Sucralose and saccharine taste like crap. Aspartame has NO aftertaste AT ALL. No, it doesn't taste "just like regular"; that thick mouthfeel of HFCS just isn't there, but it's as close as you can get. I get pissed when I see manufacturers reformulating their products to use sucralose instead of/along with aspartame, because it makes it taste like CRAP!
Quite frequently recently, OPEC has been producing at 100% capacity and still not producing enough to keep the price of oil down. This is one of the oft-quoted symptoms of the "Peak Oil" theory.
Don't get lured into thinking that everyone is a "con" or "lib", especially the way these terms have morphed into referring to the FAR right and FAR left. There are a bunch of moderates out there (myself included) who have mixtures of beliefs and can't toe EITHER party's line completely. I'm your "option B" there: pro-choice and pro-death penalty.
Because that's outside of core business hours. Not everyone is a morning person. The point is that offshoring is affecting people's lives in a lot of ways, scheduling included.
"Regarding the "delayed" response, even if the other party is local, how often do you get the response right away?"
Faster than up to 8 hours later most of the time, hence the need to FREQUENTLY schedule 7am and 10:30pm meetings if you want to get anything done. Otherwise like the OP said, it's ping-ponging back and forth taking twice as long to get anything done. Couple that with the general lack of understanding regarding business motivations, issues regarding enterprise level architecture and usually even the technology itself, you're talking triple or quadruple the time to get things done. At least that's the experience me and my co-workers have had with our two three-letter-acronymed outsourcing partners at the large company I work for. And it's not just us IT folk who get irked by this, it's the business too. Perhaps that's why they're looking into bringing back a lot of the support.
Fine, people come here from far away lands and "work hard" and "sacrifice mightily" and get a better payoff than back at home. I don't dispute that. That's comparing our standard-of-living with another country's.
However when you claim that it's "horsesh*t" that not everyone has the same opportunities here in America, I call foul unless you can point to any of those people from far away lands that have climbed the corporate ladder in this country like those born with a silver spoon already in their mouths. I doubt if you can, as those people from far away lands are still at the bottom of the ladder (though as we agree, USA's ladder-bottom is higher than their home country's ladder bottom).
That was the original poster's point -- not to debate the fact that our standard of living is greatly above many other countries, but to discuss the fact that in this country, it's not what you know, it's who you know and what family you were born into.
Would I be in the position I am in life if I wasn't a tall, good-looking, white, heterosexual Christian male born into a middle-class family? There are some exceptions, but probably not. While it's easy to slide down the ladder (just get yourself hooked on crack), it's a lot harder to climb up. Starting out in the middle of the ladder sure helps, and I know you know it's true.
"I think a better idea would be if more municipalities enacted a garbage tax on the citizens."
"If a city has proper compost and curb-side recycling pickup programs in place, your average 4 person household should not be throwing away more than a bag and a half of garbage a week. I know, because it is what my family produces."
Some do. Kansas City Missouri only allows 2 bags of trash per week. Each bag over two requires a "trash tag" which cost $1 each.
Not that I know of, but what I do is keep three copies of important data on CD/DVD media in different geographic locations. Each disk is burned to about 90% capacity, with the remaining 10% of data as PAR2 parity files, which sort of implements what you're getting at.
Yes! I like to compare dukkha to what a child (hovering between the ages of innocence and maturity) experiences after he or she repeatedly sees a slick, fast-cut, animated commercial between their cartoons for a toy with a "kung-fu death grip" and "laser pistols" and "turbo power" -- finally receives this toy that they've been coveting -- and finds out that the "kung-fu death grip" is a lever that moves the guy's arm up and down, the "laser pistols" are flashing LEDs, and the "turbo power" is a button that releases a spring that lifts the toy a few inches off of the ground.
Dukkha or Buddhist "suffering" is not a I-broke-my-leg kind of suffering, nor is it a I-can't-have-any-material-things-at-all kind of suffering. It's a setting-yourself-up-for-disappointment kind of suffering. To extend the analogy I made above to the adult world, it's like when the average looking guy buys that fast, red sports car and finds out that (surprise!) women aren't suddenly flocking to him, and now he's got a huge car payment and it's in the shop all of the time.
Buddhist happiness is not being in a it's-my-birthday kind of emotional high all of the time, it's being content with who you are, where you are, with what you have, and with what's happening in the moment.
companies years ago, thinking they would be a good investment for just such a reason. And then of course did nothing about it.
Has anyone else had the same thought and done any kind of analysis on hearing aid company stocks over the last 10-20 years? Hell, I don't even know if any hearing aid manufacturers are publicly traded companies!
On a side note, I've also had thoughts regarding stocks that would always perform well, even in a "lackluster economy", such as tobacco companies, alcohol companies. I guess I wasn't alone, as someone created a mutual fund along these lines called the Vice Fund that invests in tobacco, alcohol, gambling and defense (ticker: VICEX). It's been doing well. Maybe I should do some research on the hearing aid companies...
1) "Files are not stored on a central server" for the eMule network, just the catalog of available files for clients connected to/registered with the server.
2) Perhaps you should look also into the decentralised Kad Network that has run on top of the eMule client for serveral versions now.
LOL! Another source, from another "Peak Oil" doomsdayer website. Any articles not from the fringe that you are able to offer up? As for searching in Google, I decided to do just that and foundplenty of evidence that disproves your statement. Care to argue with petroleum engineers? I'll take their word over a kook with a webpage and a cursory knowledge of HTML any day.
P.S. Current production levels are not the same as resource availability. Learn the difference.
Sorry, but I don't experience "loss" based on your ONE dubious reference. If the situation you fantasize about was true, you would have easily been able to reply with at LEAST one more reference, but as expected, all you have are insults and incredulity that people don't believe everything that a stranger on Slahsdot says without adequate proof.
As for "fossil fuels", it's humorous to see how disbelief in your statement about natural gas translates into a disbelief about all fossil fuels. Whatever nerve I've touched apparently needs to have the tinfoil taken off of it to let it breathe.
Um, care to cite some other evidence (i.e. more than just one person -- the CEO of Exxon)? How is a corporate CEO an expert on this exactly?
Bill Gates once famously said that 640KB was enough for anybody. How true that was.
I suppose you also believe that the USA PATRIOT Act allows the FBI to perform a mass library record search without the approval of a judge. Libraries aren't even mentioned in the entire text of the law, and the language people blow out of proportion would only allow the search of a single person's records on approval of a federal judge with respect to a specific ongoing investigation. Please try to verify things you read on Slashdot before passing it on, including what I just said.
You are correct, libraries are not specifically mentioned in the USA PATRIOT Act. To be more accurate, relevent section of the USA PATRIOT Act -- Section 215 (ACCESS TO RECORDS AND OTHER ITEMS UNDER THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT) -- replaces text from an existing law: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. s1861 "Access to certain business records for foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations"). The replaced text basically says that these actions can now be carried out as part of an investigation to obtain foreign intelligence information concerning a United States citizen (previously it only allowed for non-citizens). Also, U.S.C. 50 s1861 does not restrict which kind of "businesses" information can be obtained from; libraries are just one kind.
I don't think that people believe that the gov't is allowed to do "mass library record searches", just that it has been a common search evoked under the new version of 50 U.S.C. (or at least examples of this have been reported in the press), and given the change to U.S.C. 50, these requests can and have been carried out on US citizens. The troubling part is that many of the US citizen-victims who's records have been accessed had nothing to do with any terrorist activities, which flies in the face of the "...provided that such investigation of a United States person is not conducted solely upon the basis of activities protected by the first amendment to the Constitution" part of 50.U.S.C. s1861. It's also interesting to note (as a response to this) that the recent vote included an amendement (H AMDT 489 proposed by R Jeff Flake of AZ) to state that the Director of the FBI must personally approve any library or bookstore request for records by the FBI under Section 215.
What's a user's impetus to keep cookies around for more than a session? And if everyone followed security best-practices, they wouldn't even do that.
The fine grained site opt-in/session-based control of cookie lifespan has been let out of most browsers' Pandora's Box, and I can't see it going back in.
"Torture is a bit more severe: branding irons, severe electrical shocks, mutilation, etc."
So Chinese Water Torture isn't torture? Solitary confinement for months on end isn't torture? Since when does the skin have to be breached before it can be called torture? Look up torture in any dictionary and make sure you know the meaning of what you're up in arms about being "watered down" first.
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Actually, my oldest kid IS named Truman.
Huh? You mean the credit card my parents gave me when I was 16 was somehow obtained illegally? And you can only buy cigarettes with a credit card?
Who'da thunk?
I hope you're not a regular contributor to Wikipedia.
Greetings from a sick individual.
Sucralose and saccharine taste like crap. Aspartame has NO aftertaste AT ALL. No, it doesn't taste "just like regular"; that thick mouthfeel of HFCS just isn't there, but it's as close as you can get. I get pissed when I see manufacturers reformulating their products to use sucralose instead of/along with aspartame, because it makes it taste like CRAP!
De gustibus.
workers, I guess. Sounds like you could bump up average productivity by hunting all of us down and killing us.
I was under the impression that high prices (domestically, at least) were due to a shortage of refining capacity http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/co/?postId= 4441&pageTitle=EXTRACTING+TOP+DOLLAR%3B
Don't get lured into thinking that everyone is a "con" or "lib", especially the way these terms have morphed into referring to the FAR right and FAR left. There are a bunch of moderates out there (myself included) who have mixtures of beliefs and can't toe EITHER party's line completely. I'm your "option B" there: pro-choice and pro-death penalty.
"Why not start the meeting at 7am in the US?"
Because that's outside of core business hours. Not everyone is a morning person. The point is that offshoring is affecting people's lives in a lot of ways, scheduling included.
"Regarding the "delayed" response, even if the other party is local, how often do you get the response right away?"
Faster than up to 8 hours later most of the time, hence the need to FREQUENTLY schedule 7am and 10:30pm meetings if you want to get anything done. Otherwise like the OP said, it's ping-ponging back and forth taking twice as long to get anything done. Couple that with the general lack of understanding regarding business motivations, issues regarding enterprise level architecture and usually even the technology itself, you're talking triple or quadruple the time to get things done. At least that's the experience me and my co-workers have had with our two three-letter-acronymed outsourcing partners at the large company I work for. And it's not just us IT folk who get irked by this, it's the business too. Perhaps that's why they're looking into bringing back a lot of the support.
Fine, people come here from far away lands and "work hard" and "sacrifice mightily" and get a better payoff than back at home. I don't dispute that. That's comparing our standard-of-living with another country's.
However when you claim that it's "horsesh*t" that not everyone has the same opportunities here in America, I call foul unless you can point to any of those people from far away lands that have climbed the corporate ladder in this country like those born with a silver spoon already in their mouths. I doubt if you can, as those people from far away lands are still at the bottom of the ladder (though as we agree, USA's ladder-bottom is higher than their home country's ladder bottom).
That was the original poster's point -- not to debate the fact that our standard of living is greatly above many other countries, but to discuss the fact that in this country, it's not what you know, it's who you know and what family you were born into.
Would I be in the position I am in life if I wasn't a tall, good-looking, white, heterosexual Christian male born into a middle-class family? There are some exceptions, but probably not. While it's easy to slide down the ladder (just get yourself hooked on crack), it's a lot harder to climb up. Starting out in the middle of the ladder sure helps, and I know you know it's true.
Per household. #1 & #2 only and no glass (too dangerous...)
"If a city has proper compost and curb-side recycling pickup programs in place, your average 4 person household should not be throwing away more than a bag and a half of garbage a week. I know, because it is what my family produces."
Some do. Kansas City Missouri only allows 2 bags of trash per week. Each bag over two requires a "trash tag" which cost $1 each.
Not that I know of, but what I do is keep three copies of important data on CD/DVD media in different geographic locations. Each disk is burned to about 90% capacity, with the remaining 10% of data as PAR2 parity files, which sort of implements what you're getting at.
Yes! I like to compare dukkha to what a child (hovering between the ages of innocence and maturity) experiences after he or she repeatedly sees a slick, fast-cut, animated commercial between their cartoons for a toy with a "kung-fu death grip" and "laser pistols" and "turbo power" -- finally receives this toy that they've been coveting -- and finds out that the "kung-fu death grip" is a lever that moves the guy's arm up and down, the "laser pistols" are flashing LEDs, and the "turbo power" is a button that releases a spring that lifts the toy a few inches off of the ground.
Dukkha or Buddhist "suffering" is not a I-broke-my-leg kind of suffering, nor is it a I-can't-have-any-material-things-at-all kind of suffering. It's a setting-yourself-up-for-disappointment kind of suffering. To extend the analogy I made above to the adult world, it's like when the average looking guy buys that fast, red sports car and finds out that (surprise!) women aren't suddenly flocking to him, and now he's got a huge car payment and it's in the shop all of the time.
Buddhist happiness is not being in a it's-my-birthday kind of emotional high all of the time, it's being content with who you are, where you are, with what you have, and with what's happening in the moment.
That Buddha guy was pretty smart, wasn't he?
Has anyone else had the same thought and done any kind of analysis on hearing aid company stocks over the last 10-20 years? Hell, I don't even know if any hearing aid manufacturers are publicly traded companies!
On a side note, I've also had thoughts regarding stocks that would always perform well, even in a "lackluster economy", such as tobacco companies, alcohol companies. I guess I wasn't alone, as someone created a mutual fund along these lines called the Vice Fund that invests in tobacco, alcohol, gambling and defense (ticker: VICEX). It's been doing well. Maybe I should do some research on the hearing aid companies...
1) "Files are not stored on a central server" for the eMule network, just the catalog of available files for clients connected to/registered with the server.
2) Perhaps you should look also into the decentralised Kad Network that has run on top of the eMule client for serveral versions now.
P.S. Current production levels are not the same as resource availability. Learn the difference.
As for "fossil fuels", it's humorous to see how disbelief in your statement about natural gas translates into a disbelief about all fossil fuels. Whatever nerve I've touched apparently needs to have the tinfoil taken off of it to let it breathe.
Um, care to cite some other evidence (i.e. more than just one person -- the CEO of Exxon)? How is a corporate CEO an expert on this exactly? Bill Gates once famously said that 640KB was enough for anybody. How true that was.
I don't think that people believe that the gov't is allowed to do "mass library record searches", just that it has been a common search evoked under the new version of 50 U.S.C. (or at least examples of this have been reported in the press), and given the change to U.S.C. 50, these requests can and have been carried out on US citizens. The troubling part is that many of the US citizen-victims who's records have been accessed had nothing to do with any terrorist activities, which flies in the face of the "...provided that such investigation of a United States person is not conducted solely upon the basis of activities protected by the first amendment to the Constitution" part of 50.U.S.C. s1861. It's also interesting to note (as a response to this) that the recent vote included an amendement (H AMDT 489 proposed by R Jeff Flake of AZ) to state that the Director of the FBI must personally approve any library or bookstore request for records by the FBI under Section 215.
Just name your encrypted files ".core"
I've always wondered if the most frequent customer is Jenny* for the stores that have this policy.
* 867-5309 for the 80's impaired.
What's a user's impetus to keep cookies around for more than a session? And if everyone followed security best-practices, they wouldn't even do that.
The fine grained site opt-in/session-based control of cookie lifespan has been let out of most browsers' Pandora's Box, and I can't see it going back in.
Something tells me they won't be supporting the new, open, raw-replacing Digital Negative format either.
Amen! Wish I had mod points.
So Chinese Water Torture isn't torture? Solitary confinement for months on end isn't torture? Since when does the skin have to be breached before it can be called torture? Look up torture in any dictionary and make sure you know the meaning of what you're up in arms about being "watered down" first.