All the wheat based cornflour i've seen recently is fairly clearly branded as 'wheaten cornflour'. We probably don't get such a wide brand selection in central Victoria though.
The supermarket around the corner is reasonably expensive but has a huge range of gf foods for a supermarket its size (which are obviously more expensive again).
Been there before too eh? One of my kids had the current blood test which came back as 'possible but not likely' but had the biopsy and it's come back definitely positive for Coeliac. She was tiny for her age though (not skinny, just short) so we knew there was something wrong. My wife and another kid have had the blood test (the current one) which showed a 'possible' result but the biopsy showed nothing. They still feel better by excluding gluten - my wife feels very unwell if she has any.
Move to Australia. The ingredient labeling over here seems to have improved incredibly in the last 5 years or so. It's very rare we'll find a product that doesn't list any wheat or other gluten containing grain that ends up actually containing it.
Eating out and take-away foods are still a bit of a problem. Even for eateries that claim to have a gluten-free product line it's so easy to accidentally contaminate the product with a small amount of gluten that it just seems to be not worth it, and most workers just don't get it. Fries from McDonalds are normally fine as each deep fried product has different heat requirements so in theory the 'fries oil' only has fries in it, but the last two times my daughter has had them she's been unwell not long after so i'm not so sure and probably won't try it again. Mexican restaurants are the most likely to be safe in my experience but even then it's a gamble.
In Australia the labeling is heaps better than it used to be so it's actually not that hard to avoid gluten here compared to 5 years ago. And maybe because of the labeling there are products that you'd think would have wheat or other gluten grains in it but don't, presumably just to expand their market a little bit - sticking 'gluten free' on the front of the packaging makes it an easy choice. But yeah, any substitute for gluten in a product that depends on it's properties is a poor substitute.
Wheat flour is incredibly versatile, from the same basic product you can make all sorts of things with very little modification except maybe that a finer flour is better for bread. With gluten free flours you need to pick a flour based on what you are making, and while the various gums can help a bit, any bread you make is basically just a savoury cake that you really need to eat straight away after you cook it or it goes stale. Any gluten free bread you buy at the supermarket probably is packed full of preservatives as it's normally a fairly slow moving line and is very expensive.
I have no problems with my gluten but one of my kids has Coeliac disease and while my wife and another kid have been tested (blood test and biopsy) and come back negative, they find they feel much better by excluding wheat (and possibly other gluten-containing grains too but with one Coeliac in the family it doesn't come up). The excluding wheat thing appears to be fairly common too, even with a negative diagnosis of Coeliac disease, but we've found that once you excluded it you tend to become even more sensitive to it which is a problem if you ever want to get a biopsy done as it means you need to have wheat again for a bit...
From what I understand there is a very high incidence of peanut allergies downwind from where peanuts are grown, and the same things tend to occur with other allergens too. It's only in the last few hundred years that crops like that are grown on the scale they are today and all in one place etc.
Btw, Coeliac Disease isn't an allergy like a peanut allergy. You can get very sick from having gluten (my daughter will be quite unwell within an hour from even the tiniest bit) but it's a completely different response by the body - you won't get an anaphylactic response in most cases. There are plenty of other proteins in wheat that you can be allergic to, but that's different to Coeliac Disease.
Coeliac Disease has always been common, and often it just manifests itself as not feeling particularly well most of the time which is a fairly common complaint these days for a lot of reasons. We're just better at detecting it.
Or just the sound of a dog barking triggered by motion sensors when someone enters the immediate perimeter of the house. Assuming an opportunistic crime, the burglar is most likely prepared to walk away and look for somewhere else to break in to if there is any hint of trouble.
We've got a few motion triggered lights around the outside of the house... it's more a convenience thing than a security thing, but if I was approaching a house at night with the intention of checking the door to see if anyone was home and then trying to break in and a light came on i'd turn around and try somewhere else instead.
It's not going to stop a determined crook who's done his homework and knows that i've got motion sensor lights, but then i've got nothing worth stealing anyway. If I ever get burgled by anyone really determined I just hope it happens when myself and the family aren't home.
That, of course, presupposes that the police could give a fuck about you and your stuff. Remember, most burglary cases remain unsolved.
The police have a job to do, and i'm guessing that one of their KPI's is going to be catching bad guys. If they have to come to your house, dust for prints (ha!), then spend weeks following leads trying to catch someone, then do a whole stack of paperwork, then haul the guy (assuming they catch him) up in front of a judge only to have the judge let the guy go on the condition he tries really hard not to do it again, then i don't really blame them for not being that interested, especially when your missing stuff is a whole lot less important than the majority of crimes that happen. "Yes Mrs Smith, I understand that the assault on your grandmother was terrible but right now we're working on getting BrokenHalo's Celine Dion CD back"...
On the other hand, if you have your stuff properly labeled, can give them a clear picture of the guy, and have painted the guy purple[1], then you might be in with a chance if he's known to them. A relatively unimportant crime but with a higher chance of getting a result has to count for something.
Making your house harder to break in to and not getting burgled in the first place might work too. Or just move next door to someone who obviously has more stuff worth stealing, and make sure you leave the empty boxes from your appliances outside their house, not yours.
[1] Just prepare for when Mr Purple's lawyers come knocking...
You have a remote rootkit running from simply visiting a website?
That was my first thought too. Apple have left a hole in iPhoneOS (IOS, no matter how you case it, will always be Cisco in my mind:) wide enough that you can get root on it simply by getting to a website? I haven't RTFA so maybe there is more to it than that but i'm a little worried. I wonder how long until I can upgrade to Android on the iPhone...
... the article sounds like the things I used to wonder about and do during boring classes in highschool.
Same here, except I was more like "I wonder if I can hit that kids sticking-out ears with a rubber band from here", without thinking through what would happen if i _did_ hit them (which should have been obvious in retrospect... it was for that reason I sat at the back).
I've always imagined the evolutionary criteria as "The absolute minimum required to maximize chances of reproduction" and not "Everything that might be useful".
I think it's more like "The absolute minimum required to be better at reproducing than everyone else".
Otherwise we'd have poisonous fangs, wings, the ability to digest cellulose and, possibly, firebreath not dependant on a mexican diet.
I've met a few people with a few of those attributes and it turned out to be not quite as useful as ensuring reproduction as you might think. Firebreath tends to be a bit of a turnoff.
"Reasonable, personal use" is usually the term I've seen.
Same here. As long as people don't go to excess and spend all day on it then there is seldom a problem. For a bank or something where security is an issue I've seen personal use banned outright (and rightly so) but rarely at other workplaces.
I remember one guy resigning not long after ebay was banned at one place (ebay traffic dwarfed everything else). He was running a business on it when he was supposed to be doing graphic design work completely unrelated to ebay.
Blocking facebook does seem to be an increasingly frequent request though.
Hi! Nice to meet you. I am that generation. ... One standard or no standard I say.
It seems to me that last bit you said conflicts with the rest of what you said, but maybe I just misunderstood.
The problem is that facebook and the like can become too much of a distraction for some (and it doesn't seem to matter that much what generation they belong to). Just like most people can have the occasional alcoholic beverage without any problems, some people become addicted.
If you want one rule to bind them all then that rule is going to be "no facebook for you!".
Add to that the basic rule that computers at work are for work purposes only...
wtf? I can't tell if you are trolling or just clueless.
Some organizations do indeed have policies that prevent any use of company computers for personal use, but most aren't that inflexible. It's a matter of policy, not a "basic rule".
As one of the few parties putting censorship up as one of their most visible policies I hope that their voters will number more than 14. Unfortunately there are a whole load of other important issues going on here in Australia at the moment and you only get the one vote. You can apportion preferences accordingly but in the end you're still only deciding on one candidate.
"sex" is a word associated with pornography, but also with a huge number of non-pornographic meanings.
"sex party" on the other hand has less non-pornographic meanings. A google search for "sex party" gives the Australian political party web site as the first result. A number of the other results on the first page are not related to political parties. A google image search for "sex party" with safe search turned off gives a page full of skin.
If I was stupid enough to develop an internet filter, I might omit the word "sex" by itself from filtering, but if it appeared next to the word "party" it would definitely get a higher ranking.
As you say, just because their site contains the term "sex party" it doesn't necessarily mean it's the reason for the blocking. I think it's likely though.
I don't think you'd have to heat up all of your thermal mass to start producing energy. If you only need a certain fraction of the thermal mass to produce the amount of energy you need then the rest can be a 'battery' that you charge up during the day when there is extra solar radiation going into your system.
I'm guessing because "the people you know" is not a sufficiently large sample size to give statistical validity ?
There's probably some truth to that. I don't actually know anyone who has ever played WoW, I just know of them (FOAF etc). There is probably a huge selection bias in that as I'm far more likely to hear "my loser brother/flatmate/son spends all his f-ing time on WoW" than "my brother/flatmate/son is up to some level in WoW" around the water cooler.
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Am I the only one that thought of R. Kelly when you said pea in his lung?
Yes. Yes you were.
'corn flour made from corn.'
All the wheat based cornflour i've seen recently is fairly clearly branded as 'wheaten cornflour'. We probably don't get such a wide brand selection in central Victoria though.
The supermarket around the corner is reasonably expensive but has a huge range of gf foods for a supermarket its size (which are obviously more expensive again).
Been there before too eh? One of my kids had the current blood test which came back as 'possible but not likely' but had the biopsy and it's come back definitely positive for Coeliac. She was tiny for her age though (not skinny, just short) so we knew there was something wrong. My wife and another kid have had the blood test (the current one) which showed a 'possible' result but the biopsy showed nothing. They still feel better by excluding gluten - my wife feels very unwell if she has any.
Move to Australia. The ingredient labeling over here seems to have improved incredibly in the last 5 years or so. It's very rare we'll find a product that doesn't list any wheat or other gluten containing grain that ends up actually containing it.
Eating out and take-away foods are still a bit of a problem. Even for eateries that claim to have a gluten-free product line it's so easy to accidentally contaminate the product with a small amount of gluten that it just seems to be not worth it, and most workers just don't get it. Fries from McDonalds are normally fine as each deep fried product has different heat requirements so in theory the 'fries oil' only has fries in it, but the last two times my daughter has had them she's been unwell not long after so i'm not so sure and probably won't try it again. Mexican restaurants are the most likely to be safe in my experience but even then it's a gamble.
In Australia the labeling is heaps better than it used to be so it's actually not that hard to avoid gluten here compared to 5 years ago. And maybe because of the labeling there are products that you'd think would have wheat or other gluten grains in it but don't, presumably just to expand their market a little bit - sticking 'gluten free' on the front of the packaging makes it an easy choice. But yeah, any substitute for gluten in a product that depends on it's properties is a poor substitute.
Wheat flour is incredibly versatile, from the same basic product you can make all sorts of things with very little modification except maybe that a finer flour is better for bread. With gluten free flours you need to pick a flour based on what you are making, and while the various gums can help a bit, any bread you make is basically just a savoury cake that you really need to eat straight away after you cook it or it goes stale. Any gluten free bread you buy at the supermarket probably is packed full of preservatives as it's normally a fairly slow moving line and is very expensive.
I have no problems with my gluten but one of my kids has Coeliac disease and while my wife and another kid have been tested (blood test and biopsy) and come back negative, they find they feel much better by excluding wheat (and possibly other gluten-containing grains too but with one Coeliac in the family it doesn't come up). The excluding wheat thing appears to be fairly common too, even with a negative diagnosis of Coeliac disease, but we've found that once you excluded it you tend to become even more sensitive to it which is a problem if you ever want to get a biopsy done as it means you need to have wheat again for a bit...
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From what I understand there is a very high incidence of peanut allergies downwind from where peanuts are grown, and the same things tend to occur with other allergens too. It's only in the last few hundred years that crops like that are grown on the scale they are today and all in one place etc.
Btw, Coeliac Disease isn't an allergy like a peanut allergy. You can get very sick from having gluten (my daughter will be quite unwell within an hour from even the tiniest bit) but it's a completely different response by the body - you won't get an anaphylactic response in most cases. There are plenty of other proteins in wheat that you can be allergic to, but that's different to Coeliac Disease.
Coeliac Disease has always been common, and often it just manifests itself as not feeling particularly well most of the time which is a fairly common complaint these days for a lot of reasons. We're just better at detecting it.
Or just the sound of a dog barking triggered by motion sensors when someone enters the immediate perimeter of the house. Assuming an opportunistic crime, the burglar is most likely prepared to walk away and look for somewhere else to break in to if there is any hint of trouble.
We've got a few motion triggered lights around the outside of the house... it's more a convenience thing than a security thing, but if I was approaching a house at night with the intention of checking the door to see if anyone was home and then trying to break in and a light came on i'd turn around and try somewhere else instead.
It's not going to stop a determined crook who's done his homework and knows that i've got motion sensor lights, but then i've got nothing worth stealing anyway. If I ever get burgled by anyone really determined I just hope it happens when myself and the family aren't home.
That, of course, presupposes that the police could give a fuck about you and your stuff. Remember, most burglary cases remain unsolved.
The police have a job to do, and i'm guessing that one of their KPI's is going to be catching bad guys. If they have to come to your house, dust for prints (ha!), then spend weeks following leads trying to catch someone, then do a whole stack of paperwork, then haul the guy (assuming they catch him) up in front of a judge only to have the judge let the guy go on the condition he tries really hard not to do it again, then i don't really blame them for not being that interested, especially when your missing stuff is a whole lot less important than the majority of crimes that happen. "Yes Mrs Smith, I understand that the assault on your grandmother was terrible but right now we're working on getting BrokenHalo's Celine Dion CD back"...
On the other hand, if you have your stuff properly labeled, can give them a clear picture of the guy, and have painted the guy purple[1], then you might be in with a chance if he's known to them. A relatively unimportant crime but with a higher chance of getting a result has to count for something.
Making your house harder to break in to and not getting burgled in the first place might work too. Or just move next door to someone who obviously has more stuff worth stealing, and make sure you leave the empty boxes from your appliances outside their house, not yours.
[1] Just prepare for when Mr Purple's lawyers come knocking...
time travel
time travel? Now that's going to require a lot of explosives!
http://shop.lego.com/pab/
Select color 'purple'
Look! purple bricks!
You have a remote rootkit running from simply visiting a website?
That was my first thought too. Apple have left a hole in iPhoneOS (IOS, no matter how you case it, will always be Cisco in my mind :) wide enough that you can get root on it simply by getting to a website? I haven't RTFA so maybe there is more to it than that but i'm a little worried. I wonder how long until I can upgrade to Android on the iPhone...
...terrorists don't have telepathic links with each other
You seem to know an awful lot about terrorists. Are you sure you aren't one? Better go submit yourself for a brain scan just to be sure.
..guess it depends on how big the kid with the sticking-out ears was, eh?
Not really. Size wasn't that important. Kids half my size could pretty easily beat me up.
... the article sounds like the things I used to wonder about and do during boring classes in highschool.
Same here, except I was more like "I wonder if I can hit that kids sticking-out ears with a rubber band from here", without thinking through what would happen if i _did_ hit them (which should have been obvious in retrospect... it was for that reason I sat at the back).
I've always imagined the evolutionary criteria as "The absolute minimum required to maximize chances of reproduction" and not "Everything that might be useful".
I think it's more like "The absolute minimum required to be better at reproducing than everyone else".
Otherwise we'd have poisonous fangs, wings, the ability to digest cellulose and, possibly, firebreath not dependant on a mexican diet.
I've met a few people with a few of those attributes and it turned out to be not quite as useful as ensuring reproduction as you might think. Firebreath tends to be a bit of a turnoff.
"Reasonable, personal use" is usually the term I've seen.
Same here. As long as people don't go to excess and spend all day on it then there is seldom a problem. For a bank or something where security is an issue I've seen personal use banned outright (and rightly so) but rarely at other workplaces.
I remember one guy resigning not long after ebay was banned at one place (ebay traffic dwarfed everything else). He was running a business on it when he was supposed to be doing graphic design work completely unrelated to ebay.
Blocking facebook does seem to be an increasingly frequent request though.
Hi! Nice to meet you. I am that generation.
...
One standard or no standard I say.
It seems to me that last bit you said conflicts with the rest of what you said, but maybe I just misunderstood.
The problem is that facebook and the like can become too much of a distraction for some (and it doesn't seem to matter that much what generation they belong to). Just like most people can have the occasional alcoholic beverage without any problems, some people become addicted.
If you want one rule to bind them all then that rule is going to be "no facebook for you!".
Add to that the basic rule that computers at work are for work purposes only...
wtf? I can't tell if you are trolling or just clueless.
Some organizations do indeed have policies that prevent any use of company computers for personal use, but most aren't that inflexible. It's a matter of policy, not a "basic rule".
As one of the few parties putting censorship up as one of their most visible policies I hope that their voters will number more than 14. Unfortunately there are a whole load of other important issues going on here in Australia at the moment and you only get the one vote. You can apportion preferences accordingly but in the end you're still only deciding on one candidate.
"sex" is a word associated with pornography, but also with a huge number of non-pornographic meanings.
"sex party" on the other hand has less non-pornographic meanings. A google search for "sex party" gives the Australian political party web site as the first result. A number of the other results on the first page are not related to political parties. A google image search for "sex party" with safe search turned off gives a page full of skin.
If I was stupid enough to develop an internet filter, I might omit the word "sex" by itself from filtering, but if it appeared next to the word "party" it would definitely get a higher ranking.
As you say, just because their site contains the term "sex party" it doesn't necessarily mean it's the reason for the blocking. I think it's likely though.
I don't think you'd have to heat up all of your thermal mass to start producing energy. If you only need a certain fraction of the thermal mass to produce the amount of energy you need then the rest can be a 'battery' that you charge up during the day when there is extra solar radiation going into your system.
But please do go on reinforcing stereotypes and refusing to actually give effort to your /. posts.
sure thing Mr Anonymous Coward.
Hehe... yes that we all hate people who waste their time playing WoW instead of getting a job? :)
I'm guessing because "the people you know" is not a sufficiently large sample size to give statistical validity ?
There's probably some truth to that. I don't actually know anyone who has ever played WoW, I just know of them (FOAF etc). There is probably a huge selection bias in that as I'm far more likely to hear "my loser brother/flatmate/son spends all his f-ing time on WoW" than "my brother/flatmate/son is up to some level in WoW" around the water cooler.