That only applies to strict vegans though. Vegetarians can eat dairy foods and many people don't fit in neat categories: they mght be mostly vegan or vegetarians who eat fish etc. The half billion Indian vegetarians seem to be coping OK without vitamin supplements.
Once upon a time, farm animals wandered about the yards and fields and weren't bred entirely for yield or kept their entire lives in sheds in cages too small to turn around in, fed with hormones to make them grow faster and pumped with antibiotics to stop them getting sick in the cramped conditions.
The treatment of animals as industrial commodities is offensive to many people.
"Pork, chicken, dairy and eggs are equivalent within a factor of two when it came to their environmental burdens, the authors determined. But beef requires far, far more resources than any of those other protein categories. The team calculated that beef requires 28 times more land, six times more fertilizer and 11 times more water compared to those other food sources. That adds up to about five times more greenhouse gas emissions.
To further put these findings into perspective, the authors also ran the same calculations for several staple crops. All told, on a calorie-to-calorie basis, potatoes, wheat and rice require two to six time less resources to produce than pork, chicken, eggs or dairy."
The attackers began by using conventional tools -- spear-phishing emails and watering-hole attacks, which trick victims into entering their passwords on spoofed websites -- to compromise the corporate networks of suppliers, many of whom were smaller companies without big budgets for cybersecurity.
Who decides the budget? Do the DHS officials suggest a figure or refer the executives to a preferred vendor? "PwC says they'll do it for $10 million."
Just introducing 2FA and tightening up access and procedures would go a long way but before that the executives and IT people have to accept the need. Staff training an optional extra.
I remember the WMDs and didn't believe the claims then. Most people in the US and UK did. Unfortunately many people are easily persuaded to believe lies, even obvious ones, specially if they want to believe (and people love a good war if it's a long way away).
In this case, the evidence that the Russian state interferes in the USA is piling up. From the fake adverts, fake websites and fake friends with fake names spreading the Russian state's messages, to the sore thumb trolls here going on about Syria, through the US Government's closure of Russian missions and expulsion of diplomats to the current indictments of 26 Russian nationals (so far) including 12 members of the GRU, not including the NRA's go-to gun girl Maria Butina, there's a lot of it about.
If it is being manufactured, it's being done with so much attention to detail that the Russians can't cope. Here, the DHS has been spinning its web of lies with executives of utilities in secret since 2014 and now they've told the Wall Street Journal so they'll have had to manufacture 4 years of meetings and minutes and book flights and hotels and maybe make some actual changes as a cover.
Inexplicably for made-up evidence, interviewees provided with it have suddenly remembered meetings with Russian persons of interest which they had previously denied or completely forgotten about.
Against the might of the US Deep State, the Russian state's attempts to offer different explanations have all fallen apart, leaving the single idea that it's a foreign plot (cf. MH17, Skripals). All we're left with are the indignant denials from Trump, sorry, Putin on down that the Russian state would possibly have interfered in another country; if you listen very carefully it can be detected in the background radiation of many internet forums.
Denials are tricky to get right though. If you deny something too often or too strongly, that will attract the attention you wanted to deflect. No Puppet!
Yes, 2033 reminded me of the UK's 2040 target to get rid of infernal combustion engines. "Kicking it into the long grass" as we say in this septic isle.
From Slashdot's summary (which has been edited since it was first posted):
"The European Commission ordered Google to end the illegal conduct within 90 days or face additional penalties of up to 5 percent of parent Alphabet's average daily worldwide turnover. "
From the Guardian link:
"Vestager says that the fine will be returned to EU member states, based on how much each country pays into the EU budget."
Here's a clearer summary of what Google have been up to as reported by The Guardian.
EU Competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager says:
Google required manufacturers to pre-install the Google search and browser apps on Android phones, otherwise they wouldnâ(TM)t be allowed to use Google Play (its app service).
Google paid manufacturers and network operators to make sure that only the Google search app was installed on devices.
Google has restricted the development of competing mobile phone operating systems, which could have provided a platform for rival search engines.
Google has used Android as a vehicle to cement its dominance as a search engine.
These practices have denied rivals a chance to innovate and to compete on the merits.
They have denied European consumers the benefit of effective competition in the very important mobile sphere.
And this is illegal under EU antitrust rules.
Todayâ(TM)s ruling states:
Google has prevented device manufacturers from using any alternative version of Android that was not approved by Google (Android forks).
In order to be able to pre-install on their devices Googleâ(TM)s proprietary apps, including the Play Store and Google Search, manufacturers had to commit not to develop or sell even a single device running on an Android fork.
The Commission found that this conduct was abusive as of 2011, which is the date Google became dominant in the market for app stores for the Android mobile operating system.
North Koreans? Tricky to decide, what with their recent internet link with Russia, though the North Koreans' English is more flowery.
"Patriotic American workers pledge their lives and democratic votes to glorious leader Trump whose wise and happy face shines like the sun and whose unequalled political skills will cast down the hated Hillary to be trampled underfoot by the will of the people."
Oh hang on, Trump's been forced to correct himself. It is the Russians after all.
Well, seeing as Trump believes Putin's denials, I guess I'll have to accept yours. No Russians it is. Not sure then who all these guys on Slashdot pretending to be Americans, Australians and Canadians are - must be Chinese or something.
In the 1970's the UK was promised a golden age resulting from North Sea oil and gas. It seems never to have arrived, at least for most of the citizens, though we would certainly be deeper in the doo-doo without them.
The UK sold off the oilfields (and many, many other public assets) to the private sector and takes a slice in tax whereas the Norwegians kept theirs state-owned for the benefit of all their citizens.
Long-term perspective in the management of the government's petroleum revenues ensures that they benefit Norwegian society as a whole, and that future generations will benefit from Norwayâ(TM)s petroleum wealth. This has been a key principle in developing the financial and legal framework for the sector.
I don't have to pick one of your false choices, I'm just enjoying the slow public unraveling of Putin's plots and Trump's sanity. I'm excited to see where that leads.
I stand by what I said - this is outdated, probably corrupted by profit making enterprises, and a cheat sheet.
The vetting role played by the NGC is a critical one, says Roy Poses, with the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. "The organizations writing the guidelines may be getting millions of dollars from big drug companies that want to promote a product. The people writing them may have similar conflicts of interest," Poses said. NGC's process provided a resource comparatively free of that kind of influence.
“Losing [the NGC] is really losing a valuable resource,” said Ana Maria Lopez, President of the American College of Physicians.
Have you asked your medical team whether they use the NGC database or had you not heard of it until now?
What do you think doctors do with a puzzling case when the patient's not around, sit in an armchair going "hmmm" until inspiration strikes from the infinite resources of their mind? No, they seek help, whether that's from other doctors, textbooks, databases such as this, or Google, all "cheat sheets".
Your PhD level skills will doubtless have appreciated the truth behind the parable of Carson and the Pyramids, where a man brilliant in his field can be a dunce outside it and life has surely shown you that even the best people can make mistakes. A published, vetted and scrutinised database mitigates that.
I see a lot of the med business...and the corruption in it when I have to do things outside my chosen folks
Fortunately corruption in the NHS has been minimal till now but that's one of the benefits of a national, publicly-funded healthcare system.
Slashdot Mirror
"GodÃ(TM)s actual word wrong"
Even God is powerless to intervene in Slashdot formatting.
Were you one of those who went and hid in a cave on December 31st 1999?
Oh look, autocorrect put the accent on Nestle.
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Oh dear, forgot about Slashdot's automangle.
I don't trust these new blockchain things. They've not been proven to be safe and I don't want them anywhere near my baby's food. You just lost a customer, Nestlé!
Cnet.com
Slashdot
Mmmm, bolt to the head, throat slit with a sharp knife, bolt to the head, throat slit with a sharp knife?
Do you know, I don't think I'd have a preference.
I believe the bolt to the head is in any case followed by throat slit with a sharp knife
That only applies to strict vegans though. Vegetarians can eat dairy foods and many people don't fit in neat categories: they mght be mostly vegan or vegetarians who eat fish etc. The half billion Indian vegetarians seem to be coping OK without vitamin supplements.
I quoted those same words above. It seems we just repeat old arguments whenever vegetarianism is the topic here.
It's not natural.
It's not healthy.
It's bad for animals/the environment.
I like meat.
I hate vegetarians.
I really hate vegans.
Once upon a time, farm animals wandered about the yards and fields and weren't bred entirely for yield or kept their entire lives in sheds in cages too small to turn around in, fed with hormones to make them grow faster and pumped with antibiotics to stop them getting sick in the cramped conditions.
The treatment of animals as industrial commodities is offensive to many people.
Except as everyone here should know by now, producing food plants uses far fewer resources than producing food animals.
"Pork, chicken, dairy and eggs are equivalent within a factor of two when it came to their environmental burdens, the authors determined. But beef requires far, far more resources than any of those other protein categories. The team calculated that beef requires 28 times more land, six times more fertilizer and 11 times more water compared to those other food sources. That adds up to about five times more greenhouse gas emissions.
To further put these findings into perspective, the authors also ran the same calculations for several staple crops. All told, on a calorie-to-calorie basis, potatoes, wheat and rice require two to six time less resources to produce than pork, chicken, eggs or dairy."
This bit jarred with me:
The attackers began by using conventional tools -- spear-phishing emails and watering-hole attacks, which trick victims into entering their passwords on spoofed websites -- to compromise the corporate networks of suppliers, many of whom were smaller companies without big budgets for cybersecurity.
Who decides the budget? Do the DHS officials suggest a figure or refer the executives to a preferred vendor? "PwC says they'll do it for $10 million."
Just introducing 2FA and tightening up access and procedures would go a long way but before that the executives and IT people have to accept the need. Staff training an optional extra.
I remember the WMDs and didn't believe the claims then. Most people in the US and UK did. Unfortunately many people are easily persuaded to believe lies, even obvious ones, specially if they want to believe (and people love a good war if it's a long way away).
In this case, the evidence that the Russian state interferes in the USA is piling up. From the fake adverts, fake websites and fake friends with fake names spreading the Russian state's messages, to the sore thumb trolls here going on about Syria, through the US Government's closure of Russian missions and expulsion of diplomats to the current indictments of 26 Russian nationals (so far) including 12 members of the GRU, not including the NRA's go-to gun girl Maria Butina, there's a lot of it about.
If it is being manufactured, it's being done with so much attention to detail that the Russians can't cope. Here, the DHS has been spinning its web of lies with executives of utilities in secret since 2014 and now they've told the Wall Street Journal so they'll have had to manufacture 4 years of meetings and minutes and book flights and hotels and maybe make some actual changes as a cover.
Inexplicably for made-up evidence, interviewees provided with it have suddenly remembered meetings with Russian persons of interest which they had previously denied or completely forgotten about.
Against the might of the US Deep State, the Russian state's attempts to offer different explanations have all fallen apart, leaving the single idea that it's a foreign plot (cf. MH17, Skripals). All we're left with are the indignant denials from Trump, sorry, Putin on down that the Russian state would possibly have interfered in another country; if you listen very carefully it can be detected in the background radiation of many internet forums.
Denials are tricky to get right though. If you deny something too often or too strongly, that will attract the attention you wanted to deflect. No Puppet!
Yeah but the phone lines were installed by an advanced civilization and no-one quite knows how they managed it. Possibly aliens.
Yes, 2033 reminded me of the UK's 2040 target to get rid of infernal combustion engines. "Kicking it into the long grass" as we say in this septic isle.
Have they tried turning it off and on again?
From Slashdot's summary (which has been edited since it was first posted):
"The European Commission ordered Google to end the illegal conduct within 90 days or face additional penalties of up to 5 percent of parent Alphabet's average daily worldwide turnover. "
From the Guardian link:
"Vestager says that the fine will be returned to EU member states, based on how much each country pays into the EU budget."
Here's a clearer summary of what Google have been up to as reported by The Guardian.
EU Competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager says:
Google required manufacturers to pre-install the Google search and browser apps on Android phones, otherwise they wouldnâ(TM)t be allowed to use Google Play (its app service).
Google paid manufacturers and network operators to make sure that only the Google search app was installed on devices.
Google has restricted the development of competing mobile phone operating systems, which could have provided a platform for rival search engines.
Google has used Android as a vehicle to cement its dominance as a search engine.
These practices have denied rivals a chance to innovate and to compete on the merits.
They have denied European consumers the benefit of effective competition in the very important mobile sphere.
And this is illegal under EU antitrust rules.
Todayâ(TM)s ruling states:
Google has prevented device manufacturers from using any alternative version of Android that was not approved by Google (Android forks).
In order to be able to pre-install on their devices Googleâ(TM)s proprietary apps, including the Play Store and Google Search, manufacturers had to commit not to develop or sell even a single device running on an Android fork.
The Commission found that this conduct was abusive as of 2011, which is the date Google became dominant in the market for app stores for the Android mobile operating system.
North Koreans? Tricky to decide, what with their recent internet link with Russia, though the North Koreans' English is more flowery.
"Patriotic American workers pledge their lives and democratic votes to glorious leader Trump whose wise and happy face shines like the sun and whose unequalled political skills will cast down the hated Hillary to be trampled underfoot by the will of the people."
Oh hang on, Trump's been forced to correct himself. It is the Russians after all.
Well, seeing as Trump believes Putin's denials, I guess I'll have to accept yours. No Russians it is. Not sure then who all these guys on Slashdot pretending to be Americans, Australians and Canadians are - must be Chinese or something.
What do I want him to do?
He could try to exercise some self-control, like an adult.
Weighbridges have been around for hundreds of years. Number plate readers are widely used. That's the technology covered.
Perhaps you fail to understand that calling someone a paedophile can get people killed. Indeed there are so many morons around that even a paediatrician can be driven out of her house.
Musk may be a far-sighted genius but he also looks like a deeply unpleasant character with plenty of flaws of his own.
In the 1970's the UK was promised a golden age resulting from North Sea oil and gas. It seems never to have arrived, at least for most of the citizens, though we would certainly be deeper in the doo-doo without them.
The UK sold off the oilfields (and many, many other public assets) to the private sector and takes a slice in tax whereas the Norwegians kept theirs state-owned for the benefit of all their citizens.
Long-term perspective in the management of the government's petroleum revenues ensures that they benefit Norwegian society as a whole, and that future generations will benefit from Norwayâ(TM)s petroleum wealth. This has been a key principle in developing the financial and legal framework for the sector.
https://www.norskpetroleum.no/...
I don't have to pick one of your false choices, I'm just enjoying the slow public unraveling of Putin's plots and Trump's sanity. I'm excited to see where that leads.
I stand by what I said - this is outdated, probably corrupted by profit making enterprises, and a cheat sheet.
The vetting role played by the NGC is a critical one, says Roy Poses, with the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
"The organizations writing the guidelines may be getting millions of dollars from big drug companies that want to promote a product. The people writing them may have similar conflicts of interest," Poses said. NGC's process provided a resource comparatively free of that kind of influence.
“Losing [the NGC] is really losing a valuable resource,” said Ana Maria Lopez, President of the American College of Physicians.
Have you asked your medical team whether they use the NGC database or had you not heard of it until now?
What do you think doctors do with a puzzling case when the patient's not around, sit in an armchair going "hmmm" until inspiration strikes from the infinite resources of their mind? No, they seek help, whether that's from other doctors, textbooks, databases such as this, or Google, all "cheat sheets".
Your PhD level skills will doubtless have appreciated the truth behind the parable of Carson and the Pyramids, where a man brilliant in his field can be a dunce outside it and life has surely shown you that even the best people can make mistakes. A published, vetted and scrutinised database mitigates that.
I see a lot of the med business...and the corruption in it when I have to do things outside my chosen folks
Fortunately corruption in the NHS has been minimal till now but that's one of the benefits of a national, publicly-funded healthcare system.