That sort of physical activity wouldn't bother me when I was in my 20's or 30's. In fact I had a supervisory job where I had to walk a lot when I was in my late 20's.
Now that I'm a few decades older I still do 3 miles in an hour on a treadmill at the gym a few times a week. Not sure I could do 11 miles every day right now but I could probably work up to it.
The 33 second timer thing though would get pretty damn annoying. I think personal control and freedom to make decisions on a job are really what separates menial from not, much less than the physical activity.
In fact I am surprised they don't have people going 'postal' as a result.
> The issue is the cost difference in relation to additional time needed to do a suitable job missing spraying crops with roundup had crop not been "roundup ready"?
You cannot spray RoundUp selectively. The idea is preposterous. Spray will drift and spread. That's why it's called spray, duh. You will kill the entire crop if you spray it on non Roundup Ready crops even if you try to miss the individual plants. The only way you can spray RoundUp is before planting such a crop. You will have to use selective herbicides during the growing season.These don't work as well as RoundUp.
Clearly you have a very rudimentary knowledge of farming, etc. Perhaps you should do more reading on how that works. It might help you answer your questions. I'm not going to give you a course in agriculture on Slashdot.
> So why the danger Will Robinson warning label on bottles of roundup from home depot if it is so safe?
Glyphosate is safe in normal use. However there have been cases of people accidentally drinking the concentrate raw and dying. Lots of things are like that. You wouldn't want to drink a quart of ethanol by accident either.
It also can cause skin irritation. Given there is a lawyer under every rock you have to include these warnings.
> However if you do this there is no longer any incentive to keep crops from not being sprayed arbitrarily to save time/money.
That would be true if RoundUp was free. It isn't. Spraying with RoundUp is expensive both in terms of labor and cost of materials, so there definitely is an incentive to minimize its use.
There is also the issue of relative toxicity. RoundUp is the least toxic herbicide to mammals known. Other large scale farming practices require use of much more toxic practices.
Also please note - RoundUp is a trade name for an off-patent herbicide. The generic name is glyphosate, and most of the production of glyphosate is done by Chinese generic manufacturers.
> How the hell can you just blanket assume all GMOs are safe all strains regardless of the details of each strain and regardless of studies produced before the introduction of subsequent strains?
Nobody says all GMOs are safe. Heck, all sorts of natural plants are dangerous under various circumstances. Look up Castor beans. Also please note pretty much any artifact of technology is unsafe under some circumstance or another. If we insisted on complete safety for everything before adopting it we'd have banned fire due to its obvious dangers and still be living in unheated caves eating our food raw.
Life is a matter of balancing risks. Do the well-established science on the GMO plant you plan to introduce and you will get a good idea of whether or not you can tolerate the risk.
A Washington Times reporter, Audrey Hudson was recently the subject of a story on Slashdot about abuse of 4th Amendment rights during a police search.
The WT has generally been and are currently owned by the Unification Church or members thereof and have a very conservative editorial policy that you would expect given that ownership.
It's a great political rag in the fine tradition of the First Amendment. I would worry if we didn't have these sorts of publications to give us varying viewpoints.
Pay really doesn't go up much higher. After that point compensation is deliver in the form of stock options and other non-cash mechanisms. Increasing the income tax brackets will have little effect.
I can see developed nations agree to various protocols for drones as they have for nuclear weapons.
I don't see Iran and other radical nations or various fundamentalist groups doing so. They already make massive use IEDs which are really only modestly different in concept from drones.
If you are going to conduct episodes like shooting up malls and weddings I can only surmise that the thing preventing use of drones by these groups is availability of the technological capability.
The reason that solar power is taking off is that huge government subsidies and research grants got it to the point where it achieved the scale and efficiency it cost effective.
Republicans along their oil and utility company sponsors want to quash it.
Some libertarians are starting to realize that now it's starting to look competitive and it would be a good idea not to regulate it out of existence.
1. US health care cost is 2x that of other developed nations. 2. Despite this cost it has 10's of millions uninsured. 3. Results are worse than lower cost systems. Look at life expectancy for US v. Canada for example. 4. Medical tourism (people leaving US) for foreign destinations is booming. 100 times more US citizens go to other countries than people come here. 1.6 million US citizens traveled abroad last year for medical care.
5. Illegal immigrants come here from UNDEVELOPED countries, not from developed countries. And the care they get here is shit. Walk into a hospital emergency room with diabetes or any other chronic disease and see what kind of care you get. 6. ALL medical systems have patients die needlessly from care problems. My mother died from a misdiagnoses. People get stuck with the wrong drug. Coma patients don't get fed. Fact of life. In fact the US Medical System is the leading cause of death in the US.
I could see one thing happening over time. Right now a lot of software does calculations involving decimal fractions in floating point. The problem with this is that in general you cannot precisely represent a decimal fraction using a binary floating point number. This is why you often see results like a-b = 0.19999999999999.
Well I think it is possible that we could see development of hardware arithmetic units that would internally use arbitrary precision fixed point calculations to do these sorts of calculations to eliminate these sorts of errors. So when you run your current programs on these processors the improved representation of decimal fractions would lead to slightly different results.
I'm leery of cops too. The dynamic is too asymmetrical to take for granted.
However I'm naive enough to believe that most cops chose their career for the right reasons and do a good job. This includes sometimes giving up their lives.
Google 'Hero Cop' for the stories.
What is needed is better policies the result in removal of the bad ones from their positions.
That just isn't quite right. Police officers have a legal duty to act as law enforcement officers while off-duty under a variety of circumstances. They are not just private citizens.
Example: Colorado Springs Police Department Operations Manual
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So you are proud of having a career where the primary goal is collection of feces?
Aren't the best solution to everything.
Those sorts of people make lousy benevolent dictators or astronauts.
Cross out selective adaptation and write in speciation.
Maybe we can get some Spinozans on the board to put an end to the idea that God and Nature are distinguishable.
That sort of physical activity wouldn't bother me when I was in my 20's or 30's. In fact I had a supervisory job where I had to walk a lot when I was in my late 20's.
Now that I'm a few decades older I still do 3 miles in an hour on a treadmill at the gym a few times a week. Not sure I could do 11 miles every day right now but I could probably work up to it.
The 33 second timer thing though would get pretty damn annoying. I think personal control and freedom to make decisions on a job are really what separates menial from not, much less than the physical activity.
In fact I am surprised they don't have people going 'postal' as a result.
> I still think that benevolent dictatorships are better than democracy.
I think this is true, however how do you get one? Most dictators are not benevolent. Lots of times they start out benevolent and end up not.
Some economists argue that there is no evidence of effective benevolent dictators so you might as well not bother trying.
http://williameasterly.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/benevolent-autocrats-easterly-2nd-draft.pdf
> The issue is the cost difference in relation to additional time needed to do a suitable job missing spraying crops with roundup had crop not been "roundup ready"?
You cannot spray RoundUp selectively. The idea is preposterous. Spray will drift and spread. That's why it's called spray, duh. You will kill the entire crop if you spray it on non Roundup Ready crops even if you try to miss the individual plants. The only way you can spray RoundUp is before planting such a crop. You will have to use selective herbicides during the growing season.These don't work as well as RoundUp.
Clearly you have a very rudimentary knowledge of farming, etc. Perhaps you should do more reading on how that works. It might help you answer your questions. I'm not going to give you a course in agriculture on Slashdot.
> So why the danger Will Robinson warning label on bottles of roundup from home depot if it is so safe?
Glyphosate is safe in normal use. However there have been cases of people accidentally drinking the concentrate raw and dying. Lots of things are like that. You wouldn't want to drink a quart of ethanol by accident either.
It also can cause skin irritation. Given there is a lawyer under every rock you have to include these warnings.
was the answer last time we tried something like this.
> However if you do this there is no longer any incentive to keep crops from not being sprayed arbitrarily to save time/money.
That would be true if RoundUp was free. It isn't. Spraying with RoundUp is expensive both in terms of labor and cost of materials, so there definitely is an incentive to minimize its use.
There is also the issue of relative toxicity. RoundUp is the least toxic herbicide to mammals known. Other large scale farming practices require use of much more toxic practices.
NIH Tox comments re: Glyphosate:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10854122
Also please note - RoundUp is a trade name for an off-patent herbicide. The generic name is glyphosate, and most of the production of glyphosate is done by Chinese generic manufacturers.
> How the hell can you just blanket assume all GMOs are safe all strains regardless of the details of each strain and regardless of studies produced before the introduction of subsequent strains?
Nobody says all GMOs are safe. Heck, all sorts of natural plants are dangerous under various circumstances. Look up Castor beans. Also please note pretty much any artifact of technology is unsafe under some circumstance or another. If we insisted on complete safety for everything before adopting it we'd have banned fire due to its obvious dangers and still be living in unheated caves eating our food raw.
Life is a matter of balancing risks. Do the well-established science on the GMO plant you plan to introduce and you will get a good idea of whether or not you can tolerate the risk.
A Washington Times reporter, Audrey Hudson was recently the subject of a story on Slashdot about abuse of 4th Amendment rights during a police search.
The WT has generally been and are currently owned by the Unification Church or members thereof and have a very conservative editorial policy that you would expect given that ownership.
It's a great political rag in the fine tradition of the First Amendment. I would worry if we didn't have these sorts of publications to give us varying viewpoints.
Pay really doesn't go up much higher. After that point compensation is deliver in the form of stock options and other non-cash mechanisms. Increasing the income tax brackets will have little effect.
1. I like to do a lot of my own maintenance but the high voltage warnings under the hood scare the bejesus out of me.
2. I don't drive enough to make it economically justifiable.
3. I'm old and cantankerous and have noticed mostly hipsters drive electric cars. Not really a hipster fan.
I can see developed nations agree to various protocols for drones as they have for nuclear weapons.
I don't see Iran and other radical nations or various fundamentalist groups doing so. They already make massive use IEDs which are really only modestly different in concept from drones.
If you are going to conduct episodes like shooting up malls and weddings I can only surmise that the thing preventing use of drones by these groups is availability of the technological capability.
So how is that different from the Middle Eastern weapon of choice, the IED?
Wrong. Go back and read the article again.
The reason that solar power is taking off is that huge government subsidies and research grants got it to the point where it achieved the scale and efficiency it cost effective.
Republicans along their oil and utility company sponsors want to quash it.
Some libertarians are starting to realize that now it's starting to look competitive and it would be a good idea not to regulate it out of existence.
Ridiculous. US is dead last of 17 major developed countries in recent study.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/new-health-rankings-of-17-nations-us-is-dead-last/267045/
1. US health care cost is 2x that of other developed nations.
2. Despite this cost it has 10's of millions uninsured.
3. Results are worse than lower cost systems. Look at life expectancy for US v. Canada for example.
4. Medical tourism (people leaving US) for foreign destinations is booming. 100 times more US citizens go to other countries than people come here. 1.6 million US citizens traveled abroad last year for medical care.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/luizaoleszczuk/2013/10/22/central-europe-becoming-a-big-destination-for-medical-tourism/
5. Illegal immigrants come here from UNDEVELOPED countries, not from developed countries. And the care they get here is shit. Walk into a hospital emergency room with diabetes or any other chronic disease and see what kind of care you get.
6. ALL medical systems have patients die needlessly from care problems. My mother died from a misdiagnoses. People get stuck with the wrong drug. Coma patients don't get fed. Fact of life. In fact the US Medical System is the leading cause of death in the US.
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/medicine/usamed.htm
I could see one thing happening over time. Right now a lot of software does calculations involving decimal fractions in floating point. The problem with this is that in general you cannot precisely represent a decimal fraction using a binary floating point number. This is why you often see results like a-b = 0.19999999999999.
Well I think it is possible that we could see development of hardware arithmetic units that would internally use arbitrary precision fixed point calculations to do these sorts of calculations to eliminate these sorts of errors. So when you run your current programs on these processors the improved representation of decimal fractions would lead to slightly different results.
Who then? Private industry has shown they can't do it. No country on the entire planet has a working private health care system.
On the other hand there are a number of countries that do pretty well with public systems.
I'm leery of cops too. The dynamic is too asymmetrical to take for granted.
However I'm naive enough to believe that most cops chose their career for the right reasons and do a good job. This includes sometimes giving up their lives.
Google 'Hero Cop' for the stories.
What is needed is better policies the result in removal of the bad ones from their positions.
Since when did Ubuntu start supplying Smart TV builds?
That just isn't quite right. Police officers have a legal duty to act as law enforcement officers while off-duty under a variety of circumstances. They are not just private citizens.
Example: Colorado Springs Police Department Operations Manual
http://www.aele.org/law/2007LRSEP/colo-springs.html
Yes, and the result of this will be that you will filter out all the people you would actually want to have working for the public.
Not really a smart move to ingrain bad working conditions and harassment into a job where you really want to attract good people to.
Since when is HOA government?
Boss had a web site (silly little news aggregation thing).
Somebody offered him 12 million for it. He turned it down.
Now it isn't even on line and Boss is working for a salary somewhere.
Lesson: Take the bird in the hand.