Now granted, as I understand a lot of modern animal farming, you simply box the animal in and import all its food. I've no idea what sort of efficiency that gives in terms of land used.
For it to be more efficient to produce meat, the animal would have to produce energy from thin air. Even if the meat produced contained all the calories in the animal feed, you'd just be breaking even. The usual rule of thumb is about 10% efficiency, i.e. if a certain plot of land could produce enough cereal & veg to feed 100 people, it would only feed 10 who were feeding the crops to animals and eating those.
Of course calories aren't everything. But they're important.
my surname is unique in the world (afaik) and thus so is my wife's.
To me, that's only slightly unique. It's more unique than if there were, say, 23 of you. But nowhere near as unique as if there was only one. That's extremely unique.
it's that having fallen on hard times gives otherwise good people a greater motive to steal or take bribes than someone who isn't in dire straits financially.
Conversely, someone might have a good credit record because they've successfully embezzled & swindled enough to always pay their bills every month.
$25 billion that remains uninvested from funds that will end their lifespans in the next 12-18 months. If the VCs return those funds to investors they'll also have to return $3 billion in already-spent management fees. Alternately, they can invest the money -- even if they invest it in bad deals -- and NOT have to cough-up that $3 billion.
Couldn't they just invest the money - in another venture capital fund - and wait till the market picks up? A venture venture capital or a venture capital capital fund (both patented, by the way. By me.).
I wouldn't rag him too hard, he's in the right ballpark.
I would, because he isn't. He broke the rule. The one that goes: "Don't try to look a liitle bit smarter by using words[1] you don't know the meaning of; if you get it wrong, you'll look really, really stupid."
[1] Even silly made up 733tspe4k 0n3z. Especially those, in fact.
dogs carrying satchel charges; they trained the dogs by feeding them underneath tanks. Well, the only problem was that they used Russian tanks to train 'em, not German tanks...and apparently dogs are very good at distinguishing between Russian and German tanks.
No "in Soviet Russia" joke here? It would be on topic, for once.
If the security at the manufacturer is as good as the Department of Homeland Security's, I guess it will be all over teh intarwenbs within a week or so anyway.
I am so glad that it was not a database that dealt with bank accounts.
Yeah, I've seen a few howlers too - luckily they were only for stuff like air traffic control and... well, I can't really say what the other one was for, but Cheyenne Mountain's lovely, isn't it?
If they really wanted to get some reactionary types mad, they could even include various modes for all of the crazy creation myths from various world religions.
You're very clever for getting modded up, young man. But it's no use - it's turtles, all the way down.
I haven't seen any other species build civilizations, archive history, or launch space flights.
"It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons."
Our new 20-20 vision endowed rodent overlords have been here for over an hour and nobody has even said hello to them. I for one think that's hardly the way to create a good first impression - and you don't get a second chance.
It could tell that the islam was a great modern religion when it was founded 1500 years ago, but that it got outdated and did not modernize enough since then?
I think so. Perhaps islam should take a leaf out of IBM's book and reivent itself with a services orientation. Embrace Linux even! Anybody know if penguins are halal or not?
Just an odd thing that I've noticed - being obvious beats being important every time. Work out everything else spot on, right down to how its farts smelled (and sounded), but conclude that it was orange when in fact it was purple and it's "Bah! So-called experts...".
I've come across similar things with requirements gathering - the users had specified the exact pantone shade for button foo's background, and the exact pixel position field bar should be at - but ask them what they want the sytem to do and they look at you like you're talking Klingon. Disclaimer: I am one of that minority here that do not speak Klingon.
I'd be more interested in the Brooklyn Bridge. Isn't that the one that is usually for sale?
There's no fooling you, Sir, that I can see. Now you, sir, being far from a fool will undertstand why that one isn't for sale any more - [sigh] somebody already bought it. We got another one, but I know, you wanted that one. Ain't it always the way?
But listen up - I like your face. You look a bit Italian, like my momma was. Welsh you say - hey, just like my uncle, er, Ddaffydd. It's like this - the other guy bid 50,000 for it and signed the papers all legal and everything, but he hasn't paid the deposit yet. If that's the bridge you want, and you can come up with the cash today, it's yours.
Minor problem, the widow I'm selling it for really needs the money, and I'd have to reimburse the other guy for his out of pocket expenses. A deal's a deal, even with a schmuck like him - the old lady wanted 65 thou and he haggled & haggled & beat her down, she needs the money for an operation. I think he knew. Bastard. Listen, to get rid if him and get his bloodsucking lawyers off my back shouldn't come to two, er, three, er... look, let's say 55k in green ones, today, and it's yours. Old lady's got a better deal, you got a better deal and the schmuck's got nothing. Whatchasay? We got a deal?
I don't know where this example is, but anywhere near a major conurbation land is expensive. I find it hard to believe that a buch of wee bumnny-rabbits could do that much damage.
Two questions: 1) how much is a shotgun or a dog? and 2) pie or casserole? Mmmmmmmm.
The problem is that the worker doesn't own the visa, employer does. Hence, the employer owns the worker, at least for the time he's in the US.
If the worker could leave his employer & take his visa with him (or sell it to someone else) you wouldn't have the distortion in the market that currently exists because the bodyshops can bring in cheap, tied labour.
reconstruction does include lots of speculating. Up to the musculature and such everything is fine and dandy (muscles can be reconstructed on the basis of comparative anatomy and bones), but the actual look of the critters is mostly based on educated guesses.
How they looked is the least important thing though. Isn't it?
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Of course calories aren't everything. But they're important.
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[1] Even silly made up 733tspe4k 0n3z. Especially those, in fact.
If the security at the manufacturer is as good as the Department of Homeland Security's, I guess it will be all over teh intarwenbs within a week or so anyway.
For the third straight year, the Department of Homeland Security -- which is charged with charting the federal government's cyber security agenda -- earned a grade of "F" for computer security
"It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons."
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Our new 20-20 vision endowed rodent overlords have been here for over an hour and nobody has even said hello to them. I for one think that's hardly the way to create a good first impression - and you don't get a second chance.
Er, just calm down. Hey, what are you doing with that cha...
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So why do the turn indicators on Mercs and BMWs never work?
I've come across similar things with requirements gathering - the users had specified the exact pantone shade for button foo's background, and the exact pixel position field bar should be at - but ask them what they want the sytem to do and they look at you like you're talking Klingon. Disclaimer: I am one of that minority here that do not speak Klingon.
But listen up - I like your face. You look a bit Italian, like my momma was. Welsh you say - hey, just like my uncle, er, Ddaffydd. It's like this - the other guy bid 50,000 for it and signed the papers all legal and everything, but he hasn't paid the deposit yet. If that's the bridge you want, and you can come up with the cash today, it's yours.
Minor problem, the widow I'm selling it for really needs the money, and I'd have to reimburse the other guy for his out of pocket expenses. A deal's a deal, even with a schmuck like him - the old lady wanted 65 thou and he haggled & haggled & beat her down, she needs the money for an operation. I think he knew. Bastard. Listen, to get rid if him and get his bloodsucking lawyers off my back shouldn't come to two, er, three, er ... look, let's say 55k in green ones, today, and it's yours. Old lady's got a better deal, you got a better deal and the schmuck's got nothing. Whatchasay? We got a deal?
I don't know where this example is, but anywhere near a major conurbation land is expensive. I find it hard to believe that a buch of wee bumnny-rabbits could do that much damage. Two questions: 1) how much is a shotgun or a dog? and 2) pie or casserole? Mmmmmmmm.
If the worker could leave his employer & take his visa with him (or sell it to someone else) you wouldn't have the distortion in the market that currently exists because the bodyshops can bring in cheap, tied labour.