It gets worse... How many people can do basic stuff like bake bread? Or cook a meal - ANY meal - without it coming out of a package in the freezer? Or make pancakes from scratch ("where's the pancake mix?"). Seriously... pancake mix? A cup of flour, some baking powder, dash of salt, a bit of brown sugar, an egg, and just over a cup of milk, and a chunk of melted butter... mix... pour... flip... serve... clean up. Do it a few times and you don't even have to measure.
Four went on sale last month, so I bought 5x10kg (about 100 pounds). It'll get used - pancakes, cookies, whatever... it probably pays for itself dozens of times over... the only breakfast cereal I buy is Rice Crispies - and only to make Rice Krispie Treats. Breakfast cereals have got to be one of the biggest scams going.
WE had two sections at the local library - the main one, and the basement, reserved for kids. I finally got an "adult" card at 12 (basically, having read pretty much everything in the kids section that was interesting) and wow, was that a whole new world. Being able to take out 10 books at a time instead of 3 - so grab everything I could find by an author (Laumer, Heinlein, Simeon, Anderson, Asimov, etc) and just go through it all. What a feast!
Besides, it's easy to kosher anything. I'm not jewish, and I've toiveled the cooking utensils for ultra-orthodox jews in the river, kashered (no , that's not a typo) their oven, and another time, made a shipment of pacific salmon kosher (the more laws, the more loopholes, and there are plenty of jewish laws).
... and the comics in the newspapers. From there, you'd branch out to reading other interesting stuff, doing the kid's crossword puzzle, etc.
And then there was the library. Not "multi-media center." A real library. Where they had anthologies of science-fiction short stories (like any addiction, the first hit is free...:-) And from there to full-length novels. And then biographies (a lot more interesting than they made it in history class), and science books, and crime novels. All wonderful brain candy.
Please re-read what I wrote. You don't need a battery charger - $0.99 includes the batteries - 3 coin cells.
The emitters are recessed 1mm.
Nobody's going to worry about keys scratching the aluminium surface of a 99-cent pointer.
Now please consider a real-life scenario - you have the light on your key-chain, so you don't have to fumble around looking for both your keys AND your light. And if you drop it in the dark, you won't break anything.
Winter is coming - it's a lot easier to drop a phone while wearing gloves.
Wouldn't it be smarter to, for the same $0.99, buy a combo laser pointer/led light keychain thingee, complete with batteries? You can also use it to tease the dogs and cats and enrage skunks (yes, skunks get REALLY mad when you try to tease them with a laser pointer, and will charge if you're not careful... been there done that, left the vicinity asap while there was still a fence between us).
With humans - we just move our heads. Make tsck sound, listen, move head, repeat. I learnt the tsck technique, but I'm told clicking is more reliable.
So the real story is that Africans have been doing echo-location for generations, and that's why their names have click sounds in them! "Where is Mb*click*saba? - Oh, I hear where you are!"
Even leaving out the retarded political slant, it's amusing you think being attracted or not attracted to people of a particular "race" is meaningfully equivalent to "racism".
If you're going to troll, at least make a half-decent effort. All the accusations so far are from white women. If it were a white male, and all the accusations were from black women, the label "racist" would still fit. Heck, it fits if it's a white male in an area with a 50/50 split of black/white, and the guy only goes for white women. Same for black men targeting black women exclusively in the same scenario.
So, are you also racist? Do you find people to be less attractive just because they're a particular "race"? Would you make a decision to live with, or marry, or have kids, based even in part on skin color? Because if you do, you're a racist bigot.
Then he'd have been better off using the proper term - non-arable, instead of "in-airable". "inarable" is really poor English, the same as inrefundable for non-refundable, inperishable for non-perishable, inreturnable for non-returnable, and inrecyclable for non-recyclable.
Of course, with all the mess in the middle east, maybe he didn't want to include any term that had the word "arab" in it?
I would wager that the average number of words per day read by kids today is at least 3 times the number read 50 years ago.
[citation needed]
And don't count content-free facebook posts and tweets - even adults don't remember them 2 minutes later. Including those today is like including graffiti back in 1961.
That doesn't take away from the value of it as much as you'd think. It got people thinking, and eventually coming up with both explanations for why the results weren't replicated (contamination by fresh cells) and ways to work around the problem (with potential spin-off benefits wrt cancer and old age treatments).
Human flesh tastes like pign. Search for "long pig". Also, the Mercury astronauts were, as part of their survival training, taught that the tenderest cuts are from just under the ribcage.
Serious question - if you clone pig meat, without the animal ever being grown, it won't have hooves - so is it kosher?
Yes. There's a place that grows pigs that live on elevated platforms, so their hooves never touch the ground. This meets the technical definition of kosher - while it has cleaved (split) hooves, it doesn't have a hoof that "cleaves the ground it walks upon" because it never walks on the ground.
The plan, as I see it, is to devalue the currency so that paying those debts isn't as painful as it could be. Normally, you would do this via inflation. However, if you can keep interest rates pretty much at zero, even small "real" inflation (as opposed to the official inflation numbers) will have the same effect over the course of a decade - especially if you can somehow get real growth started w/o triggering inflation.
The best way to do that would be to stop artificially supporting the bubble-priced housing market. It still has another 20% to drop, and that drop is going to happen no matter what, so might as well take the hit, and the resulting low prices will trigger a recovery (just as low computer prices stimulates the computer market, and high gasoline prices killed the Hummer).
The problem is that the FIRE industries (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) currently own the legislators AND the regulators. This distorts the whole economy, because industries that could power a recovery are ignored, or worse, the resources that could be put into them are put elsewhere.
A good example of that is groupon. An insolvent business, a broken business model, huge unacknowledged fiscal liabilities (for example, many states don't allow the vendor - in this case groupon - to "own" unclaimed and unused vouchers for 5 years, and require them to make refunds) and yet the financial nutballs hype it on the basis that there's short-term profit to be made speculating on the stock.
The money that went into groupon is money that could have gone into something better. At the same time, because it went into groupon, it encourages others to continue to develop fraudulent and/or ineffective business models, in the hope of cashing in before the stench of the turd baking in the sun gets strong enough to overwhelm the smell of free money.
Probably because 1984 wasn't "too science-fictiony", and was downright boring compared to the grand masters of the SciFi golden age.
So of course 1984, being so boring, was taken as "serious literature", whereas sci-fi was relegated to "oh, that's just the pulps".
It also didn't help that too many people who weren't into sci-fi and obviously didn't understand it kept confusing it with the worst genres of fantasy fiction. Or that some sci-fi was fluff that was just painful to read (like the "space opera cowboy with raygun blaster fights tentacled monster to save his gal" crapola that was serialized in the juveniles* at the time).
*juveniles - magazines put out for younger kids, back in the days when younger kids actually read anything beyond comic books.
Chicken Little, a huge mass of cultured chicken breast, was kept alive by algae skimmed by nearly-slave labor from multistory towers of ponds surrounded by mirrors to focus the sunlight onto the ponds.
Scum-skimming wasn't hard to learn. You got up at dawn. You gulped a breakfast sliced not long ago from Chicken Little and washed it down with Coffiest. You put on your coveralls and took the cargo net up to your tier. In blazing noon from sunrise to sunset you walked your acres of shallow tanks crusted with algae. If you walked slowly, every thirty seconds or so you spotted a patch at maturity, bursting with yummy carbohydrates. You skimmed the patch with your skimmer and slung it down the well, where it would be baled, or processed into glucose to feed Chicken Little, who would be sliced and packed to feed people from Baffinland to Little America.
From The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth).
Published by St. Martin's Press in 1952
Read the link for the references to the REAL "Chicken Little" experiment that started it all.
Definitely. The problem is you have companies like GoldmanSachs and JPMorgan that have a financial interest in conning people into making bad loans, and for people and governments to take out bad loans.
And when those investments go south (like all those pension funds that invested in the MBS BS), they milk both ends of the resulting mess.
A few humongous bankruptcies, a few trillion wiped out, and a few perp walks, are the only things that will restore sanity. It will be painful, but it's also pretty much inevitable. If a tiny country like Iceland can do it, anyone can.
When it gets to the point that you're carrying a terabyte or more in your pocket, in an always-on smart device, connected to an intelligent network, your points go away.
Who needs centralization when they can just share stuff right off their local device and not have to worry about logging in anywhere? And if they realize that those pics they have in one of their shared folders could be embarrassing at a job interview, just delete it locally?
And have their own white lists and black lists, all easily manageable?
And the network being smart enough to do de-duplication of bytes traveling along the same path, up until the node they diverge at, so slashdotting becomes impossible (and uses less bandwidth overall).
10 years - 20 at the outside. Because the hardware is going there, and the software, while it always lags behind by a decade or two, will catch up with the "new realities."
As for "back to the push model" - privacy concerns may end up making that inevitable as well for some types of communications. Certainly webmail as we know it is a concern, as are social networks in their current centralized form.
Consider this analogy. "The great thing is that anyone can be president. The bad thing is that anyone can be president." Even a pot-head, a coke-head, and a crack-head.
One of the consequences of the commoditization of hardware is that the industry is now at the point where any half-assed idea can gain traction until it blows up in your face, whereas with higher barriers to entry, there are more checks and balances. Which leads to more quality control, since failure at any point has a higher cost.
If your car were to be as crappy as your desktop environment, you'd shoot it and get a horse.
As for the VCs, go talk to a reporter who deals with them on a regular basis and is willing to talk off-the-record - they are experts at one thing above all others - shoveling the BS. I've seen it first-hand. Have you?
So, yo don't believe that many workplaces are sexist, and that women are generally treated equally and fairly, so anyone who complains isn't credible? Come on, IT (since this is slashdot) is extremely sexist.
we live in the age where if a women walks up to a random male stranger on the street and says "he grabbed my ass" he's automatically guilty, even if he's innocent. And of course it's the fastest way to ruin anyones reputation. It's also the most predictable way.
No - the quickest way to ruin someone's reputation is accusations of child molestation. Or have you missed the whole "Catholic Priest" thing over the last 50 years?
Ever hear of a working hypothesis? Until such time as there's any proof to the contrary (and Cain is certainly in a position to supply it, but won't for obvious reasons...)
So no, based on observations, calling Cain a racist sexist pig makes more sense than calling the women racists for being offended for being groped (and the race of the groper has nothing to do with it).
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It gets worse ... How many people can do basic stuff like bake bread? Or cook a meal - ANY meal - without it coming out of a package in the freezer? Or make pancakes from scratch ("where's the pancake mix?"). Seriously ... pancake mix? A cup of flour, some baking powder, dash of salt, a bit of brown sugar, an egg, and just over a cup of milk, and a chunk of melted butter ... mix ... pour ... flip ... serve ... clean up. Do it a few times and you don't even have to measure.
Four went on sale last month, so I bought 5x10kg (about 100 pounds). It'll get used - pancakes, cookies, whatever ... it probably pays for itself dozens of times over ... the only breakfast cereal I buy is Rice Crispies - and only to make Rice Krispie Treats. Breakfast cereals have got to be one of the biggest scams going.
WE had two sections at the local library - the main one, and the basement, reserved for kids. I finally got an "adult" card at 12 (basically, having read pretty much everything in the kids section that was interesting) and wow, was that a whole new world. Being able to take out 10 books at a time instead of 3 - so grab everything I could find by an author (Laumer, Heinlein, Simeon, Anderson, Asimov, etc) and just go through it all. What a feast!
They do in the original Hebrew.
Besides, it's easy to kosher anything. I'm not jewish, and I've toiveled the cooking utensils for ultra-orthodox jews in the river, kashered (no , that's not a typo) their oven, and another time, made a shipment of pacific salmon kosher (the more laws, the more loopholes, and there are plenty of jewish laws).
The pigs will eat them. Pigs will eat pretty much anything. In other words, they're pretty much like humans and dogs.
And then there was the library. Not "multi-media center." A real library. Where they had anthologies of science-fiction short stories (like any addiction, the first hit is free ... :-) And from there to full-length novels. And then biographies (a lot more interesting than they made it in history class), and science books, and crime novels. All wonderful brain candy.
The emitters are recessed 1mm.
Nobody's going to worry about keys scratching the aluminium surface of a 99-cent pointer.
Now please consider a real-life scenario - you have the light on your key-chain, so you don't have to fumble around looking for both your keys AND your light. And if you drop it in the dark, you won't break anything.
Winter is coming - it's a lot easier to drop a phone while wearing gloves.
Wouldn't it be smarter to, for the same $0.99, buy a combo laser pointer/led light keychain thingee, complete with batteries? You can also use it to tease the dogs and cats and enrage skunks (yes, skunks get REALLY mad when you try to tease them with a laser pointer, and will charge if you're not careful ... been there done that, left the vicinity asap while there was still a fence between us).
So the real story is that Africans have been doing echo-location for generations, and that's why their names have click sounds in them! "Where is Mb*click*saba? - Oh, I hear where you are!"
If you're going to troll, at least make a half-decent effort. All the accusations so far are from white women. If it were a white male, and all the accusations were from black women, the label "racist" would still fit. Heck, it fits if it's a white male in an area with a 50/50 split of black/white, and the guy only goes for white women. Same for black men targeting black women exclusively in the same scenario.
So, are you also racist? Do you find people to be less attractive just because they're a particular "race"? Would you make a decision to live with, or marry, or have kids, based even in part on skin color? Because if you do, you're a racist bigot.
First, back up your claim as to kids reading more today than 50 years ago. Otherwise, whether failbook and twithead count or not is irrelevant.
Then he'd have been better off using the proper term - non-arable, instead of "in-airable". "inarable" is really poor English, the same as inrefundable for non-refundable, inperishable for non-perishable, inreturnable for non-returnable, and inrecyclable for non-recyclable.
Of course, with all the mess in the middle east, maybe he didn't want to include any term that had the word "arab" in it?
[citation needed]
And don't count content-free facebook posts and tweets - even adults don't remember them 2 minutes later. Including those today is like including graffiti back in 1961.
That doesn't take away from the value of it as much as you'd think. It got people thinking, and eventually coming up with both explanations for why the results weren't replicated (contamination by fresh cells) and ways to work around the problem (with potential spin-off benefits wrt cancer and old age treatments).
What defines a "normal cell"?
There's no reason you can't have a "cancerous" Chicken Little, with no limits to growth.
Human flesh tastes like pign. Search for "long pig". Also, the Mercury astronauts were, as part of their survival training, taught that the tenderest cuts are from just under the ribcage.
Complete directions for preparing long pig (warning: very "Dexter"-like)
Yes. There's a place that grows pigs that live on elevated platforms, so their hooves never touch the ground. This meets the technical definition of kosher - while it has cleaved (split) hooves, it doesn't have a hoof that "cleaves the ground it walks upon" because it never walks on the ground.
I for one welcome the introduction of vacuum-packed burgers from vacuum-sucking cows.
But doesn't it take more energy to get them to the moon (the closest "un-airable" land) than it would to just use ordinary air-breathing cows?
The plan, as I see it, is to devalue the currency so that paying those debts isn't as painful as it could be. Normally, you would do this via inflation. However, if you can keep interest rates pretty much at zero, even small "real" inflation (as opposed to the official inflation numbers) will have the same effect over the course of a decade - especially if you can somehow get real growth started w/o triggering inflation.
The best way to do that would be to stop artificially supporting the bubble-priced housing market. It still has another 20% to drop, and that drop is going to happen no matter what, so might as well take the hit, and the resulting low prices will trigger a recovery (just as low computer prices stimulates the computer market, and high gasoline prices killed the Hummer).
The problem is that the FIRE industries (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) currently own the legislators AND the regulators. This distorts the whole economy, because industries that could power a recovery are ignored, or worse, the resources that could be put into them are put elsewhere.
A good example of that is groupon. An insolvent business, a broken business model, huge unacknowledged fiscal liabilities (for example, many states don't allow the vendor - in this case groupon - to "own" unclaimed and unused vouchers for 5 years, and require them to make refunds) and yet the financial nutballs hype it on the basis that there's short-term profit to be made speculating on the stock.
The money that went into groupon is money that could have gone into something better. At the same time, because it went into groupon, it encourages others to continue to develop fraudulent and/or ineffective business models, in the hope of cashing in before the stench of the turd baking in the sun gets strong enough to overwhelm the smell of free money.
Probably because 1984 wasn't "too science-fictiony", and was downright boring compared to the grand masters of the SciFi golden age.
So of course 1984, being so boring, was taken as "serious literature", whereas sci-fi was relegated to "oh, that's just the pulps".
It also didn't help that too many people who weren't into sci-fi and obviously didn't understand it kept confusing it with the worst genres of fantasy fiction. Or that some sci-fi was fluff that was just painful to read (like the "space opera cowboy with raygun blaster fights tentacled monster to save his gal" crapola that was serialized in the juveniles* at the time).
*juveniles - magazines put out for younger kids, back in the days when younger kids actually read anything beyond comic books.
From The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth).
Published by St. Martin's Press in 1952
Read the link for the references to the REAL "Chicken Little" experiment that started it all.
Definitely. The problem is you have companies like GoldmanSachs and JPMorgan that have a financial interest in conning people into making bad loans, and for people and governments to take out bad loans.
And when those investments go south (like all those pension funds that invested in the MBS BS), they milk both ends of the resulting mess.
A few humongous bankruptcies, a few trillion wiped out, and a few perp walks, are the only things that will restore sanity. It will be painful, but it's also pretty much inevitable. If a tiny country like Iceland can do it, anyone can.
I know "anyone can be president", but do you guys have to keep proving it? It's not the Limbo Rock - you don't have to "show how low you can go."
Who needs centralization when they can just share stuff right off their local device and not have to worry about logging in anywhere? And if they realize that those pics they have in one of their shared folders could be embarrassing at a job interview, just delete it locally?
And have their own white lists and black lists, all easily manageable?
And the network being smart enough to do de-duplication of bytes traveling along the same path, up until the node they diverge at, so slashdotting becomes impossible (and uses less bandwidth overall).
10 years - 20 at the outside. Because the hardware is going there, and the software, while it always lags behind by a decade or two, will catch up with the "new realities."
As for "back to the push model" - privacy concerns may end up making that inevitable as well for some types of communications. Certainly webmail as we know it is a concern, as are social networks in their current centralized form.
Consider this analogy. "The great thing is that anyone can be president. The bad thing is that anyone can be president." Even a pot-head, a coke-head, and a crack-head.
One of the consequences of the commoditization of hardware is that the industry is now at the point where any half-assed idea can gain traction until it blows up in your face, whereas with higher barriers to entry, there are more checks and balances. Which leads to more quality control, since failure at any point has a higher cost.
If your car were to be as crappy as your desktop environment, you'd shoot it and get a horse.
As for the VCs, go talk to a reporter who deals with them on a regular basis and is willing to talk off-the-record - they are experts at one thing above all others - shoveling the BS. I've seen it first-hand. Have you?
So, yo don't believe that many workplaces are sexist, and that women are generally treated equally and fairly, so anyone who complains isn't credible? Come on, IT (since this is slashdot) is extremely sexist.
No - the quickest way to ruin someone's reputation is accusations of child molestation. Or have you missed the whole "Catholic Priest" thing over the last 50 years?
Ever hear of a working hypothesis? Until such time as there's any proof to the contrary (and Cain is certainly in a position to supply it, but won't for obvious reasons ...)
So no, based on observations, calling Cain a racist sexist pig makes more sense than calling the women racists for being offended for being groped (and the race of the groper has nothing to do with it).