There are at least two billion starving people on our planet who are being defended against free food by a few million men with guns. The sad fact is that the starving billions support the few millions enthusiastically, or at least tolerate them. Otherwise this could not go on for long.
I didn't mean to suggest that this brand of mass-market bacon could trump craft farms in flavor. Certainly they can't. But try this anyway and maybe you'll tell your craft farm to slice your pig this way.
Lunacy refers to the periodic crazy on the lunar cycle that somewhat matches the common human female menstrual cycle. Pregnant crazy is a whole other level of insanity. And yes, I am a father.
You know, this is way off topic, but let me school you a little bit because it might make the political discourse a little more interesting this silly season. This "Hurr, durr" crap isn't going to put anybody over and it's not interesting at all.
The President was editor of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago for many years. He is a constitutional scholar. These are historical facts you can't change. If you want to work this against him you can, but not by trying to deny historical facts. The tack you need to take is that given this special education and experience "he should know better than to do what he's done". Make it the thing where despite his scholarship he's made the wrong moral choice, which works his education and experience against him. The more knowledgeable and experienced with constitutional law he is, the wronger the moral choice is and it turns against him more because he should know better. If he were just some business geek like Romney he could be forgiven for this lapse. If he were some policy wonk, likewise. But he's not. He taught constitutional law and should know better.
For example on election he took his vice president Joe Biden's advice and nominated many tools of the Hollywood and Software Industry to important positions in the Justice Department in the first few days of his presidency. One of these was US Attorney Neil H. Macbride. Mr. Macbride, formerly of the Business Software Alliance has become an embarrassment by trying to extend US Jurisprudence beyond its jurisdiction, notably in the case against Kim Dotcom in New Zealand. Mr. Macbride alone has become an embarassment bordering on an international incident. By prosecuting Mr. Dotcom without evidence and outside of his jurisdiction Mr. Macbride appears to have violated the constitutional guarantees of security of property without due process of many hundreds of thousands of Mr. Dotcom's US customers by seizing their intellectual property and refusing to release it back to them. The proposal now is to let this property be destroyed.
So throw that back at him. Say he should know better. Really, he should. But don't try to say he isn't schooled and experienced in constitutional law, because he is and trying to deny historical facts just makes you come off as intellectually "special".
You caught me. I've taken some liberties with artistic license. For people who know him the communication is the same, but the characterization of the communication is a translation of the relative level of emotion communicated by someone typically so reserved scaled to the audience's level of temper. It is not a literal quote. I was not in the room this time.
Yeah, it's impressive. Almost nothing grows so fast as seaweed. Given the recent lesson of Japan tsunami debris we could probably just let an Algae farm go from Japan and harvest it on the West Coast of the US as it grew drifting across the open ocean. No need for fertilization, or weed management or any other service. Maybe other types of open sea aquaculture too like fish pens or mussel farms. In fact, by mixing the types the algae promote other sea life like plankton that the fish eat, and the fish feces feed the mussels and provide nitrogen for the algae, leveraging the lifecycle even more. And the mussels make mussel shells, which are primarily CaCO3 - so they reliably capture CO2 in a form that isn't readily released again. We can eat the seaweed, feed it to cattle, or process it for fuel - and it's useful for industrial chemical uses as well. The fish are protein. Probably get a good bit of bycatch as well like crabs, and no doubt shrimp and other types of sea life will swarm about the periphery of the farms. These farms could cover whole square miles each and work the ocean 150 feet deep. And we could work hundreds of thousands, or millions of them at a time - and feed the world's growing population for another hundred years.
Add some solar powered geotracking satellite comm tech and shipping warning systems and we could put near-unlimited tracts of Pacific Ocean under agriculture. Wherever the farms wander, when it's time we can go harvest them. And then we can give those ships from China something to take back with them besides coal: the rigging framework the open sea farms are made of.
We do need some new international agreements though to make it work because right now anybody who wanders out and catches such a thing on the open ocean is free to harvest it.
I would like to see an experiment taken with just one buoy with a 100m cable drop supporting a ladder of buoyancy neutral arms 100 meters long every 20 meters or so of depth seeded with seaweed and mussels and dropped off of Japan in a current likely to take it to the US west coast. Let it go and see what you get. I'm thinking it would turn into a seaweedburg of epic proportions: a 100m radius, 100m deep cylinder of biomass rich in all forms of sea life, completely surrounded by a diverse variety of ocean creature feeding off it and its detritus.
Of course the question about terrestrial crops completely ignores the fact that the world is about 70% ocean. In terms of the ability of plants to convert solar energy to carbon trapping, the ocean has always had far more impact than the land does. In the ocean the entire height of the water column that solar energy can reach is teeming with algae doing photosynthesis - and below that other forms of life feed on the detritus. The evolution and distribution of various forms of algae and plankton are far more important.
In places where they have no guns like Japan, we have stories like THIS where the crazy man kills 8 children and wounds 13 more with kitchen cutlery. Should we ban kitchen knives too?
Once Microsoft has had a year or two to patent every obvious or reasonable software implementation of the hardware, then the open software folks can have a peek at the specs? That's the cure you want to give?
Time to go whole hog into ARM technologies then, where they don't feed one software vendor ownership of progress for no reason.
When China told Google to censor or get out, they got out - evacuating to Taiwan.
Eric Schmidt, the Chairman and CEO at the time was for pursuing the business opportunity through minimizing the damage. Larry Page was ambivalent. That day Sergey Brin became Google's moral compass and said something like: "Not just no, but Fuck no. My dad was a Russian dissident and came to America to avoid being sent to a Gulag for speaking his mind. If you do this not only will I take my share and leave, but I'll use it to do my best to defeat the monster you've become."
There was a big fight and Eric Schmidt gave up the CEO spot and his role as the world's best-paid babysitter. Larry Page took it (Sergey didn't want it). And Google moved out of China, abandoning the world's biggest growth market until it's ready to accept at least the human right of free speech. But the question about where Google stood on free speech was forever closed. That issue at least is resolved.
Bing and Yahoo crowed their triumph that day, that they had bested their adversary on at least one field - and an important one. For all of me this was one battle they needed to lose.
Recently there was press about some unnamed person from the White House asking YouTube to check a controversial video to see if it violated their terms of service. The reply: "No, it doesn't - thanks for asking." The implied unofficial implication was that it would be convenient if the video violated the terms. Certainly this didn't come from the President directly as he taught Constitutional Law, so it was a minor official inquiry that by some other company would have been taken as an opportunity to seek some advantage. But Google would have none of that. They don't do that. If pressed (they weren't pressed) the answer would certainly have been "not just no, but Fuck No! We don't do that." America doesn't have anything like the ability to enforce cooperation that China does, and if it happened to gain that power Google would just leave the US too now because organizationally the "free speech" question is completely and forever settled.
For all that some would paint Google as evil, maybe Google is in some aspect preserving our moral compass for when we regain our sanity and come to understand again what's really important. Until then I admire their determination to retain their moral compass and do the right thing.
Yahoo!'s boss came from Google. She's not a Google tool, but she did used to date one: Larry Page. Depending on how that ended they may she may be more open to a mutually beneficial relationship than the old boss. Or she may want to kill Google. Or maybe both, depending on the lunar calendar. Who knows? She's knocked up right now and so not as susceptible to lunacy as young owners of her gender usually are.
Oh, God am I going to get hate for this post. It's humor folks. Laugh a little. If we can't enjoy the human condition and find it funny, what have we got?
Profit? Bing doesn't know what profit is. They're like $16B in the red and have never ever seen what black ink looks like. You would have to explain black ink to them as if they were blind from birth.
Wright brand Steak Cut Bacon. These incredible slabs of savory pork come six slices to the 20oz package, and are perfect for slow grilling. Bacon so thick that if you want, you can have it crispy on one side, and chewy on the other.
Yeah, the huge advantage Microsoft Office has is that it is completely incompatible with everything else. And who doesn't want that feature in a technology product?
With it being incompatible with Metro, and an OS that's going out of support, and nothing but Metro based OS's available. Inch by inch that install CD becomes a coffee coaster.
After so many years of dealing with hardware deliberately designed to prevent software from competing with Windows, Linux fans are pretty touchy about this issue. If Intel wants to make the processor version of a Winmodem, they can. But they should expect that it will not be well received by some.
Intel has started making Windows-only chips. Until they back off of that stance they are off my "recommended" list. It's a huge risk for me. They have power. All I have is conscience, but I can't let it go whatever the cost. My customers trust me and I will not recommend a processor vendor who demands a sole-source software vendor. I would rather sell some other stuff to get my bread.
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There are at least two billion starving people on our planet who are being defended against free food by a few million men with guns. The sad fact is that the starving billions support the few millions enthusiastically, or at least tolerate them. Otherwise this could not go on for long.
I didn't mean to suggest that this brand of mass-market bacon could trump craft farms in flavor. Certainly they can't. But try this anyway and maybe you'll tell your craft farm to slice your pig this way.
She could have killed Yahoo by saying "Thanks, no."
Lunacy refers to the periodic crazy on the lunar cycle that somewhat matches the common human female menstrual cycle. Pregnant crazy is a whole other level of insanity. And yes, I am a father.
You know, this is way off topic, but let me school you a little bit because it might make the political discourse a little more interesting this silly season. This "Hurr, durr" crap isn't going to put anybody over and it's not interesting at all.
The President was editor of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago for many years. He is a constitutional scholar. These are historical facts you can't change. If you want to work this against him you can, but not by trying to deny historical facts. The tack you need to take is that given this special education and experience "he should know better than to do what he's done". Make it the thing where despite his scholarship he's made the wrong moral choice, which works his education and experience against him. The more knowledgeable and experienced with constitutional law he is, the wronger the moral choice is and it turns against him more because he should know better. If he were just some business geek like Romney he could be forgiven for this lapse. If he were some policy wonk, likewise. But he's not. He taught constitutional law and should know better.
For example on election he took his vice president Joe Biden's advice and nominated many tools of the Hollywood and Software Industry to important positions in the Justice Department in the first few days of his presidency. One of these was US Attorney Neil H. Macbride. Mr. Macbride, formerly of the Business Software Alliance has become an embarrassment by trying to extend US Jurisprudence beyond its jurisdiction, notably in the case against Kim Dotcom in New Zealand. Mr. Macbride alone has become an embarassment bordering on an international incident. By prosecuting Mr. Dotcom without evidence and outside of his jurisdiction Mr. Macbride appears to have violated the constitutional guarantees of security of property without due process of many hundreds of thousands of Mr. Dotcom's US customers by seizing their intellectual property and refusing to release it back to them. The proposal now is to let this property be destroyed.
So throw that back at him. Say he should know better. Really, he should. But don't try to say he isn't schooled and experienced in constitutional law, because he is and trying to deny historical facts just makes you come off as intellectually "special".
You caught me. I've taken some liberties with artistic license. For people who know him the communication is the same, but the characterization of the communication is a translation of the relative level of emotion communicated by someone typically so reserved scaled to the audience's level of temper. It is not a literal quote. I was not in the room this time.
Yeah, it's impressive. Almost nothing grows so fast as seaweed. Given the recent lesson of Japan tsunami debris we could probably just let an Algae farm go from Japan and harvest it on the West Coast of the US as it grew drifting across the open ocean. No need for fertilization, or weed management or any other service. Maybe other types of open sea aquaculture too like fish pens or mussel farms. In fact, by mixing the types the algae promote other sea life like plankton that the fish eat, and the fish feces feed the mussels and provide nitrogen for the algae, leveraging the lifecycle even more. And the mussels make mussel shells, which are primarily CaCO3 - so they reliably capture CO2 in a form that isn't readily released again. We can eat the seaweed, feed it to cattle, or process it for fuel - and it's useful for industrial chemical uses as well. The fish are protein. Probably get a good bit of bycatch as well like crabs, and no doubt shrimp and other types of sea life will swarm about the periphery of the farms. These farms could cover whole square miles each and work the ocean 150 feet deep. And we could work hundreds of thousands, or millions of them at a time - and feed the world's growing population for another hundred years.
Add some solar powered geotracking satellite comm tech and shipping warning systems and we could put near-unlimited tracts of Pacific Ocean under agriculture. Wherever the farms wander, when it's time we can go harvest them. And then we can give those ships from China something to take back with them besides coal: the rigging framework the open sea farms are made of.
We do need some new international agreements though to make it work because right now anybody who wanders out and catches such a thing on the open ocean is free to harvest it.
I would like to see an experiment taken with just one buoy with a 100m cable drop supporting a ladder of buoyancy neutral arms 100 meters long every 20 meters or so of depth seeded with seaweed and mussels and dropped off of Japan in a current likely to take it to the US west coast. Let it go and see what you get. I'm thinking it would turn into a seaweedburg of epic proportions: a 100m radius, 100m deep cylinder of biomass rich in all forms of sea life, completely surrounded by a diverse variety of ocean creature feeding off it and its detritus.
Of course the question about terrestrial crops completely ignores the fact that the world is about 70% ocean. In terms of the ability of plants to convert solar energy to carbon trapping, the ocean has always had far more impact than the land does. In the ocean the entire height of the water column that solar energy can reach is teeming with algae doing photosynthesis - and below that other forms of life feed on the detritus. The evolution and distribution of various forms of algae and plankton are far more important.
Trees are just another crop.
In places where they have no guns like Japan, we have stories like THIS where the crazy man kills 8 children and wounds 13 more with kitchen cutlery. Should we ban kitchen knives too?
In case you care, I've written a /. journal article about this that expands on why it's a bad thing.
Once Microsoft has had a year or two to patent every obvious or reasonable software implementation of the hardware, then the open software folks can have a peek at the specs? That's the cure you want to give?
Time to go whole hog into ARM technologies then, where they don't feed one software vendor ownership of progress for no reason.
When China told Google to censor or get out, they got out - evacuating to Taiwan.
Eric Schmidt, the Chairman and CEO at the time was for pursuing the business opportunity through minimizing the damage. Larry Page was ambivalent. That day Sergey Brin became Google's moral compass and said something like: "Not just no, but Fuck no. My dad was a Russian dissident and came to America to avoid being sent to a Gulag for speaking his mind. If you do this not only will I take my share and leave, but I'll use it to do my best to defeat the monster you've become."
There was a big fight and Eric Schmidt gave up the CEO spot and his role as the world's best-paid babysitter. Larry Page took it (Sergey didn't want it). And Google moved out of China, abandoning the world's biggest growth market until it's ready to accept at least the human right of free speech. But the question about where Google stood on free speech was forever closed. That issue at least is resolved.
Bing and Yahoo crowed their triumph that day, that they had bested their adversary on at least one field - and an important one. For all of me this was one battle they needed to lose.
Recently there was press about some unnamed person from the White House asking YouTube to check a controversial video to see if it violated their terms of service. The reply: "No, it doesn't - thanks for asking." The implied unofficial implication was that it would be convenient if the video violated the terms. Certainly this didn't come from the President directly as he taught Constitutional Law, so it was a minor official inquiry that by some other company would have been taken as an opportunity to seek some advantage. But Google would have none of that. They don't do that. If pressed (they weren't pressed) the answer would certainly have been "not just no, but Fuck No! We don't do that." America doesn't have anything like the ability to enforce cooperation that China does, and if it happened to gain that power Google would just leave the US too now because organizationally the "free speech" question is completely and forever settled.
For all that some would paint Google as evil, maybe Google is in some aspect preserving our moral compass for when we regain our sanity and come to understand again what's really important. Until then I admire their determination to retain their moral compass and do the right thing.
Yahoo!'s boss came from Google. She's not a Google tool, but she did used to date one: Larry Page. Depending on how that ended they may she may be more open to a mutually beneficial relationship than the old boss. Or she may want to kill Google. Or maybe both, depending on the lunar calendar. Who knows? She's knocked up right now and so not as susceptible to lunacy as young owners of her gender usually are.
Oh, God am I going to get hate for this post. It's humor folks. Laugh a little. If we can't enjoy the human condition and find it funny, what have we got?
Profit? Bing doesn't know what profit is. They're like $16B in the red and have never ever seen what black ink looks like. You would have to explain black ink to them as if they were blind from birth.
Still lurking. Maybe today he'll show up and post something.
Wright brand Steak Cut Bacon. These incredible slabs of savory pork come six slices to the 20oz package, and are perfect for slow grilling. Bacon so thick that if you want, you can have it crispy on one side, and chewy on the other.
No, I don't work for the company.
He's trying to teach typing to 500 students in India. I think he could use some help with some tablets, keyboards and solar panels.
Yeah, the huge advantage Microsoft Office has is that it is completely incompatible with everything else. And who doesn't want that feature in a technology product?
With it being incompatible with Metro, and an OS that's going out of support, and nothing but Metro based OS's available. Inch by inch that install CD becomes a coffee coaster.
Well then the savings is worth the backlash from the community, no?
Take donations.
After so many years of dealing with hardware deliberately designed to prevent software from competing with Windows, Linux fans are pretty touchy about this issue. If Intel wants to make the processor version of a Winmodem, they can. But they should expect that it will not be well received by some.
So you see what's going on, you just don't agree that it's a problem. You're entitled to that opinion.
Intel has started making Windows-only chips. Until they back off of that stance they are off my "recommended" list. It's a huge risk for me. They have power. All I have is conscience, but I can't let it go whatever the cost. My customers trust me and I will not recommend a processor vendor who demands a sole-source software vendor. I would rather sell some other stuff to get my bread.