Born in '69 I was the magic age when Rubik's Cubes came out.
I was solving them with ease when the craze was in full frenzy. In the bookstore (those were places in malls that sold books -- malls were places people used to go shopping), next to the video game guides for beating all of the levels of PacMan were guides for solving your cube.
I used to make a couple bucks here and there betting I could do a cube in under 2 minutes -- trivial by any competitive standard (then or now).
Although today I know it's not as efficient strategy as some others, I used a top-down completion method.
Somewhere between the 80's and today, I forgot the pattern that rotates the bottom middle (non-corner) pieces, and I've never seen the exact method I've used displayed anywhere so I could just pick up the forgotten piece of my solving routine without learning a new one.:(
"McDonalds meat is meat by product." -- Wrong. False. "Pink Slime is 100% Beef." -- Irrelevant. McDonalds does not use it. "Ground eyeball, etc." -- Wrong again. False.
Dude. Seriously. How hard is it to admit you're wrong? You were either ignorant of the facts, or you lied. I'll politely assume you're just ignorant, and couldn't be bothered to fact-check your statement.
Did some minimum wage employees serve some raw hamburgers? Yup. That happened. What that has to do with your BULLSHIT that they're not using beef, I have no idea.
McDonalds may suck, but they use real beef in their burger patties, lacking "pink slime" or any other additive - likely making it better beef than the bargain brand at your local grocery store.
At the beginning of 2011, we made a decision to discontinue the use of ammonia-treated beef in our hamburgers. This product has been out of our supply chain since August of last year. This decision was a result of our efforts to align our global standards for how we source beef around the world.
Search that exact phrase in Google for HUNDREDS of search results explaining the impact of that press release.
Look man. I get it. You don't like mechanically separated beef bits in your ground beef - but at least get your McDonalds facts straight.
While those specifically deal with the "100% Beef" (brand, company name) legend, they're also VERY clear that the USDA is pretty strict about what you can call beef, and McDonalds meets that definition. By-products must be labeled as such.
QUARTER POUND 100% BEEF PATTY*: Ingredients: 100% Pure USDA Inspected Beef; No Fillers, No Extenders. Prepared With Grill Seasoning (Salt, Black Pepper). *Based On The Weight Before Cooking 4 Oz. (113.4g)
Coke Zero's taste mostly comes from a 50-50 blend of the usual Aspartame found in Diet Coke and Ace-K. The Ace-K gives it that more "sickly sweet" taste a lot of people associate with regular Coke.
Apparently worldwide Coca-Cola plants have to use different sweeteners, so the Zero line might taste "off" overseas.
1-2 carbs per 3oz cooked chicken breast? That's insightful?
A large grilled chicken breast clocks in at roughly zero carbs.
A small dinner size portion of Beyond Meat "chicken" has 8 net carbs -- still well in the range of what an Atkins dieter (even during induction) can have for dinner.
It's not a change so much in the/. audience. It's a change in the minds of the/. editors to post everything they think will get page hits -- and then the idiots follow.
The front page is probably a year away from "One Secret Trick, 99% of Linux Users Don't Know!"
You're right. It's not the first time. We've been releasing sterile males into insect populations for 60 years with great success. This is just another story to make errmagarghd, monsanto! types get all grumpy.
They're just releasing a bunch of semi-sterile males. They can make babies, but those babies never hatch, and it wastes the reproductive cycles of the female mosquitoes.
We've been doing this regularly since the 1950's. This is nothing new except something for dolts to moan on about Monsanto. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Note also that after they've worked out the problems with landing the first stage, they plan to start working on recovering the second stage (which will be REALLY interesting, since it'll essentially have the flight profile of a FOBS (Fractional Orbit Bombardment System), and might make several Space Defense Commands wet themselves.)
The story you tell is important to people who might be reading it - they need to understand that now is the time to sit down with your family and loved ones and make your wishes known. After that, get those wishes documented. Nobody is served by a fighting family, squabbling over what to do with someone's husk.
The Sun's Hill Sphere is probably thousands of times farther out -- the point at which "everything else in the universe" can win out over slowly but surely being drawn into our solar system.
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Born in '69 I was the magic age when Rubik's Cubes came out.
I was solving them with ease when the craze was in full frenzy. In the bookstore (those were places in malls that sold books -- malls were places people used to go shopping), next to the video game guides for beating all of the levels of PacMan were guides for solving your cube.
I used to make a couple bucks here and there betting I could do a cube in under 2 minutes -- trivial by any competitive standard (then or now).
Although today I know it's not as efficient strategy as some others, I used a top-down completion method.
Somewhere between the 80's and today, I forgot the pattern that rotates the bottom middle (non-corner) pieces, and I've never seen the exact method I've used displayed anywhere so I could just pick up the forgotten piece of my solving routine without learning a new one. :(
*sigh*
"McDonalds meat is meat by product." -- Wrong. False.
"Pink Slime is 100% Beef." -- Irrelevant. McDonalds does not use it.
"Ground eyeball, etc." -- Wrong again. False.
Dude. Seriously. How hard is it to admit you're wrong? You were either ignorant of the facts, or you lied. I'll politely assume you're just ignorant, and couldn't be bothered to fact-check your statement.
Did some minimum wage employees serve some raw hamburgers? Yup. That happened. What that has to do with your BULLSHIT that they're not using beef, I have no idea.
McDonalds may suck, but they use real beef in their burger patties, lacking "pink slime" or any other additive - likely making it better beef than the bargain brand at your local grocery store.
I already saw 16 episodes of the 20 part documentary on the subject. :)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
...and McDonalds phased it out over 2 years ago.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/he...
At the beginning of 2011, we made a decision to discontinue the use of ammonia-treated beef in our hamburgers. This product has been out of our supply chain since August of last year. This decision was a result of our efforts to align our global standards for how we source beef around the world.
Search that exact phrase in Google for HUNDREDS of search results explaining the impact of that press release.
Look man. I get it. You don't like mechanically separated beef bits in your ground beef - but at least get your McDonalds facts straight.
You're 0-2 on this.
Your personal tastes aside, Diet Coke is the #2 soft-drink in America, ahead of Pepsi, and only trails regular Coke by 1.6:1
A lot of people actually prefer the taste.
False.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
http://www.snopes.com/business...
While those specifically deal with the "100% Beef" (brand, company name) legend, they're also VERY clear that the USDA is pretty strict about what you can call beef, and McDonalds meets that definition. By-products must be labeled as such.
And, in case you still don't buy it:
http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com...
QUARTER POUND 100% BEEF PATTY*:
Ingredients: 100% Pure USDA Inspected Beef; No Fillers, No Extenders.
Prepared With Grill Seasoning (Salt, Black Pepper).
*Based On The Weight Before Cooking 4 Oz. (113.4g)
...actually.
Coke Zero's taste mostly comes from a 50-50 blend of the usual Aspartame found in Diet Coke and Ace-K. The Ace-K gives it that more "sickly sweet" taste a lot of people associate with regular Coke.
Apparently worldwide Coca-Cola plants have to use different sweeteners, so the Zero line might taste "off" overseas.
1-2 carbs per 3oz cooked chicken breast? That's insightful?
A large grilled chicken breast clocks in at roughly zero carbs.
A small dinner size portion of Beyond Meat "chicken" has 8 net carbs -- still well in the range of what an Atkins dieter (even during induction) can have for dinner.
I'm pretty sure all sorts of people are self-selecting to not watch Cosmos because it goes counter to their personal sacred cows.
It's not a change so much in the /. audience. It's a change in the minds of the /. editors to post everything they think will get page hits -- and then the idiots follow.
The front page is probably a year away from "One Secret Trick, 99% of Linux Users Don't Know!"
You're right. It's not the first time. We've been releasing sterile males into insect populations for 60 years with great success. This is just another story to make errmagarghd, monsanto! types get all grumpy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
There's no "resistant gene" here.
They're just releasing a bunch of semi-sterile males. They can make babies, but those babies never hatch, and it wastes the reproductive cycles of the female mosquitoes.
We've been doing this regularly since the 1950's. This is nothing new except something for dolts to moan on about Monsanto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
...great, but they'd still have to make the non-Dengue mosquitoes win out over the regular 'ol Dengue mosquitoes somehow.
Of course not. You gain the power of death.
Note also that after they've worked out the problems with landing the first stage, they plan to start working on recovering the second stage (which will be REALLY interesting, since it'll essentially have the flight profile of a FOBS (Fractional Orbit Bombardment System), and might make several Space Defense Commands wet themselves.)
:popcorn
My condolences on the loss of your wife.
The story you tell is important to people who might be reading it - they need to understand that now is the time to sit down with your family and loved ones and make your wishes known. After that, get those wishes documented. Nobody is served by a fighting family, squabbling over what to do with someone's husk.
It is not theoretically stable, but in practice it is.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.
I love babies... ...but I couldn't eat a whole one.
Death is a part of life.
...for 93% of us.
With 7 billion people on the planet, and only 100 billion of us having ever lived, only 93% of us have died.
As part of the 7%, I'm keeping my hopes high.
Make your living wills now.
Get the funeral (or lack of one) that you want.
What are are we allowed to live to? 30? Logan's Run for us?
...at least.
The Sun's Hill Sphere is probably thousands of times farther out -- the point at which "everything else in the universe" can win out over slowly but surely being drawn into our solar system.
It's like having a VISA sticker in your window, and not being allowed to charge more for credit transactions.
See? That's totally fair and within both the letter and spirit of the law.. ..or something. :/
...well, there were batons.
They have two caucasian looking guys on their employee website, but they could be from STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY for all I know.
There we go...