We got along without cell phones for a lot of years without that being an issue. And if someone actually has an emergency and is coherent enough to dial 911, using the very same energy it takes to extract a cellphone and dial it, they surely could attract the attention of a fellow student, a TA, or even the professor. Whose desk is probably armed with a phone.
Might be that he'd spent so long building his specialty box, that he was incapable of thinking outside it. Tho that could be a chicken/egg thing, too. I had a college prof who did the sort of research he did because he was completely incapable of coping with ANYTHING else.
Kind of the inverse of the "educated idiot" who believes that if HE doesn't know the answer or understand the concept, it isn't possible for *anyone else* to know or understand it, either. And if you engage in problem-solving to find/understand, the E.I. insists you're making shit up, or are just blindly regurgitating.
Goes to show that real learning lies in the spectrum *between* "they know everything" and "I know everything", rather than at either extreme.
Yeah, it's an old system (but exceedingly stable) -- Tyan S1830S motherboard, now 12 years old, occupying a case that started life holding a 486. (I have two of those Tyans. I get offers to buy 'em every so often, for more than I paid new. NO!!!) It has an ATX connector too but declines to power on properly when that's used.
I've found the simple way to evaluate PSUs without knowing what's inside or caring about brand is to weigh them, count wires, and note wire gauge. The heavier, the more wires, and the thicker the wire, the better. The Topower weighs over 4 pounds, has 7 molex plus some others, all long and thick. I've seen cheapies that weigh 12 ounces and have 2 connectors on wires that rival human hair for thinness.
Once you've had hookworms, you may need to be on ivermectin for the rest of your life. You're never quite done shedding cysts. Ivermectin is fairly safe, but are they testing long-term use candidates for MDR1 first?? Quite possible that this defect is in the human species (I haven't heard one way or the other but most canine genetic defects have a human analog).
Someone just told me about a case where someone with Crohn's Disease nearly died from hookworm, which had recurred from cysts due to his immune system being out of whack, but was not diagnosed until nearly too late, the hookworm being masked by the Crohn's symptoms.
I've seen enough whipworm infections in dogs to know that this is one of those where with even a "light" infection is a bad thing. Unthriftiness and uncontrollable projectile diarrhea are typical symptoms, with colitis over the long term due to intestinal damage. Whipworm eggs also remain alive in the soil more or less indefinitely. While fenbendazole is now used for treatment, in my observation it is not entirely effective; for that you need dichlorvos.
At any rate, while this may have some promise under completely controlled and monitored conditions, I'd be extremely leery of whatever is coming out of the "natural medicine" camp.
And here's my PSU that finally got surged to partial death at age 15 years (the mobo connector no longer works, but the rest seems fine): http://www.topower.com/product/at_300ssce.html
They also said they'd repair the old one for $30, tho I can also buy a replacement for $40 (or about $60 for the upgrade). The original cost me $50 at a local clone shop; at the time it was very hard to find a 300W PSU (choice of one). Everything about it is heavy-duty, worth every cent. I've replaced the fan 3 or 4 times, but that's no big deal.
I hadn't realised Topower was still in business... next time I build a halfway modern machine, I'll probably try one of theirs instead of Enermax (which I've liked a lot for ATX systems).
not only that, but the social skills that come with interactions. I'm constantly amazed at how complex the "rules" get for their games. Considering they had to invent them, compromise, figure out "teams", police themselves, follow them and work out differences, it really does involve a lot of "work". Much better than turning out to be a pasty white, allergic social retard (sorry/.)
Actually, most of them do -- too much brightness required to simulate real colours; colour being off one direction or another; pixels too individually visible; and at the moment the support wire is across the middle of the comment box.:)
[goes off, looks at adjacent blue and red stuff] Well, having both in sight doesn't seem to cause my eye to see more/less of one or the other..??
When I bought my previous monitor, the dealer thought I was stark staring... they had about 50 hooked up and I only liked one. No, I don't want one in a box, I want the one on the display rack, cuz I already know that one's colour is right! (Viewsonic CRTs are just about dead on, and it goes downhill from there.)
What was the topic again? Oh yeah, whether George Lucas' brain is coloured green, and whether it's from envy or greed. I think we can agree on that, no matter how we "see" it.:D
Your vision sounds like my neighbour -- she has a definite issue with not being able to see much contrast, especially if yellow is involved. She doesn't test colour-blind but just doesn't seem to see yellow very well, especially traffic lights and pavement markers. She is very myopic and about runs into walls without her contacts. (With glasses, she has marked tunnel vision.) Come to mention it she likes the blueblockers too.
She has very poor night vision; conversely I see very well in the dark, well enough to regularly get accused of being a vampire:) "Black lights" are painfully bright to my eyes, and you will never see me outdoors in daylight without a hat and sunglasses!
One day she lost a bright red marker out in the grass (well, dry brown grass and sand) and could not find it anywhere... I spotted it immediately. She was wearing her contacts and I was not. (I don't usually except for driving, tho I'm legal to drive without.) Kindof akin to your thing with the red flower not being real visible... Between all this, I suspect there is a level of colour vision that isn't colour-blind, but sees them with less than average intensity under normal/unfiltered light. Might have to do with cone density on the retina.
Side thought from our unique eyes and brains: if eyeball transplants could happen, there would be a lot of complaints about "hey! this is all colour-shifted! I want a different eye!":)
Okay, knowing what I do professionally about parasites -- the entire description is bogus on both counts. I'd guess there is actually nothing in the supplied capsules, other than some chemical irritant like "hot sauce".
Roundworms don't attach to anything, they live free in the intestine. Their lifespan is a few weeks. The encysted stage does come out in the lungs and is coughed up and swallowed, to become mature roundworms. Eggs are passed in stool and any touch is sufficient to contaminate. They can live in the ground, or encysted in muscle tissue, for years. Some lung damage does result from long-term infections.
Large roundworms, not being a human-based species, are likely to take a wrong turn and wind up in an eye or the brain. So they are not especially safe as an infective agent.
The only ones I can think of that drill through the skin, then attach to the intestine and drink blood, are hookworms. They can cause anemia severe enough to be life-threatening, especially in children. They are most definitely NOT a symbiote, let alone a "safe" parasite. Far as I know they do not generate an immune response.
Tapeworms also attach to the intestine, but don't drink blood. The common flea is part of their lifecycle (eat a flea and get tapeworms). Not usually harmful unless there's an overload, at which point malnourishment and diarrhea can result. However, they also do not generate any immune response. Getting rid of the heads, once embedded, can be very difficult.
At any rate, it sounds like what's being floated is somewhere between snake-oil and dangerous, depending on whether there are any real parasites in the mix, which I expect examination with a microscope would prove there are not, or at most only killed/fixed eggs (easy enough to come by, just run a mass float on any livestock stool).
[Note: I am a professional dog breeder/trainer with 40 years experience; I deal with this sort of thing routinely.]
Sunburned is maybe the wrong word -- mine are super-duper blueblockers too. Infrared burn, more like -- in bright hot Calif sun it actually feels like my eyes are being cooked.
I expect how your vision is affected depends on a lot of things, including how good your distance vision is to start with. I'm slightly myopic in my natural state, and don't notice the depth perception thing -- but I do notice it screwing up colour vision (but I'm also one of those four-colour vision freaks). However a friend who has perfect distance vision and needs that for his work complained that it was getting messed up.
So indeed, our vision does vary.:)
For everyday use I buy Air Force sunglasses, natural grey and with real glass lenses. I can SEE even the best plastics (I can see my contact lenses too!) and it never stops bothering me. I have noticed that the natural grey/glass lens does a slight correction on my distance vision, in that stuff has sharper edges. (My myopia isn't quite typical -- stuff doesn't blur out at some distance, rather it fails to focus. So I can see the windmills 30 miles away or see all the letters on the street signs, but the edges won't resolve.)
Regardless... do not stare into laser with remaining eye!:)
Also because the modern relatively-insulated "clean" environment prevents selection against individuals with immune disorders (allergies are, as another poster puts it, essentially an overblown immune response), allowing them to breed more successfully than they would in an "all natural" environment.
Any time there is failure to select against a genetic defect, its prevalence will increase.
You grew up as a NORMAL kid, as did I. This coccooned-child thing in the U.S. has only been around for the last 20-25 years, and I agree entirely, it is a bad thing. Kids need to go outside, get dirty, and learn to create their own entertainment, instead of having it thrust upon them.
And on that note, I recall research about how kids learn: seems learning isn't absorbed and processed during the "work" periods, but rather only during the "idle" periods, when kids are just being kids. So this "go outside, root in the mud, and generally do nothing useful" is not useless at all, but rather quite necessary to normal learning.
Likely just as true for adults, tho often ignored (maybe that explains why adults have a harder time learning than kids do??) I've found for myself that for every hour doing something Useful, I need an hour of decompression -- go outside and pull weeds, or watch ants, or do something equally "natural" and nominally useless.
I don't know about this "helminthic theory" (most of that sort of cure-all is a load of hooey) but there is recent research on roundworms in dogs:
The question arose -- if they're a parasite, and a problem, why are they universal? turns out they're actually closer to a symbiote, and that having a few roundworms at a very early age helps stimulate a puppy's immune system. (Dogs on a high-meat diet do not develop an overload of roundworms; roundworm overgrowth is actually a result of the worms being protected by large amounts of water and mucus in the stool, generally due to high fibre or soy-based diets.) After a year or so a dog with a normal immune system will develop antibodies and eject the remaining intestinal forms, tho some still at the muscle-cyst stage will remain to infect the next generation (they cross the placenta).
It is possible to entirely eliminate roundworms in two generations, simply by worming puppies at 10 and 20 days of age. But (20 years before the research came out) I'd found this was not a good idea, because those totally roundworm-free puppies tended to have digestive issues, and had to be given yogurt to get things working correctly. I'd concluded that at least SOME exposure to roundworms was good and necessary.
Pinworms (a very similar form of ascarid) probably fulfill the same function in humans: About 30% of school-age kids (from a variety of environments) tested in the U.S. were found to have pinworms, with NO symptoms whatsoever. That's too widespread to be simply a contaminant.
However, it's probably not a good idea to infect yourself with pinworms as an adult; there's some thought that the correct immune response only occurs in juveniles whose immune system is still developing.
I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but I wonder if there may be something to that (yeah digestive acid makes hash of it once it hits the stomach, but the mouth is a different environment). Kids tend to do a lot of instinctive things, and picking their nose and eating it is clearly one of them -- since most kids do it, unless disciplined not to.
But regardless of where we lived, we were around a lot more Natural Stuff. Building materials in relatively raw form, draft animals and their effluvient, street vermin (rats, roaches, etc) and their parasites, basic unprocessed foods complete with whatever contaminants nature (or manure fertilizer) saw fit to distribute.
I expect a similar finding would result from examining people who spend a lot of time out in any fairly natural environment, exposed to Natural Stuff that in one way or another acts as an immune stimulant.
I tried those... found that in bright sun they caused my eyes to get sunburned. So now I only use them in poor-contrast situations, like light rain or light fog, where they do help.
They also mess up your depth perception and colour vision over time, tho a lot of people don't notice unless they need one or the other for their daily work.
But Lucas is not and has never been a SF writer, other than in the most superficial way (here's some ideas and a crude script, you guys go storyboard it, and you other guys go ghost-write it). I'd say his real bent is marketing.
In other news, Lucasarts trademarks "futuristic devices, or devices which appear to be futuristic, or which may be representative of science-fictional devices".
Also a trademark has to specify what it's for. You can't go claiming vaguely similar shit after the fact, or stuff that happens to look like yours but does something else.
No idea, don't know how you'd tell. I have noticed that as a general rule, the crappier the mobo, the smaller the physical size of the capacitors. Same with PSUs. My good old Topower has capacitors the size of your thumb.
CPUs and RAM will put up with a lot of abuse; I've got a CPU in yonder system pulled from a machine that had been so hot the mobo was warped and I needed (I shit you not) vise-grips to get the CPU out of the slot. And I've got RAM in use that was found on the salvage warehouse floor. Makes you wonder.:)
The money is with big ag, and unfortunately big ag gets most of the subsidies; family farms often aren't even eligible. But in sheer numbers, there are a LOT more family farms, most of which now need someone working an outside job to make it. Subsidies have become essentially a regressive tax loaded against small producers.
If you're a high volume producer, 25 cents for a gallon of milk is fine. If you have 200 cows, it's a starvation wage.
Also, speaking of research before you post, last I saw all farm subsidies combined were under 1% of the federal budget. Hardly a major drain.
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We got along without cell phones for a lot of years without that being an issue. And if someone actually has an emergency and is coherent enough to dial 911, using the very same energy it takes to extract a cellphone and dial it, they surely could attract the attention of a fellow student, a TA, or even the professor. Whose desk is probably armed with a phone.
Might be that he'd spent so long building his specialty box, that he was incapable of thinking outside it. Tho that could be a chicken/egg thing, too. I had a college prof who did the sort of research he did because he was completely incapable of coping with ANYTHING else.
"...subsequent analyses turned up an interesting trend: Copying homework is a leading indicator of becoming a business major..."
Kind of the inverse of the "educated idiot" who believes that if HE doesn't know the answer or understand the concept, it isn't possible for *anyone else* to know or understand it, either. And if you engage in problem-solving to find/understand, the E.I. insists you're making shit up, or are just blindly regurgitating.
Goes to show that real learning lies in the spectrum *between* "they know everything" and "I know everything", rather than at either extreme.
Thanks for reminding me, I'd forgotten about this guy's reviews! looks like my two preferred brands are doing okay, far as I read :)
Yeah, it's an old system (but exceedingly stable) -- Tyan S1830S motherboard, now 12 years old, occupying a case that started life holding a 486. (I have two of those Tyans. I get offers to buy 'em every so often, for more than I paid new. NO!!!) It has an ATX connector too but declines to power on properly when that's used.
I've found the simple way to evaluate PSUs without knowing what's inside or caring about brand is to weigh them, count wires, and note wire gauge. The heavier, the more wires, and the thicker the wire, the better. The Topower weighs over 4 pounds, has 7 molex plus some others, all long and thick. I've seen cheapies that weigh 12 ounces and have 2 connectors on wires that rival human hair for thinness.
Once you've had hookworms, you may need to be on ivermectin for the rest of your life. You're never quite done shedding cysts. Ivermectin is fairly safe, but are they testing long-term use candidates for MDR1 first?? Quite possible that this defect is in the human species (I haven't heard one way or the other but most canine genetic defects have a human analog).
Someone just told me about a case where someone with Crohn's Disease nearly died from hookworm, which had recurred from cysts due to his immune system being out of whack, but was not diagnosed until nearly too late, the hookworm being masked by the Crohn's symptoms.
I've seen enough whipworm infections in dogs to know that this is one of those where with even a "light" infection is a bad thing. Unthriftiness and uncontrollable projectile diarrhea are typical symptoms, with colitis over the long term due to intestinal damage. Whipworm eggs also remain alive in the soil more or less indefinitely. While fenbendazole is now used for treatment, in my observation it is not entirely effective; for that you need dichlorvos.
At any rate, while this may have some promise under completely controlled and monitored conditions, I'd be extremely leery of whatever is coming out of the "natural medicine" camp.
What is ZFS? Anyway, here's the list of what they make: http://www.topower.com/product/product.htm
And here's my PSU that finally got surged to partial death at age 15 years (the mobo connector no longer works, but the rest seems fine): http://www.topower.com/product/at_300ssce.html
Will be replacing it with a minor upgrade: http://www.topower.com/product/at_400ssce.html
They also said they'd repair the old one for $30, tho I can also buy a replacement for $40 (or about $60 for the upgrade). The original cost me $50 at a local clone shop; at the time it was very hard to find a 300W PSU (choice of one). Everything about it is heavy-duty, worth every cent. I've replaced the fan 3 or 4 times, but that's no big deal.
I hadn't realised Topower was still in business... next time I build a halfway modern machine, I'll probably try one of theirs instead of Enermax (which I've liked a lot for ATX systems).
not only that, but the social skills that come with interactions. I'm constantly amazed at how complex the "rules" get for their games. Considering they had to invent them, compromise, figure out "teams", police themselves, follow them and work out differences, it really does involve a lot of "work". Much better than turning out to be a pasty white, allergic social retard (sorry /.)
Straitly put, but very true.
Actually, most of them do -- too much brightness required to simulate real colours; colour being off one direction or another; pixels too individually visible; and at the moment the support wire is across the middle of the comment box. :)
[goes off, looks at adjacent blue and red stuff] Well, having both in sight doesn't seem to cause my eye to see more/less of one or the other..??
When I bought my previous monitor, the dealer thought I was stark staring... they had about 50 hooked up and I only liked one. No, I don't want one in a box, I want the one on the display rack, cuz I already know that one's colour is right! (Viewsonic CRTs are just about dead on, and it goes downhill from there.)
What was the topic again? Oh yeah, whether George Lucas' brain is coloured green, and whether it's from envy or greed. I think we can agree on that, no matter how we "see" it. :D
Your vision sounds like my neighbour -- she has a definite issue with not being able to see much contrast, especially if yellow is involved. She doesn't test colour-blind but just doesn't seem to see yellow very well, especially traffic lights and pavement markers. She is very myopic and about runs into walls without her contacts. (With glasses, she has marked tunnel vision.) Come to mention it she likes the blueblockers too.
She has very poor night vision; conversely I see very well in the dark, well enough to regularly get accused of being a vampire :) "Black lights" are painfully bright to my eyes, and you will never see me outdoors in daylight without a hat and sunglasses!
One day she lost a bright red marker out in the grass (well, dry brown grass and sand) and could not find it anywhere... I spotted it immediately. She was wearing her contacts and I was not. (I don't usually except for driving, tho I'm legal to drive without.) Kindof akin to your thing with the red flower not being real visible... Between all this, I suspect there is a level of colour vision that isn't colour-blind, but sees them with less than average intensity under normal/unfiltered light. Might have to do with cone density on the retina.
Side thought from our unique eyes and brains: if eyeball transplants could happen, there would be a lot of complaints about "hey! this is all colour-shifted! I want a different eye!" :)
Okay, knowing what I do professionally about parasites -- the entire description is bogus on both counts. I'd guess there is actually nothing in the supplied capsules, other than some chemical irritant like "hot sauce".
Roundworms don't attach to anything, they live free in the intestine. Their lifespan is a few weeks. The encysted stage does come out in the lungs and is coughed up and swallowed, to become mature roundworms. Eggs are passed in stool and any touch is sufficient to contaminate. They can live in the ground, or encysted in muscle tissue, for years. Some lung damage does result from long-term infections.
Large roundworms, not being a human-based species, are likely to take a wrong turn and wind up in an eye or the brain. So they are not especially safe as an infective agent.
The only ones I can think of that drill through the skin, then attach to the intestine and drink blood, are hookworms. They can cause anemia severe enough to be life-threatening, especially in children. They are most definitely NOT a symbiote, let alone a "safe" parasite. Far as I know they do not generate an immune response.
Tapeworms also attach to the intestine, but don't drink blood. The common flea is part of their lifecycle (eat a flea and get tapeworms). Not usually harmful unless there's an overload, at which point malnourishment and diarrhea can result. However, they also do not generate any immune response. Getting rid of the heads, once embedded, can be very difficult.
At any rate, it sounds like what's being floated is somewhere between snake-oil and dangerous, depending on whether there are any real parasites in the mix, which I expect examination with a microscope would prove there are not, or at most only killed/fixed eggs (easy enough to come by, just run a mass float on any livestock stool).
[Note: I am a professional dog breeder/trainer with 40 years experience; I deal with this sort of thing routinely.]
Sunburned is maybe the wrong word -- mine are super-duper blueblockers too. Infrared burn, more like -- in bright hot Calif sun it actually feels like my eyes are being cooked.
I expect how your vision is affected depends on a lot of things, including how good your distance vision is to start with. I'm slightly myopic in my natural state, and don't notice the depth perception thing -- but I do notice it screwing up colour vision (but I'm also one of those four-colour vision freaks). However a friend who has perfect distance vision and needs that for his work complained that it was getting messed up.
So indeed, our vision does vary. :)
For everyday use I buy Air Force sunglasses, natural grey and with real glass lenses. I can SEE even the best plastics (I can see my contact lenses too!) and it never stops bothering me. I have noticed that the natural grey/glass lens does a slight correction on my distance vision, in that stuff has sharper edges. (My myopia isn't quite typical -- stuff doesn't blur out at some distance, rather it fails to focus. So I can see the windmills 30 miles away or see all the letters on the street signs, but the edges won't resolve.)
Regardless... do not stare into laser with remaining eye! :)
Also because the modern relatively-insulated "clean" environment prevents selection against individuals with immune disorders (allergies are, as another poster puts it, essentially an overblown immune response), allowing them to breed more successfully than they would in an "all natural" environment.
Any time there is failure to select against a genetic defect, its prevalence will increase.
You grew up as a NORMAL kid, as did I. This coccooned-child thing in the U.S. has only been around for the last 20-25 years, and I agree entirely, it is a bad thing. Kids need to go outside, get dirty, and learn to create their own entertainment, instead of having it thrust upon them.
And on that note, I recall research about how kids learn: seems learning isn't absorbed and processed during the "work" periods, but rather only during the "idle" periods, when kids are just being kids. So this "go outside, root in the mud, and generally do nothing useful" is not useless at all, but rather quite necessary to normal learning.
Likely just as true for adults, tho often ignored (maybe that explains why adults have a harder time learning than kids do??) I've found for myself that for every hour doing something Useful, I need an hour of decompression -- go outside and pull weeds, or watch ants, or do something equally "natural" and nominally useless.
I don't know about this "helminthic theory" (most of that sort of cure-all is a load of hooey) but there is recent research on roundworms in dogs:
The question arose -- if they're a parasite, and a problem, why are they universal? turns out they're actually closer to a symbiote, and that having a few roundworms at a very early age helps stimulate a puppy's immune system. (Dogs on a high-meat diet do not develop an overload of roundworms; roundworm overgrowth is actually a result of the worms being protected by large amounts of water and mucus in the stool, generally due to high fibre or soy-based diets.) After a year or so a dog with a normal immune system will develop antibodies and eject the remaining intestinal forms, tho some still at the muscle-cyst stage will remain to infect the next generation (they cross the placenta).
It is possible to entirely eliminate roundworms in two generations, simply by worming puppies at 10 and 20 days of age. But (20 years before the research came out) I'd found this was not a good idea, because those totally roundworm-free puppies tended to have digestive issues, and had to be given yogurt to get things working correctly. I'd concluded that at least SOME exposure to roundworms was good and necessary.
Pinworms (a very similar form of ascarid) probably fulfill the same function in humans: About 30% of school-age kids (from a variety of environments) tested in the U.S. were found to have pinworms, with NO symptoms whatsoever. That's too widespread to be simply a contaminant.
However, it's probably not a good idea to infect yourself with pinworms as an adult; there's some thought that the correct immune response only occurs in juveniles whose immune system is still developing.
I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but I wonder if there may be something to that (yeah digestive acid makes hash of it once it hits the stomach, but the mouth is a different environment). Kids tend to do a lot of instinctive things, and picking their nose and eating it is clearly one of them -- since most kids do it, unless disciplined not to.
But regardless of where we lived, we were around a lot more Natural Stuff. Building materials in relatively raw form, draft animals and their effluvient, street vermin (rats, roaches, etc) and their parasites, basic unprocessed foods complete with whatever contaminants nature (or manure fertilizer) saw fit to distribute.
I expect a similar finding would result from examining people who spend a lot of time out in any fairly natural environment, exposed to Natural Stuff that in one way or another acts as an immune stimulant.
I tried those... found that in bright sun they caused my eyes to get sunburned. So now I only use them in poor-contrast situations, like light rain or light fog, where they do help.
They also mess up your depth perception and colour vision over time, tho a lot of people don't notice unless they need one or the other for their daily work.
But Lucas is not and has never been a SF writer, other than in the most superficial way (here's some ideas and a crude script, you guys go storyboard it, and you other guys go ghost-write it). I'd say his real bent is marketing.
In other news, Lucasarts trademarks "futuristic devices, or devices which appear to be futuristic, or which may be representative of science-fictional devices".
Also a trademark has to specify what it's for. You can't go claiming vaguely similar shit after the fact, or stuff that happens to look like yours but does something else.
No idea, don't know how you'd tell. I have noticed that as a general rule, the crappier the mobo, the smaller the physical size of the capacitors. Same with PSUs. My good old Topower has capacitors the size of your thumb.
CPUs and RAM will put up with a lot of abuse; I've got a CPU in yonder system pulled from a machine that had been so hot the mobo was warped and I needed (I shit you not) vise-grips to get the CPU out of the slot. And I've got RAM in use that was found on the salvage warehouse floor. Makes you wonder. :)
The money is with big ag, and unfortunately big ag gets most of the subsidies; family farms often aren't even eligible. But in sheer numbers, there are a LOT more family farms, most of which now need someone working an outside job to make it. Subsidies have become essentially a regressive tax loaded against small producers.
If you're a high volume producer, 25 cents for a gallon of milk is fine. If you have 200 cows, it's a starvation wage.
Also, speaking of research before you post, last I saw all farm subsidies combined were under 1% of the federal budget. Hardly a major drain.