Their reasoning is taking the root vegetable kills the plant. Theoretically the foods they eat can be harvested without killing the plant. I am not a Jain, I eat root vegetables. I am merely an lacto-vegetarian. I don't have any moral reason for being one. It is just that my parents believe it is a sin to eat meat. It makes them happy that I continue their tradition. I will follow it and do all the rituals expected of me, as long as it does not require me to something I find morally objectionable (like hating someone from another caste or tell lies or practice nepotism at work). Meat and wine are such small things to sacrifice to make people you love happy.
These animals you see grazing are the breeding stock, not dairy nor beef cattle. They are never slaughtered. It is their calves that end up in the feedlots. Most dairy cows do not graze either because they are bred to the point where their udders drag on the ground, the animals step on their own udders and rent them asunder.
USA has 100 million cows. The turn over is around 50%. That is 50 million cows are slaughtered for beef every year. Your anecdotal observation of the cows you have seen grazing, do you really think it would add up to 50 million?
Dairy depends on what their position is... if it's about people not keeping animals, then you're right, if it's simply about not KILLING animals, than dairy should be fine.
If killing life is wrong then consuming root vegetables would be wrong too. No more potatoes, onions, garlic, carrots... Any plant that is killed by harvesting the fruit would be proscribed too.
Believe it or not, there is a group that believes so. The Jains (mostly from the Gujarat in India) do not eat root vegetables either. Their monks are considered to be the most non-violent people on earth. You probably have met them. Many Patels who motels/hotels convenience stores in the USA belong to Jainism.
The movie is titled . Soylent Green . Charlton Heston played the lead. It is a whodunnit set in future where the Earth has completely exhausted resources and the government is distributing the soylent red and soylent green wafers, ostensibly derived from sea weed. Shocking revelation is that oceans have turned caustic and they do not support life. Then where do these wafers come from? Charlton finds out, but could not escape the goons chasing him. He just manages to deliver one short message to others, "Soylent.... Green... is.... people".
This isn't due to any flaw in democracy; it has nothing at all to do with democracy.
Au contraire, it has everything to do with the most fundamental premised of Democracy. The greatest enemy of Democracy is, apathy. Not communisim. Not terrorism of Wahhabis and Quereshis[*]. Not even the reasoned argument, "there is nothing to stop people from voting themselves benefits they call ill afford and refuse to pay for it. The debt will accumulate and destroy the system from within". No sir. Once people lose interest in the functioning of the government, stop paying attention, stop trying to separate the misinformation from the correct information, once people are deluded enough to believe in policy statements that fit into a bumper sticker or a 30 second sound bit, that would be the time Democracy stops working for the people.
It is far easier to steal a penny from million people than to steal $10000 from one person. Every dollar wasted by the government is an ill-gotten undeserved revenue for someone. That someone will fight tooth and nail to continue the waste. Those will engage in all sorts of misinformation campaigns. If people are not vigilant they will lose. If people don't see that they lose something when fair use is constrained, when ??AA engage in legal extortion etc, the people will lose it.
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[*] We should avoid using overly broad terms like Islamic Terrorism, or Jihadism. Such terms unify Muslims against external threats, and using the same terms plays into the hands of the terrorists. Use the minimal group label to tie terrorism to a smaller group. There is no point in antagonizing a larger group than necessary.
Other than the gimmick of being a unicycle, I don't see any advantage of this over a regular motor-bicycle. Big thick tires and a handle bar and lights.
If instead of having a solid circular wheel, if the wheel had some variable geometry, (like the spokes were really linkages that could shrink or expand, if the spokes could be configured to create a notch some six inches deep) that be used to climb stairs, and once you reach the next level, the wheel becomes circular again, and you could roll along, then you are talking about something.
The advanced civilizations build intergalactic highway, (always after posting all due notices on the underside of suitable filing cabinets in a dark basement guarded by leopards) not garages. Epic fail.
This clearly proves that Taco Bell seven-layer-burrito is more ancient than our galaxy. Where else could that pristine gas could have come from, I ask.
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Essentially the corporation will be broken into divisions and sold off in pieces. Most of the actual productive jobs will remain. We have quite good knowledge, experience and track record of breaking companies into smaller pieces. In the long run, the competition creates more jobs and more vibrant economy. When AT&T was broken up by court order, and before the baby bells re-agglomerated into Verizon, we had a nice trajectory of falling prices and improved services.
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When we execute a human being, we pay the restitution out of the condemned prisoner's estate. Anything remaining goes to the legal heirs. Same way the shareholders are the legal heirs to the corporations assets. Let them get back anything that remains after paying the restitution.
No point in alienating mutual funds and individual investors in this war. Often it is the small investor who stands to lose a $1000 investment in a bank is the one who would be most seriously fighting back. The fat cat bankers will hide behind these small investors and use them canon fodder. First cut the most egregious bad boys away from the not-so-innocent but not-so-culpable group. That is where they hide. That is the sanctuary we should deny, and the escape route we should cut off before rounding up the fat cats.
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Also when a corporation is executed, all the internal contracts between the board and top executives on one hand and the corporations on the other would be null and void. Thus they don't get their golden parachutes.
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If corporations are people how can one impose death penalty and incarceration to them?
How about if a corporation is awarded death penalty, all its assets would be sold,the proceeds will be distributed to the shareholders, the corporations name, ticker symbols and other trade marks will be sequestered for ever?
It is far too easy to create corporations, compared to real human beings. Corporations do not require visa/green card/work permit/citizenship to work and profit inside the USA. So we can apply the lower standard of "preponderance evidence" to award death penalty to them, not the stricter "beyond reasonable doubt".
Any corporation that is too big to fail, is too dangerous to exist. They should be executed. We bailed out the financial institutions. They technically are living due to our mercy.
Let us break up any bank that has more than 10% market share in retail banking. Any investment bank that has more than 10% market share. And reinstate Glass-Stegall act. Let us do it peacefully when we still can do it in an orderly manner. Else someday roving mobs will be pulling out chairman of Goldman Sachs hiding in sewer pipes.
You know the standard console games, the dedicated gamers, people who plunk down $2000 on a cool looking case for the PC, constantly looking for more graphics card performance, immersive gaming experience... And these dev managers kept giving them what they want. Then Wii shows up with rudimentary graphics, trivial gaming strategies, but with a new user interface. Rocks the world and kicks the pants off the traditional gaming platform. Then this angry birds. Seemingly trivial game that a self-described "gamer" would not even deign to take a second look at, and it is played by more people than the population of China! Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can explain it. You deconstruct it. You can do Monday morning quarterbacking and make a cogent theory that describes it well, may be even accurately. But, there were professional software development managers. Working for XBox, and Sony Playstations, constantly looking for new ideas, new games, new strategies, new ways to expand their marketplace... All of them flunked. They did not see Wii coming. They did not see the Angry Birds coming. Why?
The prow of the Starship Enterprise is definitely not cube shaped. Anyway we can't see past its anti-photon invisibility shield. What you detect is just the shape of the shield, not the spacecraft hidden from you. This is merely the recon mission. To asses our military technology and our ability to retaliate. The overlords will be appearing over the horizon in 2016 Jul 30. They are currently in the process of setting up a Forward Operating Base on the other side of the Moon. Don't say I did not warn you.
The new radar image looks like the bald scalp and the eyes of Phantom, the Ghost who walks. (Walker when he comes out of the African Jungles on missions). Indrajal Comics used to reprint them in India. Wonder if he was as popular in USA/Europe. Wondering how I never even noticed the racial overtones when I was young.
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Yup, the plumber wants a monkey wrench. The sys-admin wants a screw driver. The surgeon wants a scalpel. So the hospital management orders three swiss army knives. Same old story.
They never learn.
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Back in the 60s Robert McNamara pushed a "joint" fighter common to both Air Force and the Navy. Bean counter at heart, wanted to take advantages of economy of scale, synergy and the other buzzword bingo terms.
Both sides hated it. Both Air Force and Navy worked hard to sabotage the project from get go. Navy insisted on side-by-side two seater fighter configuration, citing "visibility concerns on deck landings". Army insisted on ejection pod instead of ejection seats. And super sonic speed too. And maneuverability for deck landings too. By the time they got the specs done they got a "fighter" with thrust-to-weight ratio of some 0.5 or something, with barely better rate of climb and turn radius compared to even second world was fighters. The F111 Thunder Chief was a disaster even before it reached the drawing boards, it was a shame a plane with that kind of specs was given the F designation. F there definitely did not stand for Fighter. After sinking this, Navy got its way and got F-14 Tomcat and Air Force got its way and got F18 Eagle.
That should have been an object lesson to any bean counter trying shoehorn specs from multiple services into a single air-frame. But they never learn, do they?
This whole business of filing law suits and waiting for the courts to act etc is taking too much of time. RIAA just wants to let loose a few people with some stout leather belts to punish anyone caught downloading illegal songs. They seem to have acquired some training materials from the YouTube. Not sure if they downloaded that video legally.
I have seen stupid units like "libraries of congress" instead of kB or number of football fields instead of yards or meters, number of buckets instead of gallons.
But this takes the cake. Why the hell are they expressing correlation coefficient in percentages? It has always been represented as a rational number between -1 and +1. I know people are dropping out of engineering and science courses. Then they come up with their own units and scale for things with well known standard and commonly accepted practices.
Science and technology is doubly difficult for Indians (dot not feather). English is not their first language. All college level science and engineering is in English. Still they work hard to get it. Just today Thomas Friedman's column says, "India is the only country where there are bill boards advertising Physics Degrees". Why do they persevere? Because engineering degree is the ticket out of poverty. They have seen their own brothers, uncles, village mates, school mates who got engineering degree and prospered. So they work hard at it.
In U.S.A the engineering jobs do not pay well. If you are smart, really smart, top 1% smart, 2380 out of 2400 in SAT smart, would you choose engineering? We pay hedge fund managers, sales jocks, second and third tier attorneys, marketing personnel more money than engineers. They keep the engineering pay low by importing them wholesale from India and also from Taiwan and China.
is just one of many examples I could give you of the way BoA tries to rip off their customers.
And another one is in their credit card billing statements. The actual full payment amount is printed in inconspicuous small font. All sorts of smaller numbers, like the cash back earned, or page totals and such stuff will be printed in big bold letters very prominently. They are trying to trip up those who pay in full every month. I am sure one in hundred or one in two hundred customers send a check for the wrong amount and they get whacked with 20% interest for two billing cycles.
When they clear checks at the end of the day they will post the payments first with starting from largest to smallest. Then they will post deposits. The basic idea is if the customer has enough money to pay for 10 small checks or one big check, they want to pay that one big check and bounce 10 smaller ones because each bounced check triggers more fees.
Every store that accepts debit card is a de-facto ATM for all. When you buy something with a debit card with a PIN, the cashiers will routinely ask if you want cash back. Tell them how much you want to withdraw, they will add it to your bill and hand you cash. You don't have this option if you choose the "signature" option.
When you pay with PIN it is a debit card transaction, with a very low flat fee, capped at 22 cents or so. When you pay with signature it is a credit card transaction with 1% to 5% transaction fee.
China is complaining that it is not getting a fair share of the profits/prices. It claims more than 90% of the profits and 60% of the expenses happen outside China. Design jobs, liability insurance, warehousing, IP protection, software creation etc happen outside China. Only the brute manufacturing happens in India and China. (Surprised to learn Foxconn factory in my hometown in India is making the glass for all iPhones).
It actually strengthens your argument, "Apple could do more manufacturing in USA and still not have a huge impact on the cost of the product or bottom line". It probably will have more reliable protection of key technologies if made where trade secrets and manufacturing IP could be protected. But still it chooses to make it China.
This phonetic typo and visual typo is quite interesting. Many pronounce "went" without the 't' and the somehow the brain directs the fingers to type "when" because the user is thinking "wen". Many of my typos go to the other end. I have seen my finger type 2 when I meant Z or 0 when I mean O, even g when I meant 9. As we start typing faster and faster something is happening when typing becomes half-reflexive. Looks like the brain imagines a shape and directs the finger to the key that will produce that shape in the screen. Hey, Steven Pinker, analyze this.
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Their reasoning is taking the root vegetable kills the plant. Theoretically the foods they eat can be harvested without killing the plant. I am not a Jain, I eat root vegetables. I am merely an lacto-vegetarian. I don't have any moral reason for being one. It is just that my parents believe it is a sin to eat meat. It makes them happy that I continue their tradition. I will follow it and do all the rituals expected of me, as long as it does not require me to something I find morally objectionable (like hating someone from another caste or tell lies or practice nepotism at work). Meat and wine are such small things to sacrifice to make people you love happy.
USA has 100 million cows. The turn over is around 50%. That is 50 million cows are slaughtered for beef every year. Your anecdotal observation of the cows you have seen grazing, do you really think it would add up to 50 million?
Dairy depends on what their position is... if it's about people not keeping animals, then you're right, if it's simply about not KILLING animals, than dairy should be fine.
If killing life is wrong then consuming root vegetables would be wrong too. No more potatoes, onions, garlic, carrots... Any plant that is killed by harvesting the fruit would be proscribed too.
Believe it or not, there is a group that believes so. The Jains (mostly from the Gujarat in India) do not eat root vegetables either. Their monks are considered to be the most non-violent people on earth. You probably have met them. Many Patels who motels/hotels convenience stores in the USA belong to Jainism.
The movie is titled . Soylent Green . Charlton Heston played the lead. It is a whodunnit set in future where the Earth has completely exhausted resources and the government is distributing the soylent red and soylent green wafers, ostensibly derived from sea weed. Shocking revelation is that oceans have turned caustic and they do not support life. Then where do these wafers come from? Charlton finds out, but could not escape the goons chasing him. He just manages to deliver one short message to others, "Soylent.... Green... is.... people".
This isn't due to any flaw in democracy; it has nothing at all to do with democracy.
Au contraire, it has everything to do with the most fundamental premised of Democracy. The greatest enemy of Democracy is, apathy. Not communisim. Not terrorism of Wahhabis and Quereshis[*]. Not even the reasoned argument, "there is nothing to stop people from voting themselves benefits they call ill afford and refuse to pay for it. The debt will accumulate and destroy the system from within". No sir. Once people lose interest in the functioning of the government, stop paying attention, stop trying to separate the misinformation from the correct information, once people are deluded enough to believe in policy statements that fit into a bumper sticker or a 30 second sound bit, that would be the time Democracy stops working for the people.
It is far easier to steal a penny from million people than to steal $10000 from one person. Every dollar wasted by the government is an ill-gotten undeserved revenue for someone. That someone will fight tooth and nail to continue the waste. Those will engage in all sorts of misinformation campaigns. If people are not vigilant they will lose. If people don't see that they lose something when fair use is constrained, when ??AA engage in legal extortion etc, the people will lose it.
----- [*] We should avoid using overly broad terms like Islamic Terrorism, or Jihadism. Such terms unify Muslims against external threats, and using the same terms plays into the hands of the terrorists. Use the minimal group label to tie terrorism to a smaller group. There is no point in antagonizing a larger group than necessary.
If instead of having a solid circular wheel, if the wheel had some variable geometry, (like the spokes were really linkages that could shrink or expand, if the spokes could be configured to create a notch some six inches deep) that be used to climb stairs, and once you reach the next level, the wheel becomes circular again, and you could roll along, then you are talking about something.
The advanced civilizations build intergalactic highway, (always after posting all due notices on the underside of suitable filing cabinets in a dark basement guarded by leopards) not garages. Epic fail.
This clearly proves that Taco Bell seven-layer-burrito is more ancient than our galaxy. Where else could that pristine gas could have come from, I ask.
Essentially the corporation will be broken into divisions and sold off in pieces. Most of the actual productive jobs will remain. We have quite good knowledge, experience and track record of breaking companies into smaller pieces. In the long run, the competition creates more jobs and more vibrant economy. When AT&T was broken up by court order, and before the baby bells re-agglomerated into Verizon, we had a nice trajectory of falling prices and improved services.
No point in alienating mutual funds and individual investors in this war. Often it is the small investor who stands to lose a $1000 investment in a bank is the one who would be most seriously fighting back. The fat cat bankers will hide behind these small investors and use them canon fodder. First cut the most egregious bad boys away from the not-so-innocent but not-so-culpable group. That is where they hide. That is the sanctuary we should deny, and the escape route we should cut off before rounding up the fat cats.
Also when a corporation is executed, all the internal contracts between the board and top executives on one hand and the corporations on the other would be null and void. Thus they don't get their golden parachutes.
How about if a corporation is awarded death penalty, all its assets would be sold,the proceeds will be distributed to the shareholders, the corporations name, ticker symbols and other trade marks will be sequestered for ever?
It is far too easy to create corporations, compared to real human beings. Corporations do not require visa/green card/work permit/citizenship to work and profit inside the USA. So we can apply the lower standard of "preponderance evidence" to award death penalty to them, not the stricter "beyond reasonable doubt".
Any corporation that is too big to fail, is too dangerous to exist. They should be executed. We bailed out the financial institutions. They technically are living due to our mercy.
Let us break up any bank that has more than 10% market share in retail banking. Any investment bank that has more than 10% market share. And reinstate Glass-Stegall act. Let us do it peacefully when we still can do it in an orderly manner. Else someday roving mobs will be pulling out chairman of Goldman Sachs hiding in sewer pipes.
You know the standard console games, the dedicated gamers, people who plunk down $2000 on a cool looking case for the PC, constantly looking for more graphics card performance, immersive gaming experience ... And these dev managers kept giving them what they want. Then Wii shows up with rudimentary graphics, trivial gaming strategies, but with a new user interface. Rocks the world and kicks the pants off the traditional gaming platform. Then this angry birds. Seemingly trivial game that a self-described "gamer" would not even deign to take a second look at, and it is played by more people than the population of China! Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can explain it. You deconstruct it. You can do Monday morning quarterbacking and make a cogent theory that describes it well, may be even accurately. But, there were professional software development managers. Working for XBox, and Sony Playstations, constantly looking for new ideas, new games, new strategies, new ways to expand their marketplace... All of them flunked. They did not see Wii coming. They did not see the Angry Birds coming. Why?
The prow of the Starship Enterprise is definitely not cube shaped. Anyway we can't see past its anti-photon invisibility shield. What you detect is just the shape of the shield, not the spacecraft hidden from you. This is merely the recon mission. To asses our military technology and our ability to retaliate. The overlords will be appearing over the horizon in 2016 Jul 30. They are currently in the process of setting up a Forward Operating Base on the other side of the Moon. Don't say I did not warn you.
The new radar image looks like the bald scalp and the eyes of Phantom, the Ghost who walks. (Walker when he comes out of the African Jungles on missions). Indrajal Comics used to reprint them in India. Wonder if he was as popular in USA/Europe. Wondering how I never even noticed the racial overtones when I was young.
Yup, the plumber wants a monkey wrench. The sys-admin wants a screw driver. The surgeon wants a scalpel. So the hospital management orders three swiss army knives. Same old story.
Sorry got the name wrong. Not Fire Chief, it was Aardvark. But rest of my recollection seems to be correct.
Both sides hated it. Both Air Force and Navy worked hard to sabotage the project from get go. Navy insisted on side-by-side two seater fighter configuration, citing "visibility concerns on deck landings". Army insisted on ejection pod instead of ejection seats. And super sonic speed too. And maneuverability for deck landings too. By the time they got the specs done they got a "fighter" with thrust-to-weight ratio of some 0.5 or something, with barely better rate of climb and turn radius compared to even second world was fighters. The F111 Thunder Chief was a disaster even before it reached the drawing boards, it was a shame a plane with that kind of specs was given the F designation. F there definitely did not stand for Fighter. After sinking this, Navy got its way and got F-14 Tomcat and Air Force got its way and got F18 Eagle.
That should have been an object lesson to any bean counter trying shoehorn specs from multiple services into a single air-frame. But they never learn, do they?
This whole business of filing law suits and waiting for the courts to act etc is taking too much of time. RIAA just wants to let loose a few people with some stout leather belts to punish anyone caught downloading illegal songs. They seem to have acquired some training materials from the YouTube. Not sure if they downloaded that video legally.
But this takes the cake. Why the hell are they expressing correlation coefficient in percentages? It has always been represented as a rational number between -1 and +1. I know people are dropping out of engineering and science courses. Then they come up with their own units and scale for things with well known standard and commonly accepted practices.
In U.S.A the engineering jobs do not pay well. If you are smart, really smart, top 1% smart, 2380 out of 2400 in SAT smart, would you choose engineering? We pay hedge fund managers, sales jocks, second and third tier attorneys, marketing personnel more money than engineers. They keep the engineering pay low by importing them wholesale from India and also from Taiwan and China.
is just one of many examples I could give you of the way BoA tries to rip off their customers.
And another one is in their credit card billing statements. The actual full payment amount is printed in inconspicuous small font. All sorts of smaller numbers, like the cash back earned, or page totals and such stuff will be printed in big bold letters very prominently. They are trying to trip up those who pay in full every month. I am sure one in hundred or one in two hundred customers send a check for the wrong amount and they get whacked with 20% interest for two billing cycles.
When they clear checks at the end of the day they will post the payments first with starting from largest to smallest. Then they will post deposits. The basic idea is if the customer has enough money to pay for 10 small checks or one big check, they want to pay that one big check and bounce 10 smaller ones because each bounced check triggers more fees.
When you pay with PIN it is a debit card transaction, with a very low flat fee, capped at 22 cents or so. When you pay with signature it is a credit card transaction with 1% to 5% transaction fee.
It actually strengthens your argument, "Apple could do more manufacturing in USA and still not have a huge impact on the cost of the product or bottom line". It probably will have more reliable protection of key technologies if made where trade secrets and manufacturing IP could be protected. But still it chooses to make it China.
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This phonetic typo and visual typo is quite interesting. Many pronounce "went" without the 't' and the somehow the brain directs the fingers to type "when" because the user is thinking "wen". Many of my typos go to the other end. I have seen my finger type 2 when I meant Z or 0 when I mean O, even g when I meant 9. As we start typing faster and faster something is happening when typing becomes half-reflexive. Looks like the brain imagines a shape and directs the finger to the key that will produce that shape in the screen. Hey, Steven Pinker, analyze this.