You're right. There was some weather today, not much yesterday, and I think not much tomorrow, but i've never seen a weather forecast of "none". There are times when there is very little weather though, and times when there is a lot.
I'm from LA, too... I can't remember the last Smog Alert we had.... And when I was a kid, most of the summer was First Stage, with a few Second Stage alerts every year.
Outsourcing works both ways I guess. China might get the jobs but they also get stuck with the pollution.
Apple still tries these tactics in Australia, even two years after being brought to public attention. In Australia, if a product isn't fit for purpose, you can return it to the store it was bought from, regardless of what Apple try to tell you. This is one small part of the reason for the 'Australia Tax', the other parts being inexplicable.
Phones are even more of a special case in Australia. For other products the wording of the law is that if you paid a substantial amount of money for something and it breaks before the expected lifespan you can expect replacement from the supplier or manufacturer (can't remember which, the supplier I think). For phones, if you are under contract then the phone is considered under warranty and the phone company is responsible for it.
I'd hoped this would reduce the amount of crap on the market - a store might not stock a crappy brand of TV if they knew they would be stuck with the warranty. It doesn't seem to have turned out that way though.
The research i've read says that you grow additional fat cells when your intake exceeds your expenditure, and your fat cells empty when your expenditure exceeds your intake. Empty fat cells scream at your brain to eat to fill them up again, making it easy to lose a bit of weight but difficult to keep it off. The article I read wasn't clear on how long empty fat cells stay empty before they are eliminated, but i don't think it was particularly fast.
I'm not sure if the article (can't find it anymore) was quackery or actually backed by proper research but it seemed a reasonable explanation for why surgery (cutting out fat from the body) becomes the only option for really obese people. Obviously if they had the self control to lose weight they probably wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.
Stomach stapling would reduce the ability to eat but leave the person in the hell of wanting to eat without being able to. This new invention might be a better solution, although I think that the act of eating primes the body for the nutrients about to be delivered, and messing with that (eg removing the foot before it hits the intestines) might not be a particularly good long term solution...
Yes, it is. At least, it's bulimia. I don't see anything respectable at all about surgically altering yourself so you can gorge and still lose weight, and I guess time will tell if it's marketable (although I doubt it'll be even as successful as lap band surgery), but yeah, it's definitely mechanical barfing.
Depends on the size of the target market. How many people are there in the US who love eating but don't want to be fat? Probably not many I guess.
so I will spend $60 in a glorious dinner. then this tube will puke it for me. sounds stupid
Sure. If you needed the nutrition provided by your $60 dinner then puking through a tube would indeed be stupid. Obviously you haven't taken a few seconds to consider the target market for this product.
For fatties who don't need the food but love eating this is the perfect solution. I imagine version 2 will attach directly into your stomach through your chest and do away with all that hassle of sticking a tube down your throat. Then restaurants will be able to have an all-you-can-eat icecream bar that never needs refilling... from external sources. You pay a cover change plus whatever the difference is in your weight between when you arrive and when you leave.
And don't listen to anyone who tells you you don't need this machine and to just eat less. Why deny yourself the orally fixated pleasure of eating? Screw the starving kids in Africa. It's your right to eat that $60 meal and then pour it down the toilet when you're done. Your _RIGHT_ goddammit.
Or, irony will be that kids want to get their hands on this game now . . . just because it has an R18+ rating. Doing anything that is illegal or a sin is more fun. Like, sex before you are married, sneaking into a movie with an adult rating, buying beer when you are under aged, etc.
The R18+ sticker is a big red, blinking "Buy Me!" sticker on the box for kids.
Like supplying alcohol to a minor, I assume there are enforceable penalties for supplying a minor with an R18+ game (it's my country, but i'm too lazy to rtfa).
The key word is selling, not supplying.
It's illegal to sell alcohol to a minor, but if a parent gives alcohol to a minor they haven't commited an offence. It's the same with R18 (we've had this rating on movies, books and music for years) It's illegal to sell R18 material to someone under 18, but if their parents buy it there's no problem.
You've isolated the case where a parent gives their own child alcohol, but that's the exception. If you are under age and get someone else to buy alcohol for you, they can be done for supplying alcohol to a minor. Whether you pay them to do it or just ask really really nicely, the key word is still supply.
So what exactly happens to this? Makes its way up to the surface eventually and generally fucks shit up I assume.
it doesn't even have to make it's way to the surface. Soon we'll be seeing pictures of little baby Morlock's, C.H.U.D.'s and Molemen, with plastic around their necks, dying in agony. They say the plastic is 'ground up' but I assume that means it's ground up small enough to fit in the bucket of a digger.
Geothermal energy has an enourmous potential to reduce those emissions. If the price is a some minor tremors in remote locations, it is worth it.
If it were only that simple. Besides creating tremors, harvesting geothermal energy also hastens the cooling of the Earth's mantle. Once that's done, say goodbye to the magnetosphere, and shortly thereafter, the entire atmosphere and all life on Earth.
I thought of that too. Does anyone have any numbers on how many million years we can suck heat out of the ground before it becomes a problem?
I am an Australian. Assume this passes. How can I harden my computer against being used as a node in an ASIO botnet?
Over here! We have a troublemaker!
Seriously though, I wouldn't worry too much. All the hardening you already do to you computer to keep the existing viruses out will be just fine. The only possible problem will be that the antivirus vendors may be persuaded to ignore government sanctioned malware, but such a thing will be self correcting when the malware authors figure out how to mimic government malware.
Or, irony will be that kids want to get their hands on this game now . . . just because it has an R18+ rating. Doing anything that is illegal or a sin is more fun. Like, sex before you are married, sneaking into a movie with an adult rating, buying beer when you are under aged, etc.
The R18+ sticker is a big red, blinking "Buy Me!" sticker on the box for kids.
Like supplying alcohol to a minor, I assume there are enforceable penalties for supplying a minor with an R18+ game (it's my country, but i'm too lazy to rtfa).
Still... it's not the publishers problem if an outlet sells a game to a minor. They still get the money, which is more than the nothing they would have received if the kid had just downloaded the game instead (which they probably will anyway).
When opening this article I half expected to read about the next installment of Grand Theft Auto or some other title riddled with adult themes.
The next GTA game will be rated G and will consist of Postman Pat going on his deliveries... until the unlock code is released.
I think the game Carmageddon did something like that. In some countries it was deemed that running people down with your car wasn't really the right thing to do so the game was released with zombies instead of people (s/skintone/green). For countries that deemed that running down zombies wasn't tasteful enough, the zombies were changed to robots. It was supposedly very easy to take the zombie version of the game and change them back into people with a bit of tweaking here and there. Not sure about the robot version.
I get how it all works, but what happens when the real endpoint certificate isn't trusted by Noikia's proxy? If your browser sees Nokia's certificate, and already trusts it, you have no visibility to the validity of the certificate on the website you are trying to access. Nokia's proxy will either fail if the certificate isn't trusted (according to _their_ list of trusted CA's, not yours) or always succeed without telling the user that the certificate is invalid (eg because dns poisoning has lead you to a Russian website that looks exactly like your bank). Neither way is consistent with the current browsing experience where the browser says "hey this certificate isn't currently trusted. What do you want to do about it?"
In a corporate setting it is quite reasonable to run your own private certificate authority and distribute the CA to your own devices, but it seems not if one of those devices is a Nokia.
Too late for those of us from the Def Leppard era (I was never a fan, but there was lots of other loud music going on). Might be just in time for the kids of today from the One Direction era (Ha Ha - that's how your generation is going to be defined!!!)
I think the medical profession is wasteful if they are not reusing barium on-site!
When penicillin was very new and little of it was available during and immediately after WW2, the urine of penicillin-treated patients was collected and distilled, so the penicillin could be saved and re-used several times over.
I don't see a problem with doing the same by purifying barium from patients' stool, expect the disgusting aspect. However, medical professionals must have a tolerance for disgust, else they would be not able to do their work.
It's not the bodies of the medical professionals that the recycled barium has to go in to, so I assume they'll be fine with it.
"how to tell if your girlfriend is the love child of Beelzebub and Cthulu"
Was her name Tina? Because I think I dated he same girl.
I wasn't speaking from experience. I knocked up the first girl I dated, then knocked her up again, then married her. I've been with her nearly half my life now. If she is related to Satan it's reasonably distant.
I am the self centered spawn of satan. This isn't an intuitive thing. It takes some introspection. And once you know that you're some evil, thoughtless being, you have to reevaluate your existence. Being "good" just doesn't come naturally to you, and your shrink doesn't seem to understand that. So now what? Do you stay out of relationships until some epiphany lights the way? Or do you go the trial and error route, and hope that you ruin someone else's life a little bit less this time around?
Pick someone who enjoys getting treated like crap? Or someone who will put you in your place if you try? The first is obviously presents a paradox because the spawn of satan is looking to make people miserable and if they enjoy being miserable then what to do...
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There is always weather
You're right. There was some weather today, not much yesterday, and I think not much tomorrow, but i've never seen a weather forecast of "none". There are times when there is very little weather though, and times when there is a lot.
Didn't know that. Do now. Still, is it going to be that thick by the time it gets there?
I'm from LA, too... I can't remember the last Smog Alert we had.... And when I was a kid, most of the summer was First Stage, with a few Second Stage alerts every year.
Outsourcing works both ways I guess. China might get the jobs but they also get stuck with the pollution.
All in all, this claim of life in a space rock is at best highly doubtful, and in reality almost certainly not true.
But it's exciting, and isn't that what really matters?
Apple still tries these tactics in Australia, even two years after being brought to public attention. In Australia, if a product isn't fit for purpose, you can return it to the store it was bought from, regardless of what Apple try to tell you. This is one small part of the reason for the 'Australia Tax', the other parts being inexplicable.
See
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/01/apple-stores-warranty-approach-contradicts-australian-consumer-law/
for more detail.
Phones are even more of a special case in Australia. For other products the wording of the law is that if you paid a substantial amount of money for something and it breaks before the expected lifespan you can expect replacement from the supplier or manufacturer (can't remember which, the supplier I think). For phones, if you are under contract then the phone is considered under warranty and the phone company is responsible for it.
I'd hoped this would reduce the amount of crap on the market - a store might not stock a crappy brand of TV if they knew they would be stuck with the warranty. It doesn't seem to have turned out that way though.
This is limited intake alone.
The research i've read says that you grow additional fat cells when your intake exceeds your expenditure, and your fat cells empty when your expenditure exceeds your intake. Empty fat cells scream at your brain to eat to fill them up again, making it easy to lose a bit of weight but difficult to keep it off. The article I read wasn't clear on how long empty fat cells stay empty before they are eliminated, but i don't think it was particularly fast.
I'm not sure if the article (can't find it anymore) was quackery or actually backed by proper research but it seemed a reasonable explanation for why surgery (cutting out fat from the body) becomes the only option for really obese people. Obviously if they had the self control to lose weight they probably wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.
Stomach stapling would reduce the ability to eat but leave the person in the hell of wanting to eat without being able to. This new invention might be a better solution, although I think that the act of eating primes the body for the nutrients about to be delivered, and messing with that (eg removing the foot before it hits the intestines) might not be a particularly good long term solution...
How many people are there in the US who love eating but don't want to be fat? Probably not many I guess.
Not many? More like just about everyone.
Sarcasm is implied unless indicated otherwise.
Yes, it is. At least, it's bulimia. I don't see anything respectable at all about surgically altering yourself so you can gorge and still lose weight, and I guess time will tell if it's marketable (although I doubt it'll be even as successful as lap band surgery), but yeah, it's definitely mechanical barfing.
Depends on the size of the target market. How many people are there in the US who love eating but don't want to be fat? Probably not many I guess.
so I will spend $60 in a glorious dinner. then this tube will puke it for me. sounds stupid
Sure. If you needed the nutrition provided by your $60 dinner then puking through a tube would indeed be stupid. Obviously you haven't taken a few seconds to consider the target market for this product.
For fatties who don't need the food but love eating this is the perfect solution. I imagine version 2 will attach directly into your stomach through your chest and do away with all that hassle of sticking a tube down your throat. Then restaurants will be able to have an all-you-can-eat icecream bar that never needs refilling... from external sources. You pay a cover change plus whatever the difference is in your weight between when you arrive and when you leave.
And don't listen to anyone who tells you you don't need this machine and to just eat less. Why deny yourself the orally fixated pleasure of eating? Screw the starving kids in Africa. It's your right to eat that $60 meal and then pour it down the toilet when you're done. Your _RIGHT_ goddammit.
Or, irony will be that kids want to get their hands on this game now . . . just because it has an R18+ rating. Doing anything that is illegal or a sin is more fun. Like, sex before you are married, sneaking into a movie with an adult rating, buying beer when you are under aged, etc.
The R18+ sticker is a big red, blinking "Buy Me!" sticker on the box for kids.
Like supplying alcohol to a minor, I assume there are enforceable penalties for supplying a minor with an R18+ game (it's my country, but i'm too lazy to rtfa).
The key word is selling, not supplying.
It's illegal to sell alcohol to a minor, but if a parent gives alcohol to a minor they haven't commited an offence. It's the same with R18 (we've had this rating on movies, books and music for years) It's illegal to sell R18 material to someone under 18, but if their parents buy it there's no problem.
You've isolated the case where a parent gives their own child alcohol, but that's the exception. If you are under age and get someone else to buy alcohol for you, they can be done for supplying alcohol to a minor. Whether you pay them to do it or just ask really really nicely, the key word is still supply.
So what exactly happens to this? Makes its way up to the surface eventually and generally fucks shit up I assume.
it doesn't even have to make it's way to the surface. Soon we'll be seeing pictures of little baby Morlock's, C.H.U.D.'s and Molemen, with plastic around their necks, dying in agony. They say the plastic is 'ground up' but I assume that means it's ground up small enough to fit in the bucket of a digger.
If it were only that simple. Besides creating tremors, harvesting geothermal energy also hastens the cooling of the Earth's mantle. Once that's done, say goodbye to the magnetosphere, and shortly thereafter, the entire atmosphere and all life on Earth.
I thought of that too. Does anyone have any numbers on how many million years we can suck heat out of the ground before it becomes a problem?
Inert plastic? The same stuff they make carpet, park benches, and food containers out of?
The same stuff they ship bottled water in?
Reported, regulated, testable plastic. Not trademarked, trade secret potential toxins.
That's the stuff. It's perfectly fine unless it happens to get hot somehow.
Here, you can use some of my tinfoil now.
Wait a minute... how do I know you haven't tampered with it?
I am an Australian. Assume this passes. How can I harden my computer against being used as a node in an ASIO botnet?
Over here! We have a troublemaker!
Seriously though, I wouldn't worry too much. All the hardening you already do to you computer to keep the existing viruses out will be just fine. The only possible problem will be that the antivirus vendors may be persuaded to ignore government sanctioned malware, but such a thing will be self correcting when the malware authors figure out how to mimic government malware.
Or, irony will be that kids want to get their hands on this game now . . . just because it has an R18+ rating. Doing anything that is illegal or a sin is more fun. Like, sex before you are married, sneaking into a movie with an adult rating, buying beer when you are under aged, etc.
The R18+ sticker is a big red, blinking "Buy Me!" sticker on the box for kids.
Like supplying alcohol to a minor, I assume there are enforceable penalties for supplying a minor with an R18+ game (it's my country, but i'm too lazy to rtfa).
Still... it's not the publishers problem if an outlet sells a game to a minor. They still get the money, which is more than the nothing they would have received if the kid had just downloaded the game instead (which they probably will anyway).
When opening this article I half expected to read about the next installment of Grand Theft Auto or some other title riddled with adult themes.
The next GTA game will be rated G and will consist of Postman Pat going on his deliveries... until the unlock code is released.
I think the game Carmageddon did something like that. In some countries it was deemed that running people down with your car wasn't really the right thing to do so the game was released with zombies instead of people (s/skintone/green). For countries that deemed that running down zombies wasn't tasteful enough, the zombies were changed to robots. It was supposedly very easy to take the zombie version of the game and change them back into people with a bit of tweaking here and there. Not sure about the robot version.
I get how it all works, but what happens when the real endpoint certificate isn't trusted by Noikia's proxy? If your browser sees Nokia's certificate, and already trusts it, you have no visibility to the validity of the certificate on the website you are trying to access. Nokia's proxy will either fail if the certificate isn't trusted (according to _their_ list of trusted CA's, not yours) or always succeed without telling the user that the certificate is invalid (eg because dns poisoning has lead you to a Russian website that looks exactly like your bank). Neither way is consistent with the current browsing experience where the browser says "hey this certificate isn't currently trusted. What do you want to do about it?"
In a corporate setting it is quite reasonable to run your own private certificate authority and distribute the CA to your own devices, but it seems not if one of those devices is a Nokia.
Too late for those of us from the Def Leppard era (I was never a fan, but there was lots of other loud music going on). Might be just in time for the kids of today from the One Direction era (Ha Ha - that's how your generation is going to be defined!!!)
5. recycle existing rare earth stockpiles (aka your local landfill)
Don't you offshore that rubbish somewhere already? And isn't it to China?
I think the medical profession is wasteful if they are not reusing barium on-site!
When penicillin was very new and little of it was available during and immediately after WW2, the urine of penicillin-treated patients was collected and distilled, so the penicillin could be saved and re-used several times over.
I don't see a problem with doing the same by purifying barium from patients' stool, expect the disgusting aspect. However, medical professionals must have a tolerance for disgust, else they would be not able to do their work.
It's not the bodies of the medical professionals that the recycled barium has to go in to, so I assume they'll be fine with it.
Are you from Virginia?
Remember, Cousins don't count.
Australia. We don't do that here. Except for the people down south in Tasmania, or so i've heard.
"how to tell if your girlfriend is the love child of Beelzebub and Cthulu"
Was her name Tina? Because I think I dated he same girl.
I wasn't speaking from experience. I knocked up the first girl I dated, then knocked her up again, then married her. I've been with her nearly half my life now. If she is related to Satan it's reasonably distant.
I am the self centered spawn of satan. This isn't an intuitive thing. It takes some introspection. And once you know that you're some evil, thoughtless being, you have to reevaluate your existence. Being "good" just doesn't come naturally to you, and your shrink doesn't seem to understand that. So now what? Do you stay out of relationships until some epiphany lights the way? Or do you go the trial and error route, and hope that you ruin someone else's life a little bit less this time around?
Pick someone who enjoys getting treated like crap? Or someone who will put you in your place if you try? The first is obviously presents a paradox because the spawn of satan is looking to make people miserable and if they enjoy being miserable then what to do...
unlimitless pool of choices
you're hurting my brain.