No, water is what we drink. Those things with calories and nutrients are liquid foods and need to be carefully evaluated as such lest they are abused. Consider the prevalence of juice in the diet, ignoring alcohol and soda.
What a bizarre interpretation of the world. The industry of death is agriculture taken to its cold, 'logical' ends where we do everything to maximize profit, cruelty and unsustainability. You are not necessarily supporting those things by making purchases of organic foods and, for animal products, ones that involve pastured animals rather than caged and grain-fed animals. I personally am not vegetarian but I rarely eat meat other than if you count my daily fish oil pill. I enjoy dairy and eggs but I purchase grass-fed milk and insect-fed eggs when I want them. What I do is far superior (in my own moral world) to simply not eating animal products. I enjoy them and do so without guilt because I know that I can support agricultural practices that are not cruel and impossible to sustain without wrecking our environment.
As opposed to "scientists" like the ones in this article? The flaws of this supposed study are layered so deeply they form a nice, comfy mat you could sit upon and contemplate the existence of anything coming from it, conclusions upon conclusions that have no basis other than the fact that they reinforce each other in some way based upon chosen parameters. Real science requires allowing for many possibilities, not going with some random wacky-ass idea for correlation and running with it to the logical ends of the Earth.
Psychology isn't a proper science because it went off the deep end in the 20th century. Little work is ever done to reexamine the basics unlike, say, physics.
Most software is more mundane and niche than the fly-by-night social network phenomena. Software underlies the processes that operate the world. This is far bigger than a few companies/services.
I think you're one of those people that hasn't read enough dystopian fiction to draw all the right parallels. We are not "nowhere near any of those" unless you ignore, say, CISPA about to go in front of congress; Monsanto; NDAA; our wars; the conspiracy against acknowledgment of climate change...
Zing! I don't see anything whatsoever wrong with weaving in historic aspects. It is the hallmark of speculative fiction, not science fiction or fantasy.
I pity you for the ignorant belief that people that hold extremist views are in any way less intelligent or capable than supposedly-non-political research scientists.
But crying makes me feel like I'm doing something! That's enough, right? I don't need to actively plan for revolution, right?! The good guys will win out over fascism!!
Here's the beauty: you don't need to. Eliminate the Monsantos and corn subsidies of the world and monocropping disappears. You don't need "calculated entropy" to reduce the dangers we're putting ourselves in now. You remove the backwards thinking and suddenly people stop trying to producing the same damn thing. It's beyond ridiculous that local heirloom varieties are disused when you realize how much effort it takes to customize the right environment for the/wrong/ variety. Indigenous plants got us to the point of civilization. We never needed inbred lines, but we went down that path, and now we suffer.
You don't understand a damn thing about monocropping. It is the difference between using inbred lines that are all susceptible to the same pandemic disease versus landrace varieties that provide buffers that can potentially stop an outbreak because -- gasp -- differing genetics differ in whether diseases may spread (and, consequently, mutate and spread onward) in them easily or not.
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No, water is what we drink. Those things with calories and nutrients are liquid foods and need to be carefully evaluated as such lest they are abused. Consider the prevalence of juice in the diet, ignoring alcohol and soda.
What a bizarre interpretation of the world. The industry of death is agriculture taken to its cold, 'logical' ends where we do everything to maximize profit, cruelty and unsustainability. You are not necessarily supporting those things by making purchases of organic foods and, for animal products, ones that involve pastured animals rather than caged and grain-fed animals. I personally am not vegetarian but I rarely eat meat other than if you count my daily fish oil pill. I enjoy dairy and eggs but I purchase grass-fed milk and insect-fed eggs when I want them. What I do is far superior (in my own moral world) to simply not eating animal products. I enjoy them and do so without guilt because I know that I can support agricultural practices that are not cruel and impossible to sustain without wrecking our environment.
As opposed to "scientists" like the ones in this article? The flaws of this supposed study are layered so deeply they form a nice, comfy mat you could sit upon and contemplate the existence of anything coming from it, conclusions upon conclusions that have no basis other than the fact that they reinforce each other in some way based upon chosen parameters. Real science requires allowing for many possibilities, not going with some random wacky-ass idea for correlation and running with it to the logical ends of the Earth.
I can say that you're wrong. Do you even know what "conservative" means?
Psychology isn't a proper science because it went off the deep end in the 20th century. Little work is ever done to reexamine the basics unlike, say, physics.
Most software is more mundane and niche than the fly-by-night social network phenomena. Software underlies the processes that operate the world. This is far bigger than a few companies/services.
I think you're one of those people that hasn't read enough dystopian fiction to draw all the right parallels. We are not "nowhere near any of those" unless you ignore, say, CISPA about to go in front of congress; Monsanto; NDAA; our wars; the conspiracy against acknowledgment of climate change...
Zing! I don't see anything whatsoever wrong with weaving in historic aspects. It is the hallmark of speculative fiction, not science fiction or fantasy.
Oh, please, like the Nazi party could do worse than the USA currently does?
Some people can't handle epics. Some can. I would recommend never even acknowledging the existence of the Wheel of Time.
Are you conveniently ignoring the fact that the underclass is already enslaved?
We don't need more technology. We need less.
CRTs per se may not be useful much anymore but plasma certainly is!
Having spent plenty of time driving a 1985 RX-7 with broken power steering, I have to say that you're a real weakling.
Usually, either COTS or open-source hardware has an OFF SWITCH.
Enjoy your Farmville "game," friend.
I don't think you understand what a game is if you think something that requires infinite in-game purchases to persist for the user is a game.
Great post. Security through obscurity has NEVER worked.
I pity you for the ignorant belief that people that hold extremist views are in any way less intelligent or capable than supposedly-non-political research scientists.
But crying makes me feel like I'm doing something! That's enough, right? I don't need to actively plan for revolution, right?! The good guys will win out over fascism!!
I am sorry, but you must one day shatter your delusion that entrenched fascism can be removed by chipping away at it.
Good thing wheat and the grain industry in general are completely unnecessary for human subsistence.
Here's the beauty: you don't need to. Eliminate the Monsantos and corn subsidies of the world and monocropping disappears. You don't need "calculated entropy" to reduce the dangers we're putting ourselves in now. You remove the backwards thinking and suddenly people stop trying to producing the same damn thing. It's beyond ridiculous that local heirloom varieties are disused when you realize how much effort it takes to customize the right environment for the /wrong/ variety. Indigenous plants got us to the point of civilization. We never needed inbred lines, but we went down that path, and now we suffer.
That's crazy talk, good sir. Human behavior can't possibly have consequences on the natural world!
You don't understand a damn thing about monocropping. It is the difference between using inbred lines that are all susceptible to the same pandemic disease versus landrace varieties that provide buffers that can potentially stop an outbreak because -- gasp -- differing genetics differ in whether diseases may spread (and, consequently, mutate and spread onward) in them easily or not.