Really? In a recession companies cut down on pet projects?

I'm taken aback, really!

Other way 'round it is, if you only pay minimum, you get morons. Don't expect anything other than monkeys if you offer just peanuts!

So only rich people should be allowed to breed? Hey, now it all makes sense. After all, reproduction is the most capitalist of all kinds of things humans can do, the production means are fully in private hands!

Unless you output 0-calorie turds, your body isn't absorbing every calorie you put into it. Your body absorbs until it has what it needs; if your diet isn't balanced, that means it's absorbing a lot more of whatever you have an excess of in your diet before it gets enough of whatever's deficient. Balance has a much higher impact than caloric intake.

If only someone would do a study to prove that (or fund me, I'll put together a team since I know I'm, personally, not qualified).

It could also be a function of glucose starvation. Think about it, you avoid sugars for long enough and your body has to start making its own. Since you body is making only the glucose it needs, there's no longer any reason to make insulin (there's no excess glucose for the insulin to clean up), so your body stops making it and dumps any remaining insulin reserves as waste. Then, when you ingest sugars and your glucose levels shoot up, your body has no available insulin until your body starts producing insulin again.

I know it's just an anecdote and I'm not a doctor or dietician, but I always feel like shit if I haven't had any sugary snacks in a while and I suddenly eat one or two; and the more sugar I ingest in that initial intake, the worse I feel. Once I get past that, I can keep eating sugary snacks and feel just fine, until I take another several-day (or several-week, depending on just how much sugar I've had) break from sugary snacks. Thus far, my theory is the only one I've read that sufficiently explains that phenomenon.

You know, I'll be completely honest and say I didn't know that was possible. A bit of research later and I see that it's actually pretty easy. I'll gt in touch with our CDN provider and see if they support it, since it'll be quite useful for our next platform release.

Thanks for letting me know about that!

Slashdot needs to get out of the nineties and into the 21st century.

You can get your old account back if you can remember what your email address was. Send a note to help@slashdot.org.

I'd lost my account and they were very helpful about it.

As to your surgery, LISTEN TO THE DOCTOR!!! Helping that one person could prevent you from helping others in the future. Oh, and I empathize; I had a vitrectomy in 2008. Not the least bit fun.

Deterring what, exactly? Bruce Forsythe, Cilla Black, Peaches Geldof, Jeremy Beadle, the entire cast of Geordie Shore, who needs nuclear weapons when you've got that as a deterrent.

You really need to distinguish between cases where this is endemic and where it's caused by certain individuals. The linked article 10 Sure Shot Ways to Lose Your Team describes at least some behavioural traits that would correspond to one of the group of personality disorders for which the people who exhibit them are popularly referred to as sociopaths, and in their more extreme forms, psychopaths (unfortunately Hollywood has pretty much mangled most people's understanding of what that really means). This is why some companies specifically screen any management-level interviewees for psychopathic tendencies, they may appear to be (that is, create the illusion of being) effective managers, but they're actually very destructive to the company in the long term.

My reaction to reading the abstract was "And this is news?". What's next, "Cat stuck up tree"? I suppose if it was "Cat with vaguely Apple logo-shaped patch on fur stuck up tree" it'd probably make it too.

Bull. The only reason anyone pays minimum is because they get away with it. Why the heck should I pay more than minimum wage if I can get what I want for that? Do you honestly think anyone would go "gee, that guy is good, I needn't pay him more 'cause there's nothing he can do, but 'cause I'm so impressed with his great work, here's five bucks more per hour!"?

So socialism doesn't give you a choice, you're a slave or if you refuse, you get paid by the state by wellfare.

Capitalism gives you the choice to be a slave or to starve.

I dunno. Most people would probably prefer socialism. But hey, what do I know about socialism, being in Europe. That's something I should leave to the experts across the big pond who have loads and loads of first hand experience with socialist systems...

That's a great story. And where, say, do you get your customers? Where did you meet them? How did they learn that you're in the market? And that you're worth any dime they pay you?

Valuable experience in how to bullshit customers, invent colorful descriptions of events and places she's never seen or experienced and finding visual proof of those aforementioned stories.

Great resume for a political career, everything you need to convince your people to go to war with some country is right there.