I wonder how long before the deluge of loopholes begins?
Wouldn't it be great to come home and hear the following on your answering machine?
"Hello, Mr/Ms [your last name], I'm calling you on behalf of the recently formed non-profit Consumer Rights Advocacy Foundation of America. Our organization's mission is to open up a free channel of communications between all of our members to promote the freedoms and options available to every American citizen.
"Membership is not only free, but if you have no objection, we will immediately make you a member of our organization. To make sure your membership counts, your name will also be added to our membership roster as one of the many people who demand that our federal government repeal recent legislation which goes against our freedoms and liberties."
"If you do not object, we will send you a packet in the mail which you can sign and return to us to show your dedication to STAND UP for your rights."
"If you do not wish to become a member, please say so now."
[2 second pause]
"Great. Welecome to the CRAFA. We already have a record of your address in our database. We will send the packet out to you immediately. Thank you for your time." [Click]
Taking into consideration our current social climate, being overweight (especially while young) is a very significant factor in determining your success at reproducing.
It would seem like the people who are able to maintain physically attractive bodies do so through strict disclipline or they are gifted with a body which can properly manage the dietary environment. The former may be carried on in memes, while the latter may be carried on in genese. Either way, those most fit to carry them on are those who will be most adapted for as long as it is socially unattractive to be overweight.
I would not discount the effectiveness of evolution until the rules of society govern that fitness is not an important factor in selecting a mate (which is highly unlikely).
We might say the same for the typical American diet, with it's high sugar, refined carbohydrate and other oddities. If we did nothing at all, over generations (many of them) an 'American' genotype would evolve that was able to deal with the current toxins in the American diet (even pesticides), and thrive on them..
This could happen quite quicker than most people imagine, especially if you consider that the most obese among us (which are likely those who can't healthily co-exist with the american food lifestyle) will be less likely to reproduce.
I imagine it would not be long before we begin to observe a shift in our genetic makeup which causes us to change our eating styles and better process the food that we do eat so as not to become obese (and less fit to reproduce).
Many people are looking for shortcuts becase is it is very hard to get started on a traditional diet & exercise plan if you're already very overweight.
The low-carb diet is a good way to get started since it helps many people drop enough weight that exercise becomes much more bearable (and safer for your body).
As to the long-term benefits, we know little. But for the short term, it is an effective way to catalyzing a new, healthier lifestyle.
I'll agree the GF grill is almost the perfect cooking appliance. However, the problem I have with it is that it's quite troublesome to clean compared to most other cooking apparatus.
I think it could be perfected if they designed it to let us easily detach the parts that get dirty and let us toss them in the dishwasher =P
If you're in shape, I agree. If you're quite overweight, it can be very difficult. If you have a low metabolism, that can make things extremely difficult.
The Atkins + Hacker diet is a good way to get started.
The graphs that you get from the Hacker diet are very encouraging, especially early on when it's hard to get started.
They both involve minimal exercise, which might be a good way to start since exercise can be exponentially difficult the more overweight you are.
Of course once you've lost some weight and start feeling better, you can start to adapt to your own system, especially if you start to crave carbohydrates again which then you can counteract with exercise since it will be easier at that point.
Would it be not much different to just say you have "18 points" to spend per day (1800 calories), and just read the calories from everything you eat and divide by 100 for the points?
I don't really understand the system, as it sounds like the exact same thing, except it costs money to have access to some private table of points?
Mental functioning is impaired, with up to 15 IQ points impact, so it can be hard to do your job well, and to manage relationships effectively
I'm glad someone else mentioned this, sparing me to have to create a new thread along this topic in an already high-traffic discussion.
I already did the Atkins + Hacker diet thing about a year ago. It worked very well for some time.
The only problem was that during that time, I had a much harder time programming or doing anything that required highly abstract problem solving.
I'm thinking that all the snacks and sodas that are common stereotypicial staples of the computer geek are chosen not just at random, but the raised blood sugar they provide gives us a boost in our ability to perform the intricate tasks and problem solving that we engage in.
This all seems a lot worse than hanging chads to me.
It is worse.
Imagine if the same fiasco happens with our current electronic voting machines.
There would be absolutely nothing to recount, and people will be even more furious because their first assumption will be a corrupt system.
What could be done to appease them? Nothing short of a re-election, which AFAIK is not even a legal option.
Actually, as long as any election remains unauditable, people will always presume that it was rigged. People even assume so when there is a good audit trail. Just imagine how many more will feel that way when there is not one.
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Just don't give them gifts that are directly related to their daily work - it'll seem cheap (ie, never give your wife a vacuum cleaner as a 'gift', under pain of death)
What a double-standard. If a wife buys her husband a set of power tools as a gift, you know you won't hear him complaining. =P
And this time, even though they're in different industries, they might have a case... since Gator will be SEIOUSLY dirtying the name.
I was about to post that very same thought.
I recognize that in law, a trademark name can be shared if two companies offer distinctly different products; but what of the situation where a very unscrupulous company chooses to move in (even though their product is distinctively different)?
I'm replying to this with full quotation, as the AC may not be noticed at Score 0, yet I'd like to see someone address why this is rarely recommended in place of 127.0.0.1.
I've been using 0.0.0.0 for blocking hosts for a long while. It seems to result in faster page loads since the pending images don't hang the browser up. This is useful especially on websites where the text is not yet rendered in wait of size information for the pending images.
It's hard for me to imagine that any drug (or anything, really) can be made so that it's 100% non addictive. Maybe not chemically adictive, but psychologically. Even so, I think the last thing society needs is another chemical diversion from Real Life(tm) no matter how mild. Best to accept your lemons and do your best to make lemonade than to try and hide from it... just my take on it, though.
And of course, well, there's always suicide if you're drowning in lemons... That's obviously better than a temporary addiction... [/sarcasm]
I sometimes wonder that if more drugs were legal that there may be fewer suicides.
Honestly, let people do what they want to themselves. Society will sort itself out, and at least more people will live happier lives. That is what is most important, is it not?
I like the concept a lot. The only problem is... who is in charge of the system that determines if it's a lie, spin or misperception?
Line item moderation, anyone?
Also, the more "points" it gets in a particular direction, the more saturated the highlighting stands out.
Just hook it all together with something like the Google toolbar, where you can rate portions of pages instead of the entire page, and let you rate it with a label like the moderation system here.
Maybe it wouldn't be accurate, since it may eventually get in an ideological tug-of-war in some places, but at least a visible marker of all that effort would give clue to the uninvolved reader of something controversial. =)
What a retarded navigation system. The denotation of "related" is supposed to be "separate but in the same category of information", not "part of the same article".
You must not live in South Florida. Honestly, can you even concieve how the people who can't even handle two dimensions of navigation will do if they were suddenly given three dimensions? =P
If we presume that this is a likely step on the road of technology, it should be obvious why we do not find evidence of civilization beyond our planet.
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Wouldn't it be great to come home and hear the following on your answering machine?
Taking into consideration our current social climate, being overweight (especially while young) is a very significant factor in determining your success at reproducing.
It would seem like the people who are able to maintain physically attractive bodies do so through strict disclipline or they are gifted with a body which can properly manage the dietary environment. The former may be carried on in memes, while the latter may be carried on in genese. Either way, those most fit to carry them on are those who will be most adapted for as long as it is socially unattractive to be overweight.
I would not discount the effectiveness of evolution until the rules of society govern that fitness is not an important factor in selecting a mate (which is highly unlikely).
We might say the same for the typical American diet, with it's high sugar, refined carbohydrate and other oddities. If we did nothing at all, over generations (many of them) an 'American' genotype would evolve that was able to deal with the current toxins in the American diet (even pesticides), and thrive on them..
This could happen quite quicker than most people imagine, especially if you consider that the most obese among us (which are likely those who can't healthily co-exist with the american food lifestyle) will be less likely to reproduce.
I imagine it would not be long before we begin to observe a shift in our genetic makeup which causes us to change our eating styles and better process the food that we do eat so as not to become obese (and less fit to reproduce).
Many people are looking for shortcuts becase is it is very hard to get started on a traditional diet & exercise plan if you're already very overweight.
The low-carb diet is a good way to get started since it helps many people drop enough weight that exercise becomes much more bearable (and safer for your body).
As to the long-term benefits, we know little. But for the short term, it is an effective way to catalyzing a new, healthier lifestyle.
One actually started because she was constantly hungry when she was eating carbohydrates.
Just to be safe, you may want to suggest she see a doctor to have her blood sugar levels tested.
I'll agree the GF grill is almost the perfect cooking appliance. However, the problem I have with it is that it's quite troublesome to clean compared to most other cooking apparatus.
I think it could be perfected if they designed it to let us easily detach the parts that get dirty and let us toss them in the dishwasher =P
If you're in shape, I agree. If you're quite overweight, it can be very difficult. If you have a low metabolism, that can make things extremely difficult.
The Atkins + Hacker diet is a good way to get started.
The graphs that you get from the Hacker diet are very encouraging, especially early on when it's hard to get started.
They both involve minimal exercise, which might be a good way to start since exercise can be exponentially difficult the more overweight you are.
Of course once you've lost some weight and start feeling better, you can start to adapt to your own system, especially if you start to crave carbohydrates again which then you can counteract with exercise since it will be easier at that point.
I did the same thing. It's not much unlike the temperature curve of a material which is in phase transition.
If you stick with it, eventually you get through it; although it can get quite discouraging in the meantime.
How does this differ from calorie counting?
Would it be not much different to just say you have "18 points" to spend per day (1800 calories), and just read the calories from everything you eat and divide by 100 for the points?
I don't really understand the system, as it sounds like the exact same thing, except it costs money to have access to some private table of points?
Mental functioning is impaired, with up to 15 IQ points impact, so it can be hard to do your job well, and to manage relationships effectively
I'm glad someone else mentioned this, sparing me to have to create a new thread along this topic in an already high-traffic discussion.
I already did the Atkins + Hacker diet thing about a year ago. It worked very well for some time.
The only problem was that during that time, I had a much harder time programming or doing anything that required highly abstract problem solving.
I'm thinking that all the snacks and sodas that are common stereotypicial staples of the computer geek are chosen not just at random, but the raised blood sugar they provide gives us a boost in our ability to perform the intricate tasks and problem solving that we engage in.
My servers and my workstation support Java. Works 100% in my environment. That's all I need to know.
Just becuase Java doesn't run on my C=64 or my microwave oven doesn't mean I'm going to stop writing my servlets in Java.
And you know what? Those obscure platforms that it doesn't run on are small markets anyway.
This all seems a lot worse than hanging chads to me.
It is worse.
Imagine if the same fiasco happens with our current electronic voting machines.
There would be absolutely nothing to recount, and people will be even more furious because their first assumption will be a corrupt system.
What could be done to appease them? Nothing short of a re-election, which AFAIK is not even a legal option.
Actually, as long as any election remains unauditable, people will always presume that it was rigged. People even assume so when there is a good audit trail. Just imagine how many more will feel that way when there is not one.
Just don't give them gifts that are directly related to their daily work - it'll seem cheap (ie, never give your wife a vacuum cleaner as a 'gift', under pain of death)
What a double-standard. If a wife buys her husband a set of power tools as a gift, you know you won't hear him complaining. =P
.. most of the action was over after 10e-30 seconds
The absence of innuendo response to this post gives good evidence for the lack of women on Slashdot.
And this time, even though they're in different industries, they might have a case... since Gator will be SEIOUSLY dirtying the name.
I was about to post that very same thought.
I recognize that in law, a trademark name can be shared if two companies offer distinctly different products; but what of the situation where a very unscrupulous company chooses to move in (even though their product is distinctively different)?
Don't forget the USA PATRIOT Act as another example of subversive naming tactics.
Actually this would be better, since your browser doesn't have to contact your machine (or anything) each time the server is requested.
127.0.0.1 localhost
0.0.0.0 ads.osdn.com
0.0.0.0 claria.com
0.0.0.0 gator.com
I'm replying to this with full quotation, as the AC may not be noticed at Score 0, yet I'd like to see someone address why this is rarely recommended in place of 127.0.0.1.
I've been using 0.0.0.0 for blocking hosts for a long while. It seems to result in faster page loads since the pending images don't hang the browser up. This is useful especially on websites where the text is not yet rendered in wait of size information for the pending images.
I often wonder how much energy could be drawn from the rotation of the earth in a reasonably small space?
Perhaps the yield would be too small, or we would have seen evidence of some device showcasing this capability by now.
And of course, well, there's always suicide if you're drowning in lemons... That's obviously better than a temporary addiction... [/sarcasm]
I sometimes wonder that if more drugs were legal that there may be fewer suicides.
Honestly, let people do what they want to themselves. Society will sort itself out, and at least more people will live happier lives. That is what is most important, is it not?
3) "Lies Exposed in Telltale Colors"
I like the concept a lot. The only problem is... who is in charge of the system that determines if it's a lie, spin or misperception?
Line item moderation, anyone?
Also, the more "points" it gets in a particular direction, the more saturated the highlighting stands out.
Just hook it all together with something like the Google toolbar, where you can rate portions of pages instead of the entire page, and let you rate it with a label like the moderation system here.
Maybe it wouldn't be accurate, since it may eventually get in an ideological tug-of-war in some places, but at least a visible marker of all that effort would give clue to the uninvolved reader of something controversial. =)
What a retarded navigation system. The denotation of "related" is supposed to be "separate but in the same category of information", not "part of the same article".
You must not live in South Florida. Honestly, can you even concieve how the people who can't even handle two dimensions of navigation will do if they were suddenly given three dimensions? =P
Have we even found the origin of AIDS yet? Are we 100% certian that it was not engineered?
If we presume that this is a likely step on the road of technology, it should be obvious why we do not find evidence of civilization beyond our planet.
I think i can translate SUN's language...
I prefer to let the compiler do the translation to bytecode for me. =P