I agree that this a violation of freedom, but this is a case of religion being subverted for political reasons, not a problem with the religion. Almost every religious group has had its fanatics at one time or another.
Admittedly I don't know a large fraction of the worlds Muslim population (something like 18.5%) but the Muslim folks that I know don't interpret their religion that way.
It does. I am never pleased to find a piece of meat in my broccoli with tofu. It has happened, and I usually don't get calmed down until they refund my money, take the food back, and provide a new meal.
I loved tradewars. When I wasn't playing it, I had turbo pascal code sending 1 fighter to random sectors, looking for planets and whatnot. Then when I did get time to play I had a "map" based on the my log files. Fun times:)
Agreed. Running a startup is a huge amount of work, research, software development, marketing, soliciting investors, etc. According to the USPTO the burden is on the company to watch all new patents and contest ones which are blatantly obvious and or invalid as if the small businessperson had time or money to monitor and tangle with legal engines and patent trolls
I have some good ideas that I want to try to take to the next level. I wonder if there is another country more friendly to startups...
I'm not saying you're wrong. Some javascript can be wasteful of CPU and power (although not less than bad Flash!). But if they took away Android Market, KMART should stop advertising it a device which has Android Market access.
I wouldn't want that car (or any car) in Delhi, but for rainy days when I don't feel like bicycling to work in New England, I think it would be grand. Plus the rain might help put out the spontaneous combustion hahaha.
The sample of those who were studied included individuals between ages 55 and 65 who had had any kind of outpatient care in the previous three years. The 1,824 participants were followed for 20 years. One drawback of the sample: a disproportionate number, 63%, were men. Just over 69% of the never-drinkers died during the 20 years, 60% of the heavy drinkers died and only 41% of moderate drinkers died.
This is interesting, but as far as I'm concerned, it means what it means and nothing more... that people who are between 55 and 65 and have had outpatient care (which I think means they are already pretty darn sick) have a negative correlation between drinking and mortality. This is no basis to conclude that otherwise healthy individuals would benefit from alcohol. However I think it is pretty commonly known that moderate alcohol consumption (at the very least red wine) does reduce risk of heart attacks.
As a flax seed eating vegan athlete, I doubt that even as a teetotaller, a heart attack will kill me! Don't get me wrong, I will drink alcohol on occasion, but I try not to do it to excess. I don't think that drinking to excess is healthy for the body or the mind, and there is no way a hardcore alcoholism is healthy for anyone. It seems logical to believe that the risk of very dangerous self-destructive alcoholic behavior is higher in drinkers than those who abstain. I wonder if we compared teetotallers versus drinkers for those whose lifestyle choices left them with no significant risk of heart disease what we would find.
Tonight the beverage of choice will be chocolate soymilk. It won't keep me up all night and it will make coding and automata theory much more pleasant:) Cheers!
Fine I can't keep my head in the sand. I'm going to RTFA. I am still going to be a hard sell. It might be that people who are more likely to drink 3 beers to feel better are more likely to take cough syrup when have a cough or something. I am certainly not a doctor, but this seems to conflict with everything I've ever read before (ie light drinkers aka 1 drink per day get a heart attack advantage but it disappears as you become a heavy drinker, and there is an increased risk of mouth and throat cancer, liver disease etc).
Yeah. Certainly wealthy people tend to outlive financially impoverished people. Maybe people living in poverty are less likely to drink? And people who are have lots of money are more likely to drink? Alcohol is related to a lot of illnesses, accidents, and injuries. I'm skeptical of the results.
There are plenty of contemporary sources that ignore facts. What siddesu is talking about are verifiable historical documents and facts. I suggest you stop trying to cast aspersions on him, his TAs and Noam Chomsky (sounds like FUD), and check his sources. Then you can question his interpretation of the facts.
I think you are right. Science suggests some possible cardioprotective and stress relieving benefits to moderate alcohol use. (I think heavy use ie more than 2 drinks on a night increases chances of heart problems).
But- this study is a real buzzkill. Alcohol seems to be a trade in heart benefits for loss of brain functionality. Even moderate drinkers suffer:( http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article1035329.ece It's a good reason to give up drinking and take up meditation thinks me.
I'd also be very curious to compare red wine drinkers to expensive grape juice drinkers for heart attack studies. All the great things in wine should also exist in high quality unfermented grape juice (antioxidants, tannins, etc).
I'm not a medical researcher, and I do drink alcohol on occasion, but I'm starting to believe that it would be better to be a teetotaller. "Just the coffee please!"
Yeah that's another solution. I'm a fan of regulation (sometimes associated with big government and/or socialism). But if these companies and the people involved with the flawed decision-making were really made accountable that would stop the problem too.
So you use more natural gas, less oil, producing slightly less carbon, but poison a lot of groundwater. People are forced to import water from places that aren't poisoned, requiring expensive water transport, burning more hydrocarbon fuel negating any possible benefit from switching to natural gas:-/
Dude the TFS is reporting that they (TPG aka The Big Pond) are no longer offering the "HUGE FTP file mirror with tons of open source and Linux / BSD / Solaris distros". It's a great idea though.
Here in the US, I have no bandwidth cap, but for my ISP to run a super fast Debian or Ubuntu mirror. I'd even be willing to pay a little more / month for a service like that.
So people can install your FallingBlocks tetris clone without using Android Market. Android is not locked down to only being to install software from one place. You are even free to implement an AlternaMarket. (I don't know do any already exist?)
I'm an intelligent slashdot crowd, and I'm vegan you insensitive clod!
But in essence, I agree (I mean read my handle). So I want to rephrase your question a little.... Ok given our current cow-poo management policies, it seems like it would make sense to get electricity from it, but if people we to stop eating cows, drinking, milk, dedicating land to cows, the land and water that is used for raising cattle (and growing grain to feel the cattle), could be used much more effectively. I think in order to be fair, we need to compare a cow-poop scheme to a growing mustard, and producing biodiesel from it scheme.
Of course given that we are engaged in this wasteful misuse/abuse of animals, I don't see anything wrong with using the poop. I would surmise that the energy generate from cow-poop is less than the energy needed to run the tractors to feed the cows. But I'm not anti-poop digestion at all. I think humanure is probably one of the greatest sources of untapped energy.... (insert human poop jokes here) But seriously, why aren't we looking at running data centers (or at least their generators) off humanure? Centralized poop collection must become culturally acceptable!
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This is really a great idea...
s/in accordance with their religion//
I agree that this a violation of freedom, but this is a case of religion being subverted for political reasons, not a problem with the religion. Almost every religious group has had its fanatics at one time or another.
Admittedly I don't know a large fraction of the worlds Muslim population (something like 18.5%) but the Muslim folks that I know don't interpret their religion that way.
Seriously though this could end up making collaborating on software a lot easier among trusted people.
It does. I am never pleased to find a piece of meat in my broccoli with tofu. It has happened, and I usually don't get calmed down until they refund my money, take the food back, and provide a new meal.
But it might encourage folks who haven't had a good pat-down in a while to fly instead of taking the train ;-)
I just hope the btrfs people don't leave Oracle. btrfs is great! I love cp --reflink
People here seem to have some strong anti-Oracle views, but I'm grateful for the contributions they have made.
I loved tradewars. When I wasn't playing it, I had turbo pascal code sending 1 fighter to random sectors, looking for planets and whatnot. Then when I did get time to play I had a "map" based on the my log files. Fun times :)
Agreed. Running a startup is a huge amount of work, research, software development, marketing, soliciting investors, etc. According to the USPTO the burden is on the company to watch all new patents and contest ones which are blatantly obvious and or invalid as if the small businessperson had time or money to monitor and tangle with legal engines and patent trolls
I have some good ideas that I want to try to take to the next level. I wonder if there is another country more friendly to startups...
KMart is still advertising these as having full access to Android market:
http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_020W023705190001P?keyword=tablet&prdNo=1&blockNo=1&blockType=G1
And other reviews say 2-3 hours video playback:
http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_020W023705190001P?keyword=tablet&prdNo=1&blockNo=1&blockType=G1#reviewsWrap
I'm not saying you're wrong. Some javascript can be wasteful of CPU and power (although not less than bad Flash!). But if they took away Android Market, KMART should stop advertising it a device which has Android Market access.
How about this device?
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/augens-150-android-tablet-hits-kmart-circular-coming-to-store/
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/08/08/1727223/Kmart-Briefly-Offers-149-Android-Tablet
Wikipedia says the Tata Nano started around $2200. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Nano
I wouldn't want that car (or any car) in Delhi, but for rainy days when I don't feel like bicycling to work in New England, I think it would be grand. Plus the rain might help put out the spontaneous combustion hahaha.
The sample of those who were studied included individuals between ages 55 and 65 who had had any kind of outpatient care in the previous three years. The 1,824 participants were followed for 20 years. One drawback of the sample: a disproportionate number, 63%, were men. Just over 69% of the never-drinkers died during the 20 years, 60% of the heavy drinkers died and only 41% of moderate drinkers died.
This is interesting, but as far as I'm concerned, it means what it means and nothing more... that people who are between 55 and 65 and have had outpatient care (which I think means they are already pretty darn sick) have a negative correlation between drinking and mortality. This is no basis to conclude that otherwise healthy individuals would benefit from alcohol. However I think it is pretty commonly known that moderate alcohol consumption (at the very least red wine) does reduce risk of heart attacks.
As a flax seed eating vegan athlete, I doubt that even as a teetotaller, a heart attack will kill me! Don't get me wrong, I will drink alcohol on occasion, but I try not to do it to excess. I don't think that drinking to excess is healthy for the body or the mind, and there is no way a hardcore alcoholism is healthy for anyone. It seems logical to believe that the risk of very dangerous self-destructive alcoholic behavior is higher in drinkers than those who abstain. I wonder if we compared teetotallers versus drinkers for those whose lifestyle choices left them with no significant risk of heart disease what we would find.
Tonight the beverage of choice will be chocolate soymilk. It won't keep me up all night and it will make coding and automata theory much more pleasant :) Cheers!
Fine I can't keep my head in the sand. I'm going to RTFA. I am still going to be a hard sell. It might be that people who are more likely to drink 3 beers to feel better are more likely to take cough syrup when have a cough or something. I am certainly not a doctor, but this seems to conflict with everything I've ever read before (ie light drinkers aka 1 drink per day get a heart attack advantage but it disappears as you become a heavy drinker, and there is an increased risk of mouth and throat cancer, liver disease etc).
But I'm RTFAing now.
Yeah. Certainly wealthy people tend to outlive financially impoverished people. Maybe people living in poverty are less likely to drink? And people who are have lots of money are more likely to drink? Alcohol is related to a lot of illnesses, accidents, and injuries. I'm skeptical of the results.
There are plenty of contemporary sources that ignore facts. What siddesu is talking about are verifiable historical documents and facts. I suggest you stop trying to cast aspersions on him, his TAs and Noam Chomsky (sounds like FUD), and check his sources. Then you can question his interpretation of the facts.
I think you are right. Science suggests some possible cardioprotective and stress relieving benefits to moderate alcohol use. (I think heavy use ie more than 2 drinks on a night increases chances of heart problems).
But- this study is a real buzzkill. Alcohol seems to be a trade in heart benefits for loss of brain functionality. Even moderate drinkers suffer :(
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article1035329.ece
It's a good reason to give up drinking and take up meditation thinks me.
I'd also be very curious to compare red wine drinkers to expensive grape juice drinkers for heart attack studies. All the great things in wine should also exist in high quality unfermented grape juice (antioxidants, tannins, etc).
I'm not a medical researcher, and I do drink alcohol on occasion, but I'm starting to believe that it would be better to be a teetotaller. "Just the coffee please!"
Yeah that's another solution. I'm a fan of regulation (sometimes associated with big government and/or socialism). But if these companies and the people involved with the flawed decision-making were really made accountable that would stop the problem too.
Time to get a price on solar panels.
So you use more natural gas, less oil, producing slightly less carbon, but poison a lot of groundwater. People are forced to import water from places that aren't poisoned, requiring expensive water transport, burning more hydrocarbon fuel negating any possible benefit from switching to natural gas :-/
I guess hydraulic fracturing is the culprit, not natural gas, and the exemption for natural gas from being regulated can be overturned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing#The_FRAC_Act_of_2009 Let's hope politicians get this one right.
Haha, you know I honestly did not notice it until you pointed it out. My brain must be playing tricks on me today.
Sorry, I thought TPG was short for TheBigPond. Things are confusing in Oz!
Dude the TFS is reporting that they (TPG aka The Big Pond) are no longer offering the "HUGE FTP file mirror with tons of open source and Linux / BSD / Solaris distros". It's a great idea though.
Here in the US, I have no bandwidth cap, but for my ISP to run a super fast Debian or Ubuntu mirror. I'd even be willing to pay a little more / month for a service like that.
are you saying IE cause the oil spill?
So people can install your FallingBlocks tetris clone without using Android Market. Android is not locked down to only being to install software from one place. You are even free to implement an AlternaMarket. (I don't know do any already exist?)
Do you realize how much milk 2.7 million hamsters could produce?
I'm an intelligent slashdot crowd, and I'm vegan you insensitive clod!
But in essence, I agree (I mean read my handle). So I want to rephrase your question a little.... Ok given our current cow-poo management policies, it seems like it would make sense to get electricity from it, but if people we to stop eating cows, drinking, milk, dedicating land to cows, the land and water that is used for raising cattle (and growing grain to feel the cattle), could be used much more effectively. I think in order to be fair, we need to compare a cow-poop scheme to a growing mustard, and producing biodiesel from it scheme.
Of course given that we are engaged in this wasteful misuse/abuse of animals, I don't see anything wrong with using the poop. I would surmise that the energy generate from cow-poop is less than the energy needed to run the tractors to feed the cows. But I'm not anti-poop digestion at all. I think humanure is probably one of the greatest sources of untapped energy.... (insert human poop jokes here) But seriously, why aren't we looking at running data centers (or at least their generators) off humanure? Centralized poop collection must become culturally acceptable!