I worked at progressive places, everything from gaming, to multinationals (HP) to online retailers (large one), to startups. All of them had one requirement (how it should be) : provide the documents in a format that can be read by others on any platform. So I used OO and Pages most of the time. As I mentioned : I write some technical documents that need basic functions : insert image, insert table, styles, header, footer, TOC. I am a programmer who worked as a sysadmin at some of these places. I worked as a manager as well (now I am a manager/programmer = lead developer), and similarly : I needed/need to create simple looking documents that are readable by others inside/outside the organization. I create usually one larger (30-40) page docs with illustrations as user manuals/runbooks. Reports, communication/etc go through mail in text format.
I do not NEED to learn Microsoft Word 2007, I need to use ANY word processor that can produce something like a.doc or.rtf at times,.pdf most of the time. So please don't force people to keep re-learning MS products, they have to know a product that does XY, not an MS product that does XY. It is like saying; it is a shame you cannot use a windows mobile phone, even though I just need a phone to make calls with. Can be an iPhone and Android or a Nokia brick from 1995, even a bigass black heavy desk-phone with a rotary dial (if the job is to make a call).
The windows 98 - 2000 - XP went really well. I was using Linux at the time, occasionally using the mentioned ones for playing games and "just to keep up" and see where theye were going. So I wasn't left out/behind.. Thanks for asking. More seriously : I was running the old startup-menu in the "original mode" with the standard desktop/window controls. About change: sure, I am slow. I had Linux on my machines in 94 when it barely was out on a "Chip magazine" CD. At the time I was using OS/2 (went through 3 versions). Tried BEOS and Slakware, RedHat, Suse, and ended up with Debian for good. (for servers). 3 years ago (4?) Changed to OSX primarily from Linux (took too much time to keep several desktop machines sane with HW changes and driver issues)...
So hey, do not judge before you ask. I am really-really open to change when it has a good reason (in any part of my life. E.g. went vegan 4 years ago (for animal rights), raw 6 months ago (health/experiment). I also got into electronics and just picked up 2 programming languages, even though I had good jobs with the old ones....
I am sooo open to change when it makes sense, but I am sooo closed to accept change when all the advantage I see is that now the window takes up more space with the same info and all the buttons are at different places...
Also I use a limited set of programs that change very little through the years and they are good for what they are made: terminal (bash utils) , mc (no critics please, it is useful for me), browser (ff/safari), mail (apple), Netbeans....
Oh yeah, just changed my phone from iPhone to Android (since it is a useless POS it is going to be built into a robot I am working on to provide location and vision).
I also own a (legal copy) of Windows 7, running on a once cutting edge "gaming" machine. I use it to upgrade/maintain hardware that only have Windows utilities/drivers. My heart rate monitor, my RC remote, my XBee radios, my stupid Xperia phone (what a waste and crap) and play a game once in a while when I am not overloaded with projects and family stuff.
You still think I am a person who is against change or just USELESS rearranging of menus/interface without additional functionality or an option to keep the original?
Healthcare, work and education (not material things) is the best way to allow access for them for the material goods as well.
I hope we can agree, that it's job is not to support a thin group of fat rich people on top of the poorer and poorer masses via tax cuts, keeping wars running (supporting a group of people who benefit from the death and suffering of others), allowing outsourcing without taxing it and allow groups to privatize natural resources who do not benefit the common good (only their wallets).
Did I forget: restoring a banking system that does not rely on eternal debt? Not a material thing to provide, just to make sure you do not end up on the street after you borrow from the wrong bank.
My first language is not English it is just one of a couple of languages I speak fluently, so thanks for the compliment anonymous.
So I am not an "English major" while you have "economy training". Whatever that means in your dicktionary (no, it is not a spelling error).
Moving on. 1. not sure how this relates to the subject 2. republican explanation on how cutting taxes will create jobs, I do not with to comment on this one. 3. yes, when you import workers they most likely spend some money there, keep a household, etc - better than taking it to China. However companies go for profit. They do not care for sustainability or the well-being of people. That is why the government has to make them pay the price, keep the jobs local or kick them out. 4. America refers to a continent FYI, and not the entire America is doing what we are talking about. So assuming we still talk about the US (U.S.A.), I would assume that most of them do not want to do anything anymore. However you cannot have a bunch of people with no education do better jobs than the ones you mentioned. Either way, the government and unions should make sure, that people get a reasonable salary to survive (food, shelter, water, education, healthcare). It does not, because everyone is in a ridiculous price war that supports the richest 1-2% and their share holders. If the price of the car was based on the best effort to make a lasting car, and people would get a decent wage for their work they could actually afford buying it. Now you produce a cheap product that is bad in every way (does not last, ruins the environment), then sell it for a beefy profit, with only a fraction making it to the actual workers. Communist thinking? No, democratic thinking. 5. If that's what it takes to have a decent life for every person in your economy : yes. Your product will cost more, the rich will make a lesser profit, then maybe you will regain your dying middle class.
I ignore your example. We are talking about taking jobs out of the Country, not your state. It is called the United States, so what you mention should not exist and is irrelevant.
Taking someone's job away in your country and taking it to an other Country for profit should be taxed because it is WRONG in a society where you have ANY percentage of unemployment.
I do not mind a new version to fix issues. My only pain with it is that some companies force new interfaces on you, sometimes completely ignoring their previous interface's logic. Skype did that to us and every single person I talk to hates the new interface with a passion. When a group of programmers keep wondering for minutes how to switch to chat, how to conference someone in, or why you have new little icons without/instead of text, I cannot imagine what your grandma/grandpa does when this happens. It took them significant time to figure the original out, now they have to re-learn it.
Now with MS as the owner I fear worst. Why ? Well I am not a regular Word/Excel user. I used Openoffice (before it became a slow bloat), then switched to Apple's Pages/Numbers. Both work fine for my needs (I am not a DTP guy, at most I create technical documents for users/techs). Where I work we can get MS Office for free, and I bought a $10 copy for home too.... Then the horror came: EVERYTHING changed since the last time I used the product. Everything I learned/got used to suddenly was hidden inside menus, buttons, drop-downs and sometimes super simple tasks needed excessive clicking. MS does this kind of stuff regularly: with their OS and with their other products. I just simply hate it.
The point here is not to bash MS and Skype for innovating, nor the upgrades (would be nice if I did not have to buy Office every 2 years to read the idiotic new format they invented to make me buy it again though). Companies should provide a way to use their software in a "minimal/simple" mode - IMO 99% of Word/Excel users - including techs/admins/engineers - would only need this mode. Also when you "innovate" keep an option to keep a function in the menu where it was. No one - I repeat: NO ONE - wants to keep re-mapping their brain to remember new locations in 10+ different software every single year.
Impossible? With menus, you just need menu NEW and menu OLD, and just put the same crap in one where you had it and where you think it should be now. Maybe allow the user to publish which menu they use and make better decisions about changing stuff around in every release.
But then again, maybe all the changes make people think that they have a new and enhanced product? I see the same crap in a new potty with new buttons on it year after year and maybe I am too old to put up with it...
The economy is secondary to the main function of governments (that rely on economy) to provide shelter, food, water, healthcare and work for their citizens.
"Spending more is good" when you have 1/4th of the people on a planet 4x the size of Earth. Then we would have an other few hundred years to debate.
The government (US and many others) fail to provide this. What it does is that it puts more money into the hands of useless people : bankers, oil companies, pointless subsidies. Instead of looking after jobs, that they stay in the country, and to teach people that the purpose of their lives should not be to have a bigger car, house, penis than the guy on the other side of the fence.
That way we could maybe go back to a more normal economy where even expensive things do not break on day 2, or just 1 day after the guarantee expires. That would be a great step to save the planet, at which point you would not battle for money but would try to do something useful. Anyone else here who had jobs, supporting completely useless industries? Outsourcing? How about something that creates something actually good for others and you... oh yeah, you never had the chance, because you had to work on something useless, that made more money than that other useful job, to pay your loan, your kids education... etc
They all change their thinking a little bit as far as they are in power, enjoying the monies of the banking, oil, farming (Monsanto?) and military industries.
There should be scientists sitting in governments, not politicians. Then problems would be solved.
Didn't you guys figure it out yet, that you just select from a pre-selected group of actors for president, congress, etc.. year after year? No offense, same shit where I live, but when will this end? Because if not soon: you can keep wondering why people change their opinion as soon as they are "in".
Your government putting a crazy-bigass-TAX on companies who take jobs outside the country would. FYI: they rest of the world is watching you and wondering WTF is happening over there. And this is one of the reasons among many....
Don't these people know, that when the little green LED is on next to the camera there is something going on with the camera?
I do not know if there is any spyware that can disable that, but in my experience: whatever touches the camera, the led comes on.
I am surprised about all these secretly filmed students, thieves, women who have 1000s of pictures taken of them and never figured that GREEN LIGHT=CAMERA ON.....
Really, is there any software that can use the MAC cameras without turning the light on ?
No, I immediately thought of that:) . That is how I immediately searched the page for "Gibson"...... before double posting it.
I really-really do not want a camera like this though. What would then prevent anyone from installing one at any location, effectively rendering my camera useless in situations where I wanted to snap a pic?
Just because we do things does not mean that they are good and we should not change. Animal farming (factory or else) is using a lot more resources than most fruits or vegetables. This is a fact. In a finite planet where we are running out of resources, and people die of hunger, maybe it would be the wise decision to stop using animal products.
As far as the economy: see about finite resources. Producing crap to sell more crap is good for profit. Keeps people working for things that break. This could work on an infinite resource environment if you manage to keep the population dumb enough. Our planet is running out of stuff and we are ruining it. So just because all the nations use animals, well, maybe someone should stop it, or tax it based on the real cost: waste, water.
Maybe MORE and BIGGER should not be number one just because most nations think only about this. It would be nice to see quality come back, work hours go down, because we are simply capable to produce enough lasting things, and then we could work on better things than producing SHITTIER than shit products for more profit. Economy 101 my ass. Show me a country that is not in debt/problems/wars with this mentality....
I haven't touched meat in 20 years, so I cannot comment on that one.
However it kind of troubles me to see, that my organic veggies generally taste a lot better, but they go bad waaaaay faster. Greens start to look tired after 2 hours outside, while the non-organic one looks fresh (tastes like nothing though) after a day outside.
Meet your meet actually makes a cooking in which a french chef cooks with factory and non-factory produce (meat, poultry, eggs). As a vegan I disagree with any kind of killing, the difference in meet quality was shocking just by the visuals.
I go to the organic market every Saturday morning, buy 4 boxes of fruits and vegetables and eat them raw. All week, every day. I eat at a restaurant once in 3 months (and suffer like crap, or just drink a tea) . I only eat flour tortillas and rice-wraps that are not raw, I do not buy packaged food other than that.
I am for labeling 100%. I want to be able to make the choice to accept GMO or not. I would like a vegetarian/vegan and a GMO label on everything, strongly controlled by reliable agencies.
I wonder what you mean on "foodie"? Does that refer to persons who realized, that it is really-really important what you eat, and that a lot of sicknesses are the simple outcome of the preference of taste over whatever your body really needs? Deep fried over veggies, coke over good water. Good water. Then I am a foodie.
GMO: I do not think we should get over with this. I want to see a label on everything GMO so I can make a choice of buying or not. That is all.
These farms are not for efficiency. They are for increased profit. If you really wanted quantity and quality nutrients to feed a lot of people, you would not farm corn to feed it to livestock, causing an incredible environmental damage. You would grow rice, beans, and you would hydroponic-vertical farm fresh vegetables.
I do not consider animals as things we should trade and use for food, clothing, entertainment etc. I understand, that this is too hippie for most, so just try to imagine this:
I put you in a box, 2m x 1m, 160cm tall. I put a few thousand more of you in a windowless stinking long tube. I feed you hormones, antibiotics, drugs, I remove your teeth and pull your nails off, so you do not hurt your mates or yourself. I keep you there, sitting in your own shit until you are fat enough to be killed. If your mate dies, you would have to be with the body for some time (days, weeks), because this it is normal for animals to die of all kinds of causes, to mention one: accelerated growth: nor the heart or other organs, nor the muscles keep up with this. Being in a dark tube does not help with producing calcium, so shortly you won't be able to walk, just sit in the dark in the shit. If you are a female cow, you are in for a treat : you can live in similar box, with painful stuff sucking your tits. Hormones and induced pregnancy will keep you there until you cannot pop more babies or produce milk. At which point you are killed.
How can people say, that animal farming is not inhumane. It is absurd for me to see people not seeing this!
Even more frightening for me is when I see other countries (not US), where it is actually more expensive and "special" to go to one of these "fast food" places.
In Costa Rica you will pay more for an equally portioned MC meal than what you would pay at a family restaurant. I am talking about a nice looking, clean simple local place where they serve fresh-made dishes with vegetarian/healthy options.
Still, 12pm on a Saturday you will see the family restaurant with clients, but MC, KFC, BK and all the crap have cars lined up outside waiting to get in.
As a result of this, and people eating at the mall food court every day, you start to see that the average person on the street went from normal to slightly overweight, with a lot of people growing some serious belly and ass. It is not just the US whose people are making the worst buying choices.
I also think (agree) with the comment above, that suggests, that people are really too busy, stupid, ignorant, uninterested to think and change. When you can cure diabetes with a diet change in most cases (google Raw for 30 days, I personally know someone who did this too), when you have people smoking and drinking after they were warned by a doctor: how do you expect a bunch of people to change their diet who hear it 24/7 : you need your milk, egg, meat, and you get this the cheapest at these outlets. HOW do you tell the guy to go for organic vegetables, when corn syrup is subsidized and all he cares is how it tastes, not what it does????
I saw a cow on a farm a while ago with that rubber plug during my trail ride (dirt bike, not horse, and in Costa Rica up in the hills ). According to a colleague of mine they are used for medical reasons and other monitoring. He added that it does not hurt the cow, but I do not see how you could cut a window on an animal without that causing pain.....
I am not much of a biologist, but things in nature are usually somewhat logical.
For me it is easy to see, that if you take a completely healthy to eat plant, start modifying it so it withstands all kinds of things it should not do, then start mass-feeding it to people without a long-term study leads to bad things and public opinion. Then there are the corporations who patent these and do not allow farmers to re-sell or re-use their seeds. Combine this maffia with the subsidization of unhealthy products (corn) that mainly go to animal farms and you just created a really unhealthy competition that produces really messed up products.
I also remember a scandal about GM corn that caused kidney damage... google it and see if anything turns up.
By the way, I owe to add, that I am strongly biased against animal farming, being a vegetarian for 20 years, a vegan for 4 and on a 99% raw diet since January.... so yes, some things I say about animal farming might be hippie BS, but I became vegan after a lot of reading/watching and research during which I failed to prove that I needed animal protein and that milk/egg farming is not a cruel practice I should feel bad about. Thought it would be fair to add to my opinion...
While I completely agree, that regulations have to be a lot stronger about hormones, GM products and antibiotics, I would like to see this go a step further: ban factory farming as a practice. It is inhumane, produces an unhealthy product, outbreaks of infections, excessive pollution and unnecessary suffering. I suggest to watch "Food Inc, Meet your Meat, and Earthlings for the non-faint at heart, both of which talk about the subject from different viewpoints.
No. Too much work, then family, then hobby project, then sleep then goto 1.
Interesting, just googled it. But Google is a legit company anyway, they won't go to "high risk" processors to do fishy business that way.
BTW google does not serve bootleg pharmacy ads for a looooong time, they had an approval program 5+ years ago to advertise pharmacies that require a real prescription, not some pillpusher fresh doctorate from the countryside, writing 1000+ from a basement.
The real sad thing about this, is that the FDA is only protecting the Pharmacy business, not the consumers. Drugs are overpriced and a lot of them don't cure, just maintain. Bring the same thing from Canada for half the price and you become a criminal, and an independent advertisement company has to pay a large fee, that goes to an entity that does not do too much good. They allow dangerous untested crap onto the market, while pushing the stupid war on drugs no matter how many people keep dying because of.
10 years ago I heard "we are out of business, mastercard stopped processing for online casinos" from a friend. Then Visa followed, then "alternative" and "high risk" processors pop up. Sure it will make it a little harder for them, and the weak will fall, but the big ones stay, There are also legit stores who use affiliates, who are a competitive bunch. Some of them wealthy, some of them tech savvy. They will click the crap out of competitor's ads (with bots they buy, hire or develop, and they will sometimes use unapproved promo techniques. Most affiliate agreements state, that if you spam you will be left unpaid and kicked from the program. Some even disallow legit opt-in mailing. If you had an affiliate that generated let's say 10% of the revenue alone, or even more, would you look in the other direction if it turned out, that he sometimes spams a little bit....
On the other hand: I hate my email because it is impossible to filter stuff well: even google fails at it and puts my legit mails as spam while leaving completely random crap in.d
Because "I, Robot " published in 1950 did not turn out to be a pretty good science fiction movie - like it or not, special effects and designs rock in the film.
On the other hand I also hope they do not make it suck. I own and sometimes watch Johnny Mnemonic, that had a good cast, but turned out to be.. hmmmm. not meeting my expectations.
How some of your friends only buy Firewire external disks, your other group of friends buy the cheap USB ones. Those USB guys will never get it why you get the more expensive ones, no matter how you explain it to them, that you can daisy-chain them and they do not make your machine into a crawling piece of crap when you are copying something. They will buy USB 3 because some paper will explain a theoretical speed never achievable because of the lack of a dedicated controller.
It was then the dude from Middle Men, who either gave the idea to track foreign threat by the taste of porno or tracked them again with the young military blond. Now I understand!!!!
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No, sorry, was mostly between Linux and OSX, lots of time in just a programmers' editor, so I really never memorized Word shortcuts.
I worked at progressive places, everything from gaming, to multinationals (HP) to online retailers (large one), to startups. All of them had one requirement (how it should be) : provide the documents in a format that can be read by others on any platform. So I used OO and Pages most of the time. As I mentioned : I write some technical documents that need basic functions : insert image, insert table, styles, header, footer, TOC. I am a programmer who worked as a sysadmin at some of these places. I worked as a manager as well (now I am a manager/programmer = lead developer), and similarly : I needed/need to create simple looking documents that are readable by others inside/outside the organization. I create usually one larger (30-40) page docs with illustrations as user manuals/runbooks. Reports, communication/etc go through mail in text format.
I do not NEED to learn Microsoft Word 2007, I need to use ANY word processor that can produce something like a .doc or .rtf at times, .pdf most of the time. So please don't force people to keep re-learning MS products, they have to know a product that does XY, not an MS product that does XY. It is like saying; it is a shame you cannot use a windows mobile phone, even though I just need a phone to make calls with. Can be an iPhone and Android or a Nokia brick from 1995, even a bigass black heavy desk-phone with a rotary dial (if the job is to make a call).
The windows 98 - 2000 - XP went really well. I was using Linux at the time, occasionally using the mentioned ones for playing games and "just to keep up" and see where theye were going. So I wasn't left out/behind.. Thanks for asking. More seriously : I was running the old startup-menu in the "original mode" with the standard desktop/window controls. ...
About change: sure, I am slow. I had Linux on my machines in 94 when it barely was out on a "Chip magazine" CD. At the time I was using OS/2 (went through 3 versions). Tried BEOS and Slakware, RedHat, Suse, and ended up with Debian for good. (for servers). 3 years ago (4?) Changed to OSX primarily from Linux (took too much time to keep several desktop machines sane with HW changes and driver issues)
So hey, do not judge before you ask. I am really-really open to change when it has a good reason (in any part of my life. E.g. went vegan 4 years ago (for animal rights), raw 6 months ago (health/experiment). I also got into electronics and just picked up 2 programming languages, even though I had good jobs with the old ones ....
I am sooo open to change when it makes sense, but I am sooo closed to accept change when all the advantage I see is that now the window takes up more space with the same info and all the buttons are at different places ...
Also I use a limited set of programs that change very little through the years and they are good for what they are made: terminal (bash utils) , mc (no critics please, it is useful for me), browser (ff/safari), mail (apple), Netbeans....
Oh yeah, just changed my phone from iPhone to Android (since it is a useless POS it is going to be built into a robot I am working on to provide location and vision).
I also own a (legal copy) of Windows 7, running on a once cutting edge "gaming" machine. I use it to upgrade/maintain hardware that only have Windows utilities/drivers. My heart rate monitor, my RC remote, my XBee radios, my stupid Xperia phone (what a waste and crap) and play a game once in a while when I am not overloaded with projects and family stuff.
You still think I am a person who is against change or just USELESS rearranging of menus/interface without additional functionality or an option to keep the original?
Cheers :)
Healthcare, work and education (not material things) is the best way to allow access for them for the material goods as well.
I hope we can agree, that it's job is not to support a thin group of fat rich people on top of the poorer and poorer masses via tax cuts, keeping wars running (supporting a group of people who benefit from the death and suffering of others), allowing outsourcing without taxing it and allow groups to privatize natural resources who do not benefit the common good (only their wallets).
Did I forget: restoring a banking system that does not rely on eternal debt? Not a material thing to provide, just to make sure you do not end up on the street after you borrow from the wrong bank.
OH :) OK. Good info. I honestly did not know this, as I was using other products (Pages, OO, textedit, vi :) )
Not sure why I even reply to anonymous.
My first language is not English it is just one of a couple of languages I speak fluently, so thanks for the compliment anonymous.
So I am not an "English major" while you have "economy training". Whatever that means in your dicktionary (no, it is not a spelling error).
Moving on.
1. not sure how this relates to the subject
2. republican explanation on how cutting taxes will create jobs, I do not with to comment on this one.
3. yes, when you import workers they most likely spend some money there, keep a household, etc - better than taking it to China. However companies go for profit. They do not care for sustainability or the well-being of people. That is why the government has to make them pay the price, keep the jobs local or kick them out.
4. America refers to a continent FYI, and not the entire America is doing what we are talking about. So assuming we still talk about the US (U.S.A.), I would assume that most of them do not want to do anything anymore. However you cannot have a bunch of people with no education do better jobs than the ones you mentioned.
Either way, the government and unions should make sure, that people get a reasonable salary to survive (food, shelter, water, education, healthcare). It does not, because everyone is in a ridiculous price war that supports the richest 1-2% and their share holders. If the price of the car was based on the best effort to make a lasting car, and people would get a decent wage for their work they could actually afford buying it. Now you produce a cheap product that is bad in every way (does not last, ruins the environment), then sell it for a beefy profit, with only a fraction making it to the actual workers.
Communist thinking? No, democratic thinking.
5. If that's what it takes to have a decent life for every person in your economy : yes. Your product will cost more, the rich will make a lesser profit, then maybe you will regain your dying middle class.
I ignore your example. We are talking about taking jobs out of the Country, not your state. It is called the United States, so what you mention should not exist and is irrelevant.
Taking someone's job away in your country and taking it to an other Country for profit should be taxed because it is WRONG in a society where you have ANY percentage of unemployment.
I do not mind a new version to fix issues. My only pain with it is that some companies force new interfaces on you, sometimes completely ignoring their previous interface's logic. Skype did that to us and every single person I talk to hates the new interface with a passion. When a group of programmers keep wondering for minutes how to switch to chat, how to conference someone in, or why you have new little icons without/instead of text, I cannot imagine what your grandma/grandpa does when this happens. It took them significant time to figure the original out, now they have to re-learn it.
Now with MS as the owner I fear worst. Why ? Well I am not a regular Word/Excel user. I used Openoffice (before it became a slow bloat), then switched to Apple's Pages/Numbers. Both work fine for my needs (I am not a DTP guy, at most I create technical documents for users/techs). Where I work we can get MS Office for free, and I bought a $10 copy for home too.... Then the horror came: EVERYTHING changed since the last time I used the product. Everything I learned/got used to suddenly was hidden inside menus, buttons, drop-downs and sometimes super simple tasks needed excessive clicking. MS does this kind of stuff regularly: with their OS and with their other products. I just simply hate it.
The point here is not to bash MS and Skype for innovating, nor the upgrades (would be nice if I did not have to buy Office every 2 years to read the idiotic new format they invented to make me buy it again though). Companies should provide a way to use their software in a "minimal/simple" mode - IMO 99% of Word/Excel users - including techs/admins/engineers - would only need this mode. Also when you "innovate" keep an option to keep a function in the menu where it was. No one - I repeat: NO ONE - wants to keep re-mapping their brain to remember new locations in 10+ different software every single year.
Impossible? With menus, you just need menu NEW and menu OLD, and just put the same crap in one where you had it and where you think it should be now. Maybe allow the user to publish which menu they use and make better decisions about changing stuff around in every release.
But then again, maybe all the changes make people think that they have a new and enhanced product? I see the same crap in a new potty with new buttons on it year after year and maybe I am too old to put up with it...
The economy is secondary to the main function of governments (that rely on economy) to provide shelter, food, water, healthcare and work for their citizens.
"Spending more is good" when you have 1/4th of the people on a planet 4x the size of Earth. Then we would have an other few hundred years to debate.
The government (US and many others) fail to provide this. What it does is that it puts more money into the hands of useless people : bankers, oil companies, pointless subsidies. Instead of looking after jobs, that they stay in the country, and to teach people that the purpose of their lives should not be to have a bigger car, house, penis than the guy on the other side of the fence.
That way we could maybe go back to a more normal economy where even expensive things do not break on day 2, or just 1 day after the guarantee expires. That would be a great step to save the planet, at which point you would not battle for money but would try to do something useful. Anyone else here who had jobs, supporting completely useless industries? Outsourcing? How about something that creates something actually good for others and you... oh yeah, you never had the chance, because you had to work on something useless, that made more money than that other useful job, to pay your loan, your kids education ... etc
They all change their thinking a little bit as far as they are in power, enjoying the monies of the banking, oil, farming (Monsanto?) and military industries.
There should be scientists sitting in governments, not politicians. Then problems would be solved.
Didn't you guys figure it out yet, that you just select from a pre-selected group of actors for president, congress, etc .. year after year? No offense, same shit where I live, but when will this end? Because if not soon: you can keep wondering why people change their opinion as soon as they are "in".
Your government putting a crazy-bigass-TAX on companies who take jobs outside the country would.
FYI: they rest of the world is watching you and wondering WTF is happening over there. And this is one of the reasons among many....
Don't these people know, that when the little green LED is on next to the camera there is something going on with the camera?
I do not know if there is any spyware that can disable that, but in my experience: whatever touches the camera, the led comes on.
I am surprised about all these secretly filmed students, thieves, women who have 1000s of pictures taken of them and never figured that GREEN LIGHT=CAMERA ON.....
Really, is there any software that can use the MAC cameras without turning the light on ?
No, I immediately thought of that :) . That is how I immediately searched the page for "Gibson"...... before double posting it.
I really-really do not want a camera like this though. What would then prevent anyone from installing one at any location, effectively rendering my camera useless in situations where I wanted to snap a pic?
Water that is not loaded with fertilizer, heavy metals, fluoride, chlorine, antibiotics, recreational drugs....
Our water here is decent but needs chlorine filtering (Central Valley, Costa Rica).
Oh, yeah ... not in a non-BPA-free plastic bottle.
If that sounds paranoid, fine, at least google chlorine and fluoride health risks if you never wondered about this.
Just because we do things does not mean that they are good and we should not change. Animal farming (factory or else) is using a lot more resources than most fruits or vegetables. This is a fact. In a finite planet where we are running out of resources, and people die of hunger, maybe it would be the wise decision to stop using animal products.
As far as the economy: see about finite resources. Producing crap to sell more crap is good for profit. Keeps people working for things that break. This could work on an infinite resource environment if you manage to keep the population dumb enough. Our planet is running out of stuff and we are ruining it. So just because all the nations use animals, well, maybe someone should stop it, or tax it based on the real cost: waste, water.
Maybe MORE and BIGGER should not be number one just because most nations think only about this. It would be nice to see quality come back, work hours go down, because we are simply capable to produce enough lasting things, and then we could work on better things than producing SHITTIER than shit products for more profit. ....
Economy 101 my ass. Show me a country that is not in debt/problems/wars with this mentality
I haven't touched meat in 20 years, so I cannot comment on that one.
However it kind of troubles me to see, that my organic veggies generally taste a lot better, but they go bad waaaaay faster. Greens start to look tired after 2 hours outside, while the non-organic one looks fresh (tastes like nothing though) after a day outside.
Meet your meet actually makes a cooking in which a french chef cooks with factory and non-factory produce (meat, poultry, eggs). As a vegan I disagree with any kind of killing, the difference in meet quality was shocking just by the visuals.
I go to the organic market every Saturday morning, buy 4 boxes of fruits and vegetables and eat them raw. All week, every day. I eat at a restaurant once in 3 months (and suffer like crap, or just drink a tea) . I only eat flour tortillas and rice-wraps that are not raw, I do not buy packaged food other than that.
I am for labeling 100%. I want to be able to make the choice to accept GMO or not. I would like a vegetarian/vegan and a GMO label on everything, strongly controlled by reliable agencies.
I wonder what you mean on "foodie"? Does that refer to persons who realized, that it is really-really important what you eat, and that a lot of sicknesses are the simple outcome of the preference of taste over whatever your body really needs? Deep fried over veggies, coke over good water. Good water. Then I am a foodie.
GMO: I do not think we should get over with this. I want to see a label on everything GMO so I can make a choice of buying or not. That is all.
These farms are not for efficiency. They are for increased profit. If you really wanted quantity and quality nutrients to feed a lot of people, you would not farm corn to feed it to livestock, causing an incredible environmental damage. You would grow rice, beans, and you would hydroponic-vertical farm fresh vegetables.
I do not consider animals as things we should trade and use for food, clothing, entertainment etc.
I understand, that this is too hippie for most, so just try to imagine this:
I put you in a box, 2m x 1m, 160cm tall. I put a few thousand more of you in a windowless stinking long tube. I feed you hormones, antibiotics, drugs, I remove your teeth and pull your nails off, so you do not hurt your mates or yourself. I keep you there, sitting in your own shit until you are fat enough to be killed. If your mate dies, you would have to be with the body for some time (days, weeks), because this it is normal for animals to die of all kinds of causes, to mention one: accelerated growth: nor the heart or other organs, nor the muscles keep up with this. Being in a dark tube does not help with producing calcium, so shortly you won't be able to walk, just sit in the dark in the shit. If you are a female cow, you are in for a treat : you can live in similar box, with painful stuff sucking your tits. Hormones and induced pregnancy will keep you there until you cannot pop more babies or produce milk. At which point you are killed.
How can people say, that animal farming is not inhumane. It is absurd for me to see people not seeing this!
Even more frightening for me is when I see other countries (not US), where it is actually more expensive and "special" to go to one of these "fast food" places.
In Costa Rica you will pay more for an equally portioned MC meal than what you would pay at a family restaurant. I am talking about a nice looking, clean simple local place where they serve fresh-made dishes with vegetarian/healthy options.
Still, 12pm on a Saturday you will see the family restaurant with clients, but MC, KFC, BK and all the crap have cars lined up outside waiting to get in.
As a result of this, and people eating at the mall food court every day, you start to see that the average person on the street went from normal to slightly overweight, with a lot of people growing some serious belly and ass. It is not just the US whose people are making the worst buying choices.
I also think (agree) with the comment above, that suggests, that people are really too busy, stupid, ignorant, uninterested to think and change. When you can cure diabetes with a diet change in most cases (google Raw for 30 days, I personally know someone who did this too), when you have people smoking and drinking after they were warned by a doctor: how do you expect a bunch of people to change their diet who hear it 24/7 : you need your milk, egg, meat, and you get this the cheapest at these outlets. HOW do you tell the guy to go for organic vegetables, when corn syrup is subsidized and all he cares is how it tastes, not what it does????
I saw a cow on a farm a while ago with that rubber plug during my trail ride (dirt bike, not horse, and in Costa Rica up in the hills ). According to a colleague of mine they are used for medical reasons and other monitoring. He added that it does not hurt the cow, but I do not see how you could cut a window on an animal without that causing pain.....
I am not much of a biologist, but things in nature are usually somewhat logical.
For me it is easy to see, that if you take a completely healthy to eat plant, start modifying it so it withstands all kinds of things it should not do, then start mass-feeding it to people without a long-term study leads to bad things and public opinion. Then there are the corporations who patent these and do not allow farmers to re-sell or re-use their seeds. Combine this maffia with the subsidization of unhealthy products (corn) that mainly go to animal farms and you just created a really unhealthy competition that produces really messed up products.
I also remember a scandal about GM corn that caused kidney damage ... google it and see if anything turns up.
By the way, I owe to add, that I am strongly biased against animal farming, being a vegetarian for 20 years, a vegan for 4 and on a 99% raw diet since January.... so yes, some things I say about animal farming might be hippie BS, but I became vegan after a lot of reading/watching and research during which I failed to prove that I needed animal protein and that milk/egg farming is not a cruel practice I should feel bad about. Thought it would be fair to add to my opinion...
While I completely agree, that regulations have to be a lot stronger about hormones, GM products and antibiotics, I would like to see this go a step further: ban factory farming as a practice. It is inhumane, produces an unhealthy product, outbreaks of infections, excessive pollution and unnecessary suffering. I suggest to watch "Food Inc, Meet your Meat, and Earthlings for the non-faint at heart, both of which talk about the subject from different viewpoints.
No. Too much work, then family, then hobby project, then sleep then goto 1.
Interesting, just googled it. But Google is a legit company anyway, they won't go to "high risk" processors to do fishy business that way.
BTW google does not serve bootleg pharmacy ads for a looooong time, they had an approval program 5+ years ago to advertise pharmacies that require a real prescription, not some pillpusher fresh doctorate from the countryside, writing 1000+ from a basement.
The real sad thing about this, is that the FDA is only protecting the Pharmacy business, not the consumers. Drugs are overpriced and a lot of them don't cure, just maintain. Bring the same thing from Canada for half the price and you become a criminal, and an independent advertisement company has to pay a large fee, that goes to an entity that does not do too much good. They allow dangerous untested crap onto the market, while pushing the stupid war on drugs no matter how many people keep dying because of.
10 years ago I heard "we are out of business, mastercard stopped processing for online casinos" from a friend. Then Visa followed, then "alternative" and "high risk" processors pop up. Sure it will make it a little harder for them, and the weak will fall, but the big ones stay, There are also legit stores who use affiliates, who are a competitive bunch. Some of them wealthy, some of them tech savvy. They will click the crap out of competitor's ads (with bots they buy, hire or develop, and they will sometimes use unapproved promo techniques. Most affiliate agreements state, that if you spam you will be left unpaid and kicked from the program. Some even disallow legit opt-in mailing. If you had an affiliate that generated let's say 10% of the revenue alone, or even more, would you look in the other direction if it turned out, that he sometimes spams a little bit....
On the other hand: I hate my email because it is impossible to filter stuff well: even google fails at it and puts my legit mails as spam while leaving completely random crap in.d
Because "I, Robot " published in 1950 did not turn out to be a pretty good science fiction movie - like it or not, special effects and designs rock in the film.
On the other hand I also hope they do not make it suck. I own and sometimes watch Johnny Mnemonic, that had a good cast, but turned out to be .. hmmmm. not meeting my expectations.
How some of your friends only buy Firewire external disks, your other group of friends buy the cheap USB ones. Those USB guys will never get it why you get the more expensive ones, no matter how you explain it to them, that you can daisy-chain them and they do not make your machine into a crawling piece of crap when you are copying something. They will buy USB 3 because some paper will explain a theoretical speed never achievable because of the lack of a dedicated controller.
It was then the dude from Middle Men, who either gave the idea to track foreign threat by the taste of porno or tracked them again with the young military blond. Now I understand!!!!