If you look at the list of ingredients for standard supermarket-purchased whole grain bread, you will find that the first ingredient is almost always bleached white flour. Whole grain bread as mass-produced usually only contains around 25% whole grain flour. This is due to the fact that economies of scale and subsidies make bleached white flour significantly cheaper to procure. If you want to find the bread that's better for you, first look at the pricetag; if it is 4x the price, it is more likely to have the proper balance (compared to a loaf that's only slightly more expensive).
Many "artisan" breads were 100% whole grain, until the marketing departments caught on that the term "artisan" had no regulatory control. Now a lot of unhealthy carb products are using the word, which means you really have to look at the ingredients and nutritional info on the package, even within a specific brand.
That said, overfeeding our bodies ANY kind of food will have an adverse reaction to the bacteria in our stomachs that are expecting something else. The whole equation is extremely complex, and has to do with genetics, symbionts (the bacteria that help us to live and live off of us), and diet. You have to take all three into consideration.
Due to lobbying and subsidies, many food-related industries are currently out of balance with actual need -- and we can't consume this large an amount of processed potato, corn and dairy and still be healthy. This doesn't mean we need to avoid these products, but it does mean we need alternatives in our diets.
Another use of this could be to take photos of the currently pristine areas that are proposed to be disturbed by oil and gas pipelines coming down from Canada. Give everyone a nice "before" record.
For me this raises a question... do Israelis have to pay interest on their credit card purchases/payments? If they do, isn't that against Mosaic law?
In many other Mid-east countries, purchasing on credit is illegal, as it would too easily lead to a breach of Mosaic law.
I know, Israel doesn't follow those laws in the political sphere anymore. But it seems to me that if targeted attacks against a nation's credit cards is considered terrorism (which, in a way, it is, as it causes FUD in a populace disproportionate to the actual effect of the crime), then financial exploitation on the part of banks should also be raised on similar grounds.
Even though the kid's from a different (and opposed) nation, this attack on credit cards seems to me to be more along the lines of civil unrest, protesting the abuse of a nation's spending power in a way that everyone will notice.
The reason I point this out is that I can see the US going down a similar route in the future, possibly even branding certain kinds of protest as "terrorism" with the appropriate PATRIOT-based punishment.
This worries me. Hopefully in all cases, actions will be a bit more measured than the political bravado.
The difference is that committing a murder is illegal, but reporting that "escroc" is commonly associated with "Lyonnaise de Garantie" is not.
If someone said Lyonnaise de Garantie is a crook, and if that person was wrong, then Lyonnaise de Garantie should be going after that person.
Are you sure that saying "personnes ont affirmé Lyonnaise de Garantie est un escroc" is not illegal by French law? In France, you aren't innocent until proven guilty, and their libel laws don't line up with US libel laws either. It is highly possible that unless Google could irrefutably prove that "Lyonnaise de Garantie est un escroc," they would be found guilty.
Opinions from those who know the appropriate areas of French law?
That's just wishful dreaming. What would actually happen is that the people violating would have them and any companies they represent taken to court and dragged through the system until they were out of money. If, by some miracle, they were able to raise enough support to survive the ordeal, the actual trial would be presided over by judge only, not judge and jury. The appeals court (it would go to appeal whoever won) would also be judge only, after which it would hit the Supremes and be presided over by a panel of judges.
See the problem here? Unless it was an offensive class action suit against the government and interested bodies, and the court miraculously thought such a suit had merit, it will never reach a trial by peers.
This is the crux of the issue. While tech companies could buy and sell Hollywood in a heartbeat, and have vastly more technical and monetary power, they haven't been using it to prop up/support politicians -- this has been the MO of the entertainment industry since its inception. As such, while the tech industry has been going after educating the education system, entertainment has been busy educating politicians, and then making themselves indispensable to boot.
Groups like Sony have put a foot in both camps, and so can get things done the way they'd like... but Sony doesn't really depend much on an open Internet. In fact, they'd probably benefit from a fragmented Internet.
Set up an alternate system. One with reasonable terms, with reasonable royalties for radio/net play. One where when they lose sales they can see where they went. If they just lose money they will blame piracy, if they can actually see someone else eating their lunch then they (and their supporters) know they lost.
But as long as they can do things this way, they haven't lost... and if they see someone else eating a lunch that might possibly be like the one they may or may not have remembered to pack, they can just take it -- no questions asked. If it turns out the lunch irrefutably belongs to the other guy, and he turns out to be more influential than they thought, they may have to give it or a facsimile back with an apology.
Why would anyone involved want this system to change?
Amen... I've clicked the wrong moderation and had to undo with a post too many times. Doesn't that imply that something's wrong with the interface? Even a divider between the negative and positive moderations would help.
That'll get it in front of the people who already care. You need to get it in front of the people who don't realize that it impacts them... having it go viral on Facebook might work, but to make ti stick, it has to leave the Internet, and be seen as a "real world" problem.
A run of ads along the lines of "I used to own a Mom & Pop import website, but with SOPA, all it takes is one lawyer and no more "Hello Kitty"." and "I'd love to tell you what I think of large corporations on my website, but with SOPA, I won't be able to. View the QR code to find out why."
I personally think of it as a feature, it prevents you from blindly copy pasting code.
Saying "copy/pasting" is totally missing the point. Most of the time, you'd be refactoring, so you'd be CUT/pasting, when moving things to a new function, which of course, require re-indenting. And that's when it becomes so annoying: you have to completely rework the indentation and make sure that you didn't miss even ONE space/tab. That's totally stupid and time consuming for no valid reason.
This is completely true... if you write Python in notepad.
Any programming editor worth its salt will adjust the indents for you automatically. Also, when refactoring, it's often a GOOD thing to have to review the code to ensure you didn't mess something up. If the code is so big that this is not doable, then maybe the refactoring is being done in a less than logical manner?
I've stumbled across enough mishmash code mixing tabs and spaces from various people's additions, and always found that vim (as my editor of choice) and even IDLE and XCode would let me re-balance everything with minimal fuss.
If you're going through manually replacing blocks of spaces with tabs or vice versa, you don't have a problem with the language, you have a problem with your use of your text editor.
"Or else" could be extremely compelling, once MS shuts down their license servers. Once that happens, it's only a matter of time before the only versions of XP still running are illegal cracked versions -- which wouldn't sit well with all the companies still running XP.
Wait! Wait! I remember that when MS was developing XP, it was supposed to be released as "the most Secure OS ever" with security being the central feature from the ground up! It was to be a complete re-write of the OS.... decades ahead of Windows 98 and even Windows 2000....
OK, I never bought it either, and Win7 actually has a decent security platform. But for most uses, especially when run in a VM, XP does exactly what people want. MS's focus on binary compatibility is to thank for that. The stuff they broke with Vista is to thank for people still running XP.
Of course, I know of systems still running Windows 95c. Some of these are SCADA. Operating procedure includes a mandatory OS reboot every 24 days.
Indeed... redundancy is the key. What we really need is a system that will use what's already available (Internet, HAM packet radio, etc.) but have redundant fall-back options, such as line-of-sight, fresnel reflectors, weather balloons, etc. In essence, the ground stations should be mesh network gateways, that can be set up to track all the transmission methods that *could* be used -- and integrate the data into the mesh. If the format is standardized, then everyone could fab/code their own modules for specific transmission types, making the overall system extremely robust.
Private RF transmission outlawed in your country? No problem! Use a Fresnel reflector! Remote location with no sats overhead? No problem! Use a tower and long-range packet radio! Living in a rural area with interested parties living miles apart, out of line-of-site? send up some balloons!
None of these solutions will be enough on its own, but together they'd make one pretty solid communications network. Satellites could easily be part of this, but shouldn't be the end goal. The end goal should be communication.
Interesting points here... personally, I care about privacy, and yet I'm still guilty of a few of these; no FB, no contract phone, but I use Google DNS and have online accounts tied to devices I own, as well as a bank account and a credit card (and utility bills).
Of course, I guess one thing about privacy is that it's not on/off: privacy is all in shades of gray. Some people don't care if their insurance company knows all about them, as long as they don't give that info to the government. Some people don't care how much the government knows about them as long as they don't give it to the credit agencies. Some people don't care how much the credit agencies know about them as long as they don't tell their employer/spouse/etc....
We've never had complete privacy... one of the things the internet has done is shown us how much privacy we've never had. Of course, it's now significantly easier for anyone anywhere in the world to abuse privacy contracts, which is the real issue here.
It's not that big a deal... it only affects the entertainment industry. Re-read that quote: "...and must unlock free of charge all devices already sold to costumers through a simple form on their respective websites."
It would make more sense for LEGO to bundle the plans with an "expansion pack" and "encourage" people to pay the extra -- less than he did, but more than they currently do.
Of course, I think LEGO should just go whole hog and recreate the entire collider. Bonus points for a new LEGO-boatswain block;)
I'm sorry, but the US is supposed to be a melting pot. How can we be bigoted against a melting pot?
And just because someone's trying to steal your car doesn't make it OK for you to try to steal theirs too. You've once again proved the point the GP was making. You see nothing wrong with this. Your morality is relative. You only want to be as well behaved as China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and Israel (I'm sure the UK, France, Spain and Brazil are in on it too, and likely India and the Phillipines, but that's just "shame on them").
And barring that, I'd like to see them do the right thing now... which, given the visibility they have with congress, is NOT to quietly sit in the back row and remove their blatant pro-SOPA propaganda... it's to go in and tell congress "We're losing all our business just on the THREAT of SOPA passing. I think we may want to kill this thing and come up with something that doesn't negatively affect everyone who uses web sites." Then to start lobbying in that direction, and start speaking out against the ways SOPA is harmful.
This isn't how I expect GoDaddy to respond, but this is the only way they'd gain my respect.
ICANN has Cheeseburger indeed... ICANN will disintegrate if SOPA goes through. It'll be replaced by something with minimal US presence, which pretty much all ISPs and ICPs will use, unless legislated not to.
When Congress goes as far as telling Google they can't use their own DNS root, things will begin to get REALLY interesting.
Cosmetics companies are in it due to the clause regarding counterfeit goods. Likely CWFA is in it to support them in this. Pharma is in it for the same reason, as are Tiffany & Co.
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If you look at the list of ingredients for standard supermarket-purchased whole grain bread, you will find that the first ingredient is almost always bleached white flour. Whole grain bread as mass-produced usually only contains around 25% whole grain flour. This is due to the fact that economies of scale and subsidies make bleached white flour significantly cheaper to procure. If you want to find the bread that's better for you, first look at the pricetag; if it is 4x the price, it is more likely to have the proper balance (compared to a loaf that's only slightly more expensive).
Many "artisan" breads were 100% whole grain, until the marketing departments caught on that the term "artisan" had no regulatory control. Now a lot of unhealthy carb products are using the word, which means you really have to look at the ingredients and nutritional info on the package, even within a specific brand.
That said, overfeeding our bodies ANY kind of food will have an adverse reaction to the bacteria in our stomachs that are expecting something else. The whole equation is extremely complex, and has to do with genetics, symbionts (the bacteria that help us to live and live off of us), and diet. You have to take all three into consideration.
Due to lobbying and subsidies, many food-related industries are currently out of balance with actual need -- and we can't consume this large an amount of processed potato, corn and dairy and still be healthy. This doesn't mean we need to avoid these products, but it does mean we need alternatives in our diets.
Another use of this could be to take photos of the currently pristine areas that are proposed to be disturbed by oil and gas pipelines coming down from Canada. Give everyone a nice "before" record.
For me this raises a question... do Israelis have to pay interest on their credit card purchases/payments? If they do, isn't that against Mosaic law?
In many other Mid-east countries, purchasing on credit is illegal, as it would too easily lead to a breach of Mosaic law.
I know, Israel doesn't follow those laws in the political sphere anymore. But it seems to me that if targeted attacks against a nation's credit cards is considered terrorism (which, in a way, it is, as it causes FUD in a populace disproportionate to the actual effect of the crime), then financial exploitation on the part of banks should also be raised on similar grounds.
Even though the kid's from a different (and opposed) nation, this attack on credit cards seems to me to be more along the lines of civil unrest, protesting the abuse of a nation's spending power in a way that everyone will notice.
The reason I point this out is that I can see the US going down a similar route in the future, possibly even branding certain kinds of protest as "terrorism" with the appropriate PATRIOT-based punishment.
This worries me. Hopefully in all cases, actions will be a bit more measured than the political bravado.
The difference is that committing a murder is illegal, but reporting that "escroc" is commonly associated with "Lyonnaise de Garantie" is not.
If someone said Lyonnaise de Garantie is a crook, and if that person was wrong, then Lyonnaise de Garantie should be going after that person.
Are you sure that saying "personnes ont affirmé Lyonnaise de Garantie est un escroc" is not illegal by French law? In France, you aren't innocent until proven guilty, and their libel laws don't line up with US libel laws either. It is highly possible that unless Google could irrefutably prove that "Lyonnaise de Garantie est un escroc," they would be found guilty.
Opinions from those who know the appropriate areas of French law?
Filing false reports would be illegal and easy to spot, and easy to ignore.
Now if people started reporting everything under the sun to the *lobbyists* we might gain some traction....
That's just wishful dreaming. What would actually happen is that the people violating would have them and any companies they represent taken to court and dragged through the system until they were out of money. If, by some miracle, they were able to raise enough support to survive the ordeal, the actual trial would be presided over by judge only, not judge and jury. The appeals court (it would go to appeal whoever won) would also be judge only, after which it would hit the Supremes and be presided over by a panel of judges.
See the problem here? Unless it was an offensive class action suit against the government and interested bodies, and the court miraculously thought such a suit had merit, it will never reach a trial by peers.
They still have no reason to elect a Republican; they can elect an Independent, or even a Libertarian.
This is the crux of the issue. While tech companies could buy and sell Hollywood in a heartbeat, and have vastly more technical and monetary power, they haven't been using it to prop up/support politicians -- this has been the MO of the entertainment industry since its inception. As such, while the tech industry has been going after educating the education system, entertainment has been busy educating politicians, and then making themselves indispensable to boot.
Groups like Sony have put a foot in both camps, and so can get things done the way they'd like... but Sony doesn't really depend much on an open Internet. In fact, they'd probably benefit from a fragmented Internet.
Set up an alternate system. One with reasonable terms, with reasonable royalties for radio/net play. One where when they lose sales they can see where they went. If they just lose money they will blame piracy, if they can actually see someone else eating their lunch then they (and their supporters) know they lost.
But as long as they can do things this way, they haven't lost... and if they see someone else eating a lunch that might possibly be like the one they may or may not have remembered to pack, they can just take it -- no questions asked. If it turns out the lunch irrefutably belongs to the other guy, and he turns out to be more influential than they thought, they may have to give it or a facsimile back with an apology.
Why would anyone involved want this system to change?
Amen... I've clicked the wrong moderation and had to undo with a post too many times. Doesn't that imply that something's wrong with the interface?
Even a divider between the negative and positive moderations would help.
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/links/ -- and most of the stuff is free or shareware :)
That'll get it in front of the people who already care.
You need to get it in front of the people who don't realize that it impacts them... having it go viral on Facebook might work, but to make ti stick, it has to leave the Internet, and be seen as a "real world" problem.
A run of ads along the lines of "I used to own a Mom & Pop import website, but with SOPA, all it takes is one lawyer and no more "Hello Kitty"." and "I'd love to tell you what I think of large corporations on my website, but with SOPA, I won't be able to. View the QR code to find out why."
I personally think of it as a feature, it prevents you from blindly copy pasting code.
Saying "copy/pasting" is totally missing the point. Most of the time, you'd be refactoring, so you'd be CUT/pasting, when moving things to a new function, which of course, require re-indenting. And that's when it becomes so annoying: you have to completely rework the indentation and make sure that you didn't miss even ONE space/tab. That's totally stupid and time consuming for no valid reason.
This is completely true... if you write Python in notepad.
Any programming editor worth its salt will adjust the indents for you automatically.
Also, when refactoring, it's often a GOOD thing to have to review the code to ensure you didn't mess something up. If the code is so big that this is not doable, then maybe the refactoring is being done in a less than logical manner?
I've stumbled across enough mishmash code mixing tabs and spaces from various people's additions, and always found that vim (as my editor of choice) and even IDLE and XCode would let me re-balance everything with minimal fuss.
If you're going through manually replacing blocks of spaces with tabs or vice versa, you don't have a problem with the language, you have a problem with your use of your text editor.
"Or else" could be extremely compelling, once MS shuts down their license servers. Once that happens, it's only a matter of time before the only versions of XP still running are illegal cracked versions -- which wouldn't sit well with all the companies still running XP.
Wait! Wait! I remember that when MS was developing XP, it was supposed to be released as "the most Secure OS ever" with security being the central feature from the ground up! It was to be a complete re-write of the OS.... decades ahead of Windows 98 and even Windows 2000....
OK, I never bought it either, and Win7 actually has a decent security platform. But for most uses, especially when run in a VM, XP does exactly what people want. MS's focus on binary compatibility is to thank for that. The stuff they broke with Vista is to thank for people still running XP.
Of course, I know of systems still running Windows 95c. Some of these are SCADA. Operating procedure includes a mandatory OS reboot every 24 days.
...at which point "termination of consciousness" becomes a completely different crime than "termination of life".
And backups become more than the sum of their parts.
Mac? PalmOS? What decade did you dredge this comment out of?
This comment sounds like something that would have been posted on /. in 1998....
Of course, it's still true with s/Mac/OS X/, s/PalmOS/Android, WebOS and iOS/ etc. :D
Indeed... redundancy is the key. What we really need is a system that will use what's already available (Internet, HAM packet radio, etc.) but have redundant fall-back options, such as line-of-sight, fresnel reflectors, weather balloons, etc. In essence, the ground stations should be mesh network gateways, that can be set up to track all the transmission methods that *could* be used -- and integrate the data into the mesh. If the format is standardized, then everyone could fab/code their own modules for specific transmission types, making the overall system extremely robust.
Private RF transmission outlawed in your country? No problem! Use a Fresnel reflector!
Remote location with no sats overhead? No problem! Use a tower and long-range packet radio!
Living in a rural area with interested parties living miles apart, out of line-of-site? send up some balloons!
None of these solutions will be enough on its own, but together they'd make one pretty solid communications network. Satellites could easily be part of this, but shouldn't be the end goal. The end goal should be communication.
Interesting points here... personally, I care about privacy, and yet I'm still guilty of a few of these; no FB, no contract phone, but I use Google DNS and have online accounts tied to devices I own, as well as a bank account and a credit card (and utility bills).
Of course, I guess one thing about privacy is that it's not on/off: privacy is all in shades of gray. Some people don't care if their insurance company knows all about them, as long as they don't give that info to the government. Some people don't care how much the government knows about them as long as they don't give it to the credit agencies. Some people don't care how much the credit agencies know about them as long as they don't tell their employer/spouse/etc....
We've never had complete privacy... one of the things the internet has done is shown us how much privacy we've never had. Of course, it's now significantly easier for anyone anywhere in the world to abuse privacy contracts, which is the real issue here.
It's not that big a deal... it only affects the entertainment industry. Re-read that quote:
"...and must unlock free of charge all devices already sold to costumers through a simple form on their respective websites."
It would make more sense for LEGO to bundle the plans with an "expansion pack" and "encourage" people to pay the extra -- less than he did, but more than they currently do.
Of course, I think LEGO should just go whole hog and recreate the entire collider. Bonus points for a new LEGO-boatswain block ;)
Bigoted talk?
I'm sorry, but the US is supposed to be a melting pot. How can we be bigoted against a melting pot?
And just because someone's trying to steal your car doesn't make it OK for you to try to steal theirs too. You've once again proved the point the GP was making. You see nothing wrong with this. Your morality is relative. You only want to be as well behaved as China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and Israel (I'm sure the UK, France, Spain and Brazil are in on it too, and likely India and the Phillipines, but that's just "shame on them").
And barring that, I'd like to see them do the right thing now... which, given the visibility they have with congress, is NOT to quietly sit in the back row and remove their blatant pro-SOPA propaganda... it's to go in and tell congress "We're losing all our business just on the THREAT of SOPA passing. I think we may want to kill this thing and come up with something that doesn't negatively affect everyone who uses web sites." Then to start lobbying in that direction, and start speaking out against the ways SOPA is harmful.
This isn't how I expect GoDaddy to respond, but this is the only way they'd gain my respect.
ICANN has Cheeseburger indeed... ICANN will disintegrate if SOPA goes through. It'll be replaced by something with minimal US presence, which pretty much all ISPs and ICPs will use, unless legislated not to.
When Congress goes as far as telling Google they can't use their own DNS root, things will begin to get REALLY interesting.
Cosmetics companies are in it due to the clause regarding counterfeit goods. Likely CWFA is in it to support them in this. Pharma is in it for the same reason, as are Tiffany & Co.