"On August 8, 2007, a Suffolk County Grand Jury indicted epoxy company Powers Fasteners, Inc., on one charge of involuntary manslaughter, with the maximum penalty in Massachusetts being a fine of $1,000."
> In January 2008, the state and the office of United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Michael Sullivan, reached a settlement with the contractors responsible for the failure, which included no criminal charges and no bar against receiving future contracts. The Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff joint venture paid $405 million, and smaller contractors paid a total of $51 million.
They ended up settling with the contractors for much more.
Given those charges were used to leverage $22M in settlements and a wide recall of the product, something outside the mere $1k seems to have been a useful bludgeon.
If you want to lose weight then consume less calories than your body burns. It really is that simple. Yeah, you probably won't be comfortable, but that's the trick to losing weight. You could do it eating nothing but Twinkies, you won't be healthy, but your weight will drop.
Surprised to see that this article mentioned "portion" or "serving" a total of zero times. That's the trick with cereal. Taking cocoa puffs as an example, 50g of them is 200 calories. 50g is probably 4 spoonful's (no source just my opinion).. very little, if you just pour an amount that looks good to you into your bowl, yeah it's going to easily add up to an 800 calorie meal when you add milk.
I would agree that it's deceptive, but you can't blame them for making you fat. All the information you need is right there on the label. This is just for managing weight, getting proper micro and macro nutrients takes a little more research.
GLP-1 agonists (Wegovy, Ozempic, semaglutide), help people who have a brain chemistry preventing calorie reduction success naturally (willpower or whatever you want to call it).
The gene therapy trials should be done soon. At that point, the flywheel comes up to speed and starts enabling susceptible populations with the genetic bug to fix it, in order to have agency against a system designed to shovel them garbage for profit. Obesity at this scale is a system failure, so you have to fix the system (and it’s clearly not going to be done at the regulatory or corp level).
(You can absolutely blame them for making people fat; some people cannot control it, and you cannot blame someone for their brain chemistry)
The feelings don’t matter; you must empower the human to achieve their desired outcome. Maybe that’s drugs. Maybe that’s lifestyle. Maybe that’s gene therapy or other bioengineering. It is their choice, not ours. The societal problems are because of exploitation of the human, defend the human accordingly.
I wouldn't even mind ads if most sites weren't malicious with how they serve them. Do not make a new window pop up, do not try to download anything to my computer without my explicit instruction, do not make me click an x to view the content, do not interrupt the content to serve an ad. Why can't they just have a nice little ad on the left and/or right side of the page that doesn't interrupt my intake of their content? Heck, even on the top is fine.
Greed. Those kinds of ads pay more. Interrupting the content means they can sell the spot as something people will actually see because they are forced to.
More like desperation. The only real source of money online is ads sales. Nobody is making bank from putting ads on their site. They might be making enough for hosting.
Though I guess it could be described as greed on the part of the advertisers?
The entire point of ad is to make you notice. As you said you "don't mind", this is not something ads would want. It's a raising bar as people are starting to learn to ignore ads more and more subconsiously.
I've successfully removed ads from basically my whole life, but now when I do happen to see one I'm less conditioned to ignore it. So boy oh boy do I notice. I kind of hate it. My eye is immediately drawn to anything flashy or moving, to the point where I'll make an effort to sit facing away from any TV screen in a restaurant.
Animated banner ads were something I adapted to completely ignore during my time on the web 20 years ago. After that, a decade of ad-blockers softened my calluses and now when I see an animated banner ad on a news site I begin to twitch and spasm.
I actually enjoy reading ads in enthusiast magazines (those few that remain for computing, gaming, musical instruments and technology, etc.)
It's a shame that magazines are mostly dead at this point. If you ever look at old computing magazines on the internet archive, it's like stepping into a rather wonderful alternate timeline before the web asteroid hit. (The irony of reading those magazines on the web is not lost on me.)
Well also many sites are now just absolutely covered with ads. Like it went from one on a page to now banner above, banner left and right, pop up video that has to be closed, two to three interstitial ads in the main content, like 2 dozen shitty taboola or similar "articles" popped on the end. Ugh.
I wonder how he was caught. Was he actually corresponding with a woman, was it an undercover agent, or romance scam? Did the person he was communicating with tip of an intelligence agency or did the dating platform flag his messages?
That's really cool, but wouldn't it be worthwhile to also include in the vault a device which can read all that data? Or perhaps engrave on the interior of the vault the instructions for making such a device?
Even in the past few decades storage mediums have changed pretty rapidly and what was the standard back then may be totally unusable for a layperson today. I can't imagine what changes can occur over 1000 years.
A device wouldn’t last that long, but would provide a template to follow that, with detailed instructions and information about the formats and recording process, could be used to read the media.
I'm pretty sure we don't have any digital storage media that last 1000 years, or even 100 years. There's no point even trying to read it that far in the future; it's completely gone.
Bluray has an archive format that holds 100GB per disk and is rated to last 100 years in regular climate controlled storage. Should last longer in a cold environment like the vault.
One could also etch the data on a silicon wafer that could be read with a microscope (maybe indexes and retrieval instructions readable with an optical microscope, data with an electron microscope).
I think you missed the point. They put it on tape and claim it will last 1000 years. Will the knowledge, ability, and devices capable of reading tape last 1000 years?
"This vault contains the 188 reels of hardened archival film which will preserve the 02/02/2020 snapshot of every active public GitHub repository for 1,000 years."
Well that goes against multiple different sources claiming that such long-term digital storage doesn't exist. Plenty of threads on data hoarding talk about the problem of keeping data fresh even a few decades. It's pretty hard to believe any film could last 1000 years, but I'm no expert and I'd love to be wrong on this one. Thanks for the link.
I'm surprised no one has brought up the power cost point yet. I have a couple services I'd like to be up 24/7 and paying for hosting on them is actually cheaper than I'd be able to do from home just due to the cost of electricity where I live. Plus I've had quite a few ISP outages, but my provider, as far as I can tell, has been up 24/7/365 in the few years I've been paying them.
Very interesting. It makes me wonder if the people affected by this sort of thing will ever find justice. What kind of punishment would even be fitting for a company that has irreversibly altered someone's genetics so severely that even their grandchildren are suffering? It reminds me of the recent 3M scandal with the water pollution, paying 10 billion USD after causing permanent water pollution doesn't seem like justice to me. Can they just buy their way out of anything? Can a company cut corners and not do suitable testing to increase profits, causing severe damage to a person or the environment, and just pay a fine once their caught(if they're caught)?
Dude..
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