All of the parent's comments are seeming to point toward one fact: refined sugars are simply bad for you. I did read, on Slashdot I believe, how rats had the desire to eat more after they ate high fructose corn syrup --it wasn't the case for corn syrup, only HFCS.
IIRC, the USA is the only country where our soda/pop have HFCS as the sweetener and not cane sugar. HFCS is in almost every processed food from bread to coffee creamer.
If you're in a poorer neighborhood, it's likely you don't have access to a standard grocery. I heard Whole Foods is tying to make a push into poorer neighborhoods in order to introduce healthier foods. They're starting in Detroit and I wish them success. If obese people don't get access to proper nutrition, then they're only going to make health care more expensive for those that do take care of themselves.
Please mod parent up...I'd do so if I had points. The Corporation is a good example of a sociopathic entity that's run by sociopaths that claim no fault; the company can be the only 'person' to blame. What a weird world of hypocrisy an half-truths we live in.
Maybe they should start by requiring the military to demonstrate how everything it spends is in the 'National Interest'.
I think you'd lose a lot of pork.
The military has been doing that for years. These days, the primary skill needed by general officers is planning equipment and staff reductions while keeping some ability to fight. It's quite eye-opening to watch the talks by senior military staff that make their way to YouTube, and see e.g. an admiral talking about how the Navy plans to lose a carrier battle group - not in war, but to congress.
It's true that congress holds the purse strings for the military, but when over 60% of non-discretionary spending goes towards military spending, they're not going to suffer like paying down the national debt or stabilizing SS/Medicare. Their biggest problem are the spending cuts via sequester, but congress can always allocate emergency funds for anything they want and already have for some military spending.
Regarding the military demonstrate that they need something in 'national interest' to get funding is ludicrous. Just look at the F-35 Lightning II. That plane's construction has roots in almost every state (read section 7 Political Engineering). That's why you're not going to get rid of that pork so easily --even the Pentagon doesn't want F-35 features that the House is trying to force spending on.
Would I take a job there? Probably not, largely because (post Snowden) I'd be concerned I'd be put in a position whether I have to choose between betraying my principles or betraying my promises.
I have a feeling 'Slashdot User ID' is a checkmark against anyone wanting to get hired by a TLA-agency --News for nerds, Stuff that matters, Yo!
I'd love to know who to attribute this quote to --I think it's Frank Herbert, but was never able to verify it after some modest searching: The purpose of science fiction isn't necessarily to predict, but sometime to prevent.
What org was it that wrote the SELinux extentions? Oh right the NSA.
And that should give complete pause to someone considering using those extensions. For someone that doesn't write kernel extensions, they'll never believe the source doesn't have backdoors/known exploits.
Microsoft needs someone at the top who uses their products the way someone who isn't surrounded by microsofties every day does. So they can get their shit together on design.
I honestly thought Nathan Myhrvold was on the shortlist; perhaps he was courted, but wanted nothing to do with a (seemingly) sinking ship.
Don't forget biker gangs --scenes from Sons of Anarchy clearly show them putting all their cellphones in a basket (in a separate room) before they conduct their meetings. I think that most technically-savvy people are aware cellphones are modern-day tracking/listening/viewing devices. The byline should've read:...securities services know foreign intelligence agencies...
Back in the days when M$ started making mistakes (Windows ME), the saying went, "If Microsoft made vacuum cleaners, it would be the only thing they made that didn't suck."
The reason Halliburton got a no-bid contract was because other countries' companies were not allowed to participate in troop support or rebuilding. That's why no other country wanted to help the US oust Saddam. Considering that Cheney was a Halliburton CEO, it all makes sense. Utter corruption at its finest.
"Certainly Halliburton would have the lead [in the competition for that job], even absent this contract, given the size and scope of their current operations," said Pierre Conner, an analyst with Hibernia Southcoast Capital. "But there's no question they'll start with some footprint there. It clearly puts them in the position where they will know more about the situation and have a bit of an operation there."
Though none of the potential administrators of such a contract -- including the Defense Department, the State Department's U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations -- have claimed responsibility for handing out the job, Monday's award and Bush's request for funding seem to indicate the U.S. government will be in charge.
Defense contractors are usually paid quite well. Government employees, comparatively, are not. Why do you think the government has such problems hiring and retaining talent in the tech sector?
We can try to hold on to dwindling freedom or we can aim for a revolution and a new start.
That there's little history being taught in schools (Oliver Stone still did not address the main reasons for WWI and WWII --international bankers' overall influence on politics), I have no reason to believe that people understand what they're losing. Not to be negative; I'm all for a peaceful revolution. However, using history as a predictor, the chances of that are not good.
Which gives me reason to think waste water could seep into an aquifer via a fault that developed as a result of deep well injection. This study was only done for one year. I really don't think that's nearly long enough to truly understand all the variables involved, much less that they were only tracking a limited, unspecified group of chemicals. The fact that the industry can use unspecified chemicals to frack seems like a license to pollute. Especially when it's near-impossible to know what to test for it you don't know what's been used.
"This is good news," said Duke University scientist Rob Jackson, who was not involved with the study. He called it a "useful and important approach" to monitoring fracking, but cautioned that the single study doesn't prove that fracking can't pollute, since geology and industry practices vary widely in Pennsylvania and across the nation.
Of course any federal study will side with corporations. All three branches are solidly pro-business and we saw the Clean Water Act and Clean Air and SWDA dismantled by Bush/Cheney in 2005. Fracking is the bastard child of Halliburton and this industry couldn't be doing what they're doing unless they got that exemption.
There's no mention about how much water fracking a well can use. It's going to take 4-8M gallons to frack a single well. It's ridiculous that they think they can frack in the western states. Our forests are on fire. We're having THE worst fires, year after year, and it's only projected to get worse. Maybe they can use 8.5M gallons to frack a single well in Canada when they have the water resources of Michigan, but not in the west. That project is slated to expand to 500 wells that will use 4B gallons of water. Crazy.
The company’s plan to drill several new gas wells near Kalkaska will entail pumping about 300 million gallons of water out of the ground, injecting that water into several gas well bores and then leaving nearly all of the contaminated water in the ground when the fracking is completed, according to state records.
The result: A net loss of up to 300 million gallons of groundwater to the North Branch of the Manistee River, a blue-ribbon trout stream fed almost entirely by groundwater. One of Encana’s drilling sites is a half-mile from the Manistee River’s North Branch, according to company records.
“If the citizens of Michigan knew corporations were destroying hundreds of millions of gallons of Michigan water – water that is supposedly protected by government for use by all of us – they would be opposing this new kind of completion (fracking) technique,” said Paul Brady, a fracking watchdog who lives near Kalkaska. “These deep shale, unconventional wells are using massive amounts of water without adequate testing and solid data on aquifer capacity.”
Encana spokesman Doug Hock, however, is optimistic: “Can we access the (deep shale gas) and still protect the environment? Absolutely.”
And down a bit further...
Encana officials said the oil and gas industry wants to export natural gas extracted from shale formations in Michigan and other states to consumers in Asia. Demand for natural gas in China is strong and prices are double the cost of natural gas in the U.S., industry, watchdogs said.
Truth is, Americans are getting screwed in every way till Sunday and don't know it (or care) and we're ultimately getting left with higher prices, poisoned water and land that will remain for generations, and politicians that promise they will do better next time. You can't have clean food without clean water and air. I think we're screwed with this path to 'Energy Independence'.
I think this is perfect example again that we put too much trust on Google.
Google isn't the problem. The American government is. Which means if you want to be safe, stay away from USA and don't trust any companies based there.
If you happen to live there already, maybe it is about time you let the government know, you are not satisfied with their work.
Says the guy that lives... where? Now that it's been discovered that the German, UK, French, and Russian govs are doing the same to their citizens (as well as India, China, Saudi Arabia, need I go on?), we can clearly stop blaming the once-500-pound gorilla. It's a new 'arms race', but the arms aren't nuclear anymore; they're databases, the devices that can fill them, and the software that can sort through the noise. Many of these companies that make and sell this technology to the US gov are selling it to as many other governments as they (legally) can.
What we need is a powerful, federal, shield law that allows whistleblowers and journalists to do their job without fear of unjust reprisal. Unfortunately I don't see common sense politics like that happening till the PATRIOT Act is entirely removed.
I agree that it's a slippery-slope when trying to define a person's totality via genes, alone. Lest we not forget "Trading Places"!
It's interesting that this neuroscientist found he actually had the high-aggression variant of the MAO-A gene. He attributes his doting parents (basically, a positive environment) to the fact that he didn't turn into a bad apple. Again, while interesting, it's just scratching the surface of the 'environment vs genetics' quandary.
I've never found (not for lack of trying) the person who said this, but I think it was Frank Herbert: The purpose of science fiction isn't, necessarily, to predict, but to prevent, as well.
Disclaimer: I live in Texas. We'd let child B grow up malnourished and abused in a slum before killing him for obvious psychopathic behavior verified by objective measurement, but we wouldn't abort ahead of time even if it was an option.
And for obvious reasons, else it's extremely difficult to justify a larger budget for police 'services', year after year.
I think it's a case of envying two companies that have relatively different strategies. Google is a search company that ventured into OSes, thus threatening Windows. Apple has always been a hardware company, but the iTunes store was a stealth-attack to the Windows user that got caught in the 'halo effect' of purchasing an iPod --they ultimately made the transition to Apple hardware and OS.
Microsoft has always seemed, to me, to be following everyone else and that's why their products often come off as unpolished knockoffs of someone else's idea.
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All of the parent's comments are seeming to point toward one fact: refined sugars are simply bad for you. I did read, on Slashdot I believe, how rats had the desire to eat more after they ate high fructose corn syrup --it wasn't the case for corn syrup, only HFCS.
IIRC, the USA is the only country where our soda/pop have HFCS as the sweetener and not cane sugar. HFCS is in almost every processed food from bread to coffee creamer.
If you're in a poorer neighborhood, it's likely you don't have access to a standard grocery. I heard Whole Foods is tying to make a push into poorer neighborhoods in order to introduce healthier foods. They're starting in Detroit and I wish them success. If obese people don't get access to proper nutrition, then they're only going to make health care more expensive for those that do take care of themselves.
Please mod parent up...I'd do so if I had points. The Corporation is a good example of a sociopathic entity that's run by sociopaths that claim no fault; the company can be the only 'person' to blame. What a weird world of hypocrisy an half-truths we live in.
As long as you're throwing up old clips of Futurama, I feel the obligatory SNL 'Old Glory Robot Insurance' is appropriate. http://www.digyourowngrave.com/saturday-night-live-old-glory-robot-insurance/
Won't somebody please think of the drones?!?
Maybe they should start by requiring the military to demonstrate how everything it spends is in the 'National Interest'.
I think you'd lose a lot of pork.
The military has been doing that for years. These days, the primary skill needed by general officers is planning equipment and staff reductions while keeping some ability to fight. It's quite eye-opening to watch the talks by senior military staff that make their way to YouTube, and see e.g. an admiral talking about how the Navy plans to lose a carrier battle group - not in war, but to congress.
It's true that congress holds the purse strings for the military, but when over 60% of non-discretionary spending goes towards military spending, they're not going to suffer like paying down the national debt or stabilizing SS/Medicare. Their biggest problem are the spending cuts via sequester, but congress can always allocate emergency funds for anything they want and already have for some military spending.
Regarding the military demonstrate that they need something in 'national interest' to get funding is ludicrous. Just look at the F-35 Lightning II. That plane's construction has roots in almost every state (read section 7 Political Engineering). That's why you're not going to get rid of that pork so easily --even the Pentagon doesn't want F-35 features that the House is trying to force spending on.
Would I take a job there? Probably not, largely because (post Snowden) I'd be concerned I'd be put in a position whether I have to choose between betraying my principles or betraying my promises.
I have a feeling 'Slashdot User ID' is a checkmark against anyone wanting to get hired by a TLA-agency --News for nerds, Stuff that matters, Yo!
Can't live with em.. can't live without em.
I'd love to know who to attribute this quote to --I think it's Frank Herbert, but was never able to verify it after some modest searching: The purpose of science fiction isn't necessarily to predict, but sometime to prevent.
What org was it that wrote the SELinux extentions? Oh right the NSA.
And that should give complete pause to someone considering using those extensions. For someone that doesn't write kernel extensions, they'll never believe the source doesn't have backdoors/known exploits.
Why?
Because he's not a microsoft technology nerd.
Microsoft needs someone at the top who uses their products the way someone who isn't surrounded by microsofties every day does. So they can get their shit together on design.
I honestly thought Nathan Myhrvold was on the shortlist; perhaps he was courted, but wanted nothing to do with a (seemingly) sinking ship.
Don't forget biker gangs --scenes from Sons of Anarchy clearly show them putting all their cellphones in a basket (in a separate room) before they conduct their meetings. I think that most technically-savvy people are aware cellphones are modern-day tracking/listening/viewing devices. The byline should've read: ...securities services know foreign intelligence agencies...
Back in the days when M$ started making mistakes (Windows ME), the saying went, "If Microsoft made vacuum cleaners, it would be the only thing they made that didn't suck."
yup.. it just hit a cloaked Klingon Bird-of-Prey. Nothing to see here.. move along --Sorry for the unintended pun.
Evil. Seriously, this shit is getting messed up.
I'm proud of my sister and her kids who walked into the consulate in Alberta Canada and renounced their American Citizenship.
And you can actually do that?
It's called terrorism. He is trying to terrify you into changing your behaviour and beliefs with threats.
I thought it was called FUD. That seems to be the gov's primary tactic, unless you call FUD 'verbal terrorism'.
The reason Halliburton got a no-bid contract was because other countries' companies were not allowed to participate in troop support or rebuilding. That's why no other country wanted to help the US oust Saddam. Considering that Cheney was a Halliburton CEO, it all makes sense. Utter corruption at its finest.
"Certainly Halliburton would have the lead [in the competition for that job], even absent this contract, given the size and scope of their current operations," said Pierre Conner, an analyst with Hibernia Southcoast Capital. "But there's no question they'll start with some footprint there. It clearly puts them in the position where they will know more about the situation and have a bit of an operation there."
Though none of the potential administrators of such a contract -- including the Defense Department, the State Department's U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations -- have claimed responsibility for handing out the job, Monday's award and Bush's request for funding seem to indicate the U.S. government will be in charge.
http://money.cnn.com/2003/03/25/news/companies/war_contracts/
Defense contractors are usually paid quite well. Government employees, comparatively, are not. Why do you think the government has such problems hiring and retaining talent in the tech sector?
We can try to hold on to dwindling freedom or we can aim for a revolution and a new start.
That there's little history being taught in schools (Oliver Stone still did not address the main reasons for WWI and WWII --international bankers' overall influence on politics), I have no reason to believe that people understand what they're losing. Not to be negative; I'm all for a peaceful revolution. However, using history as a predictor, the chances of that are not good.
Which gives me reason to think waste water could seep into an aquifer via a fault that developed as a result of deep well injection. This study was only done for one year. I really don't think that's nearly long enough to truly understand all the variables involved, much less that they were only tracking a limited, unspecified group of chemicals. The fact that the industry can use unspecified chemicals to frack seems like a license to pollute. Especially when it's near-impossible to know what to test for it you don't know what's been used.
"This is good news," said Duke University scientist Rob Jackson, who was not involved with the study. He called it a "useful and important approach" to monitoring fracking, but cautioned that the single study doesn't prove that fracking can't pollute, since geology and industry practices vary widely in Pennsylvania and across the nation.
Of course any federal study will side with corporations. All three branches are solidly pro-business and we saw the Clean Water Act and Clean Air and SWDA dismantled by Bush/Cheney in 2005. Fracking is the bastard child of Halliburton and this industry couldn't be doing what they're doing unless they got that exemption.
There's no mention about how much water fracking a well can use. It's going to take 4-8M gallons to frack a single well. It's ridiculous that they think they can frack in the western states. Our forests are on fire. We're having THE worst fires, year after year, and it's only projected to get worse. Maybe they can use 8.5M gallons to frack a single well in Canada when they have the water resources of Michigan, but not in the west. That project is slated to expand to 500 wells that will use 4B gallons of water. Crazy.
The company’s plan to drill several new gas wells near Kalkaska will entail pumping about 300 million gallons of water out of the ground, injecting that water into several gas well bores and then leaving nearly all of the contaminated water in the ground when the fracking is completed, according to state records.
The result: A net loss of up to 300 million gallons of groundwater to the North Branch of the Manistee River, a blue-ribbon trout stream fed almost entirely by groundwater. One of Encana’s drilling sites is a half-mile from the Manistee River’s North Branch, according to company records.
“If the citizens of Michigan knew corporations were destroying hundreds of millions of gallons of Michigan water – water that is supposedly protected by government for use by all of us – they would be opposing this new kind of completion (fracking) technique,” said Paul Brady, a fracking watchdog who lives near Kalkaska. “These deep shale, unconventional wells are using massive amounts of water without adequate testing and solid data on aquifer capacity.”
Encana spokesman Doug Hock, however, is optimistic: “Can we access the (deep shale gas) and still protect the environment? Absolutely.”
And down a bit further...
Encana officials said the oil and gas industry wants to export natural gas extracted from shale formations in Michigan and other states to consumers in Asia. Demand for natural gas in China is strong and prices are double the cost of natural gas in the U.S., industry, watchdogs said.
Truth is, Americans are getting screwed in every way till Sunday and don't know it (or care) and we're ultimately getting left with higher prices, poisoned water and land that will remain for generations, and politicians that promise they will do better next time. You can't have clean food without clean water and air. I think we're screwed with this path to 'Energy Independence'.
Google isn't the problem. The American government is. Which means if you want to be safe, stay away from USA and don't trust any companies based there. If you happen to live there already, maybe it is about time you let the government know, you are not satisfied with their work.
Says the guy that lives... where? Now that it's been discovered that the German, UK, French, and Russian govs are doing the same to their citizens (as well as India, China, Saudi Arabia, need I go on?), we can clearly stop blaming the once-500-pound gorilla. It's a new 'arms race', but the arms aren't nuclear anymore; they're databases, the devices that can fill them, and the software that can sort through the noise. Many of these companies that make and sell this technology to the US gov are selling it to as many other governments as they (legally) can.
What we need is a powerful, federal, shield law that allows whistleblowers and journalists to do their job without fear of unjust reprisal. Unfortunately I don't see common sense politics like that happening till the PATRIOT Act is entirely removed.
I agree that it's a slippery-slope when trying to define a person's totality via genes, alone. Lest we not forget "Trading Places"!
It's interesting that this neuroscientist found he actually had the high-aggression variant of the MAO-A gene. He attributes his doting parents (basically, a positive environment) to the fact that he didn't turn into a bad apple. Again, while interesting, it's just scratching the surface of the 'environment vs genetics' quandary.
I've never found (not for lack of trying) the person who said this, but I think it was Frank Herbert: The purpose of science fiction isn't, necessarily, to predict, but to prevent, as well.
Disclaimer: I live in Texas. We'd let child B grow up malnourished and abused in a slum before killing him for obvious psychopathic behavior verified by objective measurement, but we wouldn't abort ahead of time even if it was an option.
And for obvious reasons, else it's extremely difficult to justify a larger budget for police 'services', year after year.
I think it's a case of envying two companies that have relatively different strategies. Google is a search company that ventured into OSes, thus threatening Windows. Apple has always been a hardware company, but the iTunes store was a stealth-attack to the Windows user that got caught in the 'halo effect' of purchasing an iPod --they ultimately made the transition to Apple hardware and OS.
Microsoft has always seemed, to me, to be following everyone else and that's why their products often come off as unpolished knockoffs of someone else's idea.