Actually, the article supports the value of vegetables and says nothing about meat.
Many other studies have shown that meat isn't very good for you due to high fat (bad saturated fat) and other problems. Here's one example that came in my email today that shows the advantage of the "Mediterranean diet":
Mediterranean Diet Linked to Lower Alzheimer's Risk
News Author: Caroline Cassels
October 20, 2006 -- Consuming a Mediterranean diet can significantly reduce Alzheimer's Disease (AD) risk, but not necessarily through vascular mediation, a study suggests.
Researchers at Columbia University in New York found individuals who followed a Mediterranean diet reduced their AD risk by up to 68% compared with those who did not adhere to this diet, which is rich in fruits, vegetables, legumes, cereals, and fish and low in meat and dairy products.
"This study confirms our previous research and has strengthened our confidence that adherence to the Mediterranean diet is associated with protective effect in Alzheimer's disease," the study's principal investigator Nikolaos Scarmeas, MD, told Medscape.
I don't think that your 33 cows eating grass are the problem. If all cattle production was grass-fed on small, well-managed farms, we wouldn't have these problems. It's the large feedlots that breed disease (both for cattle and humans) and consume resources. "Corn fed" beef tastes much better than grass fed, however.
I don't have much sympathy for farmers asking for more subsidies in the name of "security". As it is, farmers get $30 billion a year in direct subsidies plus much more in higher food prices, government services, subsidized crop insurance (paid by all of us non-farmers) and tax breaks. The reason farming is only "marginally profitable" is that US farms are not competitive and are propped up by government subsidies. It would be much more efficient to close down these farms and buy our food from places where they can grow it efficiently such as many developing countries... this also would help these poor countries out of poverty. As it is, we use our tax dollars to subsidize overproduction which we dump on world markets or give away in "food aid". This just ensures that poor countries can't export food (their comparative advantage) and therefore stay poor.
As far as estate tax reform goes... the average family farm sells for less than a million dollars which is below estate tax limits so no tax. Large corporate farms don't deserve tax breaks.
Sorry, aparently this requires registration. Here's the start of the article:
Vegetable Consumption Slows Rate of Cognitive Decline
News Author: Caroline Cassels
October 24, 2006 -- A study has shown an association between slowed cognitive decline and vegetable consumption.
Individuals who consumed at least 2.8 servings of vegetables per day slowed their rate of cognitive decline by roughly 40% compared with those who consumed less than 1 serving per day -- a decrease that is equivalent to about 5 years of younger age.
"We found green leafy vegetables had the strongest association to slowed rate of cognitive decline and while we are not sure of the reason, some of our analyses suggest it may be due to dietary vitamin E in vegetables," principal investigator Martha Clare Morris, ScD, of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, told Medscape.
I don't know what you had in mind but it sure sounds bad.... (could it be some disease that takes over the vagina and tits?)... or perhaps you get if from "your yummy meat"... Anyway, I doubt you could get it from eating vegetables or we would have heard of it by now.
The conversion factor of grain to livestock varies from 14:1 for beef to 7:1 for chickens.
If we stopped feeding animals this grain, there would be a lot more for people to eat (as well as ridding ourselves of the problems caused by industrial scale meat production). (doubleplusgood)
If you look at the top left of the new Yahoo mail page, there is an option to switch back to the old interface... Click your mouse on this button and it will solve your problems... (and please stop ranting.)
I've experienced malware, trojans, viruses, etc. that have required a Windows re-install.
I've also heard of people doing a periodic reinstall to remove accumulated cruft and gunk in Windows to speed up their computer.
I've just never heard of a system crash which corrupts the system to the point where you need to do a reinstall. I know it's possible but not what I would expect from an OS with all of the levels of security, backup of critical system files, multiple boot records, protected system files, and other gee-whiz fancy protection of the new Windows Vista.
When I visited this particular site in Firefox, I received a pop-up alert from Netcraft's anti-phishing toolbar, but also from Firefox, which flagged the scam site as a "suspected web forgery" and included links I could click on to earn more about phishing scams. When I visited the Bank of America scam site in IE7, I received no such alert.
If you had RTFA, you would have learned that the savings in the cost of the platters comes from lower manufacturing / fabrication costs, not the cost of the material. In fact, the foil platters use a more expensive material (stainless steel or titanium).
The real savings comes from the fact that the coating/finishing of the platters can be done on a big roll of foil and the platters can then be just stamped out. Standard platters must be finished individually.
If you had RTFA, you would have learned that these drives are much more resistant to shock since the head design creates a cushion of air that (combined with the low mass of the platter) keeps the platter away from the head.
I agree with you. The "public" should pay for the expenses if they want free access.
However, the current problem is that the public is currently paying for a lot of research (through government grants and government supported institutions) but that research is "captured" by for-profit journals and is not freely available. I believe there have been some feeble attempts by congress to require government funded research to be made available freely to the public.
On the costs of publishing:
Refereeing: Currently done by peers as professional courtesy and to establish academic credibility and is usually done as part of an academic job description. This doesn't need to change.
Editing: A small cost which is currently captured by "page fees". This can continue.
Typesetting: With electronic journal submission (does anyone use paper anymore?), this is not a factor.
Distribution: The Internet is a very low cost distribution mechanism. If you want a paper copy, print it yourself.
I'm not sure of your point here. My understanding is that "for profit" journals don't pay for peer review or referee. They charge a page fee.
However, they keep the copyright.
Are you saying that you get to keep the copyright when you pay the page charges and provide these other services?
My understanding is that most grants and/or employers cover any expenses you have in publishing. Are you working on your own without grants or employer?
You might want to consider one of the open access on-line journals.
http://www.doaj.org/
My Harmony remote has been great. It's easy to set up thanks to the online configuration databank.
Also, big suprise was that they have great technical support. I had a question and talked to a real person who was very helpful. The tech support people can even set up your device for you since they store the configuration in their database.
I believe that ethanol has the same issues with absorbing water and technical solutions are available.
From Wikipedia
Ethanol is not typically transported by pipeline for three reasons. Current production levels will not support a dedicated pipeline. The costs of building and maintaining a pipeline from Midwestern United States to either coast are prohibitive. Any water which penetrates the pipeline will be absorbed by the ethanol, diluting the mixture.[12]
For the ethanol to be usable as a fuel, water must be removed. Most of the water is removed by distillation, but the purity is limited to 95-96% due to the formation of a low-boiling water-ethanol azeotrope... For blending with gasoline, purity of 99.5 to 99.9% is required, depending on temperature, to avoid separation. Currently, the most widely used purification method is a physical absorption process using molecular sieves. Another method, azeotropic distillation, is achieved by adding the hydrocarbon benzene which also denatures the ethanol (so no extra methanol/petrol/etc. is needed to render it undrinkable for duty purposes). However, benzene is a powerful carcinogen and so will probably be illegal for this purpose soon.
I don't understand all of the hype about hydrogen when it is so difficult to manufacture, transport, store, and use. Also, most hydrogen now is derived from hydrocarbons and hence releases CO2.
I think that methanol would be much better. First, it is a liquid which makes it much easier to store and transport. It can be used in most combustion processes with minor adjustments. Significantly, it can be created from existing agricultural waste and other processes which take up CO2 from the atmosphere so there is no net increase in CO2 from it's use. It does have it's issues but overall the technical issues are more easily addressed than those of hydrogen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_economy
I wonder what you're doing to cause these issues. I've done all of my presentations for the past few years in OO.org and they are invariably presented on some random version of MS Powerpoint on the computer attached to the projector.
I've never had any of the problems you describe. However, I don't try anything fancy... Just text and images.
Well, we do know that Microsoft (developer of a popular operating system) has been tried and convicted of abuse of monopoly market position on several continents... does this count?
I'd love it if this were used to increase the distance limit on DSL. Right now, I'm "too far" from the CO and the phone company won't even talk to me about DSL.
It's very odd that you have had these problems with Thunderbird. I've been using Thunderbird for many years (even the early versions) and I have NEVER had any of these problems. It's never crashed, never lost any email, no problems with contact lists, always counted messages correctly, never had to manually index...
There was an interesting story on NPR yesterday about a sweet couple in Great Britain who were selling one acre plots of land on the moon for 20 pounds. They apparently have so far pulled in about 8 million doing this. They claim it is legal since the international space treaty prohibits countries from claiming space objects as their territory but doesn't prohibit individuals from claiming space objects. (They also have land for sale on Mars.)
Aside from all that, we'll cope with whatever comes our way, anyway. We always have; we always will. Barring asteroid impacts, of course.
I think you may be a bit naive here. Sure, most of us can compensate for a day that's a bit warmer or colder or wetter than normal and that is all that climate change has given us so far... However, the climate change that is implied by 1000 ppm CO2 is much different in degree (pun intended). How do you cope with ocean levels that rise to inundate most coastal cities? How do you cope when the climate changes bring drought or the temperature changes so much that agriculture collapses? It's really hard to cope with not having food.
Every time this project comes up, I am impressed by the number of people who just don't get it... however, this is slashdot, after all, so I shouldn't be suprised that there are lots of people with no knowledge or experience in the developing world who are willing to type out the first half baked reaction that comes into their head.
Lots of people complain that there are more pressing problems (such as poverty, political instability, famine, AIDS, etc.) that "we" should work on. These statements show a remarkable ignorance of life in developing countries. I imagine these posters once heard about poverty or hunger or political corruption somewhere and generalized this to the entire developing world.
News flash!!! Not everyone in the developing world is hungry, corrupt, living in abject poverty, etc. There are many people who are getting along with their basic needs (and some doing quite well)... and these people want information and education so they can do better.
That brings us to my second point which is that this project is not about computers! This project is about giving people tools that they can use to learn and gather information. This is about education and information. I can't believe that people here don't see the value of information and education. Are people here so stuck in the colonial/imperial mindset that they don't believe that people in developing countries are smart enough to learn when they have access to information?
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Many other studies have shown that meat isn't very good for you due to high fat (bad saturated fat) and other problems. Here's one example that came in my email today that shows the advantage of the "Mediterranean diet":
I don't have much sympathy for farmers asking for more subsidies in the name of "security". As it is, farmers get $30 billion a year in direct subsidies plus much more in higher food prices, government services, subsidized crop insurance (paid by all of us non-farmers) and tax breaks. The reason farming is only "marginally profitable" is that US farms are not competitive and are propped up by government subsidies. It would be much more efficient to close down these farms and buy our food from places where they can grow it efficiently such as many developing countries... this also would help these poor countries out of poverty. As it is, we use our tax dollars to subsidize overproduction which we dump on world markets or give away in "food aid". This just ensures that poor countries can't export food (their comparative advantage) and therefore stay poor.
As far as estate tax reform goes... the average family farm sells for less than a million dollars which is below estate tax limits so no tax. Large corporate farms don't deserve tax breaks.
Medscape Medical News "Vegetable Consumption Slows Rate of Cognitive Decline" http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/546472?src=mp
It sounds like an easier path than the old fashioned imperialism thing which isn't working too well now.
- unimaginative
- imaginatively
- paginations
I don't know what you had in mind but it sure sounds bad.... (could it be some disease that takes over the vagina and tits?)... or perhaps you get if from "your yummy meat"... Anyway, I doubt you could get it from eating vegetables or we would have heard of it by now.
If we stopped feeding animals this grain, there would be a lot more for people to eat (as well as ridding ourselves of the problems caused by industrial scale meat production). (doubleplusgood)
If you look at the top left of the new Yahoo mail page, there is an option to switch back to the old interface... Click your mouse on this button and it will solve your problems... (and please stop ranting.)
I've also heard of people doing a periodic reinstall to remove accumulated cruft and gunk in Windows to speed up their computer.
I've just never heard of a system crash which corrupts the system to the point where you need to do a reinstall. I know it's possible but not what I would expect from an OS with all of the levels of security, backup of critical system files, multiple boot records, protected system files, and other gee-whiz fancy protection of the new Windows Vista.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/10 /phishers_respond_to_web_bankin.html
Love the Firefox spell checker, too!I knew MS has poor QA... but a bug that requires a complete reinstall????
The real savings comes from the fact that the coating/finishing of the platters can be done on a big roll of foil and the platters can then be just stamped out. Standard platters must be finished individually.
If you had RTFA, you would have learned that these drives are much more resistant to shock since the head design creates a cushion of air that (combined with the low mass of the platter) keeps the platter away from the head.
I agree with you. The "public" should pay for the expenses if they want free access.
However, the current problem is that the public is currently paying for a lot of research (through government grants and government supported institutions) but that research is "captured" by for-profit journals and is not freely available. I believe there have been some feeble attempts by congress to require government funded research to be made available freely to the public.
On the costs of publishing:
Refereeing: Currently done by peers as professional courtesy and to establish academic credibility and is usually done as part of an academic job description. This doesn't need to change.
Editing: A small cost which is currently captured by "page fees". This can continue.
Typesetting: With electronic journal submission (does anyone use paper anymore?), this is not a factor.
Distribution: The Internet is a very low cost distribution mechanism. If you want a paper copy, print it yourself.
However, they keep the copyright.
Are you saying that you get to keep the copyright when you pay the page charges and provide these other services?
My understanding is that most grants and/or employers cover any expenses you have in publishing. Are you working on your own without grants or employer?
You might want to consider one of the open access on-line journals. http://www.doaj.org/
Also, big suprise was that they have great technical support. I had a question and talked to a real person who was very helpful. The tech support people can even set up your device for you since they store the configuration in their database.
From Wikipedia
I think that methanol would be much better. First, it is a liquid which makes it much easier to store and transport. It can be used in most combustion processes with minor adjustments. Significantly, it can be created from existing agricultural waste and other processes which take up CO2 from the atmosphere so there is no net increase in CO2 from it's use. It does have it's issues but overall the technical issues are more easily addressed than those of hydrogen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_economy
I've never had any of the problems you describe. However, I don't try anything fancy... Just text and images.
Well, we do know that Microsoft (developer of a popular operating system) has been tried and convicted of abuse of monopoly market position on several continents... does this count?
I use standby and hibernate every day... no problem.
I change from wired to wireless frequently... no problem.
(Don't use a VPN so no experience here.)
I run it all of the time (days at a time)... no problem.
I'd love it if this were used to increase the distance limit on DSL. Right now, I'm "too far" from the CO and the phone company won't even talk to me about DSL.
It's very odd that you have had these problems with Thunderbird. I've been using Thunderbird for many years (even the early versions) and I have NEVER had any of these problems. It's never crashed, never lost any email, no problems with contact lists, always counted messages correctly, never had to manually index...
I think you may be a bit naive here. Sure, most of us can compensate for a day that's a bit warmer or colder or wetter than normal and that is all that climate change has given us so far... However, the climate change that is implied by 1000 ppm CO2 is much different in degree (pun intended). How do you cope with ocean levels that rise to inundate most coastal cities? How do you cope when the climate changes bring drought or the temperature changes so much that agriculture collapses? It's really hard to cope with not having food.
Lots of people complain that there are more pressing problems (such as poverty, political instability, famine, AIDS, etc.) that "we" should work on. These statements show a remarkable ignorance of life in developing countries. I imagine these posters once heard about poverty or hunger or political corruption somewhere and generalized this to the entire developing world.
News flash!!! Not everyone in the developing world is hungry, corrupt, living in abject poverty, etc. There are many people who are getting along with their basic needs (and some doing quite well)... and these people want information and education so they can do better.
That brings us to my second point which is that this project is not about computers! This project is about giving people tools that they can use to learn and gather information. This is about education and information. I can't believe that people here don't see the value of information and education. Are people here so stuck in the colonial/imperial mindset that they don't believe that people in developing countries are smart enough to learn when they have access to information?