I'm kind of bothered by the "permanently delete all copies" sort of language. They're demanding permanent deletion from computers over which he has no control (Wikimedia's). What about copies in his browser cache?
The whole thing is probably just posturing since it seems the allegedly offending party isn't under UK jurisdiction anyway. I;d suggest he never vacation there, though...
Eat below your calorie needs on your sedentary days and above on your active days. Excercise when you can. Such a work schedule as yours will not allow an optimum fitness routine. Your dedication to fitness will determine your result in the long term.
>What is this, the electronic version of submitting to a drug test?
Plus it gives them more reasons to fire people later. How many logins and passwords have been forgotten? I've had to register at little websites to grab a file I wanted or something else and never been back. I've surely forgotten many more than I'm currently using.
Needless to say - piss on these people. My accounts are my business.
I don't know, Microsoft can't seem to name a product or service to save their lives anymore - "bing", "squirt", etc. They must have hired the same weirdo who thought up the whole "Unzip, Expand, Explode" triumvirate.
The Carpenters answered this decades ago and it's already beaming it's way across the cosmos: --------------------- In your mind you have capacities you know To telepath messages through the vast unknown Please close your eyes and concentrate With every thought you think Upon the recitation we're about to sing
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft Calling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft Calling occupants of interplanetary craft Calling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft
You've been observing our earth And we'd like to make a contact with you We are your friends
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft Calling occupants of interplanetary ultra emissaries
We've been observing your earth And one night we'll make a contact with you
We are your friends Calling occupants of interplanetary quite extraordinary craft
And please come in pace we beseech you (Only of love we will teach you) Our earth may never survive (So don't come we beg you) Please interstellar policemen Won't you give us a sign give us a sign that we've reached you
With your mind you have ability to form And transmit thought energy far beyond the norm You close your eyes, you concentrate, together that's the way To send a message we declare World Contact Day
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft Calling occupants of interplanetary craft Calling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft
Calling occupants Calling occupants Calling occupants of interplanetary, anti-adversary craft
OK, I haven't had time to dig back into all the numbers, but here: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/FoodReview/Jan1997/Jan97a.pdf is a USDA report showing 96.4 billion pounds of food per year wasted. With 31,536,000 seconds per year, that's about 3056.8 pounds of food per second. The other numbers I'll stop throwing around until I confirm them independently.
Thanks for questioning the figures. It's good to verify our own rhetoric sometimes.
10 percent of Americans currently receive Food Stamps, 15% are qualified in total (including the 10% currently receiving). America has roughly the same number of people on Food Stamps (actually now called "SNAP") as the entire population of Canada.
I've already admitted that I snagged a couple of the numbers from endhunger.org without cross checking and I do apologize. I appreciate slashtivus (1162793) calling me on it. I'd much rather be corrected than to be spewing inaccurate facts again and again. Plus it's good to know somebody is paying attention.
The 3044 pounds of food wasted per second comes from a USDA study which, when I find it again, I will post back to this thread.
Yeah, OK, I'll admit I snagged them direct. The 3304/second I'm quite confident in. It's a USDA number that's been floating around for some time and I have read the actual study somewhere in the deep dark past. I guess I'll have to go find it again.
Sorry for not double checking the numbers before I posted them...
A couple of decades ago, Harry Chapin said something like "In a country where we produce enough food to feed the entire planet 6 times over, it's unthinkable that anybody shouldn't have enough to eat". Not much has changed in the interim.
>Really curious - can any slashdotters enlighten me as to why the Cuba / USA situation continues?
Because it seemed like a good idea at the time and backing off now would mean Davey beat Goliath. American politicians aren't willing to admit they couldn't bully a tiny island nation 90 miles off the coast.
> N. Korea isn't made of religious factions who will fight each other to the death once the big honcho and family are dead.
Doesn't matter - "taking out" the government of another country requires the political will to impose order afterwards until a new, effective leader emerges. America lacks the will to accomplish that and modding me troll, flamebait or whatever else makes some moderator with an axe to grind happy doesn't change that. Afghanistan in the 80's and again in the new millennium - still a quagmire. Iraqi "Shock and Awe" has pretty much been budgetary shock and awe, Cuba still has a communist regime 90 miles off the American coast despite decades of saber rattling, Iran in 1979 and 80 pretty much piddled all over the American government without any consequences and continues to so do.
Why would Kim Jong-il be afraid of the American military? American politicians certainly aren't going to send them in.
>we'll have no other choice than to take him out of the game permanently.
It hasn't been that easy since John Wayne died.
America took Saddam Hussein out of the game permanently. Instantly peace and stability were returned to the Middle East, Americans are welcomed with open arms every where they go and harmony has been restored to the planet.
Afghanistan? Another robust success. Taking Kim Jong-il out could only build on those triumphs of American foreign policy.
Representative Chaffetz needs all the support he can get. Veteran legislators don't like rabble-rousing freshmen and will likely run him out of town on a rail for trying to actually accomplish something.
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>They've being completely reasonable:
I'm kind of bothered by the "permanently delete all copies" sort of language. They're demanding permanent deletion from computers over which he has no control (Wikimedia's). What about copies in his browser cache?
The whole thing is probably just posturing since it seems the allegedly offending party isn't under UK jurisdiction anyway. I;d suggest he never vacation there, though ...
>Would it not make more sense to educate the people taking the pills, instead of banning an effective pain reliever?
Hey, we need a Nanny State to take care of our needs, make our decisions and protect us from ourselves.
I say, it's off to the re-education camp in Guantanamo Bay with you!
>Just for fun, google this: 2^119 picoseconds in millenia
And for even more fun - 64 minutes after the parent posted, the post itself was the first result.
Eat below your calorie needs on your sedentary days and above on your active days. Excercise when you can. Such a work schedule as yours will not allow an optimum fitness routine. Your dedication to fitness will determine your result in the long term.
This article from Fred Harfield on his "Zig Zag" diet may be helpful:
http://drsquat.com/content/knowledge-base/zigzag-diet
>Anyone know last 1% isn't mapped
It's in the shadow cast by Obama's ego.
I know, I know, some humorless turd will flamebait me for this ... oh, well.
>Do we really need GPS to track mileage ?
Sure we do. It's easier for the government to continue screwing the wheels off the American people this way.
> ...and the federal government could maintain a database searchable ...
Sorry, I'm against anything requiring another federal government database.
>Really? So how many lbs per square inch in a horsepower?
Horses are measured in "hands" so it depends on the horse, really. Using metric hands would complicate it even more.
Parent link is to Window version.
Here: http://www.gamershell.com/download_47540.shtml is the Linux version.
>What else can we start worldwide backlashes against? They seem to fucking work.
May I suggest a worldwide backlash against mandatory health insurance?
... would require all Americans to obtain health insurance
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/20/1844214
>What is this, the electronic version of submitting to a drug test?
Plus it gives them more reasons to fire people later. How many logins and passwords have been forgotten? I've had to register at little websites to grab a file I wanted or something else and never been back. I've surely forgotten many more than I'm currently using.
Needless to say - piss on these people. My accounts are my business.
Having the Consent of the Governed doesn't mean it's not a police state.
I don't know, Microsoft can't seem to name a product or service to save their lives anymore - "bing", "squirt", etc. They must have hired the same weirdo who thought up the whole "Unzip, Expand, Explode" triumvirate.
The Carpenters answered this decades ago and it's already beaming it's way across the cosmos:
---------------------
In your mind you have capacities you know
To telepath messages through the vast unknown
Please close your eyes and concentrate
With every thought you think
Upon the recitation we're about to sing
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft
You've been observing our earth
And we'd like to make a contact with you
We are your friends
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary ultra emissaries
We've been observing your earth
And one night we'll make a contact with you
We are your friends
Calling occupants of interplanetary quite extraordinary craft
And please come in pace we beseech you
(Only of love we will teach you)
Our earth may never survive (So don't come we beg you)
Please interstellar policemen
Won't you give us a sign give us a sign that we've reached you
With your mind you have ability to form
And transmit thought energy far beyond the norm
You close your eyes, you concentrate, together that's the way
To send a message we declare World Contact Day
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft
Calling occupants
Calling occupants
Calling occupants of interplanetary, anti-adversary craft
We are your friends
---------------------
OK, I haven't had time to dig back into all the numbers, but here: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/FoodReview/Jan1997/Jan97a.pdf is a USDA report showing 96.4 billion pounds of food per year wasted. With 31,536,000 seconds per year, that's about 3056.8 pounds of food per second. The other numbers I'll stop throwing around until I confirm them independently.
Thanks for questioning the figures. It's good to verify our own rhetoric sometimes.
Not only is Internet a big truck, in India it's delivered by trucks, buses and motorcycles.
10 percent of Americans currently receive Food Stamps, 15% are qualified in total (including the 10% currently receiving). America has roughly the same number of people on Food Stamps (actually now called "SNAP") as the entire population of Canada.
I've already admitted that I snagged a couple of the numbers from endhunger.org without cross checking and I do apologize. I appreciate slashtivus (1162793) calling me on it. I'd much rather be corrected than to be spewing inaccurate facts again and again. Plus it's good to know somebody is paying attention.
The 3044 pounds of food wasted per second comes from a USDA study which, when I find it again, I will post back to this thread.
Dammit - 3044 pounds of food per second, not 3304. Sorry ...
Yeah, OK, I'll admit I snagged them direct. The 3304/second I'm quite confident in. It's a USDA number that's been floating around for some time and I have read the actual study somewhere in the deep dark past. I guess I'll have to go find it again.
Sorry for not double checking the numbers before I posted them ...
3,304 pounds of food per second. 263,013,699 pounds of food every day. 1.5 tons of food per year for every person in America.
A couple of decades ago, Harry Chapin said something like "In a country where we produce enough food to feed the entire planet 6 times over, it's unthinkable that anybody shouldn't have enough to eat". Not much has changed in the interim.
The cyber-spelling was perfect. The cyber-proofreading left quite a bit to be desired.
>Really curious - can any slashdotters enlighten me as to why the Cuba / USA situation continues?
Because it seemed like a good idea at the time and backing off now would mean Davey beat Goliath. American politicians aren't willing to admit they couldn't bully a tiny island nation 90 miles off the coast.
In a word - ego.
> N. Korea isn't made of religious factions who will fight each other to the death once the big honcho and family are dead.
Doesn't matter - "taking out" the government of another country requires the political will to impose order afterwards until a new, effective leader emerges. America lacks the will to accomplish that and modding me troll, flamebait or whatever else makes some moderator with an axe to grind happy doesn't change that. Afghanistan in the 80's and again in the new millennium - still a quagmire. Iraqi "Shock and Awe" has pretty much been budgetary shock and awe, Cuba still has a communist regime 90 miles off the American coast despite decades of saber rattling, Iran in 1979 and 80 pretty much piddled all over the American government without any consequences and continues to so do.
Why would Kim Jong-il be afraid of the American military? American politicians certainly aren't going to send them in.
>we'll have no other choice than to take him out of the game permanently.
It hasn't been that easy since John Wayne died.
America took Saddam Hussein out of the game permanently. Instantly peace and stability were returned to the Middle East, Americans are welcomed with open arms every where they go and harmony has been restored to the planet.
Afghanistan? Another robust success. Taking Kim Jong-il out could only build on those triumphs of American foreign policy.
Representative Chaffetz needs all the support he can get. Veteran legislators don't like rabble-rousing freshmen and will likely run him out of town on a rail for trying to actually accomplish something.