Please don't force kids to eat breakfast. Eating when you get up is about the worst thing you can do and is one reason for both the obesity and anorexia epidemics in the west.
Breakfast was started in rural communities. Get up at four, work until eight in the fields and then have breakfast. Personally, I can't stand eating before 11 in the morning, and many people are that way. Forcing them into a three meal a day schedule only eats to eating disorders. (overeating in some, while others are turned off food altogether)
We're not talking about medicine here, we're talking about food. You don't eat it because it's good for you but because it's a sensual pleasure that children should learn to enjoy at an early age.
Which brings me back to the topic at hand. I agree with your main point that it is what you eat, and would like to add that setting the lunch-gestapo on a generation is an affront to human dignity.
ATI doesn't have a thing to worry about. the NVidia drivers may be superior, but they are a royal pain in the ass to install, especially on Debian based distributions.
Spending two days trying to hunt down the kernel sources, kernel patches etc. just so the installer can compile a kernel module that still won't be recognised by the system, is not my idea of a smooth install.
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So your idea of a free society is one where everybody is allowed act like an asshole? There is a difference between not decorating your home a certain way and turning in into something that wouldn't look out of place in the favelas of Rio. If you live in a street with other people, you have to make some allowances to common taste. If you want to live like a bum, buy a piece of farmland, line it with trees and go nuts inside.
Didn't you people ever watch Sesame street? Working together and respecting your neighbors that's what living in a civil society is about, not pissing off the entire world just because you're a freaking nutcase.
Not affiliated with the entity under inquiry. I may have overstressed my skepticism a little to counter the general tendency of blaming the victim in this thread, and the fact that many here seem to read the report as objective truth, which it most certainly isn't, but overall I stick to my point, that this report is an internal inquiry into military wrongdoings. Internal inquiries are always suspect, since pressure from above tends to skew even the most conscientious report, and given the number of vehicles that have been shot at without provocation by US soldiers in the last two years (most of them driven by Iraqis, so only meriting one line in the international news, and as far as I can tell no mention at all in the US) I remain suspicious.
aybe the fact that the U.S. released satellite images showing the position of the car
That's the problem. All the information comes from US army sources. There are no independent witnesses. Besides, are all cars in Iraq tracked by satellite, or were they just very very lucky to have this information?
These assertions are denied by two of the witnesses, namely the two surviving occupants of the car. In my judgement, the soldiers are either lying to save their hides, or the investigation was meant to be a cover-up from the start.
They've put it on an italian domain, and probably on an italian server. Given the political climate in Italy around this case, I seriously doubt that the italian government will cooperate with a US investigation (OTOH with Berlusconi, you never know)
Well I just connected pin 1 to 3 of the userport with a pair of scissors. (I'm shocked that I still remember the pin numbers after twenty years) Which always caused alarm in the owners wondering why this kid was poking around in their computer with sharp metal objects....and we liked it that way.
Why aluminum? Is it the most reflective substance on earth?
Yes. Strictly speaking, freshly applied silver is more reflective, however silver tarnishes very rapidly, and after about a week, an aluminium coated mirror is a better relector than a silver coated one.
The ultimate collection of smart losers, getting together to form a support group based loosely on the notion that although they have had sand kicked repeatedly in their faces, they will one day rule the earth because they can solve a word puzzle faster than their boss at work.
That almost sounds like slashdot (except for the 'smart' bit)
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No it's not the link shows a photo from expo '85 (yes that's 20 years ago) where piped sunlight was first introduced by this company I'm not sure if they were the first in the world to produce these systems commercially.
At least the little people inside the TV are alive. Well aren't they? Come on, they have to be alive. If you don't believe me, just ask the easter bunny.
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I've heard that the new film takes place in the tomb of Harrison Ford's career, where it has been laying frozen in carbonite for 3000 years.
Yes most of those were great films, but notice that the most recent of those films is from 1997, and all the really good ones are from the eighties.
Please don't force kids to eat breakfast. Eating when you get up is about the worst thing you can do and is one reason for both the obesity and anorexia epidemics in the west.
Breakfast was started in rural communities. Get up at four, work until eight in the fields and then have breakfast. Personally, I can't stand eating before 11 in the morning, and many people are that way. Forcing them into a three meal a day schedule only eats to eating disorders. (overeating in some, while others are turned off food altogether)
We're not talking about medicine here, we're talking about food. You don't eat it because it's good for you but because it's a sensual pleasure that children should learn to enjoy at an early age.
Which brings me back to the topic at hand. I agree with your main point that it is what you eat, and would like to add that setting the lunch-gestapo on a generation is an affront to human dignity.
Thanks for that. I'm running a knoppix (cebit ed.) HD install, so getting the exact kernel source has proved to be difficult.
Turns out that the kernel module had the wrong kernel version name (2.6.11.1 instead of 2.6.11).
Editing version.h in the kernel source did the trick . (bit of a dirty hack, I know, but it seems to be running fine.)
ATI doesn't have a thing to worry about. the NVidia drivers may be superior, but they are a royal pain in the ass to install, especially on Debian based distributions.
Spending two days trying to hunt down the kernel sources, kernel patches etc. just so the installer can compile a kernel module that still won't be recognised by the system, is not my idea of a smooth install.
Real geeks use a sliderule.
So your idea of a free society is one where everybody is allowed act like an asshole? There is a difference between not decorating your home a certain way and turning in into something that wouldn't look out of place in the favelas of Rio. If you live in a street with other people, you have to make some allowances to common taste. If you want to live like a bum, buy a piece of farmland, line it with trees and go nuts inside.
Didn't you people ever watch Sesame street? Working together and respecting your neighbors that's what living in a civil society is about, not pissing off the entire world just because you're a freaking nutcase.
It's called courtesy. Look it up sometime.
Actually, Asimov read the Niven book, went back in time and wrote his own book.
What constitues "independent"?
Not affiliated with the entity under inquiry. I may have overstressed my skepticism a little to counter the general tendency of blaming the victim in this thread, and the fact that many here seem to read the report as objective truth, which it most certainly isn't, but overall I stick to my point, that this report is an internal inquiry into military wrongdoings. Internal inquiries are always suspect, since pressure from above tends to skew even the most conscientious report, and given the number of vehicles that have been shot at without provocation by US soldiers in the last two years (most of them driven by Iraqis, so only meriting one line in the international news, and as far as I can tell no mention at all in the US) I remain suspicious.
aybe the fact that the U.S. released satellite images showing the position of the car
That's the problem. All the information comes from US army sources. There are no independent witnesses. Besides, are all cars in Iraq tracked by satellite, or were they just very very lucky to have this information?
Was that footage taken by the same satellite that showed chemical weapons factories in Iraq?
I do.
These assertions are denied by two of the witnesses, namely the two surviving occupants of the car. In my judgement, the soldiers are either lying to save their hides, or the investigation was meant to be a cover-up from the start.
They've put it on an italian domain, and probably on an italian server. Given the political climate in Italy around this case, I seriously doubt that the italian government will cooperate with a US investigation (OTOH with Berlusconi, you never know)
Huh? You compare a version of Windows with a version of MacOS with 11 years difference between them??! That's just silly.
About as silly as comparing Tiger with Longhorn if you ask me.
I thought it had something to do with the Virial Theorem, but I can't see how this applies to marketing or the XBox.
Every bit is sacred every bit is good.
Every bit is needed in your neighborhood.
Well I just connected pin 1 to 3 of the userport with a pair of scissors. (I'm shocked that I still remember the pin numbers after twenty years) Which always caused alarm in the owners wondering why this kid was poking around in their computer with sharp metal objects. ...and we liked it that way.
The computer's mind goes to Silicon Heaven. I mean... there must be a Silicon Heaven. If there isn't, then where do all the little calculators go?
If only the crew could wear some kind of air tight suits during the spacewalk, then it wouldn't be a problem.
yup not new. Archimedes designed something similar more than 2000 years ago as a defense against ships. This is old news even for slashdot :)
Why aluminum? Is it the most reflective substance on earth?
Yes. Strictly speaking, freshly applied silver is more reflective, however silver tarnishes very rapidly, and after about a week, an aluminium coated mirror is a better relector than a silver coated one.
The ultimate collection of smart losers, getting together to form a support group based loosely on the notion that although they have had sand kicked repeatedly in their faces, they will one day rule the earth because they can solve a word puzzle faster than their boss at work.
That almost sounds like slashdot (except for the 'smart' bit)
No it's not the link shows a photo from expo '85 (yes that's 20 years ago) where piped sunlight was first introduced by this company I'm not sure if they were the first in the world to produce these systems commercially.
What if the patches screw up the systems
Some general 'accidentally' orders an airstrike on Redmond and blames it on buggy software.
What to think:
Patents are evil,
Microsoft is evil,
so:
Microsoft wants to make patents even more evil.
And I haven't even RTFA yet, which is a good thing because having too much facts could seriously interfere with my bias.
At least the little people inside the TV are alive. Well aren't they? Come on, they have to be alive.
If you don't believe me, just ask the easter bunny.