Alright, I'm changing my sig. You people win. I still firmly believe that typo should be pluralized in the same fashion as all other words that end in o (e.g. volcanoes, potatoes, tomatoes, heroes), but I'm sick of people commenting on it.
Yes, I know it's an abbreviation. However, it's an abbreviation that's been in use for well over 30 years. It's a legit word in its own right now and should follow standard English rules.
Not by this story, mind you, but I saw an ad for the iZilla earlier on Slashdot and for a good 30 seconds had to stare in disbelief before I figured out that it was April Fools.
I mean, it's actually plausible that someone would try to sell something that stupid for an iPod and the people would snap it up.
Because Slashdot caters to men who are slacking off at work. It's a lot easier to avoid getting fired if you aren't surfing a site with a "Boobies" section. *cough* Fark *cough*
Who said that they're finished? I remember there was one trade show a few years back where they had a trailer demoing FFX, another trailer demoing bits of FFXI, and another trailer doing a high level teaser for what they were thinking about for FFXII containing nothing but pre-rendered FMV footage. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the FFXIII preview was similar -- all flash and no real gameplay or story hints.
Incidentally, you shouldn't be surprised at all that Square would have work started on the next game. After all, Pixar is often doing animation work on their next movie and storyboarding for the movie after that just as they're preparing to release their current movie. Different departments are needed at different stages of the development pipeline at both companies, and each department moves on to the next project after they hand the current one off.
And whatever happened to "FFXII is going to be the last Final Fantasy game?" Are they going to sequel us all to death?
A) Who ever said that FFXII would be the last? B) Final Fantasy is a franchise. You should be far more welcoming of an FFXIII than an FFX-2 or their recent milking of the FF7 cash cow.
Also, Square-Enix churns out a lot of non FF & DQ games. They generally aren't as good as the more famous product lines, though there are a few shining exceptions like Seiken Densetsu 2 & 3 and Chrono Trigger.
First of all, 13B is ONE YEAR. Next year is paid for by ANOTHER 13B. Second of all, do the math. Let's say we need 10,000 people to manage the probe program (managers, engineers, secretaries, etc). Let's say it costs 100K per employee, just to be generous. That's only a billion dollars. That leaves another 12 billion.
You're very ignorant about where NASA spends its money. Almost all of it goes to multi-year projects, and most of it goes into hardware and fundamental science research. Nothing at NASA gets done in a single year -- period. The scale at which they operate and the technology that they work with cannot be invented, launched, and complete its mission in a single year's time. If you want to look at where NASA spends its money, go straight to their FY2007 budget request. Let's look at some highlights.
Their "Science" budget primarily covers their space probes for $5.3 bil. This is what you would fund exclusively in your proposal. Their "Exploration Systems" budget primarily covers technology development for manned and unmanned exploration of the surface of celestial bodies as well as propulsion and life-support research for $3.9 bil -- most of this goes to next-generation shuttle-replacement development. Running the Shuttle, the ISS, and miscellaneous space flight support goes under "Space Operations" for $6.2 bil. The rest is eaten up in "Cross Agency Support," "Aeronautics Research," and the "Inspector General" for $1.2 bil.
The Science budget goes the operation and development of space probes and telescopes. Probes in development range from $40 million to $443 million per year of development. The James Webb Space Telescope is the most expensive project at $443 mil. in 2007 and will cost a total of $4.5 billion dollars (over 1/4 of this years budget if paid for all at once). Just running the two Mars probes is costing $85 million in operational costs.
The cheapest mission I could find (per this year's budget) is the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, which will send up 4 identical satellites to take 3D images of the magnetospheric boundary. It costs $40 million this year, but it will run $700 million total including $140 million for the actual instrument. NASA projects are not cheap (though they're nothing compared to war and social programs).
Of course they cost $100 million -- NOW. That's because they're designed and custom-built every friggin' time. It's an incredibly wasteful and stupid method of construction. If you made three standardized types that were EXACTLY the same, except that you could plug standardized modules into it, you would save immense amounts of money. It's called "mass production", perhaps you've heard of it.
Sensor development is the majority of the cost of the probe. Power, propulsion, communication, etc. systems are already mostly standardized. You don't see mass manufacturing savings until you start getting above hundreds of units, generally speaking. Now, exactly what kind of missions do you imagine NASA using hundreds of identical space probes for that all carry the same kind of sensory equipment?
There aren't any. Every time we send up a single probe it's because that's the best information we can get with the technology currently available to study an object. If we sent up two probes, then we'd have the exact same quality of information in (for the sake of argument) half the time. However, time isn't our biggest cost here -- it's the launch costs, followed by the sensor costs (both R&D and production), and followed by the personnel costs for R&D and for operating the probe once it's active.
When we send future missions, we want to get better data, so we design new sensors. Space launch is so expensive that there's no point in sending up redundant space craft to accomplish what we could have done with one alone.
Specifically, if I were them, I'd look into Lenovo's TPM implementation. The Chinese State Encryption Agency is mandating that these chips be put in be all PCs purchased for security-conscious government use. Lenovo will also be selling these on the mass market.
The question is whether or not the SEA has mandated backdoors. Since the chips are meant to be used for state purposes, I highly doubt that there's a backdoor in the chips used by China because that would make China weak to spies if someone found out the secret, and it would be difficult to fix since it's in hardware. There does exist the possibility, though, that China mandated that Lenovo make a weakened version of the chip for overseas exports. TPM chips include crypto accelerators. If these were deliberately compromised (somehow -- I'm not sure if it's technically feasable since I'm no crypto expert), then this could be an issue.
At the very least, the government needs to check to see if any hardware contains a keylogger or something else useful hidden in it to await a remote command. I'm not sure what the technical feasability of inspecting the laptops for all possible exploits is, but they're wise to do so. Espionage history is filled with examples of compromised hardware for spying and sabotage purposes.
Of course America has spies in China just as China has spies in the US. That's natural, and so is taking precautions to make sure that China doesn't install backdoors in every laptop used by a major US government agency.
Maybe they will lose their jobs, marriages, and friends, but if they're still happy, why does it matter? Isn't it better to be unemployed, alone and happy than rich, married, and depressed?
It matters because that contentment is temporary. Ten years later, when they've failed out of college and can't get anything other than a dead end job due to no qualifications and a string of firings due to not showing up at work, their future is going to look incredibly miserable. I have little sympathy for people who ruined their lives by having only looked at their immediate happiness instead of their long-term happiness and success.
Money won't make you happy, but poverty will make you miserable. People who can be happy while alone and penniless are rare in this world, and they're never people who are so wrapped up in some material trapping (like a game or booze or drugs) that they can't function in the real world.
Interventions always make the people involved angry and upset, but it's worth it to keep someone you care about from ruining their lives.
Quite honestly, having a chance to play a game, interact with people all over the world, roleplay, and gank the hell out of a bunch of noobs is a LOT more important to me...
I already didn't like you for suggesting that people be left to rot for their short-term happiness, but you're also a griefer who gets off on making the game miserable for new players too? What a prick.
Try Avant Browser or one of the other IE wrapper browsers. Most of them have ad blocking and Avant can simply turn off Flash. It's what I use at work since one of the internal websites that I use daily refuses to allow anything other than IE to connect.
Yes and no. The most famous two fascist governments, early 20th century Germany and Italy, both were voted into power by popular vote. The Nazi rise to power came as a result of dissatisfaction with economic policies. Within a few years, due to a terrorist act (the Reichstag Fire), they passed laws giving the government the power to suspend provisions of the Constitution, followed up by a law that gave Hitler the right to pass laws without parliamentary approval.
Fascism (or any type of authoritarian regime) can operate as a democratic work-alike for so long as the government is popular with the people and capable of shaping the public's opinion in its favor via propoganda. Remember, the last vote of a democracy is often the vote to give up freedom for the sake of the "defense" of the homeland. All votes after that are just propoganda to keep affirming the popularity of the government instead of to test it.
I got my mail stolen, I am attacked using microwave weapons, psycotronic weapons and other advanced weapons and after 3 months of "Secret" police torture the army joined in and I am now also attacked regularly by directed energy weapons on aircraft.
So, what are the other effects of these energy and "psycotronic" weapons other than hallucinations and paranoia?
I hear that the private sector sells medicines that can render the body immune to such weaponry. You should look up SSRIs sometime.
The Iranian blogging community, known as Weblogistan, is relatively new.
I call SHENNANIGANS!
Seriously, is there some sort of competition between bloggers to see who can come up with the latest "5 seconds of fame" painful, buzzwordy neologism? I want to know, so that I can find the organization responsible for keeping score and bomb them.
I, for one, would miss being able to read the BBC's news site, which is where I get most of my international news. I also frequently turn up foreign news sites on Google News that sometimes cover things that American news doesn't (and often shouldn't in the case of the Pravda, but I digress).
I also read The Register occasionally for snarky IT, and it's sometimes good to get a feel for what people in foreign countries think about the US without going through the "We're awesome; they're all biased against us" filter. (It's also good to find out who is genuinely biased against us.)
I actually get a lot out of an international internet.
Also, global trade hinges on our current, growing levels of connectivity, and that will never allow some aspects of the internet to ever become fully severed without a huge breakdown in global trade into segemented markets -- which is pretty much prelude to global war.
Normally, I let my sig do all the griping for me, but this is really bad. It look me three tries to understand what the title was saying. Try the following for maximum clarity:
"Website Attacks Against Unpatched IE Flaw Spike"
Actually, this would be even clearer if you put the verb before the prepositional phrase: "Website Attacks Spike Against Unpatched IE Flaw"
It's unclear because both "spike" and "flaw" can be verbs or nouns, and the broken "unpatch" disrupts our ability to smoothly interpret the rest of the sentence thanks to turning an adjective into a present tense verb.
(I know I'm not perfect by a long shot on spelling and grammar, but it's not my job to post legibly on Slashdot.)
I think that they've managed to attempt to create an automated version of the works of Joshua Pearson better known as one of the founders of Emergency Broadcast Network.
I doubt that it's as good as the hand-crafted originals, though, if I'm getting what they're trying. I'd have to look at it when I got home to confirm it.
Incidentally, look up EBN and Joshua Pearson sometime. It's worth the search if you can find the clips he made after he left the group from footage of 2000 Presidential debates and campaign. "The Internet" is great. For sheer creepy trippiness, I also recommend "Comply" from the EBN archive on his site.
Problem though: I doubt a pig can live consisting of fats that are usually mostly found in plants and vegetable oil.
The best natural sources of Omega-3 fatty acids are in fish. A lesser known fact is that wild game animals have a lot of polyunsaturated fat in their meat and are actually good sources of Omega-3 fatty acids as well. There are lots of mammals with polyunsaturated fats in their bodies just as there are plants with saturated fats in their seeds. It's not purely an animal/plant divide as a lot of people think.
In addition, pigs should be able to release stored calories from polyunsaturated fats just as easily as from saturated fats. Our biologies aren't that different, and we know that unsaturated fats are healthier for us too.
And, no, those pigs wouldn't have a green color, but these pigs would.
Recently there have been articles that state there is no conclusive evidence that Omega 3 Fatty Acids are beneficial.
*BZZZZTTT* This is only for heart disease and is slightly inconclusive.
From the aritcle itself:
Despite the findings, leading dieticians said the public should not stop eating oily fish as omega 3 is associated with a huge range of health benefits.
It also states that: More research is needed to establish why some studies have shown a slightly increased risk associated with eating very high amounts of oily fish, which is possibly related to mercury levels.
Note that many (if not all) of these studies involved oily fish consumption or supplementation from fish oil capsules. If you got Omega-3 from flax-fed chicken eggs or from GM pork, you wouldn't have the problem with mercury, but I've never seen a study that addresses Omega-3 consumption from non-fish sources.
On the other hand, unless you completely replaced saturated fats with Omega-3 fats in bacon (which should alter the solidity of bacon fat), you certainly are not going to see a heart benefit from eating Omega-3 fortified bacon thanks to the overwhelmingly bad effects of the saturated fats.
You could always eat organic food. You can get produce that has never been sprayed with pesticides and meat that has never been fed food that has been sprayed with pesticides. It costs more due to lower yields (that's why we spray in the first place), but so long as you just accept that people will do that and support it with your dollars, farmers won't decide to grow food naturally -- after all people like you have shown that that's where the money goes.
Incidentally, most pesticides accumulate in the fatty tissues of livestock, so you get a higher exposure from eating meat. I might occasionally buy vegetable and wholly artificial products like Splenda elsewhere, but I buy all my meat from organic producers. The fact that organic farmers can't stack animal enclosures like in factory farms and frequently let their livestock have free range is a bonus too from an ethical perspective.
Meat has far more energy, weight for weight, than fruit and vegetables. Depending on how you farm the animals, you can provide more energy per hectare off animals than off most crops.
"Lisa, in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
I'm no PETA freak, but what do you think we feed animals? For the most part, we feed them the same kind of grain that we eat (like corn and soy) or parts of other food that we don't eat. (Look up silage some time.) Even grass fed animals eat up far, far more calories of plants than their bodies contain at slaughter time. You didn't think that animals are nearly 100% efficient translators of vegetable calories to meat calories, did you?
I love meat and all, but a a vegetarian diet does have significantly less impact on the planet because you don't have to waste food to feed other food. In fact, the shifting of developing countries to a Western diet is commonly cited as one of the factors behind famland straining our resources (such as groundwater) over the next century. We actually feed much more than half of our grain output to livestock instead of to people, and a lot of potentially productive farmland is "wasted" in keeping animals and growing food to feed animals instead of people. About 80% of our corn goes to livestock. This is only expected to rise worldwide as more people abandon carbohydrate food staples to enjoy a high meat and sugar diet like we've been eating for 2-3 centuries.
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Alright, I'm changing my sig. You people win. I still firmly believe that typo should be pluralized in the same fashion as all other words that end in o (e.g. volcanoes, potatoes, tomatoes, heroes), but I'm sick of people commenting on it.
Yes, I know it's an abbreviation. However, it's an abbreviation that's been in use for well over 30 years. It's a legit word in its own right now and should follow standard English rules.
Whatever. Freaks.
"Hey, mister? Who's Rainbow Brite?"
Not by this story, mind you, but I saw an ad for the iZilla earlier on Slashdot and for a good 30 seconds had to stare in disbelief before I figured out that it was April Fools.
I mean, it's actually plausible that someone would try to sell something that stupid for an iPod and the people would snap it up.
Because Slashdot caters to men who are slacking off at work. It's a lot easier to avoid getting fired if you aren't surfing a site with a "Boobies" section. *cough* Fark *cough*
Who said that they're finished? I remember there was one trade show a few years back where they had a trailer demoing FFX, another trailer demoing bits of FFXI, and another trailer doing a high level teaser for what they were thinking about for FFXII containing nothing but pre-rendered FMV footage. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the FFXIII preview was similar -- all flash and no real gameplay or story hints.
Incidentally, you shouldn't be surprised at all that Square would have work started on the next game. After all, Pixar is often doing animation work on their next movie and storyboarding for the movie after that just as they're preparing to release their current movie. Different departments are needed at different stages of the development pipeline at both companies, and each department moves on to the next project after they hand the current one off.
And whatever happened to "FFXII is going to be the last Final Fantasy game?" Are they going to sequel us all to death?
A) Who ever said that FFXII would be the last?
B) Final Fantasy is a franchise. You should be far more welcoming of an FFXIII than an FFX-2 or their recent milking of the FF7 cash cow.
Also, Square-Enix churns out a lot of non FF & DQ games. They generally aren't as good as the more famous product lines, though there are a few shining exceptions like Seiken Densetsu 2 & 3 and Chrono Trigger.
Unless you count FF7: Dirge of Cerberus.
First of all, 13B is ONE YEAR. Next year is paid for by ANOTHER 13B. Second of all, do the math. Let's say we need 10,000 people to manage the probe program (managers, engineers, secretaries, etc). Let's say it costs 100K per employee, just to be generous. That's only a billion dollars. That leaves another 12 billion.
You're very ignorant about where NASA spends its money. Almost all of it goes to multi-year projects, and most of it goes into hardware and fundamental science research. Nothing at NASA gets done in a single year -- period. The scale at which they operate and the technology that they work with cannot be invented, launched, and complete its mission in a single year's time. If you want to look at where NASA spends its money, go straight to their FY2007 budget request. Let's look at some highlights.
Their "Science" budget primarily covers their space probes for $5.3 bil. This is what you would fund exclusively in your proposal. Their "Exploration Systems" budget primarily covers technology development for manned and unmanned exploration of the surface of celestial bodies as well as propulsion and life-support research for $3.9 bil -- most of this goes to next-generation shuttle-replacement development. Running the Shuttle, the ISS, and miscellaneous space flight support goes under "Space Operations" for $6.2 bil. The rest is eaten up in "Cross Agency Support," "Aeronautics Research," and the "Inspector General" for $1.2 bil.
The Science budget goes the operation and development of space probes and telescopes. Probes in development range from $40 million to $443 million per year of development. The James Webb Space Telescope is the most expensive project at $443 mil. in 2007 and will cost a total of $4.5 billion dollars (over 1/4 of this years budget if paid for all at once). Just running the two Mars probes is costing $85 million in operational costs.
The cheapest mission I could find (per this year's budget) is the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, which will send up 4 identical satellites to take 3D images of the magnetospheric boundary. It costs $40 million this year, but it will run $700 million total including $140 million for the actual instrument. NASA projects are not cheap (though they're nothing compared to war and social programs).
Of course they cost $100 million -- NOW. That's because they're designed and custom-built every friggin' time. It's an incredibly wasteful and stupid method of construction. If you made three standardized types that were EXACTLY the same, except that you could plug standardized modules into it, you would save immense amounts of money. It's called "mass production", perhaps you've heard of it.
Sensor development is the majority of the cost of the probe. Power, propulsion, communication, etc. systems are already mostly standardized. You don't see mass manufacturing savings until you start getting above hundreds of units, generally speaking. Now, exactly what kind of missions do you imagine NASA using hundreds of identical space probes for that all carry the same kind of sensory equipment?
There aren't any. Every time we send up a single probe it's because that's the best information we can get with the technology currently available to study an object. If we sent up two probes, then we'd have the exact same quality of information in (for the sake of argument) half the time. However, time isn't our biggest cost here -- it's the launch costs, followed by the sensor costs (both R&D and production), and followed by the personnel costs for R&D and for operating the probe once it's active.
When we send future missions, we want to get better data, so we design new sensors. Space launch is so expensive that there's no point in sending up redundant space craft to accomplish what we could have done with one alone.
Specifically, if I were them, I'd look into Lenovo's TPM implementation. The Chinese State Encryption Agency is mandating that these chips be put in be all PCs purchased for security-conscious government use. Lenovo will also be selling these on the mass market.
The question is whether or not the SEA has mandated backdoors. Since the chips are meant to be used for state purposes, I highly doubt that there's a backdoor in the chips used by China because that would make China weak to spies if someone found out the secret, and it would be difficult to fix since it's in hardware. There does exist the possibility, though, that China mandated that Lenovo make a weakened version of the chip for overseas exports. TPM chips include crypto accelerators. If these were deliberately compromised (somehow -- I'm not sure if it's technically feasable since I'm no crypto expert), then this could be an issue.
At the very least, the government needs to check to see if any hardware contains a keylogger or something else useful hidden in it to await a remote command. I'm not sure what the technical feasability of inspecting the laptops for all possible exploits is, but they're wise to do so. Espionage history is filled with examples of compromised hardware for spying and sabotage purposes.
Of course America has spies in China just as China has spies in the US. That's natural, and so is taking precautions to make sure that China doesn't install backdoors in every laptop used by a major US government agency.
I don't see what you're getting so uppity about.
Maybe they will lose their jobs, marriages, and friends, but if they're still happy, why does it matter? Isn't it better to be unemployed, alone and happy than rich, married, and depressed?
It matters because that contentment is temporary. Ten years later, when they've failed out of college and can't get anything other than a dead end job due to no qualifications and a string of firings due to not showing up at work, their future is going to look incredibly miserable. I have little sympathy for people who ruined their lives by having only looked at their immediate happiness instead of their long-term happiness and success.
Money won't make you happy, but poverty will make you miserable. People who can be happy while alone and penniless are rare in this world, and they're never people who are so wrapped up in some material trapping (like a game or booze or drugs) that they can't function in the real world.
Interventions always make the people involved angry and upset, but it's worth it to keep someone you care about from ruining their lives.
Quite honestly, having a chance to play a game, interact with people all over the world, roleplay, and gank the hell out of a bunch of noobs is a LOT more important to me...
I already didn't like you for suggesting that people be left to rot for their short-term happiness, but you're also a griefer who gets off on making the game miserable for new players too? What a prick.
Might as well nip this in the bud before too many other people waste a reply on this. You're right. You wouldn't use SSRIs.
Someone else already addressed this. I was just trying to be funny, and didn't do any fact-checking on what kind of drugs you'd actually use.
Yeah, you're right. I wasn't thinking seriously, just trying to be funny, so I didn't do my homework.
Try Avant Browser or one of the other IE wrapper browsers. Most of them have ad blocking and Avant can simply turn off Flash. It's what I use at work since one of the internal websites that I use daily refuses to allow anything other than IE to connect.
Democracy and Fascism are not compatible.
Yes and no. The most famous two fascist governments, early 20th century Germany and Italy, both were voted into power by popular vote. The Nazi rise to power came as a result of dissatisfaction with economic policies. Within a few years, due to a terrorist act (the Reichstag Fire), they passed laws giving the government the power to suspend provisions of the Constitution, followed up by a law that gave Hitler the right to pass laws without parliamentary approval.
Fascism (or any type of authoritarian regime) can operate as a democratic work-alike for so long as the government is popular with the people and capable of shaping the public's opinion in its favor via propoganda. Remember, the last vote of a democracy is often the vote to give up freedom for the sake of the "defense" of the homeland. All votes after that are just propoganda to keep affirming the popularity of the government instead of to test it.
I got my mail stolen, I am attacked using microwave weapons, psycotronic weapons and other advanced weapons and after 3 months of "Secret" police torture the army joined in and I am now also attacked regularly by directed energy weapons on aircraft.
So, what are the other effects of these energy and "psycotronic" weapons other than hallucinations and paranoia?
I hear that the private sector sells medicines that can render the body immune to such weaponry. You should look up SSRIs sometime.
The Iranian blogging community, known as Weblogistan, is relatively new.
I call SHENNANIGANS!
Seriously, is there some sort of competition between bloggers to see who can come up with the latest "5 seconds of fame" painful, buzzwordy neologism? I want to know, so that I can find the organization responsible for keeping score and bomb them.
haha, I actualy spend a good part of my day on /b/
I pity you, and I pity me for knowing what you're talking about.
I, for one, would miss being able to read the BBC's news site, which is where I get most of my international news. I also frequently turn up foreign news sites on Google News that sometimes cover things that American news doesn't (and often shouldn't in the case of the Pravda, but I digress).
I also read The Register occasionally for snarky IT, and it's sometimes good to get a feel for what people in foreign countries think about the US without going through the "We're awesome; they're all biased against us" filter. (It's also good to find out who is genuinely biased against us.)
I actually get a lot out of an international internet.
Also, global trade hinges on our current, growing levels of connectivity, and that will never allow some aspects of the internet to ever become fully severed without a huge breakdown in global trade into segemented markets -- which is pretty much prelude to global war.
Normally, I let my sig do all the griping for me, but this is really bad. It look me three tries to understand what the title was saying. Try the following for maximum clarity:
"Website Attacks Against Unpatched IE Flaw Spike"
Actually, this would be even clearer if you put the verb before the prepositional phrase:
"Website Attacks Spike Against Unpatched IE Flaw"
It's unclear because both "spike" and "flaw" can be verbs or nouns, and the broken "unpatch" disrupts our ability to smoothly interpret the rest of the sentence thanks to turning an adjective into a present tense verb.
(I know I'm not perfect by a long shot on spelling and grammar, but it's not my job to post legibly on Slashdot.)
I think that they've managed to attempt to create an automated version of the works of Joshua Pearson better known as one of the founders of Emergency Broadcast Network.
I doubt that it's as good as the hand-crafted originals, though, if I'm getting what they're trying. I'd have to look at it when I got home to confirm it.
Incidentally, look up EBN and Joshua Pearson sometime. It's worth the search if you can find the clips he made after he left the group from footage of 2000 Presidential debates and campaign. "The Internet" is great. For sheer creepy trippiness, I also recommend "Comply" from the EBN archive on his site.
* Sadly, this is not actually my Ultimate Bacon Sandwich.
Wait. You mean you have a more ultimate bacon sandwich? Do share!
Problem though: I doubt a pig can live consisting of fats that are usually mostly found in plants and vegetable oil.
The best natural sources of Omega-3 fatty acids are in fish. A lesser known fact is that wild game animals have a lot of polyunsaturated fat in their meat and are actually good sources of Omega-3 fatty acids as well. There are lots of mammals with polyunsaturated fats in their bodies just as there are plants with saturated fats in their seeds. It's not purely an animal/plant divide as a lot of people think.
In addition, pigs should be able to release stored calories from polyunsaturated fats just as easily as from saturated fats. Our biologies aren't that different, and we know that unsaturated fats are healthier for us too.
And, no, those pigs wouldn't have a green color, but these pigs would.
Recently there have been articles that state there is no conclusive evidence that Omega 3 Fatty Acids are beneficial.
*BZZZZTTT* This is only for heart disease and is slightly inconclusive.
From the aritcle itself:
Despite the findings, leading dieticians said the public should not stop eating oily fish as omega 3 is associated with a huge range of health benefits.
It also states that:
More research is needed to establish why some studies have shown a slightly increased risk associated with eating very high amounts of oily fish, which is possibly related to mercury levels.
Note that many (if not all) of these studies involved oily fish consumption or supplementation from fish oil capsules. If you got Omega-3 from flax-fed chicken eggs or from GM pork, you wouldn't have the problem with mercury, but I've never seen a study that addresses Omega-3 consumption from non-fish sources.
On the other hand, unless you completely replaced saturated fats with Omega-3 fats in bacon (which should alter the solidity of bacon fat), you certainly are not going to see a heart benefit from eating Omega-3 fortified bacon thanks to the overwhelmingly bad effects of the saturated fats.
You could always eat organic food. You can get produce that has never been sprayed with pesticides and meat that has never been fed food that has been sprayed with pesticides. It costs more due to lower yields (that's why we spray in the first place), but so long as you just accept that people will do that and support it with your dollars, farmers won't decide to grow food naturally -- after all people like you have shown that that's where the money goes.
Incidentally, most pesticides accumulate in the fatty tissues of livestock, so you get a higher exposure from eating meat. I might occasionally buy vegetable and wholly artificial products like Splenda elsewhere, but I buy all my meat from organic producers. The fact that organic farmers can't stack animal enclosures like in factory farms and frequently let their livestock have free range is a bonus too from an ethical perspective.
Meat has far more energy, weight for weight, than fruit and vegetables. Depending on how you farm the animals, you can provide more energy per hectare off animals than off most crops.
"Lisa, in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
I'm no PETA freak, but what do you think we feed animals? For the most part, we feed them the same kind of grain that we eat (like corn and soy) or parts of other food that we don't eat. (Look up silage some time.) Even grass fed animals eat up far, far more calories of plants than their bodies contain at slaughter time. You didn't think that animals are nearly 100% efficient translators of vegetable calories to meat calories, did you?
I love meat and all, but a a vegetarian diet does have significantly less impact on the planet because you don't have to waste food to feed other food. In fact, the shifting of developing countries to a Western diet is commonly cited as one of the factors behind famland straining our resources (such as groundwater) over the next century. We actually feed much more than half of our grain output to livestock instead of to people, and a lot of potentially productive farmland is "wasted" in keeping animals and growing food to feed animals instead of people. About 80% of our corn goes to livestock. This is only expected to rise worldwide as more people abandon carbohydrate food staples to enjoy a high meat and sugar diet like we've been eating for 2-3 centuries.