It's called Google you lazy /&/&

try 'coal heating china' if you need help with a suitable search term

Soylent Goldman Sachs?

• One... iodine does NOT come with sea salt OR mined salt. All salt has to be fortified with iodine if you want iodine in it.
• Two... people NEED iodine in their food. It is ABSOLUTELY necessary in our diet to prevent goitre and more importantly to prevent cretinism. The human race took a HUGE jump in intelligence when salt began being iodized. It is easy to see families who buy into all the bullshit and decide iodine is not good for you. They are the stupid ones.
• Three... ALL salt that we use is sea salt. The salt that is mined from under the ground comes from seas that evaporated a long fucking time ago. Table salt == sodium chloride... whether you get it as the residue of freshly evaporated sea water, or sea water that evaporated a long time ago.
• Four... you don't get much if any benefit from the 'extra' minerals in 'sea salt'. It has the same sodium content as mined salt, and since the amount of these minerals are found in much higher quantities in the food the salt goes on, the amount in the salt is moot.
• Five... the difference is usually more a matter of taste. But get iodized sea salt if you like it better.

Iodine is added, and you need it. Most important to prevent cretinism... second to protect your thyroid from goitre.

Cook responded that there are many things Apple does because they are right and just, and that a return on investment (ROI) was not the primary consideration on such issues. ... 'We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive, We want to leave the world better than we found it.'

If they wanted to do something really good, they'd stop off shoring all the work going into making their devices (which they lock you into), and create jobs for people in the country that buys most of their goods, and whose whole cultural and economic system allowed the company to come into being. Of course their whole client base is more concerned about being 'cooler than the next person' which includes the latest cause de jour. In this case the environment. Who really gives a fuck about the unemployed when you can get your Chinese made bling? I don't like any company off shoring, but I really hate companies that make phony news stories in a spasmodic bowel like cynical spout espousing their so called pile of bullshit beneficence.

Which is interesting if the stock holders vote to have the company do something risky and dangerous. Then they aren't held accountable for what they told the company to do. Hmmmmm....

You should take excerpts from 'The Prefect' by Alistair Reynolds. It does a lot to explore augmented reality, people being interconnected to computer networks, instant voting, etc. as a cultural norm. It takes place in a distant future, but we are already encountering some of these things today.

Could it be put in high orbit, and used to shoot down all the small bits of space junk that is being tracked. Something has to be done eventually to clean up that mess, why not use some of that star wars technology to do that? Would this laser have enough light pressure to push the smaller pieces into a decaying orbit?

I'll take Colonel Sanders over all the politicians in North America. Even if the Colonel was responsible for the original bird flue.

North Dakota just bought 100,000 septic tanks. Soon as they figure out how to drive them, they're going to invade Manitoba.

And in the end, they are left with the zealots who would sing the praises of anything Redmond puts out, and are now mainly a source of amusement as every time a person posts on an issue with their train wreck OS, the reply is a variation on "If you don't like it, you're a dumbs" or "Update hosed your computer? Of course it's your fault."

I can't resist. You can change this paragraph to the one below, and it will still be true:

And in the end, they are left with the zealots who would sing the praises of anything LINUX, and are now mainly a source of amusement as every time a person posts on an issue with their train wreck OS, the reply is a variation on "If you don't like it, you're a dumbs" or "Update hosed your computer? Of course it's your fault."

Zealots, fanboys, whatever, are a bane. Not of anything in particular, just a bane.

The first rule of being civilized is to do your time when you are caught violating the personal rights of another human being. Now go home and sing some kumbaya.

I think everyone should be forced to live in the real world before anyone should be able to give any opinion on this subject, not just be an armchair quarterback who has lived a sheltered, politically correct, middle class existence. And before modding this down, read this whole comment and look at the context of this thread.

I had a challenging upbringing with little money. Yeah, boo hoo. I never used it for an excuse to commit crimes. I put myself through school working in a pool hall. That put me in direct contact with customers/people who were gang members, people who had served time for things like murder, manslaughter, armed robbery, property crimes (lot's of those), and/or assaults (lot's of those too), etc. During the couple years I worked there, two people who were customers and one employee I worked with committed murder or manslaugther (all arrested, one committed suicide in jail: one baited a gay man and stabbed him to death, one shot and killed a drug dealer in a deal gone bad, and one stabbed a taxi driver to death). Some missed the murder/manslaughter charge because the person lived. I had a gun pulled on me once.

Sure, many or most customers were quite ordinary and quite nice, and didn't know the backgrounds of some of the people around them. But there were a good number of criminals, pimps, prostitutes, and assorted scum bags who hung out there. Pretty much all of those who engaged in criminal activity bragged about how many times they went to jail and/or prison. It was a badge of honor in their circle. They didn't give a rat's ass about society's rules except to know how to get around them. I could give more examples of the kinds of people I met through working there, but I think this is enough.

So tell me hot shot, what kind of life experience do you have that gives you the moral authority to tell me what kind of opinion I should be allowed to have. And don't ever try to tell me that reading the news or reading about 'things' in the media qualifies you to tell me what opinions I may have. If people commit crimes they should go to prison. And they should serve hard time so they don't want to go back. So they don't want to earn that 'badge of honor'. Now go back to your cushy life and shut the fuck up. And yes I know you have a cushy life because I have yet to meet anyone who has seen the other side of the coin who will gainsay me.

I agree.

Canada can add a couple of years to the sentence. As it should. In fact it should be able to add more for problem prisoners. If there is no consequence of an escape what is the incentive to serve one's sentence exhibiting good behaviour? Believe it or not, these are people you can't just sit down and have an 'adult conversation' with. They have already shown they have no respect for civilized society. I personally think flogging and other corporal punishment should be added back in to encourage good behaviour in prison and incentive to not break the law in future... prison should be ugly enough that it is no longer a thing to aspire to, to give someone 'street cred'.