Having had Japanese beef of all price levels, I can safely say that most of it is overrated and overpriced. It reminds me of the Japanese' impression of American workers, actually.
Good beef should be marbled. This gives it a good tenderness and provides flavor. However Japanese beef is all too often over-marbled leading to a greasy mess that tastes less like beef than a mouthful of fat.
The best beef cows are in the US and have far lower levels of marbling than the famed "Kobe beef". It's not a matter of how coddled the cows are until they are slaughtered, it's all about breeding stock.
So while the Japanese may find a way to rank their beef using IR, they are still stuck with the same old greasy, mushy slabs of fat.
When I was a kid I used to ride a Frankie Hill board to school everyday. We were big into the whole anti-establishment thing in those days, smoking dope after school and drinking until blitzed on the roof of my friend's house. And we always saw the harassment we got from cops for tearing up private property as something that ought to be changed. Skateboarding, as we used to say, is not a crime.
Nowadays, I'm a little wiser and a little more flush with cash. I can see now how the truck grinds and rail slides were tearing up the things we were essentially vandalizing. It's not something that I'm especially proud of, but I can't say I have any regrets. It's just something that we kids had to do to escape the overbearing oppression our middle class parents were putting on us.
Likewise, indexing newsgroups (and websites) is something that just happens. It's almost impossible to effectively know what is going through the pipes without going in and performing filtering explicitly. Newzbin should be found guilty of indexing, but we should all be defiantly flicking off the MPA and declaring that indexing is not a crime.
When Subaru came out with their 2010 Legacy model they brought out the big guns and re-engineered the body design completely. Subaru redesigns the Legacy on a five year timeline and instead of building on the tried and true Legacy platform, they designed the new Legacy around the WRX STi platform. The result is a car with a great engine, large interior, and aggressive styling.
The other result is terrible sales.
No one likes the new exterior. It resembles Honda's generic styling more than Subaru's conspicuously different styling. No one buys a Legacy because they want to drive an Accord.
You can't build a city by burning it to the ground. You need at the very least a Granary and a Marketplace so that you can grow your population while making income. This allows you to finance all the other fun stuff you want to do like developing war trolls or building sorcerer's guilds. Without the basic income stream, you're just going to get screwed when some bear rushes in and eats all your citizens because you don't have even a single halberdier around to guard the town.
This is a bad idea that will put Tesla out of business soon. I feel almost bad for all the people who prepaid.
It is easy to determine whether nuclear power on a watt for watt basis is cheaper to produce than a similar coal plant, but the total cost must take into account factors such as total pollution, cost and risk of mining unrenewable resources, as well as the geopolitical problems in relaying on such resources.
If you take only the CO2 output as a single factor, the cost of nuclear energy is far lower than any coal plant could ever be. So yes, it is more expensive to produce the energy, but it is far lower in total cost overall when all factors are taken into account.
Oil power plants are even worse. They rely on importation of resources from the Middle East, a region far from stable due to the influence of extremist religions and backwards cultures of nomadic races. Nuclear power will break us free of that (to some extent, we still have longstanding obligations to Israel which ought to be rethought, IMO) and will make us instead beholden to Australia and its uranium mines. But I feel much more comfortable dealing with the Aussies as a culture which is similar to our own and a people much like us.
At some point, if you are lucky enough, you will require extremely high performance from your web pages. You start out coding HTML in Notepad and move on to Perl CGI then on to PHP with scripting embedded right in the generated HTML. All the time you gain programming crutches at the expense of processing speed, and for a while this is a great tradeoff.
But one day you start having server hiccups because your scripts can't keep up with your traffic. Sites like Amazon have already run into this and have moved away from scripting languages and back to system languages. Running applications directly on the CPU instead of relying on a runtime to translate (at best) bytecode into machine instructions means maximizing CPU cycles.
So I wonder what longterm benefit there is in improving the language runtime.
It's nice to have this enabled finally. However, the mention that this is something blocked on the server side makes me wonder if this may only be relevant to specific markets.
As a christian, I've met many home-schoolers. And I don't think anyone would consider any of them to be ultra fanatic religious fringe group members.
Surely, as a level-headed human being, you would admit that your own personal beliefs would necessarily disqualify you from being able to judge the fanaticism of your fellow believers.
My natural human right to freedom (god-given if you prefer) trumps your personal view. That includes the right to decide the path your children take until they are adults. They are my children. They belong to me, not you, government, or any arbitrary third party
Even assuming that religious reasons were not at all related to their decision, almost a third of homeschool parents cited religion as their primary reason for taking their kids out of public schools.
Sorry, I meant to say
Even assuming that religious reasons were not at all a factor for parents not specifically naming religion as their #1 reason, almost a third of homeschool parents cited religion as their primary reason for taking their kids out of public schools.
Even assuming that religious reasons were not at all related to their decision, almost a third of homeschool parents cited religion as their primary reason for taking their kids out of public schools.
The only stipulation here is that the kids are taught in a classroom setting by certified teachers according to a strict curriculum. Any additional schooling a parent might want to do can be done before or after school and on weekends.
Parents have plenty of rights, but the right to destroy their kid's future by teaching them anti-science and borderline racist interpretations of history ought not be one. We have whole states here in the US that are filled with nincompoops because of homeschooling. Homeschooling begets more homeschooling in an endless cycle. When you try to push morals and religion into education you end up with none of the above.
In terms of a general purpose device, the iPad comes nowhere close. However, like the Sharp Netwalker, it purports to be a general purpose device or at least a PC companion device. This means that some modicum of compatibility and interoperability. This usually means that users will be able to load software of their own choosing, even so far as loading software of their own making.
However if this device is a closed system and requires purchase from an "app store" to enable desired functionality, then we are talking about something far removed from a general computing device. To this end, it is important to realize that Smartbooks have been around for a couple years in various forms (ARM/x86, Win/Lin) and that these existing devices are actually open for development.
Software Freedom isn't only about free software. It is also about being able to use and extend computing devices as a primary freedom.
You may carp on how the FSF demands software freedom at the expense of choice, but if freedom can only be preserved by removing choice, then that is how it must be achieved. Just as health insurance can only be enjoyed by those covered by it, it makes sense to require everyone to have it under penalty of law. Only in that way can we extend the benefits of universal coverage, though it may in some way require the forfeiture of some freedoms (the freedom to pay out of pocket).
If they really want to know how these conditions are presented, it's better that they send in a few investigators undercover and get it all on tape. That way they can cost the jobs of a few lowest-rung minimum wage idiots who are working their ass off for a couple percent commission.
At least they will catch someone. Maybe the FCC isn't familiar with the "exculpatory no". They will become very familiar with it asking the policy makers at these companies, though. So that's nice.
Aren't you implicitly trusting that the news you were presented by the American media during the Cold War wasn't designed to manipulate your opinions of the Soviet government?
Consider how today's American media presents the Chinese government. Who is it actually being mind-controlled?
I think we can all agree that censorship is a bad thing, but how far should such social responsibility reach? Should companies be concerned about social responsibility in countries which are not their own? Should they help criminals violate the laws of their own countries? Is aiding and abetting in the name of freedom something that companies should really be doing?
Take for example Bob Barker, a major donor to the Sea Shepherds. The Sea Shepherds practice terrorism on the high seas in an effort to eliminate practices which they see as abhorrent, namely whaling and drag net trawling. Barker, with his name and money, support these actions which are in violation of international law. Likewise, New Zealand and Australia also provide shelter for the group by refusing to prosecute them for illegal actions taken in their waters. These supporters and harborers of the terrorist organization are just as responsible as the terrorist organization itself.
However, it would be somewhat odd if a completely unrelated country like, say, Armenia got involved and tried to sink the Sea Shepherd's ships or arrested Bob Barker for international terrorism. It's just not their problem.
Should it be any surprise that unmoderated software could introduce security vulnerabilities? All a CPU does is execute instructions, so "jailbreaking" a phone just gives you the opportunity to run more software which may contain malicious payloads.
When 20/20 took a look at dangerous "exploding" trucks, it was found that if you put a small amount of explosive near the crash area, that you could indeed cause a truck to explode in an accident. But does that mean that the truck company should be found at fault for a usage scenario that is not supported?
Analyze the security of this phone in terms of its default use. It burns up (literally), it causes network packet flooding, and does a bunch of other unwanted things, but don't blame it for something that its users do in direct violation of their TOS.
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Having had Japanese beef of all price levels, I can safely say that most of it is overrated and overpriced. It reminds me of the Japanese' impression of American workers, actually.
Good beef should be marbled. This gives it a good tenderness and provides flavor. However Japanese beef is all too often over-marbled leading to a greasy mess that tastes less like beef than a mouthful of fat.
The best beef cows are in the US and have far lower levels of marbling than the famed "Kobe beef". It's not a matter of how coddled the cows are until they are slaughtered, it's all about breeding stock.
So while the Japanese may find a way to rank their beef using IR, they are still stuck with the same old greasy, mushy slabs of fat.
When I was a kid I used to ride a Frankie Hill board to school everyday. We were big into the whole anti-establishment thing in those days, smoking dope after school and drinking until blitzed on the roof of my friend's house. And we always saw the harassment we got from cops for tearing up private property as something that ought to be changed. Skateboarding, as we used to say, is not a crime.
Nowadays, I'm a little wiser and a little more flush with cash. I can see now how the truck grinds and rail slides were tearing up the things we were essentially vandalizing. It's not something that I'm especially proud of, but I can't say I have any regrets. It's just something that we kids had to do to escape the overbearing oppression our middle class parents were putting on us.
Likewise, indexing newsgroups (and websites) is something that just happens. It's almost impossible to effectively know what is going through the pipes without going in and performing filtering explicitly. Newzbin should be found guilty of indexing, but we should all be defiantly flicking off the MPA and declaring that indexing is not a crime.
When Subaru came out with their 2010 Legacy model they brought out the big guns and re-engineered the body design completely. Subaru redesigns the Legacy on a five year timeline and instead of building on the tried and true Legacy platform, they designed the new Legacy around the WRX STi platform. The result is a car with a great engine, large interior, and aggressive styling.
The other result is terrible sales.
No one likes the new exterior. It resembles Honda's generic styling more than Subaru's conspicuously different styling. No one buys a Legacy because they want to drive an Accord.
You can't build a city by burning it to the ground. You need at the very least a Granary and a Marketplace so that you can grow your population while making income. This allows you to finance all the other fun stuff you want to do like developing war trolls or building sorcerer's guilds. Without the basic income stream, you're just going to get screwed when some bear rushes in and eats all your citizens because you don't have even a single halberdier around to guard the town.
This is a bad idea that will put Tesla out of business soon. I feel almost bad for all the people who prepaid.
It is easy to determine whether nuclear power on a watt for watt basis is cheaper to produce than a similar coal plant, but the total cost must take into account factors such as total pollution, cost and risk of mining unrenewable resources, as well as the geopolitical problems in relaying on such resources.
If you take only the CO2 output as a single factor, the cost of nuclear energy is far lower than any coal plant could ever be. So yes, it is more expensive to produce the energy, but it is far lower in total cost overall when all factors are taken into account.
Oil power plants are even worse. They rely on importation of resources from the Middle East, a region far from stable due to the influence of extremist religions and backwards cultures of nomadic races. Nuclear power will break us free of that (to some extent, we still have longstanding obligations to Israel which ought to be rethought, IMO) and will make us instead beholden to Australia and its uranium mines. But I feel much more comfortable dealing with the Aussies as a culture which is similar to our own and a people much like us.
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/
Worth a look.
How are you differentiating between a virtual machine and a runtime?
At some point, if you are lucky enough, you will require extremely high performance from your web pages. You start out coding HTML in Notepad and move on to Perl CGI then on to PHP with scripting embedded right in the generated HTML. All the time you gain programming crutches at the expense of processing speed, and for a while this is a great tradeoff.
But one day you start having server hiccups because your scripts can't keep up with your traffic. Sites like Amazon have already run into this and have moved away from scripting languages and back to system languages. Running applications directly on the CPU instead of relying on a runtime to translate (at best) bytecode into machine instructions means maximizing CPU cycles.
So I wonder what longterm benefit there is in improving the language runtime.
My only experience with black people was getting mugged by one so I guess all black people are all criminals.
Yeah, that's a winning argument you've got there.....
But surely you'd lend weight to the experience of thousands of people mugged by black people.
Assuming the mobile provider doesn't balk at it
This is the reason for my question in the first place.
It's nice to have this enabled finally. However, the mention that this is something blocked on the server side makes me wonder if this may only be relevant to specific markets.
As a christian, I've met many home-schoolers. And I don't think anyone would consider any of them to be ultra fanatic religious fringe group members.
Surely, as a level-headed human being, you would admit that your own personal beliefs would necessarily disqualify you from being able to judge the fanaticism of your fellow believers.
My natural human right to freedom (god-given if you prefer) trumps your personal view. That includes the right to decide the path your children take until they are adults. They are my children. They belong to me, not you, government, or any arbitrary third party
Says the arbitrary third party...
Even assuming that religious reasons were not at all related to their decision, almost a third of homeschool parents cited religion as their primary reason for taking their kids out of public schools.
Sorry, I meant to say
Even assuming that religious reasons were not at all a factor for parents not specifically naming religion as their #1 reason, almost a third of homeschool parents cited religion as their primary reason for taking their kids out of public schools.
Would the results of a survey by the DOE showing the "most important reasons" parents homeschooled their kids be better?
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/homeschool/FigureDisplay.asp?FigurePath=images/figure_2.gif
Even assuming that religious reasons were not at all related to their decision, almost a third of homeschool parents cited religion as their primary reason for taking their kids out of public schools.
Not all homeschoolers are teaching racial bias or inaccurate science. Not by far.
Mmm. Yeah. Pretty much "by far".
http://www.google.com/search?q=homeschooling+materials
Man, that post is definitely going to be read aloud at the trial.
The only stipulation here is that the kids are taught in a classroom setting by certified teachers according to a strict curriculum. Any additional schooling a parent might want to do can be done before or after school and on weekends.
Parents have plenty of rights, but the right to destroy their kid's future by teaching them anti-science and borderline racist interpretations of history ought not be one. We have whole states here in the US that are filled with nincompoops because of homeschooling. Homeschooling begets more homeschooling in an endless cycle. When you try to push morals and religion into education you end up with none of the above.
In terms of a general purpose device, the iPad comes nowhere close. However, like the Sharp Netwalker, it purports to be a general purpose device or at least a PC companion device. This means that some modicum of compatibility and interoperability. This usually means that users will be able to load software of their own choosing, even so far as loading software of their own making.
However if this device is a closed system and requires purchase from an "app store" to enable desired functionality, then we are talking about something far removed from a general computing device. To this end, it is important to realize that Smartbooks have been around for a couple years in various forms (ARM/x86, Win/Lin) and that these existing devices are actually open for development.
Software Freedom isn't only about free software. It is also about being able to use and extend computing devices as a primary freedom.
You may carp on how the FSF demands software freedom at the expense of choice, but if freedom can only be preserved by removing choice, then that is how it must be achieved. Just as health insurance can only be enjoyed by those covered by it, it makes sense to require everyone to have it under penalty of law. Only in that way can we extend the benefits of universal coverage, though it may in some way require the forfeiture of some freedoms (the freedom to pay out of pocket).
If they really want to know how these conditions are presented, it's better that they send in a few investigators undercover and get it all on tape. That way they can cost the jobs of a few lowest-rung minimum wage idiots who are working their ass off for a couple percent commission.
At least they will catch someone. Maybe the FCC isn't familiar with the "exculpatory no". They will become very familiar with it asking the policy makers at these companies, though. So that's nice.
No, you're right. America is the Land of the Free(TM)! What was I thinking?
USA! USA! USA!
Aren't you implicitly trusting that the news you were presented by the American media during the Cold War wasn't designed to manipulate your opinions of the Soviet government?
Consider how today's American media presents the Chinese government. Who is it actually being mind-controlled?
I can not recall a single coup except of revolutions of 1905 and 1917
Shouldn't you be gumming your yogurt, grandpa?
I think we can all agree that censorship is a bad thing, but how far should such social responsibility reach? Should companies be concerned about social responsibility in countries which are not their own? Should they help criminals violate the laws of their own countries? Is aiding and abetting in the name of freedom something that companies should really be doing?
Take for example Bob Barker, a major donor to the Sea Shepherds. The Sea Shepherds practice terrorism on the high seas in an effort to eliminate practices which they see as abhorrent, namely whaling and drag net trawling. Barker, with his name and money, support these actions which are in violation of international law. Likewise, New Zealand and Australia also provide shelter for the group by refusing to prosecute them for illegal actions taken in their waters. These supporters and harborers of the terrorist organization are just as responsible as the terrorist organization itself.
However, it would be somewhat odd if a completely unrelated country like, say, Armenia got involved and tried to sink the Sea Shepherd's ships or arrested Bob Barker for international terrorism. It's just not their problem.
Aha! Spyker!
Should it be any surprise that unmoderated software could introduce security vulnerabilities? All a CPU does is execute instructions, so "jailbreaking" a phone just gives you the opportunity to run more software which may contain malicious payloads.
When 20/20 took a look at dangerous "exploding" trucks, it was found that if you put a small amount of explosive near the crash area, that you could indeed cause a truck to explode in an accident. But does that mean that the truck company should be found at fault for a usage scenario that is not supported?
Analyze the security of this phone in terms of its default use. It burns up (literally), it causes network packet flooding, and does a bunch of other unwanted things, but don't blame it for something that its users do in direct violation of their TOS.