Perhaps the broader point is that it should apply to more people. People should be more inclined to grow or raise their own food.
I'm raising rabbits through the simple expedient of not weeding my lawn. (rabbits love crabgrass). My wife would be upset if I trapped and ate them, though.
The idea that a big slab of beef should be the center piece of a meal is insane, and almost exclusive to the Western World. It accounts for not only a lot of waste, but also a lot of health problems. Instead of having a 20lbs. steak and a volleyball-sized potato with an entire stick of butter melted across it,
A potato that big will require at least two sticks of butter.
why not try some fresh fish with steamed vegetables or strips of grilled chicken with rice? Not only will it taste better, but your body will feel better in the long run.
Why don't you try not telling me what will taste good? I dislike both fish and steamed vegetables. Grilled chicken is typically dry and often tasteless.
The problem is that the meat industry receives so many subsidies that most people think it's impossible to dine affordably without stuffing their guts with red meat. Try growing your own vegetables.
Remember the rabbits? Any attempt on my part to grow vegetables is just going to result in more and fatter rabbits.
Raise some livestock to treat yourself throughout the year.
An interesting idea, but I don't think I can raise a cow on less than an acre.
Subsistence farming is dead in the US, and it _always_ sucked.
Some of it came from a sun, but not OUR sun. Earth's internal heat is part residual heat from planet formation, part radioactive decay of elements produced in old supernovae.
Every calorie of energy that powers your body came from the sun.
Nope, I eat cows fed specially-engineered seafloor vent Archae. Stuff costs more than osmium per ounce, but it's worth it just to have a counterexample to this claim.
It has been shown in studies that people who bandy about profanity for no reason or reasons of base humor - are not taken seriously at work and rarely progress.
Unless you're in management, you're by definition at the bottom of the hierarchy, whether you're a Help Desk monkey or a Principal Engineer. I have no desire to be in management. Therefore, fuck you.
They can't really be THAT stupid after all this can they? Sure, the bottom feeders with their trolling and settlements are feeding furiously and all. But if the cable companies realize they need to give it away for free to stay in business, then the MPAA also must know what they need to do to remain relevant and in business... or that they can't.
They are comic book villains with all the drawbacks of same -- including particularly blindness to when "not being an asshole" works to their advantage; villainy is their identity and they cannot discard it. If there are two ways to go, and one involves screwing over pirates and innocent bystanders, they will take it even if it is far less lucrative for their member companies.
See this story for evidence. You and I might picture an RIAA executive sitting in his office, cackling, and twirling his mustache. He's actually doing it, probably while he kicks a puppy.
Part of this is because (like the BSA) the industry associations aren't their member companies; they're the designated thugs for them, and they don't actually make money through increased sales. But the actual executives of the record companies are little better.
Per John Lakos, almost any bad interface can be wrapped in a good one. Slice off an appropriate slice of dodgy code, wrap it in a testable interface, write the test code to baseline its behaviour, and then when it makes business sense, you can refactor that slice of code. If it doesn't make business sense, you don't touch it.
You've never seen real spaghetti code if you believe this. In a really nasty ball of spaghetti, there's nowhere to make the cut; any significant section of the codebase essentially depends on the entire codebase. Among other sins: code at low level will make decisions essentially based on which high-level caller ultimately called it.
You are looking at it the wrong way. The problem is that we take power so much for granted that we judge any alternative power by whether or not it is capable of running all our 100w bulbs, or letting us boil water at 2 AM, rather than use the power when it is available.
Yes, that's right. We want to live with modern technology, not have to adapt our power use for some inferior alternative power.
Who's houses lighting requirements couldn't be fulfilled by a single charged lead acid battery these days?
My guess is that they are trying to stop scrapers, and that's perfectly reasonable. I wonder: do you agree with that? I think that trying to keep the poster from posting elsewhere is unreasonable, and I presume you agree with that...
If they want to stop scrapers, they could claim a compilation copyright and try to enforce that. Only they don't actually do any creative work in the compilation, so that wouldn't go over. Knowing that, they try to steal the original poster's copyright and use that against scrapers... which isn't going to work either, as someone has already pointed out that you need that in writing. Maybe a digital signature would work, but a click-through won't.
tl;dr: If they want to stop scrapers using copyright law, they'll have to produce something worthy of copyright.
Given that they haven't managed to come out with a native version of Quicken for Mac in over 6 years, I suspect that they kept that code on a napkin... then lost the napkin.
How about the headline "Can all newspaper headlines ending in a question mark, be answered with 'No'?" Ha, Mr. Ian Betteridge, I was wise to your little game, and I beat you!
to say fuck DRM and fuck Steam. To support DRM is to be on the side of the DMCA, SOPA, the RIAA, the MPAA, the Business Software Alliance, and that whole list of bad laws and bad organizations which support them. If you think you've found a legitimate use, you're probably mistaken. But even if you're not, helping bastards like them do something not-evil is still helping bastards like them.
No. The engineer knows that it is not and that its practitioners are merely organized con-artists.
Therefore it should not be taught in college, but in a vo-tech school.
Here's an experiment for you: Grab a few undergraduate engineering majors, and make them take the introductory political science classes. Now grab some political science majors and make them take the introductory engineering classes. What do you figure the results would be?
This isn't the 90's any more, you don't need to count mugging as inevitable in NYC. Unless you have an iPad or iPhone... you never hear about anyone snatching a Galaxy Nexus or a Blackberry.
If it came down to the government ordering the US military to "occupy" US cities and towns, round people up into camps, and basically carry out a "government takeover" and provide armed pacification and suppression against civilians, they would refuse, arrest the ones issuing the orders, and even launch an assault on government-loyalist positions if need be if things were that bad.
Sure. If the higher-ups were to tell them that's what they were doing. They wouldn't. They'd claim there were terrorist, drug gangs, gun runners, or whatever who started the violence. And they'd send in police, FBI, ATF, or picked loyal units to stir things up and make this look plausible before sending in the main force.
The western system will grind you to dust if it gets you into its gears but it is still a million times better even for the pile of dust then the pure anarchy of the libertarian.
If you'd been around when Thomas Hobbes was writing, he wouldn't have had to write nearly so long winded a justification for absolute despotism.
But see, you're missing my point, which is that both you and the article are making a huge assumption: that FB had to go public.
The funding deals they made with their private investors probably required that they do so. Typically in such deals if the company fails to go public within a set time, the investors get direct control of it.
As the summary and article state plainly, Samsung made what amounts to a copy of the iPad. If you have difficulty telling the products apart after covering up the brand logos, then they are too similar. It's that simple.
Simple and wrong. LCD displays, keyboards, laptops, cardboard boxes, polo shirts, blue jeans, soda cans, bicycles, heck, even many cars look similar once you cover up the logos.
The problem is that those lawsuits aren't about rectangles or corners and that it is a bit more detailed then that and also much broader.
Look at the design patent Apple is suing over. It is exactly about rectangles and corners. There's not much else to it. Electronic device, flat, rounded corners, glass front, rectangular screen area.
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Which indicates another way to become a multibillion dollar multinational corporation: Sell advertising.
I'm raising rabbits through the simple expedient of not weeding my lawn. (rabbits love crabgrass). My wife would be upset if I trapped and ate them, though.
A potato that big will require at least two sticks of butter.
Why don't you try not telling me what will taste good? I dislike both fish and steamed vegetables. Grilled chicken is typically dry and often tasteless.
Remember the rabbits? Any attempt on my part to grow vegetables is just going to result in more and fatter rabbits.
An interesting idea, but I don't think I can raise a cow on less than an acre. Subsistence farming is dead in the US, and it _always_ sucked.
Some of it came from a sun, but not OUR sun. Earth's internal heat is part residual heat from planet formation, part radioactive decay of elements produced in old supernovae.
Nope, I eat cows fed specially-engineered seafloor vent Archae. Stuff costs more than osmium per ounce, but it's worth it just to have a counterexample to this claim.
Unless you're in management, you're by definition at the bottom of the hierarchy, whether you're a Help Desk monkey or a Principal Engineer. I have no desire to be in management. Therefore, fuck you.
Or you could just use a brute-force solver. It only takes 2^54 tries, max, to solve any given puzzle.
They are comic book villains with all the drawbacks of same -- including particularly blindness to when "not being an asshole" works to their advantage; villainy is their identity and they cannot discard it. If there are two ways to go, and one involves screwing over pirates and innocent bystanders, they will take it even if it is far less lucrative for their member companies.
See this story for evidence. You and I might picture an RIAA executive sitting in his office, cackling, and twirling his mustache. He's actually doing it, probably while he kicks a puppy.
Part of this is because (like the BSA) the industry associations aren't their member companies; they're the designated thugs for them, and they don't actually make money through increased sales. But the actual executives of the record companies are little better.
You've never seen real spaghetti code if you believe this. In a really nasty ball of spaghetti, there's nowhere to make the cut; any significant section of the codebase essentially depends on the entire codebase. Among other sins: code at low level will make decisions essentially based on which high-level caller ultimately called it.
Yes, that's right. We want to live with modern technology, not have to adapt our power use for some inferior alternative power.
That would be a really big damn battery.
If they want to stop scrapers, they could claim a compilation copyright and try to enforce that. Only they don't actually do any creative work in the compilation, so that wouldn't go over. Knowing that, they try to steal the original poster's copyright and use that against scrapers... which isn't going to work either, as someone has already pointed out that you need that in writing. Maybe a digital signature would work, but a click-through won't.
tl;dr: If they want to stop scrapers using copyright law, they'll have to produce something worthy of copyright.
Supposedly they didn't even do that; they licensed a version of Rosetta from Apple sufficient to run their old version.
Forget it, he's on a roll.
Given that they haven't managed to come out with a native version of Quicken for Mac in over 6 years, I suspect that they kept that code on a napkin... then lost the napkin.
Curse you, Bertrand Russell!
-- I. Betteidge
to say fuck DRM and fuck Steam. To support DRM is to be on the side of the DMCA, SOPA, the RIAA, the MPAA, the Business Software Alliance, and that whole list of bad laws and bad organizations which support them. If you think you've found a legitimate use, you're probably mistaken. But even if you're not, helping bastards like them do something not-evil is still helping bastards like them.
Therefore it should not be taught in college, but in a vo-tech school.
Here's an experiment for you: Grab a few undergraduate engineering majors, and make them take the introductory political science classes. Now grab some political science majors and make them take the introductory engineering classes. What do you figure the results would be?
You want to fight crime by giving money to the NYPD and allowing them to be thuggish, and you think other people are puerile and simplistic?
This isn't the 90's any more, you don't need to count mugging as inevitable in NYC. Unless you have an iPad or iPhone... you never hear about anyone snatching a Galaxy Nexus or a Blackberry.
Sure. If the higher-ups were to tell them that's what they were doing. They wouldn't. They'd claim there were terrorist, drug gangs, gun runners, or whatever who started the violence. And they'd send in police, FBI, ATF, or picked loyal units to stir things up and make this look plausible before sending in the main force.
If you'd been around when Thomas Hobbes was writing, he wouldn't have had to write nearly so long winded a justification for absolute despotism.
As some other poster said, there is a heck of a lot more to the patent than what you claim.
Like what? I'm referring to D504889.
The funding deals they made with their private investors probably required that they do so. Typically in such deals if the company fails to go public within a set time, the investors get direct control of it.
Simple and wrong. LCD displays, keyboards, laptops, cardboard boxes, polo shirts, blue jeans, soda cans, bicycles, heck, even many cars look similar once you cover up the logos.
Look at the design patent Apple is suing over. It is exactly about rectangles and corners. There's not much else to it. Electronic device, flat, rounded corners, glass front, rectangular screen area.
Not sure if you're supporting or attacking that, but it's a nasty piece of work
Uh, no, you don't get to make other points of view disappear by fiat. Unless you've got an army behind you.
Uh, yeah, adopting the language of female bullies is really going to help.
Where of course abuse is defined by this bozo.