As several posters have commented, this isn't that uncommon in nature, and its certainly not uncommon in commercial meat industries (as "mad cow" reminds us). But the point no one has made yet is that the excrement based feed replaces commercial harvesting for "fishmeal". Wikipedia defines this as:
"Fishmeal can be made from almost any type of seafood but is generally manufactured from wild-caught, small marine fish that contain a high percentage of bones and oil, and is usually deemed not suitable for direct human consumption. The fish caught for fishmeal purposes solely are termed “industrial”.[3]
It is the reason why commercially raised fish, and Vietnam raised commercial fisheries in particular, have been called unsustainable by environmentalists. They have been using extremely fine nets which catch everything, mashing it up into fish-meal, which if commercialized broadly would make the oceans a bigger desert. While we are right to have concerns about this, "recycling" is actually always better than "mining", and reusing lost protein in excrement is better than catching smaller and smaller "fishmeal" from nature.
It would be really interesting, as a kind of control group, to ask a statistically represented sample of people how alarmed they are, on the basis of 1-10, about the following: 1) Their name is in the phone book, 2) The government has their Social Security Number, 3) Their face is recognizable by the bank ATM camera, 4) their neighbor has a X% chance of receiving their mail in the wrong mailbox. Throw in the word "breach" and watch the fur fly.
This is the opening line from another article on the same page, which is actually more interesting than the insect-brain article. Of course now that I've posted it here, your corporate web blocker may seal off Slashdot... "
Performing oral sex or having sex without a condom may benefit both mental and physical health in women, according to scientists who analyzed the effects of semen's "mood-altering chemicals."
Not a conspiracy... But heavily marketing the non-phone handhelds (virtually identical technology to the phones) would potentially be perceived as "biting the hand" that has fed Apple billions. @Jhon, are you suggesting the telecomm industry isn't writing about the threats to growth in hand-held phone service by VOIP and wifi in their own stock prospectus? Was CEA catering to paranoids in establishing the Emerging Markets series on this topic at CES? Here's an article from 2007, does it sound crazy? http://www.voip-news.com/articles/voip-blog/coming-soon-wifi-voip-52019/ By the way, I get the same sneers when I tell people about the size of the PC-monitor-TV-combo market, I get sent to the mirror a lot when talking about 3 billion consumers in the good enough market.
Agree if your point is that Correlation =! causation. Parents who don't put in effort will tend to use TV as a babysitter, which does not mean that parents who use TV do not put in effort.
No, there is actually a story here. IPhones and Galaxies and HTCs are being launched by companies like ATT, Veriozon, Orange, Sprint, etc. But growth of handheld devices is skyrocketing in urban environments around the world. 80% of the Earth population now has electricity, and 47% of households have access to wifi (or soon will). Just as (and this is lost on wealthy audiences) MOST display devices sold in 2006 (by number, not by dollar) had both an SVGA jack and a TV tuner, because most buyers (India, China, Indonesia, Egypt, etc.) could not afford, or have room in the house, for both a TV and a computer, there is a very large market which IPods are aimed at. WIFI. Using Google Voice or Skype to speak on an IPod over Wi-Fi is a frightening trend to the telecommunications firms which promote the IPhone. I would expect this kind of relative silence over a device which does not require $90 per month individual subscription and data fees. Why do almost all the comments on this article treat the Phone-company-Less device as a toy? Because Slashdot readers live in a world where buying a laptop AND a desktop AND a television AND a cell phone AND a pad AND a pod seems just slightly consumptive. See pictures of slums with electricity and wifi, a third to half of the world telecom market, here. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2012/04/useless-lists-of-jobs-beneath-wealthy.html
My wife and I let our twins watch only tapes, no broadcast TV, until they were about 5. Musicals and foreign films and animated movies (Fantasia, Jungle Book, etc). Oh, and only in French... we went to Montreal and bought all the videos in French only. Both kids are now fluent in French/English and speak Spanish as a third language, now studying Latin. The point being, the article says it's the amount of TV and the age of the kid and seems to assume all TV is the same... Fiddler On the Roof, Clockwork Orange, Japanese Anime, Sesame Street, Fox News, content makes no difference? That's like saying all food is the same, and it doesn't matter what you eat only how old you are when you eat it. Maybe the study covers it and the Guardian reporter just forgot to ask, as it is, it's a stupid article. But put a government regulation in without any control group study and you are asking for problems.
The Fuji vs. Jazz Camera, Lexmark vs. Arizona Cartridge Remanufacturers, and other cases have been rare examples of unanimous rulings by the Supreme Court vs. similar appellate court rulings on patent extension. I work in the re-manufacturing industry and am not too worried about the USA courts (though the Terminator-like persistence of foreign companies bringing the case that resale = patent or trademark infringement is frightening, and the Mickey Mouse rulings on Trademark are depressing). What's more troubling is the direction ownership law goes when the USA Supreme Court and European Courts no longer oversee 80% of all product sales. Chinese consumers purchase more computer products than the USA today, and if they take a Japanese turn in their court rulings, these corporations may become godlike, and the USA may be tempted to try to give our own companies (like Apple) similar power. See links to the cases above at http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2012/03/usas-finest-supreme-court-ruling-for.html
Simple. If the three billion poorest people go from earning $3,000 per capita per year to $6,000 per capita per year, the economy can slump and carbon increases.
There may have been a lot of sex without conception, and even a number of later Neanderthal-European hookups which did conceive. If the entire Neanderthal branch of evolution died out, it's equally possible that other, later branches, of Neanderthal-Euro stepkids died out, or used contraception. But I guess this gets the word "sex" in the headline, which is probably key. The study shows the last sex which produced surviving progeny which has been blood sampled, not necessarily evidence of the last snoo-snoo.
Note to self: Nerds evidently have strong opinions about gasoline pricing, but do not display much insight one cannot get from celebrities, in fewer characters, via twitter.
They made the touchscreen display Apple made into the IPhone and IPad. Which geeks in Taiwan deserve attention? Who at Apple gets credit for running into them and making their tiny touchscreens into the modern PC?
I found a virus on my computer which was taking random terms and filing USPTO claims, debiting $ filing fees from my bank account. Oddly, USPTO granted more patent claims than people clicked on the links selling viagra ten years ago.
After a similar discussion on Slashdot, a year or two ago, I was inspired to post a group photo from the 1800s and invite all my friends to "false tag" themeselves. It is part of my "digital camouflage" campaign. Nature doesn't really evolve invisibility very often, camouflage and false data is much more common. After reading this post I went to see if my "false tag group" was still on facebook.. and found it has disappeared. But I won't give up. "camouflage" is the answer, not anonymity. We need more bad data on Facebook. False tag a friend today. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2010/09/simpler-ideas-cookie-camouflage-digital.html
Great article, though the title is misleading. It's called "commoditization". Producing Apples becomes like producing corn. Eventually, we want technology to become cheap, like the light bulb. If Chinese labor brings it there faster, the commodity becomes more affordable. Hopefully, the production is environmentally sustainable. I'm happier owning a 45 dollar product which my pals in Africa can afford to chat back with me on, than I am with a $850 device which I play solitaire on.
Mod up, especially true in large geographic nations. If you compare a score in Singapore (a city state) to Malaysia (which includes KL, Penang, but also Borneo), the nation with smaller borders does better in tests because there is less farming etc. geography. Singapore used to be part of Malaysia, which is why I use it in the analogy.
I'm a parent of high school twins and recently went to one of their teacher's classes. Amazingly, shockingly awful. The good thing about the videos is that they are like movies. If they suck, no one will go see it and someone will make a different one. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of an unsuccessful school teacher. The videos and classrooms give us two choices and we are better off. I find these rants about one of the two choices, either public school teacher or video replacement, to be stupid because either one offers a choice against the other.
Slashdot Mirror
We may be able to help you out, these would not be from a corporate source.
In hindsight, the track record of religious censorship leads me to think that backwards people shouldn't be leading the rest of us.
"Fishmeal can be made from almost any type of seafood but is generally manufactured from wild-caught, small marine fish that contain a high percentage of bones and oil, and is usually deemed not suitable for direct human consumption. The fish caught for fishmeal purposes solely are termed “industrial”.[3]
It is the reason why commercially raised fish, and Vietnam raised commercial fisheries in particular, have been called unsustainable by environmentalists. They have been using extremely fine nets which catch everything, mashing it up into fish-meal, which if commercialized broadly would make the oceans a bigger desert. While we are right to have concerns about this, "recycling" is actually always better than "mining", and reusing lost protein in excrement is better than catching smaller and smaller "fishmeal" from nature.
It would be really interesting, as a kind of control group, to ask a statistically represented sample of people how alarmed they are, on the basis of 1-10, about the following: 1) Their name is in the phone book, 2) The government has their Social Security Number, 3) Their face is recognizable by the bank ATM camera, 4) their neighbor has a X% chance of receiving their mail in the wrong mailbox. Throw in the word "breach" and watch the fur fly.
This is the opening line from another article on the same page, which is actually more interesting than the insect-brain article. Of course now that I've posted it here, your corporate web blocker may seal off Slashdot... " Performing oral sex or having sex without a condom may benefit both mental and physical health in women, according to scientists who analyzed the effects of semen's "mood-altering chemicals."
I think this was from the "Aqua" reader.
Not a conspiracy... But heavily marketing the non-phone handhelds (virtually identical technology to the phones) would potentially be perceived as "biting the hand" that has fed Apple billions. @Jhon, are you suggesting the telecomm industry isn't writing about the threats to growth in hand-held phone service by VOIP and wifi in their own stock prospectus? Was CEA catering to paranoids in establishing the Emerging Markets series on this topic at CES? Here's an article from 2007, does it sound crazy? http://www.voip-news.com/articles/voip-blog/coming-soon-wifi-voip-52019/ By the way, I get the same sneers when I tell people about the size of the PC-monitor-TV-combo market, I get sent to the mirror a lot when talking about 3 billion consumers in the good enough market.
Agree if your point is that Correlation =! causation. Parents who don't put in effort will tend to use TV as a babysitter, which does not mean that parents who use TV do not put in effort.
No, there is actually a story here. IPhones and Galaxies and HTCs are being launched by companies like ATT, Veriozon, Orange, Sprint, etc. But growth of handheld devices is skyrocketing in urban environments around the world. 80% of the Earth population now has electricity, and 47% of households have access to wifi (or soon will). Just as (and this is lost on wealthy audiences) MOST display devices sold in 2006 (by number, not by dollar) had both an SVGA jack and a TV tuner, because most buyers (India, China, Indonesia, Egypt, etc.) could not afford, or have room in the house, for both a TV and a computer, there is a very large market which IPods are aimed at. WIFI. Using Google Voice or Skype to speak on an IPod over Wi-Fi is a frightening trend to the telecommunications firms which promote the IPhone. I would expect this kind of relative silence over a device which does not require $90 per month individual subscription and data fees. Why do almost all the comments on this article treat the Phone-company-Less device as a toy? Because Slashdot readers live in a world where buying a laptop AND a desktop AND a television AND a cell phone AND a pad AND a pod seems just slightly consumptive. See pictures of slums with electricity and wifi, a third to half of the world telecom market, here. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2012/04/useless-lists-of-jobs-beneath-wealthy.html
Just "TV is bad, m'kay?"
My wife and I let our twins watch only tapes, no broadcast TV, until they were about 5. Musicals and foreign films and animated movies (Fantasia, Jungle Book, etc). Oh, and only in French... we went to Montreal and bought all the videos in French only. Both kids are now fluent in French/English and speak Spanish as a third language, now studying Latin. The point being, the article says it's the amount of TV and the age of the kid and seems to assume all TV is the same... Fiddler On the Roof, Clockwork Orange, Japanese Anime, Sesame Street, Fox News, content makes no difference? That's like saying all food is the same, and it doesn't matter what you eat only how old you are when you eat it. Maybe the study covers it and the Guardian reporter just forgot to ask, as it is, it's a stupid article. But put a government regulation in without any control group study and you are asking for problems.
The Fuji vs. Jazz Camera, Lexmark vs. Arizona Cartridge Remanufacturers, and other cases have been rare examples of unanimous rulings by the Supreme Court vs. similar appellate court rulings on patent extension. I work in the re-manufacturing industry and am not too worried about the USA courts (though the Terminator-like persistence of foreign companies bringing the case that resale = patent or trademark infringement is frightening, and the Mickey Mouse rulings on Trademark are depressing). What's more troubling is the direction ownership law goes when the USA Supreme Court and European Courts no longer oversee 80% of all product sales. Chinese consumers purchase more computer products than the USA today, and if they take a Japanese turn in their court rulings, these corporations may become godlike, and the USA may be tempted to try to give our own companies (like Apple) similar power. See links to the cases above at http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2012/03/usas-finest-supreme-court-ruling-for.html
Simple. If the three billion poorest people go from earning $3,000 per capita per year to $6,000 per capita per year, the economy can slump and carbon increases.
There may have been a lot of sex without conception, and even a number of later Neanderthal-European hookups which did conceive. If the entire Neanderthal branch of evolution died out, it's equally possible that other, later branches, of Neanderthal-Euro stepkids died out, or used contraception. But I guess this gets the word "sex" in the headline, which is probably key. The study shows the last sex which produced surviving progeny which has been blood sampled, not necessarily evidence of the last snoo-snoo.
Note to self: Nerds evidently have strong opinions about gasoline pricing, but do not display much insight one cannot get from celebrities, in fewer characters, via twitter.
They made the touchscreen display Apple made into the IPhone and IPad. Which geeks in Taiwan deserve attention? Who at Apple gets credit for running into them and making their tiny touchscreens into the modern PC?
I found a virus on my computer which was taking random terms and filing USPTO claims, debiting $ filing fees from my bank account. Oddly, USPTO granted more patent claims than people clicked on the links selling viagra ten years ago.
Oddly, I was just researching news on Digitimes that Apple was moving away from Taiwan-Shenzhen touch screen production, moving the work to Japan and Korea. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2012/09/revolution-number-nine-apple-google.html Stay tuned for opinions to swing on axis.
After a similar discussion on Slashdot, a year or two ago, I was inspired to post a group photo from the 1800s and invite all my friends to "false tag" themeselves. It is part of my "digital camouflage" campaign. Nature doesn't really evolve invisibility very often, camouflage and false data is much more common. After reading this post I went to see if my "false tag group" was still on facebook.. and found it has disappeared. But I won't give up. "camouflage" is the answer, not anonymity. We need more bad data on Facebook. False tag a friend today. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2010/09/simpler-ideas-cookie-camouflage-digital.html
Great article, though the title is misleading. It's called "commoditization". Producing Apples becomes like producing corn. Eventually, we want technology to become cheap, like the light bulb. If Chinese labor brings it there faster, the commodity becomes more affordable. Hopefully, the production is environmentally sustainable. I'm happier owning a 45 dollar product which my pals in Africa can afford to chat back with me on, than I am with a $850 device which I play solitaire on.
Waiving their private parts at our aunties, again. Father was a hamster, mother smelt of eldeberries, all that.
You don't make your second billion developing a weapon that works the first time, sillies.
Wait for redlightdistict.google.com, where the naughty Youtube videos will hang out.
Mod up, especially true in large geographic nations. If you compare a score in Singapore (a city state) to Malaysia (which includes KL, Penang, but also Borneo), the nation with smaller borders does better in tests because there is less farming etc. geography. Singapore used to be part of Malaysia, which is why I use it in the analogy.
I'm a parent of high school twins and recently went to one of their teacher's classes. Amazingly, shockingly awful. The good thing about the videos is that they are like movies. If they suck, no one will go see it and someone will make a different one. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of an unsuccessful school teacher. The videos and classrooms give us two choices and we are better off. I find these rants about one of the two choices, either public school teacher or video replacement, to be stupid because either one offers a choice against the other.
... Parked in a handicapped parking spot in Bangkok.