If that is so then yes, with that caveat. I suppose you'd then have to have transferred them to a trust which then passes on to a different controller but ownership never changes. It has already been found by the courts that transferring assets to a trust does not create a transfer of property. Neither does changing the controller of a trust create a transfer of property. This is why the only idiots up in arms about a death tax are the ones too poor for it to really impact them. The rich already have it covered with laws purpose built for them such as this one.
I thought we were discussing things that you "bought" digitally the base premise being that ongoing payment is not required. I suppose I had in mind a system which is nominally "free" (as in beer) and on which you can make purchases which are then linked to your "free" account.
So you're OK with death panels and health care rationing.
Just to add to what alvinrod said. We also have them due to economic disparities. Those who choose to be poor (by being lazy and not working 36 hours a day, or stupidly choosing to be born to poor parents) get significantly worse health care. Thus we have self-selection of health care, which is rationing in other words.
I came here to say just this. Thanks for saving me some typing, or not. I agree, in any case. Can humans who literally cannot control themselves design robots that can? Sure people who meditate a lot can control themselves a lot but most of us can't. This lack of control is baked into us as part of being human so maybe all we need to do is take normal humans and remove the part that makes us humans and we end up with the desired robots, or we could just clone off some CEOs (they are known to lack all humanity though they are good at simulating being human).
Our free speech started being eroded when we weren't allowed to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Though I believe I heard that had been overturned. Anti-sedition laws are also an attack on free speech. If we can't call for the assassination and decoronation of people we don't approve of, do we really have free speech?
It was a good one but you made the mistake of using 8 for your first digit which is the most widely accepted as correct number of glasses of water to drink in a day. Even Dr Batmanghelidj went with 8. I should have made a better joke about the extreme accuracy of your recommendation *sigh*.
Friend squiggleslash, please notice that I specifically pointed out that it is the hormonal effects of food on the body that impact weight loss or gain. While a caloric deficit does matter for fine tuning weight loss, first and foremost the macros have to be correct. It turns out that if you eat a high fat diet, in the absence of most carbs, you will lose weight. This happens because the body's satiety mechanisms are well satisfied by the eating of fats. It is also a well understood principle in animal studies that if you want to fatten up your subjects, you stuff them with grains, same to achieve foie gras, duck is stuffed with grains. When scientists tried to fatten up mice on a pure high-fat diet, the darn mice lost weight. It works on humans too, look at the ketogenic diet.
I am willing to go out on a limb and suggest that you gained back those hard-won 20 lbs with interest. This happens because you attempted to force your body to a new set-point through an unnatural caloric deficit. Your body adapted and when you got tired of the deficit and reverted to the amounts you started eating (or exercise regime if you insist), your body now took those extra calories and put them into storage.
I am not in any way proposing a starvation diet, not at all. I am proposing that eating to satiety on a Low Carb High Fat (LCHF) diet will make you lose weight naturally and painlessly. Unless you consider giving up carbs and sugars and replacing them with eggs and bacon as a painful thing to do. The arguments you are making are based on the suggestions from various governmental agencies, none of those recommendations had a basis in science.
Maybe your idea would gain more traction if you posted with a logon and people had a way of contacting you. I definitely am in favor of it, it sounds like a great proposal kernel. Email me instead of the AC if you want to support the idea. AC contact me if you want further involvement as well. We could start with setting up a website and probably some regional groups: Los Angeles, Bay Area, NYC, MidWest: Oklahoma, Texas. Lets do this thing!
I have never, ever, ever experienced the munchies from drinking alcohol, usually only an overwhelming thirst for more alcohol, lots more alcohol. Usually it ends in tears, hangovers, and dehydration: muy malo. Were you stoned enough to think they were talking about being stoned (on weed) and getting the munchies? That would be a fair excuse for the confusion. Munchies from alcohol is not one of those "oh, everybody knows that!" kind of memes.
Hmm, I thought starvation mode triggers consumption of fat stores while reducing caloric needs through various mechanisms mainly aimed at increasing effficiency of calories used. As the saying goes "a half-starved man is at his best".
They're still sitting in their SUVs munching down a Big Mac or whatever "nutritional" monstrosity Taco Bell has cooked up, but since their windows are rolled up and it's dark we don't even have to see that.
Your anecdote notwithstanding, the science is firmly on the side that exercise has not a whit to do with overweight, it is all about the foods consumed. People who eat a high carb diet become fat/obese, people who eat a high fat diet become slim/healthy. Not so much about the calories consumed either, it is about the hormonal effect that the macro-nutrients have on the body.
Which is not to say that there are no assholes in the US either.
I took an anatomy class a long time ago, I am of the opinion that your statement is very true. In fact the ratio of assholes to people is exactly 1, with of course a standard deviation of 0.0000000001.
The calories in it are primarily/exclusively in the form of alcohol sugars so they digest very easily. By easily, I mean that your liver has to work like a beast to metabolize the poison that alcohol is so you won't die from excessive sugar in the blood. But it performs the job heroically and so you live, but the calories have already been dealt with and put into deep storage, both in the liver and in your visceral fat (thus the beer/alcohol belly) so you get hungry again. Similar to the effect of eating carbs/sugars but more brutal on the body because the sugars are more concentrated as alcohols.
Maybe so. Or maybe the school already knew the competition was fierce, what with being in the middle of Westwood. That said, I doubt anyone was going to go from the dorms out to town just for breakfast, it was hard enough to roll out in time to make breakfast hours downstairs. Even the student athletes ate in the caf (basketball players are easy to spot). I knew a couple of people who didn't live in the dorms but bought the meal plans. Yeah! Good times!
Maybe you missed the part about social justice, compassion, anti-nuclear, taking responsibility for corporate destruction of fisheries? I think those all are the antithesis of Libertarian. Libertarians I believe are in a practicable way all about "Fuck you, I've got mine!".
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I suppose that "agreement" will have to be hashed out in a court someday.
If that is so then yes, with that caveat. I suppose you'd then have to have transferred them to a trust which then passes on to a different controller but ownership never changes. It has already been found by the courts that transferring assets to a trust does not create a transfer of property. Neither does changing the controller of a trust create a transfer of property. This is why the only idiots up in arms about a death tax are the ones too poor for it to really impact them. The rich already have it covered with laws purpose built for them such as this one.
I thought we were discussing things that you "bought" digitally the base premise being that ongoing payment is not required. I suppose I had in mind a system which is nominally "free" (as in beer) and on which you can make purchases which are then linked to your "free" account.
So you're OK with death panels and health care rationing.
Just to add to what alvinrod said. We also have them due to economic disparities. Those who choose to be poor (by being lazy and not working 36 hours a day, or stupidly choosing to be born to poor parents) get significantly worse health care. Thus we have self-selection of health care, which is rationing in other words.
indeed. health care is wasted on sick people, just like education is wasted on the ignorant and compassion is wasted on the rich.
Way ahead of you there pal, I waste no compassion on the rich.
I came here to say just this. Thanks for saving me some typing, or not. I agree, in any case. Can humans who literally cannot control themselves design robots that can? Sure people who meditate a lot can control themselves a lot but most of us can't. This lack of control is baked into us as part of being human so maybe all we need to do is take normal humans and remove the part that makes us humans and we end up with the desired robots, or we could just clone off some CEOs (they are known to lack all humanity though they are good at simulating being human).
Sounds interesting, will add to reading list. Thanks!
Our free speech started being eroded when we weren't allowed to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Though I believe I heard that had been overturned.
Anti-sedition laws are also an attack on free speech. If we can't call for the assassination and decoronation of people we don't approve of, do we really have free speech?
so true, and me without mod points *sigh*
There is no secondhand market, no inheritance of property, nothing
Sure there, is, just give someone your password before you croak, or put it in your will. Now they've inherited your digital collection.
It was a good one but you made the mistake of using 8 for your first digit which is the most widely accepted as correct number of glasses of water to drink in a day. Even Dr Batmanghelidj went with 8. I should have made a better joke about the extreme accuracy of your recommendation *sigh*.
Friend squiggleslash, please notice that I specifically pointed out that it is the hormonal effects of food on the body that impact weight loss or gain. While a caloric deficit does matter for fine tuning weight loss, first and foremost the macros have to be correct. It turns out that if you eat a high fat diet, in the absence of most carbs, you will lose weight. This happens because the body's satiety mechanisms are well satisfied by the eating of fats. It is also a well understood principle in animal studies that if you want to fatten up your subjects, you stuff them with grains, same to achieve foie gras, duck is stuffed with grains. When scientists tried to fatten up mice on a pure high-fat diet, the darn mice lost weight. It works on humans too, look at the ketogenic diet.
I am willing to go out on a limb and suggest that you gained back those hard-won 20 lbs with interest. This happens because you attempted to force your body to a new set-point through an unnatural caloric deficit. Your body adapted and when you got tired of the deficit and reverted to the amounts you started eating (or exercise regime if you insist), your body now took those extra calories and put them into storage.
I am not in any way proposing a starvation diet, not at all. I am proposing that eating to satiety on a Low Carb High Fat (LCHF) diet will make you lose weight naturally and painlessly. Unless you consider giving up carbs and sugars and replacing them with eggs and bacon as a painful thing to do. The arguments you are making are based on the suggestions from various governmental agencies, none of those recommendations had a basis in science.
But aren't those blackouts because the games are available live on local OTA stations?
Maybe your idea would gain more traction if you posted with a logon and people had a way of contacting you. I definitely am in favor of it, it sounds like a great proposal kernel. Email me instead of the AC if you want to support the idea. AC contact me if you want further involvement as well. We could start with setting up a website and probably some regional groups: Los Angeles, Bay Area, NYC, MidWest: Oklahoma, Texas.
Lets do this thing!
I have never, ever, ever experienced the munchies from drinking alcohol, usually only an overwhelming thirst for more alcohol, lots more alcohol. Usually it ends in tears, hangovers, and dehydration: muy malo.
Were you stoned enough to think they were talking about being stoned (on weed) and getting the munchies? That would be a fair excuse for the confusion. Munchies from alcohol is not one of those "oh, everybody knows that!" kind of memes.
Hmm, I thought starvation mode triggers consumption of fat stores while reducing caloric needs through various mechanisms mainly aimed at increasing effficiency of calories used. As the saying goes "a half-starved man is at his best".
That's probably correct if you are european and used the comma in place of the period.
LOL
They're still sitting in their SUVs munching down a Big Mac or whatever "nutritional" monstrosity Taco Bell has cooked up, but since their windows are rolled up and it's dark we don't even have to see that.
FTFY
Your anecdote notwithstanding, the science is firmly on the side that exercise has not a whit to do with overweight, it is all about the foods consumed. People who eat a high carb diet become fat/obese, people who eat a high fat diet become slim/healthy. Not so much about the calories consumed either, it is about the hormonal effect that the macro-nutrients have on the body.
Which is not to say that there are no assholes in the US either.
I took an anatomy class a long time ago, I am of the opinion that your statement is very true. In fact the ratio of assholes to people is exactly 1, with of course a standard deviation of 0.0000000001.
The calories in it are primarily/exclusively in the form of alcohol sugars so they digest very easily. By easily, I mean that your liver has to work like a beast to metabolize the poison that alcohol is so you won't die from excessive sugar in the blood. But it performs the job heroically and so you live, but the calories have already been dealt with and put into deep storage, both in the liver and in your visceral fat (thus the beer/alcohol belly) so you get hungry again.
Similar to the effect of eating carbs/sugars but more brutal on the body because the sugars are more concentrated as alcohols.
Maybe so. Or maybe the school already knew the competition was fierce, what with being in the middle of Westwood. That said, I doubt anyone was going to go from the dorms out to town just for breakfast, it was hard enough to roll out in time to make breakfast hours downstairs. Even the student athletes ate in the caf (basketball players are easy to spot). I knew a couple of people who didn't live in the dorms but bought the meal plans. Yeah! Good times!
Maybe you missed the part about social justice, compassion, anti-nuclear, taking responsibility for corporate destruction of fisheries? I think those all are the antithesis of Libertarian. Libertarians I believe are in a practicable way all about "Fuck you, I've got mine!".
*whoosh*