Yeah, but that won't get all the unwanted proteins out of it. If the filter is too tight, you'll take all the good flavors with it. But if this is truly for health and hydration, maybe that doesn't matter. If that's the case, there are already plenty of better ways to make a water supply safe, and they're much quicker/thorough to boot.
It'll probably be pretty gross though. The brewing process (on earth at least) is fairly dependent on gravity. Once the primary fermentation ends, yeast, proteins, and other biproducts naturally drop out (and become the stuff called trub). The beer is sucked off the top and bottled/kegged, leaving that stuff behind. Fining agents, if they are used, forced the process of coagulating some of these things and help them fall to the bottom, but they also rely on gravity to work. Assuming this stuff is brewed in zero G, it would be the most unfiltered beer you ever had. Unfilterd is all the rage these days, at least.
Part of the appeal at the time blackle came out was that soooo many people had google set as the start/home page in their browser. That has to have gone down with the rise social media.
I fear for the future of my children. And my children's children.
It is a moral IMPERATIVE that someone develops a Blackfacebook.com NOW!
Hmmm...we are to gather from your comments that using a mouse is somehow infantile while learning a bunch of arcane bespeaks of intelligence?
Hmmmmm...no moreso than we should assume from you condescending questions that you are a humorless douchebag, professor. I'm sure you're a barrel of laughs and the life of every party.
It's was a joke. Lighten up.
Who's the leader of the band that made for you and me? M-I-C-K-EY M-O-U-S-E! Mickey Mouse. KEYBOARDS SUCK! Mickey Mouse. WTF?! Forever we will point until we die. HI HI HI!
HEY there! HI there! HO there you're as welcome as can be. M-I-C-K-EY M-O-U-S-E!
F5 will refreshes everything.... except Notes. F9? WTF?
It's the keyboarding equivalent of being the only airplane where yanking back on the yoke makes a nose dive.
It used to be, most journalist exercised some judgment with respect to what and when something should be printed. Apparently, Classified NOFORN documents no longer fall within the umbrella of things that common sense would dictate should not be published for general consumption.
I'm all for freedom of speech, but this is just not helpful, or a good idea. If our allies suddenly can't trust our foreign service to keep classified information, well, classified, how likely do you think it is they will continue to trust our diplomats? These so-called journalists just made the job of the fine folks in our State Department that much harder. When diplomacy becomes a more difficult or unworkable option, The Man may decide it's time to resort to a more forceful form of dispute resolution.
The guys behind wikileaks are not heroes. They are idiots. I hope they get caught, and if they do, they get the prison sentences they deserve.
I think the best idea is to start tracking the laptop. Send out GPS coordinates, send out IP addresses, send out _fingerprints_, take screen shots, etc.
If it has a webcam, add mugshot. Compare the image on a local mugshot database, get some likely culprits and their last known address. Then maybe automate the search warrant, police report, and insurance claims process and you've got a real solution. Of course, the search warrant part is now optional, I believe.
Not to mention, Latin as you would learn it today is not really Latin as spoken by real people. There are very few surviving Latin texts written in Vulgar Latin -- complete with all the slang, misspellings indicating the direction the language was shifting or from whence it had come, etc. -- before it fully differentiated into the modern Romance languages we know today. Interestingly, one of the most important surviving texts is some chick named Egeria's vacation diary. That and some graffiti is about all we really have.
What most people would deem useless is full of linguistic, maybe economic, and sociological references that make a rough sketch of someone from today a much more useful and rich cultural portrait when it is available (i.e. somehow preserved). Think on that next time you post a blog entry or snap a few vacation photos.
sorta like, how Bush's attempted steel tariffs wound up screwing Detroit.
Eh, Detroit screwed Detroit. You can only hand out white collar salaries to minimally skilled highschool dropouts^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hgraduates and have them build fleets of cars nobody wants for so long. Now they know exactly how long that is.
It already takes 6 months to find and hire anybody worth bothering with now. It will not be so much better once the pool of potential applicants is cut in half, or a third.
I know some are saying "You don't need to have a job like this. There are other jobs in the IT industry that don't demand this kind of schedule." Bullshit.
And they're right. Quit. Get a tech job that doesn't place those demands on you, learn to say "no," or learn to negotiate for a higher salary or non-exempt status. At least then, you'll get paid for the extra aggravation.
I was thinking about this the other day. I'm almost 30. The internet came about in my generation. IT has been going on much longer. How was it done before "always-on", "always-connected"? Surely it was less efficient. And yet, you hear about IT people from that time staying in their jobs for decades, loving what they do, etc. Nowadays you're surprised to see someone stick around 3 years in a "permanent" job.
Unemployment is still around 5%, nationally. There is another job waiting. That's why most people don't stay in a permanent job for much more than 3 years. They can trade up for better conditions and usually more pay as well, if they're worth their salt to begin with.
I personally wouldn't change jobs that often, but sitting someplace where you aren't happy and challenged is how I would define "fucking it up," so to speak. Change horses every 6 or 7 years if it make you feel better, but definitely change if it is time. It is not so much what we've done to our industry, as it is what our industry has come to offer other industries. Business cannot get done without technology today. Demand has simply outpaced the supply of qualified practitioners.
I've had three jobs in 12 years. One for about year, one for 7 and a half years, and the current one for almost two. In that span of time with minimal job hopping and a good stretch at one place, I've more than quadrupled my salary. I'd rather do it that way than stay put and hope the union can get the company to buy me a sweater.
No need to call anyone a liar. I do what I described all over the US and between the US and Europe at least once a month. One pound does make a noticeable difference over the course of a day's travel, for me at least. Of course, YMMV. And I carry one, sometimes two laptops, daily when not traveling as well.
All things being equal, how can you possibly argue that smaller/lighter is not better in such situations? I'd even go so far as to say it is worth a couple hundred bucks. For a primary tool I use everyday, for virtually every task, I'll spend the money there and save $200 shopping around for car insurance or household cleaning supplies or something.
I went back to the models I compared, and the Macbook is 5 lbs, whereas the HP is 6. In my mind the difference is hardly enough to justify a difference of over $200 in cost alone, and who knows what the difference is in value of components (as I indicated previously, the HP has superior specs).
Are you the sort of person who gets a laptop with docking station and leaves it there permanently, as though it were a desktop?
I have to assume you never travel with a laptop if you don't think a whole pound makes any difference. Most people I know put their laptop in a carry on when they take it through an airport or on a train. Lug that bag around for a whole day for miles walking through an airport, catching connecting flights, lifting it up to put into overhead bins and that insignificant, extra pound starts to matter.
Not to mention, saving a pound leaves more room for cheetos.:^)
My town -- about the same size as yours -- has an electronics recycling pickup in one of our local parks once a month. The "useful" stuff is rehabbed and given to local schools and non-profits.
The rest probably ends up in a fire getting poked with a stick by a 10 year old Chinese industrial gold miner, but at least some stuff is put back into circulation.
I can brew better beer than Budweiser and many micro brews myself for example -- and for much less money bottle for bottle -- but it's so much easier to grab a six from the cooler at the local grocery store. And I don't have to explain what a bottle of Bud is to my friends.
So unless you're against any non-literal kind of speech as a whole, I fail to see while you'd single out anthropomorphism. Again, trust me, nobody takes it any more literally than they take the above expressions. So what is the problem, really?
I think he pissed in the wind, you know -- to get a true appreciation for the expression, and met the result.
Yes there is: merit-based-admissions charter schools. Take the path of least resistance (in other words, avoid the unfixable).
And it begins with throwing out the blood sucking administrators and unions.
Not everyone will succeed in this paradigm, but at least the reasonably disciplined and intelligent will have a real learning environment to report to and foster, rather than the publicly funded babysitting operation they have to endure today.
That's pretty much been my experience. Throw in some language skills (not programming languages, people languages) and then you open up a lot more localities to choose from to ply your trade.
Do that sooner rather than later, however. Learning to speak a new language when you're old is a bitch.
When I was twelve, my father expressly told to never do what he did. He started out as a draftsman (which anyone under 40 probably knows as a CAD/CAM operator now) and got out because it was too boring, sitting at a desk all day, smoking pack after pack of Winstons. He became an over-the-road truck driver and was until the day he died. Now that I think about it, it probably wasn't much different than the drafting job in a lot of ways: long periods spent sitting in the same seat, not talking to anyone else, smoking Winston after Winston. I think the isolation appealed to him for much of his life, but trucking at least offered a continual change of scenery at least. He was not all that happy with his jobs and none of them paid very well.
I worked at companies where he worked to earn cash in the summer when I was a kid. What did I learn? Anything that didn't actively engage my mind was just not for me in the long term and I wouldn't be working-class if there were any way to avoid it. I took his advice to heart.
Fast-forward about 10 years... I was finishing up college wondering what to do with a degree in mathematics and no real ambition to go to grad school or become a teacher. Still hadn't found something I wanted to do and no role models to offer any strong clues. I knew I had to do something cerebral and something that paid. My soon-to-be FIL was a legal administrator, maybe law would be it. He did not discourage me from it, but wasn't encouraging either. I was baffled by this at the time.
Tried working in a legal department at a tech startup. Interesting company, but the work was mostly boring. Transferred to IT since I had some aptitude for it and, at that point, some understanding of what was needed from a technologist in that setting.
Bingo. Been with for 10 years now, I like it quite a bit, have advanced several times, and make more money every year. The niche I'm into now (electronic discovery data processing) requires a fair bit of sustained and varied types of cognition and I will likely not have to be poor ever again unless I choose to.
So, what will I tell me daughter? I'll tell her about what I do, to be sure. As will her mother (museum curator). I'll tell her to talk to my friends who have interesting jobs they seem to like (a diplomat, a professor, a reporter, tons of others). But I don't think I'll suggest she do any of them. I plan to tell to:
1) Learn a language other than English -- one of the romance languages and/or Mandarin would be good.
2) Learn to write well
3) Read a lot and read widely
4) Get as many degrees as you can stand
5) Get a job and get out of my house directly afterward
That's it. She'll have to figure it out. Life's more difficult, but in the end, more interesting that way.
So I guess you could say my thinking about this topic is that the best advice is to give very little, or none at all. Pretty much what I got from both of the father figures in my life and only recently has the wisdom of that approach become clear.
A leak would be one thing; these muppets INTENTIONALLY POSTED this stuff.
From TFA:
But the court's IT director defended the practices, saying that documents are being posted on the Web site in accordance with California laws and that finding data such as Social Security numbers is akin to "finding a needle in a haystack."
Wow.
You know, just because something can be done, doesn't mean it is necessarily to be done. This guy may want to take a look at Maryland's case search engine to see an example how someone with some sense would do it. Jeebus.
Just because something is public record doesn't mean it necessarily must written in block caps plastered on the nearest billboard. Some information -- even public information -- should have a gatekeeper. If it were my tax return, I think I'd want someone seeking it to have to ask the court clerk for it, and possibly, explain why.
Why stop there? French privacy laws provide for jail time under certain circumstances.
Identity theft is really pretty easy, in large part because everyone from the government to the local grocer can get away with playing fast and loose with whatever data of yours they have on hand. Fines won't stop that, especially if the payoff is larger than the fine anyway.
We'd be better off if we stopped locking up rinky-dink hop heads and replaced them with the aiders and abettors of identity thieves.
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Yeah, but that won't get all the unwanted proteins out of it. If the filter is too tight, you'll take all the good flavors with it. But if this is truly for health and hydration, maybe that doesn't matter. If that's the case, there are already plenty of better ways to make a water supply safe, and they're much quicker/thorough to boot.
It'll probably be pretty gross though. The brewing process (on earth at least) is fairly dependent on gravity. Once the primary fermentation ends, yeast, proteins, and other biproducts naturally drop out (and become the stuff called trub). The beer is sucked off the top and bottled/kegged, leaving that stuff behind. Fining agents, if they are used, forced the process of coagulating some of these things and help them fall to the bottom, but they also rely on gravity to work. Assuming this stuff is brewed in zero G, it would be the most unfiltered beer you ever had. Unfilterd is all the rage these days, at least.
I fear for the future of my children. And my children's children.
It is a moral IMPERATIVE that someone develops a Blackfacebook.com NOW!
Won't someone think of the children, please?!?
Hmmmmm...no moreso than we should assume from you condescending questions that you are a humorless douchebag, professor. I'm sure you're a barrel of laughs and the life of every party. It's was a joke. Lighten up.
Who's the leader of the band that made for you and me? M-I-C-K-EY M-O-U-S-E! Mickey Mouse. KEYBOARDS SUCK! Mickey Mouse. WTF?! Forever we will point until we die. HI HI HI! HEY there! HI there! HO there you're as welcome as can be. M-I-C-K-EY M-O-U-S-E!
F5 will refreshes everything.... except Notes. F9? WTF? It's the keyboarding equivalent of being the only airplane where yanking back on the yoke makes a nose dive.
I'm all for freedom of speech, but this is just not helpful, or a good idea. If our allies suddenly can't trust our foreign service to keep classified information, well, classified, how likely do you think it is they will continue to trust our diplomats? These so-called journalists just made the job of the fine folks in our State Department that much harder. When diplomacy becomes a more difficult or unworkable option, The Man may decide it's time to resort to a more forceful form of dispute resolution.
The guys behind wikileaks are not heroes. They are idiots. I hope they get caught, and if they do, they get the prison sentences they deserve.
1) Make friends with someone living in America with a *nix box
2) Get US credit card
3) ssh -D 6666 youracct@yourpal.com
4) Configure SOCKS 5 proxy to get webby goodness from localhost on 6666 in Firefox network prefs
5) Australia? Where the hell is that?
If it has a webcam, add mugshot. Compare the image on a local mugshot database, get some likely culprits and their last known address. Then maybe automate the search warrant, police report, and insurance claims process and you've got a real solution. Of course, the search warrant part is now optional, I believe.
Not to mention, Latin as you would learn it today is not really Latin as spoken by real people. There are very few surviving Latin texts written in Vulgar Latin -- complete with all the slang, misspellings indicating the direction the language was shifting or from whence it had come, etc. -- before it fully differentiated into the modern Romance languages we know today. Interestingly, one of the most important surviving texts is some chick named Egeria's vacation diary. That and some graffiti is about all we really have.
What most people would deem useless is full of linguistic, maybe economic, and sociological references that make a rough sketch of someone from today a much more useful and rich cultural portrait when it is available (i.e. somehow preserved). Think on that next time you post a blog entry or snap a few vacation photos.
Eh, Detroit screwed Detroit. You can only hand out white collar salaries to minimally skilled highschool dropouts^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hgraduates and have them build fleets of cars nobody wants for so long. Now they know exactly how long that is.
And they're right. Quit. Get a tech job that doesn't place those demands on you, learn to say "no," or learn to negotiate for a higher salary or non-exempt status. At least then, you'll get paid for the extra aggravation.
Unemployment is still around 5%, nationally. There is another job waiting. That's why most people don't stay in a permanent job for much more than 3 years. They can trade up for better conditions and usually more pay as well, if they're worth their salt to begin with.
I personally wouldn't change jobs that often, but sitting someplace where you aren't happy and challenged is how I would define "fucking it up," so to speak. Change horses every 6 or 7 years if it make you feel better, but definitely change if it is time. It is not so much what we've done to our industry, as it is what our industry has come to offer other industries. Business cannot get done without technology today. Demand has simply outpaced the supply of qualified practitioners.
I've had three jobs in 12 years. One for about year, one for 7 and a half years, and the current one for almost two. In that span of time with minimal job hopping and a good stretch at one place, I've more than quadrupled my salary. I'd rather do it that way than stay put and hope the union can get the company to buy me a sweater.
Whoa, nelly! Never heard of Larry King?
All things being equal, how can you possibly argue that smaller/lighter is not better in such situations? I'd even go so far as to say it is worth a couple hundred bucks. For a primary tool I use everyday, for virtually every task, I'll spend the money there and save $200 shopping around for car insurance or household cleaning supplies or something.
Are you the sort of person who gets a laptop with docking station and leaves it there permanently, as though it were a desktop?
I have to assume you never travel with a laptop if you don't think a whole pound makes any difference. Most people I know put their laptop in a carry on when they take it through an airport or on a train. Lug that bag around for a whole day for miles walking through an airport, catching connecting flights, lifting it up to put into overhead bins and that insignificant, extra pound starts to matter.
Not to mention, saving a pound leaves more room for cheetos. :^)
My town -- about the same size as yours -- has an electronics recycling pickup in one of our local parks once a month. The "useful" stuff is rehabbed and given to local schools and non-profits.
The rest probably ends up in a fire getting poked with a stick by a 10 year old Chinese industrial gold miner, but at least some stuff is put back into circulation.
I can brew better beer than Budweiser and many micro brews myself for example -- and for much less money bottle for bottle -- but it's so much easier to grab a six from the cooler at the local grocery store. And I don't have to explain what a bottle of Bud is to my friends.
I think he pissed in the wind, you know -- to get a true appreciation for the expression, and met the result.
And it begins with throwing out the blood sucking administrators and unions.
Not everyone will succeed in this paradigm, but at least the reasonably disciplined and intelligent will have a real learning environment to report to and foster, rather than the publicly funded babysitting operation they have to endure today.
Do that sooner rather than later, however. Learning to speak a new language when you're old is a bitch.
When I was twelve, my father expressly told to never do what he did. He started out as a draftsman (which anyone under 40 probably knows as a CAD/CAM operator now) and got out because it was too boring, sitting at a desk all day, smoking pack after pack of Winstons. He became an over-the-road truck driver and was until the day he died. Now that I think about it, it probably wasn't much different than the drafting job in a lot of ways: long periods spent sitting in the same seat, not talking to anyone else, smoking Winston after Winston. I think the isolation appealed to him for much of his life, but trucking at least offered a continual change of scenery at least. He was not all that happy with his jobs and none of them paid very well.
I worked at companies where he worked to earn cash in the summer when I was a kid. What did I learn? Anything that didn't actively engage my mind was just not for me in the long term and I wouldn't be working-class if there were any way to avoid it. I took his advice to heart.
Fast-forward about 10 years... I was finishing up college wondering what to do with a degree in mathematics and no real ambition to go to grad school or become a teacher. Still hadn't found something I wanted to do and no role models to offer any strong clues. I knew I had to do something cerebral and something that paid. My soon-to-be FIL was a legal administrator, maybe law would be it. He did not discourage me from it, but wasn't encouraging either. I was baffled by this at the time.
Tried working in a legal department at a tech startup. Interesting company, but the work was mostly boring. Transferred to IT since I had some aptitude for it and, at that point, some understanding of what was needed from a technologist in that setting.
Bingo. Been with for 10 years now, I like it quite a bit, have advanced several times, and make more money every year. The niche I'm into now (electronic discovery data processing) requires a fair bit of sustained and varied types of cognition and I will likely not have to be poor ever again unless I choose to.
So, what will I tell me daughter? I'll tell her about what I do, to be sure. As will her mother (museum curator). I'll tell her to talk to my friends who have interesting jobs they seem to like (a diplomat, a professor, a reporter, tons of others). But I don't think I'll suggest she do any of them. I plan to tell to:
1) Learn a language other than English -- one of the romance languages and/or Mandarin would be good.
2) Learn to write well
3) Read a lot and read widely
4) Get as many degrees as you can stand
5) Get a job and get out of my house directly afterward
That's it. She'll have to figure it out. Life's more difficult, but in the end, more interesting that way.
So I guess you could say my thinking about this topic is that the best advice is to give very little, or none at all. Pretty much what I got from both of the father figures in my life and only recently has the wisdom of that approach become clear.
Bork. bork. bork. :^)
You know, just because something can be done, doesn't mean it is necessarily to be done. This guy may want to take a look at Maryland's case search engine to see an example how someone with some sense would do it. Jeebus.
Just because something is public record doesn't mean it necessarily must written in block caps plastered on the nearest billboard. Some information -- even public information -- should have a gatekeeper. If it were my tax return, I think I'd want someone seeking it to have to ask the court clerk for it, and possibly, explain why.
Identity theft is really pretty easy, in large part because everyone from the government to the local grocer can get away with playing fast and loose with whatever data of yours they have on hand. Fines won't stop that, especially if the payoff is larger than the fine anyway.
We'd be better off if we stopped locking up rinky-dink hop heads and replaced them with the aiders and abettors of identity thieves.