Plastic surgery clinics could do that too. It would be better than just leaving their lipid waste in big plastic bags in bio hazard dumpsters, where anyone can just jump the fence and steal it.
If everybody started using used vegetable oil for an energy source, wouldn't the cost of used vegetable oil go way up?
If the restaurants all start using their used oil for this secondary purpose instead of selling it, how would the market for that now-mostly-free waste product exist?
I've done that fryer-cleaning job. Trust me, if you factor in the man hours it takes to move and store that oil compared to having a hose you could plug in there to drain directly to your fuel tank, you'll chose the option that lets you spend your time scrubbing something instead of messing with fluctuating oil markets.
It'd be worth it just to remove the occasional slip & fall with a couple of buckets full of oil spilling as you drop: The accident that causes itself.
McDonalds Energy, Solving home heating crisis by providing clean deep fryer vegetable oil!
McDonalds has beef fat in it's fryers. I remember that pissed off a bunch of Hindus a while back, they were smearing feces on the face of Ronald statues in India.
>>>But businessmen get to buy exclusive rights for the couple hundred bucks the artist needs to make rent that month; and then get rich on the IP they conned out of the creator! Yay?
I defer my answer to someone who knows the business better than me: J.Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5:
Completely off topic. If you want a celebrity author's take on my point, it's Neil Adams and his fight against DC in the name of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel.
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>>>why no one ever produced any music, art, or literature before copyright protection was in place
They did produce music, but they also had crap jobs. Johannes Bach was little more than a choir director for his local church - and he hated it with a passion. At least today, with protection of songwriters' creations, they can live better lifestyles.
I got news for you: Artists today still overwhelmingly need crap jobs to make ends meet.
But businessmen get to buy exclusive rights for the couple hundred bucks the artist needs to make rent that month; and then get rich on the IP they conned out of the creator! Yay?
The whole "this is your new Elvis" is a little sensationalist.
I think that should be "completely stupid", not "sensationalistic": Elvis was the white face of black music, a marketing gimmick of the record companies. Eminem is the latest (that I was unfortunately made aware of) "New Elvis".
does anyone else have problems with the notion that [a show about a mad scientist helping solve crimes resulting from his past experiment] is "Sci-fi"?
Seriously I find that poor packing of expensive items occurs far more frequently than tiny items in massive boxes.
Consider the $90 Limited Edition video game in the metal case that gets thrown in either a padded bag or a mostly empty box with a few sheet of advertising flash and a partially-inflated bag. By the time it reaches my hands it's a goddamn miracle if it doesn't have any dents or scratches.
if water kills you on contact, maybe you shouldn't invade a planet covered in mostly water
They're religiously nudist. Obviously, a race capable of crossing the stars would have spacesuits and be able to make a fucking dry suit, or a god damned raincoat, but NO! They HAVE to walk around naked and exposed at all times, even if that means that their centuries-long plan will surely fail a day or two after they finally land the invasion party.
You should see the footage of their first moon landing. All that gasping and exploding eyeballs... So tragic.
Does anybody know just why Hulu & Boxee don't get along? I've read that come content providers asked Hulu to block Boxee, but I completely fail to see the logic behind the request.
"I don't care if it hurts, I wanna have control [...] 'cause I'm a creep."
Even the paid channels that were supposedly "ad free" started having ads. I wouldn't mind paying a premium for a channel that had absolutely no ads
I like ads. Let me repeat that... I like ads. If it comes down to a choice between having to shell out real money for entertainment
You're missing his point: You don't HAVE a choice.
I want to have the choice, either pay and be ad free, or cash-free with ads. But those assholes want me to pay to see ads, and I want them to get cancer and die.
30 years from now, people will think how stupid it was that you had to wait for your favorite TV show to come on at a specific time, rather than watching it whenever you wanted.
Also very strange, people considered it normal for their show to be interrupted periodically by attempts to sell you crap.
Speaking of which, anybody know a ready-made way to get rid of those fucking pop-over ads they have in embedded videos now? I'm keeping my cursor over where I know the [x] will most likely be, but it's still an annoying intrusion in what I'm trying to watch, and it happens too often for me to maintain a black lists of companies to boycott for having the unmitigated gall to get between me and what I'm looking at.
It'd be more useful to see laws written in something resembling plain language. There is no excuse for 1,000 page omnibus bills.
That 1,000 pages thing is misleading: bills are printed on half-sized pages, double-spaced, in rather large font (Times New Roman 16 or 18) with wide margins (at least 0.75"). Were it a normal ol' book, it would probably be in the 200-300 range.
Plain language is misleading. Ambiguous, fuzzy, prone to misunderstandings. You say one thing, people understand it to mean another. Frustrations all around.
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They've used vegetable oil in their fryers for at least 10 years now. They now use a blend of soy and canola oil. http://www.ilsoy.org/soy-news/article/?sort=14&id=172
Yeah, that was what those angry Hindus had been told before the scandal broke out ;-)
Plastic surgery clinics could do that too. It would be better than just leaving their lipid waste in big plastic bags in bio hazard dumpsters, where anyone can just jump the fence and steal it.
If everybody started using used vegetable oil for an energy source, wouldn't the cost of used vegetable oil go way up?
If the restaurants all start using their used oil for this secondary purpose instead of selling it, how would the market for that now-mostly-free waste product exist?
I've done that fryer-cleaning job. Trust me, if you factor in the man hours it takes to move and store that oil compared to having a hose you could plug in there to drain directly to your fuel tank, you'll chose the option that lets you spend your time scrubbing something instead of messing with fluctuating oil markets.
It'd be worth it just to remove the occasional slip & fall with a couple of buckets full of oil spilling as you drop: The accident that causes itself.
McDonalds Energy,
Solving home heating crisis by providing clean deep fryer vegetable oil!
McDonalds has beef fat in it's fryers. I remember that pissed off a bunch of Hindus a while back, they were smearing feces on the face of Ronald statues in India.
>>>But businessmen get to buy exclusive rights for the couple hundred bucks the artist needs to make rent that month; and then get rich on the IP they conned out of the creator! Yay?
I defer my answer to someone who knows the business better than me: J.Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5:
Completely off topic.
If you want a celebrity author's take on my point, it's Neil Adams and his fight against DC in the name of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel.
Thanks a lot! Now I have the bass line from Ice Ice Baby going through my head!
Pay back:
Rob Van Winkle would like to apologize to you.
>>>why no one ever produced any music, art, or literature before copyright protection was in place
They did produce music, but they also had crap jobs. Johannes Bach was little more than a choir director for his local church - and he hated it with a passion. At least today, with protection of songwriters' creations, they can live better lifestyles.
I got news for you: Artists today still overwhelmingly need crap jobs to make ends meet.
But businessmen get to buy exclusive rights for the couple hundred bucks the artist needs to make rent that month; and then get rich on the IP they conned out of the creator! Yay?
The whole "this is your new Elvis" is a little sensationalist.
I think that should be "completely stupid", not "sensationalistic": Elvis was the white face of black music, a marketing gimmick of the record companies. Eminem is the latest (that I was unfortunately made aware of) "New Elvis".
Tivo recording numbers (also kept and recording by Nielsen)
How do we know that the one and only company that tells everyone which shows are watched is being honest about it?
does anyone else have problems with the notion that [a show about a mad scientist helping solve crimes resulting from his past experiment] is "Sci-fi"?
No, and neither should you.
Why is it that when Americans think of powered exoskeletons, the first thing they think of is soldiers?
He asked on the evolved version of a DARPA funded network.
unique and elegant design:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2191712/honda_walking_assist/
You're half right.
If there is really a giant island of plastic floating out
"The original idea that people had was that it was an island of plastic garbage that you could almost walk on. It is not quite like that. It is almost like a plastic soup," Dr Eriksen says.
Seriously I find that poor packing of expensive items occurs far more frequently than tiny items in massive boxes.
Consider the $90 Limited Edition video game in the metal case that gets thrown in either a padded bag or a mostly empty box with a few sheet of advertising flash and a partially-inflated bag. By the time it reaches my hands it's a goddamn miracle if it doesn't have any dents or scratches.
You know, metal cases used to be the package...
an N-1 atheist.
He disbelieves the existence of every single god and goddess ever invented, except one.
Atheism is a boolean value. It has to be null, and the pope believes in an irrational number of gods which equals both 1 and 3 ;-)
Organized crime would most likely love to have online P2P stopped.
Of course the MPAA would love that, they keep saying so every chance they get!
if water kills you on contact, maybe you shouldn't invade a planet covered in mostly water
They're religiously nudist.
Obviously, a race capable of crossing the stars would have spacesuits and be able to make a fucking dry suit, or a god damned raincoat, but NO! They HAVE to walk around naked and exposed at all times, even if that means that their centuries-long plan will surely fail a day or two after they finally land the invasion party.
You should see the footage of their first moon landing. All that gasping and exploding eyeballs... So tragic.
Does anybody know just why Hulu & Boxee don't get along? I've read that come content providers asked Hulu to block Boxee, but I completely fail to see the logic behind the request.
"I don't care if it hurts, I wanna have control [...] 'cause I'm a creep."
openness of Hulu
Ah! Is this an oxymoron contest?
My turn then: "Atheism of the Pope"
Your buddy's 15-year-old game had to be rewritten for the Wii.
No it did not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_emulator You clearly have no clue what you're talking about.
The director, actors, editors, etc. have to do NOTHING to take a movie to another medium.
Wrong again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remaster
Do you pay to see the same movie monthly (jokes about the Friday the 13th series aside)? No, you don't.
Cable movie channels.
Does a movie have to be tested for months by dozens of people to make sure it works
Yes it does: Focus groups.
40-50 hours of bonus material with a movie? Not in any cinema I've been to. When I buy a game, that's what comes IN the game.
The bonus material are on the DVD you buy, you imbecile.
Even the paid channels that were supposedly "ad free" started having ads. I wouldn't mind paying a premium for a channel that had absolutely no ads
I like ads. Let me repeat that... I like ads. If it comes down to a choice between having to shell out real money for entertainment
You're missing his point: You don't HAVE a choice.
I want to have the choice, either pay and be ad free, or cash-free with ads.
But those assholes want me to pay to see ads, and I want them to get cancer and die.
30 years from now, people will think how stupid it was that you had to wait for your favorite TV show to come on at a specific time, rather than watching it whenever you wanted.
Also very strange, people considered it normal for their show to be interrupted periodically by attempts to sell you crap.
Speaking of which, anybody know a ready-made way to get rid of those fucking pop-over ads they have in embedded videos now?
I'm keeping my cursor over where I know the [x] will most likely be, but it's still an annoying intrusion in what I'm trying to watch, and it happens too often for me to maintain a black lists of companies to boycott for having the unmitigated gall to get between me and what I'm looking at.
30 years from now, people will think how stupid it was that you had to wait for your favorite TV show to come on at a specific time.
I think it is stupid now, and I grew up watching TV.
Mod parent up, THIS will be the death of TV.
I long for the day when my stories won't be preempted by people throwing a ball around.
It'd be more useful to see laws written in something resembling plain language. There is no excuse for 1,000 page omnibus bills.
That 1,000 pages thing is misleading: bills are printed on half-sized pages, double-spaced, in rather large font (Times New Roman 16 or 18) with wide margins (at least 0.75"). Were it a normal ol' book, it would probably be in the 200-300 range.
Plain language is misleading.
Ambiguous, fuzzy, prone to misunderstandings. You say one thing, people understand it to mean another. Frustrations all around.
developers != publishers
Came here to say that, but in defense of their confusion: most publishers also do in-house developing.
Still, publisher is not a synonym for developer!