There are articles in the paper every day about service job destruction.
A year ago when I went to chilli's there was a waitperson per 5 tables. Last month when I went to chilli's there was a waitperson per 13 tables and a 1 "food delivery" person. An automated kiosk at the table took our order and allowed us to pay our bill. The waitperson basically refilled our drinks 3 times and checked if we had any special needs. The food delivery person actually brought our food and confirmed the order matched what we had ordered.
A few years ago, I got cold sales calls exclusively from humans trying to cold sell me items. This year, I'm starting to get automated sales calls in the mix.
A few years ago, my doctor gave me my test results. Today, I get an automated call that tells me my test results are available on the web page.
And yup-- entry level jobs are going away as automation gets less expensive.
Best buy, target and walmart staffing levels are lower than in the early 00's. (Walmart by an average of 1/7th). I frequently check myself out at walmart, kroger, and lowes.
So yea, broad categories of service jobs are going away. I don't see new ones replacing them. I do see the young kids struggling to get started on the job path. It was easy for me when I was a kid. Even during recessions.
The problem is we are reaching a tipping point where cheap machine labor will soon be able to replace all repetative labor which simply relies on having vision, manual dexterity, or even smart but not creative thinking work.
Most people are not creative. Even creative people have historically had long periods of manual or repetitive portions of work in their jobs.
On the flip side, we have artificial territories and regions where the prices are not being dropped and wealth is essentially being extracted from entire areas leaving them without sufficient revenues to maintain infrastructure or for the citizens to live as well as their parents did.
The trend is accelerating so the next 20 years are going to be a period of rapid employment destruction. Any new jobs created during that period which don't rely on creativity, looks, or political connections will probably be eliminated as quickly as they can be codified by robots which cost close to the poverty line and by automated processes which are a little more expensive but which are tax deductible capital expenses to create.
Um... How about five in the last 444 million years?
End Ordovician, 444 million years ago, 86% of species lost Late Devonian, 375 million years ago, 75% of species lost End Permian, 251 million years ago, 96% of species lost End Triassic, 200 million years ago, 80% of species lost End Cretaceous, 66 million years ago, 76% of all species lost
In all of these anything very large pretty much died off.
Good points on the Mars colony. The main thing they'll need is power. If they have power, they can make water, air, and synthesize nutrients. Next, they'd need a sufficient population size (thousands- not hundreds).
I agree it would be challenging. We really need for space technology to be reduced in cost by two more orders of magnitude.
I was amused that anyone would think Martian colonists will lead a plush existence tho. Right now it would take about 2% of the planet's GDP (i.e. over a trillion dollars). But if we could drop the costs an order of magnitude, it would be.2% of the planet's GDP.
You asked what's so hard about tearing down a coal plant.
Cleaning up toxic waste is hard.
Besides, the Minimata convention on mercury set a date of 2014 for new coal plants and 2019 (not here yet) for old coal plants to control their emissions.
So basically every coal plant in the world except those finished being built sometime in the last 11 months which won't be decommissioned for a couple decades. And that's only for coal plants in nations that follow the Minimata convention.
And those controls will still only stop 90% of mercury emissions and 40% of sulfur dioxide emissions. So there will still be mercury contamination.
For wind, you might be left with a few concrete mooring anchors or a concrete foundation if the company goes bankrupt. And a concrete foundation would be pretty easy to clean up with little toxic risk.
Basically, huge amounts of soil downwind of mercury plants (and you know.. when the wind is calm, that means all immediately around a coal plant) are contaminated. It's literally too expensive to clean up. Other toxins are present as well.
Wind plant construction areas might turn out to have a similar risk but wind power plants are unlikely to have any more impact than any other normal construction.
Should they be allowed to control 2 senators and 1 representative? They are a "state" right?
I think I understand the point of the civics lesson better than you do.
The founding fathers, in an age where they wanted 30,000 to 60,000 citizens per representative never foresaw we would create huge states with more combination than 20 other states combined.
And if we were to break the larger states up into smaller states, senators still represent the new state's interest so I'm not clear on where you see a problem anyway.
Five californian states, five Texan states, and three New York states (the problem being that most of the population is in one city.
Really, california (and texas.. and new york) should be broken up into smaller states.
Their population's representation in the Senate and house are grossly smaller than those from many other states.
For example, Wyoming gets 1 senator per 280,000 citizens and 1 representative per 580,000 citizens.
Meanwhile California gets 1 senator per 19,000,000 citizens and 1 representative per 710,000 citizens.
The Iraqi government the u.s. set up has 1 representative per 100,000 citizens and the original 1st amendment (still up for a vote by the way) proposed 1 representative per 50,000 to 60,000 citizens. (But it wouldn't matter to pass it because it also has a minimum total allowed of 200ish total representatives and we currently are fixed at just below 500 which is really low).
Given the senate control of appointments... it grossly over represents the influence of the population of tiny states over the population of large states. Similarly it grossly over represents the power of tiny states in electing the president.
Absolutely. Jar Jar was the second best character in the movies that Lucas proposed making (it would have been nice to have seen them- much like the rumored Matrix sequels that were never made and the lost 5th season of Babylon 5.) From the sound of it, it's a good thing they were never made.
With lucas directing, all the human actors would have been ground down except the actor who portrayed the emperor. I bet he would have done a good job. Jar Jar (much like Han, Leia, and Luke but also C3PO) would have elicited actual emotion and created character conflict. The proposed characters would have otherwise all been very bland, lifeless, just reciting lines and sitting down doing nothing when prevented from fighting by a forcefield between them instead of talking to each other and interacting. I bet Jar Jar would have even irritated the crap out of Qui Gon over a dinner scene.
But the ewoks were terrible and didn't fit the tone of the rest of the star wars films. Wookies would have fit the rest of the film. And you could have had a few cute wookie kids without ruining the film.
I didn't like the new effects added to Star Wars and I dispiseed the cop out on Han. The original star wars as seen in theatres holds up nicely for me.
The risk of organic spinich is about the same as conventional spinach
"But Francisco Diez-Gonzalez, a professor of food safety microbiology at the University of Minnesota's department of food science and nutrition, disagrees. In 2006, he published a study comparing E. coli contamination in organic and conventional produce. He concluded that the presence of E. coli seemed to depend more on the type of produce than whether it had been grown conventionally or organically.
"At this timeâ¦there is no sufficient evidence either epidemiological or scientific, to support the idea that organic produce is most likely to carry foodborne pathogenic bacteria," wrote Diez-Gonzalez in an email. "Despite the apparently logical expectation that if manure is used as one of the predominant fertilizers for organic crops they might be riskier, some factors such as the diversity of manure types, the use of composted manure and the fact that even conventional growers also use manure seem to have an impact on finding any differences."
The takeaway: Since organic produce isn't any more or less likely than conventional to carry a scary disease, and since even organic fruits and veggies might contain traces of pesticides on their skins, always wash it, just like you would any other produce. Of course, rinsing your food won't always remove every single pathogen, Lunder notes, but it's better than nothing. Since running some water over my blueberries will require approximately 15 seconds of my day, I think I can handle it."
The specific studies you posted are interesting and may be valid. However, you have to be careful of any iinformation associated with the Center for Global Food Issues. It's funded by Monsanto, ConAgra, and DuPont. Enough of articles I dug into turned out to have funding ties to big agra that I've become skeptical of anti-organic science.
The big food processors spend 20 million a year to produce anti-organic propaganda and have bought up most of the mid sized organic food producers. It's a bad situation where real organic food is hard to find and it's hard to find certifying agencies you can trust because certification agencies are targeted by the big food processors and they have a lot of money to throw around. USDA organic and free range certification is almost useless at this point.
Interesting point on the marigolds, but so far I've seen no scandal of producers specifically feeding marigolds to chickens to color the eggs. But I imagine that's next. They'd rather dye the yolks than actually follow real free range and organic processes.
Almost any "organic" produce you can buy on the scale of a restaurant isn't really being raised by organic methods.
For example
Free range chickens wander about over acres of grasslands eating bugs. Like wild caught salmon, eggs from these chickens are bright orange.
Meanwhile, "organic" and "free range" eggs in grocery stores and restaurants come from hens who literally qualify for the "free range" label by having access to a plant free, bug free muddy fenced plot next to the roosting area. In at least one case, it was a concrete lot. Likewise, the yolks from psueodo organic food are yellow (not orange). Some of the better ones are a strong yellow vs a pastel yellow but that's about it.
Organic food practices produce measurably better food (lower cholesteral, higher vitamins, lower saturated acids) with measurably lower results (50,000 survey in Britain showed lower weight and 9% lower lymphoma risk).
Conventional foods (and government certified fake organic foods) are essentially the same as conventional foods so of course tests find no differences.
The largest cause of ecoli contamination is someone touched something's butt and then didn't wash their hands thoroughly. Use of recreational water on crops is another source of contamination.
Hate to break it to you but cropland is built on animal crap. Most of the mid west is thousands of years of buffalo eating and pooping. Soil without poop is basically "sand". But it needs time to compost for the bacteria to die off.
Noise is absorbed and blocked by solid material. This is what you need to stop sound.
Noise is diffused by soft material. This is what you need to cut down on echos within a space.
The cheapest way to block sound is an extra layer of sheet rock especially decoupled with "Green Glue".
For more cash...
These are: Celotex SoundStop (a sound-proofing fiberboard), QuietRock by Serious Materials, and Soundproofing Mass Loaded Vinyl, manufactured by Super Soundproofing Co.
Also Mineral Wool ("e.g., Roxul or Thermafiber), and cellulose fibre are good for low frequency sound.
Use foam / caulk to make sure there are no air gaps for sound to sneak thru.
If it's a single wall... you can put up book cases with a quilt hanging on the back.
Double drywall is about a 10% benefit. Double drywall with green glue is about a 90% benefit.
Adding insulation to the wall space will get some more silence.
The real harm was all the creation of all those corporatized chant/non-happy birthday songs.
Who can forget such gems as..
Applebeeâ(TM)s is fun, itâ(TM)s true, Especially when we sing for you. Good news is we sing for free! Bad news is we sing off key!
Chevys
Happy, happy birthday, Todayâ(TM)s your birthday day! You are one year older, And so weâ(TM)re here to say: First you get your flan, And then you eat it, too. So happy, happy birthday, From all of us to you! Ole!
Chuck E. Cheese
Clap your hands! Now stomp your feet! Youâ(TM)re a Birthday Star at Chuck E. Cheese! Youâ(TM)re our special guest, We all aim to please Youâ(TM)re big time, big stuff, going far Hereâ(TM)s to you, our Birthday Star!
Chiliâ(TM)s
Happy happy birthday, From the Chiliâ(TM)s crew, We wish it was our birthday So we could party too. HEY!
LongHorn Steakhouse
Fried chicken, Country hog, Itâ(TM)s your birthday: Hot dog!
Olive Garden
From the pasta we make To lasagna we bake Ba ba ba ba Weâ(TM)re wishing you a happy birthday!
We hope you will remember This fond event forever Weâ(TM)re wishing you a happy birthday!
Itâ(TM)s like family and friends At the Olive Garden In the true Italiano way Hey! Hey!
So if youâ(TM)re looking for some fun Try Hospitaliano Have a happy happy day!
"A vigorous 60-minute workout on a treadmill affects the release of two key appetite hormones, ghrelin and peptide YY, while 90 minutes of weight lifting affects the level of only ghrelin, according to a new study. Taken together, the research shows that aerobic exercise is better at suppressing appetite than non-aerobic exercise and provides a possible explanation for how that happens."
Actually, fat is implicated in increased hunger by numerous studies.
" Scientists from the Lawson Health Research Institute (part of the University of Western Ontario) believe that they have found the reason that people with extra belly fat are hungrier than others. According to their study published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), fat cells around the abdomen produce an appetite-inducing hormone known as Neuropeptide Y (NPY)."
"Admitting to its mistake, and adding that it would "comply immediately" with the European authorities, the software giant knew it would face an all but inevitable fine for failing to include the settlement-assured "browser choice" screen."
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When primitive screwheads destroy it during a period of civil unrest due to their religious beliefs.
We've lost a lot to isis and the taliban.
Hopefully the bhuddists of Mongolia can keep the items safe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
At the very least, we should take a casting of items before they are returned and perhaps laser surveys of things too large to protect.
There are articles in the paper every day about service job destruction.
A year ago when I went to chilli's there was a waitperson per 5 tables.
Last month when I went to chilli's there was a waitperson per 13 tables and a 1 "food delivery" person. An automated kiosk at the table took our order and allowed us to pay our bill. The waitperson basically refilled our drinks 3 times and checked if we had any special needs. The food delivery person actually brought our food and confirmed the order matched what we had ordered.
A few years ago, I got cold sales calls exclusively from humans trying to cold sell me items.
This year, I'm starting to get automated sales calls in the mix.
A few years ago, my doctor gave me my test results.
Today, I get an automated call that tells me my test results are available on the web page.
And yup-- entry level jobs are going away as automation gets less expensive.
Best buy, target and walmart staffing levels are lower than in the early 00's. (Walmart by an average of 1/7th).
I frequently check myself out at walmart, kroger, and lowes.
So yea, broad categories of service jobs are going away. I don't see new ones replacing them. I do see the young kids struggling to get started on the job path. It was easy for me when I was a kid. Even during recessions.
The problem is we are reaching a tipping point where cheap machine labor will soon be able to replace all repetative labor which simply relies on having vision, manual dexterity, or even smart but not creative thinking work.
Most people are not creative. Even creative people have historically had long periods of manual or repetitive portions of work in their jobs.
On the flip side, we have artificial territories and regions where the prices are not being dropped and wealth is essentially being extracted from entire areas leaving them without sufficient revenues to maintain infrastructure or for the citizens to live as well as their parents did.
The trend is accelerating so the next 20 years are going to be a period of rapid employment destruction.
Any new jobs created during that period which don't rely on creativity, looks, or political connections will probably be eliminated as quickly as they can be codified by robots which cost close to the poverty line and by automated processes which are a little more expensive but which are tax deductible capital expenses to create.
Cable (and ESPN) are priced too high right now.
And too many commercials (52 minutes content in 1960... 39 minutes content today per hour).
I get the impression that Musk isn't the typical sociopath business leader.
He wants to change the world in positive ways. Money is a means to that end.
Currently, I trust him more than many. I hope that trust isn't disappointed.
No that's torture. They should waterboard because it's not torture at all.
Um... How about five in the last 444 million years?
End Ordovician, 444 million years ago, 86% of species lost
Late Devonian, 375 million years ago, 75% of species lost
End Permian, 251 million years ago, 96% of species lost
End Triassic, 200 million years ago, 80% of species lost
End Cretaceous, 66 million years ago, 76% of all species lost
In all of these anything very large pretty much died off.
Good points on the Mars colony. The main thing they'll need is power. If they have power, they can make water, air, and synthesize nutrients. Next, they'd need a sufficient population size (thousands- not hundreds).
I agree it would be challenging. We really need for space technology to be reduced in cost by two more orders of magnitude.
I was amused that anyone would think Martian colonists will lead a plush existence tho. Right now it would take about 2% of the planet's GDP (i.e. over a trillion dollars). But if we could drop the costs an order of magnitude, it would be .2% of the planet's GDP.
You asked what's so hard about tearing down a coal plant. Cleaning up toxic waste is hard. Besides, the Minimata convention on mercury set a date of 2014 for new coal plants and 2019 (not here yet) for old coal plants to control their emissions. So basically every coal plant in the world except those finished being built sometime in the last 11 months which won't be decommissioned for a couple decades. And that's only for coal plants in nations that follow the Minimata convention. And those controls will still only stop 90% of mercury emissions and 40% of sulfur dioxide emissions. So there will still be mercury contamination. For wind, you might be left with a few concrete mooring anchors or a concrete foundation if the company goes bankrupt. And a concrete foundation would be pretty easy to clean up with little toxic risk.
You can tear a coal plant down but the ground is poisonous for a long time.
http://www.bitsofscience.org/m...
Basically, huge amounts of soil downwind of mercury plants (and you know.. when the wind is calm, that means all immediately around a coal plant) are contaminated. It's literally too expensive to clean up. Other toxins are present as well.
Wind plant construction areas might turn out to have a similar risk but wind power plants are unlikely to have any more impact than any other normal construction.
So say the odds for a life extinguishing event to occur is 1 in 4 million over the next 100 years ( about in line with historical wipeouts).
People win the lottery on lower odds multiple times a year.
What if the extremely low likelihood event occurs?
sigh...
"huge states with more POPULATION than 20 other states combined."
I really hate that you can't edit on slashdot. Even if only for a few minutes.
Let's push this to it's extreme.
Say three very rich people bought all of wyoming.
Should they be allowed to control 2 senators and 1 representative? They are a "state" right?
I think I understand the point of the civics lesson better than you do.
The founding fathers, in an age where they wanted 30,000 to 60,000 citizens per representative never foresaw we would create huge states with more combination than 20 other states combined.
And if we were to break the larger states up into smaller states, senators still represent the new state's interest so I'm not clear on where you see a problem anyway.
Five californian states, five Texan states, and three New York states (the problem being that most of the population is in one city.
Really, california (and texas.. and new york) should be broken up into smaller states.
Their population's representation in the Senate and house are grossly smaller than those from many other states.
For example, Wyoming gets 1 senator per 280,000 citizens and 1 representative per 580,000 citizens.
Meanwhile California gets 1 senator per 19,000,000 citizens and 1 representative per 710,000 citizens.
The Iraqi government the u.s. set up has 1 representative per 100,000 citizens and the original 1st amendment (still up for a vote by the way) proposed 1 representative per 50,000 to 60,000 citizens. (But it wouldn't matter to pass it because it also has a minimum total allowed of 200ish total representatives and we currently are fixed at just below 500 which is really low).
Given the senate control of appointments... it grossly over represents the influence of the population of tiny states over the population of large states. Similarly it grossly over represents the power of tiny states in electing the president.
Absolutely. Jar Jar was the second best character in the movies that Lucas proposed making (it would have been nice to have seen them- much like the rumored Matrix sequels that were never made and the lost 5th season of Babylon 5.) From the sound of it, it's a good thing they were never made.
With lucas directing, all the human actors would have been ground down except the actor who portrayed the emperor. I bet he would have done a good job. Jar Jar (much like Han, Leia, and Luke but also C3PO) would have elicited actual emotion and created character conflict. The proposed characters would have otherwise all been very bland, lifeless, just reciting lines and sitting down doing nothing when prevented from fighting by a forcefield between them instead of talking to each other and interacting. I bet Jar Jar would have even irritated the crap out of Qui Gon over a dinner scene.
But the ewoks were terrible and didn't fit the tone of the rest of the star wars films. Wookies would have fit the rest of the film. And you could have had a few cute wookie kids without ruining the film.
I didn't like the new effects added to Star Wars and I dispiseed the cop out on Han. The original star wars as seen in theatres holds up nicely for me.
See the studies on this page for measured differences between the types of eggs.
http://www.motherearthnews.com...
The risk of organic spinich is about the same as conventional spinach
"But Francisco Diez-Gonzalez, a professor of food safety microbiology at the University of Minnesota's department of food science and nutrition, disagrees. In 2006, he published a study comparing E. coli contamination in organic and conventional produce. He concluded that the presence of E. coli seemed to depend more on the type of produce than whether it had been grown conventionally or organically.
"At this timeâ¦there is no sufficient evidence either epidemiological or scientific, to support the idea that organic produce is most likely to carry foodborne pathogenic bacteria," wrote Diez-Gonzalez in an email. "Despite the apparently logical expectation that if manure is used as one of the predominant fertilizers for organic crops they might be riskier, some factors such as the diversity of manure types, the use of composted manure and the fact that even conventional growers also use manure seem to have an impact on finding any differences."
The takeaway: Since organic produce isn't any more or less likely than conventional to carry a scary disease, and since even organic fruits and veggies might contain traces of pesticides on their skins, always wash it, just like you would any other produce. Of course, rinsing your food won't always remove every single pathogen, Lunder notes, but it's better than nothing. Since running some water over my blueberries will require approximately 15 seconds of my day, I think I can handle it."
The specific studies you posted are interesting and may be valid. However, you have to be careful of any iinformation associated with the Center for Global Food Issues. It's funded by Monsanto, ConAgra, and DuPont. Enough of articles I dug into turned out to have funding ties to big agra that I've become skeptical of anti-organic science.
The big food processors spend 20 million a year to produce anti-organic propaganda and have bought up most of the mid sized organic food producers. It's a bad situation where real organic food is hard to find and it's hard to find certifying agencies you can trust because certification agencies are targeted by the big food processors and they have a lot of money to throw around. USDA organic and free range certification is almost useless at this point.
Interesting point on the marigolds, but so far I've seen no scandal of producers specifically feeding marigolds to chickens to color the eggs. But I imagine that's next. They'd rather dye the yolks than actually follow real free range and organic processes.
Almost any "organic" produce you can buy on the scale of a restaurant isn't really being raised by organic methods.
For example
Free range chickens wander about over acres of grasslands eating bugs. Like wild caught salmon, eggs from these chickens are bright orange.
Meanwhile, "organic" and "free range" eggs in grocery stores and restaurants come from hens who literally qualify for the "free range" label by having access to a plant free, bug free muddy fenced plot next to the roosting area. In at least one case, it was a concrete lot. Likewise, the yolks from psueodo organic food are yellow (not orange). Some of the better ones are a strong yellow vs a pastel yellow but that's about it.
Organic food practices produce measurably better food (lower cholesteral, higher vitamins, lower saturated acids) with measurably lower results (50,000 survey in Britain showed lower weight and 9% lower lymphoma risk).
Conventional foods (and government certified fake organic foods) are essentially the same as conventional foods so of course tests find no differences.
The largest cause of ecoli contamination is someone touched something's butt and then didn't wash their hands thoroughly. Use of recreational water on crops is another source of contamination.
Hate to break it to you but cropland is built on animal crap. Most of the mid west is thousands of years of buffalo eating and pooping.
Soil without poop is basically "sand". But it needs time to compost for the bacteria to die off.
Noise is absorbed and blocked by solid material.
This is what you need to stop sound.
Noise is diffused by soft material.
This is what you need to cut down on echos within a space.
The cheapest way to block sound is an extra layer of sheet rock especially decoupled with "Green Glue".
For more cash ...
These are: Celotex SoundStop (a sound-proofing fiberboard), QuietRock by Serious Materials, and Soundproofing Mass Loaded Vinyl, manufactured by Super Soundproofing Co.
Also Mineral Wool ("e.g., Roxul or Thermafiber), and cellulose fibre are good for low frequency sound.
Use foam / caulk to make sure there are no air gaps for sound to sneak thru.
If it's a single wall... you can put up book cases with a quilt hanging on the back.
Double drywall is about a 10% benefit. Double drywall with green glue is about a 90% benefit.
Adding insulation to the wall space will get some more silence.
As is a complete lack of stress.
The real harm was all the creation of all those corporatized chant/non-happy birthday songs.
Who can forget such gems as ..
Applebeeâ(TM)s is fun, itâ(TM)s true,
Especially when we sing for you.
Good news is we sing for free!
Bad news is we sing off key!
Chevys
Happy, happy birthday,
Todayâ(TM)s your birthday day!
You are one year older,
And so weâ(TM)re here to say:
First you get your flan,
And then you eat it, too.
So happy, happy birthday,
From all of us to you!
Ole!
Chuck E. Cheese
Clap your hands!
Now stomp your feet!
Youâ(TM)re a Birthday Star at Chuck E. Cheese!
Youâ(TM)re our special guest,
We all aim to please
Youâ(TM)re big time, big stuff, going far
Hereâ(TM)s to you, our Birthday Star!
Chiliâ(TM)s
Happy happy birthday,
From the Chiliâ(TM)s crew,
We wish it was our birthday
So we could party too.
HEY!
LongHorn Steakhouse
Fried chicken,
Country hog,
Itâ(TM)s your birthday:
Hot dog!
Olive Garden
From the pasta we make
To lasagna we bake
Ba ba ba ba
Weâ(TM)re wishing you a happy birthday!
We hope you will remember
This fond event forever
Weâ(TM)re wishing you a happy birthday!
Itâ(TM)s like family and friends
At the Olive Garden
In the true Italiano way
Hey! Hey!
So if youâ(TM)re looking for some fun
Try Hospitaliano
Have a happy happy day!
Hey!
---
It hurts even to read them.
Actually...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...
Moderate exercise reduces appetite.
"A vigorous 60-minute workout on a treadmill affects the release of two key appetite hormones, ghrelin and peptide YY, while 90 minutes of weight lifting affects the level of only ghrelin, according to a new study. Taken together, the research shows that aerobic exercise is better at suppressing appetite than non-aerobic exercise and provides a possible explanation for how that happens."
Actually, fat is implicated in increased hunger by numerous studies.
" Scientists from the Lawson Health Research Institute (part of the University of Western Ontario) believe that they have found the reason that people with extra belly fat are hungrier than others. According to their study published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), fat cells around the abdomen produce an appetite-inducing hormone known as Neuropeptide Y (NPY)."
Trivial.. and one of many
http://www.zdnet.com/article/m...
"Admitting to its mistake, and adding that it would "comply immediately" with the European authorities, the software giant knew it would face an all but inevitable fine for failing to include the settlement-assured "browser choice" screen."
Except it was verified to be happening by ArsTechnica.
Microsoft responded that they had "accidentally" set the behavior this way.
Never put 100% stock in anything a corporation- much less Microsoft (serial liars since the last century)- say.
Microsoft isn't all bad but they are massive scammers and have a long history of bald-faced lying and being caught lying.
Rome had gladatorial contests from 216 BC to 354 AD with smaller contests continuing into the late 400's, possibly early 500's.
Most (99.999%) nations fall faster than that, so bread and circuses was a solution more than a problem.
So it did work out pretty well for the Romans.
Also add the bricking reports on reddit to the unasked update reports on Arstechnica.
You can't revert if the update kills your computer. Some people have had to reinstall from media (couldn't use the on disk backup partition).