It's unfortunate that the average person will not realize the difference between the real unprocessed/unsweetened dark chocolate being used for the study and the "dark chocolate" processed candy products you find at convenience stores.
Real dark chocolate tastes like ass, so basically all mass market dark chocolate products will add sugar and milk fat to enhance the flavor which will surely negate any sort of heart-friendly health benefits that this study is meant to find. Seems to me like it's going to yet another piece of misleading and confusing information when it comes to the world of nutrition.
Those sores and blisters look exactly like my hands from lifting weights without gloves.
I can't believe they are calling this a "disorder" and relating it to gaming when it is just a simple and common case of friction blisters and callous that form under any similar circumstance.
I think this entire article is a load of attention seeking BS, and I will not believe a word of it until I see a proper peer-reviewed research paper in a medical journal that debunks stretching.
These articles brought to you by the Department of Attention Whores with no Sense of Truth or Accuracy.
This study or a similar one was done in a peer-reviewed journal. I read about this maybe 2 years ago when I was starting out in college as a Kinesiology major. I'm not sure why it's randomly cropping up now however.
The article is not just saying stretching is bad, it is simply saying there are more effective ways to increase muscle temperature and blood flow to the muscles. While pre-workout stretching is a common injury prevention practice, it would provide no further injury prevention benefits than if you just did a proper warm up to begin with.
The only thing that affects the outcome is you voting, there is no reason to be watching vote by vote results as they come in one a second by second basis. Nobody cares that you are watching besides the TV sponsors, the same outcome will happen regardless of how much attention you give to it.
If you want to know all the data concerning what areas voted for what, it will all be available to you after the election is over, and it will be complete and useful information should you care to access it unlike incomplete live results.
Right. John Hodgman does not represent a stereotypical PC user and Justin Long is not intended to represent a stereotypical Mac user. If you pay any attention to the ad, you'll realize that they represent personifications of a Mac and a PC. So that's why they say "I'm a Mac," and "I'm a PC."
So no, Apple isn't stereotyping PC users by saying that they're boring generic business geeks. They're making fun of other PC manufacturers for making boring generic business computers. Microsoft's ad people are either retarded or they're banking on the commercial-watching public to have paid little attention to the Mac/PC ads.
Who pays attention to ads? The mass market TV watching public certainly do not analyze TV ads in such depth.
Commercials are made to be watched and simply evoke some kind of psychological response. The response that the "I'm a Mac" ads give is that people who use PC's need to get with the times and use a Mac. It doesn't matter whether you analyze the commercial into saying that they are representing the OS and not the users, the mass market public will think what they think based on what they saw regardless of what the commercial actually means.
what would be good is if everyone that uses Linux would go to BestBuy and look at Windows Vista PCs and mention that they prefer Linux just to get the idea/word across that they are not interested in Vista...
Who exactly would you be getting the word out to? I work for one of these companies and it's hilarious when idiots walk in and start ranting about random BS to me thinking I am somehow responsible for the production and engineering decisions of the products we sell or that I have anything to do with the company policies and purchasing decisions.
Look, we're mostly college students just there doing a mindless job to make a paycheck at the end of the week. We don't care that you have some love affair with Linux and that you think computers should come with it instead of Vista, do you want me to go get the laptop out of the lock-up cage or not is all I give a crap about.
And they can record license plates. I think this hack has little criminal viability. Anyone who used it extensively would be caught in short order. Though authorities might be willing to let the criminal conduct continue on until the criminal passed the felony threshold.
As a user of FasTrak in California, I can tell you that they do not take your picture when you pass through with a valid billable transponder. A picture only seems to be taken when a car passes through that can't be billed.
There are two reasons I think this. One, while FasTrak does require we list our car, color, and plate in their system, I haven't changed my account info to list my new car and plate for over a year and heard nothing about it.
Second, passing through the FasTrak toll plazas at night are completely dark on the toll roads where I live. I only see them light up for a short time when someone with a "new car plate" drives through, obviously someone who doesn't have FasTrak and is just passing through knowing they can't be billed and just got their picture taken.
So while other toll road companies may make it a policy to video tape everything that happens at the toll plazas or take pictures of every car passing, I'm quite sure ours does not.
Um, no. Better no one doing it. Running reds isn't like going 10 mph over the speed limit. People die from that. A lot. It really shouldn't be about the income.
People who run reds typically are not aware they are doing it, so the camera as a deterrent really doesn't do anything. You can't think that people just see the red and feel like they can ignore it and drive on through into cross traffic. The level of insanity that would require would not have them thinking about a red light camera anyway.
In my city, they switch off the stoplight sensors in the middle of the night and put them all on timers, forcing you to sit at the red light for minutes on end while you are the only car on the road for miles, basically daring us to run reds in the middle of the night.
That's the only time I can think that someone would willing run a red light and that the camera would be an actual deterrent. Of course if they just left the stoplight sensors on, that wouldn't be necessary.
Err, hypocrisy and double standards of the highest order.
As you point out, killiing is also very illegal, not to mention immoral, and yet you do not see border agents confiscating copies of B-grade horror slasher movies or "Rambo III". Why is that? These movies pefrom the exact same function as the pervert's pictures: to induce pornographic pleasure by viewing despicable acts and to foster fantasies in the viewing audience (for some the fantasies of being the "good" guy detective or a "military macho hero" and some of being the chain-saw wielding murderer or a villain warlord).
Child porn is real evidence of underage children being victimized. Rambo is a fictional movie, in case you weren't aware, maybe it was your own fantasies that got a little bit out of control if you thought for a second they were the same.
Speaking as a service tech supervisor who works at a similar big box retailer, I can tell you that the disclaimer that everyone signs when bringing in their computer for work specifically says that the technicians can access whatever data they feel like. So this really has nothing to do with rights to privacy and all this other nonsense, since you legally signed away all privacy when you agreed to have the technicians do the work.
So the technician is not limited to see whatever it is he/she wants to on your computer. They are limited however in that they can not publish or distribute publically information that is stored on your computer, that would be a violation of your privacy. If child porn is found however, we are required by law to report it to the proper authorities.
If you don't like those terms, feel free not to sign and take your computer elsewhere, although I imagine any other actual reptuable repair shop will have a similar disclaimer as it's necessary for their own protection.
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It's unfortunate that the average person will not realize the difference between the real unprocessed/unsweetened dark chocolate being used for the study and the "dark chocolate" processed candy products you find at convenience stores.
Real dark chocolate tastes like ass, so basically all mass market dark chocolate products will add sugar and milk fat to enhance the flavor which will surely negate any sort of heart-friendly health benefits that this study is meant to find. Seems to me like it's going to yet another piece of misleading and confusing information when it comes to the world of nutrition.
Those sores and blisters look exactly like my hands from lifting weights without gloves.
I can't believe they are calling this a "disorder" and relating it to gaming when it is just a simple and common case of friction blisters and callous that form under any similar circumstance.
I think this entire article is a load of attention seeking BS, and I will not believe a word of it until I see a proper peer-reviewed research paper in a medical journal that debunks stretching.
These articles brought to you by the Department of Attention Whores with no Sense of Truth or Accuracy.
This study or a similar one was done in a peer-reviewed journal. I read about this maybe 2 years ago when I was starting out in college as a Kinesiology major. I'm not sure why it's randomly cropping up now however.
The article is not just saying stretching is bad, it is simply saying there are more effective ways to increase muscle temperature and blood flow to the muscles. While pre-workout stretching is a common injury prevention practice, it would provide no further injury prevention benefits than if you just did a proper warm up to begin with.
The only thing that affects the outcome is you voting, there is no reason to be watching vote by vote results as they come in one a second by second basis. Nobody cares that you are watching besides the TV sponsors, the same outcome will happen regardless of how much attention you give to it.
If you want to know all the data concerning what areas voted for what, it will all be available to you after the election is over, and it will be complete and useful information should you care to access it unlike incomplete live results.
Right. John Hodgman does not represent a stereotypical PC user and Justin Long is not intended to represent a stereotypical Mac user. If you pay any attention to the ad, you'll realize that they represent personifications of a Mac and a PC. So that's why they say "I'm a Mac," and "I'm a PC."
So no, Apple isn't stereotyping PC users by saying that they're boring generic business geeks. They're making fun of other PC manufacturers for making boring generic business computers. Microsoft's ad people are either retarded or they're banking on the commercial-watching public to have paid little attention to the Mac/PC ads.
Who pays attention to ads? The mass market TV watching public certainly do not analyze TV ads in such depth.
Commercials are made to be watched and simply evoke some kind of psychological response. The response that the "I'm a Mac" ads give is that people who use PC's need to get with the times and use a Mac. It doesn't matter whether you analyze the commercial into saying that they are representing the OS and not the users, the mass market public will think what they think based on what they saw regardless of what the commercial actually means.
what would be good is if everyone that uses Linux would go to BestBuy and look at Windows Vista PCs and mention that they prefer Linux just to get the idea/word across that they are not interested in Vista...
Who exactly would you be getting the word out to? I work for one of these companies and it's hilarious when idiots walk in and start ranting about random BS to me thinking I am somehow responsible for the production and engineering decisions of the products we sell or that I have anything to do with the company policies and purchasing decisions.
Look, we're mostly college students just there doing a mindless job to make a paycheck at the end of the week. We don't care that you have some love affair with Linux and that you think computers should come with it instead of Vista, do you want me to go get the laptop out of the lock-up cage or not is all I give a crap about.
And they can record license plates. I think this hack has little criminal viability. Anyone who used it extensively would be caught in short order. Though authorities might be willing to let the criminal conduct continue on until the criminal passed the felony threshold.
As a user of FasTrak in California, I can tell you that they do not take your picture when you pass through with a valid billable transponder. A picture only seems to be taken when a car passes through that can't be billed.
There are two reasons I think this. One, while FasTrak does require we list our car, color, and plate in their system, I haven't changed my account info to list my new car and plate for over a year and heard nothing about it.
Second, passing through the FasTrak toll plazas at night are completely dark on the toll roads where I live. I only see them light up for a short time when someone with a "new car plate" drives through, obviously someone who doesn't have FasTrak and is just passing through knowing they can't be billed and just got their picture taken.
So while other toll road companies may make it a policy to video tape everything that happens at the toll plazas or take pictures of every car passing, I'm quite sure ours does not.
Um, no. Better no one doing it. Running reds isn't like going 10 mph over the speed limit. People die from that. A lot. It really shouldn't be about the income.
People who run reds typically are not aware they are doing it, so the camera as a deterrent really doesn't do anything. You can't think that people just see the red and feel like they can ignore it and drive on through into cross traffic. The level of insanity that would require would not have them thinking about a red light camera anyway.
In my city, they switch off the stoplight sensors in the middle of the night and put them all on timers, forcing you to sit at the red light for minutes on end while you are the only car on the road for miles, basically daring us to run reds in the middle of the night.
That's the only time I can think that someone would willing run a red light and that the camera would be an actual deterrent. Of course if they just left the stoplight sensors on, that wouldn't be necessary.
Err, hypocrisy and double standards of the highest order.
As you point out, killiing is also very illegal, not to mention immoral, and yet you do not see border agents confiscating copies of B-grade horror slasher movies or "Rambo III". Why is that? These movies pefrom the exact same function as the pervert's pictures: to induce pornographic pleasure by viewing despicable acts and to foster fantasies in the viewing audience (for some the fantasies of being the "good" guy detective or a "military macho hero" and some of being the chain-saw wielding murderer or a villain warlord).
Child porn is real evidence of underage children being victimized. Rambo is a fictional movie, in case you weren't aware, maybe it was your own fantasies that got a little bit out of control if you thought for a second they were the same.Speaking as a service tech supervisor who works at a similar big box retailer, I can tell you that the disclaimer that everyone signs when bringing in their computer for work specifically says that the technicians can access whatever data they feel like. So this really has nothing to do with rights to privacy and all this other nonsense, since you legally signed away all privacy when you agreed to have the technicians do the work.
So the technician is not limited to see whatever it is he/she wants to on your computer. They are limited however in that they can not publish or distribute publically information that is stored on your computer, that would be a violation of your privacy. If child porn is found however, we are required by law to report it to the proper authorities.
If you don't like those terms, feel free not to sign and take your computer elsewhere, although I imagine any other actual reptuable repair shop will have a similar disclaimer as it's necessary for their own protection.