What's really going to make this thing sting is that it is illegal to fire or lay people off in Venezuela. I guarantee you that this is going to cause their profits to dry up really fast. What happens when there's no money to pay the workers? The management gets sent to jail? Executed? I'm sure that will work out real nice.
Entrepreneurism is well known to be what drives economies. What's going to happen when people realize that starting a business in Venezuela is a bad idea? (Hell, they probably already do at this point; Venezuela will probably see foreign investment dry up very fast as a result of this, assuming it hasn't already.)
The blood work tells you pretty well what is and isn't supposed to be in your body (if a given nutrient isn't carried in your blood serum, then nothing gets it)
The only problem his had was being D deficient. I think D is one of the most expensive ones to test for (I heard it costs around $500) so I think if they included that in his blood work panel then they were probably very comprehensive in their testing.
With that being the case, it probably is that this isn't (fully) healthy for you in that it doesn't satisfy your D requirements, but that is actually easy to address.
There exists the possibility that this wouldn't satisfy every persons metabolic requirements as well (for example, some people need different amounts of electrolytes such as potassium and sodium than other people, which genetics are known to play a heavy role in) so if/when they do clinical tests they should also isolate based on race and do the same regular blood work throughout the trials.
"A phone" is not the communications system that electronic bill systems are designed for. Email for bills and paying via the web are Internet, not landline phone, operations.
No, but a modem is, and last I checked there are nationwide dialup ISP's that still offer service in every area code.
What the hell else did you think I'd bring up a phone line for?
The rural users who you think can be made so independent of USPS that their mailboxes can be moved ten to twenty miles away
I don't know about you, but ten miles is nothing to me. I ride my bike 12 miles every day (some days I do 25 miles, occasionally I do a 52 mile route.) Riding a car that far takes all of 10 minutes in a rural setting.
You don't think in very practical ways do you? The fact of the matter is that what USPS currently does is not sustainable, with or without the political mess.
You want your mailbox down the block so that the carrier doesn't know exactly where you live or doesn't have to go so far when delivering, that's fine. But stop pushing for consolidation in places you've never been and never experienced, ok?
Both experienced and lived in, actually. In fact, I'm a bit in doubt that you have done either. I mean you make 20 miles sound like a trip to BFE, which makes it sound like you have to make a special affair out of going anywhere past your favorite chair. You do know what BFE means, I hope. Probably not, you'll probably have to look it up on google.
I don't think you understand what makes a communications medium. Anything where the physics are different is technically a new medium. Two radio devices for example don't necessarily modulate the same.
But aside from that, you still haven't said what makes it "pathetic". Oh, it's too nerdy? Well you know, back in the 80's doing something like you're doing right now (participating in an internet based message board) was considered too nerdy for the typical person, and quite possibly getting the "pathetic" label.
Turns out that it is so effective that most people can't get around without doing it, so now suddenly it is trendy.
What you're doing right now is sticking an "I'm no longer relevant, so I better bring other people down to become relevant again" label on yourself.
I use bitcoin rather frequently and I've never run into this kind of problem.
Of course, I also always keep my bitcoins in my own wallet and don't leave them sitting in random escrow pools. There is only one place I've done business with using bitcoins that has run off like this, however at the time they left I had zero in my account, and I never had amounts larger than a few mBTC for any period longer than a day either (just long enough to complete whatever transaction I was about to do) and once I was finished I would remove the remainder back into my own wallet.
This isn't anything unique to bitcoins by the way, similar scams have happened with stock traders running off with people's money.
Not at all. What I'm saying is that nobody anticipated a need for it until they actually had it. The exact same thing can be said about electricity.
Google Glass isn't a new communication medium, it's merely a new type of input/output device.
Communication and navigation. And yes, technically it is a new medium.
I just think wearing such a device is pathetic.
And how is it pathetic? It makes you not masculine enough? I can think of things a lot more pathetic, like how gangbangers hold pistols sideways blocking half of their field of view and fucking up their aim, but it sure looks cool don't it? Or how the occupy movement and its sympathizers say they need more money and don't have enough wealth while living in the most expensive and upscale city in the US you can possibly choose to live in and then complaining about other occupiers stealing their ipads. THAT is pathetic.
Google glass is simply another means to achieving an end, I don't see what is wrong with it or why you choose to judge anybody who might want it. If anything, that makes you pathetic for judging them as if you had their lives all figured out for them.
I don't intend on owning one myself, nor a smartwatch (my smartphone does both jobs fine) but like I said above, it's normal to not anticipate a need for something one hasn't experienced.
The same rural people whose mailboxes you want to be ten or twenty miles away from their homes are the same rural people who don't get the "electronic communications" you city dwellers find to be the solution to every problem.
Actually yes they usually do. Even in the more remote areas where cell phones and broadband aren't available, you still generally have a phone. If you're in an area where there isn't even electricity, then chances are you already have to travel a fair ways to get to a mailbox anyways.
This isn't exactly asking anybody to go anywhere they don't already go, it's simply saying that they check their mail about the same time that they go to town to get the provisions they already need anyways. It's already a given that mail is slow, about the only people who I think would complain are the advertisers whose ads might be slightly out of date by the time the recipient checks their mail, but even then they don't send a whole lot of material to rural areas other than mail order catalogs.
They could solve a lot of that problem by consolidating delivery locations in rural areas. They've already been doing this in cities (instead of mailboxes at each house, it is now common for entire neighborhoods to have a central mailbox, which saves a ton of time and therefore money for the carrier to deliver.) They'd save a lot of money if they centralized it further in rural areas, for example locating mailboxes at the nearest grocery stores.
Sure its an inconvenience, but now that electronic communication is common the volume just isn't there anymore to make it cost effective to continue the old ways.
A privatized company would have no problem doing this, but because the USPS (while technically private) has to answer to the government anyways, making changes like this requires an act of congress.
And slightly off topic: Only on slashdot can you find somebody who praises unions for giving us saturdays off (incorrectly I might add as it was Henry Ford who initiated that) while at the same time believing it is a travesty that the USPS is considering no longer working on saturday.
Prior to widespread use of electricity, nobody felt the need either. Yet where would we be today without cell phones? There's no way the economy could scale to what it currently is without them.
Luddites are always wrong BTW, all technology ever does is allow the economy to grow larger than it was before. Sure, it causes frictional unemployment too, but that has never been permanent, nor is there any good reason to believe it ever would be permanent. (History has proven these so called "reasons" wrong numerous times. Something is always "different this time," but the result is also always the same.)
For that to make sense Iran's oil would have to be somehow less valuable than oil recovered from fracking. It isn't, if anything it's probably better because sweet crude tends to come from there. There's no reason their output would decrease unless they deliberately wanted it to.
From what I can determine, in all cases it is used to augment your ability to communicate and/or navigate. Why is wanting either of these pathetic in *any* circumstance?
Google will probably be at the end of discrimination lawsuits then. The standard for women is having two legs (though sometimes more than two is acceptable) and the standard for men is a car, a full head of hair, a full set of teeth, a job, a single person house, willing to pay for dinner (a coffee date is not acceptable) and willing to accommodate even the worst of character flaws.
What's pathetic about it? Stephen Hawking has one in front of both eyes all day. Some blind people consider themselves lucky to have one implanted directly in front of both retinas.
Or perhaps it isn't just a way for anybody to say anything. It just is.
Not everything has to be a conspiracy theory. Coincidences do happen, quite often in fact. If you disagree, then might I refer you to Alex Jones whose very words should be music to your ears.
I don't think you can actually light the thing in space anyways - without a constant active supply of fresh oxygen, fire cannot last long at all in space. On earth, gravity enables the hot carbonized air to rise while fresh oxygen comes from the sides. In space this doesn't happen, so the flame suffocates itself quickly.
Actually another name for fascism is national socialism - everybody working for everybody to provide strength in numbers for the power of the state. The symbol for fascism is a bundle of sticks with an axe head.
Dude, do you know anything about the faction reputation system now? It's SO MUCH easier, they include numerous methods to gain rep, which can vary by faction, and they even have a system where you can boost other characters on your account once one gets to exalted.
The problem isn't that it is too hard, the problem is that doing it necessitates repeating the same content time and time again to where you have already gotten tired of doing it, only to have to repeat it 500 more times after you've already realized how much you hate doing it.
People like going back to older dungeons, modified with newer experiences. Hard to imagine, but for some people, that's a plus, not a negative.
Which is fine I guess, only that you have to repeat that same experience multiple times every week for the next 18-24 months until a new expansion hits.
Plenty yes, but plenty of variety too, as anybody who has played MOP knows, there's other choices like say the Paragons in Dread Wastes, or the Grummle escort in Kun-Lai, or the story quests in the Jade Forest.
One of the things I remember the most about leveling alts was the fact that you pretty much had to go questing (even with the heirloom gear.) There was a point where BG's leveled faster than questing, but only at certain levels, and even then it was nerfed. That is aside the point though, the key word is "have to" as in it is a chore rather than something you "want to" do. A game shouldn't be "have to's" but rather "want to's". WoW has far too many "have to's".
Well, yeah, they don't have a perfect way to detect bots. People choosing to let a bot do their work for them isn't proving something is itself bad, just that there are lazy people out there who will do anything for gain at minimal expense to their own time.
The problem isn't that there are lazy people, the problem is that the game isn't fun enough to make the pursuit of the reward in itself a reward. It would be like creating the game Half-Life where you didn't want to play it, rather going through it was a chore you have to do just to get to the end just to see the g-man talk. The ending of half-life was actually kind of lame, but it was the play through itself that made the whole thing worthwhile. That is what a game should be, and that is what WoW currently is not.
You might not need to avoid salt as much as you think you do. One of the first things the doctors tell you as part of a renal diet is to cut it down, but I actually found that when I was around the mayo clinic recommendation of 1600-2300mg per day, my sodium serum level came up as very low on the metabolic panel and I even started to feel nausea as a result. I found that I had to keep my sodium intake around 3000mg per day in order to keep it normal. I also found that sodium doesn't seem to have any affect on my blood pressure (which I also monitor daily.)
It was about that same time that slashdot happened to post a very interesting article about salt, and a commenter added some links that provided very valuable insight:
I recommend reading them as well as the original article. Some people need to keep their sodium intake low, whereas other people (like me) require slightly more sodium than others in order to remain healthy. When I stick to 3000mg per day, my sodium serum level sits smack dab in the middle of what the statistics say is a perfect score. Keeping score of your sodium intake for a week followed by a metabolic panel (they run about $20 without insurance) is the best way to tell where you should be.
The only thing I find annoying to avoid now is phosphorus. I did have to avoid potassium for a while, but the diuretics I'm now on cause my body to shed potassium faster than I can normally bring it in, so I even take prescription potassium supplements.
Yes because nobody has ever held people hostage, decapitated, or committed mass killings for the good ol' dollar.
Oh and did you know that most dollar bills carry trace amounts of cocaine and meth, in spite of new ones always being put into circulation and old ones being destroyed?
I think it's probably safe to say that bitcoin hasn't been used for as much illegal activity as the dollar has in the same time period (even though that may simply be due to it being used less.)
I can't think of any reason why anybody would attack bitcoin rather than just ignore it unless they just despise the idea that there's a currency out there that isn't owned or controlled by a government (or anybody really.)
Erh... how else could you possibly keep the game running?
Do we really need endless faction reputation? Do we really have to recycle dungeons to give "something to do"? Do we really need "kill some bird things and get three of their feathers and put them in my hat" quests? Especially the ones where the feathers only drop from one out of every 20 mobs? Cata they said they would end that but there were still plenty of them. Also, you know something is wrong with battlegrounds when people would rather bot them than actually play.
Something similar applies to them practically disallowing town raids. Most servers have a, let's say, lopsided balance. In other words, it becomes rather difficult for one side to even get their quests done sensibly if their quest NPCs are constantly being killed.
That's really not supposed to matter according to their own rules ("if there's a pvp solution available") and I'm actually talking about the neutral areas. The servers are so dead that neutral areas are pretty much the only place to even find somebody. And I didn't do raids, I would gank solo - raids were still just as easy because you get a proper tank to hold them while everybody else nukes.
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What's really going to make this thing sting is that it is illegal to fire or lay people off in Venezuela. I guarantee you that this is going to cause their profits to dry up really fast. What happens when there's no money to pay the workers? The management gets sent to jail? Executed? I'm sure that will work out real nice.
Entrepreneurism is well known to be what drives economies. What's going to happen when people realize that starting a business in Venezuela is a bad idea? (Hell, they probably already do at this point; Venezuela will probably see foreign investment dry up very fast as a result of this, assuming it hasn't already.)
The blood work tells you pretty well what is and isn't supposed to be in your body (if a given nutrient isn't carried in your blood serum, then nothing gets it)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Reference_ranges_for_blood_tests_-_by_mass.svg
The only problem his had was being D deficient. I think D is one of the most expensive ones to test for (I heard it costs around $500) so I think if they included that in his blood work panel then they were probably very comprehensive in their testing.
With that being the case, it probably is that this isn't (fully) healthy for you in that it doesn't satisfy your D requirements, but that is actually easy to address.
There exists the possibility that this wouldn't satisfy every persons metabolic requirements as well (for example, some people need different amounts of electrolytes such as potassium and sodium than other people, which genetics are known to play a heavy role in) so if/when they do clinical tests they should also isolate based on race and do the same regular blood work throughout the trials.
"A phone" is not the communications system that electronic bill systems are designed for. Email for bills and paying via the web are Internet, not landline phone, operations.
No, but a modem is, and last I checked there are nationwide dialup ISP's that still offer service in every area code.
What the hell else did you think I'd bring up a phone line for?
The rural users who you think can be made so independent of USPS that their mailboxes can be moved ten to twenty miles away
I don't know about you, but ten miles is nothing to me. I ride my bike 12 miles every day (some days I do 25 miles, occasionally I do a 52 mile route.) Riding a car that far takes all of 10 minutes in a rural setting.
You don't think in very practical ways do you? The fact of the matter is that what USPS currently does is not sustainable, with or without the political mess.
You want your mailbox down the block so that the carrier doesn't know exactly where you live or doesn't have to go so far when delivering, that's fine. But stop pushing for consolidation in places you've never been and never experienced, ok?
Both experienced and lived in, actually. In fact, I'm a bit in doubt that you have done either. I mean you make 20 miles sound like a trip to BFE, which makes it sound like you have to make a special affair out of going anywhere past your favorite chair. You do know what BFE means, I hope. Probably not, you'll probably have to look it up on google.
I don't think you understand what makes a communications medium. Anything where the physics are different is technically a new medium. Two radio devices for example don't necessarily modulate the same.
But aside from that, you still haven't said what makes it "pathetic". Oh, it's too nerdy? Well you know, back in the 80's doing something like you're doing right now (participating in an internet based message board) was considered too nerdy for the typical person, and quite possibly getting the "pathetic" label.
Turns out that it is so effective that most people can't get around without doing it, so now suddenly it is trendy.
What you're doing right now is sticking an "I'm no longer relevant, so I better bring other people down to become relevant again" label on yourself.
I use bitcoin rather frequently and I've never run into this kind of problem.
Of course, I also always keep my bitcoins in my own wallet and don't leave them sitting in random escrow pools. There is only one place I've done business with using bitcoins that has run off like this, however at the time they left I had zero in my account, and I never had amounts larger than a few mBTC for any period longer than a day either (just long enough to complete whatever transaction I was about to do) and once I was finished I would remove the remainder back into my own wallet.
This isn't anything unique to bitcoins by the way, similar scams have happened with stock traders running off with people's money.
Not exactly. A lot of those only accept orders via western union or other similar methods.
Electricity is a flawed analogy.
Not at all. What I'm saying is that nobody anticipated a need for it until they actually had it. The exact same thing can be said about electricity.
Google Glass isn't a new communication medium, it's merely a new type of input/output device.
Communication and navigation. And yes, technically it is a new medium.
I just think wearing such a device is pathetic.
And how is it pathetic? It makes you not masculine enough? I can think of things a lot more pathetic, like how gangbangers hold pistols sideways blocking half of their field of view and fucking up their aim, but it sure looks cool don't it? Or how the occupy movement and its sympathizers say they need more money and don't have enough wealth while living in the most expensive and upscale city in the US you can possibly choose to live in and then complaining about other occupiers stealing their ipads. THAT is pathetic.
Google glass is simply another means to achieving an end, I don't see what is wrong with it or why you choose to judge anybody who might want it. If anything, that makes you pathetic for judging them as if you had their lives all figured out for them.
I don't intend on owning one myself, nor a smartwatch (my smartphone does both jobs fine) but like I said above, it's normal to not anticipate a need for something one hasn't experienced.
(ignoring the first troll comment)
The same rural people whose mailboxes you want to be ten or twenty miles away from their homes are the same rural people who don't get the "electronic communications" you city dwellers find to be the solution to every problem.
Actually yes they usually do. Even in the more remote areas where cell phones and broadband aren't available, you still generally have a phone. If you're in an area where there isn't even electricity, then chances are you already have to travel a fair ways to get to a mailbox anyways.
This isn't exactly asking anybody to go anywhere they don't already go, it's simply saying that they check their mail about the same time that they go to town to get the provisions they already need anyways. It's already a given that mail is slow, about the only people who I think would complain are the advertisers whose ads might be slightly out of date by the time the recipient checks their mail, but even then they don't send a whole lot of material to rural areas other than mail order catalogs.
There wasn't even one Columbus, his actual name was Cristóbal Colón.
They could solve a lot of that problem by consolidating delivery locations in rural areas. They've already been doing this in cities (instead of mailboxes at each house, it is now common for entire neighborhoods to have a central mailbox, which saves a ton of time and therefore money for the carrier to deliver.) They'd save a lot of money if they centralized it further in rural areas, for example locating mailboxes at the nearest grocery stores.
Sure its an inconvenience, but now that electronic communication is common the volume just isn't there anymore to make it cost effective to continue the old ways.
A privatized company would have no problem doing this, but because the USPS (while technically private) has to answer to the government anyways, making changes like this requires an act of congress.
And slightly off topic: Only on slashdot can you find somebody who praises unions for giving us saturdays off (incorrectly I might add as it was Henry Ford who initiated that) while at the same time believing it is a travesty that the USPS is considering no longer working on saturday.
Prior to widespread use of electricity, nobody felt the need either. Yet where would we be today without cell phones? There's no way the economy could scale to what it currently is without them.
Luddites are always wrong BTW, all technology ever does is allow the economy to grow larger than it was before. Sure, it causes frictional unemployment too, but that has never been permanent, nor is there any good reason to believe it ever would be permanent. (History has proven these so called "reasons" wrong numerous times. Something is always "different this time," but the result is also always the same.)
For that to make sense Iran's oil would have to be somehow less valuable than oil recovered from fracking. It isn't, if anything it's probably better because sweet crude tends to come from there. There's no reason their output would decrease unless they deliberately wanted it to.
From what I can determine, in all cases it is used to augment your ability to communicate and/or navigate. Why is wanting either of these pathetic in *any* circumstance?
Hey I'm just going by the ads you can find on craigslist.
http://elitedaily.com/news/world/man-busted-craigslist-find-dogs-sex/
Google will probably be at the end of discrimination lawsuits then. The standard for women is having two legs (though sometimes more than two is acceptable) and the standard for men is a car, a full head of hair, a full set of teeth, a job, a single person house, willing to pay for dinner (a coffee date is not acceptable) and willing to accommodate even the worst of character flaws.
What's pathetic about it? Stephen Hawking has one in front of both eyes all day. Some blind people consider themselves lucky to have one implanted directly in front of both retinas.
I think what they're trying to avoid is allowing politics to cause whiplash to the economy.
Or perhaps it isn't just a way for anybody to say anything. It just is.
Not everything has to be a conspiracy theory. Coincidences do happen, quite often in fact. If you disagree, then might I refer you to Alex Jones whose very words should be music to your ears.
I don't think you can actually light the thing in space anyways - without a constant active supply of fresh oxygen, fire cannot last long at all in space. On earth, gravity enables the hot carbonized air to rise while fresh oxygen comes from the sides. In space this doesn't happen, so the flame suffocates itself quickly.
http://www.space.com/13766-international-space-station-flex-fire-research.html
"E Pluribus Unum" was inscribed into the official seal of the US several decades before we even had the constitution, never mind a Republican party.
Actually another name for fascism is national socialism - everybody working for everybody to provide strength in numbers for the power of the state. The symbol for fascism is a bundle of sticks with an axe head.
Dude, do you know anything about the faction reputation system now? It's SO MUCH easier, they include numerous methods to gain rep, which can vary by faction, and they even have a system where you can boost other characters on your account once one gets to exalted.
The problem isn't that it is too hard, the problem is that doing it necessitates repeating the same content time and time again to where you have already gotten tired of doing it, only to have to repeat it 500 more times after you've already realized how much you hate doing it.
People like going back to older dungeons, modified with newer experiences. Hard to imagine, but for some people, that's a plus, not a negative.
Which is fine I guess, only that you have to repeat that same experience multiple times every week for the next 18-24 months until a new expansion hits.
Plenty yes, but plenty of variety too, as anybody who has played MOP knows, there's other choices like say the Paragons in Dread Wastes, or the Grummle escort in Kun-Lai, or the story quests in the Jade Forest.
One of the things I remember the most about leveling alts was the fact that you pretty much had to go questing (even with the heirloom gear.) There was a point where BG's leveled faster than questing, but only at certain levels, and even then it was nerfed. That is aside the point though, the key word is "have to" as in it is a chore rather than something you "want to" do. A game shouldn't be "have to's" but rather "want to's". WoW has far too many "have to's".
Well, yeah, they don't have a perfect way to detect bots. People choosing to let a bot do their work for them isn't proving something is itself bad, just that there are lazy people out there who will do anything for gain at minimal expense to their own time.
The problem isn't that there are lazy people, the problem is that the game isn't fun enough to make the pursuit of the reward in itself a reward. It would be like creating the game Half-Life where you didn't want to play it, rather going through it was a chore you have to do just to get to the end just to see the g-man talk. The ending of half-life was actually kind of lame, but it was the play through itself that made the whole thing worthwhile. That is what a game should be, and that is what WoW currently is not.
You might not need to avoid salt as much as you think you do. One of the first things the doctors tell you as part of a renal diet is to cut it down, but I actually found that when I was around the mayo clinic recommendation of 1600-2300mg per day, my sodium serum level came up as very low on the metabolic panel and I even started to feel nausea as a result. I found that I had to keep my sodium intake around 3000mg per day in order to keep it normal. I also found that sodium doesn't seem to have any affect on my blood pressure (which I also monitor daily.)
It was about that same time that slashdot happened to post a very interesting article about salt, and a commenter added some links that provided very valuable insight:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4007957&cid=44366521
I recommend reading them as well as the original article. Some people need to keep their sodium intake low, whereas other people (like me) require slightly more sodium than others in order to remain healthy. When I stick to 3000mg per day, my sodium serum level sits smack dab in the middle of what the statistics say is a perfect score. Keeping score of your sodium intake for a week followed by a metabolic panel (they run about $20 without insurance) is the best way to tell where you should be.
The only thing I find annoying to avoid now is phosphorus. I did have to avoid potassium for a while, but the diuretics I'm now on cause my body to shed potassium faster than I can normally bring it in, so I even take prescription potassium supplements.
Yes because nobody has ever held people hostage, decapitated, or committed mass killings for the good ol' dollar.
Oh and did you know that most dollar bills carry trace amounts of cocaine and meth, in spite of new ones always being put into circulation and old ones being destroyed?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_currency
I think it's probably safe to say that bitcoin hasn't been used for as much illegal activity as the dollar has in the same time period (even though that may simply be due to it being used less.)
I can't think of any reason why anybody would attack bitcoin rather than just ignore it unless they just despise the idea that there's a currency out there that isn't owned or controlled by a government (or anybody really.)
Erh... how else could you possibly keep the game running?
Do we really need endless faction reputation? Do we really have to recycle dungeons to give "something to do"? Do we really need "kill some bird things and get three of their feathers and put them in my hat" quests? Especially the ones where the feathers only drop from one out of every 20 mobs? Cata they said they would end that but there were still plenty of them. Also, you know something is wrong with battlegrounds when people would rather bot them than actually play.
Something similar applies to them practically disallowing town raids. Most servers have a, let's say, lopsided balance. In other words, it becomes rather difficult for one side to even get their quests done sensibly if their quest NPCs are constantly being killed.
That's really not supposed to matter according to their own rules ("if there's a pvp solution available") and I'm actually talking about the neutral areas. The servers are so dead that neutral areas are pretty much the only place to even find somebody. And I didn't do raids, I would gank solo - raids were still just as easy because you get a proper tank to hold them while everybody else nukes.