It's not a question of me not liking offal (I don't eat meat, so I wouldn't eat it anyway).
Offal is organ meats, which still have nutritional value. But the blood, bone, cartilage, skin, beaks feet and bums... that's not offal, that's awful.
I'd be less concerned about using gizzards and hearts than the junk they grind into a paste for these things.
I'll pass on the blood pudding and black sausage, but some of that stuff is what jello is made of. And pork cracklings are the next best thing to bacon when it comes to meat candy.
Quoting the daily mail should get you modded down, not up.
A-typical case of "boo hoo, I don't like the source," so I'll throw a fit over it even if it's correct. How odd that there's no shortage of other papers that have reported on exactly the same thing now is there. But don't worry, I didn't up the statistics. Rather I posted a singular story, but didn't directly apply it to one shelter. After all, even you could spend the 30 seconds to use google and find out that I'm still right.
The point is, that if there are more credible sources, use them. If a liar salts his lies with occasional truths, that doesn't entitle him to be considered a truthful source.
As I sometimes say to my evil black cat when she gets a bit crazy and decides to sink her claws into me, "Cat, the other white meat." So far she hasn't worked.
PETA appears to be against the mass exploitation of chickens. If 10bn chickens are killed annually for meat, and that reduces to 10m, they will have succeeded... but the chicken would be far from extinct. Commercial chicken production could even stop completely, but people in rural areas would still keep chickens, as they have done for hundreds of years, for their eggs if nothing else (remember that dual-use nature of the chicken?) Chicken manure is also quite the asset if you're living rurally. And then you can sell the carcass to stupid town-dwellers who are prepared to pay high prices for the "real chicken" their parents used to talk about.
The chicken isn't going to go extinct just because we stop exploiting it for meat on a mass scale. Stop pretending that complex bio-economic systems work in binary. The choice is not "continue to exploit animals in their billions" vs "watch them go extinct", and only a fool would claim that it was. I mean, I fucking hate PETA, but I hate binary thinking more (and I use the term "thinking" reservedly). As for the idea that mass production of chickens has some kind of advantage in terms of bio-diversity - it's complete and utter propagandist nonsense, although I guess it kind of works if you close your eyes and ignore the species that already went extinct so we can have enough land to grow enough corn to feed 10 billion identical fucking chickens.
What PETA is really against is humans. Otherwise they'd make themselves better informed about what the animals really want. If you believe PETA, all animals want to do is flee humans, and that's observably false. Even skunks have been known to move in next to human beings. Alaskan wolves show off their puppies to tourists, and don't even think of trying to do anything interesting around emperor penguins.
Case in point: veganism, which I'm pretty sure is almost(?) essential for PETA membership. Veganism is based on the concept that you don't use any animal product that exploits the animal. Which gives you the wierd situation where you're allowed to eat human placenta meat, but not eggs.
The problem is that many farm animals of today are mutants bred to interact with humans. Chickens will lay sterile eggs, regardless, but vegans will leave the eggs to rot. Cows will produce milk, but lacking someone to milk them, will be in pain. Sheep, unsheared will overheat.
I prefer to minimize the amount of animal pain and suffering I cause. Besides, if I eat too many of them, they'll get their revenge by raising my cholesterol. I'll pay more for uncaged chicken eggs and am hoping to see the day that bacon, burgers and jerky are something that can be rolled off a production line instead of forcibly removed from the carcasses of dead animals.
But I think I get more pain and suffering from having to drive into an office and work all day than a chicken does producing that one sterile egg, so I'm not feeling too bad about a free-roving chicken.
Buy it pre-ground. Or grind it the day before. It's still likely to be fresher than some nasty little industrial capsule.
I can may anywhere from 1-6 mugs of coffee with with a vintage Mr. Coffee machine and that's sufficient to satisfy the household caffeine addictions with only simple bio-degradable waste products (makes great garden mulch!)
When that's not fancy enough, I have a mini espresso machine.
This has nothing to do with freedom, taxes, or even money. It is all about getting his name in the paper, and his constituants seeing hime "doing something!"
If the larger store I went to recently is an indicator they have started carrying quite a bit more like the old days....
Rumor has it that they decided that they were getting trounced on the consumer electronics front and have retreated to some of their more traditional offerings. Not much chance that Wal-Mart's going to be stocking 50 mf capacitors.
It's also helping (I think) that there are now ways of doing things with electronics that don't involve ultraspecialized chips that have to be wave-soldered onto a multi-layer circuit board. The Arduino and Raspberry Pi provide a lot of power, but they are good matches for simple custom interface circuits, buildable from Radio Shack components.
Plus, the Shack is selling the Arduino and Pi alongside them.
MOD parent up, they want to save the big money for stockholders dividends, and for fat salaries for the meeting jockeys who push paper around a conference table.
Shareholder here. Not likely. Few stocks these days pay fat dividends.
Most of the money gets spent on executive-suite bonuses and in buying other companies so that more people can be laid off as they consolidate.
I would instead recommend the novel off which that movie is based - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, but Dick's best work is found in his short stories.
"The Electric Ant" is especially pertinent, as is "The Mold of Yancey", "Autofac", and, of course, "Second Variety".
So is "We can remember it for you Wholesale" (a/k/a "Total Recall").
Substitute multiple mutually-ignorant meddling government agencies for aliens and you're all set for a possible near-future reality.
Unless the aliens get there first. Damn secret overlords.
I am new to programming and I'm using Bluefish running on Linux. It's a great way to learn using an IDE, that's for sure!
But you didn't mention whether it was a great way to learn programming.
That's what all the excitement is about. I often have to point out to the inexperienced that when they come for advice, I don't care what their IDE setup is, because the IDE won't be there when the app runs in production.
True, but if your company is already run by crappy HR (and good HR would be involving the existing technical team when evaluating new technical hires) then you probably want to get out as soon as possible. Eventually the company will be almost entirely composed of cheap but useless drones, true, but long before then they'll make the place so tech-hostile that anyone half competent will have left.
Unfortunately, the IDE-slaves aren't going to be "useless drones". They'll be producing stuff that's actively defective.
No "silver bullet" tool or framework has ever been developed that can anticipate all the needs (or demands, anyway) of real-world users. If a bunch of no-nothings slap together a product and then go in and ignorantly hack into the (frequently horrible) code that an IDE's wizards have produced, there's no telling what the results are going to be. Except odds are, it will be very bad.
I have a family member with a Ford Focus. This has reversing sensors that warn you if you are about to reverse into something.
Whatever tech those are using seems like it would be good to try out.
At least "trickle down" works in automotive tech. First I learned about them was when I tried to back a rented Lincoln into a wall and the alert went off. Thankfully.
Now there's backup cameras in the new Honda Civic.
What tech do auto makers use for the proximity detectors in car bumpers?
Seems like that'd be an inexpensive, short range detector, even if it's not radar.
Ultrasonic. They were selling experimenter units at Radio Shack when I was in there last month. For general use, not specifically for automotive mounting. I think in retail, they're about $30.
Let the CIA and FBI pick up their responsibilities and disolve the NSA altogether. They are a waste of money, a waste of manpower, and are wasting our liberties.
What makes your think the CIA or FBI would be any better?
There's a possibility that if instead of having a lot of agencies running around with attitudes we only had a few of them, that the natural aversion of the American public to excessive concentration of power would keep the overall level of abuse down. Just don't expect the abuse to go away entirely, that's all. Both the CIA and FBI have well-documented histories of doing Bad Things, after all.
And, it would be one less bureacracy to have to fund.
Once you've got four or five under your belt you can more or less fake it with similar languages.
Klingon programmers just copy con: myprogram.exe and enter the opcodes and data with alt-keypad. Does relying on a compiler make you a bad programmer? What about an assembler?
There was a time when yes, relying on a compiler could get you tagged as a bad programmer. Back when compilers were so stupid that if you didn't have some idea of what the low-level code being generated looked like you could easily create slow, memory-hungry code.
I actually have programmed various machines in raw hex in a pinch, which is why without looking I can tell you that "47F0000C" will cause a System/360 mainframe to branch unconditionally to memory location 12 and "76" will cause a Motorola MC6000 to return from a subroutine.
In practice, we mostly did use symbolic assemblers, but they were the type that displayed the generated hex on the lefthand side of the source listing.
However, modern CPUs cannot be easily optimized by unassisted human effort on raw machine code, thanks to their habit of relying on multi-stage memory caches and multiple pipelining. Also modern compilers not only optimize, the optimizers are tuned to specifically optimize many common dumb programmer high-level practices.
IDEs, however, cannot (so far) be quite that helpful. They're more likely to raise you to just high enough to be dangerous, then let you down.
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What do you call a pig's bum?
Ham.
It's not a question of me not liking offal (I don't eat meat, so I wouldn't eat it anyway).
Offal is organ meats, which still have nutritional value. But the blood, bone, cartilage, skin, beaks feet and bums ... that's not offal, that's awful.
I'd be less concerned about using gizzards and hearts than the junk they grind into a paste for these things.
I'll pass on the blood pudding and black sausage, but some of that stuff is what jello is made of. And pork cracklings are the next best thing to bacon when it comes to meat candy.
Quoting the daily mail should get you modded down, not up.
A-typical case of "boo hoo, I don't like the source," so I'll throw a fit over it even if it's correct. How odd that there's no shortage of other papers that have reported on exactly the same thing now is there. But don't worry, I didn't up the statistics. Rather I posted a singular story, but didn't directly apply it to one shelter. After all, even you could spend the 30 seconds to use google and find out that I'm still right.
The point is, that if there are more credible sources, use them. If a liar salts his lies with occasional truths, that doesn't entitle him to be considered a truthful source.
As I sometimes say to my evil black cat when she gets a bit crazy and decides to sink her claws into me, "Cat, the other white meat." So far she hasn't worked.
(Cat) "Human, the other fish meat."
I think it'd be far more interesting for a company to start producing lab-grown long pork. That would start the real ethical debates.
You joke, but I can pretty well guarantee that once artifically-produced meat is a reality that someone's going to invent new types of it.
Consider the green ketchup they tried to sell.
Vegemite has intense taste!
PETA appears to be against the mass exploitation of chickens. If 10bn chickens are killed annually for meat, and that reduces to 10m, they will have succeeded ... but the chicken would be far from extinct. Commercial chicken production could even stop completely, but people in rural areas would still keep chickens, as they have done for hundreds of years, for their eggs if nothing else (remember that dual-use nature of the chicken?) Chicken manure is also quite the asset if you're living rurally. And then you can sell the carcass to stupid town-dwellers who are prepared to pay high prices for the "real chicken" their parents used to talk about.
The chicken isn't going to go extinct just because we stop exploiting it for meat on a mass scale. Stop pretending that complex bio-economic systems work in binary. The choice is not "continue to exploit animals in their billions" vs "watch them go extinct", and only a fool would claim that it was. I mean, I fucking hate PETA, but I hate binary thinking more (and I use the term "thinking" reservedly). As for the idea that mass production of chickens has some kind of advantage in terms of bio-diversity - it's complete and utter propagandist nonsense, although I guess it kind of works if you close your eyes and ignore the species that already went extinct so we can have enough land to grow enough corn to feed 10 billion identical fucking chickens.
What PETA is really against is humans. Otherwise they'd make themselves better informed about what the animals really want. If you believe PETA, all animals want to do is flee humans, and that's observably false. Even skunks have been known to move in next to human beings. Alaskan wolves show off their puppies to tourists, and don't even think of trying to do anything interesting around emperor penguins.
Case in point: veganism, which I'm pretty sure is almost(?) essential for PETA membership. Veganism is based on the concept that you don't use any animal product that exploits the animal. Which gives you the wierd situation where you're allowed to eat human placenta meat, but not eggs.
The problem is that many farm animals of today are mutants bred to interact with humans. Chickens will lay sterile eggs, regardless, but vegans will leave the eggs to rot. Cows will produce milk, but lacking someone to milk them, will be in pain. Sheep, unsheared will overheat.
I prefer to minimize the amount of animal pain and suffering I cause. Besides, if I eat too many of them, they'll get their revenge by raising my cholesterol. I'll pay more for uncaged chicken eggs and am hoping to see the day that bacon, burgers and jerky are something that can be rolled off a production line instead of forcibly removed from the carcasses of dead animals.
But I think I get more pain and suffering from having to drive into an office and work all day than a chicken does producing that one sterile egg, so I'm not feeling too bad about a free-roving chicken.
Buy it pre-ground. Or grind it the day before. It's still likely to be fresher than some nasty little industrial capsule.
I can may anywhere from 1-6 mugs of coffee with with a vintage Mr. Coffee machine and that's sufficient to satisfy the household caffeine addictions with only simple bio-degradable waste products (makes great garden mulch!)
When that's not fancy enough, I have a mini espresso machine.
Actually, ALL shareholders are motivated purely by profit. Think I'm wrong?
I don't "think" you're wrong.
I know you're wrong.
Simple logic. As a shareholder who most definitely has more priorities than just profit, I invalidate your assertion by the mere fact of my existence.
I do like to profit, but I doubt your definition of "profit" involved anything but money anyway.
My wife is Chinese and I was under the impression that China is the only major country without its own native cheese. Contrast with France or the US.
Not a place Wallace and Grommet would go on vacation.
Lactose intolerance?
This has nothing to do with freedom, taxes, or even money. It is all about getting his name in the paper, and his constituants seeing hime "doing something!"
Give this man a great big drink of water!
I think Adam Smith understood that there's more to the world than the free market.
Sadly, his worshippers often do not.
If the larger store I went to recently is an indicator they have started carrying quite a bit more like the old days....
Rumor has it that they decided that they were getting trounced on the consumer electronics front and have retreated to some of their more traditional offerings. Not much chance that Wal-Mart's going to be stocking 50 mf capacitors.
It's also helping (I think) that there are now ways of doing things with electronics that don't involve ultraspecialized chips that have to be wave-soldered onto a multi-layer circuit board. The Arduino and Raspberry Pi provide a lot of power, but they are good matches for simple custom interface circuits, buildable from Radio Shack components.
Plus, the Shack is selling the Arduino and Pi alongside them.
"Peggy" or "Pegging" the programmer? Given the current job market, either seems plausible.
Actually, it should have been Pratibha the programmer, given the eagerness with which we offshore everything.
Being the sole owner isn't enough. Anyone who lives there can give consent.
Have a baby sitter or housekeeper who you allow into your home while you are not there?
Guess what? They now have the ability to allow the police in to do a search without your explicit consent.
Sounds rather like vampires.
MOD parent up, they want to save the big money for stockholders dividends,
and for fat salaries for the meeting jockeys who push paper around a conference table.
Shareholder here. Not likely. Few stocks these days pay fat dividends.
Most of the money gets spent on executive-suite bonuses and in buying other companies so that more people can be laid off as they consolidate.
Ffft, we had an audible proximity alarm in our car before it became fancy. When you heard the bumper crunch, you knew you went too far.
So it was very close proximity. So?
I detected a Cadillac that way once, alas.
I would instead recommend the novel off which that movie is based - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, but Dick's best work is found in his short stories.
"The Electric Ant" is especially pertinent, as is "The Mold of Yancey", "Autofac", and, of course, "Second Variety".
So is "We can remember it for you Wholesale" (a/k/a "Total Recall").
Substitute multiple mutually-ignorant meddling government agencies for aliens and you're all set for a possible near-future reality.
Unless the aliens get there first. Damn secret overlords.
I am new to programming and I'm using Bluefish running on Linux. It's a great way to learn using an IDE, that's for sure!
But you didn't mention whether it was a great way to learn programming.
That's what all the excitement is about. I often have to point out to the inexperienced that when they come for advice, I don't care what their IDE setup is, because the IDE won't be there when the app runs in production.
True, but if your company is already run by crappy HR (and good HR would be involving the existing technical team when evaluating new technical hires) then you probably want to get out as soon as possible. Eventually the company will be almost entirely composed of cheap but useless drones, true, but long before then they'll make the place so tech-hostile that anyone half competent will have left.
Unfortunately, the IDE-slaves aren't going to be "useless drones". They'll be producing stuff that's actively defective.
No "silver bullet" tool or framework has ever been developed that can anticipate all the needs (or demands, anyway) of real-world users. If a bunch of no-nothings slap together a product and then go in and ignorantly hack into the (frequently horrible) code that an IDE's wizards have produced, there's no telling what the results are going to be. Except odds are, it will be very bad.
I have a family member with a Ford Focus. This has reversing sensors that warn you if you are about to reverse into something.
Whatever tech those are using seems like it would be good to try out.
At least "trickle down" works in automotive tech. First I learned about them was when I tried to back a rented Lincoln into a wall and the alert went off. Thankfully.
Now there's backup cameras in the new Honda Civic.
What tech do auto makers use for the proximity detectors in car bumpers?
Seems like that'd be an inexpensive, short range detector, even if it's not radar.
Ultrasonic. They were selling experimenter units at Radio Shack when I was in there last month. For general use, not specifically for automotive mounting. I think in retail, they're about $30.
Let the CIA and FBI pick up their responsibilities and disolve the NSA altogether. They are a waste of money, a waste of manpower, and are wasting our liberties.
What makes your think the CIA or FBI would be any better?
There's a possibility that if instead of having a lot of agencies running around with attitudes we only had a few of them, that the natural aversion of the American public to excessive concentration of power would keep the overall level of abuse down. Just don't expect the abuse to go away entirely, that's all. Both the CIA and FBI have well-documented histories of doing Bad Things, after all.
And, it would be one less bureacracy to have to fund.
An IDE is not and never has been a replacement for understanding what you're doing.
Except in the minds of bean-counters who control the hiring budget.
Once you've got four or five under your belt you can more or less fake it with similar languages.
Klingon programmers just copy con: myprogram.exe and enter the opcodes and data with alt-keypad. Does relying on a compiler make you a bad programmer? What about an assembler?
There was a time when yes, relying on a compiler could get you tagged as a bad programmer. Back when compilers were so stupid that if you didn't have some idea of what the low-level code being generated looked like you could easily create slow, memory-hungry code.
I actually have programmed various machines in raw hex in a pinch, which is why without looking I can tell you that "47F0000C" will cause a System/360 mainframe to branch unconditionally to memory location 12 and "76" will cause a Motorola MC6000 to return from a subroutine.
In practice, we mostly did use symbolic assemblers, but they were the type that displayed the generated hex on the lefthand side of the source listing.
However, modern CPUs cannot be easily optimized by unassisted human effort on raw machine code, thanks to their habit of relying on multi-stage memory caches and multiple pipelining. Also modern compilers not only optimize, the optimizers are tuned to specifically optimize many common dumb programmer high-level practices.
IDEs, however, cannot (so far) be quite that helpful. They're more likely to raise you to just high enough to be dangerous, then let you down.