Rubbish. We have legal migrant workers who fit the bill perfectly. If you want to play in the kitchen, you gotta put an apron on. If they can't do that, they don't need to play in the kitchen. Legal and Illegal. Do you know the difference? Illegal as in breaking the law? Arizona didn't make illegals criminals - the illegals made themselves criminals the instant they shirked the proper channels and jumped the fence. Why is it that when a person murders someone - an illegal act - that everyone is up in arms to find that murderer and bring him to justice, or when someone is out there speeding past us, an illegal act, we're wondering why the cops aren't on top of that, but when we deal with illegal residents who are here... illegally, which is an... illegal act, everyone is exactly the opposite? "Oh those poor poor criminals, how dare we prosecute them!" And the people making the biggest noise are people who don't even reside there, who know nothing about having their property ransacked by illegal migrants for food and water. For instance, beehives in beeyards out in Tuscon area are knocked over and honey stolen for the trip across the fence. Beehives that are at that location... legally, which are illegally vandalized by illegal people who are criminals. You wanna play the game, follow the rules. If you can't get in, then make your own home a better place rather than running away. We aren't the greatest nation on the face of this planet by accident, donchaknow.
What kind of arm-chair reporting is that??? Just a few milligrams is enough to kill a human. It's a poison - one that works well as an organic OMRI approved pesticide too. What ya'll claim next? That strictnine is "safe?" Perhaps we should all start eating rat poison then? Rubbish.
Why is it that these companies profit wildly from the oppressive work from these sweatshops, then when they are caught red-handed profiting act all shocked and claim they're going to look into it? Greed. They've known all along. If not, then they truly are as stupid as a rock and blind as a marble.
...unlike the mammalian Y chromosome which has been paring down its genes so that it contains the sex-determining gene SRY, some genes necessary for sperm production, and little else....This might go a long way towards explaining gynandromorphism in birds. In mammals, maleness is handled in a top-down fashion- the Y chromosome does not explicitly specify most aspects of the male phenotype, instead simply encouraging the cells that go on to make androgens, which then go on to produce a cascade of developmental effects throughout the body.
Even so, with the XY chromosome - cutting off body parts and taking hormones does not make a man a "woman" any more than flapping one's arms makes one a bird. Mammals sex inheritance isn't as neutered as the interpretation of the article suggests - only that fowls goes a bit deeper into it than mammals.
I seem to recall an article about the testing of traditional medicines and their having the same issues of the placebo's having as good a desired effect as the medicine itself. Heck, the FDA has approved the prescription of placebos themselves as medical treatments! Perhaps we just need to throw all our pills in the trash...
And... just what "freedoms" are being surrendered? The contents of our lives are sequestered already in many dozens of places. Our complete physiology in doctor's files. Tell me the government is hands-off with those? Pictures on our driver's license - how is that different from a "picture" of your fingerprint? Nowadays even that is digital and contains a lot more information about you than your fingerprint. Surely you have a driver's license, doncha? So, what freedoms have you surrendered? You get to do what? Drive. Anywhere. Sounds pretty free to me. You guys are freaking out over nothing when other governments in history have done a lot worse with far less already. There is no such thing as true freedom in any society. No such thing as a utopia when people have to live with each other. Life is about compromise and meeting each other half way. And do you think people on welfare have more privacy than those who are not? What planet did you arrive here from? The only way is to completely drop out of society altogether and go squat in some forest or out in the jungle and live as a hermit. If that is what you want, well - that's freedom for you. Freedom for me is being able to live a lifestyle that allows me to explore my potential and raise my family. Guess what? Even people in China do that. There is always something to gripe about no matter what society you find yourself in. But while you are focusing on the worst, you are missing the best. Live your life to the most that it can be lived - it's far too short to spend it imagining all the bad things - like that nitwit who flew an aircraft into the IRS building, as if that would change a single thing and did nothing more than murder a 9-5'er, leave his wife and kid homeless (and no doubt in debt for a burned home they can't collect insurance from) and he's a hero to no one - only one big loser. That's the road you walk on when you spend all your time whining about how the government wants to take away all your freedoms and live your life as a victim. Guess what - the government is going to do stuff you disagree with no matter how much you cry about it. Deal with it and move on. There's life to be lived - live it. Vote where you can, try to make your part of the world a better place where you can, and live your life.
You don't survive long as a company by having competing products in your line-up. MySQL has been a thorn in Oracle's side for a long time. Now they get to exploit the user-base, getting them over to their entry-level db and upgrading some to their enterprise level db all the while gradually shuffling MySQL into the background.
Most if not nearly all of the dry weight of trees is carbon. As the tree grows, it increases weight, which is carbon. There is a portion of the carbon that cycles as the tree loses and grows leaves, but the benefit is in the sequestering of the carbon in it's woody structure that will remain sequestered for centuries if not millennia. If the tree falls down and rots, the released carbon will get re-sequestered in the wood of the seedlings that will replace that tree. If the tree is cut down and milled into lumber, that is countless tons of carbon sequestered within the very walls of the homes we reside in - some lasting for decades, others for hundreds of years. Scrap from construction as well as from demolished homes that get stuffed into a landfill will remain there without noticeable decomposition for centuries. We may not be balancing out the carbon released from coal fired power plants and vehicles and, of course, from natural phenomena that releases the lions share of carbon, but the forestry cycle and increasing forested is helping at least and certainly not hurting.
If you want speed of note-taking and your computer just doesn't hack it - then it's not the tool for the job. Paper and pencil is. Take your notes with that, then transcribe them to the computer at your convenience. Really, have we gone so far that we're beyond actually writing by pencil anymore?
...it's called a "book." Papyri and parchment has been found that are thousands of years old that are still legible - and that stuff was often rolled up and stuffed into a clay jar and tossed into a cave or tomb. Surely today's archival quality paper and hermetically sealing capabilities can leave us with books that will last for tens of thousands of years if not more!!! Be sure to include a key - translations in many languages - just to increase the likelihood that future archaeologists can use that to decipher this strange language called English. Good thing about books - since they can't hold as much info as CD's, hard-drives, tapes, etc - you get a lot more choosy about the quality of information that gets preserved so a lot of the rubbish is culled. A sim-card with dozens of pictures of baby Jane spewing crushed peas or wearing her bowl as a hat may seem... cute, but if you've seen one spewing or bowl-hat, you seen them all, so one picture will suffice.
IE hasn't supported most of the other standards for... ever - and no one threw in the towel at that did they? Write the best standard as you can and let the market hash things out - if they're smart they'll support it in their products. But don't let some insignificant players make you take your ball and go home like some baby throwing a tantrum. How pathetic.
Why are you so quick to tell us our government is lying to us and your government is so honest and upright about it? Perhaps the USA has the clean cattle after all and the UK cattle are still full of mad-cows? Bias. I think it's rubbish, personally. Numbers are fudged on both sides of the ponds and lies are lies regardless, be they in English... or in english.
It seems that the typical geek's attention span stops at the tech and fails to move on. RFID is irrelevant. It's not the tech that's the issue here. Tag away and be happy. It's the policies that are the issue. And BTW - this article is about cattle - but ALL LIVESTOCK are affected by this. Chickens, goats, sheep, rabbits. Heck, they may even try fish too before long. Maybe my honeybees. Policies are already in place that facilitate accurate and fast tracking of livestock. And ranchers and farmers are already paying a hefty fee for all this. NAIS is not something new, but rather a tightening of the noose - but a selective tightening in that mega-producers will get waivers while the jott and tittle letter of the rules will be stuck to the smaller producers with no waiver at all. Mega-producers will have records for herds rather than individual cattle and not have to chip them all. But wait - they already have that so nothing really changes for them. We, on the other hand, will have to chip everything and not just provide records for everything - which is good practice - but do so in a way that makes the Vogons look like hippy free-love liberals. It is above and beyond what is common sense or needed and is not addressing a problem but applying a wrench to our groin for the sake of it.
Rubbish. We already use computers and databases for tracking and managing herds. Do you think ranchers are cavemen dolts? Or do you think beef comes from the shrink-rapped package at the grocer? This has zero do to with the problems that NAIS will bring on the industry. The tech is irrelevant. It's the policies. NAIS is redundant and unneeded and has within it methods and agendas that will damage the small rancher irrevocably while having little impact on the mega-ranches. Rather than the average Slashdotter pretending to be an arm-chair expert with this and their tech-fettish - get out to the ranches themselves and learn a thing or two about ranching and what's involved and what challenges they already face. I would expect an OSS crowd to understand this, but you guys are just as bad as Microsoft...
I should have realized that Slashdotter's tech-fetish would get in the way of common sense. It's not the tech that's evil, but how it's going to be implemented and what additional intrusions are going to happen as a result of the NAIS program.
Beef is sold by auction-lot - prices go up and down in the grocer independent of the actual costs of producing it. That means that the small rancher with healthy grass-fed beef will suffer even more with the added burden of fees and logistical requirements and not be able to pass that cost on to the consumer. Good-bye healthy beef - Microsoftish operations get bigger while the small guy is squashed from business and the crap they call beef gets even worse. You guys wouldn't know beef it it came and mooed in your face. Go to a rancher and buy a calf from him and have a butcher cut it up and vacuum-pack it for you. Actually - the butchers around here broker these direct from rancher-to-freezer deals. Cook up a hamburger. Compare that to a burger from grocer-beef. Now, imagine this disappearing altogether because not only will the small rancher disappear and large ranchers refuse to sell direct thru butchers - BUT you won't be able to get the same quality from the big guys nonetheless. They'll go the route that milk has gone here. Go to a dairy in Texas and try to buy some fresh raw milk. It won't happen. These guys are under contract and the operators never even see the milk - it goes from cow to basic processing to tanker-truck and the operator will have grocer-milk in his fridge just like you. The quality of our food continues to decline because of this kind of meddling and we get fatter while we suffer malnutrition...
How can ya'll be so OSS-fanatical and not see what is happening here? Beef doesn't come from the grocer, donchaknow... You don't like Microsoft manipulating the software market this way but are all ready to give NAIS a lapdance.
Er - we have tags too. And they work. And we can move cattle from one feedlot to another without the totalitarian meddling and excessive paperwork after a very communistic fashion that NAIS promotes. Where are your papers, comrad?
Do you seriously think that NAIS will do a single thing regarding the imbalance of numbers you're alleging? Rubbish. If it makes the USA look bad, the numbers will still be fudged. Hey - haven't you been following the fiasco with electronic voting? How can you people who have spent years pointing out the evils of Microsoft and SCO and proprietary software and the issues with electronic voting be so stinking naive?
Farmers and ranchers are already burdened with heavy fees that have nothing to do with actual equipment costs. This will add yet another burden, not just for the additional equipment costs, but also for the additional administrative fees that will have to be paid and re-occuring costs related to this program that has zero addiitonal benefits to what we already have. You guys really need to stick to computers and pr0n - you ain't got a clue when it comes to our food supply. Hint - beef does NOT come from a shrink-wrapped package at the grocer.
Large operations are to be blessed with waivers or bulk-management where herds are documented rather than individual head that small operations will be forced to perform. So - who suffers more? The little guy who doesn't qualify for these big-guy waivers. Who benefits? The big guy who sees sales increasing thanks to the reduction in competition by his dozen or so small-operation neighbors. There is zero logic supporting this period - our current system is extremely accurate and more than sufficient for facilitating the rapid tracking of individual head of cattle - it's very effective and has demonstrated this time and time again. There is nothing broken to fix. So the NAIS has nothing to do with something that is broken and everything to do with unreasonable control and anti-competitive practices. You guys are all for OSS, but seemingly are all for fascist Nazi control over our food system that NAIS and family represent. Ironic...
Computers were supposed to bring in the paperless office. Has it? Nope. Neither will this program stop the killing off of entire herds when one or two are diagnosed. Has zero to do with NAIS and everything with guilty by association - if one or two are diagnosed, then chances are the others may be contaminated too and must be destroyed. No tin-foil hats here. My hat is aluminum foil.
...at just how fast the powers that be can track down a food contamination all the way to a herd and all the way thru the herd to an individual calf and even back to the rancher who reared that calf. So... what are they trying to do here? We ALREADY have measures in place that allows us to track diseased cattle - it's far more accurate and faster even than tracking produce and trying to find contaminated tomatoes! It's not broken - and they're trying to fix it. Usually when that happens, there's an agenda.
Solution A: Put on a pair of shorts with pockets or put the phone on the desk where you're working and relocate it when you move your operations to the TV room.
Solution B: Spend hours looking for non-existent software to try to make some whizzbang blue-tooth solution work with your PC which is not really a solution since the PC is also stationary and you don't necessarily spend all your time at the PC if you have half a life.
Solution C: Buy whizzbang extenders.
The easiest is apparent. Unless you're a nudist, a pair fo shorts with pockets is something we all have. And unless we're physically challenged, we all have hands that can pick up the phone and transfer it to the next place we park our butts. And what's wrong with having to get up and run across the house anyway? For some that's probably the only exercise we get anyway - so a little running could actually do us some good.
You don't want to be bothered with carrying the phone with you (the easiest solution), and don't want to be bothered with having to run up or downstairs to answer the phone, so your idea is to what - answer it from your PC, which if you're away from it would STILL necessitate you having to rush to it up or downstairs to answer??? Just pocket the stupid phone and be done with it.
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Rubbish. We have legal migrant workers who fit the bill perfectly. If you want to play in the kitchen, you gotta put an apron on. If they can't do that, they don't need to play in the kitchen. Legal and Illegal. Do you know the difference? Illegal as in breaking the law? Arizona didn't make illegals criminals - the illegals made themselves criminals the instant they shirked the proper channels and jumped the fence. Why is it that when a person murders someone - an illegal act - that everyone is up in arms to find that murderer and bring him to justice, or when someone is out there speeding past us, an illegal act, we're wondering why the cops aren't on top of that, but when we deal with illegal residents who are here... illegally, which is an... illegal act, everyone is exactly the opposite? "Oh those poor poor criminals, how dare we prosecute them!" And the people making the biggest noise are people who don't even reside there, who know nothing about having their property ransacked by illegal migrants for food and water. For instance, beehives in beeyards out in Tuscon area are knocked over and honey stolen for the trip across the fence. Beehives that are at that location... legally, which are illegally vandalized by illegal people who are criminals. You wanna play the game, follow the rules. If you can't get in, then make your own home a better place rather than running away. We aren't the greatest nation on the face of this planet by accident, donchaknow.
What kind of arm-chair reporting is that??? Just a few milligrams is enough to kill a human. It's a poison - one that works well as an organic OMRI approved pesticide too. What ya'll claim next? That strictnine is "safe?" Perhaps we should all start eating rat poison then? Rubbish.
Why is it that these companies profit wildly from the oppressive work from these sweatshops, then when they are caught red-handed profiting act all shocked and claim they're going to look into it? Greed. They've known all along. If not, then they truly are as stupid as a rock and blind as a marble.
...unlike the mammalian Y chromosome which has been paring down its genes so that it contains the sex-determining gene SRY, some genes necessary for sperm production, and little else. ...This might go a long way towards explaining gynandromorphism in birds. In mammals, maleness is handled in a top-down fashion- the Y chromosome does not explicitly specify most aspects of the male phenotype, instead simply encouraging the cells that go on to make androgens, which then go on to produce a cascade of developmental effects throughout the body.
Even so, with the XY chromosome - cutting off body parts and taking hormones does not make a man a "woman" any more than flapping one's arms makes one a bird. Mammals sex inheritance isn't as neutered as the interpretation of the article suggests - only that fowls goes a bit deeper into it than mammals.
I seem to recall an article about the testing of traditional medicines and their having the same issues of the placebo's having as good a desired effect as the medicine itself. Heck, the FDA has approved the prescription of placebos themselves as medical treatments! Perhaps we just need to throw all our pills in the trash...
And... just what "freedoms" are being surrendered? The contents of our lives are sequestered already in many dozens of places. Our complete physiology in doctor's files. Tell me the government is hands-off with those? Pictures on our driver's license - how is that different from a "picture" of your fingerprint? Nowadays even that is digital and contains a lot more information about you than your fingerprint. Surely you have a driver's license, doncha? So, what freedoms have you surrendered? You get to do what? Drive. Anywhere. Sounds pretty free to me. You guys are freaking out over nothing when other governments in history have done a lot worse with far less already. There is no such thing as true freedom in any society. No such thing as a utopia when people have to live with each other. Life is about compromise and meeting each other half way. And do you think people on welfare have more privacy than those who are not? What planet did you arrive here from? The only way is to completely drop out of society altogether and go squat in some forest or out in the jungle and live as a hermit. If that is what you want, well - that's freedom for you. Freedom for me is being able to live a lifestyle that allows me to explore my potential and raise my family. Guess what? Even people in China do that. There is always something to gripe about no matter what society you find yourself in. But while you are focusing on the worst, you are missing the best. Live your life to the most that it can be lived - it's far too short to spend it imagining all the bad things - like that nitwit who flew an aircraft into the IRS building, as if that would change a single thing and did nothing more than murder a 9-5'er, leave his wife and kid homeless (and no doubt in debt for a burned home they can't collect insurance from) and he's a hero to no one - only one big loser. That's the road you walk on when you spend all your time whining about how the government wants to take away all your freedoms and live your life as a victim. Guess what - the government is going to do stuff you disagree with no matter how much you cry about it. Deal with it and move on. There's life to be lived - live it. Vote where you can, try to make your part of the world a better place where you can, and live your life.
Oracle has more than one db product: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html
You don't survive long as a company by having competing products in your line-up. MySQL has been a thorn in Oracle's side for a long time. Now they get to exploit the user-base, getting them over to their entry-level db and upgrading some to their enterprise level db all the while gradually shuffling MySQL into the background.
Oracle is sure to kill or marginalize MySQL. Rest in peace my old friend.
Most if not nearly all of the dry weight of trees is carbon. As the tree grows, it increases weight, which is carbon. There is a portion of the carbon that cycles as the tree loses and grows leaves, but the benefit is in the sequestering of the carbon in it's woody structure that will remain sequestered for centuries if not millennia. If the tree falls down and rots, the released carbon will get re-sequestered in the wood of the seedlings that will replace that tree. If the tree is cut down and milled into lumber, that is countless tons of carbon sequestered within the very walls of the homes we reside in - some lasting for decades, others for hundreds of years. Scrap from construction as well as from demolished homes that get stuffed into a landfill will remain there without noticeable decomposition for centuries. We may not be balancing out the carbon released from coal fired power plants and vehicles and, of course, from natural phenomena that releases the lions share of carbon, but the forestry cycle and increasing forested is helping at least and certainly not hurting.
If you want speed of note-taking and your computer just doesn't hack it - then it's not the tool for the job. Paper and pencil is. Take your notes with that, then transcribe them to the computer at your convenience. Really, have we gone so far that we're beyond actually writing by pencil anymore?
...it's called a "book." Papyri and parchment has been found that are thousands of years old that are still legible - and that stuff was often rolled up and stuffed into a clay jar and tossed into a cave or tomb. Surely today's archival quality paper and hermetically sealing capabilities can leave us with books that will last for tens of thousands of years if not more!!! Be sure to include a key - translations in many languages - just to increase the likelihood that future archaeologists can use that to decipher this strange language called English. Good thing about books - since they can't hold as much info as CD's, hard-drives, tapes, etc - you get a lot more choosy about the quality of information that gets preserved so a lot of the rubbish is culled. A sim-card with dozens of pictures of baby Jane spewing crushed peas or wearing her bowl as a hat may seem... cute, but if you've seen one spewing or bowl-hat, you seen them all, so one picture will suffice.
IE hasn't supported most of the other standards for... ever - and no one threw in the towel at that did they? Write the best standard as you can and let the market hash things out - if they're smart they'll support it in their products. But don't let some insignificant players make you take your ball and go home like some baby throwing a tantrum. How pathetic.
Why are you so quick to tell us our government is lying to us and your government is so honest and upright about it? Perhaps the USA has the clean cattle after all and the UK cattle are still full of mad-cows? Bias. I think it's rubbish, personally. Numbers are fudged on both sides of the ponds and lies are lies regardless, be they in English... or in english.
It seems that the typical geek's attention span stops at the tech and fails to move on. RFID is irrelevant. It's not the tech that's the issue here. Tag away and be happy. It's the policies that are the issue. And BTW - this article is about cattle - but ALL LIVESTOCK are affected by this. Chickens, goats, sheep, rabbits. Heck, they may even try fish too before long. Maybe my honeybees. Policies are already in place that facilitate accurate and fast tracking of livestock. And ranchers and farmers are already paying a hefty fee for all this. NAIS is not something new, but rather a tightening of the noose - but a selective tightening in that mega-producers will get waivers while the jott and tittle letter of the rules will be stuck to the smaller producers with no waiver at all. Mega-producers will have records for herds rather than individual cattle and not have to chip them all. But wait - they already have that so nothing really changes for them. We, on the other hand, will have to chip everything and not just provide records for everything - which is good practice - but do so in a way that makes the Vogons look like hippy free-love liberals. It is above and beyond what is common sense or needed and is not addressing a problem but applying a wrench to our groin for the sake of it.
Rubbish. We already use computers and databases for tracking and managing herds. Do you think ranchers are cavemen dolts? Or do you think beef comes from the shrink-rapped package at the grocer? This has zero do to with the problems that NAIS will bring on the industry. The tech is irrelevant. It's the policies. NAIS is redundant and unneeded and has within it methods and agendas that will damage the small rancher irrevocably while having little impact on the mega-ranches. Rather than the average Slashdotter pretending to be an arm-chair expert with this and their tech-fettish - get out to the ranches themselves and learn a thing or two about ranching and what's involved and what challenges they already face. I would expect an OSS crowd to understand this, but you guys are just as bad as Microsoft...
I should have realized that Slashdotter's tech-fetish would get in the way of common sense. It's not the tech that's evil, but how it's going to be implemented and what additional intrusions are going to happen as a result of the NAIS program.
Beef is sold by auction-lot - prices go up and down in the grocer independent of the actual costs of producing it. That means that the small rancher with healthy grass-fed beef will suffer even more with the added burden of fees and logistical requirements and not be able to pass that cost on to the consumer. Good-bye healthy beef - Microsoftish operations get bigger while the small guy is squashed from business and the crap they call beef gets even worse. You guys wouldn't know beef it it came and mooed in your face. Go to a rancher and buy a calf from him and have a butcher cut it up and vacuum-pack it for you. Actually - the butchers around here broker these direct from rancher-to-freezer deals. Cook up a hamburger. Compare that to a burger from grocer-beef. Now, imagine this disappearing altogether because not only will the small rancher disappear and large ranchers refuse to sell direct thru butchers - BUT you won't be able to get the same quality from the big guys nonetheless. They'll go the route that milk has gone here. Go to a dairy in Texas and try to buy some fresh raw milk. It won't happen. These guys are under contract and the operators never even see the milk - it goes from cow to basic processing to tanker-truck and the operator will have grocer-milk in his fridge just like you. The quality of our food continues to decline because of this kind of meddling and we get fatter while we suffer malnutrition...
How can ya'll be so OSS-fanatical and not see what is happening here? Beef doesn't come from the grocer, donchaknow... You don't like Microsoft manipulating the software market this way but are all ready to give NAIS a lapdance.
Er - we have tags too. And they work. And we can move cattle from one feedlot to another without the totalitarian meddling and excessive paperwork after a very communistic fashion that NAIS promotes. Where are your papers, comrad?
Do you seriously think that NAIS will do a single thing regarding the imbalance of numbers you're alleging? Rubbish. If it makes the USA look bad, the numbers will still be fudged. Hey - haven't you been following the fiasco with electronic voting? How can you people who have spent years pointing out the evils of Microsoft and SCO and proprietary software and the issues with electronic voting be so stinking naive?
Farmers and ranchers are already burdened with heavy fees that have nothing to do with actual equipment costs. This will add yet another burden, not just for the additional equipment costs, but also for the additional administrative fees that will have to be paid and re-occuring costs related to this program that has zero addiitonal benefits to what we already have. You guys really need to stick to computers and pr0n - you ain't got a clue when it comes to our food supply. Hint - beef does NOT come from a shrink-wrapped package at the grocer.
Large operations are to be blessed with waivers or bulk-management where herds are documented rather than individual head that small operations will be forced to perform. So - who suffers more? The little guy who doesn't qualify for these big-guy waivers. Who benefits? The big guy who sees sales increasing thanks to the reduction in competition by his dozen or so small-operation neighbors. There is zero logic supporting this period - our current system is extremely accurate and more than sufficient for facilitating the rapid tracking of individual head of cattle - it's very effective and has demonstrated this time and time again. There is nothing broken to fix. So the NAIS has nothing to do with something that is broken and everything to do with unreasonable control and anti-competitive practices. You guys are all for OSS, but seemingly are all for fascist Nazi control over our food system that NAIS and family represent. Ironic...
What, haven't you learned by now? Beef comes from the grocer in those little shrink-wrapped packages. :)
Computers were supposed to bring in the paperless office. Has it? Nope. Neither will this program stop the killing off of entire herds when one or two are diagnosed. Has zero to do with NAIS and everything with guilty by association - if one or two are diagnosed, then chances are the others may be contaminated too and must be destroyed. No tin-foil hats here. My hat is aluminum foil.
...at just how fast the powers that be can track down a food contamination all the way to a herd and all the way thru the herd to an individual calf and even back to the rancher who reared that calf. So... what are they trying to do here? We ALREADY have measures in place that allows us to track diseased cattle - it's far more accurate and faster even than tracking produce and trying to find contaminated tomatoes! It's not broken - and they're trying to fix it. Usually when that happens, there's an agenda.
Solution A: Put on a pair of shorts with pockets or put the phone on the desk where you're working and relocate it when you move your operations to the TV room.
Solution B: Spend hours looking for non-existent software to try to make some whizzbang blue-tooth solution work with your PC which is not really a solution since the PC is also stationary and you don't necessarily spend all your time at the PC if you have half a life.
Solution C: Buy whizzbang extenders.
The easiest is apparent. Unless you're a nudist, a pair fo shorts with pockets is something we all have. And unless we're physically challenged, we all have hands that can pick up the phone and transfer it to the next place we park our butts. And what's wrong with having to get up and run across the house anyway? For some that's probably the only exercise we get anyway - so a little running could actually do us some good.
You don't want to be bothered with carrying the phone with you (the easiest solution), and don't want to be bothered with having to run up or downstairs to answer the phone, so your idea is to what - answer it from your PC, which if you're away from it would STILL necessitate you having to rush to it up or downstairs to answer??? Just pocket the stupid phone and be done with it.