Like wine and some other food products, honey CAN taste different based on the flowers the bees feed from.
"National chain" honey is likely either from the same region year after year and/or it's a blend that's controlled to ensure a consistent product from year to year.
Heck, as a consumer, if I wasn't specifically looking for "pure" honey I would expect some added ingredients, including small amounts of flavoring and cheaper sweeteners, to allow the company to sell me something that "tasted like honey" at a lower price and with greater batch-to-batch and year-to-year consistency. Then again, I'm the kind of guy who usually buys name-brand relatively cheap fizzy drinks instead of small-label, all-natural-ingredients expensive ones. But when I do buy "carbonated grape juice" I expect it to be nothing but pure carbonated grape juice.
The one thing I do demand as a food customer is an accurate label that lists all flavor-, texture-, and medically-significant ingredients (e.g. allergens, anything with nutritional value, etc.), and all non-trace ingredients.
When you buy local, it tends to have a greater economic impact on your local economy than if you buy from outside your local area.
This information is useful to people who give a greater or lesser "moral weight" to supporting their local economy vs. their regional economy vs. their domestic economy vs. the world economy. Those who more strongly favor firing the economic engines of 3rd world countries than they do their domestic, regional, or local economic engine will use this information and say "Sell me that 3rd world honey, please, even if I have to pay extra." Those who favor the opposite may be willing to pay a premium - perhaps even a 100% premium - for locally grown/locally produced goods.
Where's the actual evidence of harm to either porn consumers or producers?
Careful there, all it takes is one porn producer or consumer to sincerely say "looking at or being involved in producing porn hurt me" and your argument collapses.
It's far better for everyone to admit that IN SOME CASES porn involving only consenting adults and viewed only by consenting adults is harmful and IN SOME CASES it is not.
Absent scientific studies, we are free to argue about who is harmed and how much harm is done. Within reason, we are even free to argue the definition of harm.
In a democratic society whose constitution or basic law doesn't address the issue of porn or freedom of speech/publication/art, it's the job of the lawmakers to listen to the people, examine the facts, and pass laws or decline to pass laws accordingly.
Assuming and anti-internet-porn law would be legal and in practical terms enforceable, it's the government's job to weigh the harm being done by the status quo against the harm done by increased regulations, and to take into account the will of the people in the process. Not an easy job.
or your favorite beverage that requires walking more than 3 feet to refill.*
*if your coffeemaker or fridge is that close to your keyboard, you get points for efficiency but you'll need to find a different micro-break. May I suggest moving it across the room?
Many non-profits and governments can't afford to pay for top- or even average-level talent unless that talent is willing to work for less.
If you can offer them the skills they need plus the wisdom and experience that someone your age has to offer at a price they are able to pay, they'll consider it a gift.
Some government and non-profit IT-related jobs really are 40 hour a week jobs, and you actually DO get to go home at 5 and not think about work until the next morning.
Choose your prospective employer carefully though - in some governments, office politics can merge with real-world politics and that can make working there unpleasant.
Text of fix, credit the forum poster known as "omaudio":
from Kaspersky-
"We apologize for the inconvenience. It does appear that there was a hiccup with an Update pushed out causing Windows XP machines to lose internet connectivity. An update was just released that should address the issue, what I will need you to do is:
To get XP users internet connectivity (temporarily), please disable the Web AV component of your protection policy for your managed computers. After doing so;
In Security Center (or Admin Kit):
1.) Go to the Repositories section >> (Right click) Updates >> All Tasks >> Clear updates repository. 2.) Go to the Repositories section >> (Right click) Updates >> Download Updates
After taking this step, please run your group Update task for Managed Computers. After the update has been pushed to your workstations, please re-enable your Web AV component in your protection policy. This should resolve the issue. "
The US government should authorize the killing of US citizens when: 1. Reply with your idea 2. Reply with your idea 3. Reply with your idea 4. Reply with your idea 5. Reply with your idea 6. Reply with your idea 7. Reply with your idea 8. Reply with your COWBOYNEAL or YOUINSENSITIVECLOD option
Poor defendants can't afford bail or lawyers, so they have an incentive to agree to a plea deal. Once they have a criminal conviction, it becomes much harder to get a good-paying job, and there you go.
A good lawyer can usually get a much better deal on a plea-bargain, reducing the chance of a felony rap and, for misdemeanors, increasing the chance of some kind of diversion or alternative-sentencing that doesn't result in a permanent criminal record.
Scenario:
Two 19 year old drug addicts with clean records in separate incidents are caught with a small amount of meth, just enough that they could be convicted of a minimal felony and get anywhere from probation to 2 years in prison. The county has a drug-addiction-diversion program for young adults.
Both are married and have a child. One is Black and poor. The other comes from an upper-middle-class family and is White.
If the prosecutor is a bigot, he'll steer the White guy into the diversion program and threaten to throw the book at the Black guy.
If he's not a bigot, he'll give the same options to both people, but because of the wait for trial and bail costs, the Black guy may choose to take a quick plea. The options are:
* Post $10,000 refundable bond or pay a bail-bondsman $1000 non-refundable, OR * Stay in jail until trial or until a bed opens up in the drug-treatment center if you take the plea deal, OR * Plea out now.
The plea agreement is: * 2 years of pre-trial deferment, during which time you will ** attend a 30-day inpatient addiction treatment program at your own expense (cost: $10,000, but a local charity will pay half if you are poor) ** Spend 30 days in jail over the first 15 weeks after release from treatment (normally weekends, assuming you work Monday-Friday) ** attend at least 3 NA or similar meetings a week in the 90 days ** see a therapist or participate in group therapy at least weekly for the first 90 days after the inpatient treatment, at your own expense (cost: $25/week for group therapy run by a local charity, more for non-charity or 1-1 options) ** For the remainder of the 2 years, attend an NA or similar meeting weekly and stay in contact with the equivalent of a probation officer weekly and have in-person monthly visits ** For the entire 2 years, be subject to searches and drug screenings at any time ** Be employed, enrolled in school, or actively seeking work the entire period after release from the inpatient program ** The first failure will result in an evaluation of your addiction and a return to whatever stage of treatment you need, but in any case your total time on supervised pre-trial release will be extended by 6 months and you will serve another 30 days in jail over the next 15 weeks that you aren't in rehab. ** You may at any time terminate this agreement and be sentenced to 6 months in jail followed by 18 months of probation, during which time you will agree to random drug tests and searches. If you make this choice you will have a misdemeanor drug-offense record. ** Before signing this agreement, you may choose to go to court on the felony charge. If convicted, we intend to request a sentence of 2 years in prison, with 1 year suspended. During the suspension you will agree to normal terms of parole, including random drug screening and searches. If you violate these terms you will be returned to prison for the remaining year.
The middle-class guy hires a lawyer who bonds him out then tells his client "they caught you red-handed, there's no sloppy recordkeeping, take the deal." He takes the deal. The waiting list for a bed at the subsidized treatment center is 3 weeks, so his parents sent him to a private facility. Two years after entering rehab, he's holding his 2-year NA chip and celebrating the dismissal of his case.
The poor guy's court-appointed lawyer tells him the same thing. Unfortunately there's no way he can scrape together $5K to pay for rehab and his lawyer isn't smart enough or is just too busy to help him f
Take a group of kids that have about the same intellect.
Tell half of them they are more stupid than the other half. Give them the same assignments but not the same expectations - tell the "dumb" group "it's okay you only made a C" or even "For a dumb kid, that's good work" as you hand them a paper that only scored a C. Tell the "smart" kids "I know you can do better" when they turn in A- work. Within weeks if not days, the kids will be putting out work that matches the expectations they are given. The "dumb" ones will study less, and when they do study the stress of an inferior self-image may even cause them to not learn as easily as if they didn't have this stress. Continue this "experiment" for 12 years and you'll wind up with the "smart" group significantly ahead of the "dumb" group.
Translate this into the real world:
If a manager interviews job candidates with a mindset of "he's got a Black-sounding name and voice, I'm going to look for excuses to not hire him during the phone interview, or if he's clearly good enough to get past the phone screen and he turns out to be the best candidate, I'll not give him good assignments until he's worked extra-hard to prove he can handle entry-level assignments" and "he's got a white-sounding name and voice, I'll look for every reason to get him past the phone screen, and if he is in a tie with a non-white candidate I'll hire him, and I'll give him better assignments than non-white candidates" well, you will wind up with a department where non-white candidates aren't as successful as the white one. At least until that manager's boss wonders why his department is under-performing and fires him.
So, the TLDR is you're saying all moms should name their kids with white names, because that apparently magically makes the kids turn out to not be criminals?
More like:
Parents should be aware of the perception others will have if you name your kid such-and-such. If you live in a strongly anti-Semitic country, naming your kid Abraham or Ester will force them to live in an environment where people see their names and subtly or overtly discriminate against them. If you live in a society that diminishes the value of women, you may want to give your daughter a gender-neutral name like Chris to reduce the amount of discrimination she faces.
It's sad but true that there is still some anti-Black racial discrimination in the United States. For this reason, anyone who gives their kid a "Black-sounding" name needs to be aware of this. Some parents may deliberately do this in order to provide "teachable moments" for both their own children and people who interact with their kids.
In any case, the whole thing will probably be moot with respect to "Black" names in 100 years, just as it is pretty much moot for names that, 100 years ago, were associated with groups like Irish, Hungarian, Polish, and other European countries that were considered "inferior" to the "Anglo-Saxon" groups that dominated society at the time.
Bottom line:
Name your kid whatever you want, just be aware of the the prejudices that still exist in society and that the name you give your child may influence how much discrimination he or she faces.
Word gets around campus fast that so-and-so company or such-and-such department is THE internship to go for and AVOID even applying at such-and-such employer, and heaven help you if you get stuck in this-or-that department.
At least it did when I was doing that sort of thing.
In Education, medicine, and some other fields, your internship will be a lot more supervised than your first-year post-training job. Some fields, like medicine, even require a post-degree form of "internship" (e.g. residency, post-doc, etc.) for certain career paths.
That's not necessarily true in all technical fields, particularly if the job you are doing literally could be done anyone who knew how to code as well as a typical about-20-year-old Computer Science sophomore or junior.
When I did the equivalent of a technical-field internship as an undergrad, I had basically the same job description, supervision, and pay as if I had dropped out of school the previous semester. The only difference is the employer would treat my drop-out co-worker as a new entry-level employee who would NOT be completing his 4-year degree, and I was treated as a POTENTIAL RECRUIT who WOULD have a 4-year degree in a year or two.
It's not relevant to this verse and I don't think it's in the Bible at all, but some Christians find it spiritually helpful to think of marriage as a 3-way intimate relationship, with God being the 3rd, or should I say, 1st, party.
Personally, I think that such ideas work well as long as the two merely-mortal parties in the marriage are in complete agreement on this, but I'm not about to tell someone "if you don't think this way, you aren't a Christian" or "your husband or wife thinks this way, you should too, if you don't, you aren't a good Christian."
Odd, the last "salary" job I had was was "you get paid $X per month" whether the month had 28 days or 31, whether I worked 160 hours or much, much longer.
My trump card? I knew my boss knew I had the option to quit for greener pastures at any time, assuming I could find those mythical "greener pastures."
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I tried what you said.
Now my laser is all sticky. Would laundering it help?
Wait until you find out how Slurm(TM) is made.
A spectre is haunting Amazon: the spectre of $0 communism [amzn.to]
Don't worry, they'll make it up in volume.
Advertising volume, that is.
They guy with all the bees is just the slave-driving middleman.
If you really want to buy from the actual producers, buy from the bees themselves. :)
Like wine and some other food products, honey CAN taste different based on the flowers the bees feed from.
"National chain" honey is likely either from the same region year after year and/or it's a blend that's controlled to ensure a consistent product from year to year.
Heck, as a consumer, if I wasn't specifically looking for "pure" honey I would expect some added ingredients, including small amounts of flavoring and cheaper sweeteners, to allow the company to sell me something that "tasted like honey" at a lower price and with greater batch-to-batch and year-to-year consistency. Then again, I'm the kind of guy who usually buys name-brand relatively cheap fizzy drinks instead of small-label, all-natural-ingredients expensive ones. But when I do buy "carbonated grape juice" I expect it to be nothing but pure carbonated grape juice.
The one thing I do demand as a food customer is an accurate label that lists all flavor-, texture-, and medically-significant ingredients (e.g. allergens, anything with nutritional value, etc.), and all non-trace ingredients.
When you buy local, it tends to have a greater economic impact on your local economy than if you buy from outside your local area.
This information is useful to people who give a greater or lesser "moral weight" to supporting their local economy vs. their regional economy vs. their domestic economy vs. the world economy. Those who more strongly favor firing the economic engines of 3rd world countries than they do their domestic, regional, or local economic engine will use this information and say "Sell me that 3rd world honey, please, even if I have to pay extra." Those who favor the opposite may be willing to pay a premium - perhaps even a 100% premium - for locally grown/locally produced goods.
illegal antibiotics and heavy metals
Now we know the real "ancient Chinese secret ingredients" in the "Chinese Miracle Honey" that promises that I'll "Never get another infection again."
At least that's what "Chromium Carl" and his predecessor, "Mercury Mike," keep saying on the infomericals.
Where's the actual evidence of harm to either porn consumers or producers?
Careful there, all it takes is one porn producer or consumer to sincerely say "looking at or being involved in producing porn hurt me" and your argument collapses.
It's far better for everyone to admit that IN SOME CASES porn involving only consenting adults and viewed only by consenting adults is harmful and IN SOME CASES it is not.
Absent scientific studies, we are free to argue about who is harmed and how much harm is done. Within reason, we are even free to argue the definition of harm.
In a democratic society whose constitution or basic law doesn't address the issue of porn or freedom of speech/publication/art, it's the job of the lawmakers to listen to the people, examine the facts, and pass laws or decline to pass laws accordingly.
Assuming and anti-internet-porn law would be legal and in practical terms enforceable, it's the government's job to weigh the harm being done by the status quo against the harm done by increased regulations, and to take into account the will of the people in the process. Not an easy job.
or your favorite beverage that requires walking more than 3 feet to refill.*
*if your coffeemaker or fridge is that close to your keyboard, you get points for efficiency but you'll need to find a different micro-break. May I suggest moving it across the room?
If it weren't for him, Jenny's Phone Number might have been "UNion 75309".
Doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
Many non-profits and governments can't afford to pay for top- or even average-level talent unless that talent is willing to work for less.
If you can offer them the skills they need plus the wisdom and experience that someone your age has to offer at a price they are able to pay, they'll consider it a gift.
Some government and non-profit IT-related jobs really are 40 hour a week jobs, and you actually DO get to go home at 5 and not think about work until the next morning.
Choose your prospective employer carefully though - in some governments, office politics can merge with real-world politics and that can make working there unpleasant.
Dudes, you are getting a Dell.
http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=255508&st=20&p=1978848&#entry1978848
Text of fix, credit the forum poster known as "omaudio":
from Kaspersky-
"We apologize for the inconvenience. It does appear that there was a hiccup with an Update pushed out causing Windows XP machines to lose internet connectivity. An update was just released that should address the issue, what I will need you to do is:
To get XP users internet connectivity (temporarily), please disable the Web AV component of your protection policy for your managed computers. After doing so;
In Security Center (or Admin Kit):
1.) Go to the Repositories section >> (Right click) Updates >> All Tasks >> Clear updates repository.
2.) Go to the Repositories section >> (Right click) Updates >> Download Updates
After taking this step, please run your group Update task for Managed Computers. After the update has been pushed to your workstations, please re-enable your Web AV component in your protection policy. This should resolve the issue. "
In Soviet Russia... ...nevermind, too easy.
The US government should authorize the killing of US citizens when:
1. Reply with your idea
2. Reply with your idea
3. Reply with your idea
4. Reply with your idea
5. Reply with your idea
6. Reply with your idea
7. Reply with your idea
8. Reply with your COWBOYNEAL or YOUINSENSITIVECLOD option
My condolences on your loss.
Man makes it, man will break it. It's that simple.
If you grew up in my house, the rule was "man makes it, the kid will break it." :)
Poor defendants can't afford bail or lawyers, so they have an incentive to agree to a plea deal. Once they have a criminal conviction, it becomes much harder to get a good-paying job, and there you go.
A good lawyer can usually get a much better deal on a plea-bargain, reducing the chance of a felony rap and, for misdemeanors, increasing the chance of some kind of diversion or alternative-sentencing that doesn't result in a permanent criminal record.
Scenario:
Two 19 year old drug addicts with clean records in separate incidents are caught with a small amount of meth, just enough that they could be convicted of a minimal felony and get anywhere from probation to 2 years in prison. The county has a drug-addiction-diversion program for young adults.
Both are married and have a child. One is Black and poor. The other comes from an upper-middle-class family and is White.
If the prosecutor is a bigot, he'll steer the White guy into the diversion program and threaten to throw the book at the Black guy.
If he's not a bigot, he'll give the same options to both people, but because of the wait for trial and bail costs, the Black guy may choose to take a quick plea. The options are:
* Post $10,000 refundable bond or pay a bail-bondsman $1000 non-refundable, OR
* Stay in jail until trial or until a bed opens up in the drug-treatment center if you take the plea deal, OR
* Plea out now.
The plea agreement is:
* 2 years of pre-trial deferment, during which time you will
** attend a 30-day inpatient addiction treatment program at your own expense (cost: $10,000, but a local charity will pay half if you are poor)
** Spend 30 days in jail over the first 15 weeks after release from treatment (normally weekends, assuming you work Monday-Friday)
** attend at least 3 NA or similar meetings a week in the 90 days
** see a therapist or participate in group therapy at least weekly for the first 90 days after the inpatient treatment, at your own expense (cost: $25/week for group therapy run by a local charity, more for non-charity or 1-1 options)
** For the remainder of the 2 years, attend an NA or similar meeting weekly and stay in contact with the equivalent of a probation officer weekly and have in-person monthly visits
** For the entire 2 years, be subject to searches and drug screenings at any time
** Be employed, enrolled in school, or actively seeking work the entire period after release from the inpatient program
** The first failure will result in an evaluation of your addiction and a return to whatever stage of treatment you need, but in any case your total time on supervised pre-trial release will be extended by 6 months and you will serve another 30 days in jail over the next 15 weeks that you aren't in rehab.
** You may at any time terminate this agreement and be sentenced to 6 months in jail followed by 18 months of probation, during which time you will agree to random drug tests and searches. If you make this choice you will have a misdemeanor drug-offense record.
** Before signing this agreement, you may choose to go to court on the felony charge. If convicted, we intend to request a sentence of 2 years in prison, with 1 year suspended. During the suspension you will agree to normal terms of parole, including random drug screening and searches. If you violate these terms you will be returned to prison for the remaining year.
The middle-class guy hires a lawyer who bonds him out then tells his client "they caught you red-handed, there's no sloppy recordkeeping, take the deal." He takes the deal. The waiting list for a bed at the subsidized treatment center is 3 weeks, so his parents sent him to a private facility. Two years after entering rehab, he's holding his 2-year NA chip and celebrating the dismissal of his case.
The poor guy's court-appointed lawyer tells him the same thing. Unfortunately there's no way he can scrape together $5K to pay for rehab and his lawyer isn't smart enough or is just too busy to help him f
Take a group of kids that have about the same intellect.
Tell half of them they are more stupid than the other half. Give them the same assignments but not the same expectations - tell the "dumb" group "it's okay you only made a C" or even "For a dumb kid, that's good work" as you hand them a paper that only scored a C. Tell the "smart" kids "I know you can do better" when they turn in A- work. Within weeks if not days, the kids will be putting out work that matches the expectations they are given. The "dumb" ones will study less, and when they do study the stress of an inferior self-image may even cause them to not learn as easily as if they didn't have this stress. Continue this "experiment" for 12 years and you'll wind up with the "smart" group significantly ahead of the "dumb" group.
Translate this into the real world:
If a manager interviews job candidates with a mindset of "he's got a Black-sounding name and voice, I'm going to look for excuses to not hire him during the phone interview, or if he's clearly good enough to get past the phone screen and he turns out to be the best candidate, I'll not give him good assignments until he's worked extra-hard to prove he can handle entry-level assignments" and "he's got a white-sounding name and voice, I'll look for every reason to get him past the phone screen, and if he is in a tie with a non-white candidate I'll hire him, and I'll give him better assignments than non-white candidates" well, you will wind up with a department where non-white candidates aren't as successful as the white one. At least until that manager's boss wonders why his department is under-performing and fires him.
So, the TLDR is you're saying all moms should name their kids with white names, because that apparently magically makes the kids turn out to not be criminals?
More like:
Parents should be aware of the perception others will have if you name your kid such-and-such. If you live in a strongly anti-Semitic country, naming your kid Abraham or Ester will force them to live in an environment where people see their names and subtly or overtly discriminate against them. If you live in a society that diminishes the value of women, you may want to give your daughter a gender-neutral name like Chris to reduce the amount of discrimination she faces.
It's sad but true that there is still some anti-Black racial discrimination in the United States. For this reason, anyone who gives their kid a "Black-sounding" name needs to be aware of this. Some parents may deliberately do this in order to provide "teachable moments" for both their own children and people who interact with their kids.
In any case, the whole thing will probably be moot with respect to "Black" names in 100 years, just as it is pretty much moot for names that, 100 years ago, were associated with groups like Irish, Hungarian, Polish, and other European countries that were considered "inferior" to the "Anglo-Saxon" groups that dominated society at the time.
Bottom line:
Name your kid whatever you want, just be aware of the the prejudices that still exist in society and that the name you give your child may influence how much discrimination he or she faces.
Word gets around campus fast that so-and-so company or such-and-such department is THE internship to go for and AVOID even applying at such-and-such employer, and heaven help you if you get stuck in this-or-that department.
At least it did when I was doing that sort of thing.
I was a "summer intern" at a job that had no connection with my schooling.
Basically, I was a temporary employee and they called me an intern for HR purposes.
As far as pay went I got paid what any other temporary employee with my skills and education would've gotten.
By the way, I was a "real" employee, not an employee of a temporary-employee-outsourcing firm.
In Education, medicine, and some other fields, your internship will be a lot more supervised than your first-year post-training job. Some fields, like medicine, even require a post-degree form of "internship" (e.g. residency, post-doc, etc.) for certain career paths.
That's not necessarily true in all technical fields, particularly if the job you are doing literally could be done anyone who knew how to code as well as a typical about-20-year-old Computer Science sophomore or junior.
When I did the equivalent of a technical-field internship as an undergrad, I had basically the same job description, supervision, and pay as if I had dropped out of school the previous semester. The only difference is the employer would treat my drop-out co-worker as a new entry-level employee who would NOT be completing his 4-year degree, and I was treated as a POTENTIAL RECRUIT who WOULD have a 4-year degree in a year or two.
It's not relevant to this verse and I don't think it's in the Bible at all, but some Christians find it spiritually helpful to think of marriage as a 3-way intimate relationship, with God being the 3rd, or should I say, 1st, party.
Personally, I think that such ideas work well as long as the two merely-mortal parties in the marriage are in complete agreement on this, but I'm not about to tell someone "if you don't think this way, you aren't a Christian" or "your husband or wife thinks this way, you should too, if you don't, you aren't a good Christian."
Odd, the last "salary" job I had was was "you get paid $X per month" whether the month had 28 days or 31, whether I worked 160 hours or much, much longer.
My trump card? I knew my boss knew I had the option to quit for greener pastures at any time, assuming I could find those mythical "greener pastures."