But what does happen is the price of beef and pork rises, to the point where feedlots can't survive meaning cattle ranchers have to resort to more costly means of feeding a herd longer on range land.
It's all about whose ox is being gored, isn't it?
It was feedlots that were originally responsible for the enormous over-supply of corn. The policy was "fencerow to fencerow" and "get big or get out" so that the feeder industry could buy their mountains of subsidized corn at right about the cost of production. Inevitably, more corn was produced than could be consumed by feedlots, so something had to be done with it. Enter corn ethanol. Now the feedlot owners want to complain? Fuck off.
Feedlots can die as far as I'm concerned. The only reason we still have them is because corn and soybean subsidies are hiding the price of production of beef. $1.99/lb is not even remotely attached to the real production cost of hamburger. You're paying several dollars a pound more in taxes to support Big Ag's share. But the sheeple don't see it on the price tag at the supermarket, so they blithely believe feedlot beef is cheap.
Let me reiterate that: if corn and soybeans were not subsidized, feedlots would be the more expensive way to produce beef. American beef would go back to range production in a heartbeat, because (as should be obvious to any halfwit) without government meddling, grass is far and away the cheapest way to feed cattle.
Yep... however, an engine designed to run straight ethanol is a beautiful thing. Compared to the average gasoline burner, you'd have higher compression ratios and lower displacements.
Higher C/R equates to longer stroke, which increases torque and fuel efficiency. Higher torque and fuel efficiency means we can downsize the engine to maintain the same power to weight ratio for our vehicle.
Thus... take two identical cars but one with an engine designed for ethanol. They'll both turn in about the same numbers for power and fuel mileage despite the difference in energy density. The higher octane of ethanol does no good in the normal gasoline engine... it's a property waiting to be utilized.
If you can learn to set aside your hatred, and remind yourself that people are people, not comic book villains, the world will make a lot more sense. There's no big evil conspiracy, except within your own imagination.
Yes, people are people. That's the problem.
See, I don't give a flying fuck what someone's intentions are. I don't care how pure-hearted a politician is (haha) if they're after my money or my liberty. It does not fucking matter how they feel about what they're doing; nor is it of the slightest import whether they are honorable or evil.
And it doesn't really matter if the petty tyrant's motivation is money, power, do-gooding, or just because his mommy didn't breast-feed him long enough. Bad ideas are bad ideas.
Let me disabuse you of the dumbest notion you put up -- namely, that conspiracy does not exist. Conspiracy is everywhere. Conspiracy is when two or more people get together and make a plan to do something. I conspire with people every day. Cops conspire with cops to lie. City councilors conspire to throw a contract to the company that will pay the best bribes. Etc.
You think that doesn't happen in the higher echelons of power?
Seriously... if you think conspiracy doesn't happen, you are delusional or stupid. Probably both.
Well said, sir/ma'am. Anything ever done by any human in any position of authority resides somewhere on a slippery slope, thus, "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
Looks like that Ph.D. in Melodrama is serving a government employee well somewhere!
I'm pretty sure government kills more people every year than terrorists ever have, so it should logically follow that shutting down government was a Good Thing.
Meanwhile... since considerably less than half the populace actually favors Obamacare, what was that about thwarting the will of the majority, again?
Hm. I have never seen a broken Glock part. Ever. Certainly not from normal usage.
What are you clowns doing with them? Running them through wood chippers?
See the "FPSRussia" channel on YouTube for a Glock torture test. Spoiler: It survives everything but 20 pounds of Tannerite. I kinda think that would do in your CZ as well.
Fuel injection is great. The latter two are just so much molly-coddling of people who can't be bothered to learn how to drive a car. Taking control of the vehicle away from the driver is making worse and worse drivers.
When you call tech support, you get to talk to a real support engineer, not a low paid customer service rep that only knows how to follow a script. When you tell him that you've already rebooted your border gateway and still see high latency and packet loss, he knows what you mean
Yeah, but for how long? I used to have that level of service with Comcast some years ago. They had a local call center with real engineers, and if Tier 1 didn't understand your question, they'd push you up to Tier 2 without a hassle. Even some of the Tier 1 people knew what ARP tables were and how DNS problems could screw up your service. Everyone was a native English speaker. I knew people who worked there. It was great!
Now they have a call center gods-know-where staffed by script-readers who do not understand the phrase "Tier 2" in English but have "thank you for that information" down pat, and the only two answers to any issue are "we'll schedule you a technician" or "wait in line for 2 fucking hours at the Xfinity store to get a new modem."
I'd switch to a different ISP if there were a better one in town, but sadly, there isn't. CenturyLink is even worse.
Oh and hey... just wait til Amazon starts charging for bandwidth usage while your employees are spending their work days endlessly scrolling Facebook on their virtual cloud desktops!
I liked this better when it was called "mainframe".
Now get off my lawn!
It's funny. A friend of mine was trying to pitch this DaaS stuff to me a month ago as his great new genius business idea. I think my exact words were "if this is a good idea, Amazon or Google will beat us to it and sell it cheaper." Hell, even if it's not a good idea they'll kill us. And it's not. Nerds just have no concept of economics.
There are good things to be said about vertical integration, economies of scale, etc., particularly when we're talking about the manufacture of automobiles or bulk steel or what have you. But I am a firm believer in decentralization whenever possible: local government, local foodsheds, solar power, local computing. The PC gave us that when I was a youngun'... and Big Iron has been trying to find a way to take it away ever since.
Considering that everything government does is the opposite of what it says:
"Affordable Care Act" = Unaffordable Higher Premiums for Everyone Who didn't Already Qualify for Medicaid Act "Patriot Act" = UnAmerican Orwellian Surveillance, Torture, and Secret Tribunal Act "No Child Left Behind" = No Child Gets Ahead "War on Drugs" = well, you get the point...
So. What hides behind the cute title "Consumer Choice in Online Video Act?"
You do what for a living? Travel around and tell lies?
Name me one organic-allowed input that is more dangerous than atrazine or methyl bromide.
Frankly, I don't care what it is you do for a living. A liar is a liar, and a guy doing a bad job is doing a bad job. It sounds like your income is somehow tied to something that is not allowed by even the lame USDA organic standard. I feel for you. It must suck to constantly be doing the wrong thing because you need your paycheck.
The ideas you choose to consume will inevitably consume you. They become part of your mental vocabulary, circumscribe the way you express yourself to others and to your own self, and therefore define yourself.
Odd. I think about what I read; chewing over ideas, determining their truth, rejecting or integrating them into the harmonious whole worldview.
I find it strange that anyone would automatically believe everything they read... I believe the words for that are gullibility and weak-mindedness, no?
Excellent. Let's apply 200-year-old interpretations to modern life!
Or, we could follow the modern interpretations of the Supreme Court, since that's actually their job:
"Interpretation" -- I do not think this means what you think it means.
The job of the Supreme Court (better now known as the Revolutionary Tribunal), as defined in the very Constitution, is to determine whether or not a new law is constitutional. That's it, that's all. A law is either constitutional, or it's not.
It is NOT the job of the Revolutionary Tribunal to invent new law, twist language, invent new meanings for words, and find creative ways to make unconstitutional laws constitutional by "interpretation."
The Constitution is written in pretty plain English -- perhaps 6th-grade level for its time. I didn't have any trouble understanding each and every phrase of it by the 6th grade.
The problem with your "modern interpretation" theory is that it's a slippery slope of unlimited artistic license to determine the meaning of "is". If we're just going to let the SC make words mean whatever they want them to mean, then the Constitution is rendered null and void -- which is precisely what they want, of course, but no way to maintain the Republic.
Hmm. I grow my vegetables organically -- or "organically" as the case may be, because I don't particularly go by the USDA's useless standard, which is more aptly termed "swapping inputs" and isn't really a method or a science.
I'm not sure what marketing I'm falling for, though. Can you explain it? I don't buy anything. I don't buy fertilizers or compost or chemicals or herbicides or adjuvants. I don't even buy seed unless I want to try a new cultivar; otherwise I save my seed. So what am I being marketed?
Perhaps you consider me foolish for choosing the "organic" label on the things I do buy at the store? I am, and have always been aware that the label means little, and that there may be only a marginal improvement.
At that point, it's more about what I want to support with my money. Do I want to support farms that use atrazine and glyphosate? Or farms that use somewhat safer alternatives? In the big agriculture world, yeah, that's the difference. But in my mind, it's an important difference. I'd rather my food dollars NOT go to the guy spraying methyl bromide all over the place -- you know, so my grandkids will still have a planet left someday.
People are already plenty rude when it comes to smart phones. They'll sit there scrolling away at Facebook while ignoring the flesh-and-blood friends in the same room. Or check their stupid sports scores during dinner at a nice restaurant. People are so absorbed in their little screens they wouldn't notice a bomb going off.
Hell, the zombie apocalypse isn't going to come from a virus. Smart phones are already turning people into zombies.
It's not like I even like people that much, but this crap pisses me off. So... I'll say it now: I won't hang out with people wearing this gadget.
As for the kids thing -- if your kids ignore you for the smart phone, that's not a texting problem; it's a parenting failure. Take away the phone.
The problem with automatic dependency checking is that because the computer is doing that checking for you, you are less likely to personally know what, exactly, what all those dependencies are for packages that you've installed, unless you've installed them very recently...
That much is true, I reckon. And it's all fine and dandy to know every package on your machine... if you only have one machine. When you start administering a few hundred different servers that serve different purposes and have different software and belong to multiple clients... good luck with that.
Old systems get crufty, sure. But I'd rather backup & reinstall once in 5 years than to fuck with trying to manually remove orphaned packages all the time. Just seems like an enormous waste of time. As far as I'm concerned, APT and YUM are godsends.
So... I'll just bow to your enormously impractical 1337-ness and go on my merry way.
And other homeschooled kids are taught that all that science stuff is blasphemy and the only book they need is the bible,
Some families do homeschool because they want their religion to be part of education, yes. However, I'll wager (as I've seen evidence of it) that even those kids would be ahead of public-schooled kids their age in functional reading and arithmetic. And to me, that's the most important thing, because a youngster who can read and figure can grow up to learn his way out of religion.
barely pass the required testing, and end up in college flunking out after having yelling fits at their profs for being vile tools of the devil for mentioning evil things like evolution.
I've heard of this happening... once. I don't think it's a serious problem. More widespread is the problem of public high school graduates unable to read or do basic math by the time they graduate and head for college.
I don't really give a shit if a kid has the right attitudes about science if he can't read about the science.
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But what does happen is the price of beef and pork rises, to the point where feedlots can't survive meaning cattle ranchers have to resort to more costly means of feeding a herd longer on range land.
It's all about whose ox is being gored, isn't it?
It was feedlots that were originally responsible for the enormous over-supply of corn. The policy was "fencerow to fencerow" and "get big or get out" so that the feeder industry could buy their mountains of subsidized corn at right about the cost of production. Inevitably, more corn was produced than could be consumed by feedlots, so something had to be done with it. Enter corn ethanol. Now the feedlot owners want to complain? Fuck off.
Feedlots can die as far as I'm concerned. The only reason we still have them is because corn and soybean subsidies are hiding the price of production of beef. $1.99/lb is not even remotely attached to the real production cost of hamburger. You're paying several dollars a pound more in taxes to support Big Ag's share. But the sheeple don't see it on the price tag at the supermarket, so they blithely believe feedlot beef is cheap.
Let me reiterate that: if corn and soybeans were not subsidized, feedlots would be the more expensive way to produce beef. American beef would go back to range production in a heartbeat, because (as should be obvious to any halfwit) without government meddling, grass is far and away the cheapest way to feed cattle.
Yep... however, an engine designed to run straight ethanol is a beautiful thing. Compared to the average gasoline burner, you'd have higher compression ratios and lower displacements.
Higher C/R equates to longer stroke, which increases torque and fuel efficiency. Higher torque and fuel efficiency means we can downsize the engine to maintain the same power to weight ratio for our vehicle.
Thus... take two identical cars but one with an engine designed for ethanol. They'll both turn in about the same numbers for power and fuel mileage despite the difference in energy density. The higher octane of ethanol does no good in the normal gasoline engine... it's a property waiting to be utilized.
Cirrusly?
Given their record of factuality in their official statements this whole bruhaha about "openess" it is more likely to be lie.
Congratulations! If there were a /. Achievement for Understatement of the Week, you'd have won it! :)
If you can learn to set aside your hatred, and remind yourself that people are people, not comic book villains, the world will make a lot more sense. There's no big evil conspiracy, except within your own imagination.
Yes, people are people. That's the problem.
See, I don't give a flying fuck what someone's intentions are. I don't care how pure-hearted a politician is (haha) if they're after my money or my liberty. It does not fucking matter how they feel about what they're doing; nor is it of the slightest import whether they are honorable or evil.
And it doesn't really matter if the petty tyrant's motivation is money, power, do-gooding, or just because his mommy didn't breast-feed him long enough. Bad ideas are bad ideas.
Let me disabuse you of the dumbest notion you put up -- namely, that conspiracy does not exist. Conspiracy is everywhere. Conspiracy is when two or more people get together and make a plan to do something. I conspire with people every day. Cops conspire with cops to lie. City councilors conspire to throw a contract to the company that will pay the best bribes. Etc.
You think that doesn't happen in the higher echelons of power?
Seriously... if you think conspiracy doesn't happen, you are delusional or stupid. Probably both.
TL; DR version:
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Well said, sir/ma'am. Anything ever done by any human in any position of authority resides somewhere on a slippery slope, thus, "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
Looks like that Ph.D. in Melodrama is serving a government employee well somewhere!
I'm pretty sure government kills more people every year than terrorists ever have, so it should logically follow that shutting down government was a Good Thing.
Meanwhile... since considerably less than half the populace actually favors Obamacare, what was that about thwarting the will of the majority, again?
Yeah. Go die in a fire.
'squib load' (a cartridge loaded without primer) where the bullet fails to completely exit the barrel and then the operator fires again,
I think you meant "without powder".
This is an ugly piece of plastic made by people just to give the proverbial middle finger to the government. There's no heritage here.
That *IS* the heritage. Have you been here long?
Hm. I have never seen a broken Glock part. Ever. Certainly not from normal usage.
What are you clowns doing with them? Running them through wood chippers?
See the "FPSRussia" channel on YouTube for a Glock torture test. Spoiler: It survives everything but 20 pounds of Tannerite. I kinda think that would do in your CZ as well.
Fuel injection is great. The latter two are just so much molly-coddling of people who can't be bothered to learn how to drive a car. Taking control of the vehicle away from the driver is making worse and worse drivers.
When you call tech support, you get to talk to a real support engineer, not a low paid customer service rep that only knows how to follow a script. When you tell him that you've already rebooted your border gateway and still see high latency and packet loss, he knows what you mean
Yeah, but for how long? I used to have that level of service with Comcast some years ago. They had a local call center with real engineers, and if Tier 1 didn't understand your question, they'd push you up to Tier 2 without a hassle. Even some of the Tier 1 people knew what ARP tables were and how DNS problems could screw up your service. Everyone was a native English speaker. I knew people who worked there. It was great!
Now they have a call center gods-know-where staffed by script-readers who do not understand the phrase "Tier 2" in English but have "thank you for that information" down pat, and the only two answers to any issue are "we'll schedule you a technician" or "wait in line for 2 fucking hours at the Xfinity store to get a new modem."
I'd switch to a different ISP if there were a better one in town, but sadly, there isn't. CenturyLink is even worse.
Oh and hey... just wait til Amazon starts charging for bandwidth usage while your employees are spending their work days endlessly scrolling Facebook on their virtual cloud desktops!
I liked this better when it was called "mainframe".
Now get off my lawn!
It's funny. A friend of mine was trying to pitch this DaaS stuff to me a month ago as his great new genius business idea. I think my exact words were "if this is a good idea, Amazon or Google will beat us to it and sell it cheaper." Hell, even if it's not a good idea they'll kill us. And it's not. Nerds just have no concept of economics.
There are good things to be said about vertical integration, economies of scale, etc., particularly when we're talking about the manufacture of automobiles or bulk steel or what have you. But I am a firm believer in decentralization whenever possible: local government, local foodsheds, solar power, local computing. The PC gave us that when I was a youngun'... and Big Iron has been trying to find a way to take it away ever since.
Considering that everything government does is the opposite of what it says:
"Affordable Care Act" = Unaffordable Higher Premiums for Everyone Who didn't Already Qualify for Medicaid Act
"Patriot Act" = UnAmerican Orwellian Surveillance, Torture, and Secret Tribunal Act
"No Child Left Behind" = No Child Gets Ahead
"War on Drugs" = well, you get the point...
So. What hides behind the cute title "Consumer Choice in Online Video Act?"
You do what for a living? Travel around and tell lies? Name me one organic-allowed input that is more dangerous than atrazine or methyl bromide. Frankly, I don't care what it is you do for a living. A liar is a liar, and a guy doing a bad job is doing a bad job. It sounds like your income is somehow tied to something that is not allowed by even the lame USDA organic standard. I feel for you. It must suck to constantly be doing the wrong thing because you need your paycheck.
The ideas you choose to consume will inevitably consume you. They become part of your mental vocabulary, circumscribe the way you express yourself to others and to your own self, and therefore define yourself.
Odd. I think about what I read; chewing over ideas, determining their truth, rejecting or integrating them into the harmonious whole worldview.
I find it strange that anyone would automatically believe everything they read... I believe the words for that are gullibility and weak-mindedness, no?
wrote her books as moral plays - where the idea IS to beat you over the head with an exagerated and therefore hopefully obvious message.
Judging by some of the opinion around here, she wasn't obvious enough.
I like the way you think. I'm telling you 'cause I have no mod points today.
Excellent. Let's apply 200-year-old interpretations to modern life!
Or, we could follow the modern interpretations of the Supreme Court, since that's actually their job:
"Interpretation" -- I do not think this means what you think it means.
The job of the Supreme Court (better now known as the Revolutionary Tribunal), as defined in the very Constitution, is to determine whether or not a new law is constitutional. That's it, that's all. A law is either constitutional, or it's not.
It is NOT the job of the Revolutionary Tribunal to invent new law, twist language, invent new meanings for words, and find creative ways to make unconstitutional laws constitutional by "interpretation."
The Constitution is written in pretty plain English -- perhaps 6th-grade level for its time. I didn't have any trouble understanding each and every phrase of it by the 6th grade.
The problem with your "modern interpretation" theory is that it's a slippery slope of unlimited artistic license to determine the meaning of "is". If we're just going to let the SC make words mean whatever they want them to mean, then the Constitution is rendered null and void -- which is precisely what they want, of course, but no way to maintain the Republic.
Wow. Painting the barn door after the cows got out and et by wolves.
How much time y'all figure you'll spend trying to polish the Obamacare turd?
It's not the failed website that's the problem, hoss. It's the whole damn law.
Now, if you guys are just bored and want to embarrass the government, well, carry on!
Hmm. I grow my vegetables organically -- or "organically" as the case may be, because I don't particularly go by the USDA's useless standard, which is more aptly termed "swapping inputs" and isn't really a method or a science.
I'm not sure what marketing I'm falling for, though. Can you explain it? I don't buy anything. I don't buy fertilizers or compost or chemicals or herbicides or adjuvants. I don't even buy seed unless I want to try a new cultivar; otherwise I save my seed. So what am I being marketed?
Perhaps you consider me foolish for choosing the "organic" label on the things I do buy at the store? I am, and have always been aware that the label means little, and that there may be only a marginal improvement.
At that point, it's more about what I want to support with my money. Do I want to support farms that use atrazine and glyphosate? Or farms that use somewhat safer alternatives? In the big agriculture world, yeah, that's the difference. But in my mind, it's an important difference. I'd rather my food dollars NOT go to the guy spraying methyl bromide all over the place -- you know, so my grandkids will still have a planet left someday.
People are already plenty rude when it comes to smart phones. They'll sit there scrolling away at Facebook while ignoring the flesh-and-blood friends in the same room. Or check their stupid sports scores during dinner at a nice restaurant. People are so absorbed in their little screens they wouldn't notice a bomb going off.
Hell, the zombie apocalypse isn't going to come from a virus. Smart phones are already turning people into zombies.
It's not like I even like people that much, but this crap pisses me off. So... I'll say it now: I won't hang out with people wearing this gadget.
As for the kids thing -- if your kids ignore you for the smart phone, that's not a texting problem; it's a parenting failure. Take away the phone.
The problem with automatic dependency checking is that because the computer is doing that checking for you, you are less likely to personally know what, exactly, what all those dependencies are for packages that you've installed, unless you've installed them very recently...
That much is true, I reckon. And it's all fine and dandy to know every package on your machine... if you only have one machine. When you start administering a few hundred different servers that serve different purposes and have different software and belong to multiple clients... good luck with that. Old systems get crufty, sure. But I'd rather backup & reinstall once in 5 years than to fuck with trying to manually remove orphaned packages all the time. Just seems like an enormous waste of time. As far as I'm concerned, APT and YUM are godsends. So... I'll just bow to your enormously impractical 1337-ness and go on my merry way.
And other homeschooled kids are taught that all that science stuff is blasphemy and the only book they need is the bible,
Some families do homeschool because they want their religion to be part of education, yes. However, I'll wager (as I've seen evidence of it) that even those kids would be ahead of public-schooled kids their age in functional reading and arithmetic. And to me, that's the most important thing, because a youngster who can read and figure can grow up to learn his way out of religion.
barely pass the required testing, and end up in college flunking out after having yelling fits at their profs for being vile tools of the devil for mentioning evil things like evolution.
I've heard of this happening... once. I don't think it's a serious problem. More widespread is the problem of public high school graduates unable to read or do basic math by the time they graduate and head for college.
I don't really give a shit if a kid has the right attitudes about science if he can't read about the science.