...people growing algae at home for food....... And one of the low-cost materials is your household urine.
Somehow I think this business is it's own worst enemy. Perhaps they should omit that little part of the plan, at least until they start making some progress with the rest. How could they think this was a good way to promote a new food source?
The Muslims have the right to religious freedom to build a mosque right near ground zero, no matter who it offends, but the American "Christians" don't have the right of free speech to burn a few books.
I do think the so called pastor is an asshole, but I thought that he had the right to be an asshole.
Saying "3891% of the average monthly income" without giving an actual price is ignorant and deceptive. It is completely meaningless to measure things this way when income in parts of the world can still be measured in pennies a day. It could very well be (and I suspect it is but don't have meaningful data to determine this) that the broadband cost there is actually less than what I pay. While I do think that it is important that the information on the Internet be available to everyone, and realize that this can help improve things many ways in the most economically depressed areas, it is not realistic to suggest that because wages are low in a country that everything should be given to them at costs that would bankrupt the providers. People who can't afford food or clean water, don't have electricity, and certainly can't afford a computer are not likely to be concerned about Internet services pricing, and if they are then their priorities are wrong.
Not only is there the dubious claim that this will make water safe, and the implication that it is somehow different from other activated charcoal filters already made, but they stress how cheap or affordable it is, without ever giving any indication of a price. When someone tells you that something is inexpensive but doesn't want to tell you how much it will cost in any quantity, it will not be inexpensive.
You are right, this is never alleged. But it is implied and they clearly want people to take the false impression by what is said and not said. Otherwise, it is a completely pointless thing to say. I would be like going out of your way to point out that the computer had a CRT screen and not an LCD screen. If there is no cause and effect (and I also believe there is not in this case), why make the statement?
Maybe the computer was infested with trojans, although no evidence is offered to support this, not even the names. If it was, that still doesn't say that the trojans caused the problem. After all, the computer must have been running well enough even with the infestation to seem to be working. I'm inclined to think that trojans may just be a way to not really address the real problem.
I played it for about 6 months. I was getting quite decent scores, often in the top 25 for a puzzle. Then they added awful crappy and pointless music, and wouldn't let you disable it (there are other audio effects that are important to have, so just muting the computer isn't a solution). Complaints were ignored without response. I quit playing before I started killing people.
....and that the US has the authority to arrest its spokesman, Julian Assange, even if it has to contravene international law to do so.
Sounds to me more like the United States is the clear and present danger. Particularly when they claim an authority and yet admit a conflict with international law.
"According to the Environment Ministry in Berlin, almost 425,000 ($555,000) was paid out to hunters in 2009 in compensation for wild boar meat that was too contaminated by radiation to be sold for consumption...."
I'm sure that if we had a system of government payments for radioactive wild boar meat in the U.S.A. that there would be plenty of claims and payments here too. Any government program designed to hand out money attracts fraud in great numbers, why assume that this isn't happening here?
So, making a copy of a song is piracy and stealing, but taking energy from a power line is clever and innovative? Seems like very selective morality for what Slashdot condemns and what they find worthy of reporting without criticism.
This report is total BS and not worthy of mention. We know that reptiles lay eggs (not all but a good number), and we know that dinosaurs laid eggs (having found fossils). There is extremely strong evidence that birds evolved from dinosaurs, and at some point in that evolution, the chicken appeared. Clearly the thing that the first chicken (wherever you care to draw the line) hatched from was an egg. So the egg came before the chicken.
Actually, a simple "Bob, I have that money that I owe you, just tell me where to send it." might be more likely to get a good result. Even better if you have a friend who has already sent e-mail to the account send the message.
So do you believe it is always OK for businesses to discriminate on the basis of sexual preference, or only do so when it favors homosexuals? I strongly suspect that you are a hypocrite and would be protesting any stated policy that advocated paying homosexuals less than straights rather than more.
Boy, do I see a lawsuit brewing here. How can they legally justify paying straight people less than gays, if all other factors are equal? I don't care about any tax issues. Does Google pay an apartment dweller more just because they don't get a mortgage write-off? Do they pay a single person more because he can't claim to be a head-of-household under IRS rules like a married person does? Do they pay a blind person less because they get two personal exemptions rather than one on their ISR 1040? If their pay policy doesn't address these and a lot more tax inequities, then I hope that they get sued big time for a pay policy that actually favors gays over straight people. In short, it's not for Google to start correcting the unfairness of the tax system, and to do so in a discriminatory manner that favors gays over straights just isn't right or smart.
Twitter will be barred for 20 years from misleading consumers
What kind of a deal is that? It seems to be saying that after the twenty year period it will be OK for them to mislead customers. And if it is not saying that, then what is the point of the 20 years or the deal in the first place? How does a company that betrays public trust get away with saying "OK, for our punishment we agree to follow the law for a limited period of time" ???
I have an older version of VLC already installed. My first thought was "keep the old version so not to give up a function". Then I realized that I never listen to shoutcast, and likely never will. So why bother to even worry about it? If AOL wants to further isolate themselves from the rest of the community because of concern that someone might be spared from some of their obnoxious ads, by all means let them. Too bad that no one who actually understands the issue will be there the day that AOL execs sit around the conference table and try to understand why no one listens to shoutcast and it doesn't get the "buzz" the other forms of media do.
Oh, you mean like how all of the oil wells that were drilled by U.S. companies and then "nationalized" keeps Iran from becoming corrupt and evil, and run by religious fanatics? Thank for explaining that. Your understanding of the issue is clearly different than mine.
So exactly why did the Pentagon spend my tax dollars to find mineral riches for a corrupt and hostile foreign country? And why did we tell them about it before an honest and American friendly government (if the even is such a thing) was in place?
It seems ridiculous to have left out WiFi and even wired ethernet, and then suggest that a user waste the SD slot with a pricey SD WiFi card, when it could have been built into the device for so little and kept the slot available. No thanks, I'll pass.
Season 6 was a complete disapoimtment
on
Lost Ends
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
I too am very dissatisfied with LOST. Some things were just badly written. To me this goes back at least to when Charlie died, even though water physically could not have filled the room above the broken port hole, and continued through the final episode, where suddenly Jack, Kate and the rest were traveling across vast stretches of the island in hours or minutes when it had previously taken days to cover so much ground. And even things that were supposedly explained this season made no sense if you look at the whole story. The smoke monster was revealed to have caused the appearance of several deal people, including Jack's father. But we also know that smokey could not leave the island. Yet Jack also saw his dead father manifested while he was in L.A., before returning to the Island. How can a viewer even hope to figure out anything in a story when they do stuff like that?
There were many many story holes, far too many for me to list here. But one that really needed some sort of explanation was the Darma food drop that happened shortly after the crash and saved Hurley from a much needed diet. Why was there a Darma food drop if all of Darma had been killed years earlier? Who did it, and what else are they doing? How did they even make a food drop on the Island, the mysterious nature of the Island should have made it unreachable by air, Darma had to use a sub to get there other times. But the message to viewers who were trying to actually figure out the story and make some sense of it was "screw you, the writers don't care about such things, we just want to have melodramatic deaths and church scenes with the major cast (but curiously none of the extras who also died).
And the ending made no sense at all taken with the departure of Kate, Sawyer and Clair on the plane. How does Kate end up at the funeral dead if she managed to fly off the island alive? Why even bother to get that group to the plane, if it is meaningless if they reached it or not?
The writers of Lost promised that they had a full story in mind when the series started, that they were not just making it up as they went along. That either wasn't true or they were some of the worst writers in history.
Some shows are just entertainment. The viewer knows not to spend any time trying to figure out much of anything, because it would be time wasted. But Lost presented itself as something different. It claimed to have an underlying logic behind it. Viewers were encouraged to try to understand the riddles of the island. In the end the loyal viewers were betrayed.
Fine, I hope the religious idiots (opps, I mean devoted followers) cut the country off completely. Here, let me help, here is a site that shows images of the prophet without hiding him in a burka, (which should always be done when your women or prophets are too ugly for the rest of the world to see them without bringing down shame on you).
everyone who was seriously involved in the fight gets 100% of the XP and loot for the kill.
This makes no more sense when a game says it than when a Democrat promises it. With this logic a few players with a few pieces of gold could go off to a remote location and take turns teaming up against each other, and soon their few pieces of gold would grow to a vast sum (it work only take 30 or 40 such robberies). If the game is this sloppy with it's economy then inflation will keep everyone poor.
Slashdot Mirror
Or, as those with a Pittsburgh speech patter might say: "I thought this algae was mine, but it's your'in.
Somehow I think this business is it's own worst enemy. Perhaps they should omit that little part of the plan, at least until they start making some progress with the rest. How could they think this was a good way to promote a new food source?
The Muslims have the right to religious freedom to build a mosque right near ground zero, no matter who it offends, but the American "Christians" don't have the right of free speech to burn a few books.
I do think the so called pastor is an asshole, but I thought that he had the right to be an asshole.
'The government is quite happy to legislate that people can lose two demerit points for having music .........
Demerits? Sounds rather childish. But at least you lose 2 demerits, which sounds much better to me than being given 2 demerits.
Saying "3891% of the average monthly income" without giving an actual price is ignorant and deceptive. It is completely meaningless to measure things this way when income in parts of the world can still be measured in pennies a day. It could very well be (and I suspect it is but don't have meaningful data to determine this) that the broadband cost there is actually less than what I pay. While I do think that it is important that the information on the Internet be available to everyone, and realize that this can help improve things many ways in the most economically depressed areas, it is not realistic to suggest that because wages are low in a country that everything should be given to them at costs that would bankrupt the providers. People who can't afford food or clean water, don't have electricity, and certainly can't afford a computer are not likely to be concerned about Internet services pricing, and if they are then their priorities are wrong.
Not only is there the dubious claim that this will make water safe, and the implication that it is somehow different from other activated charcoal filters already made, but they stress how cheap or affordable it is, without ever giving any indication of a price. When someone tells you that something is inexpensive but doesn't want to tell you how much it will cost in any quantity, it will not be inexpensive.
You are right, this is never alleged. But it is implied and they clearly want people to take the false impression by what is said and not said. Otherwise, it is a completely pointless thing to say. I would be like going out of your way to point out that the computer had a CRT screen and not an LCD screen. If there is no cause and effect (and I also believe there is not in this case), why make the statement?
Maybe the computer was infested with trojans, although no evidence is offered to support this, not even the names. If it was, that still doesn't say that the trojans caused the problem. After all, the computer must have been running well enough even with the infestation to seem to be working. I'm inclined to think that trojans may just be a way to not really address the real problem.
I played it for about 6 months. I was getting quite decent scores, often in the top 25 for a puzzle. Then they added awful crappy and pointless music, and wouldn't let you disable it (there are other audio effects that are important to have, so just muting the computer isn't a solution). Complaints were ignored without response. I quit playing before I started killing people.
Sounds to me more like the United States is the clear and present danger. Particularly when they claim an authority and yet admit a conflict with international law.
"According to the Environment Ministry in Berlin, almost 425,000 ($555,000) was paid out to hunters in 2009 in compensation for wild boar meat that was too contaminated by radiation to be sold for consumption...."
I'm sure that if we had a system of government payments for radioactive wild boar meat in the U.S.A. that there would be plenty of claims and payments here too. Any government program designed to hand out money attracts fraud in great numbers, why assume that this isn't happening here?
So, making a copy of a song is piracy and stealing, but taking energy from a power line is clever and innovative? Seems like very selective morality for what Slashdot condemns and what they find worthy of reporting without criticism.
This report is total BS and not worthy of mention. We know that reptiles lay eggs (not all but a good number), and we know that dinosaurs laid eggs (having found fossils). There is extremely strong evidence that birds evolved from dinosaurs, and at some point in that evolution, the chicken appeared. Clearly the thing that the first chicken (wherever you care to draw the line) hatched from was an egg. So the egg came before the chicken.
Actually, a simple "Bob, I have that money that I owe you, just tell me where to send it." might be more likely to get a good result. Even better if you have a friend who has already sent e-mail to the account send the message.
So do you believe it is always OK for businesses to discriminate on the basis of sexual preference, or only do so when it favors homosexuals? I strongly suspect that you are a hypocrite and would be protesting any stated policy that advocated paying homosexuals less than straights rather than more.
Boy, do I see a lawsuit brewing here. How can they legally justify paying straight people less than gays, if all other factors are equal? I don't care about any tax issues. Does Google pay an apartment dweller more just because they don't get a mortgage write-off? Do they pay a single person more because he can't claim to be a head-of-household under IRS rules like a married person does? Do they pay a blind person less because they get two personal exemptions rather than one on their ISR 1040? If their pay policy doesn't address these and a lot more tax inequities, then I hope that they get sued big time for a pay policy that actually favors gays over straight people. In short, it's not for Google to start correcting the unfairness of the tax system, and to do so in a discriminatory manner that favors gays over straights just isn't right or smart.
Twitter will be barred for 20 years from misleading consumers
What kind of a deal is that? It seems to be saying that after the twenty year period it will be OK for them to mislead customers. And if it is not saying that, then what is the point of the 20 years or the deal in the first place? How does a company that betrays public trust get away with saying "OK, for our punishment we agree to follow the law for a limited period of time" ???
I have an older version of VLC already installed. My first thought was "keep the old version so not to give up a function". Then I realized that I never listen to shoutcast, and likely never will. So why bother to even worry about it? If AOL wants to further isolate themselves from the rest of the community because of concern that someone might be spared from some of their obnoxious ads, by all means let them. Too bad that no one who actually understands the issue will be there the day that AOL execs sit around the conference table and try to understand why no one listens to shoutcast and it doesn't get the "buzz" the other forms of media do.
Oh, you mean like how all of the oil wells that were drilled by U.S. companies and then "nationalized" keeps Iran from becoming corrupt and evil, and run by religious fanatics? Thank for explaining that. Your understanding of the issue is clearly different than mine.
So exactly why did the Pentagon spend my tax dollars to find mineral riches for a corrupt and hostile foreign country? And why did we tell them about it before an honest and American friendly government (if the even is such a thing) was in place?
It seems ridiculous to have left out WiFi and even wired ethernet, and then suggest that a user waste the SD slot with a pricey SD WiFi card, when it could have been built into the device for so little and kept the slot available. No thanks, I'll pass.
I too am very dissatisfied with LOST. Some things were just badly written. To me this goes back at least to when Charlie died, even though water physically could not have filled the room above the broken port hole, and continued through the final episode, where suddenly Jack, Kate and the rest were traveling across vast stretches of the island in hours or minutes when it had previously taken days to cover so much ground. And even things that were supposedly explained this season made no sense if you look at the whole story. The smoke monster was revealed to have caused the appearance of several deal people, including Jack's father. But we also know that smokey could not leave the island. Yet Jack also saw his dead father manifested while he was in L.A., before returning to the Island. How can a viewer even hope to figure out anything in a story when they do stuff like that?
There were many many story holes, far too many for me to list here. But one that really needed some sort of explanation was the Darma food drop that happened shortly after the crash and saved Hurley from a much needed diet. Why was there a Darma food drop if all of Darma had been killed years earlier? Who did it, and what else are they doing? How did they even make a food drop on the Island, the mysterious nature of the Island should have made it unreachable by air, Darma had to use a sub to get there other times. But the message to viewers who were trying to actually figure out the story and make some sense of it was "screw you, the writers don't care about such things, we just want to have melodramatic deaths and church scenes with the major cast (but curiously none of the extras who also died).
And the ending made no sense at all taken with the departure of Kate, Sawyer and Clair on the plane. How does Kate end up at the funeral dead if she managed to fly off the island alive? Why even bother to get that group to the plane, if it is meaningless if they reached it or not?
The writers of Lost promised that they had a full story in mind when the series started, that they were not just making it up as they went along. That either wasn't true or they were some of the worst writers in history.
Some shows are just entertainment. The viewer knows not to spend any time trying to figure out much of anything, because it would be time wasted. But Lost presented itself as something different. It claimed to have an underlying logic behind it. Viewers were encouraged to try to understand the riddles of the island. In the end the loyal viewers were betrayed.
Fine, I hope the religious idiots (opps, I mean devoted followers) cut the country off completely. Here, let me help, here is a site that shows images of the prophet without hiding him in a burka, (which should always be done when your women or prophets are too ugly for the rest of the world to see them without bringing down shame on you).
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=muhammad
Perhaps they should block google.com, or maybe even the whole .com tdl.
everyone who was seriously involved in the fight gets 100% of the XP and loot for the kill.
This makes no more sense when a game says it than when a Democrat promises it. With this logic a few players with a few pieces of gold could go off to a remote location and take turns teaming up against each other, and soon their few pieces of gold would grow to a vast sum (it work only take 30 or 40 such robberies). If the game is this sloppy with it's economy then inflation will keep everyone poor.
The terrorists made threats, and in response Comedy Central gave the terrorists what they wanted. The terrorists have won.