this is not the case.
Surely if it means a lot to you but not to anyone else then encryption is not as important (if at all) as backing up?
I have lost personal data. I also have a few old and fairly important files kicking around that I password protected many moons ago and forgot the password.
I have chosen not to encrypt, but I have a very solid backup routine.
But then I can't imagine having data that is so personal (and yet irreplaceable) that I would rather lose it than have some random look at it.
And I should help someone else's brat survive just because their poverty stricken dad dad was too stupid to keep his dicks to themselves WHY exactly? Just so they can repeat the cycle?
What they need is education and rubber jonnies. Neither of which the likes of you are going to be giving them, what with your system of beliefs taken verbatim from some long dead tribe of desert dwelling goat fuckers.
When a politician stands on the podium with their wives and children, it is them that have brought them into the discussion. When they preach conservative "family" values that effect the whole of the electorate, but are happy to sleep with hookers, then no, they do not have a right to privacy. Same with those that preach morals from the pulpit or the vatican balcony and then don't report the kiddie fiddlers to the police.
The thing is, those is public office often get additional protections (killing a cop is worse than killing a non-cop for example). With privilege comes responsibility, and the other side of the coin is that a cop who abuses their position, or a politician who is a hypocrite, should be called to account.
Kept in place largely by imposing your will on the rest of the world through financial bodies like the WTO and World Bank, unbalanced trade treaties, military might and an IP system that is completely broken but kept because of the way it benefits the US. It is easy to be rich when you steal everyone else's pocket money. Just don't expect them to be grateful or hold you up as a paragon as well.
On the subject of debt, getting a loan to purchase an asset is not the same as racking up debt going on a shopping spree. The problem with US debt, just like the Greek debt, is that the US is doing the latter.
Just for the record the US does not have the highest GDP per capita. That honour falls to QATAR according to this:
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Buy some unsalted roasted peanuts, or raw peanuts and roast yourself. Blend very well. The result should be peanut butter with no sugar, salt or oils. It isn't rocket science.
And if you are worried about money, grow some veggies. You can make a small amount of land do a lot if you grow potatoes, carrots, onions etc. Even herbs, chillies, peppers on a window sill or balcony if you are living in a vertically stacked urban environment (names vary by country).
I am far more worried by the difficulty in getting basic ingredients to make foods from, such as bakers flour and unhomogenised milk.
My philosophy. Eat as close to nature as you can. Less opportunity for corporations to a) fuck it up and b) make a profit.
Problem is that as well as being shiny shiny diamond is also quite useful if you want to cut things. Which means that a large part of the diamond market is industrial.
It doesn't help that Notch has given a new generation a love of the things. And you need a lot of diamonds for that breastplate.
"It's the biggest case of non-penalized price fixing in the history of the world."
It would be interesting to see whether OPEC price fixing cost the world more than this cartel. I have a sneaking suspicion it would win hands down.
While it may make people cosy and warm to think that the space race was about moving science forwards, the truth of the matter is that it was all about prestige and military dominance.
You think that the US would have managed to have so few casualties in the recent wars it has fought if it didn't have control of space.
As for the feeding the world thing. Well if the richest country has 15% of its own people living in poverty, it is probably because it wants it that way.
FYI 11 of the space shuttle flights were miltary.
Agreed, but the link was to a site selling freeze dried food. Not a lot of moisture there.
That depends on whether you have a guaranteed supply of clean fresh water as well. Because if you haven't:
a) that food is going to taste awfully dry
and
b) you will die of thirst way before you get to starve to death
IANARS but what would be the benefit of sending supplies at regular intervals over sending them all at once. Energy cost will be the same.
I don't understand UK train prices. I grew up there, and still don't understand them. But it is probably down to Maggies privatisation of the railways.
Here in Sydney, last time I traveled up to the far side of the Blue Mountains, about 120kms away, it cost me about 10 pounds (AUD$15) one way. I can only assume they are as expensive as they are because the alternative, driving, is also very expensive due to high tax on fuel (we are about 2/3 of your price, and that is with the AUD at unnatural highs).
But a computer doesn't have to be better than you the way you do it. It just has to be better than you.
Night vision, radar, knowledge of traffic light sequences, knowledge of prevailing traffic conditions, always knowing the speed limit, being able to check that it is in the optimum stopping distance from the car in front AND behind, sensing the road temperature and moisture. Hell it may even have access to the driving patterns of all other drivers on the road, and be in communication with them. And it can update its knowledge thousands of times a second.
You really don't know what you are up against.
Incidentally, the local authority could be given feedback on road conditions and get to that pothole long before it became a serious problem. Whether the local authority would act on it is another question entirely...
+1
Big dog could walk on ice four years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
People on the other hand don't seem to have a good grip (pun intended): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbb3631ew_4
Even when they have four wheels to help them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hemAjudq4g
Road deaths (at least in Oz, and we do a fuck of a lot of driving) have declined by 26% in the last 10 years, and I am guessing that total distance traveled has increased quite substantially.
http://www.minister.infrastructure.gov.au/ck/releases/2012/january/ck001_2012.aspx
One in 10 of those deaths is a pedestrian. They have also benefited with the removal of hood ornaments and softer shelled cars, but are probably worse off by the % of 4WD vehicles and digital media/phones...
" I can't for the life of me think of a problem solved by..."
Oh, well, that finishes the argument then. Thanks for clearing it up for us.
Fuck a citation. This sounds like something for Myth Busters! High speeds and carnage. Right up their alley.
About 95% of the people I saw on the Freeway this morning (and I traveled 300km, so not a bad sample) were driving 5-15k over. Most seemed to be on cruise from what I could tell. You could spot the police speed traps a mile off because people slowed down.
In a democracy when the majority flout laws you should change them, not re-educate them. Or are you in favour of Big Brother?
Not when you factor in insurance.
Long before that, as soon as the stats show that accidents mostly happen when drivers override the computer, you will find that insurance companies will not cover overrides, and hey presto, no more free driving except for the very rich and uninsured.
New Scientist ran an article earlier this year on a study which indicated that if something like 1 in 10 vehicles were autonomous and were linked to information about traffic lights etc, it would order traffic and improve everyone's time to work.
The fact is that our cars have been getting more automated over time. I have cruise control, intelligent braking and anti-skid technology in my car, and it ain't anything special.
I can't wait for more automation. Especially something that can spot kanga-fucking-roos. I would like something to predict their movements too, but I suspect they are quantum events that are only resolved once they are under the wheels of your car.
Oh, and 1.2 million people die every year in road accidents due to human error. That isn't a particular hard target to improve on. People are stupid. And stupid people often drive very fast. Just this morning I was held up by an idiot who put his high performance car under a ute (sure it could have been the utes fault, but my money is on the rev-head dickhead). I have to say that his day started (and probably ended) worse than mine - it took them over an hour to get him out.
If only it were possible to design an operating system that kept all user data in one place but apparently a fundamental law of physics states that this is not the case.
Surely if it means a lot to you but not to anyone else then encryption is not as important (if at all) as backing up?
I have lost personal data. I also have a few old and fairly important files kicking around that I password protected many moons ago and forgot the password.
I have chosen not to encrypt, but I have a very solid backup routine.
But then I can't imagine having data that is so personal (and yet irreplaceable) that I would rather lose it than have some random look at it.
And I should help someone else's brat survive just because their poverty stricken dad dad was too stupid to keep his dicks to themselves WHY exactly? Just so they can repeat the cycle?
What they need is education and rubber jonnies. Neither of which the likes of you are going to be giving them, what with your system of beliefs taken verbatim from some long dead tribe of desert dwelling goat fuckers.
Not true.
Google "kevin rudd and family" and you will see the Ex-Australian Prime Minister at Labor party conferences with his family.
Put "tony blair and family" into your favourite search engine and you will see them posing outside of no.10 Downing Street.
You can try "angela merkel and her family" or "nicolas sarkozy and family"..... well, I could go on but you get the picture?
Oh well, I should just be thankful that http://thebox.bz/ is based in Belize.
When a politician stands on the podium with their wives and children, it is them that have brought them into the discussion. When they preach conservative "family" values that effect the whole of the electorate, but are happy to sleep with hookers, then no, they do not have a right to privacy. Same with those that preach morals from the pulpit or the vatican balcony and then don't report the kiddie fiddlers to the police.
The thing is, those is public office often get additional protections (killing a cop is worse than killing a non-cop for example). With privilege comes responsibility, and the other side of the coin is that a cop who abuses their position, or a politician who is a hypocrite, should be called to account.
"the most productive economy in human history"
Kept in place largely by imposing your will on the rest of the world through financial bodies like the WTO and World Bank, unbalanced trade treaties, military might and an IP system that is completely broken but kept because of the way it benefits the US. It is easy to be rich when you steal everyone else's pocket money. Just don't expect them to be grateful or hold you up as a paragon as well.
On the subject of debt, getting a loan to purchase an asset is not the same as racking up debt going on a shopping spree. The problem with US debt, just like the Greek debt, is that the US is doing the latter.
Just for the record the US does not have the highest GDP per capita. That honour falls to QATAR according to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita
Also the EU has a larger GDP than the US and is considered a single economy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
Not to mentioned being one of the very few countries who think it is okay to execute children.