Feedlots are generally engineered to produce substantial weight gains and intramuscular fat in the short time before slaughter in the most economical fashion. The key there is most economical fashion. Grass-finished beef does taste different from generic corn-soy-and-DDG finished beef. Of course, it's far more expensive to finish cattle on grass. Even a lot of the so-called "grass-fed" beef are finished on corn, soy and DDG.
No rancher is going down to Whole Foods to buy the cattle feed ingredients. There is a trade off between feed quality and the final price of the beef, and there is a range of quality of the final product depending on how the steer is fed and treated, from a mangy old bull to a Wagyu bred for Kobe.
Any argument about the taste of the meat has to take into account whether you are making it into chili, curry, or stew, or are going to grill a slab and eat it rare. You would not want to pay a couple hundred bucks a pound for stew meat.
Feedlots do differentiate between the end uses, too, and use RFID chips in the ear to keep track. One pen might hold cattle being fattened to about select grade and the next cattle actually being fed spring greens from Whole Foods - or the available equivalent - for top end purebred not destined for killing but for breeding.
"Peanut butter — that culinary cause célèbre — may contain approximately 145 bug parts for an 18-ounce jar; or five or more rodent hairs for that same jar; or more than 125 milligrams of grit."
You really can taste if the animal has been fed from pastures or from industrial feedstock; and you can taste if the muscles have been used by the animal moving around. Good life? Well, there's some correlation with these issues and 'good life', but happiness is not so relevant.
I only know about beef, but the feed lots I am familiar with do not feed their cattle some kind of polymeric hydrocarbon. The feed given to cattle which are being fattened for slaughter is carefully blended from the highest quality ingredients. The cattle themselves are enclosed in large pens with plenty of room to roam about. It's not a free range or a racetrack, though. The price of the meat goes up as the marbling of fat in the muscle increases, so they want the cattle to be fat and happy, not linebackers.
You have reached us trough a Slashdot story that is a bit malvolent.
The story goes like this:
"A web hosting provider called Appnor has recently moved the network diagnostics utility WinMTR off of SourceForge, and is now claiming the program to be a closed source, commercial application (it was previously made available under the GPL). I emailed the current maintainer of the original mtr utility about this, and have been informed that this event most likely constitutes an overt GPL violation, as it is presumed that WinMTR contains mtr code. Appnor claims that they have the right to do this, as there have been no external contributions to WinMTR in over ten years. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think copyright law works that way"
Our response:
1. Our company has rights over the entire source code, bought from the original maintainer. We are the current maintainers. There is NO other code from contributors.
2. The whole thing is written from scratch for Windows. No MTR code is used.
3. The binary is available for free. We just thought nobody cared too much having it Open, since there were no contributions in almost 10 years.
Again, we are not trying to violate GPL and we will make sure there are no licensing issues. In the unlikely situation in which there are some licensing issues, we will make all the required changes/updates to the product, in good faith.
We think the license change is within the boundaries of GPL. We are double checking this with our lawyers.
My mom told me once she was watching a black and white TV with her family, and someone walked on the screen with green hair. Everyone watching the TV instantly started laughing because the guy had green hair. I don't entirely understand your post, but it does verify that my mom was not crazy, and average people watching in those days could distinguish even if they didn't know what was going on.
Went to see True Grit. A trailer started up - Apollo capsule approaching the moon - hey, looking pretty good - titles: For 40 Years NASA Kept The Secret (or some such) - oh, no, a fake landing movie - then Eagle is down on the actual moon, so okay - then the two astronauts pogo over a crater to see a huge alien craft crashed and half-buried in the dust - hey, this could be a cool movie - never heard of this in production - what could it be? - then the ominous signs: Michael Bay. Steven Speilberg. And the killer: Transformers 3. Audible groans of disappointment from the audience.
I am trying to bring a Rare Earths Elements Company online (I have two mineral resources right herre in the U.S.....But sadly, I can't find funding to start operations.
Why should we trust someone who can't spell or punctuate a short post correctly to handle radioactive waste properly?
What I cannot get over is the complacency of the applications service providers, SaaS, Web 2.0 companies, and venture captilists whose entire business model is dependent upon a neutral net.
Perhaps they are hoping that they will be the next big thing themselves with enough cash to buy into the platinum level Comcast tier and leave their competition down in Basic.
Yes, I get it. You want to censor content because some parents are not doing their job. You want to restrict just this little bit of freedom, not all the rest of the freedoms. We can trust you, right?
If you let the bluenoses get their hands on the controls, then, yes, they will define any site containing information about how to avoid pregnancies, STDs, etc. as porn.
All prequels blow chunks, because we know what's going to happen. why bother.
What civilization had made the alien ship? It wasn't the penis heads. There was a dead pilot of another species in a control chair, as I recall. Why were they carrying a load of eggs and no queen?
Thing is, reality is not a movie. Rarely do the well-intentioned, rag-tag band of rebels overthrow the evil world government and usher in a new era of freedom and prosperity.
Usually, when the well-intentioned, rag-tag band of rebels do win, the resulting government devolves into a totalitarian regime as bad as what was deposed. In the US, our view is skewed because our well-intentioned, rag-tag band of rebels was not headed by such. Recall that some wanted to make Washington King of America, but he bared his wooden teeth at them and refused.
He built a better mousetrap. There were tons of others with the same savvy doing the same thing (friendster, myspace, etc) but in the end he won out, BIG time. Yes, you could say he won the lottery... But you had to be an extremely smart, determined individual to even be bestowed a lottery ticket in the first place.
There is an analogy for this in the financial world: Give a hundred people each a coin and have them flip it. One of these people will flip heads ten times in a row. This person will go on to make a million by writing books and giving seminars about how to successfully flip coins.
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Myspace used to employ more than 10 people! What do these people do all day?
They update their Facebook pages and search for jobs on LinkedIn.
Define "highest quality".
Feedlots are generally engineered to produce substantial weight gains and intramuscular fat in the short time before slaughter in the most economical fashion. The key there is most economical fashion. Grass-finished beef does taste different from generic corn-soy-and-DDG finished beef. Of course, it's far more expensive to finish cattle on grass. Even a lot of the so-called "grass-fed" beef are finished on corn, soy and DDG.
No rancher is going down to Whole Foods to buy the cattle feed ingredients. There is a trade off between feed quality and the final price of the beef, and there is a range of quality of the final product depending on how the steer is fed and treated, from a mangy old bull to a Wagyu bred for Kobe.
Any argument about the taste of the meat has to take into account whether you are making it into chili, curry, or stew, or are going to grill a slab and eat it rare. You would not want to pay a couple hundred bucks a pound for stew meat.
Feedlots do differentiate between the end uses, too, and use RFID chips in the ear to keep track. One pen might hold cattle being fattened to about select grade and the next cattle actually being fed spring greens from Whole Foods - or the available equivalent - for top end purebred not destined for killing but for breeding.
you already eat bugs.
Eat anything preprocessed? insects are in them, ground up with the rest of it.
Do you sleep with a net over your head? no? you eat bugs at night.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/opinion/13levy.html
"Peanut butter — that culinary cause célèbre — may contain approximately 145 bug parts for an 18-ounce jar; or five or more rodent hairs for that same jar; or more than 125 milligrams of grit."
You really can taste if the animal has been fed from pastures or from industrial feedstock; and you can taste if the muscles have been used by the animal moving around. Good life? Well, there's some correlation with these issues and 'good life', but happiness is not so relevant.
I only know about beef, but the feed lots I am familiar with do not feed their cattle some kind of polymeric hydrocarbon. The feed given to cattle which are being fattened for slaughter is carefully blended from the highest quality ingredients. The cattle themselves are enclosed in large pens with plenty of room to roam about. It's not a free range or a racetrack, though. The price of the meat goes up as the marbling of fat in the muscle increases, so they want the cattle to be fat and happy, not linebackers.
http://winmtr.net/slashdot.html
Dear visitor,
You have reached us trough a Slashdot story that is a bit malvolent.
The story goes like this:
"A web hosting provider called Appnor has recently moved the network diagnostics utility WinMTR off of SourceForge, and is now claiming the program to be a closed source, commercial application (it was previously made available under the GPL). I emailed the current maintainer of the original mtr utility about this, and have been informed that this event most likely constitutes an overt GPL violation, as it is presumed that WinMTR contains mtr code. Appnor claims that they have the right to do this, as there have been no external contributions to WinMTR in over ten years. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think copyright law works that way"
Our response:
1. Our company has rights over the entire source code, bought from the original maintainer. We are the current maintainers. There is NO other code from contributors.
2. The whole thing is written from scratch for Windows. No MTR code is used.
3. The binary is available for free. We just thought nobody cared too much having it Open, since there were no contributions in almost 10 years.
Again, we are not trying to violate GPL and we will make sure there are no licensing issues. In the unlikely situation in which there are some licensing issues, we will make all the required changes/updates to the product, in good faith.
We think the license change is within the boundaries of GPL. We are double checking this with our lawyers.
Thank you for reading the full story.
Dragos MANAC
CEO Appnor MSP S.A.
I'll bet if you had just cooperated you'd have been back in your safe warm bed in no time and probably not even remembered the incident the next day.
This is not a repeat from 1938.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof." - Marcello Truzzi
"Extraordinary claims require a shiny object in my left hand to distract you from my right." - S. A. Scoggin
And for those who still haven't seen it, here's a proper link.
The linked paper is a good read, even for someone like myself with only an AP level knowledge of statistics. Good illustrative examples.
http://www.amazon.com/Nimby-Extraordinary-Cloud-Remarkable-Friend/dp/1595834281
My mom told me once she was watching a black and white TV with her family, and someone walked on the screen with green hair. Everyone watching the TV instantly started laughing because the guy had green hair. I don't entirely understand your post, but it does verify that my mom was not crazy, and average people watching in those days could distinguish even if they didn't know what was going on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_with_Green_Hair
Went to see True Grit. A trailer started up - Apollo capsule approaching the moon - hey, looking pretty good - titles: For 40 Years NASA Kept The Secret (or some such) - oh, no, a fake landing movie - then Eagle is down on the actual moon, so okay - then the two astronauts pogo over a crater to see a huge alien craft crashed and half-buried in the dust - hey, this could be a cool movie - never heard of this in production - what could it be? - then the ominous signs: Michael Bay. Steven Speilberg. And the killer: Transformers 3. Audible groans of disappointment from the audience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche,_New_York
I am trying to bring a Rare Earths Elements Company online (I have two mineral resources right herre in the U.S. ....But sadly, I can't find funding to start operations.
Why should we trust someone who can't spell or punctuate a short post correctly to handle radioactive waste properly?
What I cannot get over is the complacency of the applications service providers, SaaS, Web 2.0 companies, and venture captilists whose entire business model is dependent upon a neutral net.
Perhaps they are hoping that they will be the next big thing themselves with enough cash to buy into the platinum level Comcast tier and leave their competition down in Basic.
I suppose the one thing we can expect a comedian-by-trade to understand is....
On the contrary, I have always found a strong correlation between a sense of humor and intelligence.
Not a 'bluenose'. See http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10261&page=143 and read a little.
Yes, I get it. You want to censor content because some parents are not doing their job. You want to restrict just this little bit of freedom, not all the rest of the freedoms. We can trust you, right?
And yes, they are bluenoses.
Yeah, and they'll get that from porn.
If you let the bluenoses get their hands on the controls, then, yes, they will define any site containing information about how to avoid pregnancies, STDs, etc. as porn.
Then you get teen pregnancy or worse, STDs, abuse, and dysfunctional relationships.
These are products of too little information, not too much.
All prequels blow chunks, because we know what's going to happen. why bother.
What civilization had made the alien ship? It wasn't the penis heads. There was a dead pilot of another species in a control chair, as I recall. Why were they carrying a load of eggs and no queen?
Thing is, reality is not a movie. Rarely do the well-intentioned, rag-tag band of rebels overthrow the evil world government and usher in a new era of freedom and prosperity.
Usually, when the well-intentioned, rag-tag band of rebels do win, the resulting government devolves into a totalitarian regime as bad as what was deposed. In the US, our view is skewed because our well-intentioned, rag-tag band of rebels was not headed by such. Recall that some wanted to make Washington King of America, but he bared his wooden teeth at them and refused.
No, seriously, meet him. Head on, at about 5000 feet.
Until it has some experimental evidence to support it, it should be String Hypothesis.
I learned to always use the password "123456". Herd immunity.
That one's so much funnier with two bullets and three persons in the room (the answer is the same).
I managed to screw up my own joke.
He built a better mousetrap. There were tons of others with the same savvy doing the same thing (friendster, myspace, etc) but in the end he won out, BIG time. Yes, you could say he won the lottery... But you had to be an extremely smart, determined individual to even be bestowed a lottery ticket in the first place.
There is an analogy for this in the financial world: Give a hundred people each a coin and have them flip it. One of these people will flip heads ten times in a row. This person will go on to make a million by writing books and giving seminars about how to successfully flip coins.