Isn't that what's happening in Mexico as is? Full disclaimer, I heard this from a friend in casual conversation, but my understanding is that it's more profitable for Mexican farmers to sell their corn crops to the US for ethanol than to feed their people, so prices of corn products have risen sharply and the nation is starving as a result.
Yes it is the perfect example of how biofuels can affect food prices, or even availability. It caused a local food shortage in parts of Mexico and people did go hungry.
If the US used every acre of cropland for biofuel feedstock production it would only be able to produce 40% of transportation fuel needs and then there'd be nothing to eat! It's impossible to make even a dent in fossil fuel usage with biofuels, and by trying we will make food more expensive for everyone and reduce the surplus that helps to feed the world's poor.
Rome had bread and circuses, now we have contests for old games. When a civilization has the time to waste on things like this it's the beginning of the end.
You haven't thought of the most critical question which is will this improve the quality of my beef? Will it make my fillet even more juicy and delicious, or will it make my tenderloin toughderloin? Think Man!!
The studies that found a higher risk of leukemia in children didn't control for family income or any other social factors. It was correlation which isn't particularly useful
If you willfully do not accept a safety update and you were in an accident your insurance company could make a case it was your fault for not keeping the car in a roadworthy condition.
surely using uncompressed telephone calls as a measure of bandwidth is a bit outdated? 4.8Tb is 75 million 64K uncompressed telephone calls. c'mon, get real!
Instead let's measure bandwidth by hdls units, 1 High Definition Lost Season is a pretty impressive measure of bandwidth, and by my reckoning 4.8Tb is about 100 hdls/second. That's a big pipe!
I think at this moment in time you should go for the masters unless you have a good position waiting for you after graduation. The job market is not looking great right now but should be looking good in a year or two when you'd be getting out, and a masters degree will set you apart from the crowd who didn't get one and spent 2 years doing their level best trying to get people to super-size their meals while desperately hoping for their first real job.
When I graduated with my masters the tech boom was in full swing and if I'd gotten my masters I would have missed it, so back then I would have said get straight into the job market. Now in a market contraction it makes sense to go for more qualifications.
I personally think that for the majority of tech jobs a masters degree is irrelevant as the vast majority of what you will do you will learn on the job. You can't learn realistic project management in school, or how to deal with management. These things you only learn in the trenches.
It's not terribly surprising that twitter is full of uninformed bullshit, what do you expect? It's essentially web diarrhea as it encourages people to gush the first thing that comes to mind. Informed discussion takes actual thought and dare I say reasoning, neither of which lends itself to the twitter format. It's just background noise.
What concerns me is that the conventional media is taking their cues and sometimes even stories from things like twitter. Hearsay from unmoderated and unverified sources suddenly becomes fact. A case in point was yesterday the BBC said that the Mexican government was underestimating the crisis on the basis of that's what people said in an online forum! They are treating these probably uninformed and definitely fearful anonymous people as "feet on the ground" and using their statements when they can't even begin to verify the veracity of their statements, or that they are even local to the event.
I'd never state that the media used to be a paragon of virtue and accuracy, however they used to have to work for it. Now they are trawling forums and twitter and treating it as gospel, which is bad for everyone if the news becomes completely inaccurate they will destroy their credibility and if that happens what sources can people trust?
I'm not saying close twitter down, if you like it then go wild, fill your boots. I'm just saying that anyone who uses it as "factual" data should be dragged over a bed of gravel, dipped in vodka, and then rubbed in salt.
OK, so a couple of rich guys buy an expensive toy, so what? They already own a boeing 757, and a 767 for chrissake, and you didn't post those aquisitions.
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Isn't that what's happening in Mexico as is? Full disclaimer, I heard this from a friend in casual conversation, but my understanding is that it's more profitable for Mexican farmers to sell their corn crops to the US for ethanol than to feed their people, so prices of corn products have risen sharply and the nation is starving as a result.
Yes it is the perfect example of how biofuels can affect food prices, or even availability. It caused a local food shortage in parts of Mexico and people did go hungry.
Here's a link to my blog entry on the subject btw:
http://tetsui.net/gdblog/2011/06/17/why-biofuels-make-no-sense/
If the US used every acre of cropland for biofuel feedstock production it would only be able to produce 40% of transportation fuel needs and then there'd be nothing to eat! It's impossible to make even a dent in fossil fuel usage with biofuels, and by trying we will make food more expensive for everyone and reduce the surplus that helps to feed the world's poor.
Their verdict? Skip this one.
Yeah, just wait for the next.
-- if you dare.
Given how long it took to come out with this one I'll be 70 by the time the next one comes out. I'll play Gears of War 3 instead.
I don't know if he was a good repairman, but he sure is a tool. Fixed himself but good.
Rome had bread and circuses, now we have contests for old games. When a civilization has the time to waste on things like this it's the beginning of the end.
Given how insecure government databases in the UK have proven to be I'm just as concerned about organized crime getting ahold of this info.
Well, I could fall back on the ABFH method in a pinch
Are you kidding?
1) find the GPS receiver .50 Desert Eagle semi-automatic pistol
2) shoot GPS receiver with
3) write a letter to Gordon Brown telling him to fuck off
You haven't thought of the most critical question which is will this improve the quality of my beef? Will it make my fillet even more juicy and delicious, or will it make my tenderloin toughderloin? Think Man!!
a baaaaaad idea.
Sorry, I had to
The studies that found a higher risk of leukemia in children didn't control for family income or any other social factors. It was correlation which isn't particularly useful
If you willfully do not accept a safety update and you were in an accident your insurance company could make a case it was your fault for not keeping the car in a roadworthy condition.
I'd get the update.
Liiiiiitttttllllllleeeee Grrrrreeeeeeyyyyyyy!!! just doesn't have the same ring as LEERROOOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEENNNKKKIIIINNNSSS!!!!
I wouldn't have personally, I'm afraid I'd get a fatal case of patheticness
surely using uncompressed telephone calls as a measure of bandwidth is a bit outdated? 4.8Tb is 75 million 64K uncompressed telephone calls. c'mon, get real!
Instead let's measure bandwidth by hdls units, 1 High Definition Lost Season is a pretty impressive measure of bandwidth, and by my reckoning 4.8Tb is about 100 hdls/second. That's a big pipe!
If they're going to tax breath then save yours, please!
I think at this moment in time you should go for the masters unless you have a good position waiting for you after graduation. The job market is not looking great right now but should be looking good in a year or two when you'd be getting out, and a masters degree will set you apart from the crowd who didn't get one and spent 2 years doing their level best trying to get people to super-size their meals while desperately hoping for their first real job.
When I graduated with my masters the tech boom was in full swing and if I'd gotten my masters I would have missed it, so back then I would have said get straight into the job market. Now in a market contraction it makes sense to go for more qualifications.
I personally think that for the majority of tech jobs a masters degree is irrelevant as the vast majority of what you will do you will learn on the job. You can't learn realistic project management in school, or how to deal with management. These things you only learn in the trenches.
It's not terribly surprising that twitter is full of uninformed bullshit, what do you expect? It's essentially web diarrhea as it encourages people to gush the first thing that comes to mind. Informed discussion takes actual thought and dare I say reasoning, neither of which lends itself to the twitter format. It's just background noise.
What concerns me is that the conventional media is taking their cues and sometimes even stories from things like twitter. Hearsay from unmoderated and unverified sources suddenly becomes fact. A case in point was yesterday the BBC said that the Mexican government was underestimating the crisis on the basis of that's what people said in an online forum! They are treating these probably uninformed and definitely fearful anonymous people as "feet on the ground" and using their statements when they can't even begin to verify the veracity of their statements, or that they are even local to the event.
I'd never state that the media used to be a paragon of virtue and accuracy, however they used to have to work for it. Now they are trawling forums and twitter and treating it as gospel, which is bad for everyone if the news becomes completely inaccurate they will destroy their credibility and if that happens what sources can people trust?
I'm not saying close twitter down, if you like it then go wild, fill your boots. I'm just saying that anyone who uses it as "factual" data should be dragged over a bed of gravel, dipped in vodka, and then rubbed in salt.
OK, so a couple of rich guys buy an expensive toy, so what? They already own a boeing 757, and a 767 for chrissake, and you didn't post those aquisitions.
Unfortunately the only realistic way for her to get some peace is to change her number as the damage is done. It's the phone equivalent of a joe-job.
If she's willing to tough it out it will die down, the criminals will have moved on to another number by now so there will be less angry calls.
tell her to bite the bullet and get a new number
They'll make it easier than ever to defraud the elections there
Try chipping the ice off it, that usually helps.
Newspapers have always had the responsibility to verify their stories, why should that change simply because the information's off the web?
Go on, hack it to add non-dairy creamer! Be mean!