Dairy cows aren't really used for meat generally. At least not at the dairy farms I've been to. They're usually too old. It happens, but only if it's kept in mind from the beginning.
An actual farmer could correct me, but some quick googling around seems to confirm it; about 30% are used for meat.
If it's true that a particular meat substitute has no nutritional value, then it would function much like tofu - as texture and filler for a dish, with the nutrition coming from the extra vegetables. You'd have to have actual meat from time to time to avoid, eg, vitamin B and iron problems, or stuff your meals full of spinach and beans.:)
I cook with tofu regularly, you don't try to make it tasty. It's filler, texture, and it absorbs whatever flavour is around it. You use it as a delivery vehicle for other flavours. For instance yesterday I made a chickpea curry in the slow cooker, and added tofu chunks to it after: chop them up, roll them in a thick mixture of milk and flour, then shake it in a container with ground flax, nutritional yeast, whole wheat flour, breadcrumbs, really, whatever you have in the house. Fry it on high heat for a bit, throw it in after the slow cooker has done. It soaks up the curry flavour and adds texture.
I agree. We're currently dumping billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere without knowing absolutely for sure what effect it's going to have. We should stop it.
Engineering to cancel that out might be a good idea, but taking more out than we're putting in is a bad idea.
Me too. I might say "a US state"; who can really keep track of all the little buggers? I know where California, New York, Washington, and Florida are, but that's about it.
Sorry, I meant that subsistence requires one acre per person per year. Much less for solely vegetarian diets, about a quarter to half off the top of my head. Maybe 1 acre per small family, less if you don't like your kids too much.
Either way, it's only going to provide a pretty small chunk of the diet.
Historically, BSD licensing has created some big problems, with companies taking software, adding major features, and then providing it as part of their own Unix without feeding the changes back into the central tree. It's arguable that overly-permissive licensing terms gave us the extremly divided and nasty Unix market of the 80s and 90s, and that the GPL provided a sort of herd immunity against massively differentiated forks by making it possible to get features back into the mainstream trees in a consistent and timely manner.
RMS has a distressing habit of being proven right, and I wouldn't discount him quite so easily.
Canada has paper, and 5 coins. Toonie, loonie, quarter, dime, nickel. And they have much higher value. If anything, I have fewer coins at home then when I'm in the States, because they're so much higher value and easier to spend. When I'm in the US, I end up with a pocketful of bloody nickels and pennies that I have to count out to bloody spend, so I just end up throwing them in a jar instead of using them.:P
Not really. I have in my pocket 10 toonies, 5 loonies, some quarters, and that's quite a lot of change for me. Eliminating pennies reduced change quite a bit, too. I like it a lot more than having a sheaf of $1s; the coins are much easier to sort through than the bills, and they last much longer.
Canada also has polymer currency now, which has been a bit more controversial than the coins, but it's settling down as people get used to it.
I have $30 in coins in my pocket right now, you get used to it really fast. I visit the US occasionally (much less than I used to; do something about your border guards, they're really getting to be assholes) and your currency is ridiculously annoying to deal with. Monochromatic, and the $1 bills are a pain to constantly shuffle through. And what the fuck is up with pennies?
Never been to a strip club, but I did a quick google search and found a couple of threads on the subject.
Two answers stood out - 1, some clubs issue coupons that you can use in place of money; the strippers just redeem them at the end of the shift. 2, use $5s, you goddamn cheapskate.:)
Wind will probably never supply that kind of percentage of any country's energy needs. It's too erratic and localized. If we're going to use renewable energy, it will have to be through a broad mix of complementary technologies (solar and wind are complementary, as when one is low, the other tends to be high). We should be using wind, hydro, solar, geothermal, and nuclear. Not relying too much on a given technology adds resilience to the system, and allows a given community to use whatever balance makes the most sense locally.
Offshore wind rigs would deal with a lot of the eagle problem. Not many eagles over the horizon on the Great Lakes, Hudson's Bay, or the ocean.
Re-reading that story today, it's profoundly disturbing. These intrepid "explorers", on encountering an incredibly unique biosphere, proceed to destroy it.
Consider using a proper learning filter, like dspam. You can pipe it through procmail just as easily, and you can feed your corpus of spam into it. You won't get 100%, but it'll recognize spam you haven't seen.:0f * |/usr/bin/dspam --deliver=stdout
Side note, it actually enables a clever trick. Google 'zram'. Basically you create a RAM disk, compress any pages written to it, and use it as a swap partition. As your system memory fills up, less-used pages get compressed.
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Dairy cows aren't really used for meat generally. At least not at the dairy farms I've been to. They're usually too old. It happens, but only if it's kept in mind from the beginning.
An actual farmer could correct me, but some quick googling around seems to confirm it; about 30% are used for meat.
If it's true that a particular meat substitute has no nutritional value, then it would function much like tofu - as texture and filler for a dish, with the nutrition coming from the extra vegetables. You'd have to have actual meat from time to time to avoid, eg, vitamin B and iron problems, or stuff your meals full of spinach and beans. :)
I cook with tofu regularly, you don't try to make it tasty. It's filler, texture, and it absorbs whatever flavour is around it. You use it as a delivery vehicle for other flavours. For instance yesterday I made a chickpea curry in the slow cooker, and added tofu chunks to it after: chop them up, roll them in a thick mixture of milk and flour, then shake it in a container with ground flax, nutritional yeast, whole wheat flour, breadcrumbs, really, whatever you have in the house. Fry it on high heat for a bit, throw it in after the slow cooker has done. It soaks up the curry flavour and adds texture.
I agree. We're currently dumping billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere without knowing absolutely for sure what effect it's going to have. We should stop it.
Engineering to cancel that out might be a good idea, but taking more out than we're putting in is a bad idea.
Me too. I might say "a US state"; who can really keep track of all the little buggers? I know where California, New York, Washington, and Florida are, but that's about it.
Sorry, I meant that subsistence requires one acre per person per year. Much less for solely vegetarian diets, about a quarter to half off the top of my head. Maybe 1 acre per small family, less if you don't like your kids too much.
Either way, it's only going to provide a pretty small chunk of the diet.
About one acre per person per year. So this would at best be supplementary.
Typo. 27,000.
37,000 of your "miles" per hour is, in normal person units, 12km/sec.
Historically, BSD licensing has created some big problems, with companies taking software, adding major features, and then providing it as part of their own Unix without feeding the changes back into the central tree. It's arguable that overly-permissive licensing terms gave us the extremly divided and nasty Unix market of the 80s and 90s, and that the GPL provided a sort of herd immunity against massively differentiated forks by making it possible to get features back into the mainstream trees in a consistent and timely manner.
RMS has a distressing habit of being proven right, and I wouldn't discount him quite so easily.
Canada has paper, and 5 coins. Toonie, loonie, quarter, dime, nickel. And they have much higher value. If anything, I have fewer coins at home then when I'm in the States, because they're so much higher value and easier to spend. When I'm in the US, I end up with a pocketful of bloody nickels and pennies that I have to count out to bloody spend, so I just end up throwing them in a jar instead of using them. :P
When I visit the States, I definitely wish they were coins. Your currency is ridiculously annoying.
Not really. I have in my pocket 10 toonies, 5 loonies, some quarters, and that's quite a lot of change for me. Eliminating pennies reduced change quite a bit, too. I like it a lot more than having a sheaf of $1s; the coins are much easier to sort through than the bills, and they last much longer.
Canada also has polymer currency now, which has been a bit more controversial than the coins, but it's settling down as people get used to it.
I have $30 in coins in my pocket right now, you get used to it really fast. I visit the US occasionally (much less than I used to; do something about your border guards, they're really getting to be assholes) and your currency is ridiculously annoying to deal with. Monochromatic, and the $1 bills are a pain to constantly shuffle through. And what the fuck is up with pennies?
They need to pull the $1 bills from circulation. It's not enough just to circulate $1 coins.
Never been to a strip club, but I did a quick google search and found a couple of threads on the subject.
Two answers stood out - 1, some clubs issue coupons that you can use in place of money; the strippers just redeem them at the end of the shift. 2, use $5s, you goddamn cheapskate. :)
Wind will probably never supply that kind of percentage of any country's energy needs. It's too erratic and localized. If we're going to use renewable energy, it will have to be through a broad mix of complementary technologies (solar and wind are complementary, as when one is low, the other tends to be high). We should be using wind, hydro, solar, geothermal, and nuclear. Not relying too much on a given technology adds resilience to the system, and allows a given community to use whatever balance makes the most sense locally.
Offshore wind rigs would deal with a lot of the eagle problem. Not many eagles over the horizon on the Great Lakes, Hudson's Bay, or the ocean.
BC has had a carbon tax since 2008, applied in a revenue-neutral fashion to push down income taxes. Our carbon emissions are down 7.7% since 2004.
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/2035/carbon+driving+down+emissions/8473417/story.html
ten seconds with google: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBookPro11,x
Bitcoin is divisible into 100-millionths, the "satoshi".
Well played.
Re-reading that story today, it's profoundly disturbing. These intrepid "explorers", on encountering an incredibly unique biosphere, proceed to destroy it.
It's pretty terrible.
Consider using a proper learning filter, like dspam. You can pipe it through procmail just as easily, and you can feed your corpus of spam into it. You won't get 100%, but it'll recognize spam you haven't seen. :0f /usr/bin/dspam --deliver=stdout
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when he is making a mistake.
Side note, it actually enables a clever trick. Google 'zram'. Basically you create a RAM disk, compress any pages written to it, and use it as a swap partition. As your system memory fills up, less-used pages get compressed.