If you're fed up (pun intended) with safe food and other consumables I suggest that you order the cheapest possible products directly from China. Unlike the commies here in the US, manufacturers there are mostly unencumbered by effective regulation, so anything goes.
According to state newspaper the China Daily, officials from Guangxi, a southern region bordering Vietnam, found meat dating back to the 1970s.
Yang Bo, an anti-smuggling official in Hunan province, was quoted as saying food was often transported in ordinary rather than refrigerated vehicles to save money. "So the meat has often thawed out [and re-frozen] several times before reaching customers," he said.
Like high fructose corn syrup? Because HFCS doesn't grow on trees, whereas certain red dyes do at least grow on beetles.
You say that as if soaking raw cane/beets in lime to get "raw" sugar is a natural process...
Not to mention one method of soybean processing:
Solvent extraction: This process, which is the one used most commonly around the world, uses hexane to leach or wash (extract) the oil from flaked oilseeds. This method reduces the level of oil in the extracted flakes to one percent or less.
The problem with High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is not the presence of fructose. Sucrose (cane/beat sugar) is a disaccharide combination of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose. The body breaks down sucrose into glucose and fructose using an enzyme. The problem with HFCF is that it simpler molecules are absorbed into the body must faster than of they had to be broken down first. Spikes in sugar in the bloodstream strain the liver and get stored into fat.
This video Sugar: The Bitter Truth explains the fructose metabolism you describe in detail and how fructose gets metabolized much like alcohol, but without the limiting effects of consuming too much alcohol... From the YouTube blurb:
Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin.
You're joking. Have you taken a look at people lately?
Chill. He didn't say whether it was low or high intelligence. Sure he implied high by saying, " I think most people will see through baseless accusations", but the rest of his examples seem to contradict that by ignoring just how stupid and knee-jerky people can actually be.
I've been thinking about the cost of anonymity. I think it's an often necessary element of political speech, but it's not free. It requires a sacrifice on the part of the person who chooses anonymity.
Simply calling someone - even a politician - a pedophile is *not* "political speech", it's slander/libel - unless you can back it up with proof.
Free Speech does not equate to guaranteed anonymity.
Without anonymity, you can't have free speech.
Not all speech if free. This was libel - potentially anyway, we don't know if the statement is false. It's up to the accuser to demonstrate the veracity of his/her statement of face the consequences of trying to defame someone. Anonymity isn't a shield for things like this.
The Intercept should just claim the photo is appropriation art and then claim a copyright on the Sunday Times front page for himself... like Richard Prince with Instagram photos.
Is it cheaper to launch by Russia? Will we tax the US economy, weaken ourselves, to hoard our activities here, to hoard the illusion of physical dollars staying in the economy?
Congress will just increase the limit for H-lB visas - Heavy launch Boosters - since no comparable US boosters are available.
For me, installing every new Firefox release starts with a web search for the new Firefox "features" to disable - sigh. (Social, Hello, Pocket, telemetry, health reporting, beacon, etc...)
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the "popularity" had to do with Pocket being in the stock portfolio of someone at Mozilla - or some other self-serving investment relationship.../cynical
Well, see, there's your problem: you wasted your life working in Pizza Hut instead of spending your summers pondering the greatness that someday you would bestow on humanity through your writing.
I did bestow some good pizza on humanity in my day, though...
Salaries were lower too. If he had gotten a more lucrative degree or went to a less expensive school, and/or (I imagine) had a job while going to school, he'd probably be fine, or at least better off, too.
I'm roughly the same age as Lee and went to school at roughly the same time. I had 2 Pell grants, 2 student loans, 2 at-school jobs (1 in the CS dept office and 1 as a research assistant doing LISP/Prolog programming) and a summer job at Pizza Hut. I managed work my way through school, get a job and pay off my debts. What's his problem?
Regardless of what has happened to social mobility in the last 30 years, it hasn't affected the author of this article because he is 57 years old. He went to college in the 80's when college was not nearly as expensive....
This guy is simply a sociopathic asshole who is just being provocative to get page views. He stopped paying his bills because he is an entitled prick, not because of the federal loan apparatus he is complaining about in the article....
*Exactly* I'm 52 and graduated in 1987 with a BSCS from a state school. I worked at school for financial aid, got and paid off my student loans. This guy is a whiny slacker who can't admit he's made poor life choices and thinks society owes him something. He wants to be a writer? Fine - work for it. I have a friend who's a writer and has another "real" job to help her pay the bills. He says in TFA:
Or I could take what I had been led to believe was both the morally and legally reprehensible step of defaulting on my student loans, which was the only way I could survive without wasting my life in a job that had nothing to do with my particular usefulness to society.
And what *is* his "particular usefulness to society"? I am at a loss here.
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If you're fed up (pun intended) with safe food and other consumables I suggest that you order the cheapest possible products directly from China. Unlike the commies here in the US, manufacturers there are mostly unencumbered by effective regulation, so anything goes.
You're not kidding. Just today there's this article on the BBC (and elsewhere) titled China 'seizes 40-year-old meat in crackdown on smugglers'
According to state newspaper the China Daily, officials from Guangxi, a southern region bordering Vietnam, found meat dating back to the 1970s.
Yang Bo, an anti-smuggling official in Hunan province, was quoted as saying food was often transported in ordinary rather than refrigerated vehicles to save money. "So the meat has often thawed out [and re-frozen] several times before reaching customers," he said.
When you strongly regulate something the effects are negative for the consumer!
Ya! Like all that clean air and water the government is regulating. And don't get me started on safe food and drugs. /sarcasm
Crunchy Frog - "If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy - would it?"
Like high fructose corn syrup? Because HFCS doesn't grow on trees, whereas certain red dyes do at least grow on beetles.
You say that as if soaking raw cane/beets in lime to get "raw" sugar is a natural process...
Not to mention one method of soybean processing:
Solvent extraction: This process, which is the one used most commonly around the world, uses hexane to leach or wash (extract) the oil from flaked oilseeds. This method reduces the level of oil in the extracted flakes to one percent or less.
Yum.
The problem with High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is not the presence of fructose. Sucrose (cane/beat sugar) is a disaccharide combination of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose. The body breaks down sucrose into glucose and fructose using an enzyme. The problem with HFCF is that it simpler molecules are absorbed into the body must faster than of they had to be broken down first. Spikes in sugar in the bloodstream strain the liver and get stored into fat.
This video Sugar: The Bitter Truth explains the fructose metabolism you describe in detail and how fructose gets metabolized much like alcohol, but without the limiting effects of consuming too much alcohol ... From the YouTube blurb:
Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin.
Which is a better tool for outdoor work, a lawn mower or a snowblower?
It depends if you're living under the pacific ocean or the atlantic ocean.
Under? Snorkel.
You're joking. Have you taken a look at people lately?
Chill. He didn't say whether it was low or high intelligence. Sure he implied high by saying, " I think most people will see through baseless accusations", but the rest of his examples seem to contradict that by ignoring just how stupid and knee-jerky people can actually be.
I've been thinking about the cost of anonymity. I think it's an often necessary element of political speech, but it's not free. It requires a sacrifice on the part of the person who chooses anonymity.
Simply calling someone - even a politician - a pedophile is *not* "political speech", it's slander/libel - unless you can back it up with proof.
Free Speech does not equate to guaranteed anonymity.
Without anonymity, you can't have free speech.
Not all speech if free. This was libel - potentially anyway, we don't know if the statement is false. It's up to the accuser to demonstrate the veracity of his/her statement of face the consequences of trying to defame someone. Anonymity isn't a shield for things like this.
Plus as they said above, its not like the ISP keeps 4 year old logs"
And if they did, wouldn't it be against the law? Perhaps forbidden tree etc?
IANAL but I imagine the moment something was file in court, the ISP was required to retain all those records until final disposition.
Ars Technica could have misspelled it "iMAX" and pissed off both IMAX and Apple.
What does that amount to? A month? A week's worth of revenue? Show some teeth dammit! Revoke their charter...
I'm more interested in how much $100 M could have upgraded their infrastructure to *actually* provide said services...
There are still plenty of analog connections around. Headphone jacks, ...
My headphones are digital; I do the D to A conversion in my mind.
The complaint will ask the FCC to rule that ISPs must strike free peering deals with website operators.
The Intercept should just claim the photo is appropriation art and then claim a copyright on the Sunday Times front page for himself ... like Richard Prince with Instagram photos.
"How many times do they want to get paid for the stupid music?"
Dunno. How many times do you want to get paid for serving the same stupid meals?
Sure, we all hate the MAFIAA, but it's rather odd how you feel capitalism is suddenly a one-way street.
Not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison.. Each new meal requires new material, each play of a song does not.
If the DJ did indeed pay a fee to play said songs, then I don't see why another should be paid by the restaurant owner.
Is it cheaper to launch by Russia? Will we tax the US economy, weaken ourselves, to hoard our activities here, to hoard the illusion of physical dollars staying in the economy?
Congress will just increase the limit for H-lB visas - Heavy launch Boosters - since no comparable US boosters are available.
Okay. Have a nice weekend Apache.
For me, installing every new Firefox release starts with a web search for the new Firefox "features" to disable - sigh. (Social, Hello, Pocket, telemetry, health reporting, beacon, etc...)
Pocket: 257k users
It is pretty popular. That puts it on Page 4 of the list.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the "popularity" had to do with Pocket being in the stock portfolio of someone at Mozilla - or some other self-serving investment relationship... /cynical
Well, see, there's your problem: you wasted your life working in Pizza Hut instead of spending your summers pondering the greatness that someday you would bestow on humanity through your writing.
I did bestow some good pizza on humanity in my day, though...
You know it was a lot cheaper in the '80s, right?
Salaries were lower too. If he had gotten a more lucrative degree or went to a less expensive school, and/or (I imagine) had a job while going to school, he'd probably be fine, or at least better off, too.
I'm roughly the same age as Lee and went to school at roughly the same time. I had 2 Pell grants, 2 student loans, 2 at-school jobs (1 in the CS dept office and 1 as a research assistant doing LISP/Prolog programming) and a summer job at Pizza Hut. I managed work my way through school, get a job and pay off my debts. What's his problem?
Regardless of what has happened to social mobility in the last 30 years, it hasn't affected the author of this article because he is 57 years old. He went to college in the 80's when college was not nearly as expensive. ...
This guy is simply a sociopathic asshole who is just being provocative to get page views. He stopped paying his bills because he is an entitled prick, not because of the federal loan apparatus he is complaining about in the article. ...
*Exactly* I'm 52 and graduated in 1987 with a BSCS from a state school. I worked at school for financial aid, got and paid off my student loans. This guy is a whiny slacker who can't admit he's made poor life choices and thinks society owes him something. He wants to be a writer? Fine - work for it. I have a friend who's a writer and has another "real" job to help her pay the bills. He says in TFA:
Or I could take what I had been led to believe was both the morally and legally reprehensible step of defaulting on my student loans, which was the only way I could survive without wasting my life in a job that had nothing to do with my particular usefulness to society.
And what *is* his "particular usefulness to society"? I am at a loss here.
... you can only legally justify H1Bs on the basis that there's no qualified US residents for the position ...
Do Southern California Edison and Disney know this? Because they had their US employees *train* their H1B replacements...
Unless, of course, "no qualified US residents" also includes "no low(er)-salary US residents".
That was on the PBS series NOVA on Feb 11, 2015 - I saw it then. Way to be current anon.