Ugh really? Last stats I saw were as I posted, 50% in the last 5 years... is it really that high? Do you have a citation for that?
I mean, I totally believe it, its not hard to look at the cost of some minor medical procedures (or what my 5 day stay for pneumonia was billed to the insurance) and say that bumping that up to critical care situations with a dieing patients.... I can see how that would add up astronomically very quickly.... but wow.
I posted about this recently but... some friends of mine almost found out about this the hard way.
Through various circumstances, they came to have someone living in a primitive hut on their land. It was actually their hut, and they had given him permission to stay there. He helped out with the animals, and it was an amicable arrangement.
One day it was noticed that he hadn't fed the animals, but he had said he was going to be busy the night before, so they figured he had just been up late...and didn't check on him until later. When they found him, he was barely alive, dieing of what appeared to be an intentional overdose.
The police and paramedics came out, making annoyed comments about having to trudge so far into the woods. They got there to find him still barely alive, and informed my friends that they were very lucky... had they gotten there after he died... it would have meant autopsies and investigations...because finding a body is not the same as finding a dieing person.
Which is all the more reason to allow this sort of thing to be properly taken care of and documented, so there is never any question of "whodunnit".
My issue witht he Death Penalty has more to do with a lack of faith in the process and a belief that its generally not needed.
I have heard a number of interviews with death row inmates who were teenagers when they commited their crimes. Say what you want about making it fast, 20 years later, many of these people sound in interviews don't sound like the dangerous violent teenagers that were locked up so many years ago.
In the end, I am sure there are some cases where a person is not going to rehabilitate, where the best answer may, in fact, be their permenant removal from society. As far as I can tell, these cases are far more rare than executions.
Aside from that... many have been exhonerated posthumously, or have recieved such harsh punishment for crimes others got light sentances on, with seemingly little consistency.
Overall, I doubt the usefulness of the entire policy.
Not only that but.... standard issues apply. Even if you can get heroin, how much will kill you? You don't even know the purity. This is before we have to consider that you may not be able to prepare it, as several people have pointed out... these are often people confined to bed. You think it may be hard to obtain, try finding a dealer who will deliver to the hospital, then mixing it up, and injecting it.... each step of which, many patients will be unable to do.
Also, what kills one may not kill another. For as many (its actually few believe it or not, overdoses are rather uncommon, a few thousand a year accross the whole country... they seem bad because they are so tragic, but, rare) as OD, there are many more who take the same dose and live.
This is why its best to let a professional handle the operation. Put in safegaurds, put in documentation steps, require witnesses, whatever it takes but....let the doctors do it.
Yes and no. Most people are not medical experts and, shouldn't have to become so just to die with some dignity.
The thing is, what kills one person may not kill another and most things that you can eaisly get your hands on, and even most prescriptions, are within dosage ranges that are quite safe. Yes, you can kill yourself many ways, but, many of those ways are less effective than you might think.
I personally knew a guy who tried to off himself with barbituates. He failed, woke up several days later. This is actually fairly common with that route.
Also many terminally ill patients are in no condition to do that research and administer the drugs without help.
Which is why, I think we really need the second... Doctors able to help.
I plan to vote for this one. I have worked among the medical community (at MGH no less), I have been there when my family had to have stern words with doctors who somehow interpreted our grandfather's DNR order as "Recessitate and put on a ventilator".
This is such an important issue for so many reasons. So many people in ongoing pain that don't need to be, so many families that need to move on. I hate to bring it to money but.... 50% of health care costs are spent in the last 5 years of life.....and for what? The fact that so many doctors opt to not have chemo and opt to die rather than hang on like so many of their patients are made to should say something.
Don't get me wrong, if someone wants to fight to the biter end, and get as many waking moments as possible, regardless of their quality, more power to them. However, what compassion is there in forcing people to go on living who have nothing to look forward to except deterioration in a bed?
I honestly think Bill Hicks described the situation best in his comical suggestion that we use terminally ill people as stunt doubles in action films. "Do you want your grandmother to die in a sterile hospital bed, he translucent skin so thin you can see the last beat of her heart, or do you want her to meet Chuck Norris?.... wow Chuck just kicked her head clear off, my grandma is no longer in pain...this is the best movie ever!"
I always assumed something like this was the case, but, never really looked into it.
The whole "dvorak superiority" thing always seemed to be based on little to nothing. I mean... I learned the same ABC song as most everyone else.... but the order of letters hardly matters really, its just a memorization tool, and, of course, it helps make sure the list is correct when every student writes the letters in the same order.
Sure letters are used with different frequencies, so in a given language different letters have different frequencies of use... so it makes sense that some orderings for typing may be better than others for that reason.... but... letter frequencies and position within the alphabet are totally unrelated (or else we would start with E)
I mean yes, it may help in slightly decreasing the amount of time it takes to learn to touch type, but, thats a pretty minor benefit. How much of a difference would learning to tie your shoes with a few minutes less effort be, over the course of your life? You do a lot more typing than learning to type and in the end...any layout is just something you will memorize.
I would be shocked if any benefit from the letter order thats not based on (or happens to satisfy) placing frequently used letters in places advantageous to their quick use (as was mentioned... putting frequently used keys farther apapart may increase speed due to encouraging hand alternation)
You clearly know so much of the intimate details of his life from these few actions, I didn't know one could infer so much.
Couple of things though.... could you please explain what a "debasing" sex life is? What was "debased"? Also, what is a healthy one? What are you basing these judgements on?
Clearly he was in no danger of disease, thats pretty healthy.
Sounds to me like you have some need to see porn watching as bad and unhealthy...and are likely projecting your own faults on to others. (much like the homophobes who get rock hard watching gay porn)
There was some old jew in the midwest (I think) that built his own secret bomb shelter under his house. Did it himself, dug it, poured concrete, complete with blast doors, ventilation, multiple rooms.
It took him many years, and as I remember the pictures of him, he was jacked. Of course, he should be after all that digging and hauling.
In any case, you will need more than a pick axe, you will need materials to build structures and a lot of time....and some place to move the dirt....
So this guy supposedly accessed a story WHILE the jury was in deliberations? One would think, that were this person on the Jury, one of the other jurors would have witnessed this?
Nothing about the comment even hints that a juror or someone with knwoledge of the specific case said it. This seems like grasping at straws to me.
Thanks for posting that, as I was reading comments I clearly remembered reading studies on dog based detection and particularly the ones talked about here (lol only 21 of 144 walkthroughs successfully detected nothing, with the rest generating an average of around 2 false positives per search!)
These numbers say to me that these dogs are little more than props which give excuses. A sort of dowsing rod for drugs.
"With Iran taking to cyberspace and drones, it shows such technology is not just under the control of the U.S."
Well....lets see....
Remote controlled devices.... Air planes. rockets explosives guidance systems for rockets....
No shit sherlock. Since the very existence of each of these technologies, with, potentially the limited and short term exception of "air planes" right after their invention, the US has NEVER held exclusive control of any of them.
It should be no shock whatsoever that these technologies can be combined by others.
Its funny, I was talking with an Iranian friend about our foriegn policy and Iran. He isn't someone you would EVER expect to talk about fondness for teh Ayatolla (he isn't even really a muslim as far as I can tell).... but he does. I finally hit on why: I pointed out that if the US were smart, and really disliked the people in power in Iran, they would stop opposing them, and lift all sanctions, and let the Iranian people take care of the problem.... and he lit up....
"You know you are right, I hate those towel heads (yes, he, a born and raised Iranian called them towel heads), I hate having to support them, but when all I hear, day after day, is 'War with Iran' and 'More sanctions' that hurt my people, it pisses me off".
As for convictions, very few. Based first on my small amount of exposure to trial related forsensics, lawyers are nowhere near so familiar with technology that I am willing to believe that this type of technological point comes up that often.
Beyond that though, very few cases ever actually go to trial, mostly because the past few decades have seen the "justice" system ramp up its program of making sure that the list of charges that you are threatened with if you don't take a plea deal is so large, that even innocent people have quite a lot of incentive to just plead guilty rather than risk losing the lawsuit.
Of course, right now my own state is going over the debacle caused by an unscrupulous state chemist who is alleged to have tampered with drug samples and never have held the proper qualifications for her job, meaning now the courts are hearing thousands of motions to vacate guilty pleas of people who made their plea based on being confronted with evidence that she processed.
I am no lawyer, but, I would think that such an argument would could at least be made under circumstances where it can be argued that an email was an important factor.
I don't see how this is even relevant. its clearly the getting in the motor vehicle while impaired that is the issue, not the ingestion of the substance.
That some people do stupid things doesn't justify the collective punishment of every person, preemptively.
The real question is, when is it ethical to stop consenting adults from putting something into their own body? I don't think so. A person's body is his own, he must live with whatever it does or whatever its lack doesn't do.
I am not talking about children, or the mentally retarded of course, those are other matters, but in general, if a person is taking it thesmself, based on their own (however limited) knowledge, then I see no ethical issue.
well I don't know how it works for the Dutch, but I know we solved that problem YEARS ago here. Its quite simple, they will have some manner of immunity so that even if they had no concievable reason to think they were in the right, there will still be no consequences.
Oh...wait thats not true, they might get paid time off until the heat dies down.
Actually I said its probably not a major obstacle.... you are ignoring the fact that most people eat foods from the same sources.... so all you are doing is pointing out more factors which will be part of the baseline.
The whole question here is really, can we use local factors against such a baseline to infer where a person has traveled. It looks to me like more of a signal to noise ratio issue. To which your points look more like something that would induce bias than noise.
Admittedly there could be quite a lot of noise and this could, in fact, be infeasible. However, I don't see the composition of the food which everyone is eating, being a major obstacle.
Thanks for the input. Actually, after I commented, last night I solved my last show-stopper with wheezy...encrypted home directories. Turns out I mistakenly thought that Ubuntu used encfs and I was looking to set that up.... I never realised that the ecryptfs package existed.... turns out to have been quite easy.
So it looks like, for now anyway, I will be back on Mother Debian for a while.
In other words, the entire world just found out the The Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London has failed to teach Tim Fox the most basic of science.
ie. Burning Petrol is exothermic. Turning the products of combustion back into petrol much therefore be endothermic, ie. it needs energy from somewhere.
And where do his words express a violation of this? Why do you assume that there has to be "free energy" for him to be excited. Try this on for size.... combustion is a carbon releasing process. It extracts energy from the bonds between atoms in hydrocarbons, releasing simpler carbon compounds, like CO2.
ie Turning CO2 in the air back into hydrocarbons.... sequesters CO2 from the atmosphere. Burning those hyrdocarbons then, is a carbon neutral process itself, leaving the energy generation as "loose end", and if it can be run from solar, geothermal, wind, or other renewable resource, and if it can be feasibly done on a large enough scale, could be a big win.
None of this obviates the need for portable power. Why do you think we should embrace all these other technologies to generate power, but, not look to many technologies to store it? Are batteries to be the be all and end all of energy storage?
Nice, I actually like Unity when I first used it. I like my GNOME2 interface alot, but I was willing to give it a try and, I liked it...or at least things about it.
That said, I also had issues with it, that made it somewhat useless for me (I often have 2 firefox sessions going with different profiles, it had no mechanism to deal with that, as the dock icon for firefox could only track one of them, and I couldn't have 2 that each tracked a seperate one... there were other issues, but I don't recall now what they were)
Anyway, I recently, in anticipation of this, installed Debian on my new desktop...with the full intention of using stable, which lasted 3 days before I upgraded to wheezy to get working sound on the new hardware.
Now I am using GNOME3....and while its very very similar to the Unity I used a year or so ago, but, seems to work a lot better.
The main thing I really miss now is encrypted home dirs via encfs and pam automount out of the box. I have been looking into how to convert the Debian box, but, haven't done it yet.
So have you (or anyone) tried gnome3 instead of unity on Ubuntu? Maybe I will switch back for now?
> But the statement. " Occasionally they blame the FDA saying they certified it on the OS version its > on (we often questioned whether that held water)." is wrong in my experience. I found that they said > this 98% of the time. Not true but my management did not want to argue with them.
Well... my management didn't (at least not where we could see it) question it, but we, the engineers, did. When i left, they were still getting their way.... the one I had specifically in mind, the most eggregious offender, was....well... the version of the linux distro on it was, no exageration, a decade old.
Even better, it wasn't built by us, and yet, they still got us, despite all that, to accept responsibility for supporting it.
actually.... bitcoins are a commodity not a currency. They are fast enough and easy enough to transport that they can act as a currency.
They really make more sense as a commodity than currency which, isn't a bad thing, savings in terms of commodities makes sense. Currency makes a terrible savings instrument in that its value tends to go down via inflation. This is a good thing, basically for the reasons stated in above posts... because you don't want hoarding of currency, it slows the economy.
Frankly, I like bitcoins but, not as a be all and end all of currency. They make sense in a larger economy of financial instruments.
A) As pointed out, many veggies do travel due to seasons B) Water content of veggies is unlikely to be a significant portion of the water you ingest C) Likely most people in your area eat vegetables from the same variety of sources that you do, so its concievable that this factor would not be a significant obstacle and may even factor into any such profile.
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Ugh really? Last stats I saw were as I posted, 50% in the last 5 years... is it really that high? Do you have a citation for that?
I mean, I totally believe it, its not hard to look at the cost of some minor medical procedures (or what my 5 day stay for pneumonia was billed to the insurance) and say that bumping that up to critical care situations with a dieing patients.... I can see how that would add up astronomically very quickly.... but wow.
Nope, if its actually random then its not enciphered either.
I posted about this recently but... some friends of mine almost found out about this the hard way.
Through various circumstances, they came to have someone living in a primitive hut on their land. It was actually their hut, and they had given him permission to stay there. He helped out with the animals, and it was an amicable arrangement.
One day it was noticed that he hadn't fed the animals, but he had said he was going to be busy the night before, so they figured he had just been up late...and didn't check on him until later. When they found him, he was barely alive, dieing of what appeared to be an intentional overdose.
The police and paramedics came out, making annoyed comments about having to trudge so far into the woods. They got there to find him still barely alive, and informed my friends that they were very lucky... had they gotten there after he died... it would have meant autopsies and investigations...because finding a body is not the same as finding a dieing person.
Which is all the more reason to allow this sort of thing to be properly taken care of and documented, so there is never any question of "whodunnit".
My issue witht he Death Penalty has more to do with a lack of faith in the process and a belief that its generally not needed.
I have heard a number of interviews with death row inmates who were teenagers when they commited their crimes. Say what you want about making it fast, 20 years later, many of these people sound in interviews don't sound like the dangerous violent teenagers that were locked up so many years ago.
In the end, I am sure there are some cases where a person is not going to rehabilitate, where the best answer may, in fact, be their permenant removal from society. As far as I can tell, these cases are far more rare than executions.
Aside from that... many have been exhonerated posthumously, or have recieved such harsh punishment for crimes others got light sentances on, with seemingly little consistency.
Overall, I doubt the usefulness of the entire policy.
Not only that but.... standard issues apply. Even if you can get heroin, how much will kill you? You don't even know the purity. This is before we have to consider that you may not be able to prepare it, as several people have pointed out... these are often people confined to bed. You think it may be hard to obtain, try finding a dealer who will deliver to the hospital, then mixing it up, and injecting it.... each step of which, many patients will be unable to do.
Also, what kills one may not kill another. For as many (its actually few believe it or not, overdoses are rather uncommon, a few thousand a year accross the whole country... they seem bad because they are so tragic, but, rare) as OD, there are many more who take the same dose and live.
This is why its best to let a professional handle the operation. Put in safegaurds, put in documentation steps, require witnesses, whatever it takes but....let the doctors do it.
Yes and no. Most people are not medical experts and, shouldn't have to become so just to die with some dignity.
The thing is, what kills one person may not kill another and most things that you can eaisly get your hands on, and even most prescriptions, are within dosage ranges that are quite safe. Yes, you can kill yourself many ways, but, many of those ways are less effective than you might think.
I personally knew a guy who tried to off himself with barbituates. He failed, woke up several days later. This is actually fairly common with that route.
Also many terminally ill patients are in no condition to do that research and administer the drugs without help.
Which is why, I think we really need the second... Doctors able to help.
I plan to vote for this one. I have worked among the medical community (at MGH no less), I have been there when my family had to have stern words with doctors who somehow interpreted our grandfather's DNR order as "Recessitate and put on a ventilator".
This is such an important issue for so many reasons. So many people in ongoing pain that don't need to be, so many families that need to move on. I hate to bring it to money but.... 50% of health care costs are spent in the last 5 years of life.....and for what? The fact that so many doctors opt to not have chemo and opt to die rather than hang on like so many of their patients are made to should say something.
Don't get me wrong, if someone wants to fight to the biter end, and get as many waking moments as possible, regardless of their quality, more power to them. However, what compassion is there in forcing people to go on living who have nothing to look forward to except deterioration in a bed?
I honestly think Bill Hicks described the situation best in his comical suggestion that we use terminally ill people as stunt doubles in action films. "Do you want your grandmother to die in a sterile hospital bed, he translucent skin so thin you can see the last beat of her heart, or do you want her to meet Chuck Norris?.... wow Chuck just kicked her head clear off, my grandma is no longer in pain...this is the best movie ever!"
Having used a PC at a cybercaffee in France, I can attest to the truth of this statement.
They do not use the qwerty keyboard that I know and love.
I always assumed something like this was the case, but, never really looked into it.
The whole "dvorak superiority" thing always seemed to be based on little to nothing. I mean... I learned the same ABC song as most everyone else.... but the order of letters hardly matters really, its just a memorization tool, and, of course, it helps make sure the list is correct when every student writes the letters in the same order.
Sure letters are used with different frequencies, so in a given language different letters have different frequencies of use... so it makes sense that some orderings for typing may be better than others for that reason.... but... letter frequencies and position within the alphabet are totally unrelated (or else we would start with E)
I mean yes, it may help in slightly decreasing the amount of time it takes to learn to touch type, but, thats a pretty minor benefit. How much of a difference would learning to tie your shoes with a few minutes less effort be, over the course of your life? You do a lot more typing than learning to type and in the end...any layout is just something you will memorize.
I would be shocked if any benefit from the letter order thats not based on (or happens to satisfy) placing frequently used letters in places advantageous to their quick use (as was mentioned... putting frequently used keys farther apapart may increase speed due to encouraging hand alternation)
You clearly know so much of the intimate details of his life from these few actions, I didn't know one could infer so much.
Couple of things though.... could you please explain what a "debasing" sex life is? What was "debased"? Also, what is a healthy one? What are you basing these judgements on?
Clearly he was in no danger of disease, thats pretty healthy.
Sounds to me like you have some need to see porn watching as bad and unhealthy...and are likely projecting your own faults on to others. (much like the homophobes who get rock hard watching gay porn)
> Want to expand? Get a pickaxe
There was some old jew in the midwest (I think) that built his own secret bomb shelter under his house. Did it himself, dug it, poured concrete, complete with blast doors, ventilation, multiple rooms.
It took him many years, and as I remember the pictures of him, he was jacked. Of course, he should be after all that digging and hauling.
In any case, you will need more than a pick axe, you will need materials to build structures and a lot of time....and some place to move the dirt....
So this guy supposedly accessed a story WHILE the jury was in deliberations? One would think, that were this person on the Jury, one of the other jurors would have witnessed this?
Nothing about the comment even hints that a juror or someone with knwoledge of the specific case said it. This seems like grasping at straws to me.
Thanks for posting that, as I was reading comments I clearly remembered reading studies on dog based detection and particularly the ones talked about here (lol only 21 of 144 walkthroughs successfully detected nothing, with the rest generating an average of around 2 false positives per search!)
These numbers say to me that these dogs are little more than props which give excuses. A sort of dowsing rod for drugs.
"With Iran taking to cyberspace and drones, it shows such technology is not just under the control of the U.S."
Well....lets see....
Remote controlled devices....
Air planes.
rockets
explosives
guidance systems for rockets....
No shit sherlock. Since the very existence of each of these technologies, with, potentially the limited and short term exception of "air planes" right after their invention, the US has NEVER held exclusive control of any of them.
It should be no shock whatsoever that these technologies can be combined by others.
Its funny, I was talking with an Iranian friend about our foriegn policy and Iran. He isn't someone you would EVER expect to talk about fondness for teh Ayatolla (he isn't even really a muslim as far as I can tell).... but he does. I finally hit on why: I pointed out that if the US were smart, and really disliked the people in power in Iran, they would stop opposing them, and lift all sanctions, and let the Iranian people take care of the problem.... and he lit up....
"You know you are right, I hate those towel heads (yes, he, a born and raised Iranian called them towel heads), I hate having to support them, but when all I hear, day after day, is 'War with Iran' and 'More sanctions' that hurt my people, it pisses me off".
No shit, I would feel the same way.
As for convictions, very few. Based first on my small amount of exposure to trial related forsensics, lawyers are nowhere near so familiar with technology that I am willing to believe that this type of technological point comes up that often.
Beyond that though, very few cases ever actually go to trial, mostly because the past few decades have seen the "justice" system ramp up its program of making sure that the list of charges that you are threatened with if you don't take a plea deal is so large, that even innocent people have quite a lot of incentive to just plead guilty rather than risk losing the lawsuit.
Of course, right now my own state is going over the debacle caused by an unscrupulous state chemist who is alleged to have tampered with drug samples and never have held the proper qualifications for her job, meaning now the courts are hearing thousands of motions to vacate guilty pleas of people who made their plea based on being confronted with evidence that she processed.
I am no lawyer, but, I would think that such an argument would could at least be made under circumstances where it can be argued that an email was an important factor.
I don't see how this is even relevant. its clearly the getting in the motor vehicle while impaired that is the issue, not the ingestion of the substance.
That some people do stupid things doesn't justify the collective punishment of every person, preemptively.
The real question is, when is it ethical to stop consenting adults from putting something into their own body? I don't think so. A person's body is his own, he must live with whatever it does or whatever its lack doesn't do.
I am not talking about children, or the mentally retarded of course, those are other matters, but in general, if a person is taking it thesmself, based on their own (however limited) knowledge, then I see no ethical issue.
well I don't know how it works for the Dutch, but I know we solved that problem YEARS ago here. Its quite simple, they will have some manner of immunity so that even if they had no concievable reason to think they were in the right, there will still be no consequences.
Oh...wait thats not true, they might get paid time off until the heat dies down.
Actually I said its probably not a major obstacle.... you are ignoring the fact that most people eat foods from the same sources.... so all you are doing is pointing out more factors which will be part of the baseline.
The whole question here is really, can we use local factors against such a baseline to infer where a person has traveled. It looks to me like more of a signal to noise ratio issue. To which your points look more like something that would induce bias than noise.
Admittedly there could be quite a lot of noise and this could, in fact, be infeasible. However, I don't see the composition of the food which everyone is eating, being a major obstacle.
Thanks for the input. Actually, after I commented, last night I solved my last show-stopper with wheezy...encrypted home directories. Turns out I mistakenly thought that Ubuntu used encfs and I was looking to set that up.... I never realised that the ecryptfs package existed.... turns out to have been quite easy.
So it looks like, for now anyway, I will be back on Mother Debian for a while.
And where do his words express a violation of this? Why do you assume that there has to be "free energy" for him to be excited. Try this on for size.... combustion is a carbon releasing process. It extracts energy from the bonds between atoms in hydrocarbons, releasing simpler carbon compounds, like CO2.
ie Turning CO2 in the air back into hydrocarbons.... sequesters CO2 from the atmosphere. Burning those hyrdocarbons then, is a carbon neutral process itself, leaving the energy generation as "loose end", and if it can be run from solar, geothermal, wind, or other renewable resource, and if it can be feasibly done on a large enough scale, could be a big win.
Embrace the power of AND.
None of this obviates the need for portable power. Why do you think we should embrace all these other technologies to generate power, but, not look to many technologies to store it? Are batteries to be the be all and end all of energy storage?
Why not do this too?
Nice, I actually like Unity when I first used it. I like my GNOME2 interface alot, but I was willing to give it a try and, I liked it...or at least things about it.
That said, I also had issues with it, that made it somewhat useless for me (I often have 2 firefox sessions going with different profiles, it had no mechanism to deal with that, as the dock icon for firefox could only track one of them, and I couldn't have 2 that each tracked a seperate one... there were other issues, but I don't recall now what they were)
Anyway, I recently, in anticipation of this, installed Debian on my new desktop...with the full intention of using stable, which lasted 3 days before I upgraded to wheezy to get working sound on the new hardware.
Now I am using GNOME3....and while its very very similar to the Unity I used a year or so ago, but, seems to work a lot better.
The main thing I really miss now is encrypted home dirs via encfs and pam automount out of the box. I have been looking into how to convert the Debian box, but, haven't done it yet.
So have you (or anyone) tried gnome3 instead of unity on Ubuntu? Maybe I will switch back for now?
> But the statement. " Occasionally they blame the FDA saying they certified it on the OS version its
> on (we often questioned whether that held water)." is wrong in my experience. I found that they said
> this 98% of the time. Not true but my management did not want to argue with them.
Well... my management didn't (at least not where we could see it) question it, but we, the engineers, did. When i left, they were still getting their way.... the one I had specifically in mind, the most eggregious offender, was....well... the version of the linux distro on it was, no exageration, a decade old.
Even better, it wasn't built by us, and yet, they still got us, despite all that, to accept responsibility for supporting it.
actually.... bitcoins are a commodity not a currency. They are fast enough and easy enough to transport that they can act as a currency.
They really make more sense as a commodity than currency which, isn't a bad thing, savings in terms of commodities makes sense. Currency makes a terrible savings instrument in that its value tends to go down via inflation. This is a good thing, basically for the reasons stated in above posts... because you don't want hoarding of currency, it slows the economy.
Frankly, I like bitcoins but, not as a be all and end all of currency. They make sense in a larger economy of financial instruments.
No but...
A) As pointed out, many veggies do travel due to seasons
B) Water content of veggies is unlikely to be a significant portion of the water you ingest
C) Likely most people in your area eat vegetables from the same variety of sources that you do, so its concievable that this factor would not be a significant obstacle and may even factor into any such profile.