I agree. When hanging drywall, you have a 48" wide sheet with studs every 16". Try dividing anything in metric by 3 (not even a relatively prime number such as 4) and not repeating your decimal expansion forever. Four feet divided by three... no problem in Imperial. In metric, it will make your head assplode and the drywall in your house will be crooked.
People worship metric like its some kind of universal standard and forget that its based on measurements that we choose to use like the size of our planet, heating water at our atmosphere's pressure, etc.
Metric is based on the meter (length), which is based on the speed of light in a vacuum. Volume and mass are defined based on a cube (length^3) of water and its specific gravity. Doesn't sound too specific to our planet.
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Don't think that the extra pulp gets you much fiber... even Tropicana Extra Pulp has 0g fiber listed on their nutrition facts.
I don't drink Tropicana. I prefer the no-name brands, they actually tend to be healthier. The big name fruit juice brands add sweeteners and remove the good stuff like fiber, because most Americans want sweet crap that is unhealthy. That is why white bread sells so well: most people want the taste (or lack thereof) and texture, health effects be damned.
For a relatively healthy fruit juice, try drinking almost anything that says "not from concentrate." I like the Simply Apple, for example. It tastes much better than the typical "from concentrate" crap and it is healthier.
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How did you rule out the difference in taste, the added dyes and flavor, the acidity, and most importantly the caffeine as your migraine trigger?
Any regular soda, not just Coke (I used it as an example but I said "regular soda"), triggers migraines. If I drink diet soda, with caffeine, no migraine. "Regular" sodas with cane sugar, no migraine. Lemonade made with cane sugar, no migraine.
I actually did discuss this with a physician (granted just a GP, not one specializing in diet and nutrition), and she agreed that HFCS was the most likely culprit based on the drinks I tried along with the results.
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That being said you have to weigh the risks vs the benefits of the vitamins in the fruit, vs the amount of fructose you consume.
Don't forget the fiber. The rare times I drink sugar, it is something like orange juice with extra pulp. I'm not sure what it does for sugar absorption, but I do know two things. The insoluable fiber keeps me regular. Second, the soluable fiber will bond with the carbohydrates in the juice, so the cholesterol in the food I'm eating at the same time cannot do the same and enter my bloodstream.
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The problem seems to be, by far, quantity consumed rather than the nature of the material, unless you can present some compelling proof otherwise.
I can only speak for myself, not the parent, but HFCS is far more damaging than an equivalent number of calories from white sugar. Both are processed, one far more so than the other. Anyway, HFCS elicits migraines, while regular sugar just gives me a sugar high because I don't eat much sweet food or food with much sugar in it.
I have read that the highly processed sugars such as HFCS are absorbed by the body much more readily, providing a faster, higher sugar high. When your body has to expend energy to release the sugar molecules from naturally-occurring substances, you get a more even dose. If you are injecting highly processed sugars directly into your blood (i.e. a Coke), your body barely has to work at all and is absorbing more sugar faster than it would with a natural substance (e.g. eating an orange, pulp and all).
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The difference between HFCS, white and brown table sugar (sucrose) is marginal and irrelevant.
If I drink a regular soda, even half a can, I will get a migraine. If I mix a drink such as lemonade with regular old white sugar, I get a sugar high, but no migraine. Even if I drink substantially more calories from sugar in the lemonade than a half of a can of Coke, it doesn't matter.
HFCS truly is a horrible substance compared to natural or even partially processed sugars. Maybe in the land of ivory towers they are virtually identical, but down here in reality, my body treats them differently.
Department of homeland security has also always been funded by deficiet spending. Cut it. Return the decision making to the civil servants that actually work. The last thing we need is another administrative layer. If the Tea Party wants small governement, this is the place to start. If we want screeners and the like, put it under the other agencies and shift administrators from other less important projects. Saving in the current budget cycle may $10B.
I still don't understand why we need two departments for Defense and Homeland Security. Isn't that redundant? I mean except for the fact that our Defense is actually Offense. Maybe if we renamed the Department of Defense back to the Department of War and renamed the Department of Homeland Security to the Department of Defense we would have an accurate picture.
Do me a favor... come around again when your home is in foreclosure and tell us how acedemic this all is.
My house is in foreclosure, my finances utterly ruined. I am insolvent, but cannot declare chapter 7 bankruptcy because my gross income is too high. If I declare chapter 13 bankruptcy, I still have to pay everything back and have not gained anything.
My situation is hopeless: no sense in worrying about it. I accept it and move on with life. Once I realized that my monthly income cannot meet all of my obligations, I also realized that I was playing with monopoly money. I wouldn't call this academic, but I do belittle it, even though I am balls-deep in the worst financial crisis of my life.
Some day you'll wake up and realize that money is just a tool created by governments all over the world, and that not having money really won't hurt you. Sure, you can't have nice things, but you'll survive, and be better off than most people think.
Let's see... In the US, we have 1.6L engines getting 37-38MPG.
My car has a 3.8 liter engine, over twice that size. I'll go out on a limb and say even the smaller SUVs don't have engines smaller than my sedan, and there are millions more SUVs than Grand Prixes in the U.S.
I'm fairly well off by local standards, but if I chose, I could be much, much richer. The problem is that the time I spent chasing a secure income would be taking away from the very things that give me the greatest joy and fulfillment.
You "get it." You can't take money and wealth with you when you die, but you can pass from this world with a smile on your face knowing you made it a better place through the work that you did. One person truly can touch millions, and make this shitty world even slightly better.
By that logic, businesses should be able to make more revenue simply by raising prices - the RIAA could make up for the money they claim to be losing to piracy by just raising the prices of CDs.
The government forces me to pay taxes against my will. No business can force me to buy their product, especially not a leisure product such as music or a movie, against my will.
you don't have to update your friends on every BJ you happen to give or receive, you know.
yes, control of what you post on facebook is firmly in Zuckerberg's hands, but control of what you type in there yourself is quite literally in your hands
Very true. I don't post pictures to my profile, although others do tag me. I don't list any personal information at all, not even there but allegedly hidden behind privacy controls. The posts I make are few and far between, with no drama or anything.
I see people post all sorts of crazy shit to Facebook, things that they will regret later on. Oh well. I can't live people's lives for them.
I'm probably digressing OT here, but my own main beef with annotations in Java is that they don't actually serve any real functional purpose that I've ever been able to see beyond documentation, while at the same time they break compatibility with older Java compilers which are unable to compile any source code with annotations in it
Considering annotations are in Java 5, and Java 5 is no longer supported by Sun/Oracle, I don't really care about Java 4 and earlier compilers.
Annotations can have great benefits in running code, but you need to use reflection. For example, the product I develop at my job uses them for technical designs. We use a custom annotation to mark up classes that are not yet implemented, so we can design a process flow and actually run through it in the application before it is implemented. A factory pattern class replaces these classes with a generic, configurable replacement on the fly. Often, the most difficult part of the process is defining it, not implementing it. This alone has saved us hundreds if not thousands of hours of time fixing bugs and definitely fewer builds into QA.
I think it also needs to be recognized that entertainers such as professional sports players, actors, musicians, dancers, and comedians are just that: entertainment.
I absolutely agree. However, I do feel entertainers have an important role in society. Being able to grab a beer and unwind in front of a football game on TV has a very real value to me: when I am done I walk away having enjoyed the 3 or so hours, and am refreshed. That being said, I agree with another of your points:
But does that laughter equate to billions of dollars in value?
I am perfectly fine with paying entertainers a good wage, but what they make now is ridiculous, and in aggregate, a drain on the economy. It is also a driving factor for all the bad copyright policy in Washington (along with the greed of the team owners, league commissioners, their cronies, etc).
America needs to start admiring, respecting, and idolizing those who genuinely solve problems.
That ship has sailed with the invention of the television. Nevermind that the technology that drives TV, the internet, sports events, all those things our country idolizes and shouldn't, was developed by engineers, scientists, and IT people.
In fact, one can argue the opposite: that engineers and scientists focused on engineering and science, rather than politics, is a better way to insure innovation.
In a nation of approximately 300,000,000, we can spare a few people from each field for other purposes. For example, Steven Chu has done a decent job as Secretary of Energy, and he is a physicist. I think science-minded people are good for representing us in government: when you elect lawyers and businessmen, that is when you engage in politics, as opposed to representation. Let most of the scientists and engineers focus on their disciplines, yes, but take a few for government as well. I would apply the same logic to plumbers, car mechanics, teachers, chefs, call center representatives... every walk of life. We need that diversity in our government if we are going to succeed at the intent of our Constitution.
Remember, the preamble to the Constitution says "people," not "lawyers and society's elite:"
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
It doesn't connect to multiple cell towers - it doesn't connect at all, even when you're over a fairly large city.
Even worse, the phone freaks the fuck out since it cannot connect. It stays on and sends out full power broadcasts trying to find a tower. I have boarded a plane with a full battery and had it die on a 50 minute flight. There is a reason phones have "airplane mode."
Not because phones are dangerous to airplanes, but being five miles above the nearest tower is dangerous to your battery life.
One of the core tenets of the Catholic religion is that God gave everyone the freedom of will, to believe or not to believe, to choose our own path. The Church then proceeds to try really hard to persuade people to believe their way.
Net neutrality, while not perfectly in line with what benefits us little people, is all about providing an even playing field: giving us choice: not locking us into one way of doing things. That is perfectly in line with Catholic ideology.
Rank is ENTIRELY relevant when it comes to access.
Only for the really good stuff, the kind of material that the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the President discuss. We have E-1s and E-2s coming out of their initial technical training and showing up for work. So you signed up to be an intelligence analyst... sorry, you need 5 more ranks to do your fucking job? I don't think so. No, passing an SSBI does not depend on rank, and is the most widely-used means of gaining a security clearance in the military.
Well, hell, thanks for the info... I'll hold of on the BD then, since my TV's an old analog model and won't display the higher resolution anyway.
If you like watching movies, or sports events, or whatever else floats your boat, an HD setup is worth it. Cheap nowadays, too. One can buy a 40+ inch 1080p TV for around $800 according to my last visit to Best Buy, Target, and a few other retailers in my area. Blu-ray players cost around $80 at the low end, and of course you can spend much more for more features. I bought mine around a year ago for about $120: it does not have wireless, but does stream Netflix, Blockbuster, Pandora, and something else I haven't bothered with.
Whether or not it is worth spending $140 to watch Greedo shoot first in 1080p is another matter entirely...
Like maybe the SR-71 "Blackbird"...which certainly looked stealthy, although in reality wasn't.
If I remember correctly, the SR-71 had about the same radar cross-section as a Cessna; but a Cessna on your radar screen travelling more than three times the speed of sound would still look a bit suspicious.
A Cessna, flying at 70,000 feet, at several times the speed of sound, with an exhaust plume three times the size of the plane. That is what gave it away more than anything: the massive, super-hot exhaust plume traveling at a few thousand miles per hour. That is what the Soviet SAMs locked in on, and could not catch.
In other words, if governments around the world preemptively legislate that under no circumstances may a private inter-connecting network between two people or organizations be established without prior legal authorizations...well, kiss that idea good bye.
Here in the U.S., we have the 9th and 10th amendments. I have yet to hear of anyone using those two for anything other than toilet paper, however.
Now, maybe you can argue that the judges at the roadblock are not applying the same standard they normally do in the office. But that's not a criticism of the program, it's a criticism of the performance of the judge that (allegedly, as no evidence of this claim is put forth) loosened his standards.
It means if you refuse a breath test during a traffic stop, a judge is on site, and issues a warrant that allows police to perform a mandatory blood test.
The article implies that the judge will just issue the warrant. Not that he will consider it, or hear arguments, or look at evidence: "issues a warrant."
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I agree. When hanging drywall, you have a 48" wide sheet with studs every 16". Try dividing anything in metric by 3 (not even a relatively prime number such as 4) and not repeating your decimal expansion forever. Four feet divided by three... no problem in Imperial. In metric, it will make your head assplode and the drywall in your house will be crooked.
Metric is based on the meter (length), which is based on the speed of light in a vacuum. Volume and mass are defined based on a cube (length^3) of water and its specific gravity. Doesn't sound too specific to our planet.
I don't drink Tropicana. I prefer the no-name brands, they actually tend to be healthier. The big name fruit juice brands add sweeteners and remove the good stuff like fiber, because most Americans want sweet crap that is unhealthy. That is why white bread sells so well: most people want the taste (or lack thereof) and texture, health effects be damned.
For a relatively healthy fruit juice, try drinking almost anything that says "not from concentrate." I like the Simply Apple, for example. It tastes much better than the typical "from concentrate" crap and it is healthier.
Any regular soda, not just Coke (I used it as an example but I said "regular soda"), triggers migraines. If I drink diet soda, with caffeine, no migraine. "Regular" sodas with cane sugar, no migraine. Lemonade made with cane sugar, no migraine.
I actually did discuss this with a physician (granted just a GP, not one specializing in diet and nutrition), and she agreed that HFCS was the most likely culprit based on the drinks I tried along with the results.
Don't forget the fiber. The rare times I drink sugar, it is something like orange juice with extra pulp. I'm not sure what it does for sugar absorption, but I do know two things. The insoluable fiber keeps me regular. Second, the soluable fiber will bond with the carbohydrates in the juice, so the cholesterol in the food I'm eating at the same time cannot do the same and enter my bloodstream.
I can only speak for myself, not the parent, but HFCS is far more damaging than an equivalent number of calories from white sugar. Both are processed, one far more so than the other. Anyway, HFCS elicits migraines, while regular sugar just gives me a sugar high because I don't eat much sweet food or food with much sugar in it.
I have read that the highly processed sugars such as HFCS are absorbed by the body much more readily, providing a faster, higher sugar high. When your body has to expend energy to release the sugar molecules from naturally-occurring substances, you get a more even dose. If you are injecting highly processed sugars directly into your blood (i.e. a Coke), your body barely has to work at all and is absorbing more sugar faster than it would with a natural substance (e.g. eating an orange, pulp and all).
If I drink a regular soda, even half a can, I will get a migraine. If I mix a drink such as lemonade with regular old white sugar, I get a sugar high, but no migraine. Even if I drink substantially more calories from sugar in the lemonade than a half of a can of Coke, it doesn't matter.
HFCS truly is a horrible substance compared to natural or even partially processed sugars. Maybe in the land of ivory towers they are virtually identical, but down here in reality, my body treats them differently.
I still don't understand why we need two departments for Defense and Homeland Security. Isn't that redundant? I mean except for the fact that our Defense is actually Offense. Maybe if we renamed the Department of Defense back to the Department of War and renamed the Department of Homeland Security to the Department of Defense we would have an accurate picture.
My house is in foreclosure, my finances utterly ruined. I am insolvent, but cannot declare chapter 7 bankruptcy because my gross income is too high. If I declare chapter 13 bankruptcy, I still have to pay everything back and have not gained anything.
My situation is hopeless: no sense in worrying about it. I accept it and move on with life. Once I realized that my monthly income cannot meet all of my obligations, I also realized that I was playing with monopoly money. I wouldn't call this academic, but I do belittle it, even though I am balls-deep in the worst financial crisis of my life.
Some day you'll wake up and realize that money is just a tool created by governments all over the world, and that not having money really won't hurt you. Sure, you can't have nice things, but you'll survive, and be better off than most people think.
My car has a 3.8 liter engine, over twice that size. I'll go out on a limb and say even the smaller SUVs don't have engines smaller than my sedan, and there are millions more SUVs than Grand Prixes in the U.S.
You "get it." You can't take money and wealth with you when you die, but you can pass from this world with a smile on your face knowing you made it a better place through the work that you did. One person truly can touch millions, and make this shitty world even slightly better.
The government forces me to pay taxes against my will. No business can force me to buy their product, especially not a leisure product such as music or a movie, against my will.
Very true. I don't post pictures to my profile, although others do tag me. I don't list any personal information at all, not even there but allegedly hidden behind privacy controls. The posts I make are few and far between, with no drama or anything.
I see people post all sorts of crazy shit to Facebook, things that they will regret later on. Oh well. I can't live people's lives for them.
Considering annotations are in Java 5, and Java 5 is no longer supported by Sun/Oracle, I don't really care about Java 4 and earlier compilers.
Annotations can have great benefits in running code, but you need to use reflection. For example, the product I develop at my job uses them for technical designs. We use a custom annotation to mark up classes that are not yet implemented, so we can design a process flow and actually run through it in the application before it is implemented. A factory pattern class replaces these classes with a generic, configurable replacement on the fly. Often, the most difficult part of the process is defining it, not implementing it. This alone has saved us hundreds if not thousands of hours of time fixing bugs and definitely fewer builds into QA.
I absolutely agree. However, I do feel entertainers have an important role in society. Being able to grab a beer and unwind in front of a football game on TV has a very real value to me: when I am done I walk away having enjoyed the 3 or so hours, and am refreshed. That being said, I agree with another of your points:
I am perfectly fine with paying entertainers a good wage, but what they make now is ridiculous, and in aggregate, a drain on the economy. It is also a driving factor for all the bad copyright policy in Washington (along with the greed of the team owners, league commissioners, their cronies, etc).
That ship has sailed with the invention of the television. Nevermind that the technology that drives TV, the internet, sports events, all those things our country idolizes and shouldn't, was developed by engineers, scientists, and IT people.
In a nation of approximately 300,000,000, we can spare a few people from each field for other purposes. For example, Steven Chu has done a decent job as Secretary of Energy, and he is a physicist. I think science-minded people are good for representing us in government: when you elect lawyers and businessmen, that is when you engage in politics, as opposed to representation. Let most of the scientists and engineers focus on their disciplines, yes, but take a few for government as well. I would apply the same logic to plumbers, car mechanics, teachers, chefs, call center representatives... every walk of life. We need that diversity in our government if we are going to succeed at the intent of our Constitution.
Remember, the preamble to the Constitution says "people," not "lawyers and society's elite:"
Even worse, the phone freaks the fuck out since it cannot connect. It stays on and sends out full power broadcasts trying to find a tower. I have boarded a plane with a full battery and had it die on a 50 minute flight. There is a reason phones have "airplane mode."
Not because phones are dangerous to airplanes, but being five miles above the nearest tower is dangerous to your battery life.
One of the core tenets of the Catholic religion is that God gave everyone the freedom of will, to believe or not to believe, to choose our own path. The Church then proceeds to try really hard to persuade people to believe their way.
Net neutrality, while not perfectly in line with what benefits us little people, is all about providing an even playing field: giving us choice: not locking us into one way of doing things. That is perfectly in line with Catholic ideology.
Only for the really good stuff, the kind of material that the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the President discuss. We have E-1s and E-2s coming out of their initial technical training and showing up for work. So you signed up to be an intelligence analyst... sorry, you need 5 more ranks to do your fucking job? I don't think so. No, passing an SSBI does not depend on rank, and is the most widely-used means of gaining a security clearance in the military.
If you like watching movies, or sports events, or whatever else floats your boat, an HD setup is worth it. Cheap nowadays, too. One can buy a 40+ inch 1080p TV for around $800 according to my last visit to Best Buy, Target, and a few other retailers in my area. Blu-ray players cost around $80 at the low end, and of course you can spend much more for more features. I bought mine around a year ago for about $120: it does not have wireless, but does stream Netflix, Blockbuster, Pandora, and something else I haven't bothered with.
Whether or not it is worth spending $140 to watch Greedo shoot first in 1080p is another matter entirely...
A Cessna, flying at 70,000 feet, at several times the speed of sound, with an exhaust plume three times the size of the plane. That is what gave it away more than anything: the massive, super-hot exhaust plume traveling at a few thousand miles per hour. That is what the Soviet SAMs locked in on, and could not catch.
Here in the U.S., we have the 9th and 10th amendments. I have yet to hear of anyone using those two for anything other than toilet paper, however.
From TFA:
The article implies that the judge will just issue the warrant. Not that he will consider it, or hear arguments, or look at evidence: "issues a warrant."
Good read: and a sad state of affairs in this country.
How about the entire state of Ohio?