This time around, it has to do with which parts of the govt were funded already. Since DoD and HHS already got their money, most of the contractors who'd normally be ringing their senators' phones off the hooks are ok for now. If Northrup Grumman was going to lose money on this, the shutdown would already be over.
Yeah but there are already walls and fencing where they're needed, just buy some surveillance drones to patrol the rest of the border and you're done. A Great Wall is dumb.
So, as a rule of thumb, if you read X protects you from toxins and [common substance you don't need protection from, e.g. sugar], it is almost certainly woo.
If he budgets the money to be spent and actually ends up eating everything he buys and meeting his dietary requirements it isn't a terrible idea, but perhaps not the best. I limit my impulse buys to the produce section since you can't really plan on when a bumper crop is going to come in.
Grow them and eat crappy tomatoes in the off season. It is interesting how used to "perfect" food children get, you have to repeatedly assure them the little spots on the farmer's market produce are fine and so on. Once they take a bite they won't mind for that item, but the next type of produce they're used to seeing the perfect looking grocery store example and you have to start over.
Have you looked at Synology? I use mine as a media server and backup, but I saw that it had security system features available and you can use it as a private Cloud as well.
Plants use atmospheric CO2 as one of their carbon sources, this modification allows them to also incorporate these chemicals into their metabolism. It wouldn't supplant the entire metabolic chain, we're not that good at genetic manipulation.
Yeah the Jurassic was a great time for modern human civilization! This is as bad as the guy saying "Venus is still a planet" when talking about runaway CO2.
Eh... if we are going to do a home analogy, it is more like putting up a privacy fence on one side of your yard, but that neighbor can see in the other side's picket fence when walking his dog on the public right of way.
I do remember reading an article a while back about thieves stealing what turned out to be a radiation source for medical equipment. Eventually it was found and had apparently been opened and put back together. They said the thieves would only likely live a few more days as opening the container without protection would've given them a fatal dose.
I have a black shingle roof. It turns sunlight into heat. If I do solar cells, it'll absorb the sunlight, turn it into electricity, which by various roundabout ways eventually becomes waste heat of some kind. It's all conservation of energy, you don't have to do the math. Now, if you cover a prairie with solar panels then you'll be restricting that energy from going through some plants which do more interesting things with the energy than the shingles do.
Where they are a problem you can kill feral pigs by whatever means you want, they aren't restricted like deer. People joy ride on four wheelers and mow them down, but they apparently reproduce very quickly and it is exceptionally difficult to completely extirpate them from an area.
I agree we will probably need more nuclear, however the criticism of solar power is silly... human farming and habitation already changes the Earth's local albedo a great deal, adding solar panels to our buildings isn't going to change anything we haven't already moved off of baseline.
You know, we have some Panasonic Toughpad barcode scanners that are geared for business/govt customers but they aren't really any more costly than an iPhone or what have you. I've not really thought about using one as a personal device but I don't see why you couldn't, that'd check a lot of those boxes, waterproof and removable battery and so on. You'd just want one without or with a smaller scanner than ours have since it isn't going to fit nicely in a pant pocket. You never see them advertised outside of trade shows but it seems like there could be some consumer demand?
I'd assume there'd be some cloud stuff brought in in addition to the kind included with Office: if you're going to get people to subscribe you'll want them to get used to keeping all their stuff they don't want to lose access to on your servers.
Ha! In a simplistic view, maybe, but there are lots of ways to tell something is 'out of place'. The distribution of the stripe of 'weird' Iron in places that local iron would not end up under normal processes would also be a clue. It's like how you can tell a viral insertion in the genome is not part of the normal hereditary sequence, even if it made it into the germ line.
Yes it is a sort of strange idea that cosmic rays would've driven a large shark of all things, famous for their resistance to cancer, extinct. If the rays did directly kill things they could've messed up the food chain well enough to drive large predators extinct more easily, I'd think.
It has been getting worse lately, it reminds me of how Sears's webpage has always been, where good results are mixed in with what can only be money laundering from the prices. For things I'd worry would be counterfeit I've actually been schlepping over to Best Buy since they'll price match Amazon.
When buying used tools, the rule of thumb is usually 50% retail or you may as well buy one that isn't worn to crap... hand tools like hammers are a bit of an exception, but generally are cheap enough that when you buy used ones they're less than 50% of retail on a new one unless it is a highly specialized hammer for smithing or something along those lines.
Amazon is heavily infested with third part refurbished laptops, so much so that unless you search for specific model numbers it can be hard to find the new products. Last one I bought I ended up getting a new but discontinued model from Best Buy for about what a weaker refurb would've cost, which felt weird since until recently Amazon had supplanted all my purchases from there.
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This time around, it has to do with which parts of the govt were funded already. Since DoD and HHS already got their money, most of the contractors who'd normally be ringing their senators' phones off the hooks are ok for now. If Northrup Grumman was going to lose money on this, the shutdown would already be over.
Yeah but there are already walls and fencing where they're needed, just buy some surveillance drones to patrol the rest of the border and you're done. A Great Wall is dumb.
So, as a rule of thumb, if you read X protects you from toxins and [common substance you don't need protection from, e.g. sugar], it is almost certainly woo.
If he budgets the money to be spent and actually ends up eating everything he buys and meeting his dietary requirements it isn't a terrible idea, but perhaps not the best. I limit my impulse buys to the produce section since you can't really plan on when a bumper crop is going to come in.
Grow them and eat crappy tomatoes in the off season. It is interesting how used to "perfect" food children get, you have to repeatedly assure them the little spots on the farmer's market produce are fine and so on. Once they take a bite they won't mind for that item, but the next type of produce they're used to seeing the perfect looking grocery store example and you have to start over.
Or button cell batteries... it is starting to increase my brick and mortar spending...
Have you looked at Synology? I use mine as a media server and backup, but I saw that it had security system features available and you can use it as a private Cloud as well.
Plants use atmospheric CO2 as one of their carbon sources, this modification allows them to also incorporate these chemicals into their metabolism. It wouldn't supplant the entire metabolic chain, we're not that good at genetic manipulation.
If there was a login, maybe, but I'm not sure something that could be accidentally defeated by a dynamic IP is equivalent to a bouncer.
Yeah the Jurassic was a great time for modern human civilization! This is as bad as the guy saying "Venus is still a planet" when talking about runaway CO2.
Eh... if we are going to do a home analogy, it is more like putting up a privacy fence on one side of your yard, but that neighbor can see in the other side's picket fence when walking his dog on the public right of way.
I do remember reading an article a while back about thieves stealing what turned out to be a radiation source for medical equipment. Eventually it was found and had apparently been opened and put back together. They said the thieves would only likely live a few more days as opening the container without protection would've given them a fatal dose.
Another good point! Not much room for error on waiting for anti-ballistic missiles to fire.
+1... if it needs 2FA and AV then that means it is on the internet somewhere and they've already failed.
I have a black shingle roof. It turns sunlight into heat. If I do solar cells, it'll absorb the sunlight, turn it into electricity, which by various roundabout ways eventually becomes waste heat of some kind. It's all conservation of energy, you don't have to do the math. Now, if you cover a prairie with solar panels then you'll be restricting that energy from going through some plants which do more interesting things with the energy than the shingles do.
Where they are a problem you can kill feral pigs by whatever means you want, they aren't restricted like deer. People joy ride on four wheelers and mow them down, but they apparently reproduce very quickly and it is exceptionally difficult to completely extirpate them from an area.
I agree we will probably need more nuclear, however the criticism of solar power is silly... human farming and habitation already changes the Earth's local albedo a great deal, adding solar panels to our buildings isn't going to change anything we haven't already moved off of baseline.
You know, we have some Panasonic Toughpad barcode scanners that are geared for business/govt customers but they aren't really any more costly than an iPhone or what have you. I've not really thought about using one as a personal device but I don't see why you couldn't, that'd check a lot of those boxes, waterproof and removable battery and so on. You'd just want one without or with a smaller scanner than ours have since it isn't going to fit nicely in a pant pocket. You never see them advertised outside of trade shows but it seems like there could be some consumer demand?
I'd assume there'd be some cloud stuff brought in in addition to the kind included with Office: if you're going to get people to subscribe you'll want them to get used to keeping all their stuff they don't want to lose access to on your servers.
Interesting... I'd have thought eye surgery would involve disposable blades due to the sharpness required, which instruments get reused?
Ha! In a simplistic view, maybe, but there are lots of ways to tell something is 'out of place'. The distribution of the stripe of 'weird' Iron in places that local iron would not end up under normal processes would also be a clue. It's like how you can tell a viral insertion in the genome is not part of the normal hereditary sequence, even if it made it into the germ line.
Yes it is a sort of strange idea that cosmic rays would've driven a large shark of all things, famous for their resistance to cancer, extinct. If the rays did directly kill things they could've messed up the food chain well enough to drive large predators extinct more easily, I'd think.
It has been getting worse lately, it reminds me of how Sears's webpage has always been, where good results are mixed in with what can only be money laundering from the prices. For things I'd worry would be counterfeit I've actually been schlepping over to Best Buy since they'll price match Amazon.
When buying used tools, the rule of thumb is usually 50% retail or you may as well buy one that isn't worn to crap... hand tools like hammers are a bit of an exception, but generally are cheap enough that when you buy used ones they're less than 50% of retail on a new one unless it is a highly specialized hammer for smithing or something along those lines.
Amazon is heavily infested with third part refurbished laptops, so much so that unless you search for specific model numbers it can be hard to find the new products. Last one I bought I ended up getting a new but discontinued model from Best Buy for about what a weaker refurb would've cost, which felt weird since until recently Amazon had supplanted all my purchases from there.