if Frank Miller still has the rights to the characters
Who? You might want to contact Alan Moore and let him know you just confused him with Frank Miller. Let me know if you survive!
Furthermore, I think Moore was dead set against a movie if I recall correctly. Somehow he got strong armed into letting it happen. Don't think the publisher or other people involved don't want massive payouts when the author or creator has only integrity to uphold!
Fearing costs, Warden has now destroyed his dataset.
Couldn't Warden have sent requests to the EFF to provide lawyers so he could fight an evil corporation to use freely publicly available information?
Then Facebook could ask the EFF to protect their user's privacy and information being sold to marketers and corporations (sorry, when you're introduced as "Internet entrepreneur" that means there's profit to be had).
So I've traditionally known "the fourth dimension" to be something like time. Although you can call it space-time or the relationship that our three dimensional world has with our concept of time. And in games like Braid (which is like an interesting two dimensional scrolling platform with four dimensional control), you get to have fun manipulating this time so that you can predict where your little character is when you slide back in time. It's where you were before.
In Miegakure, it appears that the player is controlling a fourth dimension except it's not too clear what fourth dimension actually represents to me. If Miegakure's fourth dimension was time, we would see some indication of natural decay of the environment to give us visual cues that it's aging. For example, if one ring were made of steel and the other of wood, the wood one would decay as we go to the future and then we would make some action that is "special" (meaning that it is not subjected to our time control) and then move the steel ring into the wood ring and blast back to when the wood ring existed. Our special action could not be undone otherwise you wouldn't get anywhere with being able to control time.
Miegakure seemed to invent non-natural transposed states of the environment that I, for the life of me, could not understand. How did I know which blocks would appear and disappear leaving only shadows? How do I know how far to go in a fourth dimensional direction? Must the player explore the available transposed states before planning their movements along all four dimensions? So that they can construct an interleaved solution?
And what happens with a now block exists in a shadow space and you try to transposition yourself to the point when the shadow space is occupied by another block? Does the game block you from making that transposition? What if you want to transpose to a point beyond that when it is a shadow space again? Is this a blocking mechanism that will add to the difficulty of the puzzle?
As someone ravaged by the Adventures of Lolo series on the NES, I could see a potentially high level of addiction here.
And keep in mind that these are just sequels that Will Smith is involved with. Rarely I go to the theater but one of the big detractors is when every single goddamn preview before the feature film is about a sequel. It started happening frequently a couple years ago and now is just completely out of hand.
I imagine the 3D effect is going to exacerbate this situation. "Yeah, we done did Watchmen but now we need an excuse to capitalize off of Watchmen in 3D so we'll hack together a script for Watchmen 2: Who Watches Those Who Are Watching the Watchmen? Do you smell boatloads of money?"
All of that is gonna work a lot better than my strategy of placing car sized holes covered with twigs and branches randomly every half mile or so down the interstates.
Nonsense, be a little bit more persistent. Apply for a government grant. Work out a deal with the overpopulated prison system to allow test inmates good behavior parole if they survive the course. Conduct a double blind study to see which method drivers prefer.
Don't underestimate your ideas, you may have something here. I think with a few minor modifications (like filling the pits with black mambas or loaded claymores) we could gently urge drivers through natural human fears to drive slower. I'm already afraid of getting a ticket when I speed, why not step it up a notch or two?
Conduct your experiments... in the name of science! I mean, the dystopian Mad Max future isn't going to herald itself!
Medical breakthroughs should be available to all citizens unencumbered by patents, and at affordable prices, and that's the best way to ensure this in the long term.
You have missed my point entirely. Without massive private funding these "medical breakthroughs" (which I'm led to believe are needle-in-haystack searches) happen at a slower rate. If that sets it back more than the length of a patent (which is 20 years in the US) then it's a negative net effect on the genetic cures we find for people.
You'll have more affordable cures for the first 20 years but after that the prices will be the same. The difference could be the number of cures and their quality.
Just because we hate patents doesn't mean we have to shut off our brains when we reason out capitalism does it?
Also, for context, the only real reason one would want to patent a gene is some sort of exclusivity clause (i.e. I discovered this breast cancer gene so now only I can work on a cure for it) or for patent trolling (now lets sue all the other folks working on breast cancer cures). Both scenarios would effectively destroy the ability for competing companies to work on the same disease, and lead to a massive gene-squatting free for all. IAAB (I am a biochemist), and I honestly can't think of any scenarios where being able to patent a naturally occurring gene would be good for either society as a whole or even just letting the market do what it does best.
I am not a biochemist so I must ask some questions about your particular example with breast cancer genes. I'm lead to believe that 'discovering a breast cancer gene' is extremely difficult. Doesn't the number of sets of DNA one must collect coupled with the accuracy of those collections coupled with the willingness of the volunteers coupled with the number of potential snippets of DNA that could be the gene coupled with all sorts of other complications and permutations make finding such a gene like finding a needle in a haystack? Doesn't that require vast amounts of resources? And then to do it for all sorts of diseases?
Now explain to me how those losses are recouped in your model. That's all I was asking. Not saying that astronomers should be able to patent planets they find or that discoveries should be patentable... although I did enjoy all the strawmen that were thrown at me and the fact that they were modded up. I also enjoyed that because we've sequenced the gene, that makes for prior art should anyone actually begin to investigate what those genes are responsible for. But back to playing the devil's advocate. Here are proposed assumptions:
The odds of finding the breast cancer gene (or gene set, right?) are astronomically high.
Unfortunately, this is the only way to cure breast cancer once and for all.
If you found this, since it involved lottery winning odds you would recoup your investment at a lottery winning payout.
This doesn't mean you get to sue everyone who was looking for the gene(s) that caused breast cancer, it means if anyone uses your genes to develop a cure, you get royalties for that patent term.
Other teams can keep looking for a gene, they just have to normalize their data so that they aren't looking for your already discovered gene or (after checking your work against their data) doubt the accuracy of your samples and continue on with their quest.
Patent trolls are patent trolls. You'll find them anywhere you find patents. I scoff at your claims of gene squatting as you have to say what the gene does and pay the huge patent fees to get the patent (so you can't just patent each gene as the breast cancer gene).
Good luck with your work. I am glad that gene patents are invalid. I was merely expressing a mild amount of discomfort that it could have a negative overall effect. If you can assert that I'm confused or misinformed, I'd be a very happy man.
The volatility (put/call orders) on Myriad Genetics tells me this is going to have profound effects on genetics companies, I hope the best for your employment and hope that the entire genetics industry (and above searches) don't become insane burdens on the taxpayer.
Hopefully this will go a long way in ensuring that patents on genes do not stand in the way of research.
And let us also hope that financial backers and investors don't pass on the idea of investing in said research without the potential payout of a full term patent.
As unpopular as the above statement is on Slashdot and as flawed as the patent system is, it still fulfills purposes making this at least a two sided issue. Ignoring either side is nothing but folly.
You can revise your statement to read: Hopefully it's a net positive for gene research.
It's not only high-fat thats the problem, but also high-carb. I never really crave for high-fat but low-carb food and my body feels a lot better with low-carb food. It's the combination of high-fat and high-carb that is bad, and leaves all the fat in your body because carbs burn first.
High fat versus low fat... high carbohydrate versus low carbohydrate... the problem is probably better defined as incorrect portion sizing. High fat or high carbohydrate foods are only themselves the problem when you give them to a mindless animal that has a stomach evolved to pack in as much as it can when given to it. When you give a dog five pounds of bacon, it will eat as much as its stomach can hold. It'd do the same thing with a deer carcass but would more than likely get less fat and less calories in it. If our ancestors could sit around eating pizza all day, they'd do it. If they could have made white bread, they would have. Bacon tastes good because it's high fat and high calories. We evolved to seek these things out because they are -- in moderation or small doses -- quite good for our combustion engines. They're rare in nature but great for our energy levels so we crave them. No two ways around that fact.
I know why we blame fat, carbohydrates and foods that are high in them. It's because we don't want to acknowledge that the problem is our own self control and dietary understanding. Food science has evolved to give us whatever we want and we're just not responsible with it. Some regulation is necessary like banning trans fats when an alternative can be used but you're going to get nowhere if you try to focus on vaguely assigned designators as "high-fat" or "high-carb" food. Public awareness, responsible eating and self control are your best weapons here. Put the blame back on those that are responsible: the eaters.
We all evolved to like bacon and pizza and the like. Now act responsibly. In my youth I would eat a whole large deep dish pepperoni pizza. I can still eat that much, I just recognize that my caloric needs when it comes to pizzas is two slices for a meal. I understand some people have lower sensitivity dopamine receptors but that's just how you were born and you should deal with it. At some point we're all flawed in some way. Why do people find that controlling their eating is so difficult?
Note: if there's one thing the government should do, it's put capitalism back in action and remove the subsidiaries being paid out to ensure that corn syrup is cheaper than cane. Or that bacon is cheaper than a fish filet. Although it's great for the United States economy, it's had some very negative results on our belts.
I know they make fun of good movies just as successfully but this movie is flawed on too many levels for me to get into. I'm not even talking plot or story at this point, just delivery, directing and acting. And that Rifftrax clip points out a few of them.
Hopefully I'm just missing your humor. If so, well played.
If this is true, recreate the phenomenon in a lab. Test your hypothesis by exposing the circuitry in question to similar radiation in a lab. While you can't test thousands of sets of circuitry, being able to recreate it by increasing the amount of radiation and testing or automating the testing and dosage cycle and letting it run until the malfunction is noted or another failure occurs.
Extensive background radiation studies by IBM in the 1990s suggest that computers typically experience about one cosmic-ray-induced error per 256 megabytes of RAM per month. If so, a superstorm, with its unprecedented radiation fluxes, could cause widespread computer failures.
You have to fix this though. As a large manufacturer you have to accept this risk just like your competitors do. Airlines accept this risk and triple check their data because people's lives are at risk. As a car manufacturer, you are in the exact same position.
I hope the fix they already rolled out as a recall includes triple checking data or -- if the article is correct -- we won't see a drop in these horrible accidents. I hope for drivers and public safety that it does. It's led to death and possibly wrongful incarceration. Restitution is in order. Take testing motor vehicles seriously.
Really? I consider it a very very wonderful idea. If an article is deleted, big deal. The student will most likely retain their own copy when they submit it to the professor.
Let's take my report on Carl Sagan in high school and my lengthy paper on the pros and cons of the EU's end of the year reallocation between countries in my Macroeconomics course. The former is probably better documented on Wikipedia already but might have served as a decent seed article. The latter I cannot find anything on and am not even sure if it still goes on. Regardless, you have no option of reading any form of my two works. Any information or references I had accumulated are lost to the ages. Just like if the articles had been deemed non-notable.
I like the idea of being able to produce something useful out of what seems like an inane exercise and to allow students the pleasure of disseminating knowledge responsibly.
I maintain it's a great idea with no bad consequences when you compare it to the old way. The only bad thing would be if you made a very embarrassing error and it was stored in wikipedia's history for eternity. Oh well, better learn early about the foreverity of the internet. Just like my Slashdot comments.
Normally the news likes to hand you a big fat moral or ethical dilemma when you find out that your favorite product is made by Big Evil. But this is the best kind of news for me! The kind that further reaffirms my views on my most hated companies!
Terrible news for the Chinese. Great news for my Down with Microsoft agenda! When you're chewing on life's gristle don't grumble, give a whistle!
In my preferences? Well, I prefer androgynous looking girls, with a strong personality, good sense of humor, and stunning eyes. Don't care so much about smoking or race, but heavy drug use is a kill-joy. I don't see why slashdot needs to know this though, but whatever. Will the pain stop now?
Could you give me a non-subjective definition of "good sense of humor"? How about an objective definition of "heavy drug use"? Because you can buy absinthe (grande wormwood even) nearly everywhere in the states now. Turns out it's never really been illegal after prohibition. Or perhaps six beers is heavy drug use? Or perhaps the coffee/energy drink he drank that morning? Or perhaps the high fructose corn syrup from the bread in his sandwich that he threw up? Maybe I should inform my coworker that takes an aspirin everyday that I don't enjoy his heavy drug use in my office space?
While unhealthy and stupid, six beers and a half bottle of absinthe does not equate to a high probability of death or risk of life destroying addiction. I'm fine that you hold your own odd standard of 'heavy drug use' but the chemicals consumed by this individual are approved for sale in the United States. On top of that, people have been getting blitzed for millennia and a video labeled *NSFW* means violence, nudity, adult language, drug or alcohol use and the same things that make movies rated for more mature audiences. Simply put: don't watch a video rated *NSFW* if 'heavy drug use' offends you or results in a "kill-joy." I'm quite comfortable laughing at other peoples stupid decisions and somewhat insightful -- though crude -- blathering on topics I hold dear.
Upper right of the page you're viewing has a "Help & Account" link. Click it or open it into a new tab. If you are using the dynamic index like most, click "Exclusions" under that heading. Enter "Idle" into the text box and hit save. While you will probably miss stories like "Bill Gates Sits Idle as World Burns" you will not see any Idle: stories on your front page. In the classic index, you can select sections and remove Idle. I don't know why the dynamic index doesn't have this granularity of exact control yet. I'd give you links but they're javascripty popups so take care if you have javascripty blocking mechanisms.
How in the name of Shub Internet did this make front page? Bad slashdot editors. Bad! No cookie for you.
Because it's funny. Front page funny. And it mixes comedy with an often overlooked icon in our world. I've read books on Tesla and I've read his patents and he truly was a remarkably gifted man. Yet I didn't hear about him until college.
Why? Probably because Edison was a pompous jerk. Probably because Tesla was an immigrant. Probably because he expressed too many alternative ideas... some of which had serious merit and continue to influence us in new ways until this very day.
And yet one of the few routes we have to raise public awareness about him is very well filmed and choreographed internet videos... because tesla wasn't The American Inventor Thomas Edison that every American School child Must learn about.
I disagree with your hard line "no cookie" stance and instead offer the Slashdot Editor trapped in my basement a full cookie and the ability to rub his eyeball on my shoe. I thoroughly enjoyed the throwing up of absinthe mixed with pineapple as well as the "Tesla was the Electric Jesus" statement.
All you have to do, girlintraining is filter Idle so that it doesn't appear on your front page. It's in your preferences.
Than watching a grown man laying in a bathroom about to throw up saying "Tesla... was the Electric Jesus... I can't breath." Well done, good sir. I only hope this weekend has in store for me the same beauty that you have gifted to the internet.
Be sure to sell your technically inept friends this great 3D advice:
Be sure to shake the glasses fervently to make sure that lens fluid remains fresh and your 3D viewing experience is homogeneous from the top of your eye to the bottom.
Old photons collect in the corner of the glasses. A toothbrush wrapped with tinfoil will quickly allow you to wick these away from time to time.
Sometimes glasses get 'out of sync' with the infrared emitter. If you suspect this, press your forehead against the middle of the display unit and slowly back away. Slower. Slower. That's it.
Hanging small rocks from the back of the glasses arm behind your ear prevents unwanted frontal ejection of your glasses from your facial region.
If you do not have access to small rocks, a large piece of duct tape attached to the bridge of your nose will block the glasses from falling forward during your viewing session.
Photons exhibit a common physical property known as "the duality of light" which occurs when the photon becomes confused about which color it should be when it sees photons of other colors. Make sure everything in your viewing room is painted or colored white so that no photon confusion interrupts your genuine 3D experience.
Man, if only bullshit was source of income. What a second, I feel a political career beginning!
If the rats had free access, how did they control for the amount consumed?
Your criticisms may be apt but I would like to point out that after listening the evil shroud surrounding HFCS I decided to do an experiment with myself to see if eliminating HFCS from my diet while eating the same as I always have would cause me to lose or gain weight.
And I had to make sure only to buy things at Trader Joes since my local grocery store carried but one loaf of bread with no HFCS in it and it was hilariously marked up as some organic bullshit.
The problems didn't stop there. HFCS is quite literally everywhere. It's a preservative, a sweetener, everything. It got to be really ridiculous. After about a month of the whole charade my weight was about the same but I had been having wild cravings of ketchup (no, I wasn't pregnant). After satisfying this with some baked potatoes and french fries here and there loaded with ketchup, it dawned on me to inspect the label of my Heinz ketchup bottle. Fucking HFCS. Seriously? Upon returning to the store the "organic" ketchup is ridiculously expensive.
Due to government subsidies and advanced food science, you cannot control your intake of HFCS. It's bloody impossible in today's America. I don't know how to fix this but you can be damned sure the Corn lobby likes it this way. I'm not saying it's as evil as trans fats or bad cholesterol but holy hell is it pervasive and uncapitalistically inexpensive!
Good upgrade but I really gotta question the added 'inferiority complex routine' listed in the release notes that requires the rover to periodically contemplate its ultimate fate and update a twitter feed where NASA engineers can either encourage the rover or ridicule it.
I am Junis, a refugee from the last regime of the United States. Our former oppressors ridiculed Commodore machines and as such I had hid my 2010 Commodore 64 behind my meager 65" LCD Television. Had it been found, I might have been criticized for buying such a brand of computer by my peers.
I could still see the dust of the pick-up trucks carrying Dell computers out of my village and some friends and I went and dug through the PS3, XBox 360 and Wii cables by the LCD TV where I had hid the computer. They might have derided or laughed at us if they'd found it. It was forbidden, although they used Sega Dreamcasts all of the time. I am now furiously trying to download internets and libraries of congress I've missed from countries like Iran and North Korea. With the changing of the television seasons, "American Idol" and "Lost" are slowly returning to the television stations. Justice, Freedom & Liberty have finally come to my hometown in the United States.
Thankfully and sincerely,
Junis
(sent from my new Commodore 64)
But hey, when the labor is cheap and can do almost the same as our expensive labor, who cares?!? North American citizens? Mmmmmmmm wait a minute.... nope, the WalMart parking lot is still full....
You forgot about the icing on the cake: they don't care about their environment! Since their officials are all corrupt, it's just a matter of greasing some of the bureaucratic wheels and those heavy metals in the drinking water aren't a problem! Not only are we exporting unskilled labor, we're exporting our pollution!
*cough*
What's that you say? Their people are suffering? China uses the same planet we do? We'll eventually suffer from each other's pollution? I liked it better when my point of view was limited to my immediate surrounding area where I can find a coffee maker for $12 at Walmart.
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if Frank Miller still has the rights to the characters
Who? You might want to contact Alan Moore and let him know you just confused him with Frank Miller. Let me know if you survive!
Furthermore, I think Moore was dead set against a movie if I recall correctly. Somehow he got strong armed into letting it happen. Don't think the publisher or other people involved don't want massive payouts when the author or creator has only integrity to uphold!
Fearing costs, Warden has now destroyed his dataset.
Couldn't Warden have sent requests to the EFF to provide lawyers so he could fight an evil corporation to use freely publicly available information?
Then Facebook could ask the EFF to protect their user's privacy and information being sold to marketers and corporations (sorry, when you're introduced as "Internet entrepreneur" that means there's profit to be had).
So I've traditionally known "the fourth dimension" to be something like time. Although you can call it space-time or the relationship that our three dimensional world has with our concept of time. And in games like Braid (which is like an interesting two dimensional scrolling platform with four dimensional control), you get to have fun manipulating this time so that you can predict where your little character is when you slide back in time. It's where you were before.
In Miegakure, it appears that the player is controlling a fourth dimension except it's not too clear what fourth dimension actually represents to me. If Miegakure's fourth dimension was time, we would see some indication of natural decay of the environment to give us visual cues that it's aging. For example, if one ring were made of steel and the other of wood, the wood one would decay as we go to the future and then we would make some action that is "special" (meaning that it is not subjected to our time control) and then move the steel ring into the wood ring and blast back to when the wood ring existed. Our special action could not be undone otherwise you wouldn't get anywhere with being able to control time.
Miegakure seemed to invent non-natural transposed states of the environment that I, for the life of me, could not understand. How did I know which blocks would appear and disappear leaving only shadows? How do I know how far to go in a fourth dimensional direction? Must the player explore the available transposed states before planning their movements along all four dimensions? So that they can construct an interleaved solution?
And what happens with a now block exists in a shadow space and you try to transposition yourself to the point when the shadow space is occupied by another block? Does the game block you from making that transposition? What if you want to transpose to a point beyond that when it is a shadow space again? Is this a blocking mechanism that will add to the difficulty of the puzzle?
As someone ravaged by the Adventures of Lolo series on the NES, I could see a potentially high level of addiction here.
The huddled masses of special effects lovers will pay their last drop of blood to see it too. You don't even need a storyline.
Of course, why do you think they've announced Men in Black 3, Hancock 2 and (*shudder*) I, Robot 2?
And keep in mind that these are just sequels that Will Smith is involved with. Rarely I go to the theater but one of the big detractors is when every single goddamn preview before the feature film is about a sequel. It started happening frequently a couple years ago and now is just completely out of hand.
I imagine the 3D effect is going to exacerbate this situation. "Yeah, we done did Watchmen but now we need an excuse to capitalize off of Watchmen in 3D so we'll hack together a script for Watchmen 2: Who Watches Those Who Are Watching the Watchmen? Do you smell boatloads of money?"
All of that is gonna work a lot better than my strategy of placing car sized holes covered with twigs and branches randomly every half mile or so down the interstates.
Nonsense, be a little bit more persistent. Apply for a government grant. Work out a deal with the overpopulated prison system to allow test inmates good behavior parole if they survive the course. Conduct a double blind study to see which method drivers prefer.
... in the name of science! I mean, the dystopian Mad Max future isn't going to herald itself!
Don't underestimate your ideas, you may have something here. I think with a few minor modifications (like filling the pits with black mambas or loaded claymores) we could gently urge drivers through natural human fears to drive slower. I'm already afraid of getting a ticket when I speed, why not step it up a notch or two?
Conduct your experiments
Medical breakthroughs should be available to all citizens unencumbered by patents, and at affordable prices, and that's the best way to ensure this in the long term.
You have missed my point entirely. Without massive private funding these "medical breakthroughs" (which I'm led to believe are needle-in-haystack searches) happen at a slower rate. If that sets it back more than the length of a patent (which is 20 years in the US) then it's a negative net effect on the genetic cures we find for people.
You'll have more affordable cures for the first 20 years but after that the prices will be the same. The difference could be the number of cures and their quality.
Just because we hate patents doesn't mean we have to shut off our brains when we reason out capitalism does it?
Also, for context, the only real reason one would want to patent a gene is some sort of exclusivity clause (i.e. I discovered this breast cancer gene so now only I can work on a cure for it) or for patent trolling (now lets sue all the other folks working on breast cancer cures). Both scenarios would effectively destroy the ability for competing companies to work on the same disease, and lead to a massive gene-squatting free for all. IAAB (I am a biochemist), and I honestly can't think of any scenarios where being able to patent a naturally occurring gene would be good for either society as a whole or even just letting the market do what it does best.
I am not a biochemist so I must ask some questions about your particular example with breast cancer genes. I'm lead to believe that 'discovering a breast cancer gene' is extremely difficult. Doesn't the number of sets of DNA one must collect coupled with the accuracy of those collections coupled with the willingness of the volunteers coupled with the number of potential snippets of DNA that could be the gene coupled with all sorts of other complications and permutations make finding such a gene like finding a needle in a haystack? Doesn't that require vast amounts of resources? And then to do it for all sorts of diseases?
... although I did enjoy all the strawmen that were thrown at me and the fact that they were modded up. I also enjoyed that because we've sequenced the gene, that makes for prior art should anyone actually begin to investigate what those genes are responsible for. But back to playing the devil's advocate. Here are proposed assumptions:
Now explain to me how those losses are recouped in your model. That's all I was asking. Not saying that astronomers should be able to patent planets they find or that discoveries should be patentable
Patent trolls are patent trolls. You'll find them anywhere you find patents. I scoff at your claims of gene squatting as you have to say what the gene does and pay the huge patent fees to get the patent (so you can't just patent each gene as the breast cancer gene).
Good luck with your work. I am glad that gene patents are invalid. I was merely expressing a mild amount of discomfort that it could have a negative overall effect. If you can assert that I'm confused or misinformed, I'd be a very happy man.
The volatility (put/call orders) on Myriad Genetics tells me this is going to have profound effects on genetics companies, I hope the best for your employment and hope that the entire genetics industry (and above searches) don't become insane burdens on the taxpayer.
Hopefully this will go a long way in ensuring that patents on genes do not stand in the way of research.
And let us also hope that financial backers and investors don't pass on the idea of investing in said research without the potential payout of a full term patent.
As unpopular as the above statement is on Slashdot and as flawed as the patent system is, it still fulfills purposes making this at least a two sided issue. Ignoring either side is nothing but folly.
You can revise your statement to read: Hopefully it's a net positive for gene research.
It's not only high-fat thats the problem, but also high-carb. I never really crave for high-fat but low-carb food and my body feels a lot better with low-carb food. It's the combination of high-fat and high-carb that is bad, and leaves all the fat in your body because carbs burn first.
High fat versus low fat ... high carbohydrate versus low carbohydrate ... the problem is probably better defined as incorrect portion sizing. High fat or high carbohydrate foods are only themselves the problem when you give them to a mindless animal that has a stomach evolved to pack in as much as it can when given to it. When you give a dog five pounds of bacon, it will eat as much as its stomach can hold. It'd do the same thing with a deer carcass but would more than likely get less fat and less calories in it. If our ancestors could sit around eating pizza all day, they'd do it. If they could have made white bread, they would have. Bacon tastes good because it's high fat and high calories. We evolved to seek these things out because they are -- in moderation or small doses -- quite good for our combustion engines. They're rare in nature but great for our energy levels so we crave them. No two ways around that fact.
I know why we blame fat, carbohydrates and foods that are high in them. It's because we don't want to acknowledge that the problem is our own self control and dietary understanding. Food science has evolved to give us whatever we want and we're just not responsible with it. Some regulation is necessary like banning trans fats when an alternative can be used but you're going to get nowhere if you try to focus on vaguely assigned designators as "high-fat" or "high-carb" food. Public awareness, responsible eating and self control are your best weapons here. Put the blame back on those that are responsible: the eaters.
We all evolved to like bacon and pizza and the like. Now act responsibly. In my youth I would eat a whole large deep dish pepperoni pizza. I can still eat that much, I just recognize that my caloric needs when it comes to pizzas is two slices for a meal. I understand some people have lower sensitivity dopamine receptors but that's just how you were born and you should deal with it. At some point we're all flawed in some way. Why do people find that controlling their eating is so difficult?
Note: if there's one thing the government should do, it's put capitalism back in action and remove the subsidiaries being paid out to ensure that corn syrup is cheaper than cane. Or that bacon is cheaper than a fish filet. Although it's great for the United States economy, it's had some very negative results on our belts.
Although, John Travolta is never the right guy to be in a scifi film.
Here, let me help you with that.
(And if you want more)
I know they make fun of good movies just as successfully but this movie is flawed on too many levels for me to get into. I'm not even talking plot or story at this point, just delivery, directing and acting. And that Rifftrax clip points out a few of them.
Hopefully I'm just missing your humor. If so, well played.
It's not out of the question, IBM noted in the 90s:
Extensive background radiation studies by IBM in the 1990s suggest that computers typically experience about one cosmic-ray-induced error per 256 megabytes of RAM per month. If so, a superstorm, with its unprecedented radiation fluxes, could cause widespread computer failures.
You have to fix this though. As a large manufacturer you have to accept this risk just like your competitors do. Airlines accept this risk and triple check their data because people's lives are at risk. As a car manufacturer, you are in the exact same position.
I hope the fix they already rolled out as a recall includes triple checking data or -- if the article is correct -- we won't see a drop in these horrible accidents. I hope for drivers and public safety that it does. It's led to death and possibly wrongful incarceration. Restitution is in order. Take testing motor vehicles seriously.
I consider this a very, very bad idea.
Really? I consider it a very very wonderful idea. If an article is deleted, big deal. The student will most likely retain their own copy when they submit it to the professor.
Let's take my report on Carl Sagan in high school and my lengthy paper on the pros and cons of the EU's end of the year reallocation between countries in my Macroeconomics course. The former is probably better documented on Wikipedia already but might have served as a decent seed article. The latter I cannot find anything on and am not even sure if it still goes on. Regardless, you have no option of reading any form of my two works. Any information or references I had accumulated are lost to the ages. Just like if the articles had been deemed non-notable.
I like the idea of being able to produce something useful out of what seems like an inane exercise and to allow students the pleasure of disseminating knowledge responsibly.
I maintain it's a great idea with no bad consequences when you compare it to the old way. The only bad thing would be if you made a very embarrassing error and it was stored in wikipedia's history for eternity. Oh well, better learn early about the foreverity of the internet. Just like my Slashdot comments.
Normally the news likes to hand you a big fat moral or ethical dilemma when you find out that your favorite product is made by Big Evil. But this is the best kind of news for me! The kind that further reaffirms my views on my most hated companies!
Terrible news for the Chinese. Great news for my Down with Microsoft agenda! When you're chewing on life's gristle don't grumble, give a whistle!
In my preferences? Well, I prefer androgynous looking girls, with a strong personality, good sense of humor, and stunning eyes. Don't care so much about smoking or race, but heavy drug use is a kill-joy. I don't see why slashdot needs to know this though, but whatever. Will the pain stop now?
Could you give me a non-subjective definition of "good sense of humor"? How about an objective definition of "heavy drug use"? Because you can buy absinthe (grande wormwood even) nearly everywhere in the states now. Turns out it's never really been illegal after prohibition. Or perhaps six beers is heavy drug use? Or perhaps the coffee/energy drink he drank that morning? Or perhaps the high fructose corn syrup from the bread in his sandwich that he threw up? Maybe I should inform my coworker that takes an aspirin everyday that I don't enjoy his heavy drug use in my office space?
While unhealthy and stupid, six beers and a half bottle of absinthe does not equate to a high probability of death or risk of life destroying addiction. I'm fine that you hold your own odd standard of 'heavy drug use' but the chemicals consumed by this individual are approved for sale in the United States. On top of that, people have been getting blitzed for millennia and a video labeled *NSFW* means violence, nudity, adult language, drug or alcohol use and the same things that make movies rated for more mature audiences. Simply put: don't watch a video rated *NSFW* if 'heavy drug use' offends you or results in a "kill-joy." I'm quite comfortable laughing at other peoples stupid decisions and somewhat insightful -- though crude -- blathering on topics I hold dear.
Upper right of the page you're viewing has a "Help & Account" link. Click it or open it into a new tab. If you are using the dynamic index like most, click "Exclusions" under that heading. Enter "Idle" into the text box and hit save. While you will probably miss stories like "Bill Gates Sits Idle as World Burns" you will not see any Idle: stories on your front page. In the classic index, you can select sections and remove Idle. I don't know why the dynamic index doesn't have this granularity of exact control yet. I'd give you links but they're javascripty popups so take care if you have javascripty blocking mechanisms.
How in the name of Shub Internet did this make front page? Bad slashdot editors. Bad! No cookie for you.
Because it's funny. Front page funny. And it mixes comedy with an often overlooked icon in our world. I've read books on Tesla and I've read his patents and he truly was a remarkably gifted man. Yet I didn't hear about him until college.
... some of which had serious merit and continue to influence us in new ways until this very day.
... because tesla wasn't The American Inventor Thomas Edison that every American School child Must learn about.
Why? Probably because Edison was a pompous jerk. Probably because Tesla was an immigrant. Probably because he expressed too many alternative ideas
And yet one of the few routes we have to raise public awareness about him is very well filmed and choreographed internet videos
I disagree with your hard line "no cookie" stance and instead offer the Slashdot Editor trapped in my basement a full cookie and the ability to rub his eyeball on my shoe. I thoroughly enjoyed the throwing up of absinthe mixed with pineapple as well as the "Tesla was the Electric Jesus" statement.
All you have to do, girlintraining is filter Idle so that it doesn't appear on your front page. It's in your preferences.
Than watching a grown man laying in a bathroom about to throw up saying "Tesla ... was the Electric Jesus ... I can't breath." Well done, good sir. I only hope this weekend has in store for me the same beauty that you have gifted to the internet.
Man, if only bullshit was source of income. What a second, I feel a political career beginning!
If the rats had free access, how did they control for the amount consumed?
Your criticisms may be apt but I would like to point out that after listening the evil shroud surrounding HFCS I decided to do an experiment with myself to see if eliminating HFCS from my diet while eating the same as I always have would cause me to lose or gain weight.
And I had to make sure only to buy things at Trader Joes since my local grocery store carried but one loaf of bread with no HFCS in it and it was hilariously marked up as some organic bullshit.
The problems didn't stop there. HFCS is quite literally everywhere. It's a preservative, a sweetener, everything. It got to be really ridiculous. After about a month of the whole charade my weight was about the same but I had been having wild cravings of ketchup (no, I wasn't pregnant). After satisfying this with some baked potatoes and french fries here and there loaded with ketchup, it dawned on me to inspect the label of my Heinz ketchup bottle. Fucking HFCS. Seriously? Upon returning to the store the "organic" ketchup is ridiculously expensive.
Due to government subsidies and advanced food science, you cannot control your intake of HFCS. It's bloody impossible in today's America. I don't know how to fix this but you can be damned sure the Corn lobby likes it this way. I'm not saying it's as evil as trans fats or bad cholesterol but holy hell is it pervasive and uncapitalistically inexpensive!
World Wind is licensed under NASA's Open Source license. Not sure of the intricacies with it (IANAL) but was developed with the open source community.
Fox News and the Texas board of Education.
You know what's really funny? When those two collide.
Good upgrade but I really gotta question the added 'inferiority complex routine' listed in the release notes that requires the rover to periodically contemplate its ultimate fate and update a twitter feed where NASA engineers can either encourage the rover or ridicule it.
I am Junis, a refugee from the last regime of the United States. Our former oppressors ridiculed Commodore machines and as such I had hid my 2010 Commodore 64 behind my meager 65" LCD Television. Had it been found, I might have been criticized for buying such a brand of computer by my peers.
I could still see the dust of the pick-up trucks carrying Dell computers out of my village and some friends and I went and dug through the PS3, XBox 360 and Wii cables by the LCD TV where I had hid the computer. They might have derided or laughed at us if they'd found it. It was forbidden, although they used Sega Dreamcasts all of the time. I am now furiously trying to download internets and libraries of congress I've missed from countries like Iran and North Korea. With the changing of the television seasons, "American Idol" and "Lost" are slowly returning to the television stations. Justice, Freedom & Liberty have finally come to my hometown in the United States.
Thankfully and sincerely,
Junis
(sent from my new Commodore 64)
But hey, when the labor is cheap and can do almost the same as our expensive labor, who cares?!? North American citizens? Mmmmmmmm wait a minute.... nope, the WalMart parking lot is still full....
You forgot about the icing on the cake: they don't care about their environment! Since their officials are all corrupt, it's just a matter of greasing some of the bureaucratic wheels and those heavy metals in the drinking water aren't a problem! Not only are we exporting unskilled labor, we're exporting our pollution!
*cough*
What's that you say? Their people are suffering? China uses the same planet we do? We'll eventually suffer from each other's pollution? I liked it better when my point of view was limited to my immediate surrounding area where I can find a coffee maker for $12 at Walmart.
their uncensored Hong Kong-tbased google.com.hk servers
If I know anything about genetics there must be some cytosine base servers directly opposite these servers. Can they start redirecting traffic there?