Aside from the debatable environmental benefits of organic farming, the credulity of grown adults amazes me. In many cases, items labeled 'organic' are produced the same way as prior products which were not labeled so. In addition, what's to stop someone from labeling something organic when it is no such thing? After all, no one is going to die in the short term from consuming foodstuffs which are produced using artificial fertilizers, hormones and such. Nearly all people would never know the difference. You might not even be able to tell by analyzing the food itself.
Do you trust corporate agribusiness? I'm a Republican and I don't. You don't think they'd fill the milk jugs with whatever milk they would find in the event of a shortfall? This negligence leaves out the possibility of actual fraud, which I am sure is going on at the same time. No one is going to poison the food supply, but altering the quality of the delivered product, with an infinitesmal possibility of detection and a huge upside in profit...do you really believe that this isn't happening right now?
Do you believe that some national regulator is making sure this doesn't happen? What's the test for 'organicness', anyway, short of inspecting the entire process, which isn't happening on a regular basis. USDA inspections aren't done that way, for sure.
In summation: If you want organic food, you need to either grow it yourself or buy a farm and force your workers to use that process, with active supervision. Believing store labels is idiocy. I just buy reasonably priced and standard foodstuffs.
The grandparent's troll mod is a typical example of people not wanting to face tough truths that would be obvious with an adult mindset. In other words, not wanting to feel stupid for paying an extra $1.50 for a half gallon of milk that is most likely identical to the cheaper version.
Can't do that. It'll never sell, and the issue isn't the genetic modifications themselves and their positives or negatives. It's the perceived un-naturalness of the GM process. People buy "organic" stuff - paying significant premiums - as if that means anything in practice. The perception is that it's more natural.
It's a measure of the idiocy of the sheeple. Regardless, it must be considered a fact of life.
It's a HTC Desire Z, and while it works just as well as others' Android phones, the touchscreen is overly touchy, the volume isn't all it could be for the weight of the thing, and it requires a case. You couldn't possibly just stick this in a pocket or bag and expect it to survive.
It's nice to get my mail on, I guess, but absent that, I would be totally down on it.
What would I like? How about a Nokia dove bar with bluetooth support and 3g? Nice tactile buttons and you could just throw it places without worrying too much about it.
That's not the same thing. You're referring to the "October Surprise" whereby Carter believed that he would get the hostages released, but supposedly George Bush (Sr.), vice-presidential candidate at the time, convinced the Iranians to hold the hostages until after the election. It's a bunch of malarkey, but that was the tale.
"Arms for hostages" was the Iran-Contra affair which broke open in 1986 or so. Unrelated incident except inasmuch as it involved Iranians.
I think you are ruling out something that was entirely possible in the context of that particular moment in time. Claiming that a president holding 91% approval - and an angry nation behind them looking for vengeance - would have found it impossible to steel the nation to apply the nuclear option to certain countries in the Middle East is wishful thinking. It would have been done if the president was willing to do so, and willing to go on record saying so. The context of September-December 2001 was perfect timing.
Recrimination afterward does not count. I only am speaking toward the order and execution to accomplish same, and the short-term sale to the American public.
Insisting that no president could do this is wishful thinking again. I have counterexamples: Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, both of whom applied the "madman strategy" of Kissinger during their terms at critical junctures. They were on record as willing to use the nuclear arsenal of the United States to completely obliterate the Soviet Union, and threatened as much in public ways.
Bullshit. Nuking the entire Muslim world would have been entirely possible in the context of the times. It's still possible. Who is going to stop the US? No one, that's who.
Why is this load of horseshit considered "Insightful"? It's wishful thinking by leftists.
Those who are glad the Muslim world wasn't reduced to a parking lot should kiss GWB's ass, he was mainly the man who assured that wouldn't happen.
That's an infrastructure problem for the GSM provider, not my problem. I hear a lot about how "hard" it is to set up towers. That didn't stop thousands of the things from being installed, serviced and decorated like christmas trees in some cases over the last 20 years.
Well, isn't that kind of speculation kind of why we bother even discussing such things? Uninformed speculation helps one wrap the mind around new data. Peer-selected random speculation also sharpens up your speculation when you are somehow drawn into a conversation about a topic.
The thought that occurred to me was: if your muscle cells have had a coding sequence for an antibody injected into them, aren't they now engaging in effort that has nothing to do with their primary function? Wouldn't that impact things in old age? Wouldn't that increase the likelihood of heart problems, perhaps?
Then, one might think: why would you want to produce a boatload of HIV antibodies after your years of promiscuous sexual activity are over? Very few of us continue with that behavior ad infinitum.
Of course, Occupy doesn't represent the middle class at all. The fact that their interests seemed momentarily congruent with the mass of the electorate was the strange thing. That seems to be over at this point. People made decisions about them during the couple of months they were in the spotlight. The belief amongst the organizers that the protests can resurrect themselves and have similar impact is laughable. As in most things, you get one chance with people and then they tune you out.
Yeah, it is evil. Why should I have a slow - certainly slower than native, memory hogging runtime package for every application, requiring myriad versions depending on the support level from the vendor? I'd rather just not have the crap on my system, thanks. I feel the same way about.NET/Mono if that makes you feel any better.
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The backscatter machines are just icing on the cake of suck associated with TSA.
Aside from the debatable environmental benefits of organic farming, the credulity of grown adults amazes me. In many cases, items labeled 'organic' are produced the same way as prior products which were not labeled so. In addition, what's to stop someone from labeling something organic when it is no such thing? After all, no one is going to die in the short term from consuming foodstuffs which are produced using artificial fertilizers, hormones and such. Nearly all people would never know the difference. You might not even be able to tell by analyzing the food itself.
Do you trust corporate agribusiness? I'm a Republican and I don't. You don't think they'd fill the milk jugs with whatever milk they would find in the event of a shortfall? This negligence leaves out the possibility of actual fraud, which I am sure is going on at the same time. No one is going to poison the food supply, but altering the quality of the delivered product, with an infinitesmal possibility of detection and a huge upside in profit...do you really believe that this isn't happening right now?
Do you believe that some national regulator is making sure this doesn't happen? What's the test for 'organicness', anyway, short of inspecting the entire process, which isn't happening on a regular basis. USDA inspections aren't done that way, for sure.
In summation: If you want organic food, you need to either grow it yourself or buy a farm and force your workers to use that process, with active supervision. Believing store labels is idiocy. I just buy reasonably priced and standard foodstuffs.
The grandparent's troll mod is a typical example of people not wanting to face tough truths that would be obvious with an adult mindset. In other words, not wanting to feel stupid for paying an extra $1.50 for a half gallon of milk that is most likely identical to the cheaper version.
Can't do that. It'll never sell, and the issue isn't the genetic modifications themselves and their positives or negatives. It's the perceived un-naturalness of the GM process. People buy "organic" stuff - paying significant premiums - as if that means anything in practice. The perception is that it's more natural.
It's a measure of the idiocy of the sheeple. Regardless, it must be considered a fact of life.
It's a HTC Desire Z, and while it works just as well as others' Android phones, the touchscreen is overly touchy, the volume isn't all it could be for the weight of the thing, and it requires a case. You couldn't possibly just stick this in a pocket or bag and expect it to survive.
It's nice to get my mail on, I guess, but absent that, I would be totally down on it.
What would I like? How about a Nokia dove bar with bluetooth support and 3g? Nice tactile buttons and you could just throw it places without worrying too much about it.
That's not the same thing. You're referring to the "October Surprise" whereby Carter believed that he would get the hostages released, but supposedly George Bush (Sr.), vice-presidential candidate at the time, convinced the Iranians to hold the hostages until after the election. It's a bunch of malarkey, but that was the tale.
"Arms for hostages" was the Iran-Contra affair which broke open in 1986 or so. Unrelated incident except inasmuch as it involved Iranians.
If you have an employer who is patient enough to tolerate months at a time disappearances.
IF you are out of the country 330 out of 365 days of the calendar tax year.
That caveat is vitally important.
I think you are ruling out something that was entirely possible in the context of that particular moment in time. Claiming that a president holding 91% approval - and an angry nation behind them looking for vengeance - would have found it impossible to steel the nation to apply the nuclear option to certain countries in the Middle East is wishful thinking. It would have been done if the president was willing to do so, and willing to go on record saying so. The context of September-December 2001 was perfect timing.
Recrimination afterward does not count. I only am speaking toward the order and execution to accomplish same, and the short-term sale to the American public.
Insisting that no president could do this is wishful thinking again. I have counterexamples: Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, both of whom applied the "madman strategy" of Kissinger during their terms at critical junctures. They were on record as willing to use the nuclear arsenal of the United States to completely obliterate the Soviet Union, and threatened as much in public ways.
Bullshit. Nuking the entire Muslim world would have been entirely possible in the context of the times. It's still possible. Who is going to stop the US? No one, that's who.
Why is this load of horseshit considered "Insightful"? It's wishful thinking by leftists.
Those who are glad the Muslim world wasn't reduced to a parking lot should kiss GWB's ass, he was mainly the man who assured that wouldn't happen.
My array is 3TB. I have another system with a 3TB drive that I rsync a copy of it to regularly. Something like that sounds like the ticket for you.
How about this? A little remote scripting and...
For the models, though, this gives very immediate application to the common threat that "You can be replaced by a computer".
What will dimwit hot chicks do for a living now?
That's an infrastructure problem for the GSM provider, not my problem. I hear a lot about how "hard" it is to set up towers. That didn't stop thousands of the things from being installed, serviced and decorated like christmas trees in some cases over the last 20 years.
It doesn't do everything Acrobat does, but it reads PDFs. Which is enough for me.
2nd world would imply communist. I stopped reading after that. TL;dr anyway.
Should I ruin this example by pointing out that an axe is not how you generally split wood?
It's a sledgehammer and a steel wedge or three. Or you can use wooden wedges as long as you have one steel wedge.
The reason you don't use an axe is that on any appreciable sized log, the axe will just stick inside of it and never come out.
I split a lot of wood as a kid and had an old (90+) carpenter watching over me, teaching me how to split logs and piss on my cuts.
Well, isn't that kind of speculation kind of why we bother even discussing such things? Uninformed speculation helps one wrap the mind around new data. Peer-selected random speculation also sharpens up your speculation when you are somehow drawn into a conversation about a topic.
Or it could have something to do with the methodology of intercourse for lesbians. Not so much anal tearing going on there, for instance.
The thought that occurred to me was: if your muscle cells have had a coding sequence for an antibody injected into them, aren't they now engaging in effort that has nothing to do with their primary function? Wouldn't that impact things in old age? Wouldn't that increase the likelihood of heart problems, perhaps?
Then, one might think: why would you want to produce a boatload of HIV antibodies after your years of promiscuous sexual activity are over? Very few of us continue with that behavior ad infinitum.
Of course, Occupy doesn't represent the middle class at all. The fact that their interests seemed momentarily congruent with the mass of the electorate was the strange thing. That seems to be over at this point. People made decisions about them during the couple of months they were in the spotlight. The belief amongst the organizers that the protests can resurrect themselves and have similar impact is laughable. As in most things, you get one chance with people and then they tune you out.
Yes, but to make that kind of money you need to have a decent product. Most game publishers peddle shit. I think EA understands the market very well.
I'd be interested in porting it to C, actually.
Yeah, it is evil. Why should I have a slow - certainly slower than native, memory hogging runtime package for every application, requiring myriad versions depending on the support level from the vendor? I'd rather just not have the crap on my system, thanks. I feel the same way about .NET/Mono if that makes you feel any better.
I was going to load up a peer but there's no way i'm running Java. I've almost completely excised it from all of my computers, no going back.
I think you are onto something. I found the second group well-represented in the sample I had experience with.