Recently, an industrial grower told Klee what he sees as the Garden Gem’s flaw: It’s a bit small—about 50 grams. (Some very large tomatoes reach a weight of 250 grams.) A small tomato entails incrementally higher labor costs, because it requires a few more plucks per pound.
Tomato growers are open to growing better-tasting varieties in principle, but only if they get paid more for it. Supermarkets, on the other hand, insist that shoppers only care about price. And can you blame them? After decades of eating tomatoes that taste like wet paper towels, no one thinks tomatoes are worth much.
And that will put us one step closer to the movie "Ass" being made and winning 8 Oscars. Sadly, instead of 500 years, it'll probably be in less than 50 years.
It's nice that they've killed tens of thousands of accounts, now how about the advertisers? Like the ones that claim to be ESPN but aren't that I see constantly.
Rometty has presided over 20 straight quarters of declining revenue growth.
Since she became CEO in January 2012, revenue has declined more than 26 percent on a trailing 12-month basis compared to the year before she took over, and net income has fallen nearly 27 percent.
Has revenue declined, or has revenue growth declined? For a mature company, declining growth isn't a death knell. Declining revenue is.
We still have a huge and growing manufacturing economy but like farming it employs a relatively small percent of the population and it is likely to shrink further as a percent of the total workforce.
True, and that's the hard part. We talk about "the economy" like there's a single number that describes how all of us are doing. But as you say, we can have a great manufacturing sector without employing all that many people. That's why we need to talk about UBI or some other way to manage a society where we can support everyone with the labor of a relative few.
It's been obvious for a generation that coal was coming to the end of its life. Perhaps they should have looked forward instead of attempting to emulate King Canute.
Pedantic nit: King Canute didn't think he could hold back the tide. He was making a point to the people making unreasonable demands.
The problem is like you said when the fact checkers start being wrong you'll stop listening to them, the people who have a different viewpoint than you have the same idea which means everyone will only use these fact checkers with confirmation bias and having fact checkers is utterly useless.
When you're really dealing with interpretation, fact checking is more like a good critic reviewing a movie. Sure, you can just look for the Rotten Tomatoes score and see what the "average" is. But when I read a Roger Ebert review, even when he doesn't like the movie he describes it well enough that I can usually tell whether I would.
Preterm birth complications are the leading cause of death among children under 5 years of age, responsible for nearly 1 million deaths in 2015.
Three-quarters of them could be saved with current, cost-effective interventions.
So if current, cost-effective interventions were applied we'd have about a quarter-million lives lost that could potentially be helped by this new technology.
Assuming it would be even more expensive than existing interventions, it would be available in an even smaller percentage of cases than those. But let's say it was equally available. That means ~62,500 lives saved.
It's just a first step. It doesn't need to be a miracle to be worth doing.
The simple fact is that, in the absence of a specific agreement to the contrary, the mere act of accepting professional services creates a liability to pay a reasonable rate for services rendered. If moderators sent BIZX (or whatever shitty company runs this place now) invoices, BIZX would need specific terms in the TOS to point to in court or they'd be made to pay.
That sounds like a reasonable requirement. Therefore I question whether you're writing from the U.S., because that sure as shit doesn't sound like something that would get through our Congress.
Farming contracts are agreements between a farmer and a buyer that stipulates what the farmer will grow and how much they will grow usually in return for guaranteed purchase of the product or financial support in purchase of inputs (e.g. feed for livestock growers).[14] In most instances of contract farming, the farm is family owned while the buyer is a larger corporation.[15] This makes it difficult to distinguish the contract farmers from "corporate farms," because they are family farms but with significant corporate influence. This subtle distinction left a loop-hole in many state laws that prohibited corporate farming, effectively allowing corporations to farm in these states as long as they contracted with local farm owners.
As of 2012, 34.8% of the value of U.S. agricultural production was governed by production or marketing contracts, up from 11% in 1969 [1][2]. These contracts are made between a farmer and a contractor (another person or company, such as a processor) for the production of agricultural commodities. In theory, contracts can benefit both parties, but in some cases, and in the poultry sector in particular, the structure of the industry allows agribusiness to set contract terms that take advantage of farmers and federal subsidies while externalizing costs and risk.
The vast majority of chickens produced in the U.S. – 96%, according to the 2012 Census of Agriculture – are raised under production contracts, which set terms for how the chickens are raised, which inputs the farmer and the company provide, and how the farmer is paid.
How much of our food supply is grown by independent family farms, not under contract?
How much of that is still dependent on inputs from other corporate farms? eg: Corporate (or contract) corn as the primary feed for livestock.
The gaps between the rings are very, very empty. Even the rings are mostly empty. People think it's like they've seen in movies when someone "hides in the asteroid field", ducking and dodging all those big rocks. It's really quite empty.
I mean, you wouldn't just drive through like there's nothing there, because there's no such thing as a minor encounter at those closing speeds. But going through the gaps in the rings should go pretty much as planned.
By requiring a warrant to search Americans' devices and prohibiting unreasonable delay, this bill makes sure that border agents are focused on criminals and terrorists instead of wasting their time thumbing through innocent Americans' personal photos and other data.
Because Americans are of course always innocent. All criminals are dirty furriners.
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Actually, I wouldn't mind having a small wireless communicator badge that, if you tap it, it connects over the Internet to talk to the computer.
Right here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/produ...
Most people only know industrial, mass produced food, and -don't actually like things with flavour-.
Yup, exactly. Like every time someone says, "this tomato (or steak!) is so sweet," like it's a good thing. No, not everything is supposed to be sweet.
They already found it. Grocery stores don't care.
Recently, an industrial grower told Klee what he sees as the Garden Gem’s flaw: It’s a bit small—about 50 grams. (Some very large tomatoes reach a weight of 250 grams.) A small tomato entails incrementally higher labor costs, because it requires a few more plucks per pound.
Tomato growers are open to growing better-tasting varieties in principle, but only if they get paid more for it. Supermarkets, on the other hand, insist that shoppers only care about price. And can you blame them? After decades of eating tomatoes that taste like wet paper towels, no one thinks tomatoes are worth much.
This sounds better coming from Sean Connery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Got a reference? Not doubting you, just would like to read up on it.
If there's anything in modern media with a higher bullshit-to-content ratio than job listings I haven't seen it.
And that will put us one step closer to the movie "Ass" being made and winning 8 Oscars. Sadly, instead of 500 years, it'll probably be in less than 50 years.
In case no one else mentions it, I got you fam.
We have seen over hundreds of manufacturers launch over thousands of smartphone models ...
"Over hundreds" ... is that thousands? And does "over thousands" mean millions?
What did you think you were trying to say here?
It's nice that they've killed tens of thousands of accounts, now how about the advertisers? Like the ones that claim to be ESPN but aren't that I see constantly.
There is always a compromise between programmer productivity, code maintainability, and system performance.
But if you didn't have to worry about the performance, what would boost the other two?
This is how great advances are made. Design for the world you wish you had, then figure out how to make it real.
Rometty has presided over 20 straight quarters of declining revenue growth .
Since she became CEO in January 2012, revenue has declined more than 26 percent on a trailing 12-month basis compared to the year before she took over, and net income has fallen nearly 27 percent.
Has revenue declined, or has revenue growth declined? For a mature company, declining growth isn't a death knell. Declining revenue is.
We still have a huge and growing manufacturing economy but like farming it employs a relatively small percent of the population and it is likely to shrink further as a percent of the total workforce.
True, and that's the hard part. We talk about "the economy" like there's a single number that describes how all of us are doing. But as you say, we can have a great manufacturing sector without employing all that many people. That's why we need to talk about UBI or some other way to manage a society where we can support everyone with the labor of a relative few.
The only way to bring back substantial numbers of manufacturing jobs to the US would be for wages to fall relative to elsewhere.
Or for the dollar to fall. But that would be bad for WalMart and others who manufacture in China.
Well, we want to try and do it during my first term or, at worst, during my second term, so we'll have to speed that up a little bit, OK?
That's neither "grand" nor a "plan".
It's been obvious for a generation that coal was coming to the end of its life. Perhaps they should have looked forward instead of attempting to emulate King Canute.
Pedantic nit: King Canute didn't think he could hold back the tide. He was making a point to the people making unreasonable demands.
The problem is like you said when the fact checkers start being wrong you'll stop listening to them, the people who have a different viewpoint than you have the same idea which means everyone will only use these fact checkers with confirmation bias and having fact checkers is utterly useless.
When you're really dealing with interpretation, fact checking is more like a good critic reviewing a movie. Sure, you can just look for the Rotten Tomatoes score and see what the "average" is. But when I read a Roger Ebert review, even when he doesn't like the movie he describes it well enough that I can usually tell whether I would.
It's well understood at this point to mean ...
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less."
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My figures were taken from an article on the device
Fake news!
Sorry, habit. :-)
This artificial womb will save millions of lives each year and prevent millions more from suffering disabilities caused by premature birth.
Your numbers seemed high, so I looked it up.
Preterm birth complications are the leading cause of death among children under 5 years of age, responsible for nearly 1 million deaths in 2015.
Three-quarters of them could be saved with current, cost-effective interventions.
So if current, cost-effective interventions were applied we'd have about a quarter-million lives lost that could potentially be helped by this new technology.
Assuming it would be even more expensive than existing interventions, it would be available in an even smaller percentage of cases than those. But let's say it was equally available. That means ~62,500 lives saved.
It's just a first step. It doesn't need to be a miracle to be worth doing.
The simple fact is that, in the absence of a specific agreement to the contrary, the mere act of accepting professional services creates a liability to pay a reasonable rate for services rendered. If moderators sent BIZX (or whatever shitty company runs this place now) invoices, BIZX would need specific terms in the TOS to point to in court or they'd be made to pay.
That sounds like a reasonable requirement. Therefore I question whether you're writing from the U.S., because that sure as shit doesn't sound like something that would get through our Congress.
What about contract farms? From your link:
Farming contracts are agreements between a farmer and a buyer that stipulates what the farmer will grow and how much they will grow usually in return for guaranteed purchase of the product or financial support in purchase of inputs (e.g. feed for livestock growers).[14] In most instances of contract farming, the farm is family owned while the buyer is a larger corporation.[15] This makes it difficult to distinguish the contract farmers from "corporate farms," because they are family farms but with significant corporate influence. This subtle distinction left a loop-hole in many state laws that prohibited corporate farming, effectively allowing corporations to farm in these states as long as they contracted with local farm owners.
Another 5 seconds on Google found this:
As of 2012, 34.8% of the value of U.S. agricultural production was governed by production or marketing contracts, up from 11% in 1969 [1][2]. These contracts are made between a farmer and a contractor (another person or company, such as a processor) for the production of agricultural commodities. In theory, contracts can benefit both parties, but in some cases, and in the poultry sector in particular, the structure of the industry allows agribusiness to set contract terms that take advantage of farmers and federal subsidies while externalizing costs and risk.
The vast majority of chickens produced in the U.S. – 96%, according to the 2012 Census of Agriculture – are raised under production contracts, which set terms for how the chickens are raised, which inputs the farmer and the company provide, and how the farmer is paid.
How much of our food supply is grown by independent family farms, not under contract?
How much of that is still dependent on inputs from other corporate farms? eg: Corporate (or contract) corn as the primary feed for livestock.
They're just bricking it for the sake of bricking it.
No. They're bricking it for the sake of preventing it from being used in a botnet.
The gaps between the rings are very, very empty. Even the rings are mostly empty. People think it's like they've seen in movies when someone "hides in the asteroid field", ducking and dodging all those big rocks. It's really quite empty.
I mean, you wouldn't just drive through like there's nothing there, because there's no such thing as a minor encounter at those closing speeds. But going through the gaps in the rings should go pretty much as planned.
By requiring a warrant to search Americans' devices and prohibiting unreasonable delay, this bill makes sure that border agents are focused on criminals and terrorists instead of wasting their time thumbing through innocent Americans' personal photos and other data.
Because Americans are of course always innocent. All criminals are dirty furriners.