No, it's saying that the measure of how much calories is in a given serving of food isn't really a good measure of anything.
And all of those things which say how much calories is in a portion are such bad estimates as to be fairly unreliable, because the methods of measuring it are pretty incomplete and sketchy.
The scientific calorie and the nutritional calorie are different things.. the nutritional calorie is, at best, a wild ass guesstimate.
No-one could possibly believe the flat earth theory these days anyway when you can easily fly or sail around the world.
I have long since given up on making statements about the stupid shit people can or will believe.
I've met more than enough people who insist on believing the most outrageous things... and even if they're doing it as an act, any sufficiently advanced attention seeking/denial of reality is indistinguishable from actually being an idiot.
I no longer differentiate between those who are idiots, and those who merely want to seem like idiots.
So, US companies are already looking to carve up Cuba for their own interests, and what happens to the Cuban people be damned.
Hey, I know, stop meddling and let them decide what the hell they want.
America suddenly shoving all this stuff into Cuba isn't necessarily doing anything good for Cubans in the long-run.
You can't go from 6 decades of isolation to thinking US style Capitalism isn't going to fuck up the place if you try to do it overnight.
This is the same kind of colonialism which got them into the mess they were in when the revolution happened in the first place.
You want to improve relations? Close Guantanamo, and stop pretending a Constitutional amendment jammed in against their will has any validity... otherwise you're still treating them like a colony instead of a separate country.
Bullshit... assume I spent 1 out of every 100 minutes screeching obscenities without changing the picture.
Fast forward doesn't solve the problem, and when people find the 60 minutes of be saying this stuff, whoever said "yeah, boring, whatever" is going to get caught.
The problem with this job is you have to watch all of it, or some smart ass WILL put something in which catches you out.
You literally have to see and hear every second of the film, and attest that you have. Or you have no idea of what you missed.
All it takes is me reciting George Carlin's "7 deadly words" ONCE in that, and if you gave it a rating which says it's got no offensive content shows you rubber stamped it.
Somehow I doubt the censors get to pick and choose based on boring. They get a submission, they have to review it.
Watching movies as a living may not sound like a bad gig, but I'm sure there's some epic bad (atrocious/terrible/disturbing) films out there which can't be unseen.
You can't truly appreciate the nuance of paint drying without watching it in real time, everything else is just being a poseur to impress your art-house friends... but they'll know you just fast forwarded... they'll know, man.
The heart-wrenching existential agony at 3h52 minutes when the paint crinkles like an adolescent nipple blown with soft, warm breath for the first time can't be fully appreciated in anything but real time.
The suggestion of human suffering at 5h57 when a small droplet forms is utterly lost in anything but real time.
The utter elation at 9:37 when you realize, finally, we are reaching denouement and resolution can't simply be watched on fast forward.
You lose all of the majesty and vocabulary as envisioned by the film maker in his Neitzchean expression of the inhumanity of paint as a metaphor for moving past obstacles, and stepping over the carcasses of ones foes.
Someone either has to prove it, or live with being wrong...
So if I gave you 9.75 hours of paint drying, and 15 minutes of hardcore porn, and you give me a rating which says "anybody can watch this", then it's your ass on the line when someone discovers the 15 minutes you missed.
I'm just going to say "this is what I submitted, if they didn't look at it, I can't be blamed for that".
I'm pretty sure those people pretty much have to watch everything, or it's them who gets in trouble for having missed something.
Since a bunch of greedy assholes needed to make a spurious semantic argument which painted themselves as the victims.
This is an ad exec, which means he's a master at being a lying bastard who excels in puffery, false claims, and unfounded assertions provided without facts.
He doesn't have to be true, just muddy the waters and confuse some people into believing his bullshit... the exact same as his "product".
You really think the ad companies saying "boo hoo, we're being censored" don't know every trick in the book the lie, manipulate, and skew the response their way all the while knowing damned well they're full of shit??
He's just pulling out the entire PR/marketing spin/baffle-with-bullshit playbook, because that's what he knows best.
Speaking of self-entitled assholes, here comes the ad people equating seeing their ads with speech and censorship.
Lying assholes.
See, nobody is limiting your freedom of speech, because nobody is in any way obligated to watch your ads. We're certainly not obligated to let you run scripts, set cookies, or perform analytics on us.
Randal Rothenburg is a self-serving idiot who thinks his desire to sell a product somehow confers an obligation on us to hear about his product.
Which means I'll block the shit out of any and all ads while I have the technology to do so, because you're not paying for my bandwidth, you're not taking responsibility for the malware you serve, and you're not compensating me at all for anything.
Fuck you, and your belief that your business model in any way imposes an obligation on people who don't give a shit about your business model.
Sorry, this is a guy who profits from selling ads with his panties in a bunch about someone who profits by blocking ads, and acting like his fucking rights are being trampled... you have no fucking "right" to push content to my machine if I've identified you as a parasite. And thankfully, in Germany at least, the courts have agreed.
Honestly, never underestimate just how terrible security is or can be... between vendors which leave stuff vulnerable for years, or mis-configurations, things which have never been patched, or things which seemed like a good idea at the time... the internet is a hideous mess of things which are appalling but nonetheless happen every day.
Either because nobody cares, or nobody has the money to care, or management comes down on the side of "easy" instead of "correct".
I think most of us would be shocked/depressed/angry to realize just how much stuff is hanging outside of any firewall or NAT whatsoever.
The people are likely to be secure are paranoid, diligent, a little crazed, and likely have others telling them to "relax, it's not a big deal". Never underestimate how often someone says "dear god, we can't do this" only to be overruled by someone who doesn't see it as a threat... it happens all the damned time.
The people who get overruled just need to cover their asses so if it happens they can say "told you so". This has been true for years.
I'm betting tons of people around here can give you horror stories about loudly warning about this kind of stuff only to be told to shut up and do it.
However the premium reductions are diminishing as the practice heads from experimental, to default, to obligatory -- or so many believe
I don't have a smart phone, and I don't want one.
Unless they plan on making ownership of a smart phone as a mandatory condition for providing insurance, which I question the legality of, they simply can't make this obligatory.
Consenting to being tracked at all times for the benefit of an insurance company? Yeah, go fuck yourselves.
It may be that they're not intending to "break the laws" of physics at all, but discover/uncover new ones. It may be that "overunity" sucks energy out of some sort of sub-space field
So... what, we should watch every crank and snake oil salesman to see if they've uncovered any new physical laws?
No thanks, sounds like a colossal waste of time.
I mean, go ahead, try to find these new laws or watch these videos. But don't expect the rest of the world to treat it as anything credible.
Life is too short to listen to every crackpot theory as if it deserves it.
Shady and tacky, but still should be protected against government intrusion.
There are spam laws, you can't just pretend they don't exist.
I sure as hell don't want to use an internet where any asshole can decided that I don't get a vote in if I see their commercial speech or not.
Sorry, take your anti-government crap elsewhere. Accepting all spam as free speech is idiotic. You do not have the freedom to send me unsolicited commercial email just because you're an ass who thinks its his right.
Fuck that. The onslaught of bullshit from corporations would be impossible.
I don't give a shit about what some asshole in marketing believes is the free speech of his company.
It's freedom of speech if you take the link, copy it into Facebook or Twitter and say "just got me one of these babies".
It's spam when a commercial entity gives you a quick means of shilling their product without stopping to think "do my friends really give a shit?" It's doubly spam if your friends email is ever provided to Amazon in this process without their consent.
Because if your friends didn't give Amazon permission to send email, pretending like you spontaneously sent the email is kind of bullshit.
No, sorry, making commercial communication appear to have been a spontaneous outpouring by consumers is a shady way of getting around stuff like opt-in.
As I said, if I need to safeguard against the manufacturer being lazy or incompetent, or get into semantics about what's my fault and what isn't... then I have no interest whatsoever in this technology, and the technology is likely to be doomed to fail as the people who make it give themselves weasel room to get out of liability.
If I have to get into a lawsuit with the manufacturer because they screwed, I'm going to get buried in lawyers who try to deflect the blame.
So, no, I will never pay for liability insurance for the autonomous aspects of a car. And of there is no 100% clear line of demarcation of liability, it's a losing game in which the people who bought it will get fucked by billion dollar companies.
Sorry, no. It all works, or it's all crap. That middle ground is just asking for legal and financial bullshit beyond imagining.
If we're playing "what if games", the technology is simple too damned immature to be used.
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No, it's saying that the measure of how much calories is in a given serving of food isn't really a good measure of anything.
And all of those things which say how much calories is in a portion are such bad estimates as to be fairly unreliable, because the methods of measuring it are pretty incomplete and sketchy.
The scientific calorie and the nutritional calorie are different things .. the nutritional calorie is, at best, a wild ass guesstimate.
I have long since given up on making statements about the stupid shit people can or will believe.
I've met more than enough people who insist on believing the most outrageous things ... and even if they're doing it as an act, any sufficiently advanced attention seeking/denial of reality is indistinguishable from actually being an idiot.
I no longer differentiate between those who are idiots, and those who merely want to seem like idiots.
LOL ... +5 insightful? Really?
So, basically the police are now funding their activities by running a shakedown racket?
Is this shit even legal? Or have we gotten past the point where we pretend the cops give a shit about legal?
This is extortion, plain and simple. Congratulations, Texas, your entire fucking law enforcement needs to be indicted under the RICO Act.
Fuck the police, they're all crooks these days.
Capitalism works however the assholes with the most money decide it works.
It's not some law of nature, and it never has been.
So, US companies are already looking to carve up Cuba for their own interests, and what happens to the Cuban people be damned.
Hey, I know, stop meddling and let them decide what the hell they want.
America suddenly shoving all this stuff into Cuba isn't necessarily doing anything good for Cubans in the long-run.
You can't go from 6 decades of isolation to thinking US style Capitalism isn't going to fuck up the place if you try to do it overnight.
This is the same kind of colonialism which got them into the mess they were in when the revolution happened in the first place.
You want to improve relations? Close Guantanamo, and stop pretending a Constitutional amendment jammed in against their will has any validity ... otherwise you're still treating them like a colony instead of a separate country.
Bullshit ... assume I spent 1 out of every 100 minutes screeching obscenities without changing the picture.
Fast forward doesn't solve the problem, and when people find the 60 minutes of be saying this stuff, whoever said "yeah, boring, whatever" is going to get caught.
The problem with this job is you have to watch all of it, or some smart ass WILL put something in which catches you out.
You literally have to see and hear every second of the film, and attest that you have. Or you have no idea of what you missed.
All it takes is me reciting George Carlin's "7 deadly words" ONCE in that, and if you gave it a rating which says it's got no offensive content shows you rubber stamped it.
Somehow I doubt the censors get to pick and choose based on boring. They get a submission, they have to review it.
Watching movies as a living may not sound like a bad gig, but I'm sure there's some epic bad (atrocious/terrible/disturbing) films out there which can't be unseen.
I'm sure it's not quite so cushy as it seems.
You can't truly appreciate the nuance of paint drying without watching it in real time, everything else is just being a poseur to impress your art-house friends ... but they'll know you just fast forwarded ... they'll know, man.
The heart-wrenching existential agony at 3h52 minutes when the paint crinkles like an adolescent nipple blown with soft, warm breath for the first time can't be fully appreciated in anything but real time.
The suggestion of human suffering at 5h57 when a small droplet forms is utterly lost in anything but real time.
The utter elation at 9:37 when you realize, finally, we are reaching denouement and resolution can't simply be watched on fast forward.
You lose all of the majesty and vocabulary as envisioned by the film maker in his Neitzchean expression of the inhumanity of paint as a metaphor for moving past obstacles, and stepping over the carcasses of ones foes.
Of course it needs to be watched in real time.
What if it turns out people saw M. Night Shyamalan as being involved and decided they don't give a crap what the movie is?
Because, really, that's what I do these days.
Someone either has to prove it, or live with being wrong ...
So if I gave you 9.75 hours of paint drying, and 15 minutes of hardcore porn, and you give me a rating which says "anybody can watch this", then it's your ass on the line when someone discovers the 15 minutes you missed.
I'm just going to say "this is what I submitted, if they didn't look at it, I can't be blamed for that".
I'm pretty sure those people pretty much have to watch everything, or it's them who gets in trouble for having missed something.
Since a bunch of greedy assholes needed to make a spurious semantic argument which painted themselves as the victims.
This is an ad exec, which means he's a master at being a lying bastard who excels in puffery, false claims, and unfounded assertions provided without facts.
He doesn't have to be true, just muddy the waters and confuse some people into believing his bullshit ... the exact same as his "product".
You really think the ad companies saying "boo hoo, we're being censored" don't know every trick in the book the lie, manipulate, and skew the response their way all the while knowing damned well they're full of shit??
He's just pulling out the entire PR/marketing spin/baffle-with-bullshit playbook, because that's what he knows best.
If you have an erect penis for more than 4 hours, you should consult your doctor ... says so right in all those Viagra commercials.
That would be priapism, and likely would have gotten him a different rating for the film.
Speaking of self-entitled assholes, here comes the ad people equating seeing their ads with speech and censorship.
Lying assholes.
See, nobody is limiting your freedom of speech, because nobody is in any way obligated to watch your ads. We're certainly not obligated to let you run scripts, set cookies, or perform analytics on us.
Randal Rothenburg is a self-serving idiot who thinks his desire to sell a product somehow confers an obligation on us to hear about his product.
Which means I'll block the shit out of any and all ads while I have the technology to do so, because you're not paying for my bandwidth, you're not taking responsibility for the malware you serve, and you're not compensating me at all for anything.
Fuck you, and your belief that your business model in any way imposes an obligation on people who don't give a shit about your business model.
Sorry, this is a guy who profits from selling ads with his panties in a bunch about someone who profits by blocking ads, and acting like his fucking rights are being trampled ... you have no fucking "right" to push content to my machine if I've identified you as a parasite. And thankfully, in Germany at least, the courts have agreed.
Well, get him that too.
I'm sure any 10 year old boy needs Buffy and Willow to ponder in great detail.
No, as in "in-flight" de-icing a helicopter's rotors ... you know, real time, under load, while in the air.
Typically you don't want a helicopter getting ice on the rotor, bad shit happens and it stops being able to fly.
But ... isn't graphene magic, and any purpose to which it's applied produces a magically correct outcome?
Surely graphene just knows it's supposed to hold up to the stresses and remove the ice, right?
Maybe get him a book about Wolfarm Alpha?
It seems like he can explore an awful lot of maths there at his own pace.
Failing that, is there some kind of "advanced maths for the aspiring tween" book which exists? (Obviously if you knew that you wouldn't be asking)
Honestly, never underestimate just how terrible security is or can be ... between vendors which leave stuff vulnerable for years, or mis-configurations, things which have never been patched, or things which seemed like a good idea at the time ... the internet is a hideous mess of things which are appalling but nonetheless happen every day.
Either because nobody cares, or nobody has the money to care, or management comes down on the side of "easy" instead of "correct".
I think most of us would be shocked/depressed/angry to realize just how much stuff is hanging outside of any firewall or NAT whatsoever.
The people are likely to be secure are paranoid, diligent, a little crazed, and likely have others telling them to "relax, it's not a big deal". Never underestimate how often someone says "dear god, we can't do this" only to be overruled by someone who doesn't see it as a threat ... it happens all the damned time.
The people who get overruled just need to cover their asses so if it happens they can say "told you so". This has been true for years.
I'm betting tons of people around here can give you horror stories about loudly warning about this kind of stuff only to be told to shut up and do it.
Well, first it has to finish eating us .. which is exactly what this part is.
I don't have a smart phone, and I don't want one.
Unless they plan on making ownership of a smart phone as a mandatory condition for providing insurance, which I question the legality of, they simply can't make this obligatory.
Consenting to being tracked at all times for the benefit of an insurance company? Yeah, go fuck yourselves.
So ... what, we should watch every crank and snake oil salesman to see if they've uncovered any new physical laws?
No thanks, sounds like a colossal waste of time.
I mean, go ahead, try to find these new laws or watch these videos. But don't expect the rest of the world to treat it as anything credible.
Life is too short to listen to every crackpot theory as if it deserves it.
There are spam laws, you can't just pretend they don't exist.
I sure as hell don't want to use an internet where any asshole can decided that I don't get a vote in if I see their commercial speech or not.
Sorry, take your anti-government crap elsewhere. Accepting all spam as free speech is idiotic. You do not have the freedom to send me unsolicited commercial email just because you're an ass who thinks its his right.
Fuck that. The onslaught of bullshit from corporations would be impossible.
I don't give a shit about what some asshole in marketing believes is the free speech of his company.
It's freedom of speech if you take the link, copy it into Facebook or Twitter and say "just got me one of these babies".
It's spam when a commercial entity gives you a quick means of shilling their product without stopping to think "do my friends really give a shit?" It's doubly spam if your friends email is ever provided to Amazon in this process without their consent.
Because if your friends didn't give Amazon permission to send email, pretending like you spontaneously sent the email is kind of bullshit.
No, sorry, making commercial communication appear to have been a spontaneous outpouring by consumers is a shady way of getting around stuff like opt-in.
As I said, if I need to safeguard against the manufacturer being lazy or incompetent, or get into semantics about what's my fault and what isn't ... then I have no interest whatsoever in this technology, and the technology is likely to be doomed to fail as the people who make it give themselves weasel room to get out of liability.
If I have to get into a lawsuit with the manufacturer because they screwed, I'm going to get buried in lawyers who try to deflect the blame.
So, no, I will never pay for liability insurance for the autonomous aspects of a car. And of there is no 100% clear line of demarcation of liability, it's a losing game in which the people who bought it will get fucked by billion dollar companies.
Sorry, no. It all works, or it's all crap. That middle ground is just asking for legal and financial bullshit beyond imagining.
If we're playing "what if games", the technology is simple too damned immature to be used.