Worse yet, some are producing 'diet' chocolate with sugars like maltitol, which does not get absorbed in the stomach like most sugars. But the bacteria in the large intestine can metabolize maltitol, and they produce lots of gas...
My name is Harmonious Botch and I'm a chocoholic. A fucking serious chocoholic. I figure I spend about 200 per month on it. Were I this hooked on booze or heroin, I'd be dead by now.
There is already crud in the chocolate. Any serious consumer of chocolate already knows to read the ingredients.
To write this post, I went to the trash can, pulled out a package of inferior quality candy that my wonderful but misguided wife had bought. I had thrown it away because of the crud in it. Under "ingredients", it says: "palm, shea, sunflower, and/or safflower oil". There is already whey protein in it also.
A little vegetable oil is not going to make a big difference. Over the last decade or two they have snuck palm oil in, and sometimes even wax, and most consumers didn't notice. Most of you won't notice the vegtable oil either, and those of us who do already read the labels.
I do not buy anything made in China. Its not easy to find out what parts of a laptop of computer are made in China, so my plan isn't foolproof, but it's what I know that I can do to stop support for the Chinese government.
What else can people do? Ideas? My idea is that you do exactly the opposite. Buy stuff that is made in China. This encourages the development of a capitalistic middle class.
It helps develop a group of Chinese people who know more about the west than their government tells them ( they have to learn about their markets ) and who work with private banks ( they have to when they do large scale business in the west ) and who like private property.
In other words, it encourages the growth of a group of people whose values and beliefs are contrary to the Chinese government.
I'll bet that this is surplus from one of their submarines.
Even with the cost of Russian labor, it would be tricky just to move and install this thing, complete with power cables, mooring lines, etc for 200K. It therefore follows that they already have the reactor. Where do Russians get surplus reactors? From subs that aren't seaworthy any more.
...Cho didn't play videogames... Maybe that was the problem. Maybe he should have played a few to vent his rage.
In my younger years, we were not so protected. We had toy guns. We played violent games. And, perhaps, we learned something about violence - when it was appropriate and when not. As best I recall, only one guy - in the Texas tower - went nuts with a gun on campus.
Now, there are so many attempts to insulate young men from violence in any form ( including complaints about a statue of a war veteran who has a gun! ), and yet the number of violent acts in the last decade or so rises - Oklahoma City, Va law school, Va Tech, Columbine, etc. I think that there may be a correlation.
So go ahead, play violent games! The bloodier, the better! I'll feel safer around you if you've vented a little adrenaline that way.
After all, MS can argue in court that your acceptance of the prior deal was basically an admission that you wouldn't have been allowed to distribute Linux without their blessing. So as soon as you sign the deal, you are forever controlled by MS... Sounds reasonable at first, but no court will even consider that argument. The problem ( from the court's point of view ) is that if company A makes a deal with MS and the court rules that company A's actions constitute an interpretation of the law, then that sets a precedent for company B. ( and C, D, etc )
In other words, if such things were admitted, MS could hire a shill company to do something stupid, and the stupidity becomes precedent which is binding on everybody who does business with MS. This effectively lets MS ( or any other rich plantiff ) write the law. No judge will allow that, so they stop it cold at the very beginning by refusing to even listen to such arguments.
OK so two hilarious anecdotes where CCW caused the bad guys to get caught.
Compared to 32 people murdered by a gun nut today alone. And there is the one stat that nobody collects, and nobody can: the number of people who decided not to commit a crime because they belived that someone else was armed.
I think the original poster is correct. We all have it in us to do something horrid--believing that you are better than this shooter is a fundamental misunderstanding of the human condition. Number of people the Virginia tech guy has killed today: 32+.
Number of people that I have killed today ( despite knowing a deserving few ): 0.
Number of people that you have killed today ( despite your handle ): probably 0.
When I look at the numbers, I believe that I am better. So are you. To believe otherwise implies a fundamental misunderstanding of simple math.
How is saying "I'm better than this shooter" different from some fundi saying "I'm better than all you non-believers..." Both have a belief system that says that others who behave or function differently are inherently worse Uhhh... yes. Isn't that the point of a belief system - that following it makes you a better person? Whether it is 'love thy neighbor' or 'death to non-believers' or 'do not go out and shoot 32 people just because your girlfriend dumped you', the whole point is to be a better person.
We are not all the same. Some of us are better than others. And since our respective body counts are relatively low today, I'll count you and me among them.
Before CDs, AOL used to send floppies. I liked that. It was the backup-disk-of-the-month-club for me. I didn't have to remember, I didn't have to buy a floppy; it just arrived every month so I could backup.
What fucked up animals we are. No. What fucked-up animals a teeny minority of us are. Most of us are better than that. You are. I am.
Let's give ourselves credit where it is deserved. There's probably not a person on this list who hasn't wanted to do multiple homicides now and then. But we don't. We learn to control our anger, to seek non-violent solutions.
Let's treat this incident as a baseline, and praise ourselves for having advanced well beyond it. This guy was an exception, not the norm.
I am not making this up.
From TFA: "At a pork barbecue celebrating the announcement of the data center deal, Google held a question and answer session with local dignitaries..."
It's power that matters, not current.
The best solar cells today get about 13 watts / square foot. The toatl power available on a sunny day with near perpendicular light is 130-140 watts. So efficiency is near 10%. The best a new design can do is about 10-11 fold increase, not 60.
I'm as pro-corporation as anybody- but I don't think inventions are supressed on purpose, either. One of the beauties of a free market is that brains and money can get matched together so readily. ( Imagine an inventor trying to get a job in some othe part of Stalinist Russia where you had to have the government's permision to move )
It costs more to supress an invention than to market it. Suppose corporation A and corp B are bidding for the proverbial great-invention-by-a-lonely-genius. Corp A wants to develop it, and corp B wants to supress it. Corp A can bid more because they intend to make a profit on it even after development expenses. So their net cost to buy is lower. Also, they get to use the patents on the technology to cut B out of the market.
Ok, if I can't find out what records they are keeping about me, but legal adversaries can, someone please sue me and then subpeona them for me.
BTW, TFA appears to have gone though a buggy porn filter. It has words like "cir*****stantial" and "do*****ents"
There is no legal recognition of privacy, no matter how sneaky you intend to be, in a public space. Sorry, but you are dead wrong on this. The easiest example I can think of is an attourney whispering to his client in a courtroom. The courtroom is clearly a public place, but the mere attempt to have a private conversation makes it private. The prosecution cannot use anything they might overhear, and will catch hell from the judge if they should try.
Let's skip the ad hominems about who has read what. To paraphase Twain, doing such a thing on slasdot will please a few and amaze the rest.
Wolf offered to release the tape multiple times. The stumbling block has always been that he was ordered to essentially provide a profile to the secret grand jury about all the people he knew of that were at the riot. This part had nothing at all to do with the damaged police car and everything to do with the government wanting to know who the political dissidents are I mostly agree with the above that this is about "the government wanting to know who the political dissidents are." But this is not neccesarily a problem. They ought to be able to do that if their aims are crime-solving and not political.
As the GGP says, "This is simply cops doing their job. When the non-mainsteam opinion is linked with violent crimes, a cop should be able to keep track of public actions and expressions. ( If the crime were, say, the gay-bashing and subsequent death of the guy in Wyoming, shall we deny the cops the ability to keep track of public anti-gay statements? Or when some black guy gets dragged to death behind a truck, should the cops have been allowed to keep tabs on public statements and acts of avowed rascists? )
Unless you want to tie the hands of the cops so completely that they are not even allowed o make the same observations as the average citizen, eventually the question comes down to what a cop is allowed to look at and what he is not. This is why the GP gets into the distinction of public vs private.
Wolf has information that the cops want, ( and as explained above, they have a legitimate reason to want ). Some is on tape, some is possibly in writing, some is in his skull. The stuff on tape is of public acts. The stuff in his skull is private.
He should hand over the tape ( because it is public ) and make his stand on the stuff in his skull ( because it is private ). He should not impede legitimate law enforcement by trying to deliberately mix the two.
Actually, Deep Throat is a good example. He went to great lengths to make the conversation private - potted plants used as signals, standing in shadows, whispering, pausing to looking over his shoulder, etc. And it is that effort and intent that counts, doing something so that one has a reasonable expectation of privacy, even if some ingenious cop cirumvents it.
And the fact that the particular media is video is not relevant. He should turn over any media if the subjects had no reasonable expectation of privacy. This would apply to still photos, audio tapes, etc.
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Worse yet, some are producing 'diet' chocolate with sugars like maltitol, which does not get absorbed in the stomach like most sugars. But the bacteria in the large intestine can metabolize maltitol, and they produce lots of gas...
My name is Harmonious Botch and I'm a chocoholic. A fucking serious chocoholic. I figure I spend about 200 per month on it. Were I this hooked on booze or heroin, I'd be dead by now.
There is already crud in the chocolate. Any serious consumer of chocolate already knows to read the ingredients.
To write this post, I went to the trash can, pulled out a package of inferior quality candy that my wonderful but misguided wife had bought. I had thrown it away because of the crud in it. Under "ingredients", it says: "palm, shea, sunflower, and/or safflower oil". There is already whey protein in it also.
A little vegetable oil is not going to make a big difference. Over the last decade or two they have snuck palm oil in, and sometimes even wax, and most consumers didn't notice. Most of you won't notice the vegtable oil either, and those of us who do already read the labels.
Yeah, tell Zonk about the wedding; he'll dupe it for you.
64 million years ought to be enough for anybody.
What else can people do? Ideas? My idea is that you do exactly the opposite. Buy stuff that is made in China. This encourages the development of a capitalistic middle class.
It helps develop a group of Chinese people who know more about the west than their government tells them ( they have to learn about their markets ) and who work with private banks ( they have to when they do large scale business in the west ) and who like private property.
In other words, it encourages the growth of a group of people whose values and beliefs are contrary to the Chinese government.
Why can such software be downloaded at all?? It should be running on machines with no net connections.
I'll bet that this is surplus from one of their submarines.
Even with the cost of Russian labor, it would be tricky just to move and install this thing, complete with power cables, mooring lines, etc for 200K. It therefore follows that they already have the reactor. Where do Russians get surplus reactors? From subs that aren't seaworthy any more.
...Cho didn't play videogames... Maybe that was the problem. Maybe he should have played a few to vent his rage.In my younger years, we were not so protected. We had toy guns. We played violent games. And, perhaps, we learned something about violence - when it was appropriate and when not. As best I recall, only one guy - in the Texas tower - went nuts with a gun on campus.
Now, there are so many attempts to insulate young men from violence in any form ( including complaints about a statue of a war veteran who has a gun! ), and yet the number of violent acts in the last decade or so rises - Oklahoma City, Va law school, Va Tech, Columbine, etc. I think that there may be a correlation.
So go ahead, play violent games! The bloodier, the better! I'll feel safer around you if you've vented a little adrenaline that way.
In other words, if such things were admitted, MS could hire a shill company to do something stupid, and the stupidity becomes precedent which is binding on everybody who does business with MS. This effectively lets MS ( or any other rich plantiff ) write the law. No judge will allow that, so they stop it cold at the very beginning by refusing to even listen to such arguments.
Try posting your explanation of why the previous poster is mistaken. Take a fucking risk.
Parent was modded 'flambait'?
Now there are three ways we can have dupes.
That joke is older than the experiment...
Number of people that I have killed today ( despite knowing a deserving few ): 0.
Number of people that you have killed today ( despite your handle ): probably 0.
When I look at the numbers, I believe that I am better. So are you. To believe otherwise implies a fundamental misunderstanding of simple math.
How is saying "I'm better than this shooter" different from some fundi saying "I'm better than all you non-believers..." Both have a belief system that says that others who behave or function differently are inherently worse Uhhh... yes. Isn't that the point of a belief system - that following it makes you a better person? Whether it is 'love thy neighbor' or 'death to non-believers' or 'do not go out and shoot 32 people just because your girlfriend dumped you', the whole point is to be a better person.
We are not all the same. Some of us are better than others. And since our respective body counts are relatively low today, I'll count you and me among them.
Before CDs, AOL used to send floppies. I liked that. It was the backup-disk-of-the-month-club for me. I didn't have to remember, I didn't have to buy a floppy; it just arrived every month so I could backup.
Let's give ourselves credit where it is deserved. There's probably not a person on this list who hasn't wanted to do multiple homicides now and then. But we don't. We learn to control our anger, to seek non-violent solutions.
Let's treat this incident as a baseline, and praise ourselves for having advanced well beyond it. This guy was an exception, not the norm.
I am not making this up.
From TFA: "At a pork barbecue celebrating the announcement of the data center deal, Google held a question and answer session with local dignitaries..."
It's power that matters, not current.
The best solar cells today get about 13 watts / square foot. The toatl power available on a sunny day with near perpendicular light is 130-140 watts. So efficiency is near 10%. The best a new design can do is about 10-11 fold increase, not 60.
I'm as pro-corporation as anybody- but I don't think inventions are supressed on purpose, either. One of the beauties of a free market is that brains and money can get matched together so readily. ( Imagine an inventor trying to get a job in some othe part of Stalinist Russia where you had to have the government's permision to move )
It costs more to supress an invention than to market it. Suppose corporation A and corp B are bidding for the proverbial great-invention-by-a-lonely-genius. Corp A wants to develop it, and corp B wants to supress it. Corp A can bid more because they intend to make a profit on it even after development expenses. So their net cost to buy is lower. Also, they get to use the patents on the technology to cut B out of the market.
Ok, if I can't find out what records they are keeping about me, but legal adversaries can, someone please sue me and then subpeona them for me.
BTW, TFA appears to have gone though a buggy porn filter. It has words like "cir*****stantial" and "do*****ents"
Thanks for correcting that.
Intent matters.
As the GGP says, "This is simply cops doing their job. When the non-mainsteam opinion is linked with violent crimes, a cop should be able to keep track of public actions and expressions. ( If the crime were, say, the gay-bashing and subsequent death of the guy in Wyoming, shall we deny the cops the ability to keep track of public anti-gay statements? Or when some black guy gets dragged to death behind a truck, should the cops have been allowed to keep tabs on public statements and acts of avowed rascists? )
Unless you want to tie the hands of the cops so completely that they are not even allowed o make the same observations as the average citizen, eventually the question comes down to what a cop is allowed to look at and what he is not. This is why the GP gets into the distinction of public vs private.
Wolf has information that the cops want, ( and as explained above, they have a legitimate reason to want ). Some is on tape, some is possibly in writing, some is in his skull. The stuff on tape is of public acts. The stuff in his skull is private.
He should hand over the tape ( because it is public ) and make his stand on the stuff in his skull ( because it is private ). He should not impede legitimate law enforcement by trying to deliberately mix the two.
Actually, Deep Throat is a good example. He went to great lengths to make the conversation private - potted plants used as signals, standing in shadows, whispering, pausing to looking over his shoulder, etc. And it is that effort and intent that counts, doing something so that one has a reasonable expectation of privacy, even if some ingenious cop cirumvents it.
And the fact that the particular media is video is not relevant. He should turn over any media if the subjects had no reasonable expectation of privacy. This would apply to still photos, audio tapes, etc.