They probably do have that protection - in fact, I'm pretty sure they do. However, they willfully give it up when they cooperate with the police. It's probably a balance sheet issue - it's cheaper to comply than to fight it. Ethics aside, you may make different choices than you think you'd make were you in their shoes.
This is not, of course, an excuse for it - it's just an observation. They don't have to give up the data, necessarily. They may willfully comply with requests because it means less money spent on a legal department. You didn't expect them to spend money to preserve your privacy, did you?
I've thought about this some more and, you know what? It'd be damned neat to be able to just have a cheap machine at home that attaches via USB and can run a test. Then you can use an online comparative (willfully, with privacy controls) and see what matches, where things branched off, make assumptions/guesses about your heritage and history, see where you split from the tree and where (if) you rejoined in a new place, find your guessed major ethnicity, etc...
I was recently re-watching the NOVA series about where we came from and it was kind of neat. There was a dude on the show, from Sweden maybe, who was helping them out - for instance he was able to help the Aboriginals in Australia and some Amerindians in the PNW with their legal case about a pile of bones.
It was kind of fascinating to learn and watch. I don't really watch to get an education but some rubs off on me by mistake. I don't usually remember all the details but enough to be conversational. I think it may have been called "Humans, Where do We Come From?" Something like that. It's maybe a five or six part series. If anyone's actually interested then I can dig it out of my YouTube watched history but that will take a few minutes.
Anyhow, as I was saying, it'd be nice to do this from home and have control of the data. I don't see that happening for a very long time, if at all, but it would be nice. I willingly gave up my DNA - I had to give a blood sample when I joined the military. I'm not sure if that would have made me pause, knowing what I know today, then but there's not a damned thing I can do about it.
I wonder, I have no idea, if the Red Cross could have something like a man in the middle? They use a unique identifier that's tied to your real identification because they send you a letter later to tell you if you've got AIDS or whatnot. I actually haven't donated blood in a while. I think I saw a sign in an area not far from where I'm at. I should go look into it tomorrow.
That's my recollection as well. I seem to recall low-res images for 9 months and then quite a while longer for data and higher resolution images though some high-res are sent now but only a few as a matter of priority. So, yeah, I could have sworn there was a/. summary about it. I mean, no, I didn't read the article or anything like that but, yeah... I could have sworn that's what the summary said - something like 18 months before the data was done sending, perhaps?
As to your question, I defer to user Rei whom, if I recall correctly, had a very good account of why Pluto should, in fact, be called a planet. However, I'd also mention that he's altogether way too intelligent - I think my brain would explode to know as much as he seems to know.
Anyhow, I'm not a rocket surgeon nor an astrologer (yes, see what I did there?) but I was a wee lad when we put a man on the moon. I remember staying up late to witness this and then it being the subject for the ENTIRE day in school when we returned to class. (At least I think that was it - I may be a bit fuzzy there and I'm too lazy to Google.) It may well have been another moon landing but I think it was the first?
I guess my point is simplistic and shorter than I've typed here. NASA, fuck yeah! They are awesome. I strive, hard, to learn by consuming piles of documentaries - scads of them. I know the basics well enough and I am a maths grad so it's not like I'm unable to understand - I just lack the time and expertise to opine other than to say how impressive they seem to be.
They're the only government body that I've donated to directly. I have sent them money and will likely do so again. Unfortunately, I'm unable to earmark my donations - any donations go to the general budget and not to a specific project no matter how much I complain. That's how I understood their reply, at any rate. I think they're underfunded and I'd sold my business a while before that and wanted to help. So, that's how I got the above information.
If you're done donating to EFF, Heifer International, Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, etc. then send a few bucks there way. I'm sure Google will show you how. I know, I know... We're 'taxed enough already' but think of this as taxation *with* representation where you're getting to put your money where your mouth is. (Generic you, not you personally.) Drop the Latte for six months and get a regular coffee. Save it up and donate it. Do a penny drive at work. Who knows? It might help, a little. And, if you don't like them - there's a few other organizations who can probably use some help. I mentioned a few of mine and I'm sure there are many others.
Now now... We can only presume. So far, I've asked (more than once and in a variety of ways) and not yet had an answer. I know they get reply notifications so it must be deliberate. I've got enough capital to actually start something along those lines and find out for myself but I really can't be stuffed nor do I want to deal with the *likely* fallout. Also, it'd be a waste of money. My suspicion is that I'd get a dishonest answer. "Oh, I'd be fine with that." No, no they wouldn't. Well, again, that's presumptive.
Me? I'm a fan of egalitarianism and that meant I sometimes hired women because they were, indeed, better than other applicants and I paid them the same as I'd have paid anyone else who filled the role. And it was successful and lucrative. I'm not sure why we should give preferential treatment to anyone for any reason other than skill.
My business is long since sold but, you know, if I bumped into someone who was so good (regardless of gender) then I might just hire them to keep them on standby in case I got some sort of idea - I've some folks I know who'd hold 'em and keep them busy until I needed them. Heh... Maybe I should start poaching from/. or something. Then I can get a bunch of geeks together and start a recently discussed business - Graybeards Incorporated.
But that's a topic from another thread and is for another time. I've digressed enough.
They took my blood when I went in the military. I'm pretty sure that sample still exists somewhere with a number on it and my name attached to it. They may have already run it. However, I am not going to go out of my way to give it to additional third parties.
Well, there went your final chance. I've neither lied nor misrepresented a damned thing. I have, on the other hand, pointed out that you're an idiot. You seem hell bent on proving to the world at large that this is true. I'm not one to stop you but I did give you three chances to do so. If you want to live unnaturally that's fine. To presume it is best, healthy, or morally superior is intellectually dishonest.
I'll murder two fluffy bunnies for every one you don't. I will, however, eat them. Bunnies taste good. Why? Because I'm supposed to eat them. Vegetables are what my food eats. Not entirely true, I do eat veggies.
Either way, you crackpot you, you're dismissed. No, seriously, you're dismissed. I'm done amusing myself.
Because our brains only need to be so big - there's a point where it needn't be any larger to do the more advanced tasked - we no longer need to work as hard to survive and we can live just fine without needing to constantly be on the look out for predators. We learned to cultivate, tame animals, and make fire. We don't have to look out for a big bird swooping down to eat our babies, normally. You could even argue that we're dumber - and that's okay. Evolution doesn't work like you seem to think. It's nothing to do with the best traits - it's the traits that survive.
A few religious whackos is not a viable means to determine moral relativism that is a human construct and, in this case, plain silly. Those Jains do other things, like carry skulls around with them if I recall correctly, which makes them a really strange idyll when you look at it with anything other than bias. Just because one group chooses to do something doesn't make it right. The Jewish people have been not eating pig for a long time, I'm not going to listen to them where diet is concerned either.
Pandas are an example of idiocy. They won't even fuck enough to keep themselves from going extinct. I'm not sure why you think they're a valid choice - they're an example of DOING IT WRONG.
And yes, my ad hom attack is certainly an accusation which you deny. It could be true that you're just stupid but I'm trying to give you the benefit of doubt. You're making that terrifically difficult. I'll give you one more shot to actually address any of this with a logical response. Following religion, trying to describe evolution when you don't understand it, and using a species that is going fucking extinct are not good replies. Put down the beer.
I kind of expect that to be true, but I'm hoping for their logical response. I'm curious as to how they'd respond if the company had a class exclusively for men.
Nope. Corner the market on the tools in general - not just one of them. There are other tools, and gases, that they will need. Get them all. The people who made the money in the gold rush were those who sold the tools - not just a pick or an ax but all of them.
Keep in mind that I actually *do* (sort of) take investment advice from sites like this so you probably shouldn't listen to me. I have no idea what I'm doing but I'm averaging 18% which is pretty good I guess considering that average includes a couple of years where I went exactly backwards and averaged about -6%. I really have no idea what I'm doing. I just look for trendy things and upcoming mergers or what people say they like. It actually seems to work - but I'm mostly just playing around to amuse myself and to try to understand.
You've been here longer than I. However, in this case, I was actually thinking that this was, oddly, one of the summaries that made sense to me. Maybe I've just acclimated to the lack of proper editing?
Current theory is that we fucked the Neanderthal out of existence - we bread with them and also consumed their resources. You probably have some of their genes according to Nova. Complete vegetarianism was not, and still is not, the entirety of India. I've been to India, I didn't find any cow to eat but I did find chicken - a lot of it, too. What has a panda got to do with humans? And you know, pandas are too stupid to fuck each other and are going extinct - that's a good way to prove my point and not argue against it.
Finally, I snort my coke. Thank you. The best choice is to wake up and say, "Holy shit, I was some fucking drunk!" Instead, you double down on it. Trust me, I've been there. I've woken up and seen some of the gibberish I typed the night before. "Heh, damn, I was really that drunk?" Is about your only way out on this one. There's absolutely no way you can win but you're welcome to try.
I should like to add something to this conversation. Where domestic violence is concerned, frankly, I can see a need for a greater awareness where females are concerned. I've a new girlfriend (it took a minute to figure this out but, it appears, I do) and she's young and beautiful and all that. When I was a young man I went into the Marines. I came out and attended college. I then re-entered the Marines because I love me some of that GI Bill and wanted more education.
Quite frankly, if I chose to - even if she were the aggressor, I could wreck this girl in a heartbeat. I could beat the ever living shit out of her and there's not a fucking thing you, she, or probably even a few people at once can do about it, if I were stupid enough to go that route. I'm old, I don't have time or patience to fuck around in a fight. I am going to crush your windpipe, instep, and then bring my heel down on your sternum. You are going to die. This is not bragging - I'd be much more proud to say I'd be able and willing to subdue you or walk away. In fact, they've chanced MCT (Marine Combat Training) since I left because we are too well trained at killing and not at restraining. Again, this is not bragging, I can (and might) fuck your whole day up - and I'm old.
So, there's the degree of scope. She might be able to sneak up in the middle of the night and stab me. Sure. I'm still going to kick the shit out of her if I so desire and there's fuck all she can do about it.
Call me a sexist but I bet I could probably take out a well trained woman simply by virtue of training and not being afraid of pain. I get in close and don't bother with trivial strikes. I may get hit in the process, I probably will, but I've been hit enough to move through that. In fact, my body will do so automatically. It remembers exactly how to do these things.
So, yeah, maybe I am sexist. There's a big difference between a woman smacking me or even stabbing me with a steak knife and my breaking her arm and crushing her cheek bone and eye socket. Both are bad but one is more severe than the other. I've no problem supporting women's only shelters and concentrating more effort to that than I do for the less sever problems. Yes, fine, call me a sexist but it's I who decides where to spend my money and I opt to go with priorities.
For the record - yes, I would walk away and have walked away. Today's not the day I go to jail nor is it the day I harm someone when I have the ability to opt not to.
My business treated everyone equally - and we did give each other a lot of shit at times but it was good natured and came from all directions and went out in all directions. Some were a bit sensitive so we noticed and left them out to some extent but the general work place atmosphere was one where you were judged by what you did - not by who you are or what you claimed you could do.
My new girlfriend, it's official now, is actually a budding geek with millions of questions. I don't even know all the answers but I know where to find them.
Why are you advocating segregation? How about we cut the PC crap and just let people do what they need to do in order to accomplish their goals and let those who can't succeed by their own merits fall by the wayside - regardless of their innate traits.
That sounds reasonable to me. I think that, to get some meaningful date, why not have an all male's school as well? I think such would be required if we're going to actually get any meaningful data. That whole thing about experimentation and scientific method is a good idea, no?
Pfft... I was doing cocaine in the 70s. Heh, once in a while I still do. It's like the only drug I don't seem to get addicted to. I'm the guy that buys an 8 ball and still has some a month later.
Umm... America was born in, what was it, well 1775 the Marines came alive (Tun's tavern, PA). Slavery was done with, legally, sometime in the area of 1860. I'd submit that it took less than 100 years - slavery was outlawed by the UK before that as I recall.
Woohoo! It's the morning after and we're all playing "Spot the drunken fruitcake." I love this game. It makes me miss the days I used to post drunk on the internet and wake up wondering who I'd told I was a fool.
Hint: Morals are a construct - you really have no say. Meat it not murder - it is a natural instinct to eat nommy dead animal flesh. In fact, doing so is what gave you your big brain. Fire and then cooked meat. It's awesome and I thank my ancestors who got sick of the shit and crawled down from the trees, made fire, and killed themselves some fucking breakfast.
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They probably do have that protection - in fact, I'm pretty sure they do. However, they willfully give it up when they cooperate with the police. It's probably a balance sheet issue - it's cheaper to comply than to fight it. Ethics aside, you may make different choices than you think you'd make were you in their shoes.
This is not, of course, an excuse for it - it's just an observation. They don't have to give up the data, necessarily. They may willfully comply with requests because it means less money spent on a legal department. You didn't expect them to spend money to preserve your privacy, did you?
I've thought about this some more and, you know what? It'd be damned neat to be able to just have a cheap machine at home that attaches via USB and can run a test. Then you can use an online comparative (willfully, with privacy controls) and see what matches, where things branched off, make assumptions/guesses about your heritage and history, see where you split from the tree and where (if) you rejoined in a new place, find your guessed major ethnicity, etc...
I was recently re-watching the NOVA series about where we came from and it was kind of neat. There was a dude on the show, from Sweden maybe, who was helping them out - for instance he was able to help the Aboriginals in Australia and some Amerindians in the PNW with their legal case about a pile of bones.
It was kind of fascinating to learn and watch. I don't really watch to get an education but some rubs off on me by mistake. I don't usually remember all the details but enough to be conversational. I think it may have been called "Humans, Where do We Come From?" Something like that. It's maybe a five or six part series. If anyone's actually interested then I can dig it out of my YouTube watched history but that will take a few minutes.
Anyhow, as I was saying, it'd be nice to do this from home and have control of the data. I don't see that happening for a very long time, if at all, but it would be nice. I willingly gave up my DNA - I had to give a blood sample when I joined the military. I'm not sure if that would have made me pause, knowing what I know today, then but there's not a damned thing I can do about it.
I wonder, I have no idea, if the Red Cross could have something like a man in the middle? They use a unique identifier that's tied to your real identification because they send you a letter later to tell you if you've got AIDS or whatnot. I actually haven't donated blood in a while. I think I saw a sign in an area not far from where I'm at. I should go look into it tomorrow.
sudo apt-cache search edge
Too many listings - nothing interesting.
sudo apt-cache search edge-browser
Nothing...
Try as I might, it doesn't seem to work. I guess, by default, that makes it the fastest browser, no?
That's my recollection as well. I seem to recall low-res images for 9 months and then quite a while longer for data and higher resolution images though some high-res are sent now but only a few as a matter of priority. So, yeah, I could have sworn there was a /. summary about it. I mean, no, I didn't read the article or anything like that but, yeah... I could have sworn that's what the summary said - something like 18 months before the data was done sending, perhaps?
As to your question, I defer to user Rei whom, if I recall correctly, had a very good account of why Pluto should, in fact, be called a planet. However, I'd also mention that he's altogether way too intelligent - I think my brain would explode to know as much as he seems to know.
Anyhow, I'm not a rocket surgeon nor an astrologer (yes, see what I did there?) but I was a wee lad when we put a man on the moon. I remember staying up late to witness this and then it being the subject for the ENTIRE day in school when we returned to class. (At least I think that was it - I may be a bit fuzzy there and I'm too lazy to Google.) It may well have been another moon landing but I think it was the first?
I guess my point is simplistic and shorter than I've typed here. NASA, fuck yeah! They are awesome. I strive, hard, to learn by consuming piles of documentaries - scads of them. I know the basics well enough and I am a maths grad so it's not like I'm unable to understand - I just lack the time and expertise to opine other than to say how impressive they seem to be.
They're the only government body that I've donated to directly. I have sent them money and will likely do so again. Unfortunately, I'm unable to earmark my donations - any donations go to the general budget and not to a specific project no matter how much I complain. That's how I understood their reply, at any rate. I think they're underfunded and I'd sold my business a while before that and wanted to help. So, that's how I got the above information.
If you're done donating to EFF, Heifer International, Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, etc. then send a few bucks there way. I'm sure Google will show you how. I know, I know... We're 'taxed enough already' but think of this as taxation *with* representation where you're getting to put your money where your mouth is. (Generic you, not you personally.) Drop the Latte for six months and get a regular coffee. Save it up and donate it. Do a penny drive at work. Who knows? It might help, a little. And, if you don't like them - there's a few other organizations who can probably use some help. I mentioned a few of mine and I'm sure there are many others.
Now now... We can only presume. So far, I've asked (more than once and in a variety of ways) and not yet had an answer. I know they get reply notifications so it must be deliberate. I've got enough capital to actually start something along those lines and find out for myself but I really can't be stuffed nor do I want to deal with the *likely* fallout. Also, it'd be a waste of money. My suspicion is that I'd get a dishonest answer. "Oh, I'd be fine with that." No, no they wouldn't. Well, again, that's presumptive.
Me? I'm a fan of egalitarianism and that meant I sometimes hired women because they were, indeed, better than other applicants and I paid them the same as I'd have paid anyone else who filled the role. And it was successful and lucrative. I'm not sure why we should give preferential treatment to anyone for any reason other than skill.
My business is long since sold but, you know, if I bumped into someone who was so good (regardless of gender) then I might just hire them to keep them on standby in case I got some sort of idea - I've some folks I know who'd hold 'em and keep them busy until I needed them. Heh... Maybe I should start poaching from /. or something. Then I can get a bunch of geeks together and start a recently discussed business - Graybeards Incorporated.
But that's a topic from another thread and is for another time. I've digressed enough.
They took my blood when I went in the military. I'm pretty sure that sample still exists somewhere with a number on it and my name attached to it. They may have already run it. However, I am not going to go out of my way to give it to additional third parties.
Indeed. I was only filling in some information. Or, more accurately, attempting to clarify.
Well, there went your final chance. I've neither lied nor misrepresented a damned thing. I have, on the other hand, pointed out that you're an idiot. You seem hell bent on proving to the world at large that this is true. I'm not one to stop you but I did give you three chances to do so. If you want to live unnaturally that's fine. To presume it is best, healthy, or morally superior is intellectually dishonest.
I'll murder two fluffy bunnies for every one you don't. I will, however, eat them. Bunnies taste good. Why? Because I'm supposed to eat them. Vegetables are what my food eats. Not entirely true, I do eat veggies.
Either way, you crackpot you, you're dismissed. No, seriously, you're dismissed. I'm done amusing myself.
Because our brains only need to be so big - there's a point where it needn't be any larger to do the more advanced tasked - we no longer need to work as hard to survive and we can live just fine without needing to constantly be on the look out for predators. We learned to cultivate, tame animals, and make fire. We don't have to look out for a big bird swooping down to eat our babies, normally. You could even argue that we're dumber - and that's okay. Evolution doesn't work like you seem to think. It's nothing to do with the best traits - it's the traits that survive.
A few religious whackos is not a viable means to determine moral relativism that is a human construct and, in this case, plain silly. Those Jains do other things, like carry skulls around with them if I recall correctly, which makes them a really strange idyll when you look at it with anything other than bias. Just because one group chooses to do something doesn't make it right. The Jewish people have been not eating pig for a long time, I'm not going to listen to them where diet is concerned either.
Pandas are an example of idiocy. They won't even fuck enough to keep themselves from going extinct. I'm not sure why you think they're a valid choice - they're an example of DOING IT WRONG.
And yes, my ad hom attack is certainly an accusation which you deny. It could be true that you're just stupid but I'm trying to give you the benefit of doubt. You're making that terrifically difficult. I'll give you one more shot to actually address any of this with a logical response. Following religion, trying to describe evolution when you don't understand it, and using a species that is going fucking extinct are not good replies. Put down the beer.
I kind of expect that to be true, but I'm hoping for their logical response. I'm curious as to how they'd respond if the company had a class exclusively for men.
Nope. Corner the market on the tools in general - not just one of them. There are other tools, and gases, that they will need. Get them all. The people who made the money in the gold rush were those who sold the tools - not just a pick or an ax but all of them.
Keep in mind that I actually *do* (sort of) take investment advice from sites like this so you probably shouldn't listen to me. I have no idea what I'm doing but I'm averaging 18% which is pretty good I guess considering that average includes a couple of years where I went exactly backwards and averaged about -6%. I really have no idea what I'm doing. I just look for trendy things and upcoming mergers or what people say they like. It actually seems to work - but I'm mostly just playing around to amuse myself and to try to understand.
You've been here longer than I. However, in this case, I was actually thinking that this was, oddly, one of the summaries that made sense to me. Maybe I've just acclimated to the lack of proper editing?
Current theory is that we fucked the Neanderthal out of existence - we bread with them and also consumed their resources. You probably have some of their genes according to Nova. Complete vegetarianism was not, and still is not, the entirety of India. I've been to India, I didn't find any cow to eat but I did find chicken - a lot of it, too. What has a panda got to do with humans? And you know, pandas are too stupid to fuck each other and are going extinct - that's a good way to prove my point and not argue against it.
Finally, I snort my coke. Thank you. The best choice is to wake up and say, "Holy shit, I was some fucking drunk!" Instead, you double down on it. Trust me, I've been there. I've woken up and seen some of the gibberish I typed the night before. "Heh, damn, I was really that drunk?" Is about your only way out on this one. There's absolutely no way you can win but you're welcome to try.
That's not how you approach and have a reasoned conversation. You *can* talk to him reasonably.
Err... Changed... Not chanced... I'll get a laptop, I hate tablets.
I should like to add something to this conversation. Where domestic violence is concerned, frankly, I can see a need for a greater awareness where females are concerned. I've a new girlfriend (it took a minute to figure this out but, it appears, I do) and she's young and beautiful and all that. When I was a young man I went into the Marines. I came out and attended college. I then re-entered the Marines because I love me some of that GI Bill and wanted more education.
Quite frankly, if I chose to - even if she were the aggressor, I could wreck this girl in a heartbeat. I could beat the ever living shit out of her and there's not a fucking thing you, she, or probably even a few people at once can do about it, if I were stupid enough to go that route. I'm old, I don't have time or patience to fuck around in a fight. I am going to crush your windpipe, instep, and then bring my heel down on your sternum. You are going to die. This is not bragging - I'd be much more proud to say I'd be able and willing to subdue you or walk away. In fact, they've chanced MCT (Marine Combat Training) since I left because we are too well trained at killing and not at restraining. Again, this is not bragging, I can (and might) fuck your whole day up - and I'm old.
So, there's the degree of scope. She might be able to sneak up in the middle of the night and stab me. Sure. I'm still going to kick the shit out of her if I so desire and there's fuck all she can do about it.
Call me a sexist but I bet I could probably take out a well trained woman simply by virtue of training and not being afraid of pain. I get in close and don't bother with trivial strikes. I may get hit in the process, I probably will, but I've been hit enough to move through that. In fact, my body will do so automatically. It remembers exactly how to do these things.
So, yeah, maybe I am sexist. There's a big difference between a woman smacking me or even stabbing me with a steak knife and my breaking her arm and crushing her cheek bone and eye socket. Both are bad but one is more severe than the other. I've no problem supporting women's only shelters and concentrating more effort to that than I do for the less sever problems. Yes, fine, call me a sexist but it's I who decides where to spend my money and I opt to go with priorities.
For the record - yes, I would walk away and have walked away. Today's not the day I go to jail nor is it the day I harm someone when I have the ability to opt not to.
My business treated everyone equally - and we did give each other a lot of shit at times but it was good natured and came from all directions and went out in all directions. Some were a bit sensitive so we noticed and left them out to some extent but the general work place atmosphere was one where you were judged by what you did - not by who you are or what you claimed you could do.
My new girlfriend, it's official now, is actually a budding geek with millions of questions. I don't even know all the answers but I know where to find them.
Why are you advocating segregation? How about we cut the PC crap and just let people do what they need to do in order to accomplish their goals and let those who can't succeed by their own merits fall by the wayside - regardless of their innate traits.
That sounds reasonable to me. I think that, to get some meaningful date, why not have an all male's school as well? I think such would be required if we're going to actually get any meaningful data. That whole thing about experimentation and scientific method is a good idea, no?
There's a good blues ballad in the making right there. I'm thinking E minor should suit.
Pfft... I was doing cocaine in the 70s. Heh, once in a while I still do. It's like the only drug I don't seem to get addicted to. I'm the guy that buys an 8 ball and still has some a month later.
Umm... America was born in, what was it, well 1775 the Marines came alive (Tun's tavern, PA). Slavery was done with, legally, sometime in the area of 1860. I'd submit that it took less than 100 years - slavery was outlawed by the UK before that as I recall.
Woohoo! It's the morning after and we're all playing "Spot the drunken fruitcake." I love this game. It makes me miss the days I used to post drunk on the internet and wake up wondering who I'd told I was a fool.
Hint: Morals are a construct - you really have no say. Meat it not murder - it is a natural instinct to eat nommy dead animal flesh. In fact, doing so is what gave you your big brain. Fire and then cooked meat. It's awesome and I thank my ancestors who got sick of the shit and crawled down from the trees, made fire, and killed themselves some fucking breakfast.
As a fellow graybeard - that's +1 Grumpy.