...it...is an easy way to get a large amount of protein.
But remember, we're talking about hydroponic space meat. They are growing meat by immerse it in fluid that contains nutrients.
Why not drink the fluid?
There are taste concerns, of course, but setting those aside, all you are doing is wasting energy - converting sugars to CO2 and H2O. 2nd law of thermodynamics tells you this, and any student of ecology (SURELY a required discipline for anyone studying long-term space trips, since you have to build a small ecology) could tell you that there is energy and nutrient loss everytime something (ie fish slabs) eats something else (ie broth).
It's interesting to cmopare the content of your post with your tagline...
"They say you can't legislate morality. Well, you certainly can."-John Ashcroft Chicago Tribune May 25, 1998
If murder isn't immoral, I don't know what is. Yet we have laws against it. What you can't do is eliminate immorality through legislation. Murder still occurs, even in Texas.
Good analogy; the problem is convincing business owners of its validity. Insurance companies will give you reduced rates if you have a good alarm system. There's not a similar benefit for good computer security. It's sort of like wearing a seat belt - vital if you're in a wreck, kind of annoying otherwise./
They should know about, if not where to find, the latest patches and fixes. Thats their job! "Should" is a dangerous word. There should be universal peace and brotherhood, but I don't behave as if that is the case. Sometimes sysadmins aren't trained or experienced in IT. Sometimes they are office coordinators who came up through the ranks of typing pools and secretarial staff. Should the employer pay $60,000 a year to hire a sysadmin who can secure the one or two servers the business operates? Even if the business doesn't have that kind of cash flow? Even if the increased costs mean they can't compete? Even when the office coordinator can get the system functional (though nonoptimal)?
The solution to this problem is to create default installs that are SECURE. Make decreasing security and enabling features an option. Provide a variety of scripts that can be run after install that will enable features/disable security in a number of standard, customer-expected ways.
In short, given the choice between controlling the behavior of a few corporations or the behavior of 1E6 computer types, I'd rather focus on the former. Focusing on the latter is pointless.
True, true...but I think I'd freak out more if my doctor told me "I don't know a thing about mammals; I just work on people." Or if my endocrinologist told me "I don't know a thing about people; I just work on glands." Or if my surgeon told me "I don't know a thing about medicine; I just cut people open."
We need books that deal with the general. We also need books that deal with the specific. There's a great lack of the former great surplus of the latter. Looking for a happy medium...
Foolish teamhasnoi...don't you understand that the businesses have realized that they can't enslave us if we aren't here? Enslavement = preservation, and don't you forget it.
This message was NOT brought to you by a member of the conspiracy...
Unless you meet the following conditions, you are a hypocrite and I scorn you and denounce you to heaven and earth.
- You live in a room with your extended family
- You have no heat in the winter and no cooling in the summer
- You grow your own food without using anything produced using petrochemicals
- You do not own a car
- Half of your siblings and your offspring died in childhood
- You own one set of clothing and the tools you need to do your work and the room you live in and the land you garden on (making you extremely wealth)
In short, unless your standard of living is that of the third world, you are part of the first world's pollution problem. The problem is a result of production and consumption of resources; that production and consumption is what creates the first world's standard of living.
To solve the pollution problem, simply do this (and you're either part of the PROBLEM or part of the SOLUTION): Lower the standard of living, lower consumption, lower production, lower pollution
The McDonald's corporation is a soulless entity and has NO right to use the name unless granted that right by a soulless entity with guns (ie the government).
Your marketing people are morons. In the only known instance of your product being dealt with in a workplace environment, they saw that it would be abbreviated. Rather than trying to fix the problem (change the name), they try to fix the symptoms (change human behavior). Given that human behavior has been refined over thousands of years, and given that the brain is wired for abstraction and abbreviation, I have reached the conclusion in the first line of my post.
In fact, if someone brought that weak 'social engineering' their way, it wouldn't surprise me if they were logged, traced, then given a visit by a couple really solemn-looking men in bad suits and dark sunglasses that smelled like pistachios.
I don't have to worry about this. Everybody knows I'm a respectable programmer. I even help my landlady take out the garbage. Besides, I know my rights.
What you are looking for is miniatures gaming. I enjoy it much more than RPGs, because I'm not much into role-playing, but I do enjoy building an army throwing it into combat.
Better to invest in laser propultion and linear magnetic launchers. Lasers will be great for getting to Mars? Have you never heard of dispersion? As for magnetic launchers, did you not get the writer's point, that the goal is to accelerate all the way there?
Multiple spacecraft containing dangerously radioactive elements have already been launched. Danger exists, I don't deny it, but I'd suggest that those dangers can be overcome.
Note on that site 24 people have already died making the tunnel Note also that ~200,000 people died yesterday. Note further that ~3,000 died in car crashed in the US last month.
Your statement is roughly on a par with observations of the dangers of DHMO.
Wildfires, hurricanes, crop failures - lives are in the balance in those situations too, no? The point of the military is not preservation of life. I went through basic training with a hillbilly who, when first issued an M-16, gazed at it and reverently stated "This is a gun that was made to kill...people." The military infrastructure is in place to prevent the overthrow of the US government (ie implementation of non-Constitutional rule). No hurricane, forest fire, or regional crop failure can cause this.
This does not alter your point that preservation of human life is essential.
It's not just the military or your government agency...it's the whole government. NO monies are allocated on anything more than an annual basis...thus the yearly budget fiasco. It would be VERY difficult to extend this to much more than two years, since the House originates all appropriations bills, and they have 100% turnover every two years (though some of the reps get rehired).
My sister-in-law worked on a ten year project, and every year was a nail-biter as she waited to find out if the last 4-5-6 years of work had been wasted or not.
Contrary to the slashdot belief, government spending money is a *GOOD* thing. It stimulates the economy... The government can't spend money unless they take it from me. Thus, government spending = taxation.
So to paraphrase you... "Taxation stimulates the economy."
An economic model that implies that the taking and spending of my money stimulates the economy is fundamentally flawed because it asssumes that I won't spend that money myself.
This is not to say that government spending is always bad; I merely want to point out that your reasoning is flawed. Government spending is GOOD when it allows a democratically selected government to concentrate monies in a needed sector - propping up an industry vital to national security, for example. The problem is when we don't have a democratically selected government...but I digress from my off-topicness.
Slashdot Mirror
...it...is an easy way to get a large amount of protein.
But remember, we're talking about hydroponic space meat. They are growing meat by immerse it in fluid that contains nutrients.
Why not drink the fluid?
There are taste concerns, of course, but setting those aside, all you are doing is wasting energy - converting sugars to CO2 and H2O. 2nd law of thermodynamics tells you this, and any student of ecology (SURELY a required discipline for anyone studying long-term space trips, since you have to build a small ecology) could tell you that there is energy and nutrient loss everytime something (ie fish slabs) eats something else (ie broth).
Drink the broth.
Ah...well, in that case...
+1, Funny.
And if email is legally binding, then a post to /. probably is, too...
BY FOLLOWING THE LINK THAT LEADS TO THIS POST, YOU AGREE TO ABSURD TERMS OF MY CHOOSING.
And am I the only one who thinks it's funny that the color scheme for this story is yellow?
It's interesting to cmopare the content of your post with your tagline...
"They say you can't legislate morality. Well, you certainly can."-John Ashcroft Chicago Tribune May 25, 1998
If murder isn't immoral, I don't know what is. Yet we have laws against it. What you can't do is eliminate immorality through legislation. Murder still occurs, even in Texas.
who could possibly enforce GPL infringements
Donate the code to RMS or the FSF. Release under the GPL. Coordinate with them first. Anonymously, of course.
Good analogy; the problem is convincing business owners of its validity. Insurance companies will give you reduced rates if you have a good alarm system. There's not a similar benefit for good computer security. It's sort of like wearing a seat belt - vital if you're in a wreck, kind of annoying otherwise./
They should know about, if not where to find, the latest patches and fixes. Thats their job!
"Should" is a dangerous word. There should be universal peace and brotherhood, but I don't behave as if that is the case. Sometimes sysadmins aren't trained or experienced in IT. Sometimes they are office coordinators who came up through the ranks of typing pools and secretarial staff. Should the employer pay $60,000 a year to hire a sysadmin who can secure the one or two servers the business operates? Even if the business doesn't have that kind of cash flow? Even if the increased costs mean they can't compete? Even when the office coordinator can get the system functional (though nonoptimal)?
The solution to this problem is to create default installs that are SECURE. Make decreasing security and enabling features an option. Provide a variety of scripts that can be run after install that will enable features/disable security in a number of standard, customer-expected ways.
In short, given the choice between controlling the behavior of a few corporations or the behavior of 1E6 computer types, I'd rather focus on the former. Focusing on the latter is pointless.
True, true...but I think I'd freak out more if my doctor told me "I don't know a thing about mammals; I just work on people." Or if my endocrinologist told me "I don't know a thing about people; I just work on glands." Or if my surgeon told me "I don't know a thing about medicine; I just cut people open."
We need books that deal with the general. We also need books that deal with the specific. There's a great lack of the former great surplus of the latter. Looking for a happy medium...
Of course, Microsoft only made matters worse by then certifying any joker that could pick up a book.
HEY! I resemble that remark!
(I passed three NT4 certs without ever having SEEN any variety of NT - only having read three books =)
Foolish teamhasnoi...don't you understand that the businesses have realized that they can't enslave us if we aren't here? Enslavement = preservation, and don't you forget it.
This message was NOT brought to you by a member of the conspiracy...
So why isn't there a reason to change something??
Unless you meet the following conditions, you are a hypocrite and I scorn you and denounce you to heaven and earth.
- You live in a room with your extended family
- You have no heat in the winter and no cooling in the summer
- You grow your own food without using anything produced using petrochemicals
- You do not own a car
- Half of your siblings and your offspring died in childhood
- You own one set of clothing and the tools you need to do your work and the room you live in and the land you garden on (making you extremely wealth)
In short, unless your standard of living is that of the third world, you are part of the first world's pollution problem. The problem is a result of production and consumption of resources; that production and consumption is what creates the first world's standard of living.
To solve the pollution problem, simply do this (and you're either part of the PROBLEM or part of the SOLUTION):
Lower the standard of living, lower consumption, lower production, lower pollution
The McDonald's corporation is a soulless entity and has NO right to use the name unless granted that right by a soulless entity with guns (ie the government).
Your marketing people are morons. In the only known instance of your product being dealt with in a workplace environment, they saw that it would be abbreviated. Rather than trying to fix the problem (change the name), they try to fix the symptoms (change human behavior). Given that human behavior has been refined over thousands of years, and given that the brain is wired for abstraction and abbreviation, I have reached the conclusion in the first line of my post.
Moral of the story:
Open up a bank account solely for usage with PayPal. Withdraw it as soon as you receive it.
Wasn't it E.Gary.Gygax
Yes, it was. Read to the end of the article. It even tells what the "E" stands for
=)
I found Domino to be a really nice enterprise level email solution; I only wonder why it isn't used more?
Marketing.
In fact, if someone brought that weak 'social engineering' their way, it wouldn't surprise me if they were logged, traced, then given a visit by a couple really solemn-looking men in bad suits and dark sunglasses that smelled like pistachios.
I don't have to worry about this. Everybody knows I'm a respectable programmer. I even help my landlady take out the garbage. Besides, I know my rights.
Be sure to tune in next week for the next installment of Redneck Geek Holy Wars: smoking vs. chew
Get thee to The Miniatures Page
What you are looking for is miniatures gaming. I enjoy it much more than RPGs, because I'm not much into role-playing, but I do enjoy building an army throwing it into combat.
Better to invest in laser propultion and linear magnetic launchers.
Lasers will be great for getting to Mars? Have you never heard of dispersion? As for magnetic launchers, did you not get the writer's point, that the goal is to accelerate all the way there?
Multiple spacecraft containing dangerously radioactive elements have already been launched. Danger exists, I don't deny it, but I'd suggest that those dangers can be overcome.
THE TURTLE MOVES!
Note on that site 24 people have already died making the tunnel
Note also that ~200,000 people died yesterday. Note further that ~3,000 died in car crashed in the US last month.
Your statement is roughly on a par with observations of the dangers of DHMO.
Wildfires, hurricanes, crop failures - lives are in the balance in those situations too, no?
The point of the military is not preservation of life. I went through basic training with a hillbilly who, when first issued an M-16, gazed at it and reverently stated "This is a gun that was made to kill...people." The military infrastructure is in place to prevent the overthrow of the US government (ie implementation of non-Constitutional rule). No hurricane, forest fire, or regional crop failure can cause this.
This does not alter your point that preservation of human life is essential.
It's not just the military or your government agency...it's the whole government. NO monies are allocated on anything more than an annual basis...thus the yearly budget fiasco. It would be VERY difficult to extend this to much more than two years, since the House originates all appropriations bills, and they have 100% turnover every two years (though some of the reps get rehired).
My sister-in-law worked on a ten year project, and every year was a nail-biter as she waited to find out if the last 4-5-6 years of work had been wasted or not.
Contrary to the slashdot belief, government spending money is a *GOOD* thing. It stimulates the economy...
The government can't spend money unless they take it from me. Thus, government spending = taxation.
So to paraphrase you...
"Taxation stimulates the economy."
An economic model that implies that the taking and spending of my money stimulates the economy is fundamentally flawed because it asssumes that I won't spend that money myself.
This is not to say that government spending is always bad; I merely want to point out that your reasoning is flawed. Government spending is GOOD when it allows a democratically selected government to concentrate monies in a needed sector - propping up an industry vital to national security, for example. The problem is when we don't have a democratically selected government...but I digress from my off-topicness.