Most of us need proteins, also at least one amino acid is from eating meat afair. And for all you veggies out there, yes I'm very well aware that you can achieve the same protein through vegetables and you can take nutrition supplement to get the amino acid, but frankly I'd rather have some damned animal suffer for my pleasure than to hurt my self for their well being.
You are misinformed. All necessary amino acids can be found in plant sources, and it isn't hard to do.
There are two things you may be thinking of.
The first is B12, which most vegans should take as a suppliment or a fortified food. B12 isn't synthesized by animals (it's from bacteria), but animal flesh contains it, while washed vegetables may not have adequate amounts. (A B12 deficiency, btw, can take years to develop, the body is pretty efficient at reabsorbing the B12 it uses.)
The second is a bit more complex, and basically has to deal with omega 3 fatty acids, it's relationship to omega 6 fatty acids, and synthesis of one form of the omega 3 fatty to another form of omega 3 fatty acids. Just google it if you are interested in more information.
That being said, as far as health goes, vegan diets tend to be associated with healthier bodies. It's possible to be a junk food vegan and harm yourself, but it's possible to do that with any diet. It also tends to result in a smaller impact on the environment: It (roughly) takes 1000 calories of grains to make 100 calories of beef. Plus, with current factory farming methods, it probably isn't the best idea to regularly give preventative antibiotics to creatures we share diseases with, such as swine and poultry.
You are not entitled to pull the rich down and steal from them because you think they make too much. They took huge risks that you wouldn't take. So they deserve the reward of those huge risks and hard work.
You are operating under the assumption that the market, especially at the extremes of the income spectrum, accurately values individuals.
I have suspicions that it isn't the case.
There are other assumptions you are making, but I focused on that one since it's a pretty easy one, and I didn't want post to devolve into a tl;dr situation.
He's just bitching because the people who pay 90% of the taxes get a few breaks here and there. Apparently, if you're part of the small percentage of the population who actually keep the country running, you shouldn't get any special treatment. That's his idea of "fairness".
If there wasn't a large wealth disparity in the US (Gini index for reference), perhaps the majority of taxes wouldn't come from such minority of people.
Probably that wasn't the fix you were looking for though...
If the fact that Wal-Mart is the only local place I can buy my clothes and groceries is a sign the system is working I'm not so sure I want it to work. I'm not saying we should regulate the hell out of everything but I really miss having other options when I shop.
I don't think I've bought anything at Walmart in months, mostly because I'm a cheap bastard and I live in an urban area.
For clothing, Walmart isn't that bad, but the quality can be pretty crappy, and the selection is limited. I prefer either off-price retail chains, thrift stores, or specialty stores, depending on what I'm buying.
For food, Walmart tends to be pretty competitive for some stuff, but quality wise, farmer markets are about as price competitive, and there's places like Big Lots that tend to have some better food. If I lived next door to a Super Walmart, I'd probably shop there for some food, but I don't miss the lack of one locally.
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Recently, the monitor at my parents failed (a 2 or 3 year old 1280x1024 LCD panel... All CRTs before that lasted way longer. This LCD craze does have its downsides).
Often, if an LCD goes after just a few years, it's due to a bad capacitor or two on the motherboard.
If you do a bit of research and find out what the requirements for the capacitors are (usually low-ESR, etc), the cost for each capacitor is under $1, and anyone with basic desoldering skills can replace them.
There are similar issues with relying on Semis to ship goods
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Basically, there are logistical issues that are similarly difficult to overcome with one of the systems that is currently commonly used.
Trucks do have the advantage of using existing infrastructure. Their cost for loads is pretty low as well. While a semi may get horrible gas milage (I think 8 mpg-ish sounds right, but someone correct me if I'm wrong), their cargo capacity is high, and they can use cargo shipping containers from ships and trains, allowing cargo to be transported without repacking.
Cost per pound, I suspect this cannot compete with a semi-truck, except for extremely specialized applications.
When I did my puja this morning, Ganesha is adorned with a swastika on his palm. Next time will probably be when I do my evening puja.
Better than me.
I keep thinking "ramens". The brand of instant noodle I keep at work for a quick meal if I'm working late has a swastika on the package. This discussion is making me hungry.;)
To which the sane person would ask why they are not trying to standardize the standards so that toilet seats didn't have to have new molds made to replace them.
I could see the design requirements for an aircraft's toilet seat to be vastly different than the design requirements for a submarine's toilet set, etc.
It could even depend on the vessel, the room available, etc.
Yes, perhaps some designs could be standardized, but would the overhead of standardization be worth the cost savings?
It seems more likely that using a regular COTS toilet seat for most applications, while using specially designed toilet seats for specialized applications is more frugal in the long run.
Over this summer I've refitted my old car with solar panels to charge the battery when its parked and replaced all low-energy incandescent bulbs with aftermarket LED replacements. on this one car its lead to a detectable reduction in liquid fuel use. I imagine the fuel savings from even minor adjustments like this, applied to the whole service fleet, could make a noticeable saving on fuel... even before they start retiring portable generators in favour of panels.
Your battery should only be used for starting the car, assuming a conventional, non-hybrid gas or diesel car.
Otherwise, your automobile runs fully off the alternator.
I don't see a scenario that's likely where the solar panels can recharge a significant amount of the battery to make a difference.
If I was going to put solar panels on a vehicle, it would be to drive a small exhaust fan for the passenger compartment, to reduce heat buildup. Would this have a significant impact on the AC? Probably not. But it would make the car far more comfortable.;)
Actually, considering that a lot of food grown on farms is used inefficiently to produce meat (about 90% of calories are lost in the feed->meat conversion), and that there are huge environmental problems partially due to the amount of food we grow, perhaps meat being more expensive isn't a bad idea.
It might reduce the drain on the aquifers that are suffering, and get ride of a lot of the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone that's due to fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi.
Since the average American, even the average poor American, tends to eat too much, and not too little, what's the downside of high food costs again?
I'm going to play devil's advocate, keep in mind it may not work.
I'll further play the devil's advocate.
Perhaps he's innocent of the charges, but the public assumption of guilt for anyone accused of a sexual offense is so great that he could no longer effectively carry out his job.
I'm not saying he's innocent, nor am I saying he's guilty. But for the sake of argument, I can imagine an innocent man being accused of an offense, and the resulting PR-flak being so great that he could not effectively continue as CEO of a large company.
The only sane position to take is that they're all wrong, and while there might exist an omnipotent entity, it's insane to think he gives a fuck about you following a religion.
Not all religions are about trying to please a deity in order to get rewarded.
We should be honest about this. Legalized pot will result in more people using, more people abusing, and all the problems that implies.
I'm not too sure about that.
Considering the availability of alcohol, I'd imagine that the choice of drug to abuse might shift, but the total amount of abusers may stay more or less constant.
The health effects of alcohol seem worse than marijuana, so it may be a net plus to society.
My father is a truck driver. Owner-operator, for the most part, although he occasionally employs a few people.
In my current IT job that involves doing on-site support occasionally, he recommended Hudson's Street Atlas. It's about $30 at any truck stop.
I have a copy from 2006. It's still better at finding roads than Google Maps. The other day I was doing an on-site at a house, and I mentioned how the road wasn't on google maps. The owner mentioned the road was almost 50 years old. Hudson's street atlas had it, that's how I found it.
(No plug for Hudson's, btw. I bet their largest competitor has the same street in their atlas. And I've seen this same problem with GPS units. They lack roads the dead tree Hudson's atlas I own has. Sometimes, as with computers, the slightly less userfriendly interface (dead tree) is aimed towards professionals.)
I'm not sure why the above is considered trollish, though the tone might be snippy. It's true that US policymakers didn't shut down the blog themselves, but what are you supposed to think if you're a website owner and you get a letter from FBI advising you that material on your website threatens American lives and that you "may voluntarily elect to shut down the sites of customers involved in these kinds of situations." If anything the feds should be doing the opposite -- advise the blog owner to keep open a potentially useful source of information so it could be watched. The guys who want to blow things up are going to find a way to connect with each other and find whatever info they need to build bombs elsewhere; the question is whether they do it with or without their enemies watching.
*sigh*
A long time ago, there was a journalist that was anti-KKK.
Instead of avoiding any mention of the KKK, he revealed their secrets. All the mumbo jumbo, the secret signs, what they believed, etc. He even joined them in order to find out their secrets.
He probably lead to more ridicule of the KKK than any other journalists.
Today, he'd probably be labeled a terrorist sympathizer, spreading their information.
We should reveal what terrorists believe in. As someone once said, freedom of speech is why David Duke is considered a laughing stock in most of the country, while Hitler (in a far more repressive environment) went on to murder millions of the "undesirables". (Not only Jews, the Romani suffered greatly as well).
Lets here it for freedom of information. Yes, it might inspire a few wingnuts, but the harsh light of day will make it eventually wither and die.
If you look at how the religious schools that contribute to suicide bombings are run, they have a very tight control of information. They make sure would-be-"martyrs" only hear one version of the truth.
In the real world, the "truth" is more complex. Most people, when exposed to information, are decent at picking out the chaff.
We need more freedom of expression in the war against terror.
Finally, why focus on the erroneous report, when the correct prediction suggests dire consequences for millions of people who rely on the rivers fed by those glaciers. "Several hundred years" might seem like a long time, but it is a geological blink of an eye. We should be very concerned.
I'm a little curious about the cause, which the article doesn't really go into.
Is this all due to global warming? Or is part of it due to some sort of decreased snowfall?
There's been a lot of changes in the region in the past century. I wouldn't be surprised if the resulting loss of (say) forest has changed precipitation.
The biggest issue I have with using nuclear energy for power in a widespread fashion is that it is the most dense source of energy known to man by far, and once used it's gone. Future space exploration and colonization will probably require nuclear fuel, especially if it's beyond the solar system.
It's expensive, but possible to extract uranium from sea water. (It would raise the price of electricity by a fews per kWh.)
Erosion dumps a certain amount of uranium into the sea every year.
Plate tectonics renews continental plates, thus bringing up new uranium.
Plus, by the time we're going to have a space industry that's more than just flinging probes around, we'll probably do some sort of space elevator or similar ideas for launching. By the time we do interstellar travel, we should be able to mine other planets and use fusion power.
Why would I be tolerant of someone who does not repay the favor? The gays aren't knocking at my door, telling my children that they are going to burn in hell forever. They aren't shooting abortion doctors. They aren't launching suicide attacks on my neighborhood. They aren't polluting science with their fictional delusions. When the theists abandon their irrational bigotry, grow up and stop trying to control their neighbors, they'll be worthy of tolerance.
That's a might broad brush you have there.
Not all theists are alike.
Perhaps you need to abandon your irrational bigotry, grow up, and actually learn about the different forms and sects of religion out there. Some of them are quite tolerant and liberal. Check out the Unitarians, for example. Tend to be pro-Gooder Things(tm), and don't get hung up on minor issues such as if their members even believe there is a higher power.
Another group (judging from my local experience with them, YMMV) worth checking out may be the Quakers. They do seem to be all theists, but otherwise, they are good folk. Pacifistic, with a long history of trying to expand human rights to all, such as their antislavery tendencies in the past, or currently, the FGC's pro-gay marriage stance (FGC is the more liberal sect of Quakers in the US).
So hey, stop being ignorant, go out there, and discover that there are liberal religious people, just as there are conservative religion people. It's just that you don't tend to hear about the liberals, since they don't go around blowing up abortion clinics or engaging in hate speech.
With their huge majorities in both houses of Congress, the Democrats can do anything they damn well please if only they could get all their fellow Democrats onto the party bus. The moderate Democrats are the ones who shot it down.
There's a quote by John Scalzi where he says something along the lines of "Democrats can't only see the forest for the trees, they can't see the trees for the leaves" referring to in-party political squabbling.
At times, it sums up the political party quite well.
(Oh, and just FYI, don't go assuming that a certain SF author plays for a certain political team based on one quote. That would be stupid.)
Actually, badcaps failure modes are so often so nasty that they can certainly cause data loss. They computer won't just 'fail' at once, but will probably begin with silent corruption as power availability teeters on the edge of tolerances, then move into crashes as memory and other components gets more significantly underpowered during load, then go on to many crashes per day, into crashes during recovery and then eventually death.
If you identify the problem during the first phase, after a few random software crashes, then you probably won't have significant data loss. But if you get to the point where you've had a dozen crashes during recovery attempts, then you may end up with partially corrupt file systems and certainly a few missing files.
From what I can tell, this seems to be pretty unlikely.
My experience is strictly anecdotal, but I see a lot of machines with bad caps in my line of work. Having to replace half a dozen caps on a motherboard is rather common where I work.
Most of the time, the system appears to be fine afterwards.
It's amazing how much abuse a computer can take.
Also, bad caps aren't limited to mainboards. LCD displays that randomly shut off often have bad caps in them. The capacitors are cheap, and replacing them is pretty easy, if you can use a soldering iron.;)
You have it exactly wrong when you say "that's a large percentage of false positives for such a serious accusation." The election process is not innocent until proven guilty. We apply the presumption of innocence to human beings. An election is treated in the opposite way. It is not enough for it to be fair: it must be seen to be fair. It must be must be demonstrably legitimate. We do not let suspicious elections slide simply because the accusation is "serious." On the contrary, that is why we investigate them. This needs to be investigated precisely because of its seriousness.
How do you suppose we investigate suspicious elections?
On any given election day, imagine how many different elections are going on. There are over 10,000 cities in the US. In a presidential election, the ballot I see tends to have at least ten people to vote for, a mix of local, state, and federal.
Every election cycle, even if a given result could only happen 1 out of a hundred times by chance, it's almost certain to happen multiple times each election.
We're always going to have election results that are unlikely.
So what do we do about it? Yes, I will support investigations in events like these, but at the same time, I think we need to start before the election, with the machines themselves.
Sciencey type bods - Hey lets experiment with teleporters, what could possibly go wrong
Other random bod - Oh noes you've open a gatewya to HELL!!
Monsters - GRRR ARRGH GURGLE
Our Hero - OMFG Monsterz, where am my bulletzes
BLAM, BLAM, ZAP, GURGLE, SQUELCH
And they couldn't even get that right!
A quibble. The "it's a gateway to hell" would be better off as a twist at the end of the second act.
But yah. It was a good plot for a action/SF/horror flick. Dunno why they decided to play with it.
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You are misinformed. All necessary amino acids can be found in plant sources, and it isn't hard to do.
There are two things you may be thinking of.
The first is B12, which most vegans should take as a suppliment or a fortified food. B12 isn't synthesized by animals (it's from bacteria), but animal flesh contains it, while washed vegetables may not have adequate amounts. (A B12 deficiency, btw, can take years to develop, the body is pretty efficient at reabsorbing the B12 it uses.)
The second is a bit more complex, and basically has to deal with omega 3 fatty acids, it's relationship to omega 6 fatty acids, and synthesis of one form of the omega 3 fatty to another form of omega 3 fatty acids. Just google it if you are interested in more information.
That being said, as far as health goes, vegan diets tend to be associated with healthier bodies. It's possible to be a junk food vegan and harm yourself, but it's possible to do that with any diet. It also tends to result in a smaller impact on the environment: It (roughly) takes 1000 calories of grains to make 100 calories of beef. Plus, with current factory farming methods, it probably isn't the best idea to regularly give preventative antibiotics to creatures we share diseases with, such as swine and poultry.
You are operating under the assumption that the market, especially at the extremes of the income spectrum, accurately values individuals.
I have suspicions that it isn't the case.
There are other assumptions you are making, but I focused on that one since it's a pretty easy one, and I didn't want post to devolve into a tl;dr situation.
If there wasn't a large wealth disparity in the US (Gini index for reference), perhaps the majority of taxes wouldn't come from such minority of people.
Probably that wasn't the fix you were looking for though...
In the US, the law specifically allows the use of non-synthetic pesticides and other materials.
For example, pyrethrin, a poison derived from some plants, is used as an insecticide.
Copper sulfate, a mineral, is also allowed under USDA rules.
There's a lot of other fun examples, including some that were allowed earlier, but later ended up being banned because of health concerns.
I don't think I've bought anything at Walmart in months, mostly because I'm a cheap bastard and I live in an urban area.
For clothing, Walmart isn't that bad, but the quality can be pretty crappy, and the selection is limited. I prefer either off-price retail chains, thrift stores, or specialty stores, depending on what I'm buying.
For food, Walmart tends to be pretty competitive for some stuff, but quality wise, farmer markets are about as price competitive, and there's places like Big Lots that tend to have some better food. If I lived next door to a Super Walmart, I'd probably shop there for some food, but I don't miss the lack of one locally.
Insanity wolf, is that you?
Often, if an LCD goes after just a few years, it's due to a bad capacitor or two on the motherboard.
If you do a bit of research and find out what the requirements for the capacitors are (usually low-ESR, etc), the cost for each capacitor is under $1, and anyone with basic desoldering skills can replace them.
Trucks do have the advantage of using existing infrastructure. Their cost for loads is pretty low as well. While a semi may get horrible gas milage (I think 8 mpg-ish sounds right, but someone correct me if I'm wrong), their cargo capacity is high, and they can use cargo shipping containers from ships and trains, allowing cargo to be transported without repacking.
Cost per pound, I suspect this cannot compete with a semi-truck, except for extremely specialized applications.
Better than me.
I keep thinking "ramens". The brand of instant noodle I keep at work for a quick meal if I'm working late has a swastika on the package. This discussion is making me hungry. ;)
I could see the design requirements for an aircraft's toilet seat to be vastly different than the design requirements for a submarine's toilet set, etc.
It could even depend on the vessel, the room available, etc.
Yes, perhaps some designs could be standardized, but would the overhead of standardization be worth the cost savings?
It seems more likely that using a regular COTS toilet seat for most applications, while using specially designed toilet seats for specialized applications is more frugal in the long run.
Your battery should only be used for starting the car, assuming a conventional, non-hybrid gas or diesel car.
Otherwise, your automobile runs fully off the alternator.
I don't see a scenario that's likely where the solar panels can recharge a significant amount of the battery to make a difference.
If I was going to put solar panels on a vehicle, it would be to drive a small exhaust fan for the passenger compartment, to reduce heat buildup. Would this have a significant impact on the AC? Probably not. But it would make the car far more comfortable. ;)
Isn't this better?
Actually, considering that a lot of food grown on farms is used inefficiently to produce meat (about 90% of calories are lost in the feed->meat conversion), and that there are huge environmental problems partially due to the amount of food we grow, perhaps meat being more expensive isn't a bad idea.
It might reduce the drain on the aquifers that are suffering, and get ride of a lot of the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone that's due to fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi.
Since the average American, even the average poor American, tends to eat too much, and not too little, what's the downside of high food costs again?
I'll further play the devil's advocate.
Perhaps he's innocent of the charges, but the public assumption of guilt for anyone accused of a sexual offense is so great that he could no longer effectively carry out his job.
I'm not saying he's innocent, nor am I saying he's guilty. But for the sake of argument, I can imagine an innocent man being accused of an offense, and the resulting PR-flak being so great that he could not effectively continue as CEO of a large company.
Not all religions are about trying to please a deity in order to get rewarded.
I'm not too sure about that.
Considering the availability of alcohol, I'd imagine that the choice of drug to abuse might shift, but the total amount of abusers may stay more or less constant.
The health effects of alcohol seem worse than marijuana, so it may be a net plus to society.
My father is a truck driver. Owner-operator, for the most part, although he occasionally employs a few people.
In my current IT job that involves doing on-site support occasionally, he recommended Hudson's Street Atlas. It's about $30 at any truck stop.
I have a copy from 2006. It's still better at finding roads than Google Maps. The other day I was doing an on-site at a house, and I mentioned how the road wasn't on google maps. The owner mentioned the road was almost 50 years old. Hudson's street atlas had it, that's how I found it.
(No plug for Hudson's, btw. I bet their largest competitor has the same street in their atlas. And I've seen this same problem with GPS units. They lack roads the dead tree Hudson's atlas I own has. Sometimes, as with computers, the slightly less userfriendly interface (dead tree) is aimed towards professionals.)
*sigh*
A long time ago, there was a journalist that was anti-KKK.
Instead of avoiding any mention of the KKK, he revealed their secrets. All the mumbo jumbo, the secret signs, what they believed, etc. He even joined them in order to find out their secrets.
He probably lead to more ridicule of the KKK than any other journalists.
Today, he'd probably be labeled a terrorist sympathizer, spreading their information.
We should reveal what terrorists believe in. As someone once said, freedom of speech is why David Duke is considered a laughing stock in most of the country, while Hitler (in a far more repressive environment) went on to murder millions of the "undesirables". (Not only Jews, the Romani suffered greatly as well).
Lets here it for freedom of information. Yes, it might inspire a few wingnuts, but the harsh light of day will make it eventually wither and die.
If you look at how the religious schools that contribute to suicide bombings are run, they have a very tight control of information. They make sure would-be-"martyrs" only hear one version of the truth.
In the real world, the "truth" is more complex. Most people, when exposed to information, are decent at picking out the chaff.
We need more freedom of expression in the war against terror.
Just my $.02.
I'm a little curious about the cause, which the article doesn't really go into.
Is this all due to global warming? Or is part of it due to some sort of decreased snowfall?
There's been a lot of changes in the region in the past century. I wouldn't be surprised if the resulting loss of (say) forest has changed precipitation.
It's expensive, but possible to extract uranium from sea water. (It would raise the price of electricity by a fews per kWh.)
Erosion dumps a certain amount of uranium into the sea every year.
Plate tectonics renews continental plates, thus bringing up new uranium.
Plus, by the time we're going to have a space industry that's more than just flinging probes around, we'll probably do some sort of space elevator or similar ideas for launching. By the time we do interstellar travel, we should be able to mine other planets and use fusion power.
That's a might broad brush you have there.
Not all theists are alike.
Perhaps you need to abandon your irrational bigotry, grow up, and actually learn about the different forms and sects of religion out there. Some of them are quite tolerant and liberal. Check out the Unitarians, for example. Tend to be pro-Gooder Things(tm), and don't get hung up on minor issues such as if their members even believe there is a higher power.
Another group (judging from my local experience with them, YMMV) worth checking out may be the Quakers. They do seem to be all theists, but otherwise, they are good folk. Pacifistic, with a long history of trying to expand human rights to all, such as their antislavery tendencies in the past, or currently, the FGC's pro-gay marriage stance (FGC is the more liberal sect of Quakers in the US).
So hey, stop being ignorant, go out there, and discover that there are liberal religious people, just as there are conservative religion people. It's just that you don't tend to hear about the liberals, since they don't go around blowing up abortion clinics or engaging in hate speech.
There's a quote by John Scalzi where he says something along the lines of "Democrats can't only see the forest for the trees, they can't see the trees for the leaves" referring to in-party political squabbling.
At times, it sums up the political party quite well.
(Oh, and just FYI, don't go assuming that a certain SF author plays for a certain political team based on one quote. That would be stupid.)
From what I can tell, this seems to be pretty unlikely.
My experience is strictly anecdotal, but I see a lot of machines with bad caps in my line of work. Having to replace half a dozen caps on a motherboard is rather common where I work.
Most of the time, the system appears to be fine afterwards.
It's amazing how much abuse a computer can take.
Also, bad caps aren't limited to mainboards. LCD displays that randomly shut off often have bad caps in them. The capacitors are cheap, and replacing them is pretty easy, if you can use a soldering iron. ;)
How do you suppose we investigate suspicious elections?
On any given election day, imagine how many different elections are going on. There are over 10,000 cities in the US. In a presidential election, the ballot I see tends to have at least ten people to vote for, a mix of local, state, and federal.
Every election cycle, even if a given result could only happen 1 out of a hundred times by chance, it's almost certain to happen multiple times each election.
We're always going to have election results that are unlikely.
So what do we do about it? Yes, I will support investigations in events like these, but at the same time, I think we need to start before the election, with the machines themselves.
A quibble. The "it's a gateway to hell" would be better off as a twist at the end of the second act.
But yah. It was a good plot for a action/SF/horror flick. Dunno why they decided to play with it.