Um, why are you guys screwing around with consumer grade crap anyway?
Take an old PC (Can even be a micro PC, provided it has more than one NIC) Put 2 NICs in it and install Smoothwall Express onto it.
Since Smoothwall is a Linux-based open source operating system, the old PC will become a nice, easy to configure, open source firewall/router alternative system, and easily more powerful than the standard SOHO crap that Cisco is slinging.
I've been running it for 10 years (with regular OS upgrades) on an old gateway 450mhz Pentium 2 PC. It's a trusty old warhorse that keeps on cranking and is WAY overpowered for the job. (Smoothwall will run on a 486DX. I know, I've done it.)
How many crappy SOHO routers have YOU gone through in that time?
Personally, I spent an inordinate amount of time on new Win7 builds de-pinning everything from the taskbar, bringing back the Quick launch bar, Turning off Libraries and re-enabling the "Pin to Start Menu" feature so that I can have a functional and useful OS. Apparently Microsoft only gets metrics from low-end users who dump everything on the desktop or taskbar, and MS-koolaid drinkers. Power users be damned, apparently.
I run ours through a Wii in the bedroom and a PS3 in the living room, though you could do it with a computer as well.
Get a Roku. And spend the 10 extra bucks and get the Roku 2 XD.
Like you, I used to use our Wii to stream netflix. but the quality was pretty poor. SD quality scaled up to 1080P. Bleah.
I tried a Win7 box running Windows media center, and while it could do some things well, (such as stream my large amount of local server based media) the netflix quality was HORRENDOUS. And it can't do many other things, such as Crunchyroll, TWiT, and Revision 3 content.
Also tried XBMC, and it was really nice, but couldn't do Netflix natively, and the user made hacks to get Netflix working were just that. Hacks. And ugly ones too.
Eventually I broke down and snagged the Roku2XD on sale over Father's day weekend just this year. It does full 1080P Netflix and really nice scaling on older movies, plus it has TONS of other stuff like Crunchyroll, Revision 3, Twit, and on and on, and that's just the OFFICIAL channels. It also has piles of unofficial ones, and it has PLEX, which allows you to stream your local media on any box running the PLEX server module. (a little Win32 app that handles the sharing and does media conversion/streaming as well.)
I have to say I've never been happier. While not perfect, the Roku2XD is absolutely the closest I've ever seen any box come to the "perfect" home media center experience.
Oh, and the damn thing is the size of a Hockey Puck. I kid you not! You can use double-sided tape or Velcro to hang it off the back of your TV and the Bluetooth remote will still work perfectly. If you lose the remote or it dies, you can get a Roku remote app for your iPhone or Android device and use it's Bluetooth radio to control the Roku. It's AWESOME!
Trust me, go buy a Roku 2 XD. You'll love it and won't look back.
If it is implemented as part of a legal contract, then it is very enforceable. If it's just company policy or an "employment agreement" then no, it's not enforceable.
The disadvantage many companies see with contracts is that they are enforceable in both directions. If the company doesn't hold up their end of the deal THEY can get sued. And with an unknown like a new employee, many companies see that as too great a risk.
Also, the employee might look great on paper, and even interview well, but in reality be a complete slacker or a bum. They don't want to be stuck with this person for a contract term or have to spend thousands on legal bills removing them. It's basic risk management.
I can't say that this risk assessment is correct (I think it's incorrect myself) But nevertheless it is an assessment that many companies have made.
capitalism is specifically designed to institutionalize and increase that divide
Except that it isn't.
Capitalism, by it's very nature, reduces and eliminates the divides between rich and poor. It wasn't until Capitalism was tried on a large scale that a Middle class even existed. Prior to that, in Feudalistic and Monarchic societies, you were either a ruler, or a serf. There was no in-between. This is similar to Socialistic societies, you are either a wealthy and powerful member of the Party, or you are a Prole. No in-between, no Middle class.
The Middle Class is a nearly exclusive feature of more capitalistic societies. This is a historical fact and is not arguable. (Unless you are a brainwashed Marxist moron with a skull crammed full of Frankfurt School stupidity.) Yet crypto-Marxists continue to spout the long-discredited line that somehow capitalism (The free flow of goods and services between people) creates this HUGE divide between rich and poor. It's laughable.
Do you have rich and poor people in capitlaistic societies? yes, of course you do. but then, you have them everywhere else too. so that's no exclusive feature of Capitalism. Are the rich people richer in capitalistic societies than they are in Statist societies? Yes. There is more opportunity in a capitalistic society, so rich people can make even more money. Are poor people poorer in capitalistic societies? NO. Poor people are FAR better off in capitalistic societies than they are in statist ones. The average "Poor" person in the United States makes a living in excess of the lower end of the "rich" in many Statist countries both currently and historically. Why? As has been stated, "A rising tide lifts all boats". Simply put, when Rich people get richer, they drag a SHITLOAD of people up the economic ladder along with them. From executives to the janitor, and through all the other companies big and small that they do business with, everyone is pulled along by the tide of success, and everyone gains.
Thus, the Middle class is born, as wealthy people hire the poor to work for them and the poor make a solid wage for the first time, move up the ladder or move laterally to another company, increase their skills and experience, get raises and work their way out of poverty. It's happened a BILLION times in America and other capitalistic societies and as long as capitalism is allowed to flourish it will continue to happen.
Capitalism is the natural social state of humanity. Anything else is an unnatural structure applied via the use or threat of force from an outside actor such as a government. Beware those who deny this simple fact, for they fancy themselves your Master.
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And don't vote DEM as they will simply have an unelected and unanswerable Health Control board do exactly the same thing, with the threat of legal fines or imprisonment to back them up.
Of course, if Insurance companies try, you can always get laws passed that prevent it. Insurance companies can't toss you in Gitmo for ignoring them. If the government does it you are pretty much out of luck.
I'll stick with Conservative/Libertarians, thanks.
BTW if undesirables never make it to term by parental choice than no ones rights are violated or infringed. If you are choosing to produce offspring, why not have more granular control of outcomes?
Emphasis mine.
And just who determines who is undesirable? The parents? Why? Why do they get to determine the relative worth of a human being they haven't even met yet? And what traits make someone undesirable? Physical disability? Does having a less than perfect body make you worth less? Hellen Keller would disagree with you.
Well what about genetic diseases that express themselves later in life? Surely those make you "Undesirable". Hmm. Stephen Hawking might disagree with that.
What is left then? Sex? Race? Eye color? At what point is someone an "Undesirable" and to be discarded like garbage?
Maybe we should stop trying to "make people better" by destroying those that make us uncomfortable, and simply learn to appreciate people for who and what they are. That seems like a much less evil way to go about life, don't you think?
In the sense he meant it, "Abandon" means; To leave exposed and uncared for alone. In such a situation, a newborn would almost certainly die, given enough time without being discovered by someone willing to care for the child. There is a reason child abandonment laws exist, and why they are held to the same punishment level (in some cases) as manslaughter or murder.
Personally, I find it abhorrent that we will blithely slaughter a human just because they haven't yet fully exited the birth canal.
That said, I do find this study fascinating. As a parent of three disabled children (two with ASD, one with Spina Bifida) I am personally VERY familiar with the concept of birth defects and congenital diseases. If something like this leads to genetic therapies for children before they are born, then I am all for it. I am concerned that it might lead to selective abortions, but that is not an issue with the science, that is a social and legal issue that needs to be corrected.
He IS being accurate. He is pointing out that hiding the content of legislation isn't a GOP problem, it's a Democrat problem, as evidenced by the video he linked.
When Pelosi had control of the house, she intentionally and purposefully hid the contents of the "Obamacare" bill and used parliamentary tricks to avoid debate. There was even talk that the Democrats would use a trick called "Deem and Pass" to simply "Deem" the bill passed WITHOUT taking a vote on it. Yep, that's right; The Democrats, not the Republicans wanted to suspend the democratic process and simply force through a bill they wanted because people opposed it. This was a historical first for any Congress, and it was the Democrats that tried it. In the end they dropped it due to massive public pressure, and the bill passed on purely partisan lines. (Note that the Democrats had total control of both houses of Congress at the time.)
Also, as another poster pointed out below, wanting a full accounting and report of any major project so that all interested parties can review it before signing off on the expenditure is a responsible thing to do, something we want our representatives doing. Why is this bad just because the GOP is doing it? Doesn't that strike you as a hypocritical position to take?
As that other posted noted, this article is itself a troll and nothing but FUD. THOMAS isn't going down, even during the upgrade, so no access will be lost. The GOP just wants to do the upgrade properly and with full oversight. They should be applauded for being responsible with our money.
Thank you for your both Insightful and Informative post. If I had mod points I would vote you up. Far too many people on/. have this "Republicans are EEEVIILL! *HISSSSS*" reaction to anything that the GOP (or a body the GOP currently controls) does without even considering the source.
Personally I agree that it is valid to want a full accounting and report before all interested parties sign off on a major system upgrade. Glad to see SOMEONE in Washington is actually concerned with doing things right and NOT wasting taxpayer money.
Yeah! And it's TOTALLY like the UN isn't looking to put per-click TAXES in place to fund international (read: You won't get a vote on it) censorship of the internet.
Did you even read TFA? Have you SEEN the bullshit coming out of the UN lately? I wouldn't trust the UN to run a lemonade stand, let alone the Internet.
The US may be a crappy choice of country to run the Internet, but they are a far sight less crappy than any other country and several orders of magnitude less crappy than letting the UN run it.
It does actually remind me of Hosni Mubarak's "Support me or you might get the Muslim Brotherhood"
It wasn't a scare tactic. Have you SEEN the elections in Egypt? In case you weren't following, The Muslim Brotherhood WON (Under the moniker of the "Freedom and Justice Party"). Same thing is happening in Libya. Exactly as predicted.
Mubarak and Ghaddaffi may have both been totalitarian assholes, but at least they were CONTROLLABLE assholes that did what was necessary to keep Islamic extremists under control in their countries. Mubarak went out of his way to protect the minority Copts in his country. Not because he loved them, but because he feared international backlash if he didn't.
The Muslim Brotherhood has no such compunctions. They are driven by ideology, not statecraft. Expect the slaughter of the Copts, and the destruction of Egyptian historical monuments (as "offenses to Allah", like Bhuddhist monuments in Afghanistan, Jewish temple relics in Palestine, and ancient Christian churches in Turkey) to follow. This is what happens EVERY TIME that truly committed Muslims gain control of a country politically. it's happened before, it will happen again.
6. There has continued to be an attitude that a good system administrator, network administrator, help desk guy, or programmer should have a degree in Computer Science or something similar. Many do, but many also have degrees in mathematics, engineering, or physics, and some have no degree at all.
This has been my issue.
I came to IT rather late. I was already in my 20's when I discovered IT. I had gone to college for Commercial art, graduated from there in the early 1990's during that recession and couldn't find work. So i worked whatever I could find while I figured out what I wanted to do. During that time I got married, and we bought our first PC. I discovered I had a knack for it (was bad at math back in HS in the '80's, was told you had to be a math whiz to "do computers" so never considered them.) and I ended up taking some A+ and MCSE classes at a local community college. Got my certifications and started in IT. Did my time doing low-level PC support and call center tech work and then was looking to move into a more advance IT position...
From that point onward I have been struggling to both find companies willing to hire me, and to find companies willing to PAY me.
As it is, after 10 years working in IT with a solid resume and broad experience I haven't been able to crack $50k in my salary. I recently asked for a fairly moderate raise of $5k/yr in my $47k salary. I got a 2.75% raise (that's $1200). A slap in the face. And my supervisor tried to sugar coat it by telling me it was "larger than average". I know that there is still a recession on, and I try to tell myself (and my wife) that I should be glad I even HAVE a job. But when I see stories like this I just want to tear out what is left of my hair.
I feel used, under-appreciated, undervalued, and absolutely underpaid. I'm not looking for a high six-figure income. I know being a Network Admin and systems engineer doesn't pay at that level. But high TWO figure income would be nice. Something I can actually save money for retirement on with a bit on the side for family fun stuff. I just want to be paid what I'm worth, which is WAY more than under $50K a year.
Yep. Mathias Duarte is the single reason I went Android over iOS when coming from webOS. He is slowly but surely "webOS-ifying" Android. Taking the very best UI elements from webOS and merging them slowly into Anrdroid. Expect to see the software button lessen and lessen and more Gesture based UI elements to come in. Eventually even the card metaphor may make a comeback. Full and Proper multitasking FTW!
There isn't any filtration going on. Converters and Oxidizers do just what their names imply. They slow down exhaust gasses and trap heat, thus improving the burn cycle and making the final exhaust "cleaner".
Basically they just ensure that as much of the fuel as possible is fully oxidized and that the vehicle isn't pumping out tons of unburned gas or diesel vapor.
Although they can and do clog, but that's from carbon deposits and/or fuel contamination, not from normal use.
I'm not a mechanical engineer, but isn't that rather the point of an internal combustion engine? Gasoline mixed with air under pressure ignited by a spark combusts so violently that it pushes the compression cylinder back? Is that not the definition of a small detonation?
If the explosive force is that powerful, then using less gasoline one should be able to balance out the forces at work at get the desired effect without destroying the engine. It's not the detonation that's bad, it's the amount of kinetic energy released by it.
According to the USDA, HFCS consists of 24% water, and the rest sugars. The most widely used varieties of high-fructose corn syrup are: HFCS 55 (mostly used in soft drinks), approximately 55% fructose and 42% glucose; and HFCS 42 (used in beverages, processed foods, cereals and baked goods), approximately 42% fructose and 53% glucose.[5][6] HFCS-90, approximately 90% fructose and 10% glucose, is used in small quantities for specialty applications, but primarily is used to blend with HFCS 42 to make HFCS 55.[7]
And while they are "sugars" in the chemical sense, none of them are "Sugar" (IE: Cane Sugar), which is sucrose. And this is the critical difference.
Sugar is a needed and necessary nutrient for our bodies. But, much like anything else, the poison is in the dose. For example, our bodies are mostly made up of water. Good old H2O, necessary for all life on Earth. But drink too much water in too short an amount of time and you can die from electrolyte imbalance. By and large it's the dose, not the substance that is poisonous.
Our bodies were designed to take in small amounts of natural sugars from fruits and vegetables. Large amounts of sugars will, as you said, be converted to fat. and can make you lethargic and ill-feeling.
Ironically, (at least in the US) Most soft drinks and other "sugary" foods don't actually have any sugar in them. Instead they use a far more dangerous substance, High Fructose Corn Syrup, or HFCS.
HFCS is a cheap (due to corn subsidies) easy to transport, slow to spoil, and highly soluble in water, making it an ideal sugar substitute for much of the food industry. The downside is that HFCS in any significant amount causes the human body to react in some very adverse ways. HFCS causes thirst, liver damage, diabetes and as has been recently discovered by researchers at Princeton University causes extreme weight gain and obesity far in excess of what simple sugar can do. In particular, HFCS causes weight gain in the belly and torso. HFCS also causes significant increases in the amount of triglycerides in the bloodstream, a major factor in heart disease, the number one killer of adults in the US.
So it's good that you are cutting out the soft drinks and other "sugary" things, but unless you live somewhere that doesn't use HFCS (South America, parts of Europe, China) make sure you are blaming the right thing. otherwise, i think your diet change is a sound one. Lots of fresh meats, fresh vegetables, small amounts of fruit and grains and an absolute minimum of "sweet snacks". (This is basically the "maintenance" portion of the Atkins diet, btw.)
Also, if you live in the US, be sure to join a group lobbying for the repeal of corn subsidies of all kinds. It's the subsidies that make HFCS so cheap. eliminate them, and the food industry will go back to using much more benign sugar.
When you lose in the arena of ideas, use the courts to FORCE your will upon an unwilling populace.
AGW is a failed ideology. Despite the slavish devotion from many/. members, it's religious tenets have been proven false over and over. Now, in it's dying gasps, it uses brainwashed children and the courts to try and gain a last-minute victory over reality.
This will fail, as have all their other arguments. Reality is the greatest argument against leftist ideology, including the AGW religion.
(Yes, I know I'll get modded "Flamebait" and "Troll" by the scions of AGW that hole up on/. That's fine. All they do by modding me down is prove how weak their own position is.)
What you're saying is that overplanning will never work. Central planning can and will work, provided that central planning only designates targets, and leaves the method to the market to work out
And you have just demonstrated the primary logical fallacy that Central planners always exhibit and that the prior poster was specifically addressing.
Any system of central planning is inevitably doomed to fail simply due to the nature of central planning. That is to say; It never remains merely a framework within which the people can exercise the free market, but always becomes a self-perpetuating system of ever increasing restrictions and attempts to control the free market, until it becomes so overwhelming that it collapses the economy and/or starts a political and/or military revolution.
The reason for this is simple; Just as nature abhors a vacuum, so the the Free Market nature of mankind abhors a control. The Free Market naturally routes around restrictions, regulations and controls to do what it wants. This causes the central planners to attempt more regulations and controls, which immediately prompts more routing around by the Free Market, and on and on and on until the control system is a massive, onerous monstrosity that is crushing the people it is supposed to serve under its weight and destroying the economy of the country that has implemented it.
Central planning cannot and will not ever work. It's like trying to keep a pocket of vacuum floating unrestrained in the middle of an atmosphere. Impossible to do, yet some people keep insisting that they can do it.
It's the same for us. I started ripping DVDs of my kids' shows about 8 years ago as I didn't want them trashing the originals. Now I don't even bother ripping them as all the shows they want to watch are on netflix. We just fire up the Wii and away they go.
Most of what's on the home server video-wise are my personal collection of stuff. (Mythbusters episodes, various Anime that I downloaded before you could get them in the States, other random stuff, etc.) My wife is the only one who even uses the DVD player anymore and even then just to watch the occasional classic movie DVD that Netflix doesn't have available in it's streaming library.
I've also discovered Crunchyroll for Android (yes, I know I'm very late to that party.) and have been streaming Anime on that. We still buy DVDs (no blueray) but just for the sake of having them as part of a collection. I have a few that are several years old and still in the shrinkwrap.
All in all, we are slowly swapping over to all streaming and downloads. There's just no reason save for collecting to keep buying and using DVDs.
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Um, why are you guys screwing around with consumer grade crap anyway?
Take an old PC (Can even be a micro PC, provided it has more than one NIC) Put 2 NICs in it and install Smoothwall Express onto it.
Since Smoothwall is a Linux-based open source operating system, the old PC will become a nice, easy to configure, open source firewall/router alternative system, and easily more powerful than the standard SOHO crap that Cisco is slinging.
I've been running it for 10 years (with regular OS upgrades) on an old gateway 450mhz Pentium 2 PC. It's a trusty old warhorse that keeps on cranking and is WAY overpowered for the job. (Smoothwall will run on a 486DX. I know, I've done it.)
How many crappy SOHO routers have YOU gone through in that time?
You have to wonder.
Personally, I spent an inordinate amount of time on new Win7 builds de-pinning everything from the taskbar, bringing back the Quick launch bar, Turning off Libraries and re-enabling the "Pin to Start Menu" feature so that I can have a functional and useful OS. Apparently Microsoft only gets metrics from low-end users who dump everything on the desktop or taskbar, and MS-koolaid drinkers. Power users be damned, apparently.
Get a Roku. And spend the 10 extra bucks and get the Roku 2 XD.
Like you, I used to use our Wii to stream netflix. but the quality was pretty poor. SD quality scaled up to 1080P. Bleah.
I tried a Win7 box running Windows media center, and while it could do some things well, (such as stream my large amount of local server based media) the netflix quality was HORRENDOUS. And it can't do many other things, such as Crunchyroll, TWiT, and Revision 3 content.
Also tried XBMC, and it was really nice, but couldn't do Netflix natively, and the user made hacks to get Netflix working were just that. Hacks. And ugly ones too.
Eventually I broke down and snagged the Roku2XD on sale over Father's day weekend just this year. It does full 1080P Netflix and really nice scaling on older movies, plus it has TONS of other stuff like Crunchyroll, Revision 3, Twit, and on and on, and that's just the OFFICIAL channels. It also has piles of unofficial ones, and it has PLEX, which allows you to stream your local media on any box running the PLEX server module. (a little Win32 app that handles the sharing and does media conversion/streaming as well.)
I have to say I've never been happier. While not perfect, the Roku2XD is absolutely the closest I've ever seen any box come to the "perfect" home media center experience.
Oh, and the damn thing is the size of a Hockey Puck. I kid you not! You can use double-sided tape or Velcro to hang it off the back of your TV and the Bluetooth remote will still work perfectly. If you lose the remote or it dies, you can get a Roku remote app for your iPhone or Android device and use it's Bluetooth radio to control the Roku. It's AWESOME!
Trust me, go buy a Roku 2 XD. You'll love it and won't look back.
It depends on how it's implemented.
If it is implemented as part of a legal contract, then it is very enforceable. If it's just company policy or an "employment agreement" then no, it's not enforceable.
The disadvantage many companies see with contracts is that they are enforceable in both directions. If the company doesn't hold up their end of the deal THEY can get sued. And with an unknown like a new employee, many companies see that as too great a risk.
Also, the employee might look great on paper, and even interview well, but in reality be a complete slacker or a bum. They don't want to be stuck with this person for a contract term or have to spend thousands on legal bills removing them. It's basic risk management.
I can't say that this risk assessment is correct (I think it's incorrect myself) But nevertheless it is an assessment that many companies have made.
Scalability is a required function for "working" social structures. If it doesn't scale, it doesn't work. Sorry.
Except that it isn't.
Capitalism, by it's very nature, reduces and eliminates the divides between rich and poor. It wasn't until Capitalism was tried on a large scale that a Middle class even existed. Prior to that, in Feudalistic and Monarchic societies, you were either a ruler, or a serf. There was no in-between. This is similar to Socialistic societies, you are either a wealthy and powerful member of the Party, or you are a Prole. No in-between, no Middle class.
The Middle Class is a nearly exclusive feature of more capitalistic societies. This is a historical fact and is not arguable. (Unless you are a brainwashed Marxist moron with a skull crammed full of Frankfurt School stupidity.) Yet crypto-Marxists continue to spout the long-discredited line that somehow capitalism (The free flow of goods and services between people) creates this HUGE divide between rich and poor. It's laughable.
Do you have rich and poor people in capitlaistic societies? yes, of course you do. but then, you have them everywhere else too. so that's no exclusive feature of Capitalism. Are the rich people richer in capitalistic societies than they are in Statist societies? Yes. There is more opportunity in a capitalistic society, so rich people can make even more money. Are poor people poorer in capitalistic societies? NO. Poor people are FAR better off in capitalistic societies than they are in statist ones. The average "Poor" person in the United States makes a living in excess of the lower end of the "rich" in many Statist countries both currently and historically. Why? As has been stated, "A rising tide lifts all boats". Simply put, when Rich people get richer, they drag a SHITLOAD of people up the economic ladder along with them. From executives to the janitor, and through all the other companies big and small that they do business with, everyone is pulled along by the tide of success, and everyone gains.
Thus, the Middle class is born, as wealthy people hire the poor to work for them and the poor make a solid wage for the first time, move up the ladder or move laterally to another company, increase their skills and experience, get raises and work their way out of poverty. It's happened a BILLION times in America and other capitalistic societies and as long as capitalism is allowed to flourish it will continue to happen.
Capitalism is the natural social state of humanity. Anything else is an unnatural structure applied via the use or threat of force from an outside actor such as a government. Beware those who deny this simple fact, for they fancy themselves your Master.
And don't vote DEM as they will simply have an unelected and unanswerable Health Control board do exactly the same thing, with the threat of legal fines or imprisonment to back them up.
Of course, if Insurance companies try, you can always get laws passed that prevent it. Insurance companies can't toss you in Gitmo for ignoring them. If the government does it you are pretty much out of luck.
I'll stick with Conservative/Libertarians, thanks.
Emphasis mine.
And just who determines who is undesirable? The parents? Why? Why do they get to determine the relative worth of a human being they haven't even met yet? And what traits make someone undesirable? Physical disability? Does having a less than perfect body make you worth less? Hellen Keller would disagree with you.
Well what about genetic diseases that express themselves later in life? Surely those make you "Undesirable". Hmm. Stephen Hawking might disagree with that.
What is left then? Sex? Race? Eye color? At what point is someone an "Undesirable" and to be discarded like garbage?
Maybe we should stop trying to "make people better" by destroying those that make us uncomfortable, and simply learn to appreciate people for who and what they are. That seems like a much less evil way to go about life, don't you think?
In the sense he meant it, "Abandon" means; To leave exposed and uncared for alone. In such a situation, a newborn would almost certainly die, given enough time without being discovered by someone willing to care for the child. There is a reason child abandonment laws exist, and why they are held to the same punishment level (in some cases) as manslaughter or murder.
Personally, I find it abhorrent that we will blithely slaughter a human just because they haven't yet fully exited the birth canal.
That said, I do find this study fascinating. As a parent of three disabled children (two with ASD, one with Spina Bifida) I am personally VERY familiar with the concept of birth defects and congenital diseases. If something like this leads to genetic therapies for children before they are born, then I am all for it. I am concerned that it might lead to selective abortions, but that is not an issue with the science, that is a social and legal issue that needs to be corrected.
Aaaand i just figured out how to disable that.
In about:config, just type in "newtab" and search
You will get 3 choices.
First one is the URL for new tabs. Set it to what you want (I use about:blank)
Set the other two settings to false and the fancy schmancy crappy new tab is gone.
Nevermind, I figured it out. You just click the little grid image in the upper right hand side.
No option to turn back on "new tab opens to home page." Lame. Stuck with "about:newtab" on every new tab I open. So annoying!
How did you turn it off? I've been digging around the options for awhile now and can't find it. Is it in the about:browser settings?
He IS being accurate. He is pointing out that hiding the content of legislation isn't a GOP problem, it's a Democrat problem, as evidenced by the video he linked.
When Pelosi had control of the house, she intentionally and purposefully hid the contents of the "Obamacare" bill and used parliamentary tricks to avoid debate. There was even talk that the Democrats would use a trick called "Deem and Pass" to simply "Deem" the bill passed WITHOUT taking a vote on it. Yep, that's right; The Democrats, not the Republicans wanted to suspend the democratic process and simply force through a bill they wanted because people opposed it. This was a historical first for any Congress, and it was the Democrats that tried it. In the end they dropped it due to massive public pressure, and the bill passed on purely partisan lines. (Note that the Democrats had total control of both houses of Congress at the time.)
Also, as another poster pointed out below, wanting a full accounting and report of any major project so that all interested parties can review it before signing off on the expenditure is a responsible thing to do, something we want our representatives doing. Why is this bad just because the GOP is doing it? Doesn't that strike you as a hypocritical position to take?
As that other posted noted, this article is itself a troll and nothing but FUD. THOMAS isn't going down, even during the upgrade, so no access will be lost. The GOP just wants to do the upgrade properly and with full oversight. They should be applauded for being responsible with our money.
Thank you for your both Insightful and Informative post. If I had mod points I would vote you up. Far too many people on /. have this "Republicans are EEEVIILL! *HISSSSS*" reaction to anything that the GOP (or a body the GOP currently controls) does without even considering the source.
Personally I agree that it is valid to want a full accounting and report before all interested parties sign off on a major system upgrade. Glad to see SOMEONE in Washington is actually concerned with doing things right and NOT wasting taxpayer money.
Yeah! And it's TOTALLY like the UN isn't looking to put per-click TAXES in place to fund international (read: You won't get a vote on it) censorship of the internet.
Did you even read TFA? Have you SEEN the bullshit coming out of the UN lately? I wouldn't trust the UN to run a lemonade stand, let alone the Internet.
The US may be a crappy choice of country to run the Internet, but they are a far sight less crappy than any other country and several orders of magnitude less crappy than letting the UN run it.
It wasn't a scare tactic. Have you SEEN the elections in Egypt? In case you weren't following, The Muslim Brotherhood WON (Under the moniker of the "Freedom and Justice Party"). Same thing is happening in Libya. Exactly as predicted.
Mubarak and Ghaddaffi may have both been totalitarian assholes, but at least they were CONTROLLABLE assholes that did what was necessary to keep Islamic extremists under control in their countries. Mubarak went out of his way to protect the minority Copts in his country. Not because he loved them, but because he feared international backlash if he didn't.
The Muslim Brotherhood has no such compunctions. They are driven by ideology, not statecraft. Expect the slaughter of the Copts, and the destruction of Egyptian historical monuments (as "offenses to Allah", like Bhuddhist monuments in Afghanistan, Jewish temple relics in Palestine, and ancient Christian churches in Turkey) to follow. This is what happens EVERY TIME that truly committed Muslims gain control of a country politically. it's happened before, it will happen again.
This has been my issue.
I came to IT rather late. I was already in my 20's when I discovered IT. I had gone to college for Commercial art, graduated from there in the early 1990's during that recession and couldn't find work. So i worked whatever I could find while I figured out what I wanted to do. During that time I got married, and we bought our first PC. I discovered I had a knack for it (was bad at math back in HS in the '80's, was told you had to be a math whiz to "do computers" so never considered them.) and I ended up taking some A+ and MCSE classes at a local community college. Got my certifications and started in IT. Did my time doing low-level PC support and call center tech work and then was looking to move into a more advance IT position...
From that point onward I have been struggling to both find companies willing to hire me, and to find companies willing to PAY me.
As it is, after 10 years working in IT with a solid resume and broad experience I haven't been able to crack $50k in my salary. I recently asked for a fairly moderate raise of $5k/yr in my $47k salary. I got a 2.75% raise (that's $1200). A slap in the face. And my supervisor tried to sugar coat it by telling me it was "larger than average". I know that there is still a recession on, and I try to tell myself (and my wife) that I should be glad I even HAVE a job. But when I see stories like this I just want to tear out what is left of my hair.
I feel used, under-appreciated, undervalued, and absolutely underpaid. I'm not looking for a high six-figure income. I know being a Network Admin and systems engineer doesn't pay at that level. But high TWO figure income would be nice. Something I can actually save money for retirement on with a bit on the side for family fun stuff. I just want to be paid what I'm worth, which is WAY more than under $50K a year.
It's just SO FRUSTRATING.
Yep. Mathias Duarte is the single reason I went Android over iOS when coming from webOS. He is slowly but surely "webOS-ifying" Android. Taking the very best UI elements from webOS and merging them slowly into Anrdroid. Expect to see the software button lessen and lessen and more Gesture based UI elements to come in. Eventually even the card metaphor may make a comeback. Full and Proper multitasking FTW!
There isn't any filtration going on. Converters and Oxidizers do just what their names imply. They slow down exhaust gasses and trap heat, thus improving the burn cycle and making the final exhaust "cleaner".
Basically they just ensure that as much of the fuel as possible is fully oxidized and that the vehicle isn't pumping out tons of unburned gas or diesel vapor.
Although they can and do clog, but that's from carbon deposits and/or fuel contamination, not from normal use.
I'm not a mechanical engineer, but isn't that rather the point of an internal combustion engine? Gasoline mixed with air under pressure ignited by a spark combusts so violently that it pushes the compression cylinder back? Is that not the definition of a small detonation?
If the explosive force is that powerful, then using less gasoline one should be able to balance out the forces at work at get the desired effect without destroying the engine. It's not the detonation that's bad, it's the amount of kinetic energy released by it.
Depends on the HFCS you are talking about.
And while they are "sugars" in the chemical sense, none of them are "Sugar" (IE: Cane Sugar), which is sucrose. And this is the critical difference.
Sugar is a needed and necessary nutrient for our bodies. But, much like anything else, the poison is in the dose. For example, our bodies are mostly made up of water. Good old H2O, necessary for all life on Earth. But drink too much water in too short an amount of time and you can die from electrolyte imbalance. By and large it's the dose, not the substance that is poisonous.
Our bodies were designed to take in small amounts of natural sugars from fruits and vegetables. Large amounts of sugars will, as you said, be converted to fat. and can make you lethargic and ill-feeling.
Ironically, (at least in the US) Most soft drinks and other "sugary" foods don't actually have any sugar in them. Instead they use a far more dangerous substance, High Fructose Corn Syrup, or HFCS.
HFCS is a cheap (due to corn subsidies) easy to transport, slow to spoil, and highly soluble in water, making it an ideal sugar substitute for much of the food industry. The downside is that HFCS in any significant amount causes the human body to react in some very adverse ways. HFCS causes thirst, liver damage, diabetes and as has been recently discovered by researchers at Princeton University causes extreme weight gain and obesity far in excess of what simple sugar can do. In particular, HFCS causes weight gain in the belly and torso. HFCS also causes significant increases in the amount of triglycerides in the bloodstream, a major factor in heart disease, the number one killer of adults in the US.
So it's good that you are cutting out the soft drinks and other "sugary" things, but unless you live somewhere that doesn't use HFCS (South America, parts of Europe, China) make sure you are blaming the right thing. otherwise, i think your diet change is a sound one. Lots of fresh meats, fresh vegetables, small amounts of fruit and grains and an absolute minimum of "sweet snacks". (This is basically the "maintenance" portion of the Atkins diet, btw.)
Also, if you live in the US, be sure to join a group lobbying for the repeal of corn subsidies of all kinds. It's the subsidies that make HFCS so cheap. eliminate them, and the food industry will go back to using much more benign sugar.
Yep. Typical Leftist behavior;
When you lose in the arena of ideas, use the courts to FORCE your will upon an unwilling populace.
AGW is a failed ideology. Despite the slavish devotion from many /. members, it's religious tenets have been proven false over and over. Now, in it's dying gasps, it uses brainwashed children and the courts to try and gain a last-minute victory over reality.
This will fail, as have all their other arguments. Reality is the greatest argument against leftist ideology, including the AGW religion.
(Yes, I know I'll get modded "Flamebait" and "Troll" by the scions of AGW that hole up on /. That's fine. All they do by modding me down is prove how weak their own position is.)
And you have just demonstrated the primary logical fallacy that Central planners always exhibit and that the prior poster was specifically addressing.
Any system of central planning is inevitably doomed to fail simply due to the nature of central planning. That is to say; It never remains merely a framework within which the people can exercise the free market, but always becomes a self-perpetuating system of ever increasing restrictions and attempts to control the free market, until it becomes so overwhelming that it collapses the economy and/or starts a political and/or military revolution.
The reason for this is simple; Just as nature abhors a vacuum, so the the Free Market nature of mankind abhors a control. The Free Market naturally routes around restrictions, regulations and controls to do what it wants. This causes the central planners to attempt more regulations and controls, which immediately prompts more routing around by the Free Market, and on and on and on until the control system is a massive, onerous monstrosity that is crushing the people it is supposed to serve under its weight and destroying the economy of the country that has implemented it.
Central planning cannot and will not ever work. It's like trying to keep a pocket of vacuum floating unrestrained in the middle of an atmosphere. Impossible to do, yet some people keep insisting that they can do it.
It's the same for us. I started ripping DVDs of my kids' shows about 8 years ago as I didn't want them trashing the originals. Now I don't even bother ripping them as all the shows they want to watch are on netflix. We just fire up the Wii and away they go.
Most of what's on the home server video-wise are my personal collection of stuff. (Mythbusters episodes, various Anime that I downloaded before you could get them in the States, other random stuff, etc.) My wife is the only one who even uses the DVD player anymore and even then just to watch the occasional classic movie DVD that Netflix doesn't have available in it's streaming library.
I've also discovered Crunchyroll for Android (yes, I know I'm very late to that party.) and have been streaming Anime on that. We still buy DVDs (no blueray) but just for the sake of having them as part of a collection. I have a few that are several years old and still in the shrinkwrap.
All in all, we are slowly swapping over to all streaming and downloads. There's just no reason save for collecting to keep buying and using DVDs.