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Statistically, based on your post you're likely to be obese.

If we took a teen off of all forms of junk food and measured his health over time and compared him to a similar teen who simply had to complete 45 minutes of controlled exercise every day we just might find that exercise trumps diet.

Overweight people are more likely to think lack of exercise causes obesity. Those who are a healthy weight tend to believe diet causes weight gain

Also... they are recording everything.

As software continues to devour the world, every industry becomes dependent on tech workers to continue to operate. Allowing the active participation of software outsourcing firms in the US labour market via H1B's helps manage wage inflation within the sector.

Riiiight. Because wage inflation is such a huge problem in the US. Oh, wait, actually, the US has exactly the opposite problem.

Here, have an April Fool's article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

The best are the ones that are almost believable. I've seen a lot crazier ideas from people who were serious.

here's a more realistic assessment from a real economist

As opposed to what other sort of economists?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2589424/UK-professor-refuses-apocalyptic-UN-climate-change-survey.html#ixzz2x3avUrY3

Prof Tol disagrees with the comparative

Professor Tol told the BBC: You have a very silly statement in the draft summary that says that people who live in war-torn countries are more vulnerable to climate change, which is undoubtedly true.
But if you ask people in Syria whether they are more concerned with chemical weapons or climate change, I think they would pick chemical weapons - that is just silliness.

Not with the fundamentals:

Prof Tol does not dispute the view that climate change is caused by man - but he says its impact has been exaggerated.

Interesting link. wow, the truth is almost more intense than the fictuion..

It is almost funny how quickly the media gobbles up these stories, that "Sentenced his uncle to be eaten alive by dogs" also turned out to be a hoax. I particularly liked Daily Mail article, it was copiously illustrated including a blurred picture of a growling dog:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

They start with that classical Fox News style "...a report claimed" and then go on to describe the 'report' as if it is fact.

Obviously this will vary by jurisdiction, but it in some it can be "obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception", i.e. fraud.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

"If our Western partners believe the format [of the G8] has exhausted itself, we don't cling to this format. We don't believe it will be a big problem if it [the G8] doesn't convene"
~ Sergei Lavrov (Russian Foreign Minister)

I think a shorter translation might simply be a middle finger.

Source:
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

I don't get why the obviously loyal Ukrainian military didn't defend their bases with firepower against the invading Russians?

They didn't have the firepower necessary to hold off even an immediate attack, much win the conflict they would have started when things escalated. All they could accomplish would be to get themselves and possibly others killed. Worse, the example of Georgia has shown that the Russians will use any violent resistance as an excuse to just seize even more territory.

Some of the bases personnel essentially chose to engage in nonviolent protest, marching with flag and no guns (despite getting warning shots from the Russians). It's been a really weird conflict so far, from this distance.

It's to be used for a photo op. Soon we'll have a picture of the fake aircraft carrier flying through the clouds with the President of Iran and the Supreme Leader on the front of the flight deck, air streaming through their air/turban, holding hands and shouting "We're the kings of the wooooooorld!."

Guy Fawkes has pretty much cornered that market.

well said.
Unfortunately, this time Europe is more corrupted by Russia.

British are weak, as "Russians are your major investors and bought a couple of football clubs". Besides, I question their army's ability to do their trade.
German responce seemed hard, but unfortunately CDU's coalition partner, SPD are in reality russian agents. Former chancellor from that party is now employed by russian gas company. Besides, for russian-german relations it is business as usual (LetterOne is russian).
France would traditionally do anything to retreat or surrender. And communist trade unions would do anything to support rebuilding "USSR 2".
Italy is a corrupt farce that was unable to impeach a paedophile moron from the post for over a decade. They have very amicable relations with Russia.
Austria does plenty of business with Russia, they are HQ for russian company's subsidiaries in EU.
Greece, Bulgaria will remain silent, as "Russians are their brothers in orthodox faith".
Sweden lost ability to defent itself from own crowd, and with strong socialist sentiment they are unlikely to fight, in physical way, anyone.
Spain, Portugal fart in general direction of any troubles on the opposite side of continent.
Hungary seemed to act "independently" to some point, but few months ago prime minister Orban was "pacified" by Putin with major russian investment.
Czechs are trained in France to prepare quick welcome parties to any occupiers.
Poland, Romania and Lithuania are too weak to stand against Russia. They are heavily dependent on Russian petrol/gas. While they mostly understand the severity of situation, will remain not understood by the rest of EU, as "they are idiots who are always agains Russia".
Estonia, Latvia are checkmated, as they have huge (40%) Russian minority. If they speak too loud, Moscow will "hear Russians living in Tallin, requesting help"..
Finland and Slovakia will remain silent in hope, that in case of conventional military conflict Russian troops will opt to drive through other countries.
Cyprus is Russian bank.

Don't expect any Churchills :-(

...designed by an advisor who was later arrested for CP?

...in a country whose government has collected a million pictures of naked Americans cyber-webcamming on Yahoo?

...that has one surveillance camera for every 11 people in the country?

...whose brilliant standards of morality lead to the persecution and destruction of everyone from Oscar Wilde to Alan Turing?

Fuck you, James Brokenshire. How's that for unsavory?

You better ride that on a very smooth surface or you're going to break it into the first hole in the pavement. And I don't mean this http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix... but this http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

Gates **should** give his money to charity...the fact that he does **the bare minimum** to charties

He's pledged far more actually.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

You may want to look up the word "unjustifiable".

The shooting may have been stupid and tragic, but it's pretty easily justified. Watching the video, the man gets out of his truck without being asked to, ignores the officer calling to him, then pulls a long thin object out of a holder in the back of the cab, which he immediately swings toward the officer. The officer, upon seeing what looks like a small rifle or shotgun aimed at him, shoots the apparently-armed man. The officer didn't realize it was a cane, and the man didn't think it'd look like a gun.

It was pretty obviously a mistake. What's right now is not to whine about "police abuse", but rather to heal the man (who survived and is reportedly doing well), understand that Hanlon's Razor is still valid, and move on.

I see you wrote another falsehood about the UK. In the UK you would get knee surgery if you needed it ,no matter what your occupation or whether you are employed or not.

You get put on a list of people who need the similar surgery. If your job involves a lot of walking around, then you are moved up the list. If your job involves sitting around, you are moved down the list. If you have no job, you are generally left in the middle of the list, so as to not limit your future job prospects to only those jobs involving sitting around; they would prefer that you are working and contributing to the social fabric. Then the surgeries are scheduled in list order, based on the availability of the surgeons.

If you pay for additional private insurance on top of this, then you can jump the wait list and have the surgery done by a private surgeon, or by another surgeon in another country through medical tourism. A lot of private insurers in the U.K. offer discounts if you are willing to fly somewhere to get your surgery via medical tourism; India is a popular place for this.

This is increasingly common in Canada, as well, and some U.S. insurance companies have also followed suit. For example, if you need a hip replacement, flying from Boston to Paris, staying a week in a good hotel, getting your hip replaced in a hospital there, and then flying back to the U.S., plus the normal followup visits in the U.S., assuming no complications, costs about half what it would cost to have the same surgery done in the U.S..

We're not talking aortic dissections here; this is not about emergency surgeries, these are quality of life surgeries/employability surgeries, and as a part of the social fabric, the health care system in the U.K. is first and foremost intended to benefit society at large, and secondarily to benefit the individual patient, in a manner that benefits society at large.

Or ar you going to tell me this report on surgery waiting lists in the U.K. is bogus?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/hea...

Personally I would not give a 3-5 year old child a phone, and certainly not on my account.

Don't forget your Muslim friend here is probably talking about his wives

And of course, mind-bogglingly vast government excess. That's a contributing factor too. When you do something for three orders of magnitude less than a corresponding government effort, here, launching an airship to 18 miles, 4 miles higher than anyone else, including two US defense companies has done, you tend to get cynical about such things.

One of those defense companies, which was funded more than a billion dollars over the past couple of decades to develop high altitude airships, managed to hit about 4 miles before their 150 million dollar vehicle broke up. Sure, it had a bit more functionality, but "it works" beats functionality every time.

Which is absolutely nothing in terms of economic impact and proves how worthless "trickle down" is.

Take that billion dollars, distribute it across "average" workers who then go buy boats. They can buy 20,000 boats! Do have any idea the number just jobs that creates? The number of things people buy for their new boats? (life jackets, mooring lines, etc)

The difference in economic impact is probably 1000 fold.

oh and
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...

Of course they're going to ignore the 500 madrassas in England which do precisely the same thing and seek out the only Jewish school they could find than shriek and moan and predict the Evil Jew Menace (tm, BBC) is going to destroy all of civilization. This is what they do every day.

In the mean time the Muslims teach their kids much worse things than creationism. Like children as young as 11 learning that Hindus have ‘no intellect’ and that they ‘drink cow piss, and hatred of Jews and Christians.

But of course it's the one Jewish school that they pick on.

It's sounding more and more as if the best thing for us, as a species, to do with respect to child rearing is simply place them all into a common pool and raise them communally.

If no one knew which kid was theirs and we all got a say in their indoctrination / education, I think everyone would be better off. Including the new human beings. As a bonus side effect, it would neatly sidestep the issue of genetic engineering deepening the socio-economic stratification, a future which has already arrived...

I smell some good sci-fi based on that shit right there.

I can think of at least one reason.

Or, because they don't think the working classes should be forced to eat the bits of meat swept off the floor of a factory because it's all they can afford.

Because, really:

Researchers in Mississippi examined chicken nuggets at two different fast-food chains and found that only about half of the nuggets were made of muscle meat
The rest of the nuggets were made of other chicken parts like fat, blood vessels, nerves, bones and cartilage

that's pretty nasty stuff.

Killing 90% of all the animals they take in while claiming to be an "ethical" organization. The sooner the sink into the dustbin of history along with various other wingnut organizations the better.

As usual, linking to the people who actually know what they are talking about would have helped.

Instead we have a story with the headline "WWII Bugatti 100P Plane Rebuilt: Jet Fighter that Could Have Won Battle of Britain for the Nazis" in bold print directly over a photograph of a plane with a propeller.

Amazingly enough, even the Daily Fail article which the International Business Times cribbed for this story contained more accurate information.

And you could still buy 4 star leaded fuel in the UK in 2011. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... The US went lead free decades ago, Europe a few years ago.

How did you come up with that when the article states it was banned in the UK in 1998?

And you could still buy 4 star leaded fuel in the UK in 2011. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
The US went lead free decades ago, Europe a few years ago.

At the same time, I wonder if nuclear is enough cheaper than solar and wind to bother with? It is really hard to accurately value a huge investment that expected to last 80 years. What technological advances and political changes might happen in that time? 80 years ago it was 1934.

Large-scale thermal plants can store energy to moderate the supply, and we would need a more integrated national grid give more flexibility. But it seems doable. I'll grant there would still be some cost premium, so it won't happen if left to the market alone, but then again markets don't care about global warming or the problems of long-term waste storage (even if that's really just a political problem). I really like the fact that wind and solar can simply be torn down and hauled away, or upgraded as need be.

"You can't get your money back from a person who steals your money and buries it at an undisclosed location either."

SURE you can. It just takes 109 years.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

In the past the news was just about listening, tracking and mapping
"aircraft are all fitted with sophisticated surveillance equipment. " ...The aircraft are able to identify suspects using 'voice-prints' ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Then the wifi mapping news e.g. "mapped the Wi-Fi fingerprint of nearly every major town in Yemen".
https://firstlook.org/theinter... (10 Feb 2014)
Expect more interest in any wifi network at a home, suburb and country based network level.

Given recent developments in Switzerland

The Swiss side of suicide. Asimov wrote about roboticide and robot suicide.

Better yet, a comparison of Asimov's 3 Laws and Christ's two greatest commandments (is rule 3 really necessary? Given recent developments in Switzerland and Belgium, perhaps it is).

It's not the shape of the rocks that give them musical properties, it's the material of the rocks:

English Heritage allowed archaeologists from Bournemouth and Bristol universities to acoustically test the bluestones at Stonehenge, effectively playing them like a huge xylophone.

To the researchers’ surprise, several were found to make distinctive if muted sounds, with several of the rocks showing evidence of having already been struck.

The stones make different pitched noises in different places and different stones make different noises - ranging from a metallic to a wooden sound.

The investigators believe that this could have been the prime reason behind the otherwise inexplicable transport of these stones nearly 200 miles from Preseli to Salisbury Plain.

There were plentiful local rocks from which Stonehenge could have been built, yet the bluestones were considered special.

The principal investigators for the Landscape & Perception project are Jon Wozencroft and Paul Devereux. Wozencroft is a senior lecturer at the RCA and the founding director of the musical publishing company, Touch.

Jon Wozencroft told MailOnline it was 'amazing' to find that the stones used in the monument make the noises that the researchers hoped for.

'It was a really magical discovery and refreshing to come across a phenomenon you can't explain,' he said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

You are absolutely right to question but less snark would make you look less silly should you turn out to be wrong.

There are two living grandsons of John Tyler.
Which proves nothing, because this sort of discussion is not about proving things.
What I want to know about the research is how much dope the old coots under consideration did. I submit that the quality of life lived may have as much impact as the quantity, but not quite get teased out as well in the research.

Would I trust the setup with nuclear launch codes? No.

They were set to 00000000 for decades anyway, so why not?

Apparently a simple comment can cause quite a stir.

I'm very well aware that religion is not a race, however, when you have a bigot like the one I replied to, his world view is splitting races along religious lines.

No - its you who seems to confuse race and religion. I am quite aware that there are white muslims, black Muslims, brown muslims, and muslims of every race and colour you can think of. They are all as bad because of their belief in a violent, intolerant religion, not because of their colour.

Missiles, ships, planes, tanks, and large groups of soldiers all cost a lot of money....A geek with a computer is pretty cheap, can do a lot of things, and cause a lot of really inconvenient problems.

I bet that's why the hackers used the compromised machines to play "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" instead of "Thunderstruck".

Define 'protected'.

Well, according to the Visa and MasterCard contracts you sign, you, the consumer, are not liable for fraudulent or unauthorized usage of your credit card credentials. Here's Visa's statement and here's MasterCard's. Just for fun, here's Discover and American Express's, both of which promise zero liability if you act like a rational human being. And since 1998 the FDIC covers about $250,000 in losses relating to your bank account, including unauthorized use of your ATM card. So looking at all of those liability statements, since the data breach was not the result of gross negligence on the part of the cardholder, the cardholder is not liable for any fraudulent charges made in their name.

Furthermore if anyone steals my credit card, bank card, ATM card or card information, or if something happens to the bank, like a robbery or the bank folds (provided my bank is FDIC insured, of which nearly 7,000 banks are): I, the consumer, am not liable. Either my credit card company knocks it off my bill (in the case of credit card fraud) or the Federal Government covers the losses up to $250,000 per bank (in the case of ATM card fraud or bank losses).

Those are all legally binding contracts in the United States. The European Union has similar systems in place, and has had deposit insurance since 1994, though that just covers the minimum coverage mandated under EU regulations (current minimums are €50,000, as of 2008, more information here). Most countries cover up to €100,000, including Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Slovakia (among others). The UK covers up to £85,000 in a rather complicated scheme of percentages, and the Irish government will guarantee all the money in your bank accounts.

Certainly seems safer than putting your money in an escrow account controlled by a marketplace known for its illicit drug trade, and whose predecessor was taken down amidst a murder-for-hire scandal.

Wake up. Anything is a pollutant if it is undesirable. This generally means too much of it.

CO2 is a pollutant when sequestered carbon is released causing AGW and resulting shitstorms.

Blood is pollution if you dump too much of it in a river.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Fertilizer is a major source of pollution resulting in ecosystem destruction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

There is a reason why sewage is *treated* to sewage plants instead of just dumped. Dumping sewage is considered pollution in most civilized places.

Will you also argue that raw sewage is just plant fertilizer?

Yes, there are legitimate workaholics that do 60 hours a week. Average Joes doing it? Rarely.

Maybe true in IT. But other fields like law, medicine, finance? The common perception is that when you're starting out as an intern or assistant, the way you get ahead is working 12 hours days or weekends or whatnot.

There have been recent stories of Wall Street firms trying to get people to stay home on Sundays. (The assumption being, of course, that everyone has to work on Saturdays.)

Thankfully, some physicians have finally started speaking out about the grueling hazing done on residents and young doctors at hospitals, where insanely long hours actually put lives at risk.

Maybe other professions can finally start catching on....

"And, at Sochi, there seems to be one unintentional attempt."

Really? At Sochi? Just now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

There are many reports of pilots being hit in the eyes by lasers.
Pilots can see the ground from the cockpit which mean that a laser from the ground can reach the pilot's eyes. That is called reciprocity. It is during landing that pilots are most vulnerable and have the smallest margin for error.

There are many reports of pilots being hit in the eyes by lasers.
Pilots can see the ground from the cockpit which mean that a laser from the ground can reach the pilot's eyes. That is called reciprocity. It is during landing that pilots are most vulnerable and have the smallest margin for error.

If one wanted to be snarky, one could point out the disconnect between What is KIPP ("Thanks to the support of Doris & Don Fisher (co-founders of the GAP clothing stores), the Walton Family Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and other education reform advocates, KIPP now has a network of 99 schools...Five basic principles form the "pillars" that are responsible for the success of students at KIPP Schools....When it comes to effort and behavior, there are no excuses.") and Texas drops DUI charge against billionaire Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton ("The DUI arrest was not Walton's first. According to information from the Springdale District Court in Arkansas, Walton was convicted of driving under the influence in a 1998 case.According to the UK's Independent, she hit a gas meter and told the responding police officer: 'I'm Alice Walton, bitch!'...Previous news accounts state Walton was also involved in a 1989 wreck in Arkansas that resulted in the death of a 50-year-old woman.")

Due to a technicality Alice was let off of on a DUI charge just recently. Maybe she should spend some of her $27 Billion on Drug and Alcohol education in the schools instead?

The FDA point is somewhat more important here then anything. I bet you have been conditioned from the no smoking laws and all the reports being threaded to the public that if you look at a cigarette you will get cancer and die a horrible death 3 days ago. And if you ever see someone smoking, your eyes will fall out, you will have a heart attach and die on the spot from cancer.

The fact of the matter is that less than 10 percent of life long smokers ever get cancer and only about 30 percent of all cancer deaths are attributed to smoking. Granted, your risk of cancer does increase and certain types of cancer do increase if you smoke, but it's not the death nail in the coffin it is made out to be.

As for second hand smoke, This is more to the point as the health effects have not been proven and by some accounts, scientific principle has been completely ignored in order to make the association to the dangers.

But by no means am I saying smoking is not bad for you or that you shouldn't avoid second hand smoke if you want to either. But the hype surrounding some of the issues is blown way out of proportion and often are exaggerated. Even the US EPA lost a lawsuit in 1993-1998 for a report it issued stating people were dieing from second hand smoke due to cherry picking data and construing science in order to reach a predrawn conclusion. I guess I should also add that in 2003, the EPA had the decision reversed on appeal, not because their study or release was good, valid, or anything, but because it didn't carry any regulatory weight so it wasn't regulated by The Radon Research Act passed in 1986 under Title IV of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA).

Again, I'm not saying second hand smoke is good for you but it does appear that the science behind it being bad was if not originally, a political motivation in the least with the goal of using junk science to fuel future scientific reference to it by corruption of reality and pollution of facts. The fact is the EPA conducted itself in the exact same ways as you remember the cigarette industry doing. With open access to all the information, both can be detected more readily and pointed out publicly.

1,000 peanuts and 70,000 people

;-)

I'm glad this sort of thing doesn't happen with real doctors. Does it?

Hah. It's assholes like me that make it so government "scientists" get laughed out of their office when they publish asshole findings. Look up "climategate" and the "scientists" at East Anglia who wrote Email messages back and fourth about "how the hell" they were "going to convince people" that global warming is real.