Up to 70% of the diet of chickens is... chicken shit. (Even free-range chickens eat it.)
Rabbits eat rabbit shit (indeed, they will become deficient and die without access to their own feces).
And we all know what Fido thinks of the cat box.
Cattle feed often contains urea, which is not real different from concentrated piss.
Pen-raised fish have historically been fed on all manner of waste, including guts and feces. Which isn't too different from what a lot of bottom-feeder fish eat in the wild. Yet catfish are pretty durn yummy.
The problem isn't the feed, which isn't really anything novel. It's the often-questionable or undocumented circumstances of food imported from 3rd-world countries that still use 3rd-world processing, and the impact on first-world consumers who aren't adapted to third world pathogens, along with the Chinese business practice of "anything you can get away with is okay."
I think it might have had more to do with Costco's warranty policy, which is basically "two years, no questions asked" for failed electronics. Might be they figured a single extraordinary-size purchase is a risk for a large warranty payout.
I can't think of another reason why they'd buy 'em from Costco, either, since Costco is very seldom even close to a low-price leader for hard drives. You can do better straight from the manufacturer.
While I don't disagree at all (why should employers be forced to hire certain people?) I think the real problem is the ever-expanding benefits and employer-provided health insurance... which naturally seeks to pay out as little as possible, therefore wants only low-risk employees.
Where I used to live... my internet provider was a one-man-band, and he liked to talk about his business. He bought bandwidth directly from AT&T. He told me it cost him NOTHING for downloads, and 5 CENTS per GB for uploads.
So, yeah, I'm all for it being charged at a rate at least halfassed related to their actual costs... and if their overhead is that much higher, maybe they need to look at some other costs, like CEO bonuses.
I used to take a highway route with my old 10-spd Schwinn (1969 model, weighed 40 lbs.) and I'd be going down that hill out of town the same speed as the cars -- 60mph. Had medium-width tires that were very stable under all conditions, from highway to roughs.
Those (*&%&*$ rams-horn handlebars. Harder to balance (you young'uns might not notice, but us old folks do) and don't steer for shit, meaning they're only useful on roads where you can lean to steer. Useless when your path is crooked.
Those crotch-buster seats. Who the hell thought that would be comfortable for everyday, or do they all stand up to pedal??
When I went looking for the old-fashioned wide handlebars (don't know what they're called) and a nice comfy seat, like my old bike had, I couldn't find any.:(
That may explain why I get people trying to buy my ancient bikes off me... two older Schwinns (1980ish vintage; my 1969 Schwinn, which weighed 40 pounds but took me anywhere I wanted to go, got stolen long ago) and an equally aged brand-x.
I have known kids not yet old enough to talk who could distinguish fantasy from reality, and demonstrated it by how they "pretended" (such as giving a pretend gift to another person). And kids can compartmentalize fantasy and reality -- they can fervently believe in the tooth fairy, yet if an adult makes like it's real, the kid will be like "Don't be silly, there's no such thing".
I'd hazard that the inability to so compartmentalize and distinguish fantasy from reality is in fact not normal.
Maybe a lot of it is because a generation of helicopter parents have taken choice away from their kids, so their kids never learn to make good choices on their own -- they can only choose based on what Mommy and Daddy choose, which with today's overly-crammed schedules (not helped by the never-a-free-moment parenting style), increasingly tends to be whatever is quick and convenient, ie. fast food.
When I was a kid, back when kids did their own thing so long as they were home by supper, it was common to have a candy dish in the living room for guests, but the kids seldom if ever ate from it. It wasn't forbidden, it just wasn't important to the kids, who were too busy doing other things. You got stuffed on candy on Halloween but seldom ate it otherwise, both by learned choice and that we weren't given candy money by mommy to bribe us into good behaviour, either.
I dunno about that... I can eat noodles faster with chopsticks than with a fork, and I know people who can gobble rice a lot faster with chopsticks, too.
Also, I eat like a starving wolf, but I reach satiation much sooner than people who eat slowly, and as a result generally eat less per meal.
You're forgetting that before there were cattle, there were bison, filling exactly the same evolutionary niche and doing the same things, in similar numbers. Grasslands evolved to be grazed, and it doesn't matter whether that's done by cattle or bison.
Because if a tire runs hot for some reason and over-inflates, a standard valve stem is liable to blow out, and then the tire goes flat and shreds. No hole in the tire itself required to initiate this.
I experienced that while towing a 24' trailer with a dually pickup -- we figure this is what happened: trailer brake started dragging, made the hub hot, this increased tire pressure, which blew out the valve stem, which resulted in a flat tire that beat itself to shreds within a quarter of a mile.
And in that heavy truck, I couldn't feel a thing wrong up front, wouldn't have known there was a problem except I'd heard something go BANG and thought I must have lost something off the truck, so I stopped next place the shoulder was wide enough (high-traffic road) and got out to look. Trailer tire was already confetti, tho amazingly the rim had never touched the pavement.
Yikes. I paid about $330 for a pair of Bridgestone truck tires at Costco last fall. (Which is $50 more than a set of four of the same tire cost me 5 years ago!)
I recall reading somewhere that using old ground up tires instead of gravel in the asphalt (which itself dusts up with use) was supposed to cut down tire wear thus reduce both tire dust and asphalt dust. Anyone know offhand how well such road surfaces last, and whether they're less slippery when wet?
Trouble is what they define as "cold". 100F degrees one place and season, 70F degrees another place and one season, -40F degrees still another place and another season. That's a lot of pressure difference. Yet drive down a dry road at -40F for a while and your tires will get warm enough to melt ice next time you park.
gmhowell says, "Despite the lousy pay and working conditions, US business interests have decided that things are not bad enough. They have, for years, been trying to insource as much trucking as possible from Mexico."
With a clear degradation in the quality of drivers. Used to be truckers were overall the safest and most courteous drivers around. Now, especially notable along the border states, I see perhaps half driving like it's their first trip in a big rig. And those are also the ones who don't do the little courtesies like blink their lights to tell you you're clear when passing, etc.
When I was a kid, learning to be a long-haul truck driver was an apprenticed job. Does that even happen anymore, or is it all those "trucker schools"??
Interesting. I write fiction (which as I do it is mostly a series of cognitive leaps), and I find I concentrate and "do my thing" best when the whole rest of me is busy doing something else, such as physical labor or... listening to music; the best music for the purpose is EBM/industrial/aggrotech, where half the time you can't understand 'em anyway. I wonder if what it really does is drown out the white noise from the *rest* of the right brain, which would otherwise be wandering in all directions.
Does anyone run a mirror of Sourceforge? If not, now would be the time for someone properly equipped to do so.
I remember when Digital River bought ftp.cdrom.com and proceeded to dump all the hosted archives with no warning. I no longer trust any sale of an important archive site to do better.
And on others, say "Operator" or "Transfer". The latter seems more commonly to work on those that like to respond with "I'm sorry, I didn't understand/get that" to any unexpected input.
Whenever I see food that's labeled "organic", I ask where to find the "inorganic" food.... but I never thought you could make the first from the second! Wow, a/l/c/h/e/m/y/ technology has come a long way.;)
"...have you tried installing a generic copy of Windows on generic hardware?"
I do so regularly. Where I've had problems was with OEM machines and their chips that are seconds and don't play nice with anything but Obscure Specific/Branded Driver Version. Meanwhile, my generic built-from-salvage PCs grab the default Windows-provided drivers and do fine with 'em.
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So have I. They eat damnear anything that doesn't eat them first, including occasionally each other.
Up to 70% of the diet of chickens is... chicken shit. (Even free-range chickens eat it.)
Rabbits eat rabbit shit (indeed, they will become deficient and die without access to their own feces).
And we all know what Fido thinks of the cat box.
Cattle feed often contains urea, which is not real different from concentrated piss.
Pen-raised fish have historically been fed on all manner of waste, including guts and feces. Which isn't too different from what a lot of bottom-feeder fish eat in the wild. Yet catfish are pretty durn yummy.
The problem isn't the feed, which isn't really anything novel. It's the often-questionable or undocumented circumstances of food imported from 3rd-world countries that still use 3rd-world processing, and the impact on first-world consumers who aren't adapted to third world pathogens, along with the Chinese business practice of "anything you can get away with is okay."
I think it might have had more to do with Costco's warranty policy, which is basically "two years, no questions asked" for failed electronics. Might be they figured a single extraordinary-size purchase is a risk for a large warranty payout.
I can't think of another reason why they'd buy 'em from Costco, either, since Costco is very seldom even close to a low-price leader for hard drives. You can do better straight from the manufacturer.
While I don't disagree at all (why should employers be forced to hire certain people?) I think the real problem is the ever-expanding benefits and employer-provided health insurance... which naturally seeks to pay out as little as possible, therefore wants only low-risk employees.
Where I used to live... my internet provider was a one-man-band, and he liked to talk about his business. He bought bandwidth directly from AT&T. He told me it cost him NOTHING for downloads, and 5 CENTS per GB for uploads.
So, yeah, I'm all for it being charged at a rate at least halfassed related to their actual costs... and if their overhead is that much higher, maybe they need to look at some other costs, like CEO bonuses.
I used to take a highway route with my old 10-spd Schwinn (1969 model, weighed 40 lbs.) and I'd be going down that hill out of town the same speed as the cars -- 60mph. Had medium-width tires that were very stable under all conditions, from highway to roughs.
My particular peeves:
Those (*&%&*$ rams-horn handlebars. Harder to balance (you young'uns might not notice, but us old folks do) and don't steer for shit, meaning they're only useful on roads where you can lean to steer. Useless when your path is crooked.
Those crotch-buster seats. Who the hell thought that would be comfortable for everyday, or do they all stand up to pedal??
When I went looking for the old-fashioned wide handlebars (don't know what they're called) and a nice comfy seat, like my old bike had, I couldn't find any. :(
That may explain why I get people trying to buy my ancient bikes off me ... two older Schwinns (1980ish vintage; my 1969 Schwinn, which weighed 40 pounds but took me anywhere I wanted to go, got stolen long ago) and an equally aged brand-x.
I have known kids not yet old enough to talk who could distinguish fantasy from reality, and demonstrated it by how they "pretended" (such as giving a pretend gift to another person). And kids can compartmentalize fantasy and reality -- they can fervently believe in the tooth fairy, yet if an adult makes like it's real, the kid will be like "Don't be silly, there's no such thing".
I'd hazard that the inability to so compartmentalize and distinguish fantasy from reality is in fact not normal.
Maybe a lot of it is because a generation of helicopter parents have taken choice away from their kids, so their kids never learn to make good choices on their own -- they can only choose based on what Mommy and Daddy choose, which with today's overly-crammed schedules (not helped by the never-a-free-moment parenting style), increasingly tends to be whatever is quick and convenient, ie. fast food.
When I was a kid, back when kids did their own thing so long as they were home by supper, it was common to have a candy dish in the living room for guests, but the kids seldom if ever ate from it. It wasn't forbidden, it just wasn't important to the kids, who were too busy doing other things. You got stuffed on candy on Halloween but seldom ate it otherwise, both by learned choice and that we weren't given candy money by mommy to bribe us into good behaviour, either.
I dunno about that... I can eat noodles faster with chopsticks than with a fork, and I know people who can gobble rice a lot faster with chopsticks, too.
Also, I eat like a starving wolf, but I reach satiation much sooner than people who eat slowly, and as a result generally eat less per meal.
You're forgetting that before there were cattle, there were bison, filling exactly the same evolutionary niche and doing the same things, in similar numbers. Grasslands evolved to be grazed, and it doesn't matter whether that's done by cattle or bison.
Because if a tire runs hot for some reason and over-inflates, a standard valve stem is liable to blow out, and then the tire goes flat and shreds. No hole in the tire itself required to initiate this.
I experienced that while towing a 24' trailer with a dually pickup -- we figure this is what happened: trailer brake started dragging, made the hub hot, this increased tire pressure, which blew out the valve stem, which resulted in a flat tire that beat itself to shreds within a quarter of a mile.
And in that heavy truck, I couldn't feel a thing wrong up front, wouldn't have known there was a problem except I'd heard something go BANG and thought I must have lost something off the truck, so I stopped next place the shoulder was wide enough (high-traffic road) and got out to look. Trailer tire was already confetti, tho amazingly the rim had never touched the pavement.
Yikes. I paid about $330 for a pair of Bridgestone truck tires at Costco last fall. (Which is $50 more than a set of four of the same tire cost me 5 years ago!)
I recall reading somewhere that using old ground up tires instead of gravel in the asphalt (which itself dusts up with use) was supposed to cut down tire wear thus reduce both tire dust and asphalt dust. Anyone know offhand how well such road surfaces last, and whether they're less slippery when wet?
Trouble is what they define as "cold". 100F degrees one place and season, 70F degrees another place and one season, -40F degrees still another place and another season. That's a lot of pressure difference. Yet drive down a dry road at -40F for a while and your tires will get warm enough to melt ice next time you park.
So, which "cold" standard are we talking about??
And you get out of prison and sober up!
gmhowell says, "Despite the lousy pay and working conditions, US business interests have decided that things are not bad enough. They have, for years, been trying to insource as much trucking as possible from Mexico."
With a clear degradation in the quality of drivers. Used to be truckers were overall the safest and most courteous drivers around. Now, especially notable along the border states, I see perhaps half driving like it's their first trip in a big rig. And those are also the ones who don't do the little courtesies like blink their lights to tell you you're clear when passing, etc.
When I was a kid, learning to be a long-haul truck driver was an apprenticed job. Does that even happen anymore, or is it all those "trucker schools"??
[Now get off my lawn!]
Interesting. I write fiction (which as I do it is mostly a series of cognitive leaps), and I find I concentrate and "do my thing" best when the whole rest of me is busy doing something else, such as physical labor or ... listening to music; the best music for the purpose is EBM/industrial/aggrotech, where half the time you can't understand 'em anyway. I wonder if what it really does is drown out the white noise from the *rest* of the right brain, which would otherwise be wandering in all directions.
Does anyone run a mirror of Sourceforge? If not, now would be the time for someone properly equipped to do so.
I remember when Digital River bought ftp.cdrom.com and proceeded to dump all the hosted archives with no warning. I no longer trust any sale of an important archive site to do better.
I said "Transfer" and wound up on Slashdot. WTF??!!!
Crap. I tried that and wound up with anchovies!!
And on others, say "Operator" or "Transfer". The latter seems more commonly to work on those that like to respond with "I'm sorry, I didn't understand/get that" to any unexpected input.
Whenever I see food that's labeled "organic", I ask where to find the "inorganic" food.... but I never thought you could make the first from the second! Wow, a/l/c/h/e/m/y/ technology has come a long way. ;)
"...have you tried installing a generic copy of Windows on generic hardware?"
I do so regularly. Where I've had problems was with OEM machines and their chips that are seconds and don't play nice with anything but Obscure Specific/Branded Driver Version. Meanwhile, my generic built-from-salvage PCs grab the default Windows-provided drivers and do fine with 'em.