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  1. Re:Not sure how standing up would solve anything.. on Switching From Sitting To Standing At Your Desk · · Score: 2

    http://www.npr.org/2011/04/25/...
    Its a talk with an expert, and if you want actual studies, you can go to pubmed or jama.

  2. Re:Not sure how standing up would solve anything.. on Switching From Sitting To Standing At Your Desk · · Score: 1

    By proper shoes.
    Most people have no clue how to buy shoes that properly fit them.
    See a podiatrist and buy shoes from someplace that measures your feet properly and understand their use.
    You should do this anyway, you will be surprised how helpful they are.

  3. Re:I'm not going to stand for this on Switching From Sitting To Standing At Your Desk · · Score: 1

    but if you stood more to begin with, would you may not have arthritis.

  4. Re:Weak on Switching From Sitting To Standing At Your Desk · · Score: 2

    Only if you cherry pick data.
    "Humans can perform acrobatics that any animal on earth would envy."
    name 1.

    "They can balance with the best of them. "
    haha, no not even close.

    " They have learned to ride the thermals as well as a vulture. "
    nope. we learned to build machines to do that, and we developed science to figure it out.

    "They have learned to think far beyond anything the animal kingdom can muster."
    The animal kingdom can create thing that can think. Specifically, us.

    And you ignore the issue with the skeletal system, hips and lower back.
    The only thing we can do batter at is think; which is really really amazingly significant and not to be down played. Every physical attribute doesn't hold a candle to animals as a whole.

  5. Re:Weak? No, it is not. on Switching From Sitting To Standing At Your Desk · · Score: 1

    "Capable of keep going under cold or heat in ways most animals would die"
    yeah, you walk naked into any frozen area and see if you live linger then any animal the, or desert.
    Live like a polar bear, or seal, or dog, or cat. You would die.
    We couldn't live anywhere without clothing.

    The hip 'design' is horrid, as is the lower back. The eyeball is backwards, and so on.

    "A person can buy a Maserati,"
    Yes, no imagine you take a look at that car, and the trans mission gearing is backward, and the wiring for the lights goes all over the place before getting to the lights, .
    Anyway, comparing human bodies to actual intelligently design things is stupid.

  6. Re:Kids are Retarded, News at 11 on Kids Can Swipe a Screen But Can't Use LEGOs · · Score: 1

    "Children today are retarded - physically, mentally, and emotionally, and they come from retarded parents."
    False, by every measure.

  7. Re:most lego's are a rip off on Kids Can Swipe a Screen But Can't Use LEGOs · · Score: 2

    IF you only use it to build one set, then you are the problem, not Lego.

  8. Re:My revision: on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    "If a gun can be anywhere, everywhere can be attacked quickly."

    (Did you know that a convicted felon is not required to register his guns since that would violate his 5th amendment right to not self-incriminate? Look it up!)
    Did you know a convict felon isn't allowed to own guns?

    Your point in bringing up Haynes was... what?

  9. Re:Bad suggestion on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    IF I were king of the internet, this would be required reading materials before tlakign about the amendment:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

    "Since Stevens' change has the purpose of exactly contradicting the original intent,"
    haha. I don't know if ignorant, stupid or brainwashed.

  10. Re:Actually the correct fix is far fewer words on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    where are yo getting 'and'?which version?

    As passed by the Congress and preserved in the National Archives:[29]
    A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

    As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, then-Secretary of State:[30]
    A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

    It's kind of funny, if you read all the proposed wording, it becomes clear the word militia meant military, and not everyone being armed.
    Ex:
    "A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person."

  11. Re:"What I find interesting is how..." on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    You can' control you anger, so everyone else has to leave? no. If you cant control yourself, you leave.

    "Something as basic as the 2nd Amendment is ABSOLUTELY NOT above our heads."
    It's poorly written. IT was slapped together becasue people couldn't come to a solution to how to fund a military, and it shows.

    If it was well written and easily understood we wouldn't be having this discussion.
    Besides that, they constitution is designed to be changed with time.

    That doesn't even get into the issue that the verbiage passed by congress is different then the verbiage that was ratified by the states.

    You sir, are the doofus. Educate yourself.

  12. Re:Easy Militia States on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    I don't mod up ignorance. What is considered a militia is well defined, and that doesn't cut it.

  13. Re:It's crap on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    By law, women do not make up the militia unless they are in an armed force.

    http://www.law.cornell.edu/usc...

  14. Re:It's crap on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    IT doesn't say that in the constitution, so it really doesn't matter that you think that.
    And the whole point was that they needed a military and couldn't afford a standing army.

  15. Re:The Canadian Exodus.... on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yo should look a little deeper.
    A) Guns are seriously regulated, including need to account for every round. Good luck getting the level of regulation about firearm in the US.

    B) Crime is related to education. the better educated the general populace, the less violent crime there is. This has noting to do with firearms at all. We see this in countries regardless of gun laws. Do you argue that all education including college is free? Or are you just picking some headline stat and using that without actual any understanding?

    "Even Hitler decided not to try it."
    completely unnecessary to the conversation.

  16. Re:The Canadian Exodus.... on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 0

    Every country that has easy unregulated access to guns for all people are warlord filled cess pools.

  17. Re:But what is a militia? on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    So you would force people into forced servitude with the intent of killing whenever a state deems it so?

  18. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 4, Informative

    It wasn't a standing army. That is specifically why that amendment is there. If the US could \have afforded a standing army at the time, that amendment would not exist.

    The Marine corp was a group of militia that fought on ships in order to seize British supplies.

  19. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since Guns kill people, and modern guns kill a lot of people easily and are far easier to use, it's not a fair comparison to the press.

    You are using a strawman, stop it.

  20. Re:china has smog, so its clearly chinas fault. on Pollution In China Could Be Driving Freak Weather In US · · Score: 2

    http://www.eia.gov/

    also the IEA(not to be confused with the eia above))

    https://www.iea.org/co2highlig...

  21. Re:china has smog, so its clearly chinas fault. on Pollution In China Could Be Driving Freak Weather In US · · Score: 1

    You also need to find out, on average, how much pollution is generated per million KWh.
    If I use more energy then you do, but it's all solar, then I will emit far less gasses and particulates in to the atmosphere.
    That example was only to illustrated my point.

    China per capita Energy usage includes a lot of people who have little or no electricity.
    China use more coal the any other country, and there coal emission standards are very, very low.
    So, the amount of crap the put in the air is substantial, and more the what the US puts in the air.

  22. Re:Polution tax on Pollution In China Could Be Driving Freak Weather In US · · Score: 1

    You should explain why you think that's a bad thing.

  23. Re:Polution tax on Pollution In China Could Be Driving Freak Weather In US · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be nearly that much, also..so what? you argument is people would by less shit, keep what they have longer, and give a trong market incentive to find cleaner ways to manufacture goods.
    To which I say: Good.

    "Ahem ahem" makes you sound like a non-thinking jack ass.

  24. Factually wrong on Pollution In China Could Be Driving Freak Weather In US · · Score: 2

    "Taxes never go down"
    False. The tax rate for those who made a million dollars a year used to be 90%, now it's 33%
    Every income brackets federal taxes has dropped. The richer you are the more they dropped.

    "The government can't and won't live within it's means."
    Nearly all agency in the Federal government live with in their means. The others are usually dictated by citizens or external factors in unexpected ways during a fiscal year. War, 9/11. natural disaster, etc...

    .

  25. Re:Or it could be on Pollution In China Could Be Driving Freak Weather In US · · Score: 2

    "Do the Kock[sic] brothers spend more on elections than other billionaires?"

    Yes, through many personal donation and other organization set up solely to fund more money.
    They also get pundit to repeat whatever they want, regardless of truth. See Glenn beck thanking them for the information he says about Climate Change.

    However, that's besides the point.
    They pay a lot of money to organization who specifically fund global warming deniers.