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What if meat didn�t have a brain attached to it? One imagines the guilt factor dropping lower, in addition to increasing efficiency. If science serves up a filet mignon that was grown in a filet mignon factory, it will require less water and other resources than the commensurate number of actual cows, in addition to staking the presumable moral high ground.
Non-sentient lab meat is not yet a reality for widespread human consumption, and growing a steak with longer strands of tissue presents greater difficulties than simulating ground meat. But the wheels are already in motion � witness the In Vitro Meat Consortium, In Vitro Meat Foundation, this FutureFood.org article, and researchers at universities and labs around the world.
Harvesting animals is expensive, time-consuming, has negative effects on the environment, and cow farts apparently cause global warming (like everything else). Probably a good idea. What say you?
I think such a development (presuming it was cost-effective) would lead to the extinction of the chicken.
Google Goggles. Snap a picture of an object and it will search the web based on the pic. It has, thus far, been surprisingly accurate. I googled up two books based on a pic of the cover. Then, I snapped a photo of my EeePC. And Google went to Google’s home page because that was the webpage that was up on the screen. Impressive.
Update: A reader asked, so I snapped a photo of the Kel-Tec with LaserGrips. No matches found.
We, generally, have access to information at all times. Instantly. Within a few clicks of a mouse or buttons on your smart phone, you can convert gallons to M3, find a recipe for goulash, do algebra, calculate adjustments for windage, learn first aid, confirm that Johnny Galecki was actually Rusty in Christmas Vacation, and anything you want or need. You don’t have to commit a lot to memory because you can look it up. In other words, you have a hard drive.
This is interesting to me. See, as a financial guy, I’ve spent a lot of time learning and retaining lots of information. I mean, other than dick jokes and song lyrics. Information that I and anyone else can look up instantly online. That wasn’t always the case but it is now. Seems the future will belong to those who learn to quickly look stuff up.
One of these days my kids will say something like I don’t need to know that 2.2 kg equals a pound 2.2 pounds equals a kilogram* or how to solve quadratic equations. And they’ll be right. What they will need to know is how to use information.
The future is thinking not knowing.
* ETA: LOL. From memory, I got it wrong. Shoulda googled it.
As with most things global warming related, key data is omitted. Given that I actually know what the logical fallacy of appealing to authority means, I clarified that in the comment he’s partially quoting.
I have and love my EeePC. But I feel a bit silly having a new computer with an 8 year old operating system on it. So, the question is do I upgrade to Windows 7? Anyone have experience with that?
I did the trial version/temporary install of EasyPeasy. And I liked it. A lot. But there are some applications that I use that it will not run. I hear there are Windows emulators for it. Anyone ever try that?
There are some takeaways from the recent Climategate shenanigans. One of those takeaways is not that it disproves global warming. Sure, it shows a concerted effort to hide data, manipulate results, and pressure folks into groupthink but it’s not a giant conspiracy to bring a new world communist order. Simpler explanation for conspiratorial minded folks would be it’s about getting money. That said, I perused around looking for someone that I generally trust but who holds a different viewpoint from me on the issue to see what they said, which has been hard because they usually just call critics flat-earthers and say nyuh uh. But then it occurred to me who I could read. And that person was Tim Lambert. Tim and I had a few back and forths years back over his criticisms of John Lott and Fumento. While I can find only a few issues we agree on, I’ve generally trusted Tim. So, I went to see what he had to say. He notes that some of the coding accusations are unfounded, that the BBC didn’t get all the emails early, and criticizes people for this whole communist government angle, while explaining the trick thing. Frankly, those have been some of the few rebuttals I found worth reading because the rest seem to consist of nyuh uh.
I will note that the folks screaming it’s a giant commie plot aren’t helping. Your opponents just have to minimize your accusations because you are, after all, screaming about a commie plot. They’ll even call you the frothing at the mouth lower half. While telling you that ZOMG!!!11eleven! we’re all gonna die over minute changes in temperature. But minute temperature changes omitted from studies are insignificant. I don’t expect alarmists and deniers to get along or agree but you can figure out which people from either side are worth listening to.
Phelps always has an effective way to sum things up: Minute changes in temperature are sufficient to show that the world is in terrifyingly huge danger. Minute changes in temperature readings by researchers are insignificant and shouldn�t be thought about too hard.
I’ve never had an iPhone though I have played with a few. So, I can’t really say one is better than the other in terms of the interface. But Droid has a few key tangible things that I like better:
It can run multiple apps.
I can change the battery.
Comes w 16gb SD card.
And Verizon, unlike AT&T, doesn’t suck.
A couple of physicists have theorized (and I am not making this up) that the universe really doesn’t want us smashing up protons in a collider. Seems that they think the universe finds this act abhorrent to nature and so God or time-travelers are trying to stop us from doing that. Because it could kill us all. Such an action could create the Higgs boson, which using my own highly technical physics terms may be either a big ass thing (which it might not be since it’s apparently going to be small) or one of those mathematical concepts that can kill us all. And we know how much I hate those. Anyway, either God or time travelers may be thwarting our attempts at this and I think it’s amusing when physicists talk about God and time travelers.
And the author of the article, Dennis Overbye, writes:
Dr. Nielsen and Dr. Ninomiya have proposed a kind of test: that CERN engage in a game of chance, a �card-drawing� exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to discern bad luck from the future. If the outcome was sufficiently unlikely, say drawing the one spade in a deck with 100 million hearts, the machine would either not run at all, or only at low energies unlikely to find the Higgs.
Sure, it�s crazy, and CERN should not and is not about to mortgage its investment to a coin toss.
He calls odds of 99,999,999:1 a coin flip? I want to gamble with this guy.
Long story that I won’t get into but I’m firing Dishnetwork. They suck and I hate them. I’ve had four DVRs in six months and they’ve all gone Tango Uniform. And every time, we lose all our programming. And every time, we have to set it all back up. Be kinda nice if they had a back up function.
That said, I’m looking at TeeVee options. Charter has decent cable and on demand things. We used to have Directv but dumped them once they dumped TiVo. I’ve even been pondering getting one of those Windows Media Center PCs. Anyone have any experience with the Media Center set up? And experience with Charter? And does Directv do TiVo again?
I’d appreciate any input.
update: Looks like TiVo and Directv kissed and made up.
My wife’s new laptop has an HDMI out. So, last night as an experiment, we watched a movie from Netflix streamed to our TeeVee. Quality was good and I was quite impressed. I’ve noticed that our Bluray player has an ethernet port on the back and I can hook it directly to Al Gore’s Internets and get Netflix directly, without having to hook the PC up to the TeeVee. Now, my internet modem and wifi gizmos are located elsewhere in the house. So, I’d like to figure out a way to hook the disc player (this Samsung) up to the internet. But my modem is on the other side of the house. Suggestions?
I guess I could move the modem to the TeeVee and get wireless for my desktop computer. But that would probably cause me networked printers to not work.
What’s a good light weight anti-virus program? Use Norton at the office and it sucks. Like all Norton products, it’s bloatware. It bogs down the system all the time. At home, I have AVG Free. It has, apparently, turned into spamware itself, always installing its tool bar in my web browser.
Pandora free internet radio. Never thought much about internet radio because I don’t usually listen to music while at a computer. But Pandora has an application for my Blackberry. And I have one of those wireless transmitters for the car stereo. So, I can listen to personalized, commercial free radio in my car. I’m still trying to figure out how they make money, though.
A while back I said to someone I know that works at Microsoft (not saying who, to protect the innocent) that they should release a version of Internet Exploder that has built in adware/spyware/spam protection that, by default, blocks Google ads. Then, they launch their own web ad program. Well, you see where this is going. Anyway, they may someday wish they had taken that advice since Google is getting in on the operating system game.
So, you find out that we’re going to send an unmanned vehicle to the moon. And you think that it’s pretty cool. And the reason we’d do that is probably because we can. Turns out, it’s so we can launch the first volley in our war on known extraterrestrial civilizations on the moon
In response to a police officer shooting another plain-clothes police officer in NY (of course, in NY if you have a gun you’re a criminal or cop),Robb notes a solution in search of a problem:
One idea involves the use of radio frequency tags that would allow officers to pinpoint where other cops are in the city, Browne said. Another involves tags that would work gun-to-gun and use an infrared sensor: When a weapon is pulled from an officer’s holster it would trigger a signal that would be sent to the gun of a nearby officer. The signal may be seen or heard.
Using technology to solve problems that are better solved through other means tends to create more problems. There is no magic switch or button for every thing.
Boys who carry a particular variation of the gene Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA), sometimes called the �warrior gene,� are more likely not only to join gangs but also to be among the most violent members and to use weapons, according to a new study from The Florida State University that is the first to confirm an MAOA link specifically to gangs and guns.
Findings apply only to males. Girls with the same variant of the MAOA gene seem resistant to its potentially violent effects on gang membership and weapon use.
I find the tie in to guns odd as opposed to weapons in general. I imagine that using a weapon is part of being in a gang as a tool of being a gangster as opposed to a gene dictating gun ownership over, say, a stick.
No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around, but for the first time, information has been teleported between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter � about a yard.
We here at SayUncle would like to welcome our friends from the ATF to the 1990s:
Instead of filling out the required ATF paperwork by hand, gun buyers and dealers will now be able to complete what officials say is a fail-safe electronic version of the document, known as Form 4473.
Speaking at a gun shop in Upper Marlboro where he announced the change, acting ATF Director Michael J. Sullivan said the new option would cut down on illegible answers and incomplete answers — the most common causes of violations.
In other news, is this an admission that all those supposedly willful violations they used to shut down federal firearms license holders weren’t, err, actually willful?
Update: More from David who wonders if this is the same software that ATF was accused of stealing.
I have recently became disconnected from pop culture for a very different reason. I got TiVo. See, now I only watch what I want, when I want to watch it, and without commercials. I’m not exposed to what’s hot. Generally, I have no idea what movies are out (this week is the exception in that I know Madagascar 2 is out because the kids at Junior’s school are into that). I generally have no idea who any of the people are that are mentioned in the Yahoo! entertainment blurb that pops up on the home page. I have no idea who the people on the cover of any magazine at the supermarket are. Marko suffered a disconnect from getting disconnected. I suffered the disconnect by upgrading technology.
I don’t miss it. Most TeeVee sucks. I watch very few shows. A list would include Mythbusters, Battlestar Galactica, Family Guy, The Daily Show (occasionally), My Name Is Earl, Mail Call, Southpark and The Simpsons. That’s really it, except the occasional sporting/poker event. Southpark and The Simpsons are probably coming off the list because lately they suck. Now, I also manage to watch a whole lot of Blues Clues, Spongebob, Dora, Diego, Back at the Barnyard, and Fairly Odd Parents as a function of having kids. But they’re not exactly piping pop culture into the house. Of course, I’ve mentioned before Junior’s utter shock at the discovery of commercials.
Another interesting trend is that, once again because of technology, I can’t name a Top 40 song. No idea. But, then, I’ve never been a big Top 40 guy either. I download my music and pick only what I want to listen to.
I guess you can disconnect or plug in more heavily and become disconnected from pop culture.
Ya know, I still have one. Initially, it was for two reasons. We have a fax machine and a fancy alarm system. Now, the fax machine can be replaced with a wide variety of software or online services. The one we can’t seem to find an online replacement for is the alarm system. It communicates with our service, police, and fire all through the land line. Were it not for that, I would not have a home phone. That’s $70 month could be spent on ammo!
Speaking of Joe, I don’t know that I’ve ever mentioned he created Modern Ballistics, the world’s most sophisticated small arms exterior ballistics program for the personal computer.
So, scientists are looking to flip the switch on the big ass doohickie that will kill us all. Or not. Depends who you talk to, someone educated or someone thumping a holy book. Supposedly, this will simulate the universe at the approximate time of the Horrendous Space Kablooey. And don’t even get me started on The Universe.
In equally scary but also equally kinda cool news, scientists are on the verge of creating life. And I, for one, welcome our new protocells built from fatty molecules overlords.
Looking for an application to view and edit MS Office documents. There’s a lot of them and they’re spendy. Before buying one, I thought I’d get opinions on what you folks recommend.
A while back, I pondered the iPhone. As cool as it was and as much fun as I had playing with them, I just can’t bring myself to switch to AT&T. And, honestly, I was apprehensive about Apple products because, err, they’re made by Apple.
Via some random clickity that started with this post from R. Neal, I discovered that my subdivision now is part of Google’s street views. Creepy. However, they still show a cow pasture where my house is on their satellite view.
I’d like to thank R. Neal for linking to this PDF creator. This has saved me so much time standing in front of a damn scanner. The only issue I have with it is that it won’t do multiple worksheets in Excel and you have to do each worksheet separately.
My LG is on it’s last legs. I’m eligible for a new phone with my provider (Verizon). Should I just go ahead and get me and the Mrs. iPhones?
Note: I swore I’d never have an iPhone but Chris changed my mind from Hell No to Hmmm, maybe.
How’s AT&T service in East TN?
Update: In a bit of irony, it seems AT&T’s webpage only supports Internet Exploder. Yes, AT&T sole provider of Apple’s iPhone will only let you use a Microsoft product to check service.
Glenn Reynolds mentioned the Aptera. About three weeks ago, I saw on Pellissippi Parkway a three wheeled futuristic looking car. It was bright red. I thought it was odd and I was curious. I went home and some combination of googling three-wheeled vehicles lead me to believe it was an Aptera. The vehicle I saw sat two in the front. Anyway, turns out Aptera only has prototypes in Cali and all Aptera’s are white. So, obviously, what I saw was not an Aptera. Anyone know of a similar looking vehicle? Or, better yet, any of you seen a similar car around Knoxville/Blount County?
There is one thing gun lovers won’t understand. It is very simple. The word that sums it up is: Technology.
Really? Have you seen some of the gun stuff today? Like red dot sights, guns that shoot around corners, etc. Seems we understand it fine.
And:
You can go on and on ad nauseam about mental health, drugs, depression, revenge, etc. But when push comes to shove, if there were no guns on this planet (and I mean all guns ) military, civilian — all) how would they respond to their dilemma?
So, Dennis Kucinich, in an effort to remove all doubt that he is a Communist, sued and got some retarded judge to force MSNBC to allow him to attend a debate aired on MSNBC, paid for by MSNBC, and that is MSNBC’s property. I guess we know where Dennis stands on free speech too. Good thing the Nevada Supreme Court is smarter than commies.
Our Governor (who I now regret not voting against his second term – though I liked him after the first term) said:
“One of the great things about being governor is you get to take taxes away and later give it back and people are happy,” Bredesen said. “Is this a great job or what?”
Actually, we’re not happy. And that may be one of the dumbest things a politico has ever said. But it’s also likely the truth. If there’s one thing about politicians, it’s that they’re fairly brazen about spending your money.
In VA, they want to ban rubber testicles. They say it’s a safety issue because it could distract other drivers. They, apparently, think their constituents are retarded. And if they believe that, they are.
State Rep. Doug Overbey (R-Maryville) announced today his intention to seek the Republican nomination for the State Senate � 8th District, now held by Sen. Raymond Finney.
Finney’s been a bit of an embarrassment, what with his legislation to get the state to study God’s existence.
So, in my truck I got one of those mirrors that automatically gets a few shades darker whenever your dumb ass forgets to dim the brights when you come up on my tail. However, I noticed yesterday it didn’t work when the Sun was blazing away behind me on the drive. Anyone know how these things work?
Tipping point. We getting close to the point of no return. We’re all going to die.
The UN has just released a “major report”. The fourth Global Environmental Outlook since 1997. It contains dire warnings. It seems there are too many people on Planet Earth. We are actually killing the Planet.
Now before you consider the source and scoff, know this, 388 experts and scientists describe this as “the final wake-up call to the international community.”
“Life would be easier if we didn’t have the kind of population growth rates that we have at the moment,” Steiner said. “But to force people to stop having children would be a simplistic answer. The more realistic, ethical and practical issue is to accelerate human well-being and make more rational use of the resources we have on this planet.”
What does that mean? It means that the 388 scientists theorize that you eat too much, require too much land, too much energy, and too many resources. So stop having children, eating meat, and driving your fat ass around in that SUV, you damn Planet killer.
All kidding aside, is there a purpose to this continual fear mongering from the United Nations? An endgame so to speak.
