That's pretty much all the WSJ opinion page has ever been, at least since the 1980s when I used to steal it. The newspaper itself could have a great in-depth and well-researched story saying X, and on the opinion page the bloody editors would declare Y. George Will used to be particularly bad at doing that. He could lay out all the facts that would show why one of Ronnie Raygun's programs were going to be yet another disastrous unending money pit of fail, and then declare that the program should be supported 111%. All Murdoch has managed to do is get rid of some of the good investigative reporters that it used to have and change the format to something that no one likes.
That was kind of my point, too. Combining eraser, pencil and glue is no different than combining eraser, pencil and metal clasp, or eraser, pencil and string.
They know that sequestration or quarantine of an area won't work, people are far too mobile. Granted, 90% of the people with a 4WD SUV don't know how to actually drive it off pavement, but that other 10% will be on the move. People will bicycle and hike and swim and sewer crawl out of affected areas to get their offspring out of supposed danger while denying to themselves that Junior has anything more than "just a cold". Soldiers have kids, and are NOT going to want to shoot people that are just doing the exact same thing they would do. When it happens it's going to be ugly.
Actually that's wrong. The Black Plague killed off enough people that economies collapsed and labor became more valuable. Craft unions, guilds and syndicates representing the middle and lower class workers were able to extract a larger portion of the recovering economy for their members. The increased wealth among the middle and lower classes increased the demand for goods and services, which led to the Renaissance.
Europeans of the late Middle Ages were possibly the filthiest people in the history of humanity. The combination of influenza, smallpox and tuberculosis spread by the Europeans (all diseases that originated in the domesticated animals that they quite literally slept with) is what caused the Great Dying in the Americas.
evacuate the person one by one to a treatment facility
There aren't enough treatment facilities, nor the possibility to set up enough temporary ones since sufficient equipment doesn't exist in the modern "just-in-time" inventory management systems. The Clinton administration carried out a mock terrorist attack scenario in cooperation with DOD, FEMA, NIH, the Colorado Health Department, healthcare industry staffers, and others. The model was a release of pneumonic plague into the ventilation system of a Boulder concert hall. Pneumonic plague isn't especially contagious compared to something like influenza, but still within a week the Colorado healthcare system would have collapsed and a couple of other states were on the edge. Within two weeks the plague was seen in almost every state, most Canadian provinces and several other countries, as far away as Singapore. Judith Miller and her associates portrayed the exercise in their book 'Germs', the only book that I have ever read in my life that gave me nightmares. I highly recommend it, in spite of Miller's later decline in reliability.
The exercise apparently scared the crap out of Clinton, who established "Push Packs", pallets of medical equipment prepared and distributed around the country, available to be deployed wherever needed. The incoming Bush Madministration almost immediately killed the project, before it was even fully deployed.
I'd never compare Utah with Middle Earth, except maybe Mordor. Sure, there's some pretty desert, but I don't recall any desert in Middle Earth anywhere else. The Desolation of Smaug was just depopulated.
Antibiotics are for bacteria. Influenza and most of the other real threats are viruses, antibiotics are useless against them. Are there any anti-virals available for veterinary use?
We can pretty much guarantee that someone had taken their eraser and tied it with a string to the end of the pencil (my grandfather was still doing that in the '60s), or poke a hole in the eraser and stick the end of the pencil in it. The real innovation to that patent would have been the metal clasp to hold it in place, but that was still just combining three existing things, pencil, eraser and clasp, together in what is a fairly obvious way. If modern glues had been available then he could have glued the thing in place and tried to patent it.
Adobe, rock, ash. Short pieces of rebar are cheap and readily accessible anywhere that cement structures are built. The Ministerio de Vivienda, the housing department, in Peru has implemented a program to construct 'improved stoves' throughout the country. The Ministerio will give people the chimney, fire grate (made of rebar) and instructions. The 'cocina mejorada' is many times more efficient than the open 'fogon' cook stove my brother-in-law used to use. A pot of water can be boiled with less than 1/4 of the wood that used to be necessary, and rather than filling the kitchen with smoke it vents up the chimney. Instructions here, if you're interested. Manual de capacitación para el instalador de la cocina mejorada familiar
Three seconds in the normal microwave will kill the chip in your credit card without damaging the mag strip. Five seconds will warp the card though, so watch it.
Audi dealerships already use the RFID to track the history of the factory-provide tires of the vehicle, I'd be very surprised to find that the other vehicle dealerships aren't doing the same.
It was interesting to me that when the original RFP (request for proposal) was issued for the RFID-equipped passports it required that the RFID be readable from a minimum of 20 feet away.
I'm not surprised by what you say, it sounds reasonable. The signs then are just as effective as actually having the system. Working in the security industry I've recognized a couple of houses in our neighborhood that show security system signs for companies that either don't exist or which only exist in other states.
Those aren't actually security systems, then. They're deterrent systems.
And Apple was jumping on the I-everything naming bandwagon, which had just taken over for the E-everything naming bandwagon. There was nothing innovative or unique about the name of the iMac, it was just marketing.
Alarms on home security systems have such a high false alarm rate that investigating calls from them is at the very bottom of police departments' list of priorities. According to friends that work as police dispatchers the only thing lower on their priority list was arresting recreational pot smokers. Now that it's legal here there won't be anything lower.
A good system will throw an alert after too many (>5 or so) access failures. Any adequately monitored system would see your first dozen or so failed attempts and have someone cruise by to see what is going on. Having said that, these are home systems, which are faulty by design. The only homes that get actual security are those of people like Warren Buffet, who can afford to cough up >$50,000 on a system, and pay decently trained staff to monitor it. There's an enormous gap between the two extremes.
Home "security systems" like those installed by ADT and Comcast are not actually meant to be secure, they're just meant to make home owners feel better. Actual security systems (which I work with) are fairly intrusive into one's day to day life and are VERY expensive to install, configure and maintain correctly. Think $5,000-$30,000 to do a basic install with decent quality hardware/software.
Most of my knowledge of pigs comes from those raised by my dad in the '40s/'50s and my wife's relatives in Peru, so probably none of them would have been the breeds you use. Perfectly willing to be educated, that's what I come to SlashDot for.
A dozen guinea pigs (which do have some fat on them, but not the lard belly that I associate with pork) can be raised on the potato peelings, banana skins, etc. of a family, with a few greens on occasion to round out the diet. In a very large habitat you might have enough fodder for a herd of pigs, but in a smaller habitat you'd be limited to just a few. Guinea pigs are better than rabbits and near chickens for pound of animal grown per pound of feed, aren't pigs close to the middle between chickens and cattle?
Can you inbreed your porkers, or would you need to have sperm for insemination brought in? Guinea pigs don't have much problem with that, at least in Peru an inbred line can go at least 10 or 12 generations without outbreeding and probably longer. We generally end up wiping them out for someone's birthday or anniversary and starting over every couple of years, so I'm not sure how long they can go. My brother-in-law would know for sure, he's raised them for sale.
I've had meat from uncastrated boars, it's eatable but not good. Again, they probably weren't the breeds that you work with, but just cooking it made the whole house reek like spoiled urine. Is there something you need to do at slaughter time to prevent that, or is it the breed you use? I know with buck deer you remove the scent glands as soon as you kill it or the venison doesn't taste as good.
7) You win.:-)
I think we're probably both right. In a small pioneer situation where meat is an occasional luxury and there isn't a lot of fodder guinea pigs win, in a large environment with surplus greens or pasture pigs could probably provide a more steady supply of meat.
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That's pretty much all the WSJ opinion page has ever been, at least since the 1980s when I used to steal it. The newspaper itself could have a great in-depth and well-researched story saying X, and on the opinion page the bloody editors would declare Y. George Will used to be particularly bad at doing that. He could lay out all the facts that would show why one of Ronnie Raygun's programs were going to be yet another disastrous unending money pit of fail, and then declare that the program should be supported 111%. All Murdoch has managed to do is get rid of some of the good investigative reporters that it used to have and change the format to something that no one likes.
I liked Barbara Tuchmann's 'A Distant Mirror' myself.
That was kind of my point, too. Combining eraser, pencil and glue is no different than combining eraser, pencil and metal clasp, or eraser, pencil and string.
They know that sequestration or quarantine of an area won't work, people are far too mobile. Granted, 90% of the people with a 4WD SUV don't know how to actually drive it off pavement, but that other 10% will be on the move. People will bicycle and hike and swim and sewer crawl out of affected areas to get their offspring out of supposed danger while denying to themselves that Junior has anything more than "just a cold". Soldiers have kids, and are NOT going to want to shoot people that are just doing the exact same thing they would do. When it happens it's going to be ugly.
Actually that's wrong. The Black Plague killed off enough people that economies collapsed and labor became more valuable. Craft unions, guilds and syndicates representing the middle and lower class workers were able to extract a larger portion of the recovering economy for their members. The increased wealth among the middle and lower classes increased the demand for goods and services, which led to the Renaissance.
Europeans of the late Middle Ages were possibly the filthiest people in the history of humanity. The combination of influenza, smallpox and tuberculosis spread by the Europeans (all diseases that originated in the domesticated animals that they quite literally slept with) is what caused the Great Dying in the Americas.
evacuate the person one by one to a treatment facility
There aren't enough treatment facilities, nor the possibility to set up enough temporary ones since sufficient equipment doesn't exist in the modern "just-in-time" inventory management systems. The Clinton administration carried out a mock terrorist attack scenario in cooperation with DOD, FEMA, NIH, the Colorado Health Department, healthcare industry staffers, and others. The model was a release of pneumonic plague into the ventilation system of a Boulder concert hall. Pneumonic plague isn't especially contagious compared to something like influenza, but still within a week the Colorado healthcare system would have collapsed and a couple of other states were on the edge. Within two weeks the plague was seen in almost every state, most Canadian provinces and several other countries, as far away as Singapore. Judith Miller and her associates portrayed the exercise in their book 'Germs', the only book that I have ever read in my life that gave me nightmares. I highly recommend it, in spite of Miller's later decline in reliability.
The exercise apparently scared the crap out of Clinton, who established "Push Packs", pallets of medical equipment prepared and distributed around the country, available to be deployed wherever needed. The incoming Bush Madministration almost immediately killed the project, before it was even fully deployed.
I'd never compare Utah with Middle Earth, except maybe Mordor. Sure, there's some pretty desert, but I don't recall any desert in Middle Earth anywhere else. The Desolation of Smaug was just depopulated.
Should mention that pneumonia and anthrax are treatable with penicillin, available at your local Grange or feed store for cattle use.
Antibiotics are for bacteria. Influenza and most of the other real threats are viruses, antibiotics are useless against them. Are there any anti-virals available for veterinary use?
We can pretty much guarantee that someone had taken their eraser and tied it with a string to the end of the pencil (my grandfather was still doing that in the '60s), or poke a hole in the eraser and stick the end of the pencil in it. The real innovation to that patent would have been the metal clasp to hold it in place, but that was still just combining three existing things, pencil, eraser and clasp, together in what is a fairly obvious way. If modern glues had been available then he could have glued the thing in place and tried to patent it.
Adobe, rock, ash. Short pieces of rebar are cheap and readily accessible anywhere that cement structures are built. The Ministerio de Vivienda, the housing department, in Peru has implemented a program to construct 'improved stoves' throughout the country. The Ministerio will give people the chimney, fire grate (made of rebar) and instructions. The 'cocina mejorada' is many times more efficient than the open 'fogon' cook stove my brother-in-law used to use. A pot of water can be boiled with less than 1/4 of the wood that used to be necessary, and rather than filling the kitchen with smoke it vents up the chimney. Instructions here, if you're interested. Manual de capacitación para el instalador de la cocina mejorada familiar
That quote is as amusing as hell, coming from the people who gave us Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.
You're about two decades behind the times.
Three seconds in the normal microwave will kill the chip in your credit card without damaging the mag strip. Five seconds will warp the card though, so watch it.
Audi dealerships already use the RFID to track the history of the factory-provide tires of the vehicle, I'd be very surprised to find that the other vehicle dealerships aren't doing the same.
It was interesting to me that when the original RFP (request for proposal) was issued for the RFID-equipped passports it required that the RFID be readable from a minimum of 20 feet away.
I'm not surprised by what you say, it sounds reasonable. The signs then are just as effective as actually having the system. Working in the security industry I've recognized a couple of houses in our neighborhood that show security system signs for companies that either don't exist or which only exist in other states.
Those aren't actually security systems, then. They're deterrent systems.
I remember one site replaced its home page with a static page that just said, "You assholes crashed my company's T-1". The good old days . . .
And Apple was jumping on the I-everything naming bandwagon, which had just taken over for the E-everything naming bandwagon. There was nothing innovative or unique about the name of the iMac, it was just marketing.
Alarms on home security systems have such a high false alarm rate that investigating calls from them is at the very bottom of police departments' list of priorities. According to friends that work as police dispatchers the only thing lower on their priority list was arresting recreational pot smokers. Now that it's legal here there won't be anything lower.
A good system will throw an alert after too many (>5 or so) access failures. Any adequately monitored system would see your first dozen or so failed attempts and have someone cruise by to see what is going on. Having said that, these are home systems, which are faulty by design. The only homes that get actual security are those of people like Warren Buffet, who can afford to cough up >$50,000 on a system, and pay decently trained staff to monitor it. There's an enormous gap between the two extremes.
We just replaced our garage door two years ago, and the opener with it. It had the original installers' sticker on it, dated 1976.
Home "security systems" like those installed by ADT and Comcast are not actually meant to be secure, they're just meant to make home owners feel better. Actual security systems (which I work with) are fairly intrusive into one's day to day life and are VERY expensive to install, configure and maintain correctly. Think $5,000-$30,000 to do a basic install with decent quality hardware/software.
How about the fact that Mythbusters is staffed by glory-seeking idiots with poor experimental methodology and an absurd sense of self-importance?
Most of my knowledge of pigs comes from those raised by my dad in the '40s/'50s and my wife's relatives in Peru, so probably none of them would have been the breeds you use. Perfectly willing to be educated, that's what I come to SlashDot for.
A dozen guinea pigs (which do have some fat on them, but not the lard belly that I associate with pork) can be raised on the potato peelings, banana skins, etc. of a family, with a few greens on occasion to round out the diet. In a very large habitat you might have enough fodder for a herd of pigs, but in a smaller habitat you'd be limited to just a few. Guinea pigs are better than rabbits and near chickens for pound of animal grown per pound of feed, aren't pigs close to the middle between chickens and cattle?
Can you inbreed your porkers, or would you need to have sperm for insemination brought in? Guinea pigs don't have much problem with that, at least in Peru an inbred line can go at least 10 or 12 generations without outbreeding and probably longer. We generally end up wiping them out for someone's birthday or anniversary and starting over every couple of years, so I'm not sure how long they can go. My brother-in-law would know for sure, he's raised them for sale.
I've had meat from uncastrated boars, it's eatable but not good. Again, they probably weren't the breeds that you work with, but just cooking it made the whole house reek like spoiled urine. Is there something you need to do at slaughter time to prevent that, or is it the breed you use? I know with buck deer you remove the scent glands as soon as you kill it or the venison doesn't taste as good.
7) You win. :-)
I think we're probably both right. In a small pioneer situation where meat is an occasional luxury and there isn't a lot of fodder guinea pigs win, in a large environment with surplus greens or pasture pigs could probably provide a more steady supply of meat.