If half of the total harvested land in the US was used to produce plant products for human consumption and half was used for pasture-forage production, how many animals would die annually so that humans may eat?
60 million ha, plant production x 15 animals/ha = 0.9 billion
60 million ha, forage production x 7.5 animals/ha = 0.45 billion
Total: 1.35 billion animals
According to this model then, fewer animals (1.35 billion) would die than in the vegan model (1.8 billion). As a result, if we apply the LHP as Regan did for his vegan conclusion, it would seem that humans are morally obligated to consume a diet of vegetables and ruminant animal products.
His conclusions:
1. Vegan diets are not bloodless diets. Millions of animals of the field die every year to provide products used in vegan diets. 2. Several alternative food production models exist that may kill fewer animals than the vegan model. 3. More research is needed to obtain accurate estimations of the number of field animals killed in different crop production systems. 4. Humans may be morally obligated to consume a diet from plant based plus pasture-forage-ruminant systems.
Windows 8 has more in it than just Metro. Kind of like GPU acceleration for much of the desktop environment. Someone should write an article about that.
QuartzGL is the latest version of Apple's support for 2D GPU acceleration, which first showed up in Snow Leopard. However, if the apps you're using are using Quartz 2D (a.k.a. Core Graphics) to render their windows, or use Core Image for displaying images, they've been GPU accelerated for years. Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2) introduced Quartz Extreme, which put the Quartz Compositer (think: window server) on the GPU, and started using the GPU for Core Graphics.
That's because Mac OS X has been using the GPU for window and desktop rendering since about 2002 through Quartz Extreme, Core Graphics, and Core Image.
It's surprising to me as well how long it's taken them to do this. Mac OS X has been using GPU acceleration (Quartz Extreme / Core Graphics) since 10.2 in 2002, and really ramped it up in subsequent releases with Core Image and QuartzGL.
There's been a couple people on my team here that have moved on to other opportunities, and in the run-up to their exit, they keep saying "Ohh, I'm going to give them a piece of my mind. I can't WAIT for this exit interview!"
Then, when the interview comes, they don't do it, out of a feeling that it would be petty and petulant. Why? Because it IS petty and petulant.
You've either already found another position, or you're being released to do so. Talking shit on your way out the door doesn't do anyone any good - they won't take anything you say seriously, and you'll just be ruining any reputation of character you had.
Except that your voting registration is also tied to such identifying information such as your social security number, which we all know aren't used for identity theft on the Internet.
Also, when you register to vote, you register for a specific party. This gives Facebook quite the database of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents in the State of Washington to target with advertisements for political candidates, "No on proposition X" ads, etc.
What's wrong with getting a form from your state government's website, filling it out, and using a stamp? Or spending 5 minutes at a post office?
Making a browser for existing content has a much smaller barrier to adoption than making an OS which has exactly zero applications, when the two prime competitors have hundreds of thousands available, and more being added every day.
Ask RIM how it worked out for them, and they already had a user base. Ask Microsoft how Phone 7 is doing as a development ecosystem.
Firefox OS will have to bring something spectacularly compelling to the market, or it won't even see 1% adoption.
This seems like an incredibly bad idea, for several reasons:
1. People use bad passwords on Facebook 2. People get their Facebook accounts compromised all the time 3. Giving Facebook (the company) access to this kind of information scares the shit out of me.
I understand the sentiment, but there are far bigger douchebags out there, even if you restrict it to the CEO / executive set.
For example (in no particular order or degree of severity): Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) Ken Lay (Enron) Bernard Ebbers (Worldcom) Any executive at Goldman Sachs etc.
At least Jobs created value for his company, his shareholders, and his employees; and he did it without stealing, crashing the economy, or throwing chairs at people (that we know of).
Looking at what's about to happen to the US Tax Code should Congress not pull their head out of their collective ass, I'd say yes. Bumping the tax brackets from 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33% to 15%, 28%, 31%, 36%, 39.6% is criminal.
Note: I'm referring to that second bracket, which is damn near the poverty line, getting doubled (near as it matters). Anyone who says the Bush Tax Cuts were only for the wealthy is completely full of shit.
Or it could be that they thought that a "proper" news organization like MSNBC shouldn't be so buddy buddy with the left, that they even report on their own website how skewed they are:
Msnbc.com identified 143 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and liberal causes. Only 16 gave to Republicans. Two gave to both parties.
Never mind that their prime time news personality (Chris Matthews) used to be Chief of Staff for the Democratic Speaker of the House during the Reagan years - yep, that engenders political objectivity...
I doubt it's specific to iOS, as there are exactly zero iOS devices with NFC, and there is zero exposed support for NFC in either the production iOS 5.x, or the beta of 6.x.
I would submit that the Commandments are quite old, but not necessarily out of date. It's a blueprint to not being a lying murderous thieving asshole - something I think we can all get behind without belonging to any particular religion.
Hater gonna hate. There's damn good reasons to use the laser engraving process, especially if it's free. We ordered 10 iPads for a pilot project, and had them all engraved with asset numbers. It cost nothing, and it was unobtrusive and unremovable without replacing the backplate, unlike a sticker that can be removed with a hobby knife and some mild solvent.
But I guess you already knew that, since you were being nice and condescending from behind your anonymity. Douchebag.
The large amount of software hacking and modifications available for the N54 / N55 engines and the iDrive systems disagree with your "locked" assertion.
Show me another car where you can get a $500 piggyback module that allows you to change engine performance through the steering wheel controls by hijacking signals on the CANbus, or changing gauge function on the fly: http://www.burgertuning.com/jb4_pnp_BMW_performance_tuner.html
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Point your mum to this research paper from a professor in the agriculture department at Oregon State University:
http://www.morehouse.edu/facstaff/nnobis/papers/Davis-LeastHarm.htm
If half of the total harvested land in the US was used to produce plant products for human consumption and half was used for pasture-forage production, how many animals would die annually so that humans may eat?
60 million ha, plant production x 15 animals/ha = 0.9 billion
60 million ha, forage production x 7.5 animals/ha = 0.45 billion
Total: 1.35 billion animals
According to this model then, fewer animals (1.35 billion) would die than in the vegan model (1.8 billion). As a result, if we apply the LHP as Regan did for his vegan conclusion, it would seem that humans are morally obligated to consume a diet of vegetables and ruminant animal products.
His conclusions:
1. Vegan diets are not bloodless diets. Millions of animals of the field die every year to provide products used in vegan diets.
2. Several alternative food production models exist that may kill fewer animals than the vegan model.
3. More research is needed to obtain accurate estimations of the number of field animals killed in different crop production systems.
4. Humans may be morally obligated to consume a diet from plant based plus pasture-forage-ruminant systems.
Windows 8 has more in it than just Metro. Kind of like GPU acceleration for much of the desktop environment. Someone should write an article about that.
No, it's just a new way of saying "wall of text."
QuartzGL is the latest version of Apple's support for 2D GPU acceleration, which first showed up in Snow Leopard. However, if the apps you're using are using Quartz 2D (a.k.a. Core Graphics) to render their windows, or use Core Image for displaying images, they've been GPU accelerated for years. Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2) introduced Quartz Extreme, which put the Quartz Compositer (think: window server) on the GPU, and started using the GPU for Core Graphics.
That was in 2002.
That's because Mac OS X has been using the GPU for window and desktop rendering since about 2002 through Quartz Extreme, Core Graphics, and Core Image.
Microsoft is very late to this party.
It's surprising to me as well how long it's taken them to do this. Mac OS X has been using GPU acceleration (Quartz Extreme / Core Graphics) since 10.2 in 2002, and really ramped it up in subsequent releases with Core Image and QuartzGL.
Wow, I didn't realize that I live in terror when I'm shampooing my hair, or when I'm playing with my dog, or putting fruit in my shopping cart.
Thanks for letting me know that I live in terror every moment of every day. Especially those moments.
Signed,
A Citizen of the United States of America.
There's been a couple people on my team here that have moved on to other opportunities, and in the run-up to their exit, they keep saying "Ohh, I'm going to give them a piece of my mind. I can't WAIT for this exit interview!"
Then, when the interview comes, they don't do it, out of a feeling that it would be petty and petulant. Why? Because it IS petty and petulant.
You've either already found another position, or you're being released to do so. Talking shit on your way out the door doesn't do anyone any good - they won't take anything you say seriously, and you'll just be ruining any reputation of character you had.
Except that your voting registration is also tied to such identifying information such as your social security number, which we all know aren't used for identity theft on the Internet.
Also, when you register to vote, you register for a specific party. This gives Facebook quite the database of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents in the State of Washington to target with advertisements for political candidates, "No on proposition X" ads, etc.
What's wrong with getting a form from your state government's website, filling it out, and using a stamp? Or spending 5 minutes at a post office?
Making a browser for existing content has a much smaller barrier to adoption than making an OS which has exactly zero applications, when the two prime competitors have hundreds of thousands available, and more being added every day.
Ask RIM how it worked out for them, and they already had a user base. Ask Microsoft how Phone 7 is doing as a development ecosystem.
Firefox OS will have to bring something spectacularly compelling to the market, or it won't even see 1% adoption.
This seems like an incredibly bad idea, for several reasons:
1. People use bad passwords on Facebook
2. People get their Facebook accounts compromised all the time
3. Giving Facebook (the company) access to this kind of information scares the shit out of me.
Or, when referring to social media, I just call it the "FaceTubes"
Raspberry Pi used to mine BitCoins to fight AGW
That's the next article I'm looking for.
I understand the sentiment, but there are far bigger douchebags out there, even if you restrict it to the CEO / executive set.
For example (in no particular order or degree of severity):
Steve Ballmer (Microsoft)
Ken Lay (Enron)
Bernard Ebbers (Worldcom)
Any executive at Goldman Sachs
etc.
At least Jobs created value for his company, his shareholders, and his employees; and he did it without stealing, crashing the economy, or throwing chairs at people (that we know of).
Looking at what's about to happen to the US Tax Code should Congress not pull their head out of their collective ass, I'd say yes. Bumping the tax brackets from 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33% to 15%, 28%, 31%, 36%, 39.6% is criminal.
Note: I'm referring to that second bracket, which is damn near the poverty line, getting doubled (near as it matters). Anyone who says the Bush Tax Cuts were only for the wealthy is completely full of shit.
unless their perspective was to take the customer's money and not actually do their job...
Isn't that always the perspective of those in high finance?
Yeah, it's the BBC World News Service available on NPR and BBC America.
Or it could be that they thought that a "proper" news organization like MSNBC shouldn't be so buddy buddy with the left, that they even report on their own website how skewed they are:
Never mind that their prime time news personality (Chris Matthews) used to be Chief of Staff for the Democratic Speaker of the House during the Reagan years - yep, that engenders political objectivity...
Or they could just run their own datacenter, with their own servers to perform necessary IT function. Like they already do today.
I doubt it's specific to iOS, as there are exactly zero iOS devices with NFC, and there is zero exposed support for NFC in either the production iOS 5.x, or the beta of 6.x.
Man, they're total bastards for not wanting to support 6+ year old stuff on brand new software architectures!
I'm pretty sure you've gotten your money's worth, since most notebooks are obsolete and replaced within 4 years.
I would submit that the Commandments are quite old, but not necessarily out of date. It's a blueprint to not being a lying murderous thieving asshole - something I think we can all get behind without belonging to any particular religion.
Hater gonna hate. There's damn good reasons to use the laser engraving process, especially if it's free. We ordered 10 iPads for a pilot project, and had them all engraved with asset numbers. It cost nothing, and it was unobtrusive and unremovable without replacing the backplate, unlike a sticker that can be removed with a hobby knife and some mild solvent.
But I guess you already knew that, since you were being nice and condescending from behind your anonymity. Douchebag.
Your motorcycle's ignition lock may be quite amazing, but it will always be defeated by four guys and a full size van.
No lock or safe will stay shut given effectively unlimited time.
The large amount of software hacking and modifications available for the N54 / N55 engines and the iDrive systems disagree with your "locked" assertion.
Show me another car where you can get a $500 piggyback module that allows you to change engine performance through the steering wheel controls by hijacking signals on the CANbus, or changing gauge function on the fly: http://www.burgertuning.com/jb4_pnp_BMW_performance_tuner.html
These engines are a software hacker's dream.