Coverage. None of the GSM providers have anything other than craptacular voice coverage (Yeah they say they've got coverage, but when you try to use it, you end up sounding like you're under the water at the bottom of a well...) compared to Verizon. Data coverage tends to be more even so far. It's why I stayed with them even though they WERE slightly more expensive. Now...we'll just have to see what comes out of this.
Greed does not befit them and this isn't a way to ever higher profits.
Which, if you did the math, is often cheaper than the subsidized phone deal. You just have to choke down the price of the phone up-front.
They've priced themselves into a corner with me. I'll just save up and buy a new phone- it's cheaper, actually than the deal they're offering. And I'm disinclined to move the business partner off of AT&T onto Verizon even though they've got better voice coverage. It'll now cost me MORE than it's worth to leave things alone- and now I'll be looking for alternatives down the line.
The biggest problem with the man-made chemicals is that there's little thought given to actual safety.
Do you consider consuming Methanol in any quantities (One of those outright toxic substances...) safe? if not, Aspartame's not a good idea because 10% of it's by weight/volume amount IS Methanol.
Do you consider consuming mass quantities of excitotoxins a good/safe thing? No? Again, Aspartame's a bad idea because it's 40% by volume/weight Aspartic Acid (The Aspart- part of the name should be a hint...). And it's got cumulative effect damages, much like the Methanol does.
At least a little more thought is applied with the "natural" sweeteners.
Erythrytol's not "worse" it's different- and occurs in nature- just not refined like we're doing. Same goes with Xylitol. Steviosides seem to have few issues- the jury's still out on some of the reported "issues". However, they're nothing compared to Aspartame and the others.
The only alternatives that have issues are things like Malitol, Sorbitol, Isomalt, etc. They are basically things like baby laxatives. Seriously. They also largely exist in nature, but are refined out but have major laxative effects compared to the other two I mentioned earlier.
To a Diabetic, claiming "indulge less" isn't really a good remark. (I'd throw in a "you insensitive..." but that's gotten gauche...) Even if you're on meds, it's not a good thing to be doing a lot of sugars/carbs in the first place.
So... Do you know how it's "sweet" is accomplished? What pathways it uses?
Aspartame is a molecule that is composed of 3 distinct chemicals tied together...
Phenylalanine (50% by volume) Aspartic Acid (40% by volume)
With...
Methanol (10% by volume)...binding the other two together.
It breaks apart into it's individual components at just below body temp. Now...
Phenylalanine (abbreviated as Phe or F)[2] is an -amino acid with the formula C6H5CH2CH(NH2)COOH. This essential amino acid is classified as nonpolar because of the hydrophobic nature of the benzyl side chain. L-Phenylalanine (LPA) is an electrically neutral amino acid, one of the twenty common amino acids used to biochemically form proteins, coded for by DNA. The codons for L-phenylalanine are UUU and UUC. Phenylalanine is a precursor for tyrosine, the monoamine signaling molecules dopamine, norepinephrine (noradrenaline), and epinephrine (adrenaline), and the skin pigment melanin.
Phenylketonuria
The genetic disorder phenylketonuria (PKU) is the inability to metabolize phenylalanine. Individuals with this disorder are known as "phenylketonurics" and must regulate their intake of phenylalanine. A (rare) "variant form" of phenylketonuria called hyperphenylalaninemia is caused by the inability to synthesize a coenzyme called biopterin, which can be supplemented. Pregnant women with hyperphenylalaninemia may show similar symptoms of the disorder (high levels of phenylalanine in blood) but these indicators will usually disappear at the end of gestation. Individuals who cannot metabolize phenylalanine must monitor their intake of protein to control the buildup of phenylalanine as their bodies convert protein into its component amino acids.
Phenylketonurics often use blood tests to monitor the amount of phenylalanine in their blood. Lab results may report phenylalanine levels in different units, including mg/dL and umol/L. One mg/dL of phenylalanine is approximately equivalent to 60 umol/L.
A non-food source of phenylalanine is the artificial sweetener aspartame. This compound, sold under the trade names Equal and NutraSweet, is metabolized by the body into several chemical byproducts including phenylalanine. The breakdown problems phenylketonurics have with protein and the attendant build up of phenylalanine in the body also occurs with the ingestion of aspartame, although to a lesser degree. Accordingly, all products in Australia, the U.S. and Canada that contain aspartame must be labeled: "Phenylketonurics: Contains phenylalanine." In the UK, foods containing aspartame must carry ingredient panels that refer to the presence of "aspartame or E951" [4] and they must be labeled with a warning "Contains a source of phenylalanine." In Brazil, the label "Contém Fenilalanina" (portuguese for "Contains Phenylalanine") is also mandatory in products which contain it. These warnings are placed to aid individuals who suffer from PKU so that they can avoid such foods.
-- Wikipedia
Doesn't sound good there. Not precisely bad in and of itself, because you actually NEED some of this stuff- just not at the levels you expose yourself if you consume any moderate quantities of things with Aspartame in it. It should be noted that Phenylalanine at high levels is actually bad for you and will do nerve damage (Which is why it's such a bad thing for PKU people, they accumulate it in their bodies...)
It tastes faintly sweet by itself.
Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha or wood spirits, is a chemical with the formula CH3OH (often abbreviated MeOH). It is the simplest alcohol, and is a light, volatile, colorless, flammable liquid with a distinctive odor very similar to, but slightly sweeter than, ethanol (drinking alcohol).[4] At room temperature, it is a polar liquid, and is used as an antifreeze, solvent, fuel, and as a denaturant for ethanol. It is also u
Hint to the Liberal crowd: Medicare pays 20-30% of the billed amount in most cases. Private insurance typically pays 25-35% more than Medicare.
If you didn't have that lie in place, you'd have the prices closer to what they actually pay out. Most procedures are priced according to those conditions in a manner that you can actually make a profit doing it.
So...Insurance provided Penecillin and other "miracle" drugs?
No?
What possesses you to think that things would be different because there's not "big money" (never mind that there was BIG MONEY for back then involved with it- just not "insurance") involved?
Yep. The reason why HFCS is cheap is that it's cheaper to process/make than Sucrose is and it stores for MUCH longer in a stable form than Sucrose does.
You need to bar it's use to get it out of the food supply. It won't get more expensive by yanking the subsidies like you said (Can't believe someone thought it was to offset cheaper imports on it...wow...) and it'll just get worse, not better.
It's true, yes. But it's easier to do the act with HFCS than it is with sugars- and they're going to be MUCH more likely to become/be a Type II (which was changed from it's original definition because people following the American Diabetes Assn.'s dietary guidelines were getting worse...) because of the typical levels of Fructose in your system (which goes through differing metabolic pathways and doesn't have the same satiation triggers Sucrose has...) due to HFCS ends up playing merry hob with your endocrine system.
You know... The thing is...one should ask WHY you're getting cancer. Most of the other mamillian life forms out there don't seem to have the same problems we do- and we didn't have the same problems we do now back in earlier times.
And the thing is...taking money or things from me just to support someone else is just STEALING. Doesn't matter if you wrap it in terms like taxation, etc.
If I want to help out of the kindness of my heart it's fine. MAKING me do it is something completely different. Now, I'm going to pose to you the same thing I posed to my Liberal friends who didn't have any good answers and toned down their rhetoric (that's been just like yours...) at least around me and on Facebook.
If you're so gung-ho on having all of us support it. How about you dedicate all your money, etc. to supporting it? If you're so big on it, be willing to step up to the plate and do it all the way. No? Then SHUT UP about it because it's nothing more than self-serving, feel good hypocrisy to say these things you are.
Being a Steam based install, it'd probably work well for Caster or Cortex Command. If not, I'd adjust the install to work well in that context.
I can't vouch for titles I've no control over, but I strongly suspect that what you're talking to is a non-problem. Steam would have ONE executable for your current platform. In the case of 32 or 64-bits, you'd have an installer that'd work for that system. It already pours straight onto a single user install out of box. The games would need a bit of tweaking to make them work the "right" way for a multiuser system- but it's not beyond the realm of possibility.
At least Cortex Command (which is about to get another update by the by...) is Native Code. Why do I know this? Because I'm the gent that actually made the 32 and 64-bit X86 binaries and installers for the HIB #2. Depends on the game, really- some of them are Flash based. Some of them are native.
The only way you're going to get 2 kW to work well for HVAC is if you're further West than Weatherford or Austin in Texas and use a Coolerado indirect-evap cooling system. The closer you get to the Rockies and/or the Desert, the easier it is to get the same sensible cooling on only 500-1 kW. But in the more humid parts of the Country, it's just not going to work well for you without some compressor or similar refigeration cooling to get you into the comfort zone.
I researched all of this when my AC died and I was looking for alternatives- along with doing it again when I was working on energy management and security solutions in another lifetime when I was a CTO of a company.
Heh... A heat pump may be efficient in terms of what it does for it's power consumption- but it consumes the SAME amount of power as a high-efficiency AC unit in terms of what it consumes per every ton of heat pumping capacity. Start load amps requires that you source it 10-12kW for a typical 2-4 ton HVAC system.
kWh is simple, really. 6 kWh is either 1 kW over 6 hours or 6 kW over 1/6 of an hour.
The average house would be properly sustained with something between 8-15 kW continuous with some higher-end sets of efficient appliances needing up to 25 kW to keep everything out of brownout conditions within the house.
And those are for pared down usages. 15kW works out as a good start for what is actually reality for a 1500 square feet house to ensure all things work as you're used to.
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Coverage. None of the GSM providers have anything other than craptacular voice coverage (Yeah they say they've got coverage, but when you try to use it, you end up sounding like you're under the water at the bottom of a well...) compared to Verizon. Data coverage tends to be more even so far. It's why I stayed with them even though they WERE slightly more expensive. Now...we'll just have to see what comes out of this.
Greed does not befit them and this isn't a way to ever higher profits.
Which, if you did the math, is often cheaper than the subsidized phone deal. You just have to choke down the price of the phone up-front.
They've priced themselves into a corner with me. I'll just save up and buy a new phone- it's cheaper, actually than the deal they're offering. And I'm disinclined to move the business partner off of AT&T onto Verizon even though they've got better voice coverage. It'll now cost me MORE than it's worth to leave things alone- and now I'll be looking for alternatives down the line.
The biggest problem with the man-made chemicals is that there's little thought given to actual safety.
Do you consider consuming Methanol in any quantities (One of those outright toxic substances...) safe? if not, Aspartame's not a good idea because 10% of it's by weight/volume amount IS Methanol.
Do you consider consuming mass quantities of excitotoxins a good/safe thing? No? Again, Aspartame's a bad idea because it's 40% by volume/weight Aspartic Acid (The Aspart- part of the name should be a hint...). And it's got cumulative effect damages, much like the Methanol does.
At least a little more thought is applied with the "natural" sweeteners.
Citing Armstrong's page with it's references is analogous to citing his sources.
Heh...but then this IS /. after all.
All?
Erythrytol's not "worse" it's different- and occurs in nature- just not refined like we're doing.
Same goes with Xylitol.
Steviosides seem to have few issues- the jury's still out on some of the reported "issues". However, they're nothing compared to Aspartame and the others.
The only alternatives that have issues are things like Malitol, Sorbitol, Isomalt, etc. They are basically things like baby laxatives. Seriously. They also largely exist in nature, but are refined out but have major laxative effects compared to the other two I mentioned earlier.
To a Diabetic, claiming "indulge less" isn't really a good remark. (I'd throw in a "you insensitive..." but that's gotten gauche...) Even if you're on meds, it's not a good thing to be doing a lot of sugars/carbs in the first place.
So... Do you know how it's "sweet" is accomplished? What pathways it uses?
Aspartame is a molecule that is composed of 3 distinct chemicals tied together...
Phenylalanine (50% by volume)
Aspartic Acid (40% by volume)
With...
Methanol (10% by volume) ...binding the other two together.
It breaks apart into it's individual components at just below body temp. Now...
Doesn't sound good there. Not precisely bad in and of itself, because you actually NEED some of this stuff- just not at the levels you expose yourself if you consume any moderate quantities of things with Aspartame in it. It should be noted that Phenylalanine at high levels is actually bad for you and will do nerve damage (Which is why it's such a bad thing for PKU people, they accumulate it in their bodies...)
It tastes faintly sweet by itself.
Hint to the Liberal crowd: Medicare pays 20-30% of the billed amount in most cases. Private insurance typically pays 25-35% more than Medicare.
If you didn't have that lie in place, you'd have the prices closer to what they actually pay out. Most procedures are priced according to those conditions in a manner that you can actually make a profit doing it.
So...Insurance provided Penecillin and other "miracle" drugs?
No?
What possesses you to think that things would be different because there's not "big money" (never mind that there was BIG MONEY for back then involved with it- just not "insurance") involved?
Yep. The reason why HFCS is cheap is that it's cheaper to process/make than Sucrose is and it stores for MUCH longer in a stable form than Sucrose does.
You need to bar it's use to get it out of the food supply. It won't get more expensive by yanking the subsidies like you said (Can't believe someone thought it was to offset cheaper imports on it...wow...) and it'll just get worse, not better.
Cheaper import on Corn?
On CORN?!
What're you smoking?
It's to get people to grow less of it or to grow it for Ethanol.
It's true, yes. But it's easier to do the act with HFCS than it is with sugars- and they're going to be MUCH more likely to become/be a Type II (which was changed from it's original definition because people following the American Diabetes Assn.'s dietary guidelines were getting worse...) because of the typical levels of Fructose in your system (which goes through differing metabolic pathways and doesn't have the same satiation triggers Sucrose has...) due to HFCS ends up playing merry hob with your endocrine system.
You know... The thing is...one should ask WHY you're getting cancer. Most of the other mamillian life forms out there don't seem to have the same problems we do- and we didn't have the same problems we do now back in earlier times.
And the thing is...taking money or things from me just to support someone else is just STEALING. Doesn't matter if you wrap it in terms like taxation, etc.
If I want to help out of the kindness of my heart it's fine. MAKING me do it is something completely different. Now, I'm going to pose to you the same thing I posed to my Liberal friends who didn't have any good answers and toned down their rhetoric (that's been just like yours...) at least around me and on Facebook.
If you're so gung-ho on having all of us support it. How about you dedicate all your money, etc. to supporting it? If you're so big on it, be willing to step up to the plate and do it all the way. No? Then SHUT UP about it because it's nothing more than self-serving, feel good hypocrisy to say these things you are.
...are...
*SIGH* Need more caffeine before posting on /.
Really?
Seems that the ones clamoring for everyone else paying for it are the ones spouting hateful attitudes.
http://twitchy.com/2012/06/06/kill-scott-walker-angry-libs-flood-twitter-with-death-threats-after-wisconsin-recall-defeat/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/police-investigating-death-threats-gov-scott-walker-recall-victory-article-1.1090894
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/06/Kill-Scott-Walker-Angry-Dems-Twitter
Yeah, it's unacceptable, all right. The problem is...he's not really being "hateful" and YOU and people like the above referenced links.
I am. As one of the other commentors said- you're going to to still get fat and sick, just not as fast.
Being a Steam based install, it'd probably work well for Caster or Cortex Command. If not, I'd adjust the install to work well in that context.
I can't vouch for titles I've no control over, but I strongly suspect that what you're talking to is a non-problem. Steam would have ONE executable for your current platform. In the case of 32 or 64-bits, you'd have an installer that'd work for that system. It already pours straight onto a single user install out of box. The games would need a bit of tweaking to make them work the "right" way for a multiuser system- but it's not beyond the realm of possibility.
Heh... Steam's native. The games they're currently porting are native.
I could tell you more, but I'd have to kill you... >:-D
Which is fine, so long as they encourage Linux games for outside of the "Steam Box".
And some were native out of the box by the studio and some were ported by myself.
You apparently haven't bought any of them, then.
At least Cortex Command (which is about to get another update by the by...) is Native Code. Why do I know this? Because I'm the gent that actually made the 32 and 64-bit X86 binaries and installers for the HIB #2. Depends on the game, really- some of them are Flash based. Some of them are native.
The only way you're going to get 2 kW to work well for HVAC is if you're further West than Weatherford or Austin in Texas and use a Coolerado indirect-evap cooling system. The closer you get to the Rockies and/or the Desert, the easier it is to get the same sensible cooling on only 500-1 kW. But in the more humid parts of the Country, it's just not going to work well for you without some compressor or similar refigeration cooling to get you into the comfort zone.
I researched all of this when my AC died and I was looking for alternatives- along with doing it again when I was working on energy management and security solutions in another lifetime when I was a CTO of a company.
Heh... A heat pump may be efficient in terms of what it does for it's power consumption- but it consumes the SAME amount of power as a high-efficiency AC unit in terms of what it consumes per every ton of heat pumping capacity. Start load amps requires that you source it 10-12kW for a typical 2-4 ton HVAC system.
They're not strange. Using Joules and Ergs are strange. As for being used nowhere else...you'd be mistaken on that score.
kWh is simple, really. 6 kWh is either 1 kW over 6 hours or 6 kW over 1/6 of an hour.
The average house would be properly sustained with something between 8-15 kW continuous with some higher-end sets of efficient appliances needing up to 25 kW to keep everything out of brownout conditions within the house.
And those are for pared down usages. 15kW works out as a good start for what is actually reality for a 1500 square feet house to ensure all things work as you're used to.