https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat#Association_with_diseases
it doesnt really matter if i "believe" theyre bad for me. Scientific research seems to conclude saturated fats are linked to varying extents with both heart disease and cancer.
'tastes like grass' is an incredibly subjective assertion. the conclusion that fat 'brings out their flavour' is also baseless considering fermentation and roasting are readily available alternatives which have been used for centuries. Beets, Carrots, Corn and cucumber all have a distinctive flavour despite the lack of fat.
hydrogenated oils go through chemical processing in order to introduce hydrogen. as for cream, or butter, not a single drop reaches a supermarket before being pasteurized at 'temperatures'.
i do agree, sugar and empty carbohydrates dominate the wasteland that is the modern convenience food cornucopia. corn syrup and glucose render us incapable of ever reaching the point of saity and refined starches send blood sugar racing in every direction. its a fools errand to discount the link between these two and preventable conditions such as heart disease and diabetes, however my point is simple: its bombastically ignorant to concede that 'everything makes everyone fat.' the best TFA hopes for is click fodder.
Id have more time to spend with the elderly, as would most other adults, if we focused this technology on deprecating the more grueling parts of the service sector like fast food and walmart so i didnt have to work two jobs to pay rent.
more data should be required before we make such a broad spectrum 'everything is getting fat because of everything' claim, which is absolutely as absurd as it sounds. In the cases of laboratory controlled animals, im willing to venture a sedentary and stressful lifestyle has accumulated their girth.
in the case of people, we've stopped eating real food entirely for both convenience and lack of nutritional education. Some of us work odd hours or multiple jobs and just dont have time to cook. places like wendys offer a reasonable facimile of food but the ingredients list for even a hamburger bun starts to look more like the back pages of an organic chemistry lab book. Most 30somethings like myself havent the slightest idea, nor care, about how to cook their own food outside of a cardboard box and boil-point water. And packaged food companies agree this is the way it should be. There is no more home economics, we emerge from primary education with no more than an understanding of hunger and satiation.
I also think its a cultural thing. Jamie Oliver, for all the work hes done in targeting childhood obesity and healthy eating, still cooks an alarming number of recipes that youd never think to serve the majority of a populus thats overweight. This holds true for most chefs, celebrity or not. Browned butter and whole cream are still entirely acceptable additions to most semi-casual and upscale dining experiences despite the well proven fact theyre killing us. There are only four meats we readily consume on a daily basis yet theyve replaced hundreds of vegetables in nearly every meal of the day. Many adults simply avoid healthy vegetables like onions, tomatoes or broccoli alltogether, picking from their meal and instead focusing on pasta or meat.
articles like this that just throw in the proverbial towel arent helping. We need competent nutritional education and responsible industry to start offering food that is both nutritious and healthy. Yet as with most industries the change often comes from the consumer, and its often met half-hearted and begrudgingly.
Is the government so up-to-its-tits in lobbyists it cant complete a single google search without a campaign contribution? Here are a few license models that might work for some, hell in fact all, digital media in the 21st century.
BSD
GPL
copyleft
LGPL3
MIT
Creative Commons
the list goes on but at no point does it include the whistling clown-car that is DMCA or the iron boot of DRM. copyright in the 21st century is premised on the idea that expiration encourages innovation and that on some level, we all benefit and advance greatly from sharing as opposed to consolidating the knowledge and power amongst a cloistered few. yeah, its a radical departure for some but discourages cashcowing a product or franchising something to death (the Matrix series anyone?)
viable alternatives for nearly every google service exist today, so a 5 minute full-scale service outage is only relevant if you're a manager at google. since the internet is self-healing and completely capable of routing around most damage, google is moreso a clearing house for consumer trust than anything else. 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, or more and google would lose customers, which to them is far more important as a publically traded corproration than any web service they offer. googles controversial move of silence after an outage when considered in the context of the corporation as citizen is disconcerting as well. Our friends, as google would like to refer to themselves, wouldnt refuse to confide in us after an outage or problem. If anything it shows a shift from the pre-ipo to post-ipo days has indeed taken hold among other such revelations as the redaction of 20% time. STFU is an Adobe, Apple, or Redmond approach the market tends to regard as acceptabe but one that consumers do not tolerate.
this isnt of course something new, as all theaters have experienced marked decreases in attendance. the problem with driveins is they couldnt compare to indoor theater projection quality and audio quality and so were quickly usurped. indoor theater owners in turn sat high on their horses raking in ticket and concession sales while theaters rotted. Todays theater, either outdoor or indoor, cannot compare with the average home theater. plush couches or dedicated recliner seating, audio systems that meet or exceed the quality of any commercial theater, clean floors and a quiet livingroom environment to enjoy the movie without patrons giggling or screaming or talking on cellphones. you can even pause to take a slash. You also dont have to sit through 25 minutes of coca cola commercials before even getting to the previews. That crap can roll by on mute while you're making popcorn or slipping into pajamas.
TFA was likely penned by a nostalgic baby boomer. the kind that force nat king cole over the PA systems of every major retailer in november and cant for the life of them figure out the self check-out lanes at the grocery store. Theaters, any theaters but broadway and live show, are for all intents and purposes completely dead. This is an excellent occasion as well. Outdoor theater meant piping FM or AM broadcast audio into your car from a 5-10 watt transciever at the concession stand. if you couldnt pick up the signal, you were relegated to a 2 pound metal box on a pole you listened to while watching the movie. Indoor theater conversely meant ridiculous ticket prices, disgusting food, filthy seating and the ever ubiquitous sticky floors of which on no occasion could you expect your complaints to be taken seriously.
this has been well known for nearly 3 years but it doesnt really get much coverege because, well, yeah its the same on a number of levels but disasterously worse.
School loans cant be absolved through bankruptcy, they'll take them from any form of income you earn. this 'perpetuity' makes them attractive to investors because its "foolproof" and acceptable by the plutocracy because it ensures that even if you get a good education, your position results in nothing more than endentured servitude to the state in the hopes of one day living the american dream after those loans get paid off. politicians like the idea because it boosts school enrollment and kids think the whole thing is swell until they realize no ones hiring.
the most telling sign is the recent snafu about the student loan rate, which was tossed about without much bickering at all despite the fact that both sides of the house mortally detest the other. a deal was reached quickly for a number of reasons, not the least of which include another round of occupy protests but this time perhaps with violence and property damage that isnt fabricated by the news. We are by all indications keeping the ship afloat and trying not to draw too much attention to the flaming lido deck. Im not sure when its going to happen, but expect some serious shit to hit the fan when investors realize how dangerous it is to insist millions of people shuffle around with thousands in permanent debt. the fear isnt that some day the markets will crash, its that some day the kid with the biology masters working at dennys is going to pick up a molotov.
"Harassment silences and repositions content creators in ways that protect the interests of certain fan groups."
s/Harassment/Management/
the only difference being management butters the bread so content creators dont have a problem eviscerating a beloved storyline. There have been plenty of times when content creators have just sold the fuck out and decided their fans were worth less than gobs of cash. Im looking directly at you, Westwood studios. conversely, studios like 3drealms had no problem ignoring trolls and abusive fans while they spent through the cash and coasted into bankruptcy. What did we get? some studio standing at the auction block waiting to inheret and subsequently destroy a sizeable piece of our childhood.
We are hurt, angry, and have very little patience for anyone waiting in the wings to fuck up a good plot or storyline. Can you blame us? If given the opportunity most of us would have gone for the throats of the team that sandbagged the force unleashed 2. if the result is all to often we get storylines like Command and conquer 4, you can expect us to naturally be rabidly concerned youre trying or being forced to franchise and cashcow us.
Redmonds day late and dollar short approach to rectifying its inevitable downfall in gaming is cure for the symptom and not for the cause. While Steam announced a radically new direction in gaming thats been clammoured about for ages, Microsoft basically fashioned the next generation console into a prison yard for publishers and a land mine for customers. Damage control be damned, the XBox likely will not play a huge part of 2014's next generation consoles seeing as Sony has not only achieved architectural parity but actually vocalized sympathy and support for gamers in the face of Redmond. Nintendo can make hardware mistakes but its hard to escape the notion that almost every game in their lineup is about fun and rewarding gameplay first.
If gabe is worried about the success of his shift to linux, all he has to do is utter the magic words, "Half Life 3." I'll gladly spend the next 2 days fervently compiling and patching to ensure Gentoo can run it.
the CDC routinely releases statistics and studies that conclude people who eat healthy and exercise regularly experience dramatically lower cancer rates. of course cancer is a terrible disease for anyone it afflicts but rarifying its manifestation should be of greater realistic priority than a panacea. if you're pining for a silver bullet you might want to give running shoes, fresh fruit and vegetables a shot. Drink a little less, and for christ sake if you're still smoking, quit.
apple greybeards slowstroking to memories of a benevolent leader. the man is more of a pop culture consumer electronics icon than he ever was a tech mogul, and the jobs film will see to it the legacy remains intact. it will pander heavily to fanboys and moviegoers alike as it eschews fact for fiction in the pursuit of product placement and marketing tie-ins. We'll ignore guys like Jonathan Ive, who were basically instrumental in making the iPod pretty. the throngs of coders and UI designers and engineers will go unsung as a christgod is made whole in the pursuit of ensuring jobs is to our world as Stark was to his.
is it me or is FOIA kinda toothless these days? the oxcart and have blue shit has been a discovery channel/history channel show fodder for almost a decade. most everything in the release is common knowledge to anyone with access to wikipedia. FOIA was designed to start answering questions like who visited the whitehouse while George Bush was president, how does the domestic spy program work, and did we seriously commit war crimes in iraq.
instead its been so neutered, ignored and redacted at every level of government its basically a rubber stamp for any agency seeking to claim legitimacy in their clandestine day to day operations. the NYPD ignored for 2 years their FOIA for stop and frisk, and administrations routinely claim state secrets or executive privilege when they hear a question they dont like.
People like Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning and Julian Asssange are today the only means by which we request the freedom of information from our government, elected by and for the people. sideshows like this are to ensuring accountability in the government as the scopes monkey trial was to ensuring credibility to evolution.
seriously, as i look around the office and recall from offices past, ours is a field rife with obesity, diabetes, stroke, heart disese and various other maladies caused by eating nothing but twinkies washed down with sugary soda. we can all recount a person in our office who was so fat they required special seating thanks to the nerd diet. We all know who the guy with the smell is in the office and chances are hes obese. Someone so overweight that to reach the parking lot to the door was to them a 5k to anyone else. If we we're to consider Diet and Exercise programming languages, then our laughable grasp of them would send us all scrambling to the O'Reilly store so fast youd think it was black friday.
Put down the fucking twinkies. let them go, slow down on the soda (I can attest, its hard to quit) and try meatless monday. consider the wellness program at your office this year. If you dont have one, push for it, because as long as we continue to hold this dreck upon high as some golden calf from which its ambrose we spin our code, then we can all look forward to bigger chairs higher insurance premiums and shorter lives.
and to the offices that have snack bars, please stop. I mean just stop. if you have to offer a snack as a perk, look at getting something healthier than packets of crisps and candy bars because while the HR team might not eat the junk food, the HR team takes a real lunch. nerds at their desks routinely plow through breakfast and lunch without so much as a thought and when offered, will eat anything freely given. We miss meals so you dont miss deadlines. stop poisoning us.
Shortly before the Arab Spring, Hillary Clinton praised Bahrain for embarking upon a "democratic path." Obama has since called on Bahrain's rulers to implement reforms, but he's held back from speaking out as forcefully against the crackdown as he did with countries like Libya and Syria. The Obama administration is currently delaying a $53 million arms sale to Bahrain until an "independent" Bahraini panel issues a report on alleged human rights abuses during the uprising.
Why is it we're not leaping to defend the uprisers?
The U.S. Navy enjoys having its Fifth Fleet stationed in Bahrain. Bahrain lives adjacent to the persian gulf, which is incidentally pissing distance from our latest boogeyman Iran. Why no arms deal? its not because we give a shit so much as to ensure we can guarantee their military wont stage a coup in the name of the people and oust our convenient dictator...because thats a thing that sometimes happens when people dont like you sticking your dick in their regional politics.
and if you're concerned this is an obama "thing," crack open your history books and turn to the carter doctrine. Jimmy basically guaranteed we have to spend the rest of our miserable existence stirring a kettle of kalashnikovs for cheap oil.
learn to cook, and eat at home. not only will you avoid supporting an industry that underpays and brutalizes every employee from servers to dishwashers, but you'll avoid other ugly things like reservation wars and hepatitis. Invite friends over, turn the TV off, have a good conversation, but stop shoveling coal into this engine of human misery we call "fine dining."
crowdsourcing implies you're enticing me with a service or product i want that i dont have. iphone, ipad, android and to a lesser extent windows phone already provide me with a means to consume advertisements and participate in a walled garden. If canonicals intent is to build me a phone i want to use, then it needs to take a few hundred steps back and explain to me how forwarding search information to amazon.com is in any way helpful in respecting or preserving my privacy.
crowdsourcing also implies you cant afford to do this on your own, but you also dont have investment potential in a legitimate public market. To date Canonical has declared 30 million in revenue, which seems to suggest it could entice investors or backers if it went public and issued stock, which is what companies do when they want to expand. starting a kickstarter seems like a cheap pitch by canonical to trick people into paying for something that will just take advantage of them through the same invasive advertising and privacy violation used by three other device manufacturers to varying degrees of success in order to further profit
The problem to school attendance is a societal issue. texas' abstinence only education perpetuates a cycle in which unfit or unwilling parents are needlessly encumbered by raising a child. working two jobs and barely making rent, the prosects are low when faced with ensuring your child doesnt starve to death and attends school on a regular basis.
through policical will, we've slashed education funding to the lowest levels in 30 years. We shouldnt get the luxury of complaining about low school attendance figures when evidence suggests there are arent enough teachers let alone truancy officers to ensure attendance.
the increasing police presence in most schools also reinforces a schoolhouse to jailhouse track for kids that need help the most. one or two run-ins with the cops and most kids just quit going entirely assuming the system is rigged against them.
Dont get me wrong, RFID is a glorious technology. We should use it instead to track politicians in the pursuit of determining where they get off neutering a public service that is intrinsic in becoming a functional human being, let alone model citizen. Maybe a few well placed tags can determine at what point our duly elected officials secure kickbacks for more cops in schools. Line their pockets with some and lets try to figure out what tribal leader is pushing them model legislation for doling cash to religious institutions disguised as legitimate schools
im sure they could correlate a wealth of information by looking at german communications station logs from these vessels to determine the exact time and date of their demise
"day 15, we remain undetected off the enemy coastline. I dont know how the allies have patrolled so long and hard without fiWF##$(_NO CARRIER"
this isnt a justification to go 'to the cloud.' its a cautionary tale on the merits of redundant infrastructure. in the grande tradition of slashdot car analogies: what you did was the equivalent of buying a maserati after your car was in the shop instead of taking the bus.
Amazon and friends still have regular service outages. these in fact may exceed your yearly downtime depending on how good an admin you are. the only difference is instead of a drunk driver you're held hostage by a provider that has no accountability when it comes to your uptime.
Natural-gas extraction, geothermal-energy production and other activities that inject fluid underground
no those first two are really the only two. finding a study which suddenly lumps a very controversial method of extracting natural gas next to a method of energy production we've used for 40 years is actually rather suspicious.
if you're trying to imply some sort of value by comparing an ice shelf to florida, you may be mistaken to find the ice shelf greatly outvalues florida in the opinion of quite a number of americans.
as a corporation is abdicates you from the responsibility of things like health insurance in countries like america that have very expensive coverage individuals typically cannot afford. In more advanced countries like sweden or canada, youre indirectly allowing a government to subsidize a component of your under-the-table employment of coders and hackers. expenses like retirement, life insurance, dental coverage and the cost of work-related activities like ice cream socials are then realized as a savings. In my opinion coders and hackers must be very careful when engaging in bug bounty as the cost of a programmer including benefits is often not fully reimbursed when they find and patch a bug. even if that is not a primary consideration, the ethics of fixing googles problems are worth considering
small projects like mozilla should get to do it, as theyve consistently demonstrated a moral and ethical commitment to protecting the internet for all humankind. Google, a major multinational corporation that lobbies congress for H1B legislation, is in a bit more of a grey area. Chrome is an offering in which its user becomes the product, the final objective to sell the subjects data to various other corporations and earn a profit.
now if we can just get a judge to rule the fundamental concept of an "e-book" is bullshit and nothing more than an encumbered text document designed to peddle locked down e-garbage hardware and fleece the ignorant.
from the googles, not hard to find most of these. For the record, as a gay man, there is absolutely no future tolerance for a person or group of people who have systematically enacted legislation and perpetuated stereotypes and outright lies to justify my existence as a second class citizen. Its like after the 1964 civil rights amendment, you issue a statement calling for tolerance and respect of the view that interracial marriage is an abomination. Not surprisingly, Card is a member of the National Organization for Marriage, a group thats equated gays to the downfall of organized religion and government, and largely bankrolled californias proposition 8.
"Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage..."
"The first and greatest threat from court decisions in California and Massachusetts, giving legal recognition to "gay marriage," is that it marks the end of democracy in America. "
"And if you choose to home-school your children so they are not propagandized with the "normality" of "gay marriage," you will find more states trying to do as California is doing -- making it illegal to take your children out of the propaganda mill that our schools are rapidly becoming."
"in another column I will talk seriously and candidly about the state of scientific research on the causes of homosexuality, and the reasons why homosexuality persists even though it does not provide a reproductive advantage."
TAWS computer: SINK RATE!! pilot: You're a 777 so that makes you about 18 years old. why dont you show some respect. TAWS computer: TOO LOW!!! TERRAIN!! pilot: you kids think you know everything. back in my day we didnt shout at our elders. TAWS computer: PULL UP!!! PULL UP!!! PULL UP!!! pilot: get off my damn lawn.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat#Association_with_diseases
it doesnt really matter if i "believe" theyre bad for me. Scientific research seems to conclude saturated fats are linked to varying extents with both heart disease and cancer.
'tastes like grass' is an incredibly subjective assertion. the conclusion that fat 'brings out their flavour' is also baseless considering fermentation and roasting are readily available alternatives which have been used for centuries. Beets, Carrots, Corn and cucumber all have a distinctive flavour despite the lack of fat.
hydrogenated oils go through chemical processing in order to introduce hydrogen. as for cream, or butter, not a single drop reaches a supermarket before being pasteurized at 'temperatures'.
i do agree, sugar and empty carbohydrates dominate the wasteland that is the modern convenience food cornucopia. corn syrup and glucose render us incapable of ever reaching the point of saity and refined starches send blood sugar racing in every direction. its a fools errand to discount the link between these two and preventable conditions such as heart disease and diabetes, however my point is simple: its bombastically ignorant to concede that 'everything makes everyone fat.' the best TFA hopes for is click fodder.
Id have more time to spend with the elderly, as would most other adults, if we focused this technology on deprecating the more grueling parts of the service sector like fast food and walmart so i didnt have to work two jobs to pay rent.
more data should be required before we make such a broad spectrum 'everything is getting fat because of everything' claim, which is absolutely as absurd as it sounds. In the cases of laboratory controlled animals, im willing to venture a sedentary and stressful lifestyle has accumulated their girth.
in the case of people, we've stopped eating real food entirely for both convenience and lack of nutritional education. Some of us work odd hours or multiple jobs and just dont have time to cook. places like wendys offer a reasonable facimile of food but the ingredients list for even a hamburger bun starts to look more like the back pages of an organic chemistry lab book. Most 30somethings like myself havent the slightest idea, nor care, about how to cook their own food outside of a cardboard box and boil-point water. And packaged food companies agree this is the way it should be. There is no more home economics, we emerge from primary education with no more than an understanding of hunger and satiation.
I also think its a cultural thing. Jamie Oliver, for all the work hes done in targeting childhood obesity and healthy eating, still cooks an alarming number of recipes that youd never think to serve the majority of a populus thats overweight. This holds true for most chefs, celebrity or not. Browned butter and whole cream are still entirely acceptable additions to most semi-casual and upscale dining experiences despite the well proven fact theyre killing us. There are only four meats we readily consume on a daily basis yet theyve replaced hundreds of vegetables in nearly every meal of the day. Many adults simply avoid healthy vegetables like onions, tomatoes or broccoli alltogether, picking from their meal and instead focusing on pasta or meat.
articles like this that just throw in the proverbial towel arent helping. We need competent nutritional education and responsible industry to start offering food that is both nutritious and healthy. Yet as with most industries the change often comes from the consumer, and its often met half-hearted and begrudgingly.
Is the government so up-to-its-tits in lobbyists it cant complete a single google search without a campaign contribution? Here are a few license models that might work for some, hell in fact all, digital media in the 21st century.
BSD
GPL
copyleft
LGPL3
MIT
Creative Commons
the list goes on but at no point does it include the whistling clown-car that is DMCA or the iron boot of DRM. copyright in the 21st century is premised on the idea that expiration encourages innovation and that on some level, we all benefit and advance greatly from sharing as opposed to consolidating the knowledge and power amongst a cloistered few. yeah, its a radical departure for some but discourages cashcowing a product or franchising something to death (the Matrix series anyone?)
viable alternatives for nearly every google service exist today, so a 5 minute full-scale service outage is only relevant if you're a manager at google. since the internet is self-healing and completely capable of routing around most damage, google is moreso a clearing house for consumer trust than anything else. 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, or more and google would lose customers, which to them is far more important as a publically traded corproration than any web service they offer. googles controversial move of silence after an outage when considered in the context of the corporation as citizen is disconcerting as well. Our friends, as google would like to refer to themselves, wouldnt refuse to confide in us after an outage or problem. If anything it shows a shift from the pre-ipo to post-ipo days has indeed taken hold among other such revelations as the redaction of 20% time. STFU is an Adobe, Apple, or Redmond approach the market tends to regard as acceptabe but one that consumers do not tolerate.
this isnt of course something new, as all theaters have experienced marked decreases in attendance. the problem with driveins is they couldnt compare to indoor theater projection quality and audio quality and so were quickly usurped. indoor theater owners in turn sat high on their horses raking in ticket and concession sales while theaters rotted. Todays theater, either outdoor or indoor, cannot compare with the average home theater. plush couches or dedicated recliner seating, audio systems that meet or exceed the quality of any commercial theater, clean floors and a quiet livingroom environment to enjoy the movie without patrons giggling or screaming or talking on cellphones. you can even pause to take a slash. You also dont have to sit through 25 minutes of coca cola commercials before even getting to the previews. That crap can roll by on mute while you're making popcorn or slipping into pajamas.
TFA was likely penned by a nostalgic baby boomer. the kind that force nat king cole over the PA systems of every major retailer in november and cant for the life of them figure out the self check-out lanes at the grocery store. Theaters, any theaters but broadway and live show, are for all intents and purposes completely dead. This is an excellent occasion as well. Outdoor theater meant piping FM or AM broadcast audio into your car from a 5-10 watt transciever at the concession stand. if you couldnt pick up the signal, you were relegated to a 2 pound metal box on a pole you listened to while watching the movie. Indoor theater conversely meant ridiculous ticket prices, disgusting food, filthy seating and the ever ubiquitous sticky floors of which on no occasion could you expect your complaints to be taken seriously.
this has been well known for nearly 3 years but it doesnt really get much coverege because, well, yeah its the same on a number of levels but disasterously worse.
School loans cant be absolved through bankruptcy, they'll take them from any form of income you earn. this 'perpetuity' makes them attractive to investors because its "foolproof" and acceptable by the plutocracy because it ensures that even if you get a good education, your position results in nothing more than endentured servitude to the state in the hopes of one day living the american dream after those loans get paid off. politicians like the idea because it boosts school enrollment and kids think the whole thing is swell until they realize no ones hiring.
the most telling sign is the recent snafu about the student loan rate, which was tossed about without much bickering at all despite the fact that both sides of the house mortally detest the other. a deal was reached quickly for a number of reasons, not the least of which include another round of occupy protests but this time perhaps with violence and property damage that isnt fabricated by the news. We are by all indications keeping the ship afloat and trying not to draw too much attention to the flaming lido deck. Im not sure when its going to happen, but expect some serious shit to hit the fan when investors realize how dangerous it is to insist millions of people shuffle around with thousands in permanent debt. the fear isnt that some day the markets will crash, its that some day the kid with the biology masters working at dennys is going to pick up a molotov.
"Harassment silences and repositions content creators in ways that protect the interests of certain fan groups."
s/Harassment/Management/
the only difference being management butters the bread so content creators dont have a problem eviscerating a beloved storyline. There have been plenty of times when content creators have just sold the fuck out and decided their fans were worth less than gobs of cash. Im looking directly at you, Westwood studios. conversely, studios like 3drealms had no problem ignoring trolls and abusive fans while they spent through the cash and coasted into bankruptcy. What did we get? some studio standing at the auction block waiting to inheret and subsequently destroy a sizeable piece of our childhood.
We are hurt, angry, and have very little patience for anyone waiting in the wings to fuck up a good plot or storyline. Can you blame us? If given the opportunity most of us would have gone for the throats of the team that sandbagged the force unleashed 2. if the result is all to often we get storylines like Command and conquer 4, you can expect us to naturally be rabidly concerned youre trying or being forced to franchise and cashcow us.
Redmonds day late and dollar short approach to rectifying its inevitable downfall in gaming is cure for the symptom and not for the cause. While Steam announced a radically new direction in gaming thats been clammoured about for ages, Microsoft basically fashioned the next generation console into a prison yard for publishers and a land mine for customers. Damage control be damned, the XBox likely will not play a huge part of 2014's next generation consoles seeing as Sony has not only achieved architectural parity but actually vocalized sympathy and support for gamers in the face of Redmond. Nintendo can make hardware mistakes but its hard to escape the notion that almost every game in their lineup is about fun and rewarding gameplay first.
If gabe is worried about the success of his shift to linux, all he has to do is utter the magic words, "Half Life 3." I'll gladly spend the next 2 days fervently compiling and patching to ensure Gentoo can run it.
the CDC routinely releases statistics and studies that conclude people who eat healthy and exercise regularly experience dramatically lower cancer rates. of course cancer is a terrible disease for anyone it afflicts but rarifying its manifestation should be of greater realistic priority than a panacea. if you're pining for a silver bullet you might want to give running shoes, fresh fruit and vegetables a shot. Drink a little less, and for christ sake if you're still smoking, quit.
apple greybeards slowstroking to memories of a benevolent leader. the man is more of a pop culture consumer electronics icon than he ever was a tech mogul, and the jobs film will see to it the legacy remains intact. it will pander heavily to fanboys and moviegoers alike as it eschews fact for fiction in the pursuit of product placement and marketing tie-ins. We'll ignore guys like Jonathan Ive, who were basically instrumental in making the iPod pretty. the throngs of coders and UI designers and engineers will go unsung as a christgod is made whole in the pursuit of ensuring jobs is to our world as Stark was to his.
TL;DR: apple enjoys a 90 minute infomercial.
is it me or is FOIA kinda toothless these days? the oxcart and have blue shit has been a discovery channel/history channel show fodder for almost a decade. most everything in the release is common knowledge to anyone with access to wikipedia. FOIA was designed to start answering questions like who visited the whitehouse while George Bush was president, how does the domestic spy program work, and did we seriously commit war crimes in iraq.
instead its been so neutered, ignored and redacted at every level of government its basically a rubber stamp for any agency seeking to claim legitimacy in their clandestine day to day operations. the NYPD ignored for 2 years their FOIA for stop and frisk, and administrations routinely claim state secrets or executive privilege when they hear a question they dont like.
People like Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning and Julian Asssange are today the only means by which we request the freedom of information from our government, elected by and for the people. sideshows like this are to ensuring accountability in the government as the scopes monkey trial was to ensuring credibility to evolution.
seriously, as i look around the office and recall from offices past, ours is a field rife with obesity, diabetes, stroke, heart disese and various other maladies caused by eating nothing but twinkies washed down with sugary soda. we can all recount a person in our office who was so fat they required special seating thanks to the nerd diet. We all know who the guy with the smell is in the office and chances are hes obese. Someone so overweight that to reach the parking lot to the door was to them a 5k to anyone else. If we we're to consider Diet and Exercise programming languages, then our laughable grasp of them would send us all scrambling to the O'Reilly store so fast youd think it was black friday.
Put down the fucking twinkies. let them go, slow down on the soda (I can attest, its hard to quit) and try meatless monday. consider the wellness program at your office this year. If you dont have one, push for it, because as long as we continue to hold this dreck upon high as some golden calf from which its ambrose we spin our code, then we can all look forward to bigger chairs higher insurance premiums and shorter lives.
and to the offices that have snack bars, please stop. I mean just stop. if you have to offer a snack as a perk, look at getting something healthier than packets of crisps and candy bars because while the HR team might not eat the junk food, the HR team takes a real lunch. nerds at their desks routinely plow through breakfast and lunch without so much as a thought and when offered, will eat anything freely given. We miss meals so you dont miss deadlines. stop poisoning us.
Shortly before the Arab Spring, Hillary Clinton praised Bahrain for embarking upon a "democratic path." Obama has since called on Bahrain's rulers to implement reforms, but he's held back from speaking out as forcefully against the crackdown as he did with countries like Libya and Syria. The Obama administration is currently delaying a $53 million arms sale to Bahrain until an "independent" Bahraini panel issues a report on alleged human rights abuses during the uprising.
Why is it we're not leaping to defend the uprisers? The U.S. Navy enjoys having its Fifth Fleet stationed in Bahrain. Bahrain lives adjacent to the persian gulf, which is incidentally pissing distance from our latest boogeyman Iran. Why no arms deal? its not because we give a shit so much as to ensure we can guarantee their military wont stage a coup in the name of the people and oust our convenient dictator...because thats a thing that sometimes happens when people dont like you sticking your dick in their regional politics.
and if you're concerned this is an obama "thing," crack open your history books and turn to the carter doctrine. Jimmy basically guaranteed we have to spend the rest of our miserable existence stirring a kettle of kalashnikovs for cheap oil.
learn to cook, and eat at home. not only will you avoid supporting an industry that underpays and brutalizes every employee from servers to dishwashers, but you'll avoid other ugly things like reservation wars and hepatitis. Invite friends over, turn the TV off, have a good conversation, but stop shoveling coal into this engine of human misery we call "fine dining."
crowdsourcing implies you're enticing me with a service or product i want that i dont have. iphone, ipad, android and to a lesser extent windows phone already provide me with a means to consume advertisements and participate in a walled garden. If canonicals intent is to build me a phone i want to use, then it needs to take a few hundred steps back and explain to me how forwarding search information to amazon.com is in any way helpful in respecting or preserving my privacy.
crowdsourcing also implies you cant afford to do this on your own, but you also dont have investment potential in a legitimate public market. To date Canonical has declared 30 million in revenue, which seems to suggest it could entice investors or backers if it went public and issued stock, which is what companies do when they want to expand. starting a kickstarter seems like a cheap pitch by canonical to trick people into paying for something that will just take advantage of them through the same invasive advertising and privacy violation used by three other device manufacturers to varying degrees of success in order to further profit
The problem to school attendance is a societal issue. texas' abstinence only education perpetuates a cycle in which unfit or unwilling parents are needlessly encumbered by raising a child. working two jobs and barely making rent, the prosects are low when faced with ensuring your child doesnt starve to death and attends school on a regular basis.
through policical will, we've slashed education funding to the lowest levels in 30 years. We shouldnt get the luxury of complaining about low school attendance figures when evidence suggests there are arent enough teachers let alone truancy officers to ensure attendance.
the increasing police presence in most schools also reinforces a schoolhouse to jailhouse track for kids that need help the most. one or two run-ins with the cops and most kids just quit going entirely assuming the system is rigged against them.
Dont get me wrong, RFID is a glorious technology. We should use it instead to track politicians in the pursuit of determining where they get off neutering a public service that is intrinsic in becoming a functional human being, let alone model citizen. Maybe a few well placed tags can determine at what point our duly elected officials secure kickbacks for more cops in schools. Line their pockets with some and lets try to figure out what tribal leader is pushing them model legislation for doling cash to religious institutions disguised as legitimate schools
im sure they could correlate a wealth of information by looking at german communications station logs from these vessels to determine the exact time and date of their demise
"day 15, we remain undetected off the enemy coastline. I dont know how the allies have patrolled so long and hard without fiWF##$(_NO CARRIER"
this isnt a justification to go 'to the cloud.' its a cautionary tale on the merits of redundant infrastructure. in the grande tradition of slashdot car analogies: what you did was the equivalent of buying a maserati after your car was in the shop instead of taking the bus.
Amazon and friends still have regular service outages. these in fact may exceed your yearly downtime depending on how good an admin you are. the only difference is instead of a drunk driver you're held hostage by a provider that has no accountability when it comes to your uptime.
Natural-gas extraction, geothermal-energy production and other activities that inject fluid underground
no those first two are really the only two. finding a study which suddenly lumps a very controversial method of extracting natural gas next to a method of energy production we've used for 40 years is actually rather suspicious.
Goodbye Florida.
if you're trying to imply some sort of value by comparing an ice shelf to florida, you may be mistaken to find the ice shelf greatly outvalues florida in the opinion of quite a number of americans.
as a corporation is abdicates you from the responsibility of things like health insurance in countries like america that have very expensive coverage individuals typically cannot afford. In more advanced countries like sweden or canada, youre indirectly allowing a government to subsidize a component of your under-the-table employment of coders and hackers. expenses like retirement, life insurance, dental coverage and the cost of work-related activities like ice cream socials are then realized as a savings. In my opinion coders and hackers must be very careful when engaging in bug bounty as the cost of a programmer including benefits is often not fully reimbursed when they find and patch a bug. even if that is not a primary consideration, the ethics of fixing googles problems are worth considering
small projects like mozilla should get to do it, as theyve consistently demonstrated a moral and ethical commitment to protecting the internet for all humankind. Google, a major multinational corporation that lobbies congress for H1B legislation, is in a bit more of a grey area. Chrome is an offering in which its user becomes the product, the final objective to sell the subjects data to various other corporations and earn a profit.
now if we can just get a judge to rule the fundamental concept of an "e-book" is bullshit and nothing more than an encumbered text document designed to peddle locked down e-garbage hardware and fleece the ignorant.
from the googles, not hard to find most of these. For the record, as a gay man, there is absolutely no future tolerance for a person or group of people who have systematically enacted legislation and perpetuated stereotypes and outright lies to justify my existence as a second class citizen. Its like after the 1964 civil rights amendment, you issue a statement calling for tolerance and respect of the view that interracial marriage is an abomination. Not surprisingly, Card is a member of the National Organization for Marriage, a group thats equated gays to the downfall of organized religion and government, and largely bankrolled californias proposition 8.
"Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage..."
"The first and greatest threat from court decisions in California and Massachusetts, giving legal recognition to "gay marriage," is that it marks the end of democracy in America. "
"And if you choose to home-school your children so they are not propagandized with the "normality" of "gay marriage," you will find more states trying to do as California is doing -- making it illegal to take your children out of the propaganda mill that our schools are rapidly becoming."
"in another column I will talk seriously and candidly about the state of scientific research on the causes of homosexuality, and the reasons why homosexuality persists even though it does not provide a reproductive advantage."
TAWS computer: SINK RATE!!
pilot: You're a 777 so that makes you about 18 years old. why dont you show some respect.
TAWS computer: TOO LOW!!! TERRAIN!!
pilot: you kids think you know everything. back in my day we didnt shout at our elders.
TAWS computer: PULL UP!!! PULL UP!!! PULL UP!!!
pilot: get off my damn lawn.