I think it does matter, I think what the people are doing is as much related to farming as it is to factory work. I'm uncomfortable supporting what I view as an enterprise of questionable ethics and sustainability... so I'm willing to bicycle past the chain grocery to get to a farmer's market. Don't think that I'm doing anything extreme here it's the difference between a 3 and 5 minute ride. I take my family weekly to a few farms just outside the city and I estimate 60% of our food is produced locally with an additional 10% from northern Italy & Slovenia.
Also I think it's an imperative to support people in community; I like living here, I like the people here. In this matter it makes no sense to save 3-7% by making purchases from chain grocers who bring in goods from abroad. In fact with many items you can realize a pretty significant savings, so with our lifestyle it balances out. Besides our local beer, wine, and schnapps is great.
I have recently returned from a 3 month African safari... essentially 3 months with no corporate farmed goods whatsoever. I still can't believe how good the food was! The make biltong out of nearly anything that moves and the process is much less energy intensive, but slower, than jerking meat... it's a drying rather than a cooking. I smuggled 5 kilos of Kudu biltong from an animal I shot back home.
I currently live in Austria but I am a first generation American citizen whose family immigrated from Czech Republic. After 9/11, when the US became so weird, most of my family what the hell we were doing there and moved.
Interesting... I mostly disagree with you but I'm not surprised. My other random comments:
They should come up with a new word for these professionals who work for corporate farms to distinguish them from farmers
I prefer to purchase the majority of my food from a farmer who I can look in the eye... i.e. who lives nearby. I got on this kick a while back and I'm surprised how easy it is to get a majority of my family's food from within a 85 kilometer radius. (including most of my alcohol)
I here you on the labeling thing but I really do have content concerns and they absolutely don't get addressed with the US labeling system. But at least I can ask the farmer when I am at his farm what the deal is.
Clones mean monoculture doesn't that suggest one nasty bug means significant loss of product. Clones also mean patents and other artificially induced scarcity (I'l bet they won't be able to reproduce either)
Beef sucks, chicken raised in those corporate farm sucks. Venison, Kudu, _Impala_, and other wild-game meat is the most tasty thing you can buy. Warthog is good but tough...
If you like jerky you may _love_ biltong... but it may be impossible to dry in your climate
That's exactly what 'disposable digicam' folks thought and once the 'dedicated hardware hackers with expensive logic analyzers' told the world how to easily hack the camera I suppose they reviewed their business model.
Still... I get most of my out of region movies via bittorent anyway so I can at least get English subtitles.
A sizable minority of Americans who vote want elements of an authoritarian police state and are willing to accept the accompanying loss of rights.
Another sizable minority of Americans who vote want elements of a theocracy, based on their religion, in order to "fix all that's wrong with America". These people are willing to accept a stunning amount of duplicity and corruption.
Unfortunately their is another large group of Americans... those who aren't religious zealots, who don't support the erosion of civil liberties, and who generally are decent people and great to associate with... but they don't vote.
So Americans *want* this type of government... so that's what we got... I'm glad I moved.
you are looking for 'Hugin', generally is does a good job.
--Rant-- however it does suffer from the fact that it is a font-end for a series of command line apps which have widely disparate design paradigms. One particularly annoying app is written in C# and thus one must down the whole of mono crap in order to use it (if memory serves it is a 28 meg download for a 780K application). Also due to the same issues there is not really consistent handling of filetypes, size, colour depth, compression, and error returns. A corollary problem is that the developers are very enamored with algorithms and not so with implementation details so when things go well they go very, very well and when things go wrong... well it's a bit of mystery.
--Rant--
However I must be clear despite all that I complain about hugin it sucks much less than realviz or any other closed source app I've tried.
Sure it hasn't happened to you... but if half the politicians in the US metamorphosed into cockroaches would we be able to tell?
As far as my sig I am referring to his other works in which he describes things like nebulous fears, bizarrely dysfunctional government ministries, and the horror one has while navigating such places knowing that you have no control over what going, no understanding of the inner workings and decision makings, and essentially no control over your own destiny. In this way he effectively predicted what the US government has become: A union of George Orwell's 1984 & Animal Farm; Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince; Kafka's das Schloß.
Wow! Are you being deliberately obtuse or are you just that fucking stupid?
"abstain" means I chose not to vote.
"None of the above" means: I do not accept any of these candidates for the position and that each party fielding a candidate must find another contender and another election held.
I've emailed some random dude off slashdot and it went OK
I've gotten email from some random dude off slashdot over my last sig... I was looking for a way to use Intous input devices on a self made OS X powered iTablet sort of thing. Actually I still am but I've given up on slashdot as a source of information on that fools errand
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I think it does matter, I think what the people are doing is as much related to farming as it is to factory work. I'm uncomfortable supporting what I view as an enterprise of questionable ethics and sustainability... so I'm willing to bicycle past the chain grocery to get to a farmer's market. Don't think that I'm doing anything extreme here it's the difference between a 3 and 5 minute ride. I take my family weekly to a few farms just outside the city and I estimate 60% of our food is produced locally with an additional 10% from northern Italy & Slovenia.
Also I think it's an imperative to support people in community; I like living here, I like the people here. In this matter it makes no sense to save 3-7% by making purchases from chain grocers who bring in goods from abroad. In fact with many items you can realize a pretty significant savings, so with our lifestyle it balances out. Besides our local beer, wine, and schnapps is great.
I have recently returned from a 3 month African safari... essentially 3 months with no corporate farmed goods whatsoever. I still can't believe how good the food was! The make biltong out of nearly anything that moves and the process is much less energy intensive, but slower, than jerking meat... it's a drying rather than a cooking. I smuggled 5 kilos of Kudu biltong from an animal I shot back home.
I currently live in Austria but I am a first generation American citizen whose family immigrated from Czech Republic. After 9/11, when the US became so weird, most of my family what the hell we were doing there and moved.
Interesting... I mostly disagree with you but I'm not surprised. My other random comments:
They should come up with a new word for these professionals who work for corporate farms to distinguish them from farmers
I prefer to purchase the majority of my food from a farmer who I can look in the eye... i.e. who lives nearby. I got on this kick a while back and I'm surprised how easy it is to get a majority of my family's food from within a 85 kilometer radius. (including most of my alcohol)
I here you on the labeling thing but I really do have content concerns and they absolutely don't get addressed with the US labeling system. But at least I can ask the farmer when I am at his farm what the deal is.
Clones mean monoculture doesn't that suggest one nasty bug means significant loss of product. Clones also mean patents and other artificially induced scarcity (I'l bet they won't be able to reproduce either)
Beef sucks, chicken raised in those corporate farm sucks. Venison, Kudu, _Impala_, and other wild-game meat is the most tasty thing you can buy. Warthog is good but tough...
If you like jerky you may _love_ biltong... but it may be impossible to dry in your climate
I'd take a 2 or 3 cubic meter box that was pink and had warts... if it could cook and clean the dishes.
Well, What the fuck is the story with the hubble origins probe?
After spending over 7 years trying to make that happen... I failed. So I moved to country where cube farms are illegal.
Problem Solved
ahh... A Fine, Fine Rant!
I have no idea of it's veracity but that's never got in the way of a good rant.
The Hubble Origins Probe is the cheapest, easiest, and fastest way to replace the Hubble. And it doesn't even require the shuttle.
http://www.pha.jhu.edu/hop/
It's not that hard people. Call your senators and ask them why in the hell this isn't already in orbit.
I'm more interested in storing reference material in it...
I used to NetBSD on a cobalt qube 2 but honestly I got sick of not being able to do things that I should have been able to do easily.
Now I do OpenBSD on a low power AMD chip and I don't run into those dead ends... "that doesn't work"
I do and I do so happily.
That's exactly what 'disposable digicam' folks thought and once the 'dedicated hardware hackers with expensive logic analyzers' told the world how to easily hack the camera I suppose they reviewed their business model.
Still... I get most of my out of region movies via bittorent anyway so I can at least get English subtitles.
I'm not sure the NSA is under pentagon oversight
A sizable minority of Americans who vote want elements of an authoritarian police state and are willing to accept the accompanying loss of rights.
Another sizable minority of Americans who vote want elements of a theocracy, based on their religion, in order to "fix all that's wrong with America". These people are willing to accept a stunning amount of duplicity and corruption.
Unfortunately their is another large group of Americans... those who aren't religious zealots, who don't support the erosion of civil liberties, and who generally are decent people and great to associate with... but they don't vote.
So Americans *want* this type of government... so that's what we got... I'm glad I moved.
You forget the bit about them making this shit work before the next time my RAID goes fubar...
but otherwize I am very much with you.
you are looking for 'Hugin', generally is does a good job.
--Rant--
however it does suffer from the fact that it is a font-end for a series of command line apps which have widely disparate design paradigms. One particularly annoying app is written in C# and thus one must down the whole of mono crap in order to use it (if memory serves it is a 28 meg download for a 780K application). Also due to the same issues there is not really consistent handling of filetypes, size, colour depth, compression, and error returns. A corollary problem is that the developers are very enamored with algorithms and not so with implementation details so when things go well they go very, very well and when things go wrong... well it's a bit of mystery.
--Rant--
However I must be clear despite all that I complain about hugin it sucks much less than realviz or any other closed source app I've tried.
I'd be far more interested in AoE and iSCSI if I could buy a few bare bridge boards to retrofit some RAID cages I have now.
I don't know... in some parts around they're really common... so they must be cheap.
Yes... the leaders of the free world have all turned into cockroaches.
like that's going to slow anyone down!
Sure it hasn't happened to you... but if half the politicians in the US metamorphosed into cockroaches would we be able to tell?
As far as my sig I am referring to his other works in which he describes things like nebulous fears, bizarrely dysfunctional government ministries, and the horror one has while navigating such places knowing that you have no control over what going, no understanding of the inner workings and decision makings, and essentially no control over your own destiny. In this way he effectively predicted what the US government has become: A union of George Orwell's 1984 & Animal Farm; Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince; Kafka's das Schloß.
Wow! Are you being deliberately obtuse or are you just that fucking stupid?
"abstain" means I chose not to vote.
"None of the above" means: I do not accept any of these candidates for the position and that each party fielding a candidate must find another contender and another election held.
and just what does that have to do with voting for "none of the above" and forcing the 2 parties to field different contenders?
ahem.. and if enough people did it it would _force_ them find another contender
sorry
Oh damn the moderation!
Glad you like it
I've emailed some random dude off slashdot and it went OK
I've gotten email from some random dude off slashdot over my last sig... I was looking for a way to use Intous input devices on a self made OS X powered iTablet sort of thing. Actually I still am but I've given up on slashdot as a source of information on that fools errand
OK *fine* anti-radiant cooling... is that OK?