With unemployment increasing every day, I would say that we are not lacking in manpower to pull the weeds by hand.
Yeah, but unless you're paying those weed-pullers with bad food and worse housing, it's not economically possible. If you paid them enough money to live on, you couldn't sell your produce with profit and you'd go bankrupt. And it'll be hard to find qualified (ie. not too drunk or high, not too anti-social, not too crazy, and especially not too lazy) weed-pullers who'd settle for food and housing.
Well, I guess it does depend if it's the weed you're really producing and the corn or whatever is just a cover...;-)
I grew up on a farm and pulling weeds was the only way to get them out; all the chemicals available would destroy the crop as well. The job paid minimum wage and there was still a decent profit margin on the product. There were so many people looking for work that even though we were up front about the intense physical labor involved (walking for miles each day, bending repeatedly, pulling, hot weather, etc.) they came in droves. Some of them quit after an hour, some just disappeared for a few days and returned on payday, some just ended up in the field one morning and were hired on the spot.
You'd be surprised how low the qualifications for the job are, you just need to be able tell the difference between the crop and the weeds and have a good back. It's work, it's money and almost anyone can do it, which is exactly why you'll always find people to do it.
PowerPoint can be useful if it's used as a visual aid instead of the entire presentation. As long as you don't read the title of every slide out loud, don't read the slides verbatim, and do use them as reinforcements of key points in your presentation it's quite effective.
The flaw in PowerPoint (or any presentation software) lies mainly in the users. I think the best analogy for this is a cooking analogy. The presentation is your dish and PowerPoint is the seasoning. A little bit of seasoning can, and usually does, improve the dish. If you add too much seasoning or rely on it as your only source of flavor though, the dish is going to be unmemorable at best.
You reminded me of a great application: Nullsoft Beep. Using Excitement-Generation Technology(tm), it makes your computer sound like they do in the movies!
Way back in the day when I was in high school I heard Tesla predicted the Internet, using exactly that quote. There's no arguing that Tesla did a lot of amazing things but he's no technological Nostradamus, no matter how much people try to shoehorn him into the role.
Broke my hip on the ice this winter. When I was in rehab they got me up and forced me to play a stupid bowling game on the wii. I hate video games! They seem to think anything that motivates you to get up and be more active is a good thing. ( Oklahoma, USA)
Rehab isn't supposed to be fun, it's supposed to make you functional as quickly as possible.
Of course anything that motivates (read: forces) you to get up and be more active is a good thing, especially when you've broken something. When I was in the hospital with several broken bones after a car accident they made me walk literally the next day. The pain makes you irritable and any kind of movement just pisses you off even further but it's better than the alternative: atrophy and loss of range of motion.
Why? Have we lost the ability to grow trees? If anything, you're sequestering carbon, which is what a lot of the environmental whackos are all about these days.
Here, a little light reading for you: the broken window fallacy. You can sequester carbon by creating parks and planting forests too, you know.
The music industry were complaining that "pirate" was too glamorous. Perhaps they adopted the term "rapist" then copyright infringement would have a bigger stigma.
I think the music industry already has the whole "raping music" thing covered.
In Arizona they're trying to pass a no walk/swim list law so they can question anyone who "looks like they could be in the country illegally." Poor native americans, they'll never know what hit them!
At first I laughed when I read your comment, but I'm less and less sure it's a joke.
Does anyone remember playing an old school NES game called StarTropics? Half way through the game you were asked for a random 3 digit code, and had to provide it before you could continue. The code was inside the manual, and you had to run water over a page to make the code magically appear.
Oddly enough, I still remember the code was 747.
Wasn't the code actually in a letter, separate from the manual, from his uncle? Either way, it was kind of cool to decode a real hidden message as part of a game.
You know how after 3 or 4 six-packs you get in your car and think of doing something you would never even think of sober (like seeing if you can jump across the bridge that is out, 'cause you saw 'em do it many times on the Dukes of Hazzard), and you tell yourself "What the hell -- let's try it!" 'cause you have absolutely no common sense at all? Well, BadAnalogyGuy is a lot like that...
Except he's actually sitting in the passenger seat using a pretzel as a steering wheel so there's no harm.;)
Really, I don't understand how paper money still exists.
Of all sites on the Internet, I'm surprised this is the one I see that phrase on. So many of us say a physical copy has more value than an electronic copy since you can do whatever you want with it, so why wouldn't the same apply to money?
I'm not so paranoid as to avoid having a bank account altogether, but keeping $50 in my wallet has saved my ass on several occasions where my bank froze my cards for "unusual activity" without letting me know.
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With unemployment increasing every day, I would say that we are not lacking in manpower to pull the weeds by hand.
Yeah, but unless you're paying those weed-pullers with bad food and worse housing, it's not economically possible. If you paid them enough money to live on, you couldn't sell your produce with profit and you'd go bankrupt. And it'll be hard to find qualified (ie. not too drunk or high, not too anti-social, not too crazy, and especially not too lazy) weed-pullers who'd settle for food and housing.
Well, I guess it does depend if it's the weed you're really producing and the corn or whatever is just a cover... ;-)
I grew up on a farm and pulling weeds was the only way to get them out; all the chemicals available would destroy the crop as well. The job paid minimum wage and there was still a decent profit margin on the product. There were so many people looking for work that even though we were up front about the intense physical labor involved (walking for miles each day, bending repeatedly, pulling, hot weather, etc.) they came in droves. Some of them quit after an hour, some just disappeared for a few days and returned on payday, some just ended up in the field one morning and were hired on the spot.
You'd be surprised how low the qualifications for the job are, you just need to be able tell the difference between the crop and the weeds and have a good back. It's work, it's money and almost anyone can do it, which is exactly why you'll always find people to do it.
Maybe I should rephrase my question. What's so gross about using hair to soak up oil?
As an interesting aside, there are things having sex in your eyebrows right this moment.
Dude, I was trying to eat! Neat concept but super gross :P
Serious question, what's so gross about hair?
I'm sorry, Yo Mama jokes with $variables just don't work.
That's because yo mama is so fat putting her into a $variable would cause an out of memory error.
Bazinga.
Wow. Just wow. My nipples exploded with joy.
What are two words that cannot be used together?
PowerPoint can be useful if it's used as a visual aid instead of the entire presentation. As long as you don't read the title of every slide out loud, don't read the slides verbatim, and do use them as reinforcements of key points in your presentation it's quite effective.
The flaw in PowerPoint (or any presentation software) lies mainly in the users. I think the best analogy for this is a cooking analogy. The presentation is your dish and PowerPoint is the seasoning. A little bit of seasoning can, and usually does, improve the dish. If you add too much seasoning or rely on it as your only source of flavor though, the dish is going to be unmemorable at best.
So it's only porn if it's illegal?
That's why I only have sex while trespassing.
You reminded me of a great application: Nullsoft Beep. Using Excitement-Generation Technology(tm), it makes your computer sound like they do in the movies!
Way back in the day when I was in high school I heard Tesla predicted the Internet, using exactly that quote. There's no arguing that Tesla did a lot of amazing things but he's no technological Nostradamus, no matter how much people try to shoehorn him into the role.
Dude, absolutely EPIC karma burn. Keep it rolling.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/ is pretty much all I can say about it.
Because memory is always measured in bits? Not for the modules you buy for your PC, but if you ever bought it by the chip, you bet your ass.
Well, I just learned something new. Thanks. :)
It appears that the article does not even say 4tb, just that the device can hold 512gb
4Tb == 512GB. Terabits, not terabytes.
Why the hell they would measure in Tb instead of GB is beyond me though.
Broke my hip on the ice this winter. When I was in rehab they got me up and forced me to play a stupid bowling game on the wii. I hate video games! They seem to think anything that motivates you to get up and be more active is a good thing. ( Oklahoma, USA)
Rehab isn't supposed to be fun, it's supposed to make you functional as quickly as possible.
Of course anything that motivates (read: forces) you to get up and be more active is a good thing, especially when you've broken something. When I was in the hospital with several broken bones after a car accident they made me walk literally the next day. The pain makes you irritable and any kind of movement just pisses you off even further but it's better than the alternative: atrophy and loss of range of motion.
Fuuuuu. There's a huge spoiler at the end of the 6th paragraph. :-(
Hey buddy, ever hear of a SPOILER ALERT? You just ruined the whole review for me.
Thanks a lot... I ended up reading your post before his and you totally ruined it for me.
The only things in tfa that could be considered spoilers is the same data that one would get from the trailers.
Trailers aren't very indicative of what kind of movie you're going to get though. Link.
Why? Have we lost the ability to grow trees? If anything, you're sequestering carbon, which is what a lot of the environmental whackos are all about these days.
Here, a little light reading for you: the broken window fallacy. You can sequester carbon by creating parks and planting forests too, you know.
... "jerbs"? that sounds like a unit of distance in some corny sci-fi movie. "we're going at fifty jerbs a gleeb, sir! and they're still catching up!"
"Jerbs" is used by the rednecks in South Park in the episode where people from the future take their jobs.
The music industry were complaining that "pirate" was too glamorous. Perhaps they adopted the term "rapist" then copyright infringement would have a bigger stigma.
I think the music industry already has the whole "raping music" thing covered.
In Arizona they're trying to pass a no walk/swim list law so they can question anyone who "looks like they could be in the country illegally." Poor native americans, they'll never know what hit them!
At first I laughed when I read your comment, but I'm less and less sure it's a joke.
Does anyone remember playing an old school NES game called StarTropics? Half way through the game you were asked for a random 3 digit code, and had to provide it before you could continue. The code was inside the manual, and you had to run water over a page to make the code magically appear. Oddly enough, I still remember the code was 747.
Wasn't the code actually in a letter, separate from the manual, from his uncle? Either way, it was kind of cool to decode a real hidden message as part of a game.
Next month there will probably be a headline like "Ubisoft says no more games". Talk about savings!
We evolved to communicate one on one - not via a computer terminal.
Says the man posting on Slashdot
He dictated that post.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
FTFY.
You know how after 3 or 4 six-packs you get in your car and think of doing something you would never even think of sober (like seeing if you can jump across the bridge that is out, 'cause you saw 'em do it many times on the Dukes of Hazzard), and you tell yourself "What the hell -- let's try it!" 'cause you have absolutely no common sense at all? Well, BadAnalogyGuy is a lot like that...
Except he's actually sitting in the passenger seat using a pretzel as a steering wheel so there's no harm. ;)
Really, I don't understand how paper money still exists.
Of all sites on the Internet, I'm surprised this is the one I see that phrase on. So many of us say a physical copy has more value than an electronic copy since you can do whatever you want with it, so why wouldn't the same apply to money?
I'm not so paranoid as to avoid having a bank account altogether, but keeping $50 in my wallet has saved my ass on several occasions where my bank froze my cards for "unusual activity" without letting me know.