It's more like a medical supplement preparation than actual food. Extremely purified starch. Without any of the essential B vitamins and fibers that are required to digest starch without getting sick, fat and stupid. (Which is also true for all white "bread".) Not "can"... You *have* to eat this with a wide range of fresh foods. Otherwise it's outright dangerous for your health.
If you eat this thinking it's food, have fun with your diseases when you get old... (Please don't. I don't wish suffering upon anyone.)
Also, except in extreme situations, why would you need bread to last that long anyway? A normal bread (not a starch sponge) lasts a couple of days at room temperature, even without cooling. A normal 500g bread is eaten in 2 days. 3-4, if you bought a 1000g one for you alone, which is a stupid mistake that won't happen again. And the bakery has fresh bread every day. Even Sundays. They bake about as much as is bought... and leftovers go to the food bank to feed the poor. Nothing is wasted. So this is a solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist.
Source: Medical knowledge about nutrition that is well-known since the 60s, but apparently hasn't reached bread makers and consumers yet. And basic damn common sense.
Happy to hear that you live near a bakery and can go to the shop every couple of days, but not all the rest of the world[1] lives that way. The problem does exist, but maybe this isn't quite the solution.
I live in a household that is essentially gluten free, and all the commercial baked gluten free breads that I've found are pretty horrible (except for one fruit loaf which is only edible because it's put in the toaster first and smothered with butter), so I normally make it from a pre-packaged bread mix. The same solution should work with minimal effort for regular gluten bread.
[1] "rest of the world" is a term that may be foreign to you, but the concept is an actual real thing.
(Perhaps interestingly, the Canadian paper money in largest circulation is not the $5, it's the $20 bill... because of bank machines.)
I guess Australia is pretty much on par with Canada then. We have $1 and $2 coins, not notes, and our ATM's hand out $20 and $50 notes. My withdrawals are normally for $60 so I get 3 x $20.
Once they start making parking ticket machines take credit card or sms payment's i'll pretty much be done with physical currency except for an emergency stash.
And then the cop goes to jail for kicking the door in, since a private citizen isn't allowed to do that (in most cases the cop isn't either, admittedly).
The fact that the "private citizen" cop might be in the shit for kicking the door down may or may not have any bearing on whether the evidence is inadmissible though.
I wonder what would happen if the cops kicked down the wrong door (eg the house next door to the one they had the warrant for) by "mistake" and found something that shouldn't be...
Dude, I think you missed the "intraining" part of girlintraining. No problem with the gender identification issue, but girlintraining is never going to bear a child via "natural" means in his/her lifetime without some major advances.
Didn't notice the username. I assumed the reference to a bra implied breasts which in turn implied the rest of the required biological capacity to bear children.
my mom keeps telling me that at this point, she'd be happy if I'd just breed?
Just don't breed with a fellow geek or your kids are likely to turn out just like you, only more so. Just like us male geeks should be going for the prettiest, bimboest, bikini babes we can find, you should be going for a handsome jock who prefers grunts to words. Have fun with that;)
I married for beauty rather than for brains... unfortunately she turned out to be just as geeky as me and as a result my oldest daughter is almost too nerdy to function:)
A side arm. Highly visible. Make it obvious that you don't want to be messed with.
I'm definitely on the anti-gun side of the fence in that debate, but I do think some people do need to carry weapons and a sysadmin is one of those.
You'd be surprised what tools people will give you if you ask nicely, while at the same time having your hand hovering over your gun. Sort of like the hitchhikers towel theory but using intimidation rather than sympathy.
Definitely get a sonic screwdriver. Most shops don't carry them, and the ones that do are always out of stock whenever I ask for one, but I've seen them used before and they can do anything.
Just as the movie terminators were wearing skin to camouflage, the robotic forum infiltrator squads use random misspellings and intentionally bad grammar to hide themselves. The end is nigh!
OMG Slashdot is infiltrated by robots!!!
I don't recall them signing their posts with "anonymous robot" though.
Whatever you do, please don't publish the results on the internet where any self-aware robot can find them! It's probably already too late anyway and terminators from the future are already compiling their hit list.
No, we shouldn't kill people because we're perfectly capable of keeping them locked up indefinitely. If we were some tinpot nation with no means to do so then execution or outsourcing the incarceration would be more of a necessity, but we're not, we're the most powerful nation on earth, so there's no need. I personally don't believe in capital punishment as a deterrent (it's not why I choose not to kill people at least) and so that really only leaves revenge. Maybe I'd think about it differently if someone killed my kids, but it does not seem like a good enough reason to keep execution on the books.
Maybe. The thing that bugs me is that a few of the mass murderers who have been locked up in the last few decades are still making the news. Anders Breivik is complaining how his cell isn't warm enough and he doesn't have enough time for his morning shave (which makes him seem more like a whiny little child than a cult leader, but I digress), and I seem to remember Martin Bryant back in the news sometime recently although I can't remember what for and I can't find anything after a quick google search... Charles Manson is still trying to get parole - I guess he probably never will but it's still a legal possibility.
The thought of the person who killed their family or friends sitting in relative comfort in jail may not sit well with the survivors.
Let the "vaccine-carrying" virus be infectious, using people as "immunity carriers".
Something readily transmissible? Make sure you use something that isn't likely to mutate... I propose influenza, rhinovirus, or coronovirus. What could possibly go wrong?;)
It's the weekend, yet Australia is mentioned only three times on Slashdot.
I think there was a holiday in the US a few days ago for some reason and I suspect they are still recovering from it so there just isn't much of interest happening over there.
I have young daughters as well, and I have a similar reaction to Barbie dolls and their ilk, primarily because I don't want my daughters (or my son for that matter) to buy into the whole sexualization/objectification of women mindset. However, I don't reflexively avoid gender-targeted toys. Why should boys and girls have to be indistinguishable in their play preferences? What's wrong with the boys deciding that they like Cars and the girls Disney Princesses, as long as their parents are OK with it?
Don't worry, there are plenty of gender neutral family activities, too. I teach them all to shoot firearms as soon as they're old enough.;)
Yes I think going too far is just as bad. My daughters loved their barbie DVD's while my son was more into Ben 10, neither of which I really approve of, but as long as they learn to treat others with respect, and never to let their gender define what they can do[1], I think things will be okay. Boys and girls are different and those differences should be celebrated, but should not limit anything they want to do. I've never once heard them say "but you can't do that because your a girl" so hopefully we're on the right track...
I worry more about shows like Total Drama Island which all the kids really enjoyed but where the stereotype humour might be a bit lost on them...
Yes, let's condition our children to be treated like cattle. I'm sure that will do wonders for our free society!
They already are. In fact if you are worried about your calfs "freedom" then RFID tracking is _better_ than a roll call because it gives your calf the freedom to be down the street while an accomplice scans in their RFID badge. Your +5 Insightful score is overrated.
But the kids are tracked anyway and have been for decades - every class they attend they are (or should be) ticked off the roll. This is purely an attempt to do the same thing for less cost, which would be fine if it wasn't totally flawed and didn't potential expose a tracking cookie to anyone outside with an RFID reader (i assume they leave their ID cards at school at the end of the day but sometimes they might forget).
This girl is objecting due to some biblical reference to wearing some form of trackable ID, which is about the stupidest thing i've ever heard. There are plenty of technical objections to this "solution" without involving the bible which isn't going to go down well with the majority of the population (the mark of the beast thing would raise the eyebrows of most christians that I know!)
And of course, if a parent wonders where their kid is, they can always point to the RFID record, oh-you-mean-someone-else-stole-their-ID-not-our-problem.
That wouldn't fly with me. I'm not paying the school to know where my kids RFID badge is. I'll even happily pay another $10/year (or more) if that's what it takes for a teacher to sight my child and tick them off a sign in sheet. School attendance is a a social problem and all the technical solutions i've ever seen are flawed.
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It's more like a medical supplement preparation than actual food. Extremely purified starch. Without any of the essential B vitamins and fibers that are required to digest starch without getting sick, fat and stupid. (Which is also true for all white "bread".)
Not "can"... You *have* to eat this with a wide range of fresh foods. Otherwise it's outright dangerous for your health.
If you eat this thinking it's food, have fun with your diseases when you get old... (Please don't. I don't wish suffering upon anyone.)
Also, except in extreme situations, why would you need bread to last that long anyway? A normal bread (not a starch sponge) lasts a couple of days at room temperature, even without cooling. A normal 500g bread is eaten in 2 days. 3-4, if you bought a 1000g one for you alone, which is a stupid mistake that won't happen again. And the bakery has fresh bread every day. Even Sundays. They bake about as much as is bought... and leftovers go to the food bank to feed the poor. Nothing is wasted.
So this is a solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist.
Source: Medical knowledge about nutrition that is well-known since the 60s, but apparently hasn't reached bread makers and consumers yet. And basic damn common sense.
Happy to hear that you live near a bakery and can go to the shop every couple of days, but not all the rest of the world[1] lives that way. The problem does exist, but maybe this isn't quite the solution.
I live in a household that is essentially gluten free, and all the commercial baked gluten free breads that I've found are pretty horrible (except for one fruit loaf which is only edible because it's put in the toaster first and smothered with butter), so I normally make it from a pre-packaged bread mix. The same solution should work with minimal effort for regular gluten bread.
[1] "rest of the world" is a term that may be foreign to you, but the concept is an actual real thing.
(Perhaps interestingly, the Canadian paper money in largest circulation is not the $5, it's the $20 bill... because of bank machines.)
I guess Australia is pretty much on par with Canada then. We have $1 and $2 coins, not notes, and our ATM's hand out $20 and $50 notes. My withdrawals are normally for $60 so I get 3 x $20.
Once they start making parking ticket machines take credit card or sms payment's i'll pretty much be done with physical currency except for an emergency stash.
This will not happen until Americans can let go of their irrational attachment to dollar bills and pennies.
In Australia we ditched $1 and $2 notes for coins in 1984 and 1988. 1c and 2c coins were dropped in 1992.
5c coins are now the most annoying thing - none of the parking meters I use will take them and they are pretty much the only way I spend coins.
a cop kicks a door in and finds pot.
Cop to judge: "I did it as a private citizen!"
Judge: "Ok then. This is admissible."
And then the cop goes to jail for kicking the door in, since a private citizen isn't allowed to do that (in most cases the cop isn't either, admittedly).
The fact that the "private citizen" cop might be in the shit for kicking the door down may or may not have any bearing on whether the evidence is inadmissible though.
I wonder what would happen if the cops kicked down the wrong door (eg the house next door to the one they had the warrant for) by "mistake" and found something that shouldn't be...
Dude, I think you missed the "intraining" part of girlintraining. No problem with the gender identification issue, but girlintraining is never going to bear a child via "natural" means in his/her lifetime without some major advances.
Didn't notice the username. I assumed the reference to a bra implied breasts which in turn implied the rest of the required biological capacity to bear children.
What is strange is MSE is the only one of those products listed I have ever seen effectively block any malware.
and for me, also not be worse installing it than actually getting a virus.
my mom keeps telling me that at this point, she'd be happy if I'd just breed?
Just don't breed with a fellow geek or your kids are likely to turn out just like you, only more so. Just like us male geeks should be going for the prettiest, bimboest, bikini babes we can find, you should be going for a handsome jock who prefers grunts to words. Have fun with that ;)
I married for beauty rather than for brains... unfortunately she turned out to be just as geeky as me and as a result my oldest daughter is almost too nerdy to function :)
A side arm. Highly visible. Make it obvious that you don't want to be messed with.
I'm definitely on the anti-gun side of the fence in that debate, but I do think some people do need to carry weapons and a sysadmin is one of those.
You'd be surprised what tools people will give you if you ask nicely, while at the same time having your hand hovering over your gun. Sort of like the hitchhikers towel theory but using intimidation rather than sympathy.
Definitely get a sonic screwdriver. Most shops don't carry them, and the ones that do are always out of stock whenever I ask for one, but I've seen them used before and they can do anything.
1. Conduct experiment
2. ???
3. Profit!
You know that you don't have to actually be dead to take dead days?
An intelligent robot would know how to spell intent, but misspell it to throw you off.
A stupid robot would sign off with "- Anonymous robot" though... what we have here is a contradiction.
Just as the movie terminators were wearing skin to camouflage, the robotic forum infiltrator squads use random misspellings and intentionally bad grammar to hide themselves. The end is nigh!
OMG Slashdot is infiltrated by robots!!!
I don't recall them signing their posts with "anonymous robot" though.
I have read, analyzed and understood the intend of your message. You are now added to my kill list. Beware human.
-- Anonymous Robot.
Bah. A real robot would know how to spell intent.
Whatever you do, please don't publish the results on the internet where any self-aware robot can find them! It's probably already too late anyway and terminators from the future are already compiling their hit list.
No, we shouldn't kill people because we're perfectly capable of keeping them locked up indefinitely. If we were some tinpot nation with no means to do so then execution or outsourcing the incarceration would be more of a necessity, but we're not, we're the most powerful nation on earth, so there's no need. I personally don't believe in capital punishment as a deterrent (it's not why I choose not to kill people at least) and so that really only leaves revenge. Maybe I'd think about it differently if someone killed my kids, but it does not seem like a good enough reason to keep execution on the books.
Maybe. The thing that bugs me is that a few of the mass murderers who have been locked up in the last few decades are still making the news. Anders Breivik is complaining how his cell isn't warm enough and he doesn't have enough time for his morning shave (which makes him seem more like a whiny little child than a cult leader, but I digress), and I seem to remember Martin Bryant back in the news sometime recently although I can't remember what for and I can't find anything after a quick google search... Charles Manson is still trying to get parole - I guess he probably never will but it's still a legal possibility.
The thought of the person who killed their family or friends sitting in relative comfort in jail may not sit well with the survivors.
Are you Australian? I'm not seeing the connection...
Let the "vaccine-carrying" virus be infectious, using people as "immunity carriers".
Something readily transmissible? Make sure you use something that isn't likely to mutate... I propose influenza, rhinovirus, or coronovirus. What could possibly go wrong? ;)
It's the weekend, yet Australia is mentioned only three times on Slashdot.
I think there was a holiday in the US a few days ago for some reason and I suspect they are still recovering from it so there just isn't much of interest happening over there.
You mean Human species.
Yep. That's what's wrong with what he said...
I have young daughters as well, and I have a similar reaction to Barbie dolls and their ilk, primarily because I don't want my daughters (or my son for that matter) to buy into the whole sexualization/objectification of women mindset. However, I don't reflexively avoid gender-targeted toys. Why should boys and girls have to be indistinguishable in their play preferences? What's wrong with the boys deciding that they like Cars and the girls Disney Princesses, as long as their parents are OK with it?
Don't worry, there are plenty of gender neutral family activities, too. I teach them all to shoot firearms as soon as they're old enough. ;)
Yes I think going too far is just as bad. My daughters loved their barbie DVD's while my son was more into Ben 10, neither of which I really approve of, but as long as they learn to treat others with respect, and never to let their gender define what they can do[1], I think things will be okay. Boys and girls are different and those differences should be celebrated, but should not limit anything they want to do. I've never once heard them say "but you can't do that because your a girl" so hopefully we're on the right track...
I worry more about shows like Total Drama Island which all the kids really enjoyed but where the stereotype humour might be a bit lost on them...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c
Yes, let's condition our children to be treated like cattle. I'm sure that will do wonders for our free society!
They already are. In fact if you are worried about your calfs "freedom" then RFID tracking is _better_ than a roll call because it gives your calf the freedom to be down the street while an accomplice scans in their RFID badge. Your +5 Insightful score is overrated.
But the kids are tracked anyway and have been for decades - every class they attend they are (or should be) ticked off the roll. This is purely an attempt to do the same thing for less cost, which would be fine if it wasn't totally flawed and didn't potential expose a tracking cookie to anyone outside with an RFID reader (i assume they leave their ID cards at school at the end of the day but sometimes they might forget).
This girl is objecting due to some biblical reference to wearing some form of trackable ID, which is about the stupidest thing i've ever heard. There are plenty of technical objections to this "solution" without involving the bible which isn't going to go down well with the majority of the population (the mark of the beast thing would raise the eyebrows of most christians that I know!)
And of course, if a parent wonders where their kid is, they can always point to the RFID record, oh-you-mean-someone-else-stole-their-ID-not-our-problem.
That wouldn't fly with me. I'm not paying the school to know where my kids RFID badge is. I'll even happily pay another $10/year (or more) if that's what it takes for a teacher to sight my child and tick them off a sign in sheet. School attendance is a a social problem and all the technical solutions i've ever seen are flawed.
trouble wrapping my brain around a dry cleaned turkey.
There's your problem. The brain should be stuffed inside the turkey rather than wrapped around it.