Good and unfortunately valid observation. The enviros would propose something radical and restrictive, rather than "everybody catch a dozen carp day" which would cost taxpayers nothing, or "really cheap commercial fishing permits if all you catch is carp".
And if they taste like shit, so what? there's high demand for fish as fertilizer and animal feed, and for that use it doesn't really matter if it's 'good' fish or trash and bottom feeders.
Now here's some more math for ya to do: to supply the country with solar power, how many square miles need be covered by such facilities?
And as to environmental hypocrisy... where I used to live in the high desert, woe unto the landowner who reported seeing an 'endangered' kangaroo rat; your property would be essentially 'frozen' and you couldn't do anything with it. But the same PTB had no trouble handing over a couple thousand acres of the same habitat to solar energy companies... and solar as it's being done in that area is very much scorched-earth.
[Incidentally, to see kangaroo rats, one need merely go out into the brush at night. In Real Life, they're nearly as thick as rabbits. Endangered by what standard??]
Wow. As I mention above, I've had some from ~1951 when it was going on 20YO... still edible. I'd like to know what was in the compressed chocolate... quite good.
As to preserved pizza, every college student knows how to do this... just leave it lay on the kitchen counter for 3 days, and voila, pizza that will keep forever, and still tastes like pizza. Even if it is hard as a rock.
Dunno about modern MREs, but I've had some of the old canned variety from ca. 1951... opened and eaten ca. 1970. Most of the contents were still edible. The crackers and chocolate were quite good.
On one particular forum site, discourse is usually polite if fairly shallow. However anyone who disagrees with the forum owners' radical groupthink is dogpiled, labeled a troll, and banned, no matter how polite they were.
The same opinions expressed on various other sites result only in lively discourse, not arguments nor being banned as trolls.
And my cynical little voice says Facebook's move has nothing to do with gender identity or respect thereof, but rather that people 'seeking' an identity tend to want to share a lot of information about themselves, which from FB's POV is all to the good... so let's give 'em a reason to be here.
Having worked for a survey-taking firm at the level of "sorting out this mess" back in the days of handwritten surveys -- sure they can. It's just a huge PITA, and you wind up with lots of outliers.
But the major union damage to their own industries happened long before China entered the picture. The major losses of heavy industry were 30 and 40 and 50 years ago. China has only been a real player here for about 20 years.
Being of the same generation as yourself (IIRC I'm 3 years your junior)... I totally agree, til you got to the part about the unions. Unions killed themselves with their own greed, and killed a whole economic sector by demanding money that just wasn't there, taking the last profit out of heavy industry and sending more and more of it overseas. Detroit is example #1, but I'd also point at the Butte copper pit, which I was there to see die at the hands of the union. Didn't seem to bother the union that the smelting industry was being squeezed between higher electric rates and higher union demands to the point that there was no money in it (and if a company can't make money, why stay in business?) And it didn't seem to bother the union when the mine shut down and threw 90% of the town into long-term unemployment. The miners weren't happy, but it wasn't up to them. Everyone I knew said they'd have rather kept working for less pay than lose everything.
And I think that's Nimoy's message. Not "I want to live forever" but rather "I was stupid back then, and ultimately it cost me. Don't be stupid. Learn from Grandpa."
Unfortunately when he was young, the dangers were not so well known. And there are still kids who can't or won't learn from grandpa.
I've had good crossbreds and shitty purebreds, and of course the reverse. But it's a helluva lot easier to breed what you want (working ability, physical type, health, temperament, attitude) when you start with known entities. I have behavioral traits in my kennel that I've traced as far back as 1940, and other traits that I can identify as far back as 1880, which lets me select for or against them by breeding toward or away from a given line, which in turn lets my customers pick what they want. Would you have that luxury with a mutt? Would you even know its parents, let alone its grandparents and other ancestors? It's a crap shoot. It may score, or it may fail, but no one is selecting against the bad traits. (Here's a stat for ya -- rescues are about 18% of pets, but commit 50% of the serious bites. Rescues are mostly mutts.)
Agility (and the training methods that go with it) is an anomaly. Its main thrust is that it's fun for the dog, first and foremost. We've spent 10,000 years breeding the selfishness out of dogs, and in just a couple decades, agility has us right back with the wild type that prefers to do its own thing rather than do man's thing. It may be loads of fun for all in the present, and some really good dogs excel at it too (in fact they tend to be the very top competitors) but on the whole it's doing the future no good at all. It's rather like feelgood education in humans.
Yeah, I remember when people here would commonly post links to one thing or another on K5. Can't recall having seen that in years.
Did you see the video someone posted a link to, with Fark's design guy talking about how changing their interface was a major fuckup? Also had some very telling slides of another site that did likewise (I think it was another site -- the sound was bad) and experienced a precipitous drop in visits and therefore ad revenues.
Unless the site is very, very quick to catch on and repent, this sort of customer service mistake is irrecoverable.
I just looked (for the first time in years). kuro5hin.org, despite having rather more inflammatory 'articles' than Slashdot, has at best about 1/5th the number of comments, and on brief perusal, appears to have maybe 1/10th as many unique users active in any given story.
Or perhaps you really meant kuro5hin.com, which is even more empty, being it's a domain squat.
ALL those drugs for Fido are made in the same factory, from the same materials, in the very same BATCH, as the human drugs. The only real difference is that the product labeled for animals doesn't carry the huge lawsuit liability risk. If you take aspirin labeled for humans and die, you might have a case in court. If you take aspirin labeled for animals and die, you used it off-label and that's your problem.
I'd guess that's actually low compared to a lot of industries, and not out of line for other industries that rely to some extent on R&D -- like those two great analogy markets, cars and computers.
I'd guess, frex, the fast food industry spends thousands of times as much money on promotion as they do on R&D.
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Good and unfortunately valid observation. The enviros would propose something radical and restrictive, rather than "everybody catch a dozen carp day" which would cost taxpayers nothing, or "really cheap commercial fishing permits if all you catch is carp".
And if they taste like shit, so what? there's high demand for fish as fertilizer and animal feed, and for that use it doesn't really matter if it's 'good' fish or trash and bottom feeders.
Or we could just introduce muskies....
And is harvesting carp allowed, or are they considered a game fish?
S'okay, I grokked what you meant anyway :)
Now here's some more math for ya to do: to supply the country with solar power, how many square miles need be covered by such facilities?
And as to environmental hypocrisy... where I used to live in the high desert, woe unto the landowner who reported seeing an 'endangered' kangaroo rat; your property would be essentially 'frozen' and you couldn't do anything with it. But the same PTB had no trouble handing over a couple thousand acres of the same habitat to solar energy companies... and solar as it's being done in that area is very much scorched-earth.
[Incidentally, to see kangaroo rats, one need merely go out into the brush at night. In Real Life, they're nearly as thick as rabbits. Endangered by what standard??]
Wow. As I mention above, I've had some from ~1951 when it was going on 20YO... still edible. I'd like to know what was in the compressed chocolate... quite good.
As to preserved pizza, every college student knows how to do this... just leave it lay on the kitchen counter for 3 days, and voila, pizza that will keep forever, and still tastes like pizza. Even if it is hard as a rock.
The live version. With the screech.
As to vitamins... what's with this assumption that pizza is the ONLY thing someone would be eating??
Dunno about modern MREs, but I've had some of the old canned variety from ca. 1951... opened and eaten ca. 1970. Most of the contents were still edible. The crackers and chocolate were quite good.
Use a P-51 can opener for authenticity. ;)
Trolling is in the eye of the beholder.
On one particular forum site, discourse is usually polite if fairly shallow. However anyone who disagrees with the forum owners' radical groupthink is dogpiled, labeled a troll, and banned, no matter how polite they were.
The same opinions expressed on various other sites result only in lively discourse, not arguments nor being banned as trolls.
That's a good thought. Pay per class credit.
Might also discourage filler classes and useless degrees.
And yeah, tho someone gaming the system does show intelligence, they also show a lack of ethics.
It already did, leading to "QUILTBAG".
Well, at least you can pronounce this one.
And my cynical little voice says Facebook's move has nothing to do with gender identity or respect thereof, but rather that people 'seeking' an identity tend to want to share a lot of information about themselves, which from FB's POV is all to the good... so let's give 'em a reason to be here.
Having worked for a survey-taking firm at the level of "sorting out this mess" back in the days of handwritten surveys -- sure they can. It's just a huge PITA, and you wind up with lots of outliers.
But the major union damage to their own industries happened long before China entered the picture. The major losses of heavy industry were 30 and 40 and 50 years ago. China has only been a real player here for about 20 years.
As a Gemini, I'm of two minds about it.
Being of the same generation as yourself (IIRC I'm 3 years your junior) ... I totally agree, til you got to the part about the unions. Unions killed themselves with their own greed, and killed a whole economic sector by demanding money that just wasn't there, taking the last profit out of heavy industry and sending more and more of it overseas. Detroit is example #1, but I'd also point at the Butte copper pit, which I was there to see die at the hands of the union. Didn't seem to bother the union that the smelting industry was being squeezed between higher electric rates and higher union demands to the point that there was no money in it (and if a company can't make money, why stay in business?) And it didn't seem to bother the union when the mine shut down and threw 90% of the town into long-term unemployment. The miners weren't happy, but it wasn't up to them. Everyone I knew said they'd have rather kept working for less pay than lose everything.
For comparison, Win95 was reportedly 16M lines of code.
Since when does it take a whole operating system worth of code just to be a browser? No wonder it's so damned slow... and uses more RAM than WinXP.
Not to mention the memory leaks that get worse and worse (and which appear to be largely due to bad coding Zen wrt caching).
Just tripped over this -- scroll down past the initial paperwork. You may recognise the site.
http://www.theblackvault.com/d...
And I think that's Nimoy's message. Not "I want to live forever" but rather "I was stupid back then, and ultimately it cost me. Don't be stupid. Learn from Grandpa."
Unfortunately when he was young, the dangers were not so well known. And there are still kids who can't or won't learn from grandpa.
Hey, thanks! Never knew where that came from. It's still a crackup. :)
I've had good crossbreds and shitty purebreds, and of course the reverse. But it's a helluva lot easier to breed what you want (working ability, physical type, health, temperament, attitude) when you start with known entities. I have behavioral traits in my kennel that I've traced as far back as 1940, and other traits that I can identify as far back as 1880, which lets me select for or against them by breeding toward or away from a given line, which in turn lets my customers pick what they want. Would you have that luxury with a mutt? Would you even know its parents, let alone its grandparents and other ancestors? It's a crap shoot. It may score, or it may fail, but no one is selecting against the bad traits. (Here's a stat for ya -- rescues are about 18% of pets, but commit 50% of the serious bites. Rescues are mostly mutts.)
Agility (and the training methods that go with it) is an anomaly. Its main thrust is that it's fun for the dog, first and foremost. We've spent 10,000 years breeding the selfishness out of dogs, and in just a couple decades, agility has us right back with the wild type that prefers to do its own thing rather than do man's thing. It may be loads of fun for all in the present, and some really good dogs excel at it too (in fact they tend to be the very top competitors) but on the whole it's doing the future no good at all. It's rather like feelgood education in humans.
Yeah, I remember when people here would commonly post links to one thing or another on K5. Can't recall having seen that in years.
Did you see the video someone posted a link to, with Fark's design guy talking about how changing their interface was a major fuckup? Also had some very telling slides of another site that did likewise (I think it was another site -- the sound was bad) and experienced a precipitous drop in visits and therefore ad revenues.
Unless the site is very, very quick to catch on and repent, this sort of customer service mistake is irrecoverable.
And my concern still stands:
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
I just looked (for the first time in years). kuro5hin.org, despite having rather more inflammatory 'articles' than Slashdot, has at best about 1/5th the number of comments, and on brief perusal, appears to have maybe 1/10th as many unique users active in any given story.
Or perhaps you really meant kuro5hin.com, which is even more empty, being it's a domain squat.
Hmm. I think IBM stock might be in for another crash, temporary but significant, just like it did 20-some years ago.
ALL those drugs for Fido are made in the same factory, from the same materials, in the very same BATCH, as the human drugs. The only real difference is that the product labeled for animals doesn't carry the huge lawsuit liability risk. If you take aspirin labeled for humans and die, you might have a case in court. If you take aspirin labeled for animals and die, you used it off-label and that's your problem.
I'd guess that's actually low compared to a lot of industries, and not out of line for other industries that rely to some extent on R&D -- like those two great analogy markets, cars and computers.
I'd guess, frex, the fast food industry spends thousands of times as much money on promotion as they do on R&D.