Different people do better with different fad diets.
On the other hand, the old school recommendations are the least harmful. That would be to eat a little of everything in moderation. While that was not optimal, it did not hit the achilles heel of 66% of the population like the food pyramid did.
> blame the uneducated for their poor decisions in life, people with no empathy
What "fellow men". Those aren't your fellow men. Those are poor downtrodden people somewhere else. They're something you can use to feel smug and better about yourself while totally patronizing them.
If they were actually your "fellow men", you would have no tolerance for their bullshit.
If so many people weren't willing to treat adults like children, perhaps more adults would actually act like adults.
So? People knew instinctively right away that it was a bad thing. Smoke is something that you usually RUN from lest you want to die immediately. The idea that you would use it for recreation is just bizzare.
It shouldn't take that much to resist obvious bullshit when you've got instinct and a million years of experience on your side.
On the other hand, the alternate conspiracy theory I heard that it was a political faction within the USDA trying to to their best to discourage the consumption of meat. Fat was just used as a surrogate for meat in order to make the ploy seem less obvious.
On the other hand, there was plenty of dissent in the scientific community. It just got stifled. The real problem isn't "evil big sugar", it's the fact that the system could be rigged so easily.
The wannabe dictators aren't the problem. The fact that the system is greased and ready for them to be abused is the problem.
> the worlds largest open air prison for their entire lives
That's only a problem if you're trapped with criminals. Sure, if you're trapped inside with your average prison population then that's bound to suck. If you've got civilized people, then it would just be New Jersey.
That's the problem with you cute little metaphor. It's not the confinement, it's WHO you're confined with.
Genocide? The Palestinian population is going up. That's not genocide regardless of how much you want to redefine things.
Aleppo is something that looks much more like genocide. Even that is simply war. That's the funny thing about war, people get killed and buildings get knocked down. Kids come home in body bags.
> Government provides health care. I need not risk debt because of it.
No, you just have to worry about dying or being crippled due to shortages and rationing. There's even a secondary market in diagnostic services for people that don't want to gamble with their lives and have the money to pay.
It's not quite so idyllic once you scratch the surface.
Socialists on both sides of the pond love to encourage hysterics about this subject and gloss over the problems of being at the mercy of civil servants.
People on both sides of the pond also don't appreciate how much more affluent Americans (of all classes) are.
The government has been trying to "butt in" and "fix things" for a long time. When something doesn't work, the answer is not to double down on the stupid.
Systems generally scale poorly. Politics plague any organization of a non-trivial size. Civil servants aren't encouraged to be efficient or effective. Smaller, localized solutions are more likely to be better.
Even the EU still runs itself as a collection of smaller states.
Law enforcement is also not one of the powers that was explicitly granted to our federal government. It only gained traction after a very well published kidnapping of a rich famous person's child.
There are plenty of places in where the existence of law enforcement will not stop perpetrators. Perhaps you might have even heard of one of these places, it's been in the news lately.
The places that would be a problem in terms of civil order during a police strike are already barely contained as it is. Other places are either much more civilized and/or really well armed.
You know, the Democrats want access to your medical records so that they can keep you from buying a gun. If you are fine with that then what's the problem with putting Clinton's medical records on display? I seem to vaguely recall the occasional physical of presidents being a minor news item. You want these people to expose themselves for financial reasons, why not medical?
Forget about voting for the senile old bastard. What about going out and doing something. They want a free unicorn pony and whine about the state of the world but do squat about it. If they really want a European lifestyle, they could reduce their amount of living space and give most of their income to the charity of their choice.
THAT would make an immediate impact and would not require the intervention of the government, or leader, or savior. It would (oddly enough) be closer to the communist ideal too.
If you want to shock children about the Vietnam war, there are plenty of other photos to choose from. The summary execution of the Viet Cong partisan is a very good example.
The more I think about this particular picture the more I view that picture as being less about Vietnam than it is our "think of the children" bias that tends to short circuit any sense or reason. That goes for the picture itself as well as the objections too it. The Vietnam angle is really far less relevant.
No it isn't. Even Italy has declared that certain things are off limits when they involve children.
You could turn this around and say "Internet lech complains that picture of naked little girl taken off of Facebook."
This is about decorum and not ideology. So the the cries of censorship are a little less meaningful. Facebook censors for content on a regular basis and gets a free pass for it. If you want to whine about something, whine about that.
A lot of story structure is far more ancient than that. When you are talking about most of the highly formulaic nonsense out there, the original comment is kind of spot on. Instead of being bored with yet another iteration of the same concept, you can just grab an earlier version of it that's probably better done.
No, they're going to be trained properly at the academy so as not to be a national disgrace or to risk people's lives. It's not like this is complicated stuff. Its stuff you get taught in civilian outreach courses.
Perhaps if they were too chicken or too poorly trained, they should have called in a lineman to sort them out.
What was this, a bunch of volunteers out in the sticks?
Meanwhile, pretty much every single every other option concieveable is entirely optional. A site like Dell or HP is almost like a white box vendor in terms of the amount of choices that are available to you.
There is only one choice that's conspicuously absent.
That's funny, a mate of mine managed to do just that. He even managed to get an option that the dealer thought was not even available. My mate simply bothered to read the available documentation.
I personally have never paid for an "upgrade" I didn't want. In truth, car salesmen are far too desperate for a sale. If you have the balls to insist on what you want, you can get your way.
You just have to be willing to walk away at any point.
You're the one parting with a rather big bag of money. Act like it.
So? You would happily be Amish rather than admit that monopolies are harmful and destructive and the law that forbids them should actually be enforced?
I don't think you're capable of that level of comitment.
It all depends on how bad the "HD" encode is. Some of them can be quite horrible. It's quite easy to be stingy on the bitrate and end up with a disaster.
Strangely enough your own comment supports the idea that Netflix is inferior to the original media.
If DVD represents the native resolution of the original, Netflix isn't going to be any better. Plus you won't have to worry about Netflix doing anything stupid with the original like cropping or zooming it.
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Actually... it depends.
Different people do better with different fad diets.
On the other hand, the old school recommendations are the least harmful. That would be to eat a little of everything in moderation. While that was not optimal, it did not hit the achilles heel of 66% of the population like the food pyramid did.
> blame the uneducated for their poor decisions in life, people with no empathy
What "fellow men". Those aren't your fellow men. Those are poor downtrodden people somewhere else. They're something you can use to feel smug and better about yourself while totally patronizing them.
If they were actually your "fellow men", you would have no tolerance for their bullshit.
If so many people weren't willing to treat adults like children, perhaps more adults would actually act like adults.
So? People knew instinctively right away that it was a bad thing. Smoke is something that you usually RUN from lest you want to die immediately. The idea that you would use it for recreation is just bizzare.
It shouldn't take that much to resist obvious bullshit when you've got instinct and a million years of experience on your side.
On the other hand, the alternate conspiracy theory I heard that it was a political faction within the USDA trying to to their best to discourage the consumption of meat. Fat was just used as a surrogate for meat in order to make the ploy seem less obvious.
On the other hand, there was plenty of dissent in the scientific community. It just got stifled. The real problem isn't "evil big sugar", it's the fact that the system could be rigged so easily.
The wannabe dictators aren't the problem. The fact that the system is greased and ready for them to be abused is the problem.
Most of the "settlements" in Israel are much needed apartments on the outskirts of the Jewish version of Mecca.
You mean like Germans censoring Nazis?
Jew lawyers in the ACLU defend the liberties of Nazis.
Although what Israel is asking seems to be no different then what any other state does these days. Facebook also seems to comply.
> the worlds largest open air prison for their entire lives
That's only a problem if you're trapped with criminals. Sure, if you're trapped inside with your average prison population then that's bound to suck. If you've got civilized people, then it would just be New Jersey.
That's the problem with you cute little metaphor. It's not the confinement, it's WHO you're confined with.
Genocide? The Palestinian population is going up. That's not genocide regardless of how much you want to redefine things.
Aleppo is something that looks much more like genocide. Even that is simply war. That's the funny thing about war, people get killed and buildings get knocked down. Kids come home in body bags.
> Government provides health care. I need not risk debt because of it.
No, you just have to worry about dying or being crippled due to shortages and rationing. There's even a secondary market in diagnostic services for people that don't want to gamble with their lives and have the money to pay.
It's not quite so idyllic once you scratch the surface.
Socialists on both sides of the pond love to encourage hysterics about this subject and gloss over the problems of being at the mercy of civil servants.
People on both sides of the pond also don't appreciate how much more affluent Americans (of all classes) are.
Yeah, it's rich to leave out stuff like road tolls. That is like the ultimate regressive tax. Liberals should be crying bloody murder about them.
There is a tollway named after George Bush.
I like to call it the "no new taxes tollway".
The government has been trying to "butt in" and "fix things" for a long time. When something doesn't work, the answer is not to double down on the stupid.
Systems generally scale poorly. Politics plague any organization of a non-trivial size. Civil servants aren't encouraged to be efficient or effective. Smaller, localized solutions are more likely to be better.
Even the EU still runs itself as a collection of smaller states.
It's not "military or police".
It's "miltary", period.
Law enforcement is also not one of the powers that was explicitly granted to our federal government. It only gained traction after a very well published kidnapping of a rich famous person's child.
Nope.
There are plenty of places in where the existence of law enforcement will not stop perpetrators. Perhaps you might have even heard of one of these places, it's been in the news lately.
The places that would be a problem in terms of civil order during a police strike are already barely contained as it is. Other places are either much more civilized and/or really well armed.
You know, the Democrats want access to your medical records so that they can keep you from buying a gun. If you are fine with that then what's the problem with putting Clinton's medical records on display? I seem to vaguely recall the occasional physical of presidents being a minor news item. You want these people to expose themselves for financial reasons, why not medical?
Forget about voting for the senile old bastard. What about going out and doing something. They want a free unicorn pony and whine about the state of the world but do squat about it. If they really want a European lifestyle, they could reduce their amount of living space and give most of their income to the charity of their choice.
THAT would make an immediate impact and would not require the intervention of the government, or leader, or savior. It would (oddly enough) be closer to the communist ideal too.
If you want to shock children about the Vietnam war, there are plenty of other photos to choose from. The summary execution of the Viet Cong partisan is a very good example.
The more I think about this particular picture the more I view that picture as being less about Vietnam than it is our "think of the children" bias that tends to short circuit any sense or reason. That goes for the picture itself as well as the objections too it. The Vietnam angle is really far less relevant.
No it isn't. Even Italy has declared that certain things are off limits when they involve children.
You could turn this around and say "Internet lech complains that picture of naked little girl taken off of Facebook."
This is about decorum and not ideology. So the the cries of censorship are a little less meaningful. Facebook censors for content on a regular basis and gets a free pass for it. If you want to whine about something, whine about that.
A lot of story structure is far more ancient than that. When you are talking about most of the highly formulaic nonsense out there, the original comment is kind of spot on. Instead of being bored with yet another iteration of the same concept, you can just grab an earlier version of it that's probably better done.
That's not even getting into the blatant remakes.
No, they're going to be trained properly at the academy so as not to be a national disgrace or to risk people's lives. It's not like this is complicated stuff. Its stuff you get taught in civilian outreach courses.
Perhaps if they were too chicken or too poorly trained, they should have called in a lineman to sort them out.
What was this, a bunch of volunteers out in the sticks?
Meanwhile, pretty much every single every other option concieveable is entirely optional. A site like Dell or HP is almost like a white box vendor in terms of the amount of choices that are available to you.
There is only one choice that's conspicuously absent.
That's funny, a mate of mine managed to do just that. He even managed to get an option that the dealer thought was not even available. My mate simply bothered to read the available documentation.
I personally have never paid for an "upgrade" I didn't want. In truth, car salesmen are far too desperate for a sale. If you have the balls to insist on what you want, you can get your way.
You just have to be willing to walk away at any point.
You're the one parting with a rather big bag of money. Act like it.
So? You would happily be Amish rather than admit that monopolies are harmful and destructive and the law that forbids them should actually be enforced?
I don't think you're capable of that level of comitment.
Most of the world requires a license to sell packaged dry goods?
That's funny.
Clearly the rest of the world has a very twisted idea of the law, and rights, and individual liberties.
It all depends on how bad the "HD" encode is. Some of them can be quite horrible. It's quite easy to be stingy on the bitrate and end up with a disaster.
Strangely enough your own comment supports the idea that Netflix is inferior to the original media.
If DVD represents the native resolution of the original, Netflix isn't going to be any better. Plus you won't have to worry about Netflix doing anything stupid with the original like cropping or zooming it.