07:51 – We’re in inefficient mode here, driven by exigency. For example, yesterday we made up 10 sets of regulated chemical bags and 14 sets of unregulated chemical bags for CK01A chemistry kits. Ordinarily, we make those up in batches of 30 or 60 at a time. But we had in stock only 10 of one chemical needed in one bag and only 14 of another chemical needed in the other bag, so 10 and 14 it was. But at least I now have everything I need to build 10 more CK01A chemistry kits. Which, given that we currently have two more CK01A orders than we have kits, takes our finished-goods inventory to eight of those kits, once I actually get those kits boxed up. Same deal on FK01A forensic science kits, for which we have two outstanding orders and only two kits left in stock. And we’re down to zero of the the FK01B kits, with two orders outstanding, and two of the FK01C kits, with one order outstanding. I need to get more of all of those made up today as well if I have time. At least we’re still in decent shape on the BK01 biology kits and the CK01B chemistry kits. It looks like we’ll ship 18 or 20 kits today, and then turn around tomorrow and start again.
15:34 – Our shipping area–AKA the foyer table–is full, and I’m just about out of energy. I still have outstanding orders, but they’ll just have to ship tomorrow.
I just ran the final numbers for last month. We matched August 2013 results, almost exactly. The same number of kits, and within a few hundred bucks of the same revenue. Ordinarily I wouldn’t be pleased with no increase year-on-year, but August 2013 was an extraordinarily good month, with nearly twice the number of kits and revenue of the next-best month. This month is also shaping up nicely. Two days into the month–only 6.7% of the month gone–we’re already at 15% of total revenues for September 2013. That, incidentally, was also an extremely good month, so we’re on pace to do well for the year.
Q: “What is the national language of the United States?”
A: “Third Grade English.”
(Except in southern California. Hi Slim!)
What I’ve never understood is this “reading at the 3rd (or whatever) grade level”. There are no grade levels of reading; either one can read or one can’t. Kids lack data about meanings and pronunciations of complex or unusual words, and most need to develop speed, but for anyone who has learned to read it’s all about vocabulary and learning to extract as much meaning as possible as quickly as possible.
My sad observation is that ESL (English as a Second Language) classes are now the standard at all K-12 grade levels. The school district has given up in some schools and the majority of classes are now taught in Spanish (the Mexican kind).
The newest problem is this latest batch that Obama has brought in do not even speak Spanish. Our schools are now in panic mode.
At least they know how to queue for their free meal (now serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner).
Seen together on Drudge:
Fast-food workers plan acts of civil disobedience
and
China to mass produce industrial robots
Apropos, since lately both Mickey D’s and Wendy’s hamburgers taste so much like cardboard that they might as well be made by robots on an actual assembly line.
You know, my best friend from first grade through college decided to go to med school late in his senior year of college. By that time, there were no positions available in any US med school, so David applied to med school in Chile. He didn’t speak Spanish, but he spent the summer learning Spanish and hit the ground running in med school.
When he graduated, he opened a clinic in Chile and practiced there for a decade or so. Eventually, he decided to return to the US, where he’d have to do another internship/residency. He did that, but before he was allowed to practice here, he had to pass an English proficiency exam. We thought that was hilariously bureaucratic, but I see something to be said for it in today’s world.
What would be wrong with requiring that applicant’s pass an English proficiency exam (a real one, not a gimme) before they were eligible for any local, state, or federal government services? If you can’t speak English fluently, you don’t belong here.
Well today kinda sucks. I have a autoimmune disease that is in remission (guess that is the proper term). I used to take 200 mg of tetracycline per day in order to keep it in remission but when the tetracycline ran out three years ago, my doc moved me to 50 mg/day of doxycycline. I ran out of doxycycline today and found out that a. my doc shut down his practice last year and b. I had not been to see him in over a year so he cannot give me a new prescription. He has limited hours at another clinic so I will see him on the 17th. Hopefully, I will stay in remission as I have removed the root cause of the disease. I still get a lesion or two a month to remind me that life can suck.
What do I have? Pityriasis Lichenoides Chronica. PLC for short. Has an occurrence rate of 1 in 300,000 in the USA. My doc in Houston has seen 20 cases over his lifetime, all occurring in Atlanta in the 1960s when he was an intern. I was the first new case in Houston that he had seen in over 30 years.
What is it caused by? No official cause but for me, it is caused or activated by drinking milk. I used to get home each day and drink a big glass of milk. One day when I turned 46 or so, I noticed that I had over 200 lesions on my body. I went to a derm and he diagnosed me with PLC which he (50 year old doc) had never seen before. He started me on coal tar which did nothing but smell horrible. I moved to a new doc with experience in it who started me on tetracycline and that cleared a lot of it up but was still getting 10 lesions a month. About 3 years ago, my milk habit turned into an allergy which resulted in me upchucking every time I had an ounce or more of milk. Yes, even half-n-half in my coffee caused me to upchuck. Totally dropping milk has cut my PLC lesions back to one per month.
Life is weird.
“What would be wrong with requiring that applicant’s pass an English proficiency exam (a real one, not a gimme) before they were eligible…? If you can’t speak English fluently, you don’t belong here.”
Yep, that’s the way it’s supposed to work for college, isn’t it? No expensive remedial English classes once they get in – that all gets done much less expensively in advance of attending college! Right?
What would be wrong with requiring that applicant’s pass an English proficiency exam (a real one, not a gimme) before they were eligible for any local, state, or federal government services? If you can’t speak English fluently, you don’t belong here.
We need an English only USA constitutional amendment. The USA is turning into Babylon. It is not just Spanish or the many variants of that. We also have about a dozen other languages here in the Houston area.
Sarah Hoyt on the future of Europe:
I suspect Europe will convulse and throw out both out of the continent immigrants and anyone perceived as a stranger, which will vary from place to place.
This doesn’t mean it will go back to some form of pure race. Pure “nationality” in Europe is a myth. It exists only in the sense that people believe it exists. In reality there have been periods like this all along where people from outside the area flooded the area. It was usually caused by or ended in tears.
I think it will end in tears and blood and that at the end of it Europe will still be Europe, although there’s a generation there who will need to be very fertile if some places are to stay viable.
I think Russia’s chest pounding is the beginning of the ball, and though they’re as importune as those boys who followed us on the motorcycles and though in the end what they will spark is a convulsion that will tear Europe into the pieces it was before the euro-delusions and/or into new and different pieces (because Europe is at its heart clannish and clan and nation don’t always coincide.)
Lynn, I’m not trying to suggest you try anything that would increase your problems, but I’m curious. I know for a fact that reactions to milk may be controlled by moving to a different form of milk (e.g goat rather than cow is the common variant, changing the form of casein and to a different extent that of lactose). Also that using yoghurt, in which the casein has been altered, can lessen the problems. Do you happen to know if either of those steps ameliorate problems such as you have?
No global warming for 19 years now. “New paper on ‘the pause’ says it is 19 years at surface and 16-26 years at the lower troposphere”:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/01/new-paper-on-the-pause-says-it-is-19-years-at-surface-and-16-26-years-at-the-lower-troposphere/
Apparently, Obama is listening to the screaming Democrats up for re-election in November and has decided to delay his new global warming tax that he is enacting, without Congress, via the Clean Air Act. Amazing.
I have seen claims that the USA is spending six billion dollar per year on global warming studies. Talk about people being on the dole! There are zero studies being funded by the government for the global warming deniers. That is one way to ensure your outcome of studies.
BTW, you folks north of the Mason-Dixon line might want to buy an extra blanket for this winter. Especially since Obama has successfully shut down over 30% of the coal power plants in the USA in the last year or so. And you might want to find an alternate electric supply as I suspect that the grid extremities will have difficulties in blizzards, etc.
I know for a fact that reactions to milk may be controlled by moving to a different form of milk (e.g goat rather than cow is the common variant, changing the form of casein and to a different extent that of lactose). Also that using yoghurt, in which the casein has been altered, can lessen the problems. Do you happen to know if either of those steps ameliorate problems such as you have?
Yes, I can drink soy milk all day long with no immediate effects nor long term effects. I have tested this by drinking soy nog in the silly season. I cannot drink almond milk as I am allergic to almonds also (almonds cause me gastronomic distress).
I can also eat milk that has been cooked into pancakes. I can eat regular butter but I will get a lesion or two soon after. I do much better with fake butter but am trying to stop eating butter-like products also.
I have not tried goat milk. If there is lactose in it then I suspect the same problems.
Lactose intolerance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-mp3nW51W4
That Cyndi Lauper video was terrible! And funny!
On Sarah Hoyt, she has written an excellent SciFi series set about three hundred years in the future after global riots and wars reduced the global population by about 90%. The cause was eugenics. She also writes a lot of Fantasy.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439133980/
I think that Europe is trying to decide which way to go. Keep the invaders and become part of the Caliphate. Or expel the invaders which will be horrible and bloody. We will see 400 people squeezed into a cattle car on the news. I have no idea which path they will take but if the expelling process does not take place in the next 20 years then the decision will be made.
“You know, my best friend from first grade through college decided to go to med school late in his senior year of college. By that time, there were no positions available in any US med school, so David applied to med school in Chile. He didn’t speak Spanish, but he spent the summer learning Spanish and hit the ground running in med school.”
Had a boss who escaped Vietnam as a refugee in around 1976. Was granted asylum in Australia, and while he was at the migrant hostel didn’t have much to do so he taught himself to play the piano (fairly well, I think. Certainly much better than me.)
He worked on the assembly line at Chrysler Australia for a while, then went to Adelaide University – speaking no English. He already had a science degree from a Vietnamese university – not recognized in Australia. He got through a degree in maths, computer science and chemistry without being able to understand the lectures at first. Most of that stuff is in its own language so he was able to get through.
He’s also a first rate photographer. The sort of refugee I don’t have any problems with coming here.
It is possible to learn a language quickly, but it requires total immersion. Frustrating as hell for the first several weeks. Without immersion, learning a language above the “bad tourist” level is a long, hard slog. I know, because I am currently learning Spanish for fun, I’ve been at it for 18 months, and it’s just now starting to feel like I can communicate “off script”, albeit still very haltingly. Sure, if I lived in Spain (but non-immersed, see below) it would go a bit faster, but not a whole lot.
We see a lot of immigrants here, and the problem with learning the local language is that immigrants rarely come alone – they come as families, or stay with friends. It is very difficult to speak a foreign language with friends and family – they stay with their native tongue, this is the bulk of their communication, and it prevents immersion. If they are working to make ends meet, maybe raising kids as well, there’s going to be little time and energy left for studying, which means that many (most?) never reach a level much beyond asking directions and prices in a store.
That’s reality. If the US were to require proficiency before immigrants could come, then you essentially ban almost all immigration except from UK, Australia, Canada, and other English speaking countries. That is probably not politically feasible. Certainly here it is not – the best we can do is require immigrants to take a certain number of language courses, and to only grant citizenship if they demonstrate basic proficiency.
I would have no problem with that, and I suspect a lot of other people wouldn’t either. And it wouldn’t be just Australia, Canada, NZ, and the UK. There are probably as many English speakers in India as in any of those countries. And, regardless of their native languages, the kind of people we should want to grant residency visas to usually speak fluent English anyway. As we have discussed before, the educated class from most countries is usually bi-lingual in English, if it is not their native language.
You do have to be able to read, write, and speak English for citizenship.
Sure, but it should also be required for a temporary- or permanent-residency visa. And the level of fluency required for citizenship sets a very low bar.
You do have to be able to read, write, and speak English for citizenship.
Open borders and dolts like Teddy “did she drown this time” Kennedy have doomed the US. ObuttWad will finish us off. Fauxahontas for the Brass Ring!
Well, as I keep saying, people really will put up with only so much. That’s how Hitler came to power in Germany and the communists in Russia.
What worries me is that the people generally have good cause to regret not putting up with a bit more, because the solution is usually worse than the original problem. I’m sure that everyone here would agree that, as bad as Obama and the federal politicians are, they’re nothing compared to what we could end up with. Who was it who said that revolutions eat their children? I don’t want to be eaten.
“China Hopes to Have Its Own Operating System Ready by October”
“Hunt for Red October”
http://windowsitpro.com/paul-thurrotts-wininfo/china-hopes-have-its-own-operating-system-ready-october
I cannot tell if they are going to move all desktops to Linux or whatever. As documented here, device drivers for disparate hardware are a mess. Windows is definitely king of the device driver and Linux a far second. I am not sure that Apple’s OSX is even in the running as their hardware support is very minimal.
But make no mistake here, if China feels that Windows is a USA government spy machine, they will outlaw it. I cannot see how that they would feel that way about Linux though.
I hope you’ll be OK, Mr. Lynn; that does indeed suck.
“Open borders and dolts like Teddy “did she drown this time” Kennedy have doomed the US. ObuttWad will finish us off. Fauxahontas for the Brass Ring!”
It was mainly FatBoy Ted, he of the poor driving and reporting-to-the-police skills. He engineered and saw through the immigration disaster that kicked off in the mid-60s, and my theory is he did it out of sheer hateful spite because he knew this country would never elect him Prez like his brother. Payback, Kennedy style.
I don’t give a blind rat’s syphilitic ass who actually gets into the WH anymore; I just hope for a decent show during the runup and election. I expect the Dems will have almost as many weirdos, creeps and clowns this time round as the hapless, stupid, and brain-dead cowardly Repubs have fielded for decades now.
Cheers, homies; the night is still young! I’ll probably stay up for another three hours!
Cheers, homies; the night is still young! I’ll probably stay up for another three hours!
I see that the new job is sucking your soul out already! Just kidding.
I hope that you get to hire your two new IT manglers. Sounds like you need help in the worst way. But, sounds like the company is busy making stuff to sell.
BTW, I’ll be fine, no matter what. The last time I looked like I had the Chicken Pox. Bad. But, no pain.
re RBT’s oh-crap-panic-mode inventory and build system: obviously you need someone to stand over you and crack the whip. I’d suggest putting Colin in charge, but a) I don’t know if they make dominatrix outfits for dogs, b) he’s a boy dog anyway, and c) he doesn’t have thumbs and thus would have trouble cracking the whip.
re English requirement for US citizenship: Yah, there’s a conversational English requirement. This consists of the examiner reading from a list of prepared statements, to which the candidate replies, with memorized responses being acceptable. I know this because my wife asked me to help a Chinese woman study for the citizenship test about five years ago, and I really messed her up by paraphrasing some of the questions. She didn’t speak English beyond “Hello, goodbye, thank you, one, two, three”, but she’d memorized the statements and responses. And she became a US citizen. It’s a hell of a system.
re learning a language by immersion: Son#1 came to the US at age 8 3/4, not speaking English beyond counting to 10. His mother signed him up for 4th grade and sat with him in class for the first week. After that he had an ESL teacher who was of no use whatsoever, and I helped him an hour or two every day, on vocabulary and grammar and pronunciation, and later on spelling and what-not. He was able to carry on a limited conversation within a couple weeks and was perfectly fine by New Years, and was completely fluent by the end of the year. (And then the school district really really didn’t want him to get out of the ESL program, despite their complaints about the cost of the program. Could it be possible that the state or federal government more than reimbursed them for the cost? Nah, un-possible.)
Could it be possible that the state or federal government more than reimbursed them for the cost?
Bingo. Most, if not all, of those programs provide money from the state or federal government. More than enough to pay for the extra person per child with programs. Mainstreaming kids is a real boon to the districts, but really bad for the classroom.
My wife subs in the local school and in one of the classes they were mainstreaming a kid that was basically functioning at the level of an infant. Could not do anything, could not talk, just grunted. No control over body functions such as bowels. She said it was most unpleasant when the child decided to have a bowel explosion. Of course it disrupted the class.
Naturally the kids parents said the child was doing so much better. Yeh right. All the parents were getting was a taxpayer supported daytime babysitter. The child did indeed graduate with a high school “special education” diploma even he could not utter a word nor understood a word anyone was saying. That diploma was good for the county as they got more money from the state, and the state got more money from the feds.
I’m really liking Mr. Lynn’s book recommendation “Terms of Enlistment.” Boot camp is really tough. I don’t remember it like that. Oh, wait, I went through “officer” boot camp. lol Pussy Aviator.
The PRCs in the book are what metro areas are headed for. Not just the size as in the book. Weekly rations, please! Let’s start with Detroit and Chicago. Maybe Oprah can fund the first PRC in Chicago.
I read fast food workers are planning some “civil disobedience” in the near future. These people are really the dumbest of the dumb. Who do they think is going to hire them at $15/hr? Ship them to the nearest PRC. Imbeciles.
I remember many years ago, a fast food place had three order stations, little screens where you entered what you wanted, got summary and place the order. Easy and quick. That wouldn’t work today since most high school graduates seem illiterate. Add in the 20 languages to cover mandatory gummint intervention. And and idea that wont’t/didn’t work. I remember going there and ordering a shake every week. I think it was Hardee’s. Are they still around?
“We are not programmed for cows’ milk. We are the only species that continue to drink milk after we have stopped breastfeeding and we are the only species that drinks another species’ milk!”
Professor Jonathan Brostoff ~ leading authority on allergies and food intolerances, from King’s College, London.
Do you know the whole truth about milk?
by ROSALIND RYAN
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-157290/Do-know-truth-milk.html
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Robert Cohen, author of: “MILK A-Z”
The NOTMILK Homepage
http://www.notmilk.com/
What Went Wrong?
http://www.notmilk.com/wwr.html
The NOTMILK Path to Good Health — presented by Robert Cohen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwBKnEZAtZs
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Got Proof? Lack of Evidence for Milk’s Benefits
by Mark Hyman, MD
http://drhyman.com/blog/2013/07/05/got-proof-lack-of-evidence-for-milks-benefits/
“Don’t drink milk” blah blah blah. “Cow milk is bad for you” blah blah blah. If you’re in the (majority) portion of the human race without the mutation, you likely get the shits if you take dairy. On the other hand, those of us with the mutation can drink it with no ill effects.
Various studies have allegedly shown bad effects of drinking milk as an adult, but I’ve never seen one that wasn’t junk science. Aside from other shortcomings, I’ve never seen one that tested participants for the lactase persistence genes. Recent studies also tend to focus on effects of growth hormones, bovine antibiotics, and such, which is an entirely different issue.
Bottom line, if you can drink a quart of whole milk and not have it stream out one end or the other, there’s no evidence that milk is bad for you.
I’m really liking Mr. Lynn’s book recommendation “Terms of Enlistment.” Boot camp is really tough. I don’t remember it like that. Oh, wait, I went through “officer” boot camp.
I like the fact that all recruits in the book went through the same boot camp for army, marines, navy, etc. Then if you survived and did not get kicked out, they chose a service for you and possibly OCS. That is what happens when you have ten recruits for each spot.
I think that we in the USA are headed to the default. We are going to muddle our way to one to three billion people in this country with massive poverty. The overpopulation is not going to come from babies but from immigrants. The USA is turning into the go to spot for all world’s under educated and underfed people in this world.
And shortly we will start building these PRC complexes of one million people each. They will be violent places and the police will hate them with a passion. So the cycle will start. They will fit right in around Detroit and Chicago. Each city will get 30 to 40 of these complexes.
But I drank milk just fine until I was 50. Only then did I get the violent upchucking. And it only takes an ounce or so to cause me to upchuck. And, I used to drink a pint at a time.
Lynn, be thankful that your body is finally warning you to stop eating / drinking what’s not good for it. They’ve linked cow’s milk consumption to diabetes type 1, breast cancer, prostate cancer, etc., etc. Do some research, the information is out there. But there’s also lots of misinformation too. Believe what you want, eat what you want, but be prepared to live with the consequences — the meat and dairy industries have lots of money and power and influence. Do your own research, and look at both sides of the question – don’t trust anyone, not even me !! Make up your own mind after looking at the evidence, and trusting your body. I’ve posted some links – check them out and see if they have any merit. Just because it’s controversial doesn’t mean that it has no merit.
“No llores como mujer lo que no supiste defender como hombre”
(“Don’t cry like a woman over what you could not defend like a man.”)
“I hope that you get to hire your two new IT manglers. Sounds like you need help in the worst way. But, sounds like the company is busy making stuff to sell.”
I may get ONE new drone, not two. Preferably a Windows person. So I can just play with Linux and then help them out once in a while, maybe. Yeah, the company put on a second shift, production is through the roof, and they have to find more warehouse space for TEMPORARY storage until they can get it out on trucks. No quibbles whatsoever about me getting help, ordering a new laptop, buying a new barcode label printer for the factory floor ($1,300), software licenses, etc., etc. If I get help on board and get them up to speed fairly well, I may ask them to send me to RHCSA/RHCE boot camp for a couple of weeks; send the other person to MCSA/MCSE boot camp. And buy more toyz.
“Oh, wait, I went through “officer” boot camp. lol Pussy Aviator.”
Well, at least you warn’t a “90-Day-Wonder” jeep lootenant. Count yer blessings.
Oh my, I see from my latest WSJ nooz squirt that El Presidente “…authorizes 350 additional military personnel to protect diplomatic facilities in Iraq….” Didn’t we see this movie already? What about all those ex-Blackwater contractors? Can’t we hire some ISIS battalions? After all, they’re already fully equipped with our weapons…
On the coming dystopia: you guys say PRCs and billions; I say mostly deserted slag-heap wastelands and depopulation. i.e., mass die-offs. The country can’t sustain a population like that in those circumstances, just can’t be done. China is finding that out; so will India. Russia’s population has gone down drastically already. The teeming hordes in the Camp of the Saints won’t last long.
The story linked here yesterday about the teacher being taken away because he wrote a couple of sf novels about a school shooting was incorrect.
From reading the couple of stories, including one that quoted his attorney, he was suspended because of: a letter he wrote to school officials, some harassment complaints against him, and some possible criminal charges. In addition, his attorney implied that he had been taken for a psych evaluation but due to HIPAA he can’t be more specific.
So. reading between the lines: an early 20s male writes a letter to his employer, has done some problematic things, and is taken away for hospitalization. He well could be a schizophrenic as it often starts manifesting it at his age.
@ech: Ya, I read that on Popehat – as usual, Ken is late to the party because he actually did some research. And he rightly named-and-shamed the original journalist for not asking these very questions.
Of course, the headline doesn’t read as well…
This is probably due to aliteracy being a bigger problem than illiteracy in the US. That is, many people’s skill in reading and writing will only progress to the level it is forced to.
I’ve got to 56 drinking quite a bit (1-2 litres per day, on average) of milk, and enjoying cheese, cream, etc. I take the anti-milk warnings with a large grain of salt, the same large grain that I use with anti-coke, anti-diet soft drink and anti-booze warnings. And the pronouncements of vegetarians and vegans. I love vegetables and fruit but could no easier give up meat than I could give up breathing.
“…I’m just about out of energy. I still have outstanding orders, but they’ll just have to ship tomorrow.”
Getting Old is Hell ™
Lynn wrote:
“I cannot drink almond milk as I am allergic to almonds also (almonds cause me gastronomic distress).”
Oh man! I really feel for you mate. That means you can’t eat chocolate coated almonds, doesn’t it? You’re missing out on one of life’s great treats.
(We had three almond trees in our back yard when I was growing up, and we harvested them for a local company.)
I just did a bit of Googling on milk. This from the Victorian health department and Deakin University:
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Milk_the_facts_and_fallacies
I also looked at an article by Dr Hyman (oh dear, I’d hate a name like that if I was a guy). I was very annoyed by the repeated pop-ups, and the fact that I couldn’t go back to my Google search. Every time I hit the back arrow I got a pop-up and stayed on his article. That doesn’t necessarily make him a shonk, but it makes him the object of suspicion.
Those anti-dairy sites are a bunch of cranks. There are no real data to work from, so anything presented as fact is actually just speculation. About the best I can for any of them is that they do not understand that correlation does not equal causation. Attempting to draw conclusion in the absence of long-term controlled double-blind trials is useless, and the last time anyone did any actual experiments on humans they were hanged after the Nuremberg Trials. After-the-fact data mining is essentially useless because you’re attempting to draw conclusions about your subject from data obtained from what mathematically is a chaotic system.
As is usually the case, just about anything in moderation is fine. Excessive consumption of dairy products may well be a bad idea, but the question is what’s excessive. My dad died at age 68 of congestive heart failure. I suspect his dairy intake might have had something to do with that. He drank huge amounts of whole milk, often a gallon a day or more, and he did that for 40 years. But I certainly wouldn’t assert that milk killed him
Heart attacks killed my father (at 72) and three of my grandparents, so I’m concerned about that, and dietary fat. I drink skim milk because my dietician tells me to and I don’t notice a taste difference. I also drink (mainly) diet soft drink for the same reasons. No perceptible taste/enjoyment difference and I don’t need all that sugar. A couple of years ago I lost 30 kg in less than 12 months while drinking lots of milk, so I don’t let it worry me.
Almonds: threat or menace?
The Dark Side of Almond Use
The country can’t sustain a population like that in those circumstances, just can’t be done.
Yes it can. Think vat grown soy food using material from the the city sewers. You know, organic food!
And 100% concrete buildings with minimal windows. You know, soviet style! Just hope that the strength of the concrete is over 1,000 psi with all the “additives” in it: dirt, glass, bones, etc.
And I can get plenty of water for you. A little salty maybe.
The first time I got sick on almonds, it was those Hershey almond kisses. Ate three of them and then had to rush to the nearest facility 20 minutes later.
Chickenhawks Obuttwad and Plugs Biden are sounding off on ISIS and the Rooskies. Thanks, Obuttwad, for basically committing us to war in Estonia. I guess NATO is toothless without the US. Can’t they handle the Rooskies themselves? Again, Obuttwad is such a weak leader. I guess he is trying to save face for his retirement and next book, speeches, etc. Putin must be laughing. And Jerry Rivers sounding off on ISIS. Send him over with his pistol, sans Infantry Battalion this time.
Oh, yeah, any news about our US Marine rotting in a Mexican jail. Yawn. Where’s Lurch? Probably sail boarding illegals across the Rio Grande. “Vote for me for El Presidente, no ID required.”
Every news site I hit has “Celebrity Nude Photo Hacking” plastered all over it. At first, Apple was meh. Now that more lefty libturd celebrities are bashing iCloud, Apple is scurrying to come up with something. Can’t have the lefties dissing Apple. Probably give them free iPhone 6s when they come out to shut them up.
A girl a year or two ahead of me in high school’s last name was Semen. Presumably it was Seeman or Siemen or something and got mangled at Ellis Island. (My grandfather’s last name was three letters (out of seven total) different after and before Ellis Island.)
Not quite
We have always been at war with
EastasiaEstonia.Like I said, Eric Blair was only about thirty years early with the year.
“the last time anyone did any actual experiments on humans they were hanged after the Nuremberg Trials…”
“Not quite”
Right:
http://www.uvm.edu/~eugenics/
Actually only into the late 30s and 40s and I don’t think any people really had experiments performed on them physically.
The Tuskegee thing was pretty bad, though.
How is Apple supposed to protect against customers with stupid passwords?
Apple has deep pockets, Roy. I think that’s enough to establish responsibility and then enough to get a conviction in modern civil court.
Jobs had deep pockets, too, and is some kinda stupid celeb icon for both geeks and rich Apple rubes; he would routinely park his Lambourghini diagonally across two handicap spaces by the front doors of Apple HQ. Also had screaming meemie fits at subordinates just like Chairman Bill. Woz was the real talent there, and still a nice guy. No nice guys at the top that I know of at M$. But Linus is a nice guy, and pokes fun at himself all the time. Good enuff for me.
When we get a Windows drone on board at work, he or she can take over the bulk of that stuff and I’m going for the gusto on the CentOS or maybe RHEL servers and I guess picking up some programming skillz finally.
Leaving a tad early tomorrow so I can go do a test drive of a 2011 RAV4 up this way at 6 PM. Did 11 hours yesterday and 9 today, spent mainly in fixing the Winblows machine (XP finally died on it) at the Shipping Department (high priority) and throwing 7 on it, but what you’d think would be a half-hour gig just went on and on, what with internet issues, getting UPS and FedEx apps on there, etc., etc. but good to hide away out in the warehouse most of the day. Also fixed internet and printer and monitor chit back at the main building. Nonstop all day. For this they’re paying me a grand a week, take-home. Not a lot but it will help pay the bills and taxes on time now and get me transitioned into something else.
Oh, and we have an Apple mini-Mac running Filemaker Pro 9 as a sort of server and three or four users running it FP on their PC’s. Just one more technology to add to the damn mix there. I plan to clean house in a major way.
RE: Celeb Nude Photo Leaks
I do enjoy how which celebs nudes were leaked affects public opinion. Had nude photos of someone the public considers tainted leaked (Brittany Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, et al) then it would all be incredibly amusing and somewhat unsurprising. However, since this batch of photos was from celebs that are mostly adored (Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kaley Cuoco, Kirsten Dunst) there is all this outrage about it and Apple is being criticized and the FBI is looking into and so forth. Additionally, any criticism of these beloved celebs (who are constantly be targeted by the paparazzi and hackers) for being stupid enough to store nude photos of themselves (which include their faces) on their smartphones (and related cloud services) is quickly labeled “victim-blaming” and struck down. Hate to break it to them, but just because it’s not their fault (and it’s not) doesn’t mean they’re not f’ing stupid for storing nude photos of themselves in the cloud.
Linus has had a few blow ups directed at the Kernel development group.
RAV/4 – we have had one for 6-7 years now, and are pretty happy with it. Dunno what they go for now, but at the time it was a good price for a 4×4, which we need in the winter here.
throwing 7 on it, but what you’d think would be a half-hour gig just went on and on
Of course, that’s pretty normal setting up any new system. I don’t think I’ve ever had it go smoothly. Windows has gotten worse and worse over the years – the setting are ever more difficult to find, and there are more of them. When our firewall crapped out, I replaced it with a temporary. The only difference for clients will have been the MAC address – they still had the same servers, etc. – but every single Windows box decided that it was now on a “public” network, and most of our internal network services (printing, etc.) either stopped, or behaved weirdly.
I didn’t see the “public” setting at first, so I tried to fix this through the network settings and the firewall – no joy. But what else should it be? Why does there have to be a completely separate dialog with “home”, “work” and “public”, and why does it exist in addition to the firewall? And what exactly do the settings mean – like, what’s the difference between “home” and “work”? All unnecessarily complicated – yet another “user friendly” attempt gone wrong. Like the stupid animated paperclip.
OFD,
See if you can get the company to spring for a Safari Library and/or Skillsoft/Books24x7 sub for you and your assistant to-be, then read, read, read. The RHEL7 boot-camp+RHCE test is good but difficult, so you may want to spend 1-3 months in break/fix mode prior, to learn on your own. When you want to branch out, look into VMware vSphere and whatever storage vendor your company uses.
As to languages, start with Bash, Python and Perl.
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“Of course, that’s pretty normal setting up any new system. I don’t think I’ve ever had it go smoothly. Windows has gotten worse and worse over the years – the setting are ever more difficult to find, and there are more of them.”
Indeed. I’ll be setting up half a dozen new Windows machines in the next coupla weeks, probably, including my own. We have four or five XP boxes still, at least two down on the production floor and they’re about dead. Covered with dust, and I’m quite sure that didn’t help. And once we get a machine up, there’s a never-ending series of app installs and network tweaks, natch. While phone calls and emails fly back and forth, etc., etc. I’d forgotten what this was like, LOL. Spoiled, being the hardware boy for massed RHEL clusters…
@Mike G.: I have two years working in RHEL, plus the study and test exam materials already. Not sure what to do about the Windows end of things in that regard. I’ve got books and systems to play with on that score anyway. We can set up test systems to experiment on, break, and fix, with both operating systems. Their big push for me is to learn PHP and MySQL, as it’s used for a bunch of stuff on the CentOS side and important to production. I used bash daily at my previous gig, also vim. I was thinking about getting up to speed on PowerShell but we don’t have scads of Windows Servers to administer there.
Indeed. I’ll be setting up half a dozen new Windows machines in the next coupla weeks, probably, including my own.
Well buy the same hardware, do one box and clone it to the rest. Then go to each and set the right license key.
They will all have a passel of different apps and settings, of course. And I’m making them buy me the best machine in the plant. I expect they’ll come with standard-issue Windows 8 now but I’ll have 8.1 Pro on mine. With 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, etc.
Most business class machines still come with Win 7. 8 is included if you want to install it.