This! Spoooooooooooooooooooooooooooon!

Australia deployed Ethanol nation wide... and do you know what? I now purchase 95 octane to avoid it. I like to be able to make it through a week with a specific mileage without having to refuel. E10 is everywhere here (and sometimes it's disguised under the 91 or 93 octane label instead of being branded "E10". Anecdotally it costs more to run E10 from a fuel consumption to mileage ratio.

...and some people spend lecture time at the Pool Table and prefer to learn from the books and Tutorials.

Hahah, One of the guys at work had dosed his curry with Blairs Ultra Death and some 3am reserve.... he went to the bathroom and came back crying. This provided endless amusement to us in the years ahead.

I've got some Carolina Reaper seeds and will be growing in the next season. The hottest actual fruits I have grown at the moment are the Habaneros, but I've got a few Bhut Jolokia, Trinedad Scorpion, Butch T Scorpion, and a couple of other plants that are possibly of a size for producing fruit soon. I'll have quite a collection of chillies after a year. Then I'll try and make a killer hotsauce on par with Blairs Ultra Death.

What they fail to see themselves is that they are blind and deaf to the real message, and therefore fail to heed the knowledge that is available to them. They should take heed of their own parable.

Nobody actually READS Slashdot. They only read snippets and come to their own conclusions, and berate the OP about how they are wrong. If they were actually reading slashdot they would be a far better prospect. You could also choose to only employ people that RTFA, which would discount most /.ers.

"In 2005, as a consultant for Australian phone company Telstra, I helped CEO Sol Trujillo"... This is where you lost me. Sol Trujillo was interested only in keeping monopoly control over the infrastructure that the Howard Government sold him. He had no need to provide any infrastructure upgrades, and as such failed to do so. This led to the current state of affairs where the Government of the day realised that there was no buying back the infrastructure so they might as well roll out an entirely parallel one in order to provide competition in the marketplace. The problem now is that the Labor government that initiated this plan has been replaced by a Liberal Government that wants to sell this network back to Telstra leaving us in the same place as we were before, only there would be significant fibre backbone that now still relied on the last mile copper.

While the project had already run behind schedule under Labor (thanks to Asbestos related issues in Telstra owned and managed Pits among other things) the complete redesign to the Liberal FTTN plan has left this whole project in a shambles, completely cutting out the suburbs that were on the rollout plan, and halting rollout everywhere while they investigate and alter the entire project. Projects that deviate significantly from their original Designs are bound to run overtime and overbudget. The Abbott government has completely screwed over the Australian public on the one thing they didn't want changed at the last election.

What clink? He wasn't arrested. He hasn't even been approached by the police.

And to clarify, I now have about 150 games on steam, and at least 100 of those came from Humble bundles (I haven't purchased many from steam, but I have added non-steam games to my library).

By no means did I purchase all bundles, and some games (I only saw two in the quick look I had) were duplicated, and the list does not guarantee that they are available on Steam, but the count I got was 141:

Somebody has been watching too much Yes Man! ... that person is probably me, for getting the reference.

I think the main issue is they are adding more HFCS to everything, not less. This is what is affecting us, and it's getting worse as time goes on.

Really. So you think it is chemically the same as glucose? The difference is that sucrose provides half sucrose half fructose. The fructose gets metabolized in an entirely different way to the glucose.

The two main issues are that fructose by itself provides energy in such a way that it does not make the body feel "full", and that unlike the normal sugar we would expect (sucrose) we get no glucose from using it as an alternative.

Normal consumption of fructose in a natural setting also would include fibre which helps signal the body about satiation. This has been a major contributing factor in the whole "processed foods" vs "weight gain" issue. HCFS is a major component of most of the processed products that we rely on for our bulk energy needs. Really, do take a look at the lecture. The biochemistry component on how fructose gets metabolized in the liver is very interesting.

I watched this lecture recently about Fructose (and high fructose corn syrup). https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded%26amp;v=dBnniua6-oM

It was quite long (1.5 hours) but very informative in how bad HFCS is to us, and why low fat has caused this.