Ah, but he's not. He's Ethnist, or culturist, which is not nearly as satisfying to accuse someone of.
Someone who is genetically African or Arabian can be raised (or can adopt as an adult) a Protestant work ethic, a Buddhist non-violence, a Shinto filial piety, or a Judeo-Christian moral code. And a Caucasian can adopt jihad, taqquiya, or even the law of the jungle.
Repeat after me: "Armed IRS agents are not the only way for one person to help another." "Theft in the name of good is still theft." "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll eat for life." "Statists are always generous with other people's money, after they take a cut for themselves."
But you can grow olives and avacados and nuts on more marginal land. Pigs and goats can eat acorns and chestnuts, and other tree crops, which can grow where regular cereal crops would fail. Fat from oils are healthier, and the manure from the animals can enrich the ground along with dead leaves from the trees and vines. Eventually, the once marginal land can support more traditional vegetables, too.
Hunger pains can sometimes be alleviated by drinking a large glass of water. Doesn't last long, but it came in handy back when I was in college, and there were just NO snacks in our apartment.
That said, I really feel for you. Everyone's biology is slightly different. My mother in law does not ever have the "I'm full" feeling of satiety. It's really hard for her to now be eating something, and hard for her not to be offering my family food all the time when we are over.
When I was a kid, my parents couldn't get locked up for letting me play outside without immediate adult supervision. My kindergarten friends and I had the run of several blocks worth of neighborhood, the empty field nearby, the empty field behind Mikey's house, and the entire school campus. We had an Atari, and a Commodore 64, and two TV's. They mostly only saw use after dark, and when we played Frogger together as a family.
Letting a kindergartner walk 3 blocks alone to play basketball at the school during the summer now would probably get a parent arrested, and CPS involved. Despite the fact that crime rates are lower now than they were in the mid eighties.
Never gonna happen. Doctors have the ability to take cultures and test which antibiotics work on them best NOW. But they don't, because it's easier to just shotgun it with a scribble on the 'ol RX pad. If the patient complains more, write a different RX.
Maybe, just maybe, if there is an iPhone app that can figure out which parasite is giving you grief, and the doc already has an iPhone, it'll get properly diagnosed, if he can bill the insurance for the cost of the phone several times per day.
Funny, about a month ago, I discovered that I couldn't digest milk properly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance) which was leading to excessive gut bacteria. I cut it out of my diet almost completely, and have lost five pounds in a month. Anecdote, I know, but I see a parallel. The problem is, I imagine that a large portion of the US would rather be fat than give up milk, cheese, ice cream, chocolate, and most processed foods. Stupid whey! They put it in EVERYTHING!
Looking at this post, I realize that giving up milk, cheese, ice cream, chocolate, and processed foods may be enough to cause the weight loss all on its own. This is why we need scientific studies before making recommendations to the public at large.
"your insulin resistance, leptin resistance, the concentration and distribution of your alpha-2 and beta-2 adrenergic receptors," And you don't think that some of the crap that gets put in food might, just maybe, influence any of those factors?
Then you go on to decry "calories with zero nutrients -- purely carb and sugar, with no useful nutrients, protein, or dietary fat." But if a calorie is a calorie, it shouldn't matter, it's just 3500 calories over TDEE, right?
This. When you go to any other business for goods or services, you expect the price up front. If hospitals had to post (yes, this would have to be a big, searchable spreadsheet, not a three page menu) all their services and the prices thereof, things would change pretty quick. Also, medical professionals could only charge a few different rate (cash/credit/insurance/payment plan) rather than bill at the highest rate possible and then "accept" less from insurers.
This is way off topic, but it amuses me greatly that you fault conservatives for not applying the precautionary principle in the same breath you advocate forcibly removing millions of firearms from millions of homes, without considering historical precedents.
I sincerely believe that SOME people would swear that I had no right to send handwritten notes to my neighbor, because the first amendment says freedom of speech, or of the press. Of course the founders did not enumerate self defense, just like they didn't enumerate "grow your own food" or "cook your own meals," or "breathe."
No, no, yes, NO. 49 states have laws allowing citizens to carry concealed, whether with or without a permit. Nearly all of these "killing spree" mass murders have taken place somewhere that denies those people the ability to carry their firearm, including the Aurora killings, where the theater has a "no guns" policy. If you see a "no guns allowed" sign, a criminal intent on violence sees an "unarmed victims ahead" sign.
Why is it always an extra tax? Why not an easier permitting process for alternatives, or preapproval for nuclear without lawsuits? It's always "pay more" or "do with less?" Figure out how a guy can earn a living, or decrease his costs, provide more abundance for the same cost or effort.
The conservative reaction will be based on the remedies proposed, not the science underlying them. If your solution is to take more money from conservatives, and give it to liberals, then neither the science or your motives will matter. For example, if you were to say that we need to find the best places to start building nuclear power plants are, so the power companies can construct CO2-free electric plants, fine. If you say that you plan to bankrupt the coal companies, not fine. If you say the constitution must be subsumed under the United Nations, you're gonna have a bad time. If you make public transit fare tax deductible, fine. If you impose extra taxes on single-rider vehicles, not as fine.
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One university managed to get a hold of 64 Raspberry PI units.
Ah, but he's not. He's Ethnist, or culturist, which is not nearly as satisfying to accuse someone of.
Someone who is genetically African or Arabian can be raised (or can adopt as an adult) a Protestant work ethic, a Buddhist non-violence, a Shinto filial piety, or a Judeo-Christian moral code. And a Caucasian can adopt jihad, taqquiya, or even the law of the jungle.
Ethanol would be a non-controversial win-win if it was made from waste products or crops grown on marginal land.
Great post. We are all lucky to live at this point in history.
Point of order: "killing feral rabbits" has historically been referred to as "hunting."
It sounds like a good idea. But if ten companies pay ten percent each in sales tax, The price is raised by 150%, which the final consumer has to pay.
Repeat after me: "Armed IRS agents are not the only way for one person to help another." "Theft in the name of good is still theft." "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll eat for life." "Statists are always generous with other people's money, after they take a cut for themselves."
But you can grow olives and avacados and nuts on more marginal land. Pigs and goats can eat acorns and chestnuts, and other tree crops, which can grow where regular cereal crops would fail. Fat from oils are healthier, and the manure from the animals can enrich the ground along with dead leaves from the trees and vines. Eventually, the once marginal land can support more traditional vegetables, too.
I don't think they qualify either way, seeing how the craft is 34 meters from wingtip to wingtip.
Not that I could've built this or anything, just saying it doesn't fit in the box it has to stay inside.
Bill Gates, is that you? Twelve megapixels ought to be enough for anyone, right?
Optical zoom = thickness. You want a phone that is three inches thick? It's the early nineties all over again!
Also, I don't wanna have a data plan for my camera.
Hunger pains can sometimes be alleviated by drinking a large glass of water. Doesn't last long, but it came in handy back when I was in college, and there were just NO snacks in our apartment.
That said, I really feel for you. Everyone's biology is slightly different. My mother in law does not ever have the "I'm full" feeling of satiety. It's really hard for her to now be eating something, and hard for her not to be offering my family food all the time when we are over.
When I was a kid, my parents couldn't get locked up for letting me play outside without immediate adult supervision. My kindergarten friends and I had the run of several blocks worth of neighborhood, the empty field nearby, the empty field behind Mikey's house, and the entire school campus. We had an Atari, and a Commodore 64, and two TV's. They mostly only saw use after dark, and when we played Frogger together as a family.
Letting a kindergartner walk 3 blocks alone to play basketball at the school during the summer now would probably get a parent arrested, and CPS involved. Despite the fact that crime rates are lower now than they were in the mid eighties.
Never gonna happen. Doctors have the ability to take cultures and test which antibiotics work on them best NOW. But they don't, because it's easier to just shotgun it with a scribble on the 'ol RX pad. If the patient complains more, write a different RX.
Maybe, just maybe, if there is an iPhone app that can figure out which parasite is giving you grief, and the doc already has an iPhone, it'll get properly diagnosed, if he can bill the insurance for the cost of the phone several times per day.
Funny, about a month ago, I discovered that I couldn't digest milk properly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance) which was leading to excessive gut bacteria. I cut it out of my diet almost completely, and have lost five pounds in a month. Anecdote, I know, but I see a parallel. The problem is, I imagine that a large portion of the US would rather be fat than give up milk, cheese, ice cream, chocolate, and most processed foods. Stupid whey! They put it in EVERYTHING!
Looking at this post, I realize that giving up milk, cheese, ice cream, chocolate, and processed foods may be enough to cause the weight loss all on its own. This is why we need scientific studies before making recommendations to the public at large.
"your insulin resistance, leptin resistance, the concentration and distribution of your alpha-2 and beta-2 adrenergic receptors,"
And you don't think that some of the crap that gets put in food might, just maybe, influence any of those factors?
Then you go on to decry "calories with zero nutrients -- purely carb and sugar, with no useful nutrients, protein, or dietary fat."
But if a calorie is a calorie, it shouldn't matter, it's just 3500 calories over TDEE, right?
The human body is an intensely complex machine.
Slashdot needs a "-1, Ad Hominem" mod.
This. When you go to any other business for goods or services, you expect the price up front. If hospitals had to post (yes, this would have to be a big, searchable spreadsheet, not a three page menu) all their services and the prices thereof, things would change pretty quick. Also, medical professionals could only charge a few different rate (cash/credit/insurance/payment plan) rather than bill at the highest rate possible and then "accept" less from insurers.
This is way off topic, but it amuses me greatly that you fault conservatives for not applying the precautionary principle in the same breath you advocate forcibly removing millions of firearms from millions of homes, without considering historical precedents.
And/or not make it crash safari on iPhone EVERY SINGLE TIME.
It couldn't hurt, at least.
...where they cite a placebo lowering the subject's blood pressure. And blood pressure is OBjective, not SUBjective.
And yes, in this case, you are scientifically inaccurate.
I sincerely believe that SOME people would swear that I had no right to send handwritten notes to my neighbor, because the first amendment says freedom of speech, or of the press.
Of course the founders did not enumerate self defense, just like they didn't enumerate "grow your own food" or "cook your own meals," or "breathe."
No, no, yes, NO. 49 states have laws allowing citizens to carry concealed, whether with or without a permit. Nearly all of these "killing spree" mass murders have taken place somewhere that denies those people the ability to carry their firearm, including the Aurora killings, where the theater has a "no guns" policy.
If you see a "no guns allowed" sign, a criminal intent on violence sees an "unarmed victims ahead" sign.
Why is it always an extra tax? Why not an easier permitting process for alternatives, or preapproval for nuclear without lawsuits? It's always "pay more" or "do with less?" Figure out how a guy can earn a living, or decrease his costs, provide more abundance for the same cost or effort.
The conservative reaction will be based on the remedies proposed, not the science underlying them. If your solution is to take more money from conservatives, and give it to liberals, then neither the science or your motives will matter.
For example, if you were to say that we need to find the best places to start building nuclear power plants are, so the power companies can construct CO2-free electric plants, fine. If you say that you plan to bankrupt the coal companies, not fine. If you say the constitution must be subsumed under the United Nations, you're gonna have a bad time. If you make public transit fare tax deductible, fine. If you impose extra taxes on single-rider vehicles, not as fine.
Seattle managed it.