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Is Sugar Toxic?
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I'd say the "toxic" teminolgy are more for dramatic effect, but it does deliver the message - sugar is not good food, not a good ingredient, and in the amounts you eat it, it's really bad for you.
It's profitable as hell in the food business though. It's cheap, doens't spoil, it actually preserves other food, people love it, and it's somewhat addictive. Sells like crazy and has a large profit margin. Hell I can see why they lobbied the whole world to say whatever was needed to sell it for decades. It's so addictive in fact that this guy can talk all he wants, there will be little effect. I'll be shocked if the sugar and candy industry lose more than 1% of their business over this. Over an extended period it may have more of an effect though.
people want to consume so much shit they didn't seem to need before.
Market generation or something like that. There are actually tons of professionals who work every day planning how to create demand, increase desire, create needs, and then how to fulfill those needs, except not really, so that it becomes an infinite need. In other words planning how to make people dependent, addicted, hook them by whatever their basic weaknesses, running in circles spending all their money on nothing in particular.
Everyone does things for money. That's it. Knowledge, evolution, development don't matter. Every scientist and researcher knows that. Sell crappy stuff, you make millions, discover great things for humanity, you starve. What we need is some economic inventions that will free us from the tyranny of money. Everyone is tired of being ruled by money.
Research some into the origins of value and representations of time and labor. Create new labor-value-storage rules and representations. Encrypted, uniqeue, peer-checked value representation tokens can be created by anyone, stored and traded. Ok, maybe that's a bit far fetched, but I think that is the general idea. I think there is no more reason to depend on central banks to regulate the instruments we use to work with each other and represent our labor, efforts, and objects. Verifying value and work, adding and subrtracting, and creating documents that cannot be forged are not that hard.
You seem to be the only person to point this out so far, and I completely agree! If there is less work to go around, then why don't we work less?
We need to organize in another way. Discuss among ourselves, organize, produce and work independently. We work for the profit of corporations, not to satisfy our human needs. We are not organized into task-forces to meet our own needs of education, health, transportation, communication, housing, and products. We are organized into working for companies, to produce profit, to pay the company's bills, which are the profit of other companies, which are the profits of investors, who don't actaully work at all, they just pile and save profits, and it goes to buy luxury, unecessary, wasteful products, which prople work to produce instead of what they really need. We are organized in a way planning work to produce profit margins first, perhaps accidentally a byproduct is to meet some human needs or wants, but that's not the real, primary objective, just sometimes a necessary part of the work to produce profit. We work to produce large profit margins, basically. Which is not so terrible, except that our own needs are not really made to be a priority.
But the devil's advocate (corporation and government) justification will go, nobody does anything without money. Money comes from jobs and profit, jobs come from companies, companies depend on product consumption. Study it more, and money really is a representation of labor and goods from natural product extraction. No money or product exists without human labor and nature's raw materials. Companies are just organized human labor.
So what we need is to organize ourselves, organize our work, produce for our needs, and that's what money and economy were designed to do originally - distribute work and product in an efficient, economizing way. But economies have been hijacked by intemediaries at several levels, abusing it, making "money" become just a formula to slice off portions of the work of other people, while giving various nonsense, twisted and misleading "explanations of the theory of productivity and economic efficiency"
If there is no need for wasting paper, why do we need to work? Is it a religion, does everyone have to work, consume, and waste? What's broken are the economists, who cannot adjust the economy to change with the technology. Humanity has evolved before, but it was never by resiting change, but thirsting for it. There is no need to work just to consume, consume, there is a need to study, research and invent. That is real work.
I thought it got fixed in the POSIX repair shop. Then by the LSB mechanics. And finally it was fixed by the Java traders on Tatooine. It's still not fixed? Why is the GoogooPlex Star irate?
Our social and political structure lags behind our technical one.
Right on the target. Society, politics, and mostly economics are holding us up from having more progress. Technical issues are long solved, there's just lots of lies and corruption that never moves forward that is gumming up the gears of progress.
I would venture to say the self driving car is simply inevitable, as the economic forces behind it are huge. Millions of people will buy additional cars, to replace theirs as well as to get extra ones to take their kids to work without them, create truck and taxi fleets with no drivers, etc. After cars become self-driving, they will become smaller, as they will really almost always carry one person and be used within city limits. That will be basically the same as PRT systems, which exist already. --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit --- Personal rapid transit (PRT), also called personal automated transport (PAT) or podcar, is a public transportation mode featuring small automated vehicles operating on a network of specially-built guide ways. PRT is a type of automated guideway transit (AGT), which also includes systems with larger vehicles, all the way to small subway systems.
Brings into the light the numbers on just how dangerous automobiles are. Few activities have these huge numbers of deaths, accidents, and property loss and damages.
In my view this problem is basically that that the entire population's freedom of thought and freedom of expression cannot become some group's "intellectual property".
And you don't think that some crappy mp3s of Michael Jackson are worth every penny that?!?
The scariest (or most interesting) part of this is that it's not so much that the lawyers said so, but the law itself says that is the amount. So if anyone is wrong here, it's the law. The plaintiff is indeed simply asking for the damage amounts based on what is described in the law at the proper calcuation method. .
Anyone holding a city, state or federal public office position; police; C-level or board of directors corporate position, or anyone else they agree to designate will receive status "special executive handling". Othes be automatically deemed "suspect code 1" until further data is available.
It's almost a compliment for a tiny software company to be sued for that amount. No matter what the result, the authors will become part of history. That's practically the budget of a country.
Bittorrent needs an extension to the protocol to always do something that makes it impossible to know from exactly which IP numbers the content actually comes from. It has to be something done in every client by default, otherwise it won't be too effective.
'I couldn't imagine that the US intelligence apparatus with all it's funding, hardware and employees could manage a program like this in the US, how does China do it?"
Internet regulations are increasing all over under all sorts of excuses. From "copyright violations" or "protecting children", the authorities are afraid. Only information runs over the internet, only communications. Unbridled, uncensored, uncontrolled, unsupervised information and communication is a threat to whoever has something to hide, reason to be afraid of what people are thinking or discussing. Mass group communications leads to mass group opinion making, coordinating, and planning.
As soon as decentralized money systems and education systems are discovered and organized in large numbers, by the masses and labor and finances can no longer be centrally controlled, and society will be completely transformed.
Will save a bit of energy at home - and it's got a nice coolness factor. But at home we need of a lot more power than a tabletop of cells. Like covering all the walls and roof with low-cost solar cells will be of some use. What we could use *now* are jackets, hats, backpacks, cellphones and laptops with solar cells built in, to get a little more power when you're *not* near home or any power source.
The debate on privacy vs transparency os far from resolved. Everyone agrees there is a right to privacy for the public and a right to transparency and access in government, management, and crime investigation data, but nobody can figure out where one ends and the other begins. What's clear to me is that privacy is inevitably reducing, but transparency still needs to grow more to accompany. If there is a reduced expectation of privacy, because of new technical and political realities, there has to be an accompanying increase in transparency, especially, at least initially, in the case of public government and publicly-traded corporations.
It's turned into a civil war. It might be better shipping the rebels AK's, anti tank weapons, man portable SAMS and lots of ammunition. Sat phones would be nice for communications but I'm not sure twitter and facebook are really all that important anymore.
I'm willing to help on the internet and journalism. The weapons, well I'm just not going for that, it gets messy fast. Giving weapons and military training is ok, until nobody controls the situation, then taking weapons back not so easy. That civil war could last 20 years.
If you to to a conference on beer quality and nutrients, and you find everyone there is talking about whatever they want except beer, and you insist the topic of beer quality and nutrients is important and nobody cares, maybe you are the one off topic, because in actuality it's really just an excuse to get drunk.
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I'd say the "toxic" teminolgy are more for dramatic effect, but it does deliver the message - sugar is not good food, not a good ingredient, and in the amounts you eat it, it's really bad for you.
It's profitable as hell in the food business though. It's cheap, doens't spoil, it actually preserves other food, people love it, and it's somewhat addictive. Sells like crazy and has a large profit margin. Hell I can see why they lobbied the whole world to say whatever was needed to sell it for decades. It's so addictive in fact that this guy can talk all he wants, there will be little effect. I'll be shocked if the sugar and candy industry lose more than 1% of their business over this. Over an extended period it may have more of an effect though.
people want to consume so much shit they didn't seem to need before.
Market generation or something like that. There are actually tons of professionals who work every day planning how to create demand, increase desire, create needs, and then how to fulfill those needs, except not really, so that it becomes an infinite need. In other words planning how to make people dependent, addicted, hook them by whatever their basic weaknesses, running in circles spending all their money on nothing in particular.
Everyone does things for money. That's it. Knowledge, evolution, development don't matter. Every scientist and researcher knows that. Sell crappy stuff, you make millions, discover great things for humanity, you starve. What we need is some economic inventions that will free us from the tyranny of money. Everyone is tired of being ruled by money.
Research some into the origins of value and representations of time and labor. Create new labor-value-storage rules and representations. Encrypted, uniqeue, peer-checked value representation tokens can be created by anyone, stored and traded. Ok, maybe that's a bit far fetched, but I think that is the general idea. I think there is no more reason to depend on central banks to regulate the instruments we use to work with each other and represent our labor, efforts, and objects. Verifying value and work, adding and subrtracting, and creating documents that cannot be forged are not that hard.
You seem to be the only person to point this out so far, and I completely agree! If there is less work to go around, then why don't we work less?
We need to organize in another way. Discuss among ourselves, organize, produce and work independently. We work for the profit of corporations, not to satisfy our human needs. We are not organized into task-forces to meet our own needs of education, health, transportation, communication, housing, and products. We are organized into working for companies, to produce profit, to pay the company's bills, which are the profit of other companies, which are the profits of investors, who don't actaully work at all, they just pile and save profits, and it goes to buy luxury, unecessary, wasteful products, which prople work to produce instead of what they really need. We are organized in a way planning work to produce profit margins first, perhaps accidentally a byproduct is to meet some human needs or wants, but that's not the real, primary objective, just sometimes a necessary part of the work to produce profit. We work to produce large profit margins, basically. Which is not so terrible, except that our own needs are not really made to be a priority.
But the devil's advocate (corporation and government) justification will go, nobody does anything without money. Money comes from jobs and profit, jobs come from companies, companies depend on product consumption.
Study it more, and money really is a representation of labor and goods from natural product extraction. No money or product exists without human labor and nature's raw materials. Companies are just organized human labor.
So what we need is to organize ourselves, organize our work, produce for our needs, and that's what money and economy were designed to do originally - distribute work and product in an efficient, economizing way.
But economies have been hijacked by intemediaries at several levels, abusing it, making "money" become just a formula to slice off portions of the work of other people, while giving various nonsense, twisted and misleading "explanations of the theory of productivity and economic efficiency"
If there is no need for wasting paper, why do we need to work? Is it a religion, does everyone have to work, consume, and waste? What's broken are the economists, who cannot adjust the economy to change with the technology. Humanity has evolved before, but it was never by resiting change, but thirsting for it. There is no need to work just to consume, consume, there is a need to study, research and invent. That is real work.
The last fragmented android I saw was on Dagobah.
I thought it got fixed in the POSIX repair shop. Then by the LSB mechanics. And finally it was fixed by the Java traders on Tatooine. It's still not fixed? Why is the GoogooPlex Star irate?
Our social and political structure lags behind our technical one.
Right on the target. Society, politics, and mostly economics are holding us up from having more progress. Technical issues are long solved, there's just lots of lies and corruption that never moves forward that is gumming up the gears of progress.
I would venture to say the self driving car is simply inevitable, as the economic forces behind it are huge. Millions of people will buy additional cars, to replace theirs as well as to get extra ones to take their kids to work without them, create truck and taxi fleets with no drivers, etc. After cars become self-driving, they will become smaller, as they will really almost always carry one person and be used within city limits. That will be basically the same as PRT systems, which exist already. --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit --- Personal rapid transit (PRT), also called personal automated transport (PAT) or podcar, is a public transportation mode featuring small automated vehicles operating on a network of specially-built guide ways. PRT is a type of automated guideway transit (AGT), which also includes systems with larger vehicles, all the way to small subway systems.
Brings into the light the numbers on just how dangerous automobiles are. Few activities have these huge numbers of deaths, accidents, and property loss and damages.
In my view this problem is basically that that the entire population's freedom of thought and freedom of expression cannot become some group's "intellectual property".
And you don't think that some crappy mp3s of Michael Jackson are worth every penny that?!?
The scariest (or most interesting) part of this is that it's not so much that the lawyers said so, but the law itself says that is the amount. So if anyone is wrong here, it's the law. The plaintiff is indeed simply asking for the damage amounts based on what is described in the law at the proper calcuation method. .
Define suspects.
Anyone holding a city, state or federal public office position; police; C-level or board of directors corporate position, or anyone else they agree to designate will receive status "special executive handling". Othes be automatically deemed "suspect code 1" until further data is available.
It's almost a compliment for a tiny software company to be sued for that amount. No matter what the result, the authors will become part of history. That's practically the budget of a country.
Bittorrent needs an extension to the protocol to always do something that makes it impossible to know from exactly which IP numbers the content actually comes from. It has to be something done in every client by default, otherwise it won't be too effective.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a dumptruck full of Hitlers being driven by the Hulk. Wait, what are we talking about?
Censorship and how it leads to senseless endless discusssions about nothing.
'I couldn't imagine that the US intelligence apparatus with all it's funding, hardware and employees could manage a program like this in the US, how does China do it?"
A call-censoring-center with 750,000 workers.
The New York Times publishes an article about China's great firewall, and puts it behind a firewall.
[The rest of this post is censored, to make it truly meta]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989 There, fixed that for you. Now it's really censored. I wonder if they censor just one post, the entire story, or all of slashdot.
Internet regulations are increasing all over under all sorts of excuses. From "copyright violations" or "protecting children", the authorities are afraid. Only information runs over the internet, only communications. Unbridled, uncensored, uncontrolled, unsupervised information and communication is a threat to whoever has something to hide, reason to be afraid of what people are thinking or discussing. Mass group communications leads to mass group opinion making, coordinating, and planning. As soon as decentralized money systems and education systems are discovered and organized in large numbers, by the masses and labor and finances can no longer be centrally controlled, and society will be completely transformed.
Perhaps then the GPU makers should have talking about implementing a common open spec for a hardware-based API
Will save a bit of energy at home - and it's got a nice coolness factor. But at home we need of a lot more power than a tabletop of cells. Like covering all the walls and roof with low-cost solar cells will be of some use. What we could use *now* are jackets, hats, backpacks, cellphones and laptops with solar cells built in, to get a little more power when you're *not* near home or any power source.
The debate on privacy vs transparency os far from resolved. Everyone agrees there is a right to privacy for the public and a right to transparency and access in government, management, and crime investigation data, but nobody can figure out where one ends and the other begins. What's clear to me is that privacy is inevitably reducing, but transparency still needs to grow more to accompany. If there is a reduced expectation of privacy, because of new technical and political realities, there has to be an accompanying increase in transparency, especially, at least initially, in the case of public government and publicly-traded corporations.
After Japan and Libya, wind and solar are likely to get a bit of a boost.
It's turned into a civil war. It might be better shipping the rebels AK's, anti tank weapons, man portable SAMS and lots of ammunition. Sat phones would be nice for communications but I'm not sure twitter and facebook are really all that important anymore.
I'm willing to help on the internet and journalism. The weapons, well I'm just not going for that, it gets messy fast. Giving weapons and military training is ok, until nobody controls the situation, then taking weapons back not so easy. That civil war could last 20 years.
If you to to a conference on beer quality and nutrients, and you find everyone there is talking about whatever they want except beer, and you insist the topic of beer quality and nutrients is important and nobody cares, maybe you are the one off topic, because in actuality it's really just an excuse to get drunk.
Yes, it's officially allowed, no recommendations against.