Your website makes me want to post hyperbole about bleeding eyes and ripping brains out and stuff. You have a level of random capitalisation, font size, text colour and style changes that's usually reserved for trying to sell antigravity devices, time travel machines and magnetic perpetual motion crystals for psychic enhancement.
Obviously you don't go from KFC-once-an-hour and lift-a-beer-can workouts to ultramarathon running overnight. I'll give you a slightly elaborated formula: Eat slightly less than you did yesterday. Exerise slightly more. Keep it up until you're at a healthy weight. Capiche?
My friend is fine. Working a steady job, got a girlfriend, hell he's even quit WoW... but then again the only sign of mental deficiency I ever saw in him was equipping a Glowing Brightwood Staff and spending points on Arcanist. *shudder*:P
As for the comment about amphetamines being used as appetite suppressants, I couldn't find the exact link (not the sort of thing you want to google much at work >.> ) but weren't they originally developed as such? Ecstasy has a similar effect, generally one doesn't feel hungry for a good 12-24 hours afterwards. Also don't believe the random FUD put out about recreational drugs, if you're curious do your own research - for instance, don't confuse speed (similar effects to caffeine, much less addictive) with ice (methamphetamine, and some of the most evil shit around, one or two hits WILL get you hooked AND fuck you up, a friend of mine is a nurse and her comment on it is "give me a heroin or crack addict over an ice junkie any day").
It was this exact problem that kicked me over to Ubuntu a month or so back. I was sick of XP, and I wanted an operating system that I could just use, instead of tinkering around installing extra hardware (a floppy drive, I haven't built a system with one since 1998) and messing with script files, drivers, settings etc. just to get the damn thing to run...
I wasn't going to go that far, because the amount of physical work that even a very active person does is trivial compared to the amount of calories in even a very constricted diet. Take, for example, a packet of Indo Mie Migoreng, an affordable and tasty snack. (Cmon Indo Mie, where's my shill cheque?! At least send me some, my box of 'em is nearly empty...;) This contains 1620kJ of energy, a similar figure, if my memory serves, to the amount in four Arnott's Mint Slice biscuits.
In terms of physical work required to work off one packet of noodles, given that I weigh 85kg, I'd have to make a vertical climb of two kilometers (85kg * 9.18ms^-2 = 833N, 1640kJ = 0.833kN * 1968m). That's the equivalent of climbing the tallest mountain on the Australian mainland. For four bikkies. Obviously we're nowhere near 100% efficient in converting chemical to mechanical energy, actually the figure is closer to 25% (Study here, see page 18). That's still a 500m vertical climb, the equivalent of climbing the Taipei 101. Twice.
Most energy expenditure, and hence weight loss, comes from resting metabolism, because it's ticking over all the time. Base adult metabolism ticks over at around 90 watts. That's 324kJ an hour, every hour, regardless of what you're doing. Raising this number (by having a higher muscle mass, or by having other maintenance work carried out, as happens after a workout when the torn muscles are healing) will raise your overall energy expenditure far more than any actual exercise you do.
But I digress. If the overall number of calories leaving a system (the body) is greater than the calories going in, then as you said, either that person is losing weight, or I'm going to patent them and be rich. RICH I TELL YOU!.
It's hard for parents to stop kids from viewing offensive content. No. NO. It's hard for software to stop kids from viewing offensive content. Parents who are actually present in their kids' lives have no problem making sure that their kids aren't accessing excessive 'offensive content'. Note the use of the word 'excessive' - it's not possible for a parent to control what their kid sees and hears for 100% of the time, especially once the kid is in their mid to late teens. Nor should it be possible - hell, I got my first low-quality tame-by-today's-standards porn jpgs on a 3.5" floppy disk when I was about 13. I'd leafed through my friend's dad's Cosmo collection even before that. Didn't scar me excessively - hell, I was a curious early-teen and it answered a few questions...:P While it's probably not good for a kid to focus too much on such things, it's definitely not harmful for them to have some exposure. Remember, folks, you first saw a breast when you were only a few minutes old. They won't hurt you, hell they evolved specifically not to!
How does he jump from kids seeing pr0n to pr0n of kids? Is this a special type of logic you learn when you get into politics? How can you not feel the essential truthiness of this appeal? Obviously, child plus porn equals child porn! Why can't you think of the children?!
Well, not cocaine, but I had a friend a few years back who went from very obese (don't know exact numbers but he must have been 110kg+ and looked like a blob) to pretty trim, simply by spending a whole summer out clubbing every weekend snarfing down e's and speed. Not the most orthodox of diet plans, but it worked a treat for him. He's since moved on from that scene but hasn't regained the weight.
If your calorific intake is really that low, and output is that high, you may just be that 1% or whatever minority it is that actually has a medical cause for their body fat level. In that case, your individual case is obviously not included in the "it's probably just that you're lazy and eat too much" category. However, for every one person like you, there are 20 or 30 who think "yes, yes that's it, I have a defective ventromedial hyperthalamus", sit back on their wide ass, and open another coke and a packet of chips.
Another example is one of my gf's friends. She looks from a distance like any other fat chick, but in fact she's just built like a brick shithouse. She's extremely active and it's all muscle, she just can't 'slim down' due to genetics. Sometimes them's just the breaks. But again, most of the time, people are fat simply because they choose not to fix it.
This is psychology, which effects all of us. And they did do a scientific study. Why would someone make a bad choice? There are more interesting answers than the standard, intellectually lazy "it's their own damn fault. period." Oooh, now we're getting into free will vs. determinism.:P The study does ring true, though. A friend of mine is very fat, and he got that way by eating every time he saw food. When I'm around him I tend to do the same, just to be social. If he's getting a packet of chips, I'll get some too, that kinda thing. We don't hang out often enough for it to affect me much, but the effect is there.
The question is, is willpower something you can take responsibility for? Or is "I don't have the discipline to exercise and control my eating habits" a valid excuse in today's huggy cuddly validate-my-lifestyle society? What if someone doesn't have the willpower to *work on* their willpower?
And exercising will make your metabolism speed up. And the muscles you grow while exercising will, all on their own, even when they're not being actively used, burn up more calories than the fat they replace. There are two things that make you lose weight, and they work best when used together. Eat less. Exercise more. It's not freakin' rocket science.
You have AIDS.
Yes, you have AIDS.
I hate to tell you, boy, you have AIDS.
You got the AIDS.
You may have caught it when you stuck that filthy needle in here.
Or maybe all that unprotected sex which we hear.
It isn't clear, but what we're certain of is that you have AIDS.
Yes, you have AIDS.
Not HIV, but full-blown AIDS.
Be sure that you see that this is not HIV, but full blown AIDS.
Not HIV, but full-blown AIDS.
I'm sorry, I wish it was something less serious, but it's AIDS.
You've got the AIDS.
C'mon, it's Family Guy! (worksafe article but on a gay/transgender advocacy site)
Good story! Did you factor in the fact that your car's deceleration was nonlinear, meaning you probably had even higher peak deceleration? It'd be interesting to look up the G-meter profiles from crash test dummies to see what happens... I'd imagine it starts off gently with a jerk at the end as the car stops crumpling. At any rate, 20 Gs doesn't sound unreasonable assuming that you're (a) oriented appropriately, (b) prepared and equipped (G-suit etc), and (c) in good physical shape. Of course, maintaining that shape for 6 months or more of zero gravity beforehand may be tricky...
True, but meaningless except in the "big picture" sense that Calvin usually uses to get out of homework. All forms of energy are 'stored', having been created, best as we can tell, at the creation of the universe by agents or mechanisms unknown.
It depends on air temperature (which surprised me, I'd always been told it was pressure but it makes sense now I think of it). Wikipedia has a formula.
I just thought of this so it may not work, but... maybe instead of 8 grand for solar cells, spend 2 grand on mirrors and 1-inch-think polystyrene sheets? Cover your external walls and roof with mirrored insulation and I'd imagine you'd drop your cooling power requirements by an order of magnitude.
I know I know, damn hippies and their passive thermally-efficient spacecake-looking houses...:P
I've never once had Windows find and install a codec for me when I click on the 'find codec on ma intarwebs' button. On the other hand, Ubuntu does it perfectly. All I have to do is click "I'm not in America and/or I'm in ur netwerks stealin ur codex". Also note that often the 'codec packs' you download to install DivX, xvid etc. contain at least some copyright-infringing code anyway. For example, "DivX;-)" is the MS MPEG4 codec, hacked to read/write files in the AVI file format.
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Your website makes me want to post hyperbole about bleeding eyes and ripping brains out and stuff. You have a level of random capitalisation, font size, text colour and style changes that's usually reserved for trying to sell antigravity devices, time travel machines and magnetic perpetual motion crystals for psychic enhancement.
Obviously you don't go from KFC-once-an-hour and lift-a-beer-can workouts to ultramarathon running overnight. I'll give you a slightly elaborated formula: Eat slightly less than you did yesterday. Exerise slightly more. Keep it up until you're at a healthy weight. Capiche?
My friend is fine. Working a steady job, got a girlfriend, hell he's even quit WoW... but then again the only sign of mental deficiency I ever saw in him was equipping a Glowing Brightwood Staff and spending points on Arcanist. *shudder* :P
As for the comment about amphetamines being used as appetite suppressants, I couldn't find the exact link (not the sort of thing you want to google much at work >.> ) but weren't they originally developed as such? Ecstasy has a similar effect, generally one doesn't feel hungry for a good 12-24 hours afterwards. Also don't believe the random FUD put out about recreational drugs, if you're curious do your own research - for instance, don't confuse speed (similar effects to caffeine, much less addictive) with ice (methamphetamine, and some of the most evil shit around, one or two hits WILL get you hooked AND fuck you up, a friend of mine is a nurse and her comment on it is "give me a heroin or crack addict over an ice junkie any day").
It was this exact problem that kicked me over to Ubuntu a month or so back. I was sick of XP, and I wanted an operating system that I could just use, instead of tinkering around installing extra hardware (a floppy drive, I haven't built a system with one since 1998) and messing with script files, drivers, settings etc. just to get the damn thing to run...
*mutters something incoherent about the "physical act of love" and "loss of essence"* :P
I wasn't going to go that far, because the amount of physical work that even a very active person does is trivial compared to the amount of calories in even a very constricted diet. Take, for example, a packet of Indo Mie Migoreng, an affordable and tasty snack. (Cmon Indo Mie, where's my shill cheque?! At least send me some, my box of 'em is nearly empty... ;) This contains 1620kJ of energy, a similar figure, if my memory serves, to the amount in four Arnott's Mint Slice biscuits.
In terms of physical work required to work off one packet of noodles, given that I weigh 85kg, I'd have to make a vertical climb of two kilometers (85kg * 9.18ms^-2 = 833N, 1640kJ = 0.833kN * 1968m). That's the equivalent of climbing the tallest mountain on the Australian mainland. For four bikkies. Obviously we're nowhere near 100% efficient in converting chemical to mechanical energy, actually the figure is closer to 25% (Study here, see page 18). That's still a 500m vertical climb, the equivalent of climbing the Taipei 101. Twice.
Most energy expenditure, and hence weight loss, comes from resting metabolism, because it's ticking over all the time. Base adult metabolism ticks over at around 90 watts. That's 324kJ an hour, every hour, regardless of what you're doing. Raising this number (by having a higher muscle mass, or by having other maintenance work carried out, as happens after a workout when the torn muscles are healing) will raise your overall energy expenditure far more than any actual exercise you do.
But I digress. If the overall number of calories leaving a system (the body) is greater than the calories going in, then as you said, either that person is losing weight, or I'm going to patent them and be rich. RICH I TELL YOU!.
Random further reading with a scientific-sounding name: Thermodynamics of weight loss diets
Well, not cocaine, but I had a friend a few years back who went from very obese (don't know exact numbers but he must have been 110kg+ and looked like a blob) to pretty trim, simply by spending a whole summer out clubbing every weekend snarfing down e's and speed. Not the most orthodox of diet plans, but it worked a treat for him. He's since moved on from that scene but hasn't regained the weight.
A result akin to anorexia? You must have gone to a school with nice lunches. :P
That guy just wants to justify all the hooch.
:D
Hell, I aint arguing with him!
/me cracks open a beer
If your calorific intake is really that low, and output is that high, you may just be that 1% or whatever minority it is that actually has a medical cause for their body fat level. In that case, your individual case is obviously not included in the "it's probably just that you're lazy and eat too much" category. However, for every one person like you, there are 20 or 30 who think "yes, yes that's it, I have a defective ventromedial hyperthalamus", sit back on their wide ass, and open another coke and a packet of chips.
Another example is one of my gf's friends. She looks from a distance like any other fat chick, but in fact she's just built like a brick shithouse. She's extremely active and it's all muscle, she just can't 'slim down' due to genetics. Sometimes them's just the breaks. But again, most of the time, people are fat simply because they choose not to fix it.
The question is, is willpower something you can take responsibility for? Or is "I don't have the discipline to exercise and control my eating habits" a valid excuse in today's huggy cuddly validate-my-lifestyle society? What if someone doesn't have the willpower to *work on* their willpower?
And exercising will make your metabolism speed up. And the muscles you grow while exercising will, all on their own, even when they're not being actively used, burn up more calories than the fat they replace. There are two things that make you lose weight, and they work best when used together. Eat less. Exercise more. It's not freakin' rocket science.
The street, your seat, the heat, your feet. Oh, and the pennies on your eyes, if you should die.
You have AIDS.
Yes, you have AIDS.
I hate to tell you, boy, you have AIDS.
You got the AIDS.
You may have caught it when you stuck that filthy needle in here.
Or maybe all that unprotected sex which we hear.
It isn't clear, but what we're certain of is that you have AIDS.
Yes, you have AIDS.
Not HIV, but full-blown AIDS.
Be sure that you see that this is not HIV, but full blown AIDS.
Not HIV, but full-blown AIDS.
I'm sorry, I wish it was something less serious, but it's AIDS.
You've got the AIDS.
C'mon, it's Family Guy! (worksafe article but on a gay/transgender advocacy site)
Good story! Did you factor in the fact that your car's deceleration was nonlinear, meaning you probably had even higher peak deceleration? It'd be interesting to look up the G-meter profiles from crash test dummies to see what happens... I'd imagine it starts off gently with a jerk at the end as the car stops crumpling. At any rate, 20 Gs doesn't sound unreasonable assuming that you're (a) oriented appropriately, (b) prepared and equipped (G-suit etc), and (c) in good physical shape. Of course, maintaining that shape for 6 months or more of zero gravity beforehand may be tricky...
True, but meaningless except in the "big picture" sense that Calvin usually uses to get out of homework. All forms of energy are 'stored', having been created, best as we can tell, at the creation of the universe by agents or mechanisms unknown.
It depends on air temperature (which surprised me, I'd always been told it was pressure but it makes sense now I think of it). Wikipedia has a formula.
I just thought of this so it may not work, but... maybe instead of 8 grand for solar cells, spend 2 grand on mirrors and 1-inch-think polystyrene sheets? Cover your external walls and roof with mirrored insulation and I'd imagine you'd drop your cooling power requirements by an order of magnitude.
:P
I know I know, damn hippies and their passive thermally-efficient spacecake-looking houses...
I'd prefer a Nürburgring trial hot-lap, personally.
Whooooosh!
OH MY GOD what was that?! *looks skyward*
I've never once had Windows find and install a codec for me when I click on the 'find codec on ma intarwebs' button. On the other hand, Ubuntu does it perfectly. All I have to do is click "I'm not in America and/or I'm in ur netwerks stealin ur codex". Also note that often the 'codec packs' you download to install DivX, xvid etc. contain at least some copyright-infringing code anyway. For example, "DivX ;-)" is the MS MPEG4 codec, hacked to read/write files in the AVI file format.
Schrodinger's chess is when you set up a chess board in a box with a cat. You then shake the box, and declare that you beat the cat at chess.